Pirates: From the Planet to the Starry Sky

Chapter 36 Island Building
Arrived at the area chosen by Richie by boat. This sea area is some distance away from the island of the gods. There are only sporadic island clouds, and there are no islands inhabited by Sky Islanders nearby.

The remote location is just right for building a hidden research institute.

At this time, a ship was in the sea of ​​clouds, and Rich stood at the bow, looking at the large sea of ​​clouds in front of him, and stretched out his hands.

"Earth rises."

On Rich's hands, there was a burst of soil surging, and large chunks of soil began to float in the sea of ​​clouds.

Soon, the soil piled up on each other, and slowly turned into a mound floating on the sea of ​​clouds.As Rich continued to inject soil, the mound continued to grow.

Richie secretly analyzed the soil structure of the Island of Gods to see why a mud island like the Island of Gods can float on the sea of ​​clouds.

Knowing the structure of God's Island, Richie can create his own island that can float in the sea of ​​clouds.

Moreover, on this island, as the underlying soil expanded, some hard stone walls appeared inside the island, and layers of stone walls were combined to form underground spaces.

Layers of soil covered these underground spaces and continued to accumulate, and more parts of the huge island began to penetrate into the sea of ​​clouds.

On the first day, Rich exhausted his physical strength and created an island half the size of God's Island.

But that's not all. On the second day, Rich continued to create mud and pile it up on the island, making the island continue to grow.

The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day.

Until the tenth day, an island five times the size of God's Island floated above the sea of ​​clouds.

At this time, the craftsmen who were already prepared quickly landed on the island and began to build various buildings under the building materials made by Rich.

At the same time, some trees, flowers and plants were also transplanted on this barren island.

The next day, Reis and Romolo, as well as Carolina and Nasri who came after hearing the news, came to this island together with a ship carrying research equipment.

In the future, this island will be the research institute of Sky Island, and it is also the top priority. For this reason, Rich later established a circle of military camps and outposts around the island, and deployed a regiment of troops to ensure the safety of the research institute.

"Let's go, I'm going to build the next island."

Richie returned to the vicinity of the Island of Gods by boat, took a middle position on the route between the Island of Gods and the Kingdom of Clouds, and built an island the size of the Island of Gods as an important commercial city for the waterway.

As a result, farms, orchards, houses, and island cloud cutting factories, steel factories, and various parts factories are all busy.

Now that a new city has been established, Richie's manpower is insufficient.

Even if it starts to hire a large number of empty islanders, it is the same, and there is a shortage of workers in various facilities and construction sites.

For this reason, Richie had to prepare to go to sea to find those war-torn countries to recruit refugees.

Today's scientific army has expanded to 1 people, and it is still divided into five regiments, each with 400 people.

Three of the regiments are stationed on Sky Island, while Shanlin Island has two regiments.

The two regiments in Shanlin Island, one is an elite regiment expanded during the war with the Mercenary Kingdom, and the other is a newly recruited regiment.

There are two regiments, the elite regiment is stationed at the Forest Island Research Institute and the main island, and the recruit regiment is responsible for guarding the caravan belonging to Richie on the Forest Island.

Divide the entire area of ​​Sky Island currently occupied by activities into five cities, each of which has appointed a mayor and its subordinate general department officials.

Due to the lack of staff under Richie, they can only temporarily form a shelf. As for those low-level personnel, they can only be replenished slowly.

In order to ensure effective governance of the region, Rich temporarily assigned the local garrison troops to be in charge of monitoring tasks, but the army only had the duty of monitoring and had the power to arrest, but not the power to judge.

Only after reporting to Richie, and Richie gives the order, can the trial and sentencing be carried out.

After assigning the tasks in this way, Richie returned to Shanlin Island by airship.

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Rock Mountain Kingdom, Mountain Forest Island, and Mountain Forest City Airport, an airship slowly landed on the airport, and then a tall man came out, followed by a maid in maid outfit and several guards.

The feet are on the ground, surrounded by forests and blue seas.The long-lost sea environment made Richie sigh.

"I'm back, before I know it, half a year has passed."

After staying on the empty island for such a long time, Richie can say that this trip has been a successful delivery, and all his goals have been basically achieved.

Now, everything depends on the development of Sky Island and Rock Mountain Kingdom.

After staying in Shanlin Island for a day, I took a look at the airship construction factory here, as well as various farmland orchards that have been opened up.

As the orchard began to produce fruit, some of the fruit was sold on other islands of the Rock Mountain Kingdom, and the remaining ones that were not good enough to be transported were made into fruit wine, which was another income for the Rich Caravan.

On this day, after processing the accumulated documents, Richie boarded a boat and prepared to return to the main island. He stayed on the empty island for half a year, and Richie also wanted to accompany his family.

Moreover, going to sea this time requires some new preparations, and it will take some time.

On the way back to the main island by boat, Rich learned about the development of the past six months.Half a year after the war, the Mercenary Kingdom has completely become the territory of the Rock Mountain Kingdom.

The nearly 200 million people of the Mercenary Kingdom have become the citizens of the Rock Mountain Kingdom. Under the governance of Rich's father, they began to gravitate to the Rock Mountain Kingdom, and began to have a sense of belonging to the Rock Mountain Kingdom.

During this period, in order to stabilize the people of these mercenary kingdoms, some of the population was relocated and allocated to the new and small islands of the Rock Mountain Kingdom, Shanlin Island, or the main island.

Moreover, taking advantage of the large number of captives and the abundant labor force, the Rock Mountain Kingdom opened up five new deserted islands at one time, relocated the population, and transformed them into farmland and villages.

As for the army, the strength of the five armies combined with new weapons securely guarded all the sites of the Rock Mountain Kingdom. Any pirate group that dared to attack the Rock Mountain became the labor force in the mines of the Rock Mountain Kingdom.

Under such deterrence, the pirates in the South China Sea gradually realized that in the corner of the South China Sea, a relatively powerful Rock Mountain Kingdom appeared.

The advantage of occupying the new territory is that the border islands of the Rock Mountain Kingdom are closer to the nearby countries. For example, it does not take so long to go to the Grania Kingdom.

The increase in population is also the increase in commerce and the increase in the products produced. Although the tax has not yet started to be collected this year, judging from the gradual and stable restoration of the former mercenary kingdom's main island and many islands, during this year, at least it can Let Rock Mountain Kingdom break even.

Just this is enough, stable taxation, coupled with continuous training every day, and a powerful army, the reputation of the Rock Mountain Kingdom began to spread among many kingdoms in the South China Sea.

(End of this chapter)