One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 107 On the Right Track
It has been three months since the Matsurize family returned to their home County of Xiaohe.

Now the entire Songbai Island (Blacksmith Island) Songbai Kingdom has a brand new look.

Shipwreck City already has a population of 10, and the construction of the ten surrounding towns has been largely completed.

Like the Megan family, under the leadership of Stewart, they have also established their own territory in the wild.

And Matsurize's Earl of Xiaohe has also changed a lot, except that Matsurize's family still lives in the old house of Ayane's family on the mountainside.

The residents of the entire Xiaohe Territory have moved into their new homes, and a large open space has been vacated in the center of the Xiaohe Territory. That is the future castle of the Matsurize family, and construction has not yet started.

Some simple houses have been built around the castle of the Matsurize family in the future, and the living environment of more than 2000 people in the Earl of Xiaohe has been solved.

During these three months, Steward Abin was in charge of leading some people to reclaim some farmland.

Baritu, the Consul of the Earl of Xiaohe, led the rest of the people to work day and night to repair a road leading to Shipwreck City.

Some of the materials consumed in the daily life of the Xiaohe Earl today are transported from this newly built avenue.

The passage of this road not only allows large-scale goods to travel between Shipwreck City and Xiaohe County, but also greatly increases the speed of passage. It used to take more than three hours, but now it only takes one hour.

The efficiency of traffic has improved so much, not because the newly built roads are so good, but because the original roads are too bad to be called roads.

Baritu, the Consul of the Earl of Xiaohe, asked Earl Songrize for instructions, and lowered the taxes of the Earl of Xiaohe. This was all to attract external capital forces to enter the Earl of Xiaohe.

After all, the current Earldom of Xiaohe's funds have been going out all the time, and there is nothing coming in. Matsurize's small treasury is almost exhausted.

Matsurizawa's family was not idle either. When Steward Abin led the people to reclaim the fields, Matsurizawa and Ayane formed a guard force to drive away the wild beasts.

This guard force, Matsurize named him the Xiaohe Army, and managed this army in the form of an army. The Xiaohe Army had a small number of people, just 100 people, not including Matsurizawa and Ayane.

The 100 members of the Xiaohe Army are mainly composed of captives from the original Bloody Hand Pirates. They are all strong men, and they are very similar to Matsurize. They were recruited from the outside world and brought into Songbai Island.

As for the training of this unit, Ayane is mainly in charge. Matsurizawa wanted to go off in person, but Ayane said that he had to make some contributions. Matsurizawa couldn't hold back Ayane, so he had to let Ayane take charge of Xiaohe army.

Under the leadership of Ayane, the current Xiaohe army has successfully opened up a large area of ​​fertile land and opened up a new territory for Xiaohe.

Because Matsurize is worried about Ayane with a big belly, the things in the territory are under the control of Baritu and Butler Abin, and he doesn't have too many things, so he stays with Ayane every day, hugging little Jella together.

Matsurize also specially rewarded the Xiaohe Army for their contributions these days, and promoted all of them from slave status to civilians.

The management mode of the Xiaohe Army was personally operated by Matsurize. Ten people appointed a centurion, and a hundred people appointed a centurion. Ayane was the centurion of the Xiaohe Army.

Matsurize's vision for the future of the Xiaohe Army is very ambitious. He has already thought about it. If the Xiaohe Army expands to thousands of people in the future, the commander of the thousand people will be called the commander.

Matsurize saw that his family's money bag was going out every day, but not coming in, and he was also thinking that Xiaoheling would develop an advantageous project as soon as possible in the future, and maintain Xiaoheling's increasing speed of expansion.

Thanks to the advice of Butler Abin, who reminded Matsurize, Matsurize realized where the biggest advantage of his Xiaohe collar was compared to the outside world.

This is actually the fact that the authorities are obsessed with onlookers. The Matsurizawa family was born as a blacksmith, and they are still blacksmiths who can make swords.

For this reason, Matsurize deliberately chose a street in the current street of Xiaoheling, and selected more than 20 young slaves, and asked Ayane to take them to make ironware, various daily necessities, and finally the sword Matsurize hoped for.

Therefore, Ayane resigned from the position of centurion of the Xiaohe Army, and Matsurizawa took over.

It is related to Xiaohe's core industry in the future. Matsurize suggested that Ayane, among this group of blacksmith apprentices, adopt assembly line operations and learn part of each person.

In this way, you will not be afraid of being poached by outsiders in the future. It also greatly improves the efficiency of production and learning, and finally improves the quality of the finished product.

Another three months passed.

Ayane's belly got bigger, and Ayane also knew that she was definitely not pregnant with a baby. After all, this belly was a bit bigger than that of little Gerald.

In the past three months, the production and sales of swords, the core industry of Xiaoheling, have achieved initial results, and they have earned a considerable amount of income. They have finally kept up with the growing speed of Xiaoheling.

Under the low tax policy of the consul Baritu, Xiaohe collar not only attracted a group of foreign capital to settle in, but also accepted more than 200 people to formally join Xiaohe collar.

Today's Xiaohe collar has more than 300 people, including as many as 300 civilians, and about [-] slaves.

The County of Xiaohe is on the right track, and the castle of the Matsurize family has also begun to be put into construction.

And the most gratifying thing is that Xiaoheling can finally be self-sufficient in food, and now the farmland in Xiaoheling has expanded to a scale that can feed ten thousand people.

This is all in advance preparation for the rapid expansion of Xiaohe Territory in the future.

Matsurize also used the five-star talent that Matsurize got from the system manager six months ago.

This was also used at the suggestion of the system steward. Of course, it was not used by Matsurizawa, Ayane, or Gerald Jr., but was injected into Ayane's stomach in advance, so that the five-star talent could be randomly selected among the three children. .

Little Gerald is also seven months old, but little Gerald doesn't look like a seven-month-old child at all. Instead, he looks like a two- or three-year-old child, growing very rapidly.

As early as a month ago, little Gerald was able to speak, and he even called out his parents to Matsurizawa and Ayane.

The Earl of Xiaohe has now started to prepare the tribute materials to the Pine and Cypress Kingdom in half a year.

In the territories of pioneering nobles like Xiaohe Territory, everything and income in the territory belong to the pioneering nobles themselves, but they have to prepare a batch of expensive materials to contribute to the Pine and Cypress Kingdom every year.

(End of this chapter)