Pirates: From the Planet to the Starry Sky

Chapter 9 Development of Shanlin Island

On his first trip to sea, Rich brought back more than 1000 people, which temporarily made up for the shortage of labor in Shanlin Island.

After returning to Shanlin Island, the large-scale construction continued. Immediately afterwards, one hundred soldiers belonging to Rich also started training.

At the same time, after repairing and refitting the ships seized this time, the fleet was divided into two teams, one team was used as a caravan armed merchant ship, and the other team was used as a future naval warship. Although crude, it was considered a start.

After that, Richie began to make more stone bricks and stone strips, built several forts in the port, and mounted cannons to prevent pirates from attacking.

Then on the coast, a tidal embankment was built, and the refugees formed villages to reclaim the land and cultivate it on all the flat land of the island.

Under guard, the pirate captives began to serve as labor force for building roads and building barracks.These pirate captives didn't resist much under the combination of harsh punishment and release as ordinary people with sticks and carrots.

Everything is developing steadily, and Shanlin Island is constantly changing every day.At this time, Rich and Reis went all the way to the depths of the forest island, standing on a mountain, Rich said.

"Reis, this will be your research base from now on, what do you think?"

"However, Your Highness, you don't have anything here. You don't have all kinds of basic facilities and factories." Leisi looked around the mountains and forests, and for the first time felt that he seemed to have made a wrong decision.

"It's just the beginning."

Ricky smiled.

"There is no shortage of supplies. Yesterday you also saw the various ores I made. As long as I have enough physical strength, the ores will be in unlimited supply."

Rich's earth fruit can produce anything that belongs to the earth through physical exertion, such as sand, rock, ore, swamp, and even magma.

However, because it is relatively complicated, it is not as good as those who specialize in devil fruit abilities, and it takes a lot of time to cultivate.

Moreover, the effect is not as strong as those who specialize in natural devil fruit abilities. Of course, if Rich is willing to expend energy, it can be achieved.

But for Rich, he is very powerful now. First of all, various ores save a lot of wealth, at least they will not be stuck in resources.

Moreover, for the construction industry, it is also possible to mass-produce enough huge rocks to quickly build castles and houses.

For example, the raw materials for cement are produced by tons by Rich.Now all kinds of houses, city walls, and roads are built with cement.

"Now it's better for you to train some workers and start forging steel. As for the research place, I promise you to build it well."

With that said, Rich still took out a document and said.

"I promise you that the scientific troop has already been approved by the king, that is, 100 people are currently being trained. These people can come for any research in the future."

"Okay." Seeing Richie's enthusiasm, Reis said helplessly. "Then I'll build two workshops first and start making iron."

Regarding the construction of Shanlin Island, Rich himself has his own ideas.For example, the research institute, but the focus of my future, naturally needs to be closely guarded.

Now, Reis has brought electrical energy technology, and a generator made from the ore that Rich took out. Therefore, Rich decided to start manufacturing the underground research institute.

It is similar to a honeycomb, and this project is not accessible to ordinary people.

After opening up a road leading to the center of Shanlin Island, the next project is for Rich to carry out construction with his own scientific troops.

First of all, a piece of land was opened up around the island, and a large circle of city walls was built. Inside was a huge castle. There were no small rooms in the castle, but it was huge and empty like a warehouse.

With Rich personally going into battle, a huge rock castle, that is, it took a week.Behind the castle, a small power station was completed under the leadership of Reis, allowing the castle to be powered on.

Then, Richie began to integrate his strength into the ground, and the surrounding soil was pushed out towards the surroundings, and the soil and rocks he made were added to reinforce the surroundings, and he continuously dug a passage one kilometer deep underground.

This passage has a length of [-] meters and is located in the core of the castle, guarded by soldiers.

Then, at the bottom of the passage, Rich opened up a huge space as an underground warehouse and a transfer station.

The next step is to extend from this space towards the Red Earth Continent, repel and reinforce the surrounding soil, strengthen the passage, and extend all the way to the Red Earth Continent.

Controlling the land is too simple for Richie, who has the ability of the fruit of the earth, and consumes a little physical strength.

After digging more than ten kilometers along the way, he had already entered the red soil continent, and Richie stopped, and then began to open up space on this side of the passage.

In this huge red earth continent, huge spaces have been dug out one by one, which is where the future research institute of Lacey will be located.

"It's finally finished."

Looking at the huge spaces, and the vents built from the middle of the Red Earth Continent for several kilometers, the research room located inside the Red Earth Continent became very secretive and huge.

At this time, two months have passed since Richie returned to Shanlin Island.

At this time, the construction of Shanlin Island has undergone new changes. Two iron-making factories have been established, and the first batch of workers has begun.

It is worth mentioning that during the process of excavating the Red Earth Continent, Rich discovered a gold mine and a huge iron mine deep in the Red Earth Continent.

Moreover, this mineral vein is still a huge mineral vein. According to the estimation of the prospectors, it can at least make the current Rock Mountain Kingdom last for hundreds of years.

Huge ore veins are naturally a good thing. The first batch of artisans have been recruited and started mining. Of course, the most important thing is Rich, who has produced enough various minerals.

With the ironworks, the new processing plant was also made under the command of Reis.One by one, power plants that use Lacey to configure kerosene are also starting to operate.

Under the leadership of Reis, several garrisons began to make wires and direct the workers to build the hole dug out by Rich in the castle.

After being busy for several months, Rich also took advantage of his rest to walk around the island and watch the new development of Shanlin Island.

All the flat land on the island has been reclaimed into farmland, and the potatoes and corn seeds that Rich bought last time have been planted, and now they are waiting to be harvested.

In the process of farming, Rich also accidentally discovered that the farming in One Piece World is still very primitive.For this reason, Rich still developed farmyard manure for the villagers who are farming to use.

Of course, among them, Reis must have made several biogas digesters to generate electricity.

In the mountain forest, only a few of the original trees remained, and the rest of the trees were turned into wood and sent to the port.

At the port, the three shipwrights have already built a shipyard and started training shipwrights.

Most of the cleared mountain forests have become orchards, planting a variety of fruit trees.A part of the rocky land, which is not suitable for planting fruit trees, has been leveled to become a breeding ground.

These farms domesticate some domestic animals, pigs, cattle and sheep, as well as chickens, ducks and geese.

Near the center of Shanlin Island, there are factories, as well as the barracks of the scientific troops under Richie, where the elite soldiers guarding the research institute are stationed.

(End of this chapter)