Pirates from island owner to king

Chapter 340 Another Year (1 in 2)

The banquet was held in a joyful atmosphere, and when people were having a good time drinking, people would stand up to discuss matters with each other from time to time.

Even Wang Hai stepped forward and challenged Shanks.

No surprise, he was defeated by Shanks.

However, when he fought with Shanks, he was not without resistance. He persisted for almost an hour before being defeated.

after that.

The red-haired pirates were on Peace Island and spent a month recovering before leaving.

period.

The atmosphere outside has become a bit tense.

First, Ananda, the God of Thunder, went to Wano Country and fought against Kaido and Charlotte Lingling without falling behind.

Later, with the help of mushroom bombs, the two of them were frightened and forced to reach a deal about Hailou Stone.

The matter of Kaido's compensation of [-] tons of sea tower stones to Heping Island has not been leaked. However, this incident also made the name of Ananda, the God of Thunder, truly one of the top powers in the sea.

This also makes Heping Island's strength reach a higher level in the eyes of everyone.

Although people knew this day would come, they didn't expect it to come so quickly.

after that.

Ananda's spherical thunder and lightning killed the secret CP0, although it was not exposed, but it also made the world government's fear and hostility towards Peace Island even further.

just.

Before the World Government could take action, news spread that the red-haired pirates landed on Peace Island and were welcomed by Wang Hai and others with a banquet.

At this point in time, although the Red Haired Pirates have not yet become the Yonko Pirates, they are still considered to be the most powerful pirate group on the sea.

People in the World Government are even more aware of the potential and power of the Red-haired Pirates. Therefore, they did not act rashly when they were worried about whether the Red-haired Pirates would join Peace Island.

It wasn't until the Red-haired Pirates left Peace Island a month later that the World Government discovered that the two sides were not united, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

However, it was also discovered that the red-haired pirates had an unusual relationship with Wang Hai and others.

Therefore, in the end, there was no easy attack on Heping Island.

the other side.

Kaido did not make any more troubles and lifted the blockade on the Sea Tower Stone on Heping Island.

After the problem of Hailoushi was solved, the development of Heping Island began to further accelerate.

The expansion of Heping Island is carried out every six months, and it also recruits people from outside.

In this way, in addition to the population growth caused by the new births on the island, the population of Heping Island continues to increase every year.

Although the subsequent increase was not as much as the first direct increase of 500 million, the second increase also exceeded 1000 million.

The third time, there was also an increase of nearly 1000 million.

So, another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

The population of Heping Island has increased to more than 500 million.

As the population grew, in addition to the first food base on Heping Island, a second food base was subsequently opened, and it was larger than the first.

Every year, Heping Island produces enough food to feed 5000 million people, keeping them full and well-fed.

Part of the excess grain is used to make wine, raise poultry and livestock, and make pastries and other non-staple snacks.

It can be said that the diet has begun to become rich and diverse.

Therefore, Wang Hai also activated follow-up tasks related to diet.

The task of Goldfinger is to stabilize one party and obtain lawful values. The specific task mainly revolves around people's basic necessities, food, housing and transportation.

Food is the mission of heaven, and the primary task is food and clothing.

The intermediate level goes a step further, with diversified food, all colors and flavors, and the expenditure on food accounts for a very small part of the per capita income.

Advanced ones are exported to the outside world and generate economic benefits.

This too has already begun.

In terms of food alone, excluding the internal consumption of Heping Island every year, there is still not much food that can feed 1000 million people and can be sold to the outside world.

If the expansion continues step by step, Heping Island will also establish a third, fourth, or even more food bases.

By then, the food produced by Heping Island will even be enough to feed the entire population on the sea.

only.

In this sea, it does not mean that if there is food, everyone can have enough to eat.

After all, Heping Island's transportation system is unable to transport food to every corner of the sea.

Or.

Not all World Government member countries, or civilians in non-member countries, cannot survive and want to join Peace Island.

Today, the 500 million people who have joined Heping Island are almost the vast majority of people who are willing to leave their hometowns and join Heping Island.

The people under Wang Hai specially conducted surveys and statistics.

In the next few years, if these franchised or non-franchised countries do not make some major changes, the number of civilians who want to join Peace Island will not exceed 1000 million.

In other words, the population of Heping Island has been migrated from the outside world, and 5000 million is almost the upper limit.

And this is almost one-fifth of the population in this sea.

The remaining four-fifths of the population obviously cannot be all nobles and rich people.

Most of them are civilians.

However, even though they are civilians, the life they live is far from comparable to that of Peace Island.

But this does not mean that they want to join Peace Island.

Maybe, some of them think in their hearts, but they will not take actual actions.

Relocating to a new home is the same in this world.

Unless it is really difficult to survive, most people will not leave their hometown easily.

After investigation, it was found that this was one of the reasons.

In addition, ideological concepts are also a problem.

Most countries on this ocean are still in the nascent stage of the industrial revolution. In their early stages, their minds are relatively ignorant.

Simply put, we are still limited by our past thinking.

In their eyes, Peace Island may be like paradise, and the people living there live ten times a hundred times better than they do.

They are envious, but will not risk going to Peace Island for it.

Because in their eyes, the world government is the orthodoxy of this world, and Peace Island is not even a country.

It's just a force established by a group of pirates.

In their eyes, such a force is like a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water. One day, it will disappear like a bubble.

Ultimately, it is the world government that has the final say in this world.

Therefore, instead of pursuing short-term happiness, it is better to be down-to-earth and continue to live a stable and long-term life.

Although their current life is very different from that of Heping Island, they can still live it.

Yes, this alone made them refuse to go to Peace Island.

Obviously, unless they are children, it is difficult to change the ideas of these people.

In this regard.

Wang Hai didn't intend to change either.

He didn't originally intend to be a savior.

Fifty million people, one-fifth of the population of the entire sea, is enough for him.

With such a large population, it only takes two or three years for the population to double when a new generation is born.

By then, with a population of hundreds of millions, the lawful value he can obtain every year by relying on tasks such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation will be a huge amount.

In addition, the lawful values ​​obtained from various advanced tasks, and the 1000 million lawful values ​​of a special breakthrough card are not a big deal to him.

anyway.

Since those civilians themselves are not willing to join Peace Island, Wang Hai and others will not join the ranks of rescuers.

Yes.

The extra food from Heping Island will only be sold to the outside world normally, and will not be given to civilians at a low price.

after all.

For Heping Island, selling grain to the outside world is relatively easy at short distances, and it is also the main sales target of Heping Island's current surplus grain.

For example, the original territory of the Whitebeard Pirates.

As the pirate emperor, the territory of the Whitebeard Pirates covers almost one-tenth of the New World.

Both the population and the area are not small.

However, apart from the area, the population is no longer comparable to that of Heping Island.

Almost half of the residents of the original territory of the Whitebeard Pirates have joined Peace Island.

Among the remaining people, some were nobles, some were wealthy, and some were originally relatively wealthy.

Finally, there are those who do not meet the standards and are refused admission to Peace Island.

These people, because of the development of Heping Island, not only continued to eat meat, but at least drank a lot of soup, and their lives were much better than before.

Many people are used to being aloof and have no interest in the relatively equal environment of Heping Island.

Also.

The original territory of the Whitebeard Pirates is now considered the peripheral area of ​​Peace Island. Some people who failed to join Peace Island in time settled directly on these islands.

Some businessmen and forces that cooperated with Heping Island opened various factories, some of which were not suitable for operations on Heping Island, so they were carried out on these islands.

As a result, these islands also developed.

After most of the population joined Heping Island, many people subsequently moved here.

As a result, the population here not only did not decrease in the end, but the total number reached close to 2000 million.

Except for a few of these islands, they are very suitable for growing food, and their yields are not much worse than those of Heping Island.

Most of the islands no longer produce their own food, but have undergone industrial transformation and specially opened some industries that are not suitable for Heping Island, but exist as a supplement to Heping Island's various needs.

They provide these products and send them to Heping Island. They can buy food of better quality than what they would have grown themselves. The key is that the price is also cheaper.

Even though the products they produce are just scraps needed by Heping Island, the population of Heping Island has already grown towards 5000 million.

Even scraps are enough for them to earn more than before.

Because of this, they no longer produce their own food and most daily necessities.

Basically, I buy them from Hepingdao.

Wang Hai is also happy to see this situation.

These people think they make a lot, and he also thinks he makes a lot.

The industries started by these people and the products they produce are all industries that he feels are not suitable to be placed on Heping Island, such as some chemical industries that have technical problems and cannot solve the pollution problem well.

anyway.

In addition to the development of food, clothing, housing and transportation, Wang Hai also began to let people guide some self-generated industries.

such as

At the beginning, Taoyuan Island had no developed entertainment industry.

In addition to the material aspects of human life, spiritual needs also need to be considered.

The birth of the live broadcast industry has produced many related entertainment products around it.

However, it was a mess at first, so after he saw it, he immediately rectified and guided it.

Basically, the entertainment industry from the previous life is copied here.

Many of them already exist in this world, but due to different industrial development processes, they have not yet been widely used.

to this end.

He specifically attached great importance to the development of science and technology, education and talent training, and allowed people to collect various advanced technologies from this sea.

I have to say that this sea is really strange.

In some places, life is still like a primitive society, while in other places, life is already like a science fiction world.

Although most of the developments are a bit strange, there are some advanced technologies.

He was not stingy, spending enough money to buy technology and offering various high welfare conditions to recruit people.

As a result, Heping Island's technological development progressed rapidly.

Although the Internet era has not yet appeared like in the previous life, where various smartphones are everywhere, things like movie theaters, televisions, and DVD players have begun to appear.

As for mobile phones, they have also been researched, but the convenience is not as good as the phone bug in most aspects, so it has not been directly popularized.

He estimated that it would be appropriate to fully popularize it on Heping Island until you can at least use your mobile phone to listen to music, read novels, and take photos.

Only in [-] will the people on Heping Island have enough money in their hands. After buying houses and cars, they will still have extra money to buy products such as mobile phones.

Although it develops directly and efficiently in terms of material, people do not need to invest much in this aspect.

However, with the promotion of the entertainment industry, he pays special attention to the protection of copyright, so people who want to have a rich entertainment life are bound to spend some money in this regard.

Of course, this is not without its benefits. If someone spends money, someone will make enough money.

Only in this way will people be willing to invest their energy to produce more and better products.

This also creates new job industries and allows people to develop from the initial labor force to more diversified industries.

When most people invest in the entertainment industry, will there be fewer people willing to invest in sports and other industries?

Wang Hai is not worried about this either.

Because in his opinion, only a small number of these combat professions are suitable for physical skills, swordsmanship, shooting, domineering, fruit ability development, etc.

Even if he considers cultivating the quality of all people, it is impossible for everyone to have strong strength.

After all, it is unrealistic for all the people to become soldiers.

If it were just the first million people, he would consider doing that.

But now, Heping Island has a population of 500 million, and is growing to have a population of over [-] million.

The total amount of resources is always limited. Instead of cultivating hundreds of millions of civilians at the soldier level, it is better to cultivate dozens or millions of elites.

Then we will continue to sift through them to select various combat professional talents and invest more resources in their training.

In addition to improving his own strength, Wang Hai, as a member of the think tank, also participates in specific development plans from time to time.

The population of Heping Island has increased by tens of millions, although he cannot use a golden finger to identify everyone.

However, through the established education and talent screening system, many talents and even geniuses have been discovered.

Even a super genius with monster-level potential has something to gain.

Wang Hai finally didn't need to, and kept staring at the talents who appeared in the original plot.