Chapter 198 (1/2)

Dewey was full of ambition. After all, as a man, he suddenly has a province in his hand, a large territory, thousands of people. With power in hand, it is inevitable that there will be a kind of ambition to do a big job.

However, he is faced with many problems.

Financially, although Dewey is not short of money now, there are many places to spend money in the future! If there is no extortion from the United Kingdom of Nanyang, it will not last long only depending on the business income of the imperial capital.

The geographical position of the province of DESAR was the most frontier in the northwest of the Empire.

The kilimarro mountains on the west side of Loran are like a natural barrier, which runs through the continent from north to south for thousands of miles.

This is the Western barrier of the Empire.

But just here in the northwest, there is a big gap in the kilimarro mountains.

This gap is the only breakthrough in the kilimarro mountains, known as the northwest corridor.

The northwest corridor was also the Empire's only route to the northwest desert and grassland. The whole northwest corridor pierces the kilimarro mountains... It's not a small path, but a big gap.

The corridor is tens of kilometers long. The widest part is ten li, and the narrowest part is the corridor entrance near the desert in the northwest, which is also more than two Li wide.

It can be said that the kilimarro mountains block the vast majority of wind and sand in the northwest of the continent, and also block the alien race on the grassland behind the desert.

And this gap is a strategic point!

Du Wei just came to this world. When he was young, he had read some geographical data. At that time, he naively felt that the situation in Northwest China was not difficult to solve.

As long as it's in the northwest corridor. If you build a city or a big military fortress, station some troops all the year round, and firmly control this corridor... Then what are you worried about?

But later, Dewey realized how naive he was!

The idea of building a city wall or a city like a military fortress on this gap is ridiculous. Because there is a big problem: water!

People need water, horses need water!

The earth does not say, even if a military fortress is built to accommodate only 20000 troops... 20000 people's daily water. Where do you come from?

There is no water pipe in this world! Northwest China is a dry land with few rivers, and most of the year is dry. Only in the rainy season can it ease a little. In most places, we can only dig wells to get water.

But the difficulty is that the northwest corridor is a gap in the kilimarro mountains! Geologically speaking, there are rock layers under the ground! Don't mention the river, even if you want to dig a well to get groundwater, you can't do it!