After Ryan announced that Xiao Li had become the owner of the island, all the islanders were in revelry.

Especially after learning that Xiao Li was born in an aristocratic family, there was a trace of expectation in the eyes of these islanders. For them, this is already the best place to be.

Xiao Li stood on the stage, looking at the hundreds of islanders below, and felt a lot of emotion for a while.

Among those islanders, there are elderly people with dementia, disabled people with missing arms and legs, sick patients, and young children.

There are young people, but there are only two.

Xiao Li looked at the young man who had received him and waved his hand, "Tell me why you stayed on Chongtian Island?"

The young man stepped up the steps and saluted Xiao Li, and then his eyes fell on the pair of old men below.

The old man had lost his left leg, and the woman's right hand was shaking all the time, as if she had some kind of disease.

He clenched his hands and bit his lip tightly, a look of pain.

"The reason why I stayed on Chongtian Island is not because I am nostalgic, but because I have old and sick parents to take care of, my father, my mother, and my children are incompetent and cannot take you to settle on Sea Shark Island. ”

After the young man finished speaking, his eyes began to redden.

The pair of old men below were already crying, "Harriman, you... Why are you so stupid, you don't have to worry about us......"

Perhaps infected by them, many elderly people felt it in their hearts, and their tears couldn't stop flowing.

At this time, Xiao Li couldn't stand it anymore, sighed lightly, and said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet, I already understand the situation of Chongtian Island, and I, Xiao Li, as the owner of Chongtian Island, will definitely let everyone live a good life." ”

"From tomorrow onwards, Chongtian Island will have a new look and be different!" Xiao Li left the stage directly after speaking, although he didn't know where he got his confidence, but he believed that he could do it.

In the audience, everyone stopped sobbing and watched Xiao leave away, and everyone believed his words.

Ryan had been watching behind the scenes, and when he heard Xiao Li's words, he nodded with satisfaction, "Zu Xun is really true!"

......

At night, Xiao Li lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, the bed board was too hard, and it was a little awkward. In addition, he is thinking about how to develop the jade of Chongtian Island.

It stands to reason that the conditions of Chongtian Island are not bad, it is in the endless sea, and the seafood is extremely abundant, even if it is not rich, it will not starve to death.

However, this is not the case, Chongtian Island is far from the continental shelf, which means that it is difficult to trade with the mainland, and the only trading channel is through Sea Shark Island, which is a hundred nautical miles away.

Chongtian Island's industry is only fishing, and then take dried fish to Sea Shark Island in exchange for various living materials, but the problem is that with the productivity of Chongtian Island, the materials exchanged for food and clothing are a little difficult.

Xiao Li has also seen a lot before crossing, and among those protagonists, all of them are both civil and military, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, knowing astronomy and geography, and making cannons with their bare hands.

But he knew that he wasn't that material, and even the 'periodic table', he had almost forgotten about it, and only remembered some basics.

On this remote island, there are no materials and no talents, and it is undoubtedly a dream to realize those basic knowledge.

As the saying goes: if you want to be rich, build roads first. Behind a bustling city, roads in all directions are indispensable.

And the road of Chongtian Island is the vast sea.

It's just that the problem is a bit complicated, there are only thirteen ships in Chongtian Island in total, and only two can be called 'ships', and the rest are rafts, and it is too risky to go to sea.

If you want to form a maritime force, the first option in front of Xiao Li now is shipbuilding.

......

Early in the morning, Xiao Li, with two dark circles under his eyes, gathered all the islanders and informed them of his thoughts.

"The island... "The Lord," cried an old man, "but we don't have carpentry on Chongtian Island, and we don't have any extra trees. ”

"Carpenters can be hired, my daughter happens to have a carpenter among my relatives on Sea Shark Island, and I met him last year. An islander answered.

"Trees can be exchanged for dried fish or rice for other islands, and they probably won't refuse. ”

The islanders were gossiping, and the problem was quickly solved.

However, Xiao Li always felt that something was wrong, and he thought about it before he found out what the problem was.

Chongtian Island is short of labor!

There are a total of 114 people in Chongtian Island, but after excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, only 35 laborers can go out to sea to fish.

If the labor force is not introduced, the ships on Chongtian Island will match the number of people exactly.

After this time, Xiao Li is not so active in shipbuilding, he only wants to go to sea to investigate now, and then he can plan the best strategy.

......

Within five nautical miles south of Chongtian Island is a shallow sea full of corals, where fish of all sizes are playing hide-and-seek.

Thump!

I saw a young man holding a harpoon, taking the lead, jumping from a wooden boat into the Coral Sea.

He was as nimble as a fish, swimming among the corals, his eyes blazing, staring at the passing fish.

Burst!

The harpoon in his hand moved, and in an instant it forked towards a fish that was feeding, and the fish was caught off guard, and after struggling for a while, it stopped moving.

Harriman surfaced and handed the palm-sized fish to a handsome young man on the wooden boat.

"Island Master, this is the way we fish on Chongtian Island. ”

Xiao Li frowned slightly when he heard this, looked at the sea fish in his hand and pondered for a while, and looked at Harriman puzzled, "Is this the case with Sea Shark Island? Do they have fishing nets and hooks?"

"Fishing nets, are they used for fishing?" Harriman was curious, "Sea Shark Island has fishing hooks, but not the fishing nets you are talking about. ”

"I see. Xiao Li nodded, he already knew this sea area well, and his current goal was to make fishing tools.

The sea was calm, and all thirty-five men were engaged in fishing, but their harvest was much less than Harriman's.

Xiao Li also noticed this, obviously this industry is not old-fashioned, and rich experience is far less than flexibility.

They may be experienced in certain areas, such as where there are many fish, when to go to sea, and how to avoid risks. In these matters, they are veterans, fit to command, not into the sea to fish.

Now Xiao Li has a sense of urgency, and if he wants to increase production, fishing tools must be put into use as soon as possible.

......

After returning to Chongtian Island, Xiao Li immediately asked people to collect materials for making fish hooks, but Chongtian Island did not have a series of modern products such as steel and iron.

He had also tried to make hooks from bone spurs, which were only suitable for small fish, not for the islanders.

"It would be nice if there were a hook......"

When Xiao Li came up with this thought, the "Book of Wishes" in his mind turned the first page.

Iron Hook: 1 reputation.

Stainless Steel Hook: 5 reputation.

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"By the way, I'm a coercion!" Xiao Li said in surprise.