One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 119 Population Expansion IV

Mellon doesn't think about anything now, and he wholeheartedly helps Xiao Heling grow stronger.

The people Matsurize and others in Xiaohe were not idle.

Today's Xiaohe collar is still in full operation except for the Xiaohe knife production in Blacksmith Street, the rest of the manpower and material resources have been invested in expanding the Xiaohe collar and going out with the Xiaohe army.

According to the preliminary estimates of Matsurize and the others, this time the population can increase by about 1. After the increase of 1 people, Xiaohe collar is not going to continue to expand.

After all, everything has to be done step by step, and you can't be too eager, or it will easily be counterproductive.

Time has passed, and a month has passed.

Over the past month, all preparations for the Xiaohe collar have been completed, and they are only waiting for the temporarily expanded Xiaohe army to bring people back.

But during this month, none of the Xiaohe Army, which was divided into ten groups, came back.

This is also normal. Although the more than 1 mountain people are close to Xiaohe Territory, this is only the result of comparison with other territories. It is still far away, and there is no road in this wilderness. Either way, it's extremely time consuming.

But in the end, God paid off. A group of people came back. When Matsurize got the news, he immediately took Ayane and Abin butler Baritu to greet him.

Matsurize saw this group of people leading towards the small river from a long distance.

The original group of people along the way was 50 people, Xiaohe Army with ten people, and ordinary young adults with 40 people.

But now Matsurize has made a preliminary count, and there are at least several hundred people along the way.

Coincidentally, the first to come back was the team led by Melon himself.

Melon saw Matsurize and his group, especially Matsurize who was waiting hard. Melon came to Matsurize in three steps instead of two, and reported to Matsurize what he had been doing all the way.

After Melon and his group entered the wilderness, they soon encountered a gathering place of people from the mountains.

In the situation here, before Mellon and the others had anything to say, they took the initiative to seek refuge.

It's really because the people in the mountains here are living too hard, all of them are skinny, pale, and sallow.

However, there are very few mountain people here, less than a hundred.

And because they provided the next larger mountain people gathering point, and because it was not far away, Mellon decided to absorb a little more people before returning.

Mellon returned to Xiaohe Territory only after gathering the mountain people from the two locations, and it took a total of one month.

Matsurize listened patiently to Mellon's report, and learned that they had brought back a total of 500 people during their trip. According to the pre-set rules, 100 of them were civilians, and the other 400 people would start as slaves in Xiaohe Territory.

Although Matsurize set the rules for these two identities, he never thought that these mountain people would be so resistant.

Afterwards, each of the teams successively returned with the population that Matsurizawa was looking forward to.

After the returning team laid down their burdens, they continued to set off again until the target population of 1 people was reached this time.

This process lasted for three months before it was finally completed.

The Xiaohe Army, which had been reorganized into a new 500-strong force, also came back.

This time, a total of 3000 people were brought back. These 3000 people were divided into nearly a hundred batches and brought back one after another by Xiaohe Army.

Only 3000 of them came here voluntarily, and they are now the common people in Xiaohe Territory.

And nearly 1 people are the spoils of the Xiaohe Army, and are now the slave class of the Xiaohe Territory.

These people lived in Xiaohe Town under the careful arrangement of Baritu.

And so many people suddenly joined Xiaohe collar, what are they doing?

Some people filled the vacancies of the 400 people drawn from the Xiaohe Army.

The rest of the people were all involved in a series of work around the Ayin River under the leadership of Melon.

For example, the widening of the Lingyin River channel in Xiaoheling, the construction of the shipyard and a series of follow-up work will prepare for the development of Daolanglin in the future.

Now the population of the entire Xiaohe collar has expanded to more than 1, and the entire Xiaohe collar is bustling.

Ayane is now five months pregnant, and Matsurizawa asked the system housekeeper about the number of children this time as usual.

Ever since Ayane bound the four-star talent to have children, Matsurizawa knew that from now on, every pregnancy of Ayane would not be just one child like Gerald's.

But this time the system steward blamed Matsu Rize for ignoring his existence for a long time and did not tell Matsu Rize the answer.

Matsurize has recruited more than [-] people this time, and there will be no such good opportunities after that.

Of the more than 4 people in the mountains, except for the Xiaohe leader in Matsurize who recruited more than [-] people, the rest were also gradually absorbed by other pioneering nobles during this period.

The Earl of Megan has absorbed nearly 2 people, and the population limit of the territory has reached its peak of 5 people.

King Liusheng of the Pine and Cypress Kingdom led the new fleet, including Megan Stewart, to Feitian City, the headquarters of the Golden Lion Fleet.

King Liusheng has been away for more than three months, and there has been no news, and he does not know what is going on with them.

After all, they are pirates, the great pirates of the new world, and this trip is naturally full of risks. The entire Songbai Island is now popular with King Yagyu and his party who died in Feitian City.

Even Matsuri Zewo, who was developing the economy on Xiaohe Territory, heard the news.

However, Matsurize ignored these messages, not because he believed these were rumors, but as long as Matsurize developed the Xiaohe collar himself, he would not be afraid of any other threats.

The Lingyin River is in Xiaoheling Xiaohe Town, and the widening work has been going on for a long time.

When Mellon brought back the first group of people with the Xiaohe Army, the Xiaohe leader had already started the work of widening the river.

It has been nearly three months now, and the Lingyin River, which was originally in the state of a small river in the small river collar, is now in the state of a large river.

Mellon's tribe has also prepared for the construction of the shipyard for nearly five months with a team of nearly a hundred apprentices.

Now the construction of the shipyard beside the Ayane River has officially started, and various small ships are already in motion.

Now those who drive these small boats are the slave class of the Xiaohe Territory, salvage all kinds of river products on the Lingyin River, replenish the needs of the territory, and inquire about the various conditions of the Lingyin River and the edge of the Daolang Forest.

After the medium-sized ships are built, these people will be the main force driving such ships.

(End of this chapter)