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"Lord Commander, all the eight hundred and twelve villagers of Shuanghe Village are willing to join the Flying Fish Company, and from now on we will obey the dispatch of the Flying Fish Company!" An honest middle-aged man told Long Yufei that he was the head of a Chinese village called Shuanghe Village, about thirty kilometers away from Flying Fish City, and that after the Flying Fish Army defeated the Manga Bang tribe and won a decisive victory, all the people in their village agreed to join the Flying Fish Company to seek refuge.

"Village Chief Zhou, Shuanghe Village is willing to join our Flying Fish Company, that is naturally great! You can rest assured, after Shuanghe Village joins Flying Fish, we will definitely treat everyone equally. At that time, each villager will be able to get ten acres of land, and the young people who are willing to join the Flying Fish Army will also be able to get two strong slaves at home! Long Yufei said with a smile. This is already the twelfth village chief he has received in the past few days. After the Flying Fish Company showed its strong combat power, these Chinese villages were very moved and asked to join the Flying Fish Company. For most Chinese, they don't have any delusions, they just want to survive well!

"On behalf of our entire village, I would like to thank Lord Commander! Please rest assured, our people in Shuanghe Village are not bad breeds, and after joining the army, we will definitely obey the orders of our lords, so that those damned natives will fight to the end! The village chief surnamed Zhou assured!

Long Yufei, the administrative officer Li Decheng, and the political adjutant Liu Mingde sent away the village chief of Shuanghe Village. The village chief of Shuanghe Village promised that within five days, the villagers of Shuanghe Village would move to Flying Fish City and become part of the Flying Fish Company. In order to protect the safety of the villagers of Shuanghe Village and prevent them from being harassed by the natives when they moved, Long Yufei specially sent a platoon of troops to Shuanghe Village.

"Deputy Commander, this is the twelfth village in the past few days, right? By the time they arrive, the total population of Flying Fish City will probably increase to almost 20,000! Political Officer Li Decheng grinned, as an old pirate, he never thought that the pirates of Flying Fish Island would one day develop into the current scale.

"Hmmm! At least 20,000 people! Long Yufei was also very happy. Among the 20,000 Chinese, although there are not many strong, at least ten more infantry companies can be formed, so that the total strength of the Flying Fish Army can be expanded to 16 infantry companies, or even more. Once these troops are trained, it will inevitably further improve the strength of the Flying Fish Army and become the most powerful force in the entire Mindanao!

"Lord Commander, the population of Flying Fish City has increased, which is a good thing. However, we now have a severe shortage of land allocated to these people. In addition, there are not enough slaves! Political adjutant Liu Mingde said. Although he had just led Balan Village to join the Flying Fish Company for a short time, he had already put himself in his place and quickly integrated into the collective. Although he will inevitably have some careful thoughts, it will not affect the overall situation.

Long Yufei nodded, outside Flying Fish City is the flat Agusan River impact plain, and Wujia Village has tightly cultivated thousands of acres of farmland before. The rest is wasteland, not because the people of Wujia Village don't want to reclaim more land, but because they are oppressed by the natives, and their main energy is focused on dealing with the natives, and it is a little unsustainable in other aspects.

"There is a lot of wasteland outside the city, and when the time comes, we will organize the elite and slaves to reclaim it! In addition, those forests can be burned directly and reclaimed into farmland! Long Yufei said directly. While it would damage Mindanao's environment, he doesn't care about that much right now. Most of the entire island of Mindanao is covered by dense forests, and the forests are the land of the natives, and burning the forests near Flying Fish City will not only gain a large amount of farmland, but also expand the defense of Flying Fish City, preventing the natives from using the cover of these forests to sneak attack Flying Fish City. After the deliberations of the senior management of the Flying Fish Company, each adult man and woman can be given ten acres of land, and the minor male and female can only be given five acres. In Long Yufei's view, there are only 70,000 or 80,000 Chinese in the entire Mindanao, and even if all of them are absorbed into the Flying Fish Company, there will be enough land in Mindanao to supply these Chinese. Of course, those indigenous people and Moro people who believe in Islam, Long Yufei did not regard them as human beings at all, but as future slaves!

"As for the issue of slaves, when the training of the recruits is over, we will take the initiative to attack the natives. When the time comes, we'll be able to get slaves in a steady stream! Long Yufei said. Blindly being beaten passively is not the style of the pirates of Flying Fish Island, taking the initiative to attack and completely destroy the enemy, this is the best defense. Now the Exocet are training in muskets, and on the other hand, under the leadership of the old hunter, they are familiar with the situation in the forest, and are ready to prepare for the next initiative to attack those natives!

In order to attract more young people to join the Flying Fish Army, the Flying Fish Company announced that every young person who joined the Flying Fish Army could be assigned two slaves to help them with farm work. In addition, the soldiers of the Exocet Army also have a monthly salary, and the Exocet Company now mainly uses hard currencies such as gold, and the same is true when trading with Antonio. The Flying Fish Company has already begun to plan to mint currency on its own, but now that Flying Fish City has just been created, everything will take time.

"Those natives, for more than two hundred years, have oppressed us Chinese, and this time they will use all their children and grandchildren as slaves, so that they can atone for their sins!" Liu Mingde said. Although Balan Village is a large village, it is not without being bullied by the natives. Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to join the entire village in the Flying Fish Company!

"Uncle Liu, even if you add the more than ten villages that moved in later, the total population of Flying Fish City is only more than 20,000 people! As far as I know, there are a total of 70,000 or 80,000 Chinese in the entire island of Mindanao, and if we want to develop and grow, we need all the Chinese to unite! Uncle Liu has a lot of influence among the Chinese, I hope you can send someone to inform those Chinese villages, I hope they can join us! I guarantee that we will be able to treat all Chinese people equally! Long Yufei said.

Liu Mingde nodded, and then, he hesitated slightly, and then asked, "Lord Commander, the old man dares to ask, how far do you plan to develop the Flying Fish Company?" Is it just to protect the Chinese in Mindanao? ”

"Of course not! Saving the Chinese people in Mindanao is just the first step! After that, we will occupy all of Mindanao, and all the indigenous people on Mindanao, as well as the two sultanates in the south, will be our next target! And the same goes for the Sultanate of Sulu in the west! When we have enough of the strength we have amassed, we will take action against the Spaniards who occupy Luzon and drive them out of Luzon. As for all the natives of Luzon, they will also be our slaves! Dominating the entire South Seas and driving away the power of the Western powers from the South Seas is our main goal in the next stage! Long Yufei said.

"What about the homeland of the North? Let the Manchurians occupy it? Liu Mingde asked excitedly.

"After we dominate the South Seas, of course we have to drive away those Manchus and restore the rivers and mountains of the Han people!" Long Yufei said. China has huge population resources, and if it wants to confront the powerful Western world, it must rely on China's population resources. After gaining a firm foothold in Nanyang, Long Yufei's next step is to make a move against the Manchu Qing!

"Since the ruler has such a great ambition, the old man must do his best to assist! I immediately sent someone to contact several other big villages and ask them to join the Flying Fish Company! Liu Mingde said. He now understands that Long Yufei and the others have a lot of ambitions. Although he is a mountain villager, his knowledge is also good. If the Chinese can really rise in Nanyang, then those of them who joined the Flying Fish Company at an early stage will definitely benefit a lot!

Liu Mingde's cooperation made Long Yufei very satisfied. The 70,000 or 80,000 Chinese in the entire Mindanao, not to mention all of them joining the Flying Fish Works, even if half of them join the Flying Fish Company, this will further expand the strength of the Flying Fish Company. At that time, Long Yufei would dare to directly attack the natives in the south and the two sultanates. It won't be long before Flying Fish will be able to pocket the whole of Mindanao!

With a large number of Chinese joining the Flying Fish Company, the labor shortage faced by the Flying Fish Company has been fundamentally alleviated. As for the natives caught, they were basically used in the mines, and as for the slaves who were promised to be distributed after joining the Flying Fish Army, they could only be owed for the time being.

The company also purchased a large amount of machinery and equipment from Antonio, which further expanded the scale of the company's steel plant and arsenal. In addition to these heavy industries, light industries also began to develop. Flour mills, match mills, textile mills, etc., are all in the next step of planning. Of course, the most important thing at this stage is the military industry. If Flying Fish wants to unify Mindanao and deal with the threat of Western powers, this aspect is indispensable!

It can be said that at this point, Flying Fish has passed the initial difficult stage. Now it has successfully risen to become a significant force in Mindanao. Although the total strength of the Flying Fish Army is only 16 infantry companies and more than 2,500 people, which is not comparable to the strength of some large indigenous tribes, but in terms of combat effectiveness, there is no force in the entire Mindanao that can threaten the Flying Fish Army! After these recruits have been trained, it's time for the Exoces to take the initiative!