People are pirates, the sum of the strength of the kingdom at the beginning!

1500 Haiyuan Calendar

East China Sea, Zhenshou Island.

After several months of development, Zhenshou Island has taken on a completely new look at this time.

A large number of wooden houses have been built on this island, and each wooden house has its own owner.

This is the log cabin that nearly a thousand orphans built for themselves on Zhenshou Island with the help of Zhenshou.

Under Carmon's planning, although each cabin has a different shape.

But in terms of overall layout, the houses on the island appear very regular.

After several months of adaptation, these Donghai orphans have gradually adapted to their new home and new life.

As for the slaves bought by Dick, some of them had talents in certain fields.

Dick gave them preferential treatment and assigned them to various suitable positions in Xuanwu Kingdom.

And for those ordinary people without talents, Dick also gave them the status of citizens of Xuanwu Kingdom.

It's just that they need to work for the Xuanwu Kingdom without pay until the ransom Dick paid for them is paid off.

Every day, Brian would take these thousands of orphans around Zhenshou Island for morning exercises.

Throughout the morning, Brian and the kendo disciples brought out by Dick from the Yixin gymnasium taught these children some survival skills and kendo.

The afternoon is the working time for these children. They need to earn points by completing various tasks on Zhenshou Island.

For example, for simple cleaning tasks, you can get 1 point for cleaning a small area.

1 point represents 10 Berry, and children on the island can use these points to get what they want.

In the evening, it is the children's favorite story conference.

But it is actually Dick's ideological education class.

Dick passed some familiar stories from his previous life.

After artistic processing, let these children engrave the freedom, equality and justice of Xuanwu Kingdom in their hearts.

Not only these children, but even adults like Hu Li and Camon like to listen to Dick's stories.

During the day, Dick was busy with business affairs of the Merchant Guild.

The merchant guild has begun to take shape, with Dick as the mastermind behind the scenes.

It can be said that he controls the economic lifeline of the entire East China Sea.

More importantly, under Dick's instruction, Haier Kefan, who has joined the Xuanwu Kingdom.

His caravan monopolized the fruit trade in the entire East China Sea.

Oranges from Cocosia Village, exotic fruits from the Jumeta Islands, special fruits from the Kingdom of Gaya...

Dick's purpose was obvious.

The development of things is also going in the direction Dick expected.

Just today, Haier Kefan sent Dick some weird fruits.

One is red, covered with spiral patterns, and looks like the fruit of a honeydew melon.

One is purple, covered with spiral patterns, and looks like a banana fruit.

The other one is green, covered with spiral patterns and barbs, the pattern is strange and not like a fruit, but rather like a yam fruit.

Dick recognized these devil fruits at a glance, but Dick had no idea what kind of abilities these fruits possessed.

To identify the types and abilities of these devil fruits, Dick needs a devil fruit illustration.

It's a pity that Dick searched all over the East China Sea but couldn't find it.

So there was the embarrassment that the devil fruit was in front of him, but he couldn't get started.

The reason why Dick collects these devil fruits is because Dick finds that his strength exceeds that of his subjects.

As a result, even if all the citizens practiced together, it would not bring Dick much growth.

At the same time, a country without a backbone is extremely risky.

A large part of Dick's comprehensive strength comes from the sum of the strengths of all the citizens.

If there is no strong presence among them, then for Dick this is a burden and also his weakness.

Therefore, Dick is eager to improve the strength of his own people.

Since the Xuanwu Kingdom is just beginning to develop, Dick doesn't expect much growth from those children at all.

As for the Xuanwu Kingdom that has the combat power to remove the rare beasts from Zhenshou Island, there are only shipwright Brian, naval sergeant Keqilu, and Hu Li.

"Too weak~!" Dick couldn't help feeling a little emotional when he thought that his country was full of "kittens".

Of course, if you count the Bucky Circus or the Eight Treasures Navy, then the overall strength of the Xuanwu Kingdom will indeed rise to a higher level.

But in Dick's vision, these can only be counted as foreign personnel of Xuanwu Kingdom.

These outsiders represent instability, and of course Dick will not use them as his core force.

Therefore, there is still a long way to go for the development of Xuanwu Kingdom.

There are not only nearly a thousand orphans in the entire East China Sea, but Dick will not bring all the orphans to Zhenshou Island.

It's not just because the movement is too loud, but also because Zhenshou Island can't live with so many people.

At the same time, Dick would not let him be his own subject just because he was an orphan.

After all, Dick needs to ensure that his first batch of introduction plans are all capable people worth cultivating.

Therefore, Dick opened many orphanages in various parts of the East China Sea through Haier Kefan.

Every orphanage has tried out the points rules set by Dick, and the orphans with the highest points every month have the opportunity to accept the citizenship assessment of Xuanwu Kingdom.

In this way, Dick has a steady stream of high-quality citizens.

But it also consumed a lot of Dick's Berry, just a few months.

Nearly one-third of the treasures of the Eight Treasures Navy were consumed by Dick.

In Dick's next plan, he still needs to consume a lot of Berry.

The Berry that Dick has now can only last for a few months.

Even the Merchant Guild formed by Dick is now in a state of balance.

Because if you want to continue to expand, you need to consume a lot of Berry.

Now that there is a shortage of funds, Dick is even ready to do his own business.

Speaking of the identity of the pirate hunter, since Dick defeated Douglas Barrett.

No pirates would dare to come to the East China Sea, which also led to a sharp drop in the income of those pirate hunters in the East China Sea.

Life forced them to change their appearance and become pirates. After robbing them a few times, they found that the East China Sea was unimpeded and happy.

However, when the Navy issued a reward order early in the morning on the first day, Dick caught them at noon and exchanged a small reward.

Dick's behavior made all the bad guys dare not do anything.

Therefore, today's East China Sea has become the place where pirates are rarest in the sea.

Vice Admiral Karp also returned to the East China Sea once in the past few months.

His task was to deliver Dick's bounty of nearly one billion Berries to Dick's hands.

This made some eye-catching news about the close relationship between Pirate Hunter Dick and the navy circulated in the sea again.

At this moment, on the pavilion of Zhenshou Island, Dick looked at the three devil fruits in front of him and fell into deep thought.

Soon, Dick took out a map of the West Sea, which was a somewhat quaint map that Dick found among the treasures of the Eight Treasures Navy.

However, this did not prevent Dick from finding the place he was looking for through this map.

I saw Dick draw a circle at the icon of a big tree with a quill.