One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 180 Surging Population
Baritu quickly calculated the specific information of the four newly added towns.

Not to mention Daolang Town, it was originally the old administrative plan of Xiaohe Territory, but there was no formal administrative organization at the level of the town.

Daolang Town can now accommodate up to a thousand people at most, and if there are too many, it will easily cause chaos, and it will easily arouse conflicts between old residents and new residents.However, it is simply that among the four newly added small towns in Xiaoheling, the other three towns are still in urgent need of population injection.

The population of Jiefang Town is only a little less than that of Daolang Town. In fact, the new population of Xiaoheling mainly depends on how much Xinxin Town and Shanyang Town can accommodate.

Take Daolang Town, which is already overpopulated, with a population of [-].

Xiaohe City, the center of Xiaohe collar, now has a population of just over 16.

As for Jiefang Town, whose situation is only a little worse than that of Daolang Town, although many locals have moved from the Devil's Corner area to which Jiefang Town belongs, it still has a population of 3.

As for the other two new towns, Xinsheng Town next to Xinsheng Port only has a population of 3000, and Goat Town in the Goat Ridge area is even worse.

The layout of Goat Town looks grand, and it follows the layout of the original Goat Village, but there are only 2000 families living here.

In fact, all these thoughts in Baritu's mind were very short in reality. Everyone thought he was just stunned for a moment, but they didn't expect that Baritu would talk so much and be so professional next time.

"That's it, we can't go to the sky and increase the population to 50.

However, the current population of less than 25 is indeed too small. Like Xinxin Town and Goat Town, it is because there are too few people, so our government officials have been in office for a month, but the work cannot be carried out. There is no one ,This is a big problem.

In my estimation, we can increase the population ceiling to 40, an increase of 15 people.

And since you are buying, you can actually try to focus on young people, middle-aged people, and strong women. "

The strong woman mentioned by Baritu is very simple, it means a woman who can give birth.

Although Xiaohe collar was designed by Matsurize from the very beginning, it paid great attention to the ratio of men and women.

But after so many years, it seems that the male-female ratio of the descendants of Matsurizawa and Ayane is out of balance. There are more males than females. Many young men, especially young men who graduated from the Young Tiger Camp, hope for a bright future.

This group of people has the most say on the issues of men and women in Xiaohe collar. Not to mention the issue of dating, even finding a single woman is a problem.

After that, Spencer also expressed his opinion on the increase of population.

It is also an opinion with Baritu, Mellon, and Abin.

In fact, Matsurize also had this idea, and now that his subordinates have agreed, he will go along with it.

The purchase of population still has to be solved on Green Snake Island.

It's just that the current slave trade is all on Pine Island, but Xiaohe Territory cannot participate because of its hostility with Megan Territory and King Territory.

But there is no other way, as long as you buy at a high price on Green Snake Island, which is very close to Songbai Island, a group of people will naturally return to Green Snake Island.

Although it is more expensive, Xiaohe Ling can still bear it, but if this is the case, the safety of merchant ships should be put on the agenda, because it cannot afford losses.

Battleships are not enough for the current strength of the Xiaohe Territory. One is that they do not have that economic strength, and the other is that the accumulation of shipbuilding technology has not yet reached that level. , are not capable of this.

They have a few battleships that look very powerful, and they bought them, they didn't build them themselves.

As for Xiao Heling's measures for the safety of merchant ships, they quickly discussed it.

It's very simple, transform the merchant ship into an armed merchant ship, and install artillery. All the guns that Xiao Heling can currently manufacture are also used on the armed merchant ship.

Moreover, it also stipulates that armed merchant ships cannot be fully loaded with cargo, and there must be room for it.

For this reason, it is imminent to increase the number of ships departing each time for more transactions.

Matsurizawa was very far-sighted, and built a shipyard very early, and divided it into small and medium-sized shipyards.

Moreover, such time-consuming and labor-intensive materials as the backbone, keel, and canvas of sea-going ships were prepared very early.

A month later, ten Hailoushi armed merchant ships went to sea, this time still led by Spencer and Abin.

Just after this trip to sea, everything went according to their plan and went very smoothly.

Time flies, and another three months have passed.

These three months have been crazy, and it is said that the status of the Songbai Island slave trading market was almost shaken.

Since Xiao Heling bought slaves at a high price on Green Snake Island, although he had special requirements, including young, middle-aged, and strong women, he wanted a lot!

This huge profit attracted a large number of slave traders to move the market back to Green Snake Island.

However, today, three months later, Xiaohe Leader no longer buys slaves on Green Snake Island, because their target number has been reached, and there is no need to buy expensive slaves anymore, and they don't need to be taken advantage of.

This also relieved King Yagyu II of the King's Land and Stewart, Duke of Meghan's Land, who also engaged in slave trading in the territory.

In fact, the income of the Xiaohe collar in the past three months has not been reduced because of the expensive purchase of slaves, but has also been donated.

This is all because in the past, Xiaohe Territory's foreign trade had to pass through Shipwreck City, and the officials of the King's Territory had to collect taxes.

But now on the free Green Snake Island, there is no such layer of exploitation.

Of course, Green Snake Island also has flaws, that is, pirates are plundering, there is no security at all, and the armed merchant ships led by Xiaohe are basically fighting every day.

Later, Matsurize simply took this as an opportunity, as an opportunity for the Xiaohe Army to train troops, and took turns serving as a protective force for armed merchant ships to resist the invading pirate forces.

The emerging Xiaohe Army with a scale of 4 people has not only honed its ability to march at sea, but also greatly honed itself after this test.

Gerald, who has been promoted to the commander of the 5000-man Xiaohe Army, and Alan, the commander-in-chief, have also been honed.

Gerald and Alan, a group of students from the advanced class of the Young Tiger Camp, experienced the Devil's Horn Project, and all those who survived were given graduation, and most of them joined the Xiaohe Army with Gerald and Alan.

Today's Xiaohe Territory is finally no longer an existence that can be wiped out casually. The population of the Territory has already exceeded 40.

(End of this chapter)