With the help of other tribes, the development of the area around Keelung Port has increased rapidly. In fact, there were only a few hundred people in this tribe, and there were less than two or three hundred young men, so this labor did not help much for large-scale construction. The reason why it is so important is that without the harassment of poisoned arrows, the workers who reclaim the land, cut down the wood, and build houses are no longer afraid, and a large number of manpower is freed up for guarding. Balai, the leader and sorcerer of the Ethata tribe, also sent experienced hunters as guides to lead the technicians of the newly formed Liuqiu Mining Company in search of minerals.

According to Balai, the number of tribes on the island is so large that it is more than the fingers and toes of all the elders of the tribe combined. The Shengfan tribes, including the Yitata, had no writing, and their fingers and toes were their tools for counting. Due to the lack of food, various tribes often kill each other for prey, and cannibalism is more to make up for the lack of food than a custom. Of course, they do not eat the flesh of their own clan members, nor do they eat other clan members who are related by blood. The wild living environment and uncivilized state make the population of Liuqiu Island sparse. According to Xia Dagen's estimates, the population of this island, which is several times the size of the western Sichuan Plain, will not exceed 50,000. Moreover, these people who make a living from fishing and hunting are not civilized, and it is impossible to use them as labor force for construction.

Therefore, it is imperative to recruit people to the island on a large scale. Before Yu Zhu led the army to arrive, Li Kaipeng recruited thousands of displaced people from Shandong, Lin'an and other coastal areas, and Huang Hu'er, Li Ya'er and others were among them. It's just that this population is far from enough for the flow of development, so Yu Zhu decided to increase the recruitment efforts. Due to the large number of people and the lack of land in the coastal prefectures and counties of the Southern Song Dynasty, land annexation was very serious, and the displaced people who had lost their land often gathered in the mountains and forests, or gathered to make trouble, causing great headaches for the local government. In the name of recruiting displaced people to Tuntian in western Sichuan, it is not difficult to recruit people by giving some benefits to local officials.

It is a little difficult to recruit displaced people along the coasts of Shandong, Hebei and other places. In the early years, these places were the tragic and repeated tug-of-war battlefields of Mengjin, and some places were still frequently contested by the Song and Mongolian dynasties, and the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty has long been gone, and the population has also decreased significantly. Although there was a lot of land to cultivate, the living conditions of the Han people here were miserable, because they were oppressed by the Mongol nobility and the Han military princes. In the eyes of the Mongol aristocracy and the Han marquis, the common people were serfs and their property, and of course they tried to prevent them from fleeing. The top brass of the Perak Army were deeply influenced by Ouyang Xuan's idea of "saving the people from fire and water", and Yu Zhu, Li Kaipeng and others were also from the north, so they felt the pain of the loss of their homeland. Therefore, the company decided to overcome the difficulties and adopt the method of smuggling to save as many northern Han people as possible from the suffering.

In addition to population, money and food are also the focus of development strategies. With the continuous arrival of displaced people, the food problem will gradually become prominent. The island is rich in light, heat and water, which is very suitable for growing rice and other food crops, and the next step will be large-scale reclamation, but it will take at least half a year or even a year to reclaim the barren jungle into arable land, and then sow the seeds to harvest the grain. Where did the food come from during this time? Boss Qian was going to buy it in the coastal states and counties of the mainland first, but due to the dense population in the southeast region and the frequent wars between Song and Mongolia, the food consumption was large and the price was not cheap. He planned to wait for the conditions to be ripe, and then go to Guangzhou, Jiaozhi, and Champa in the south to buy rice, where the light and heat conditions are better, and even three crops a year can be produced, and the price of grain will naturally be cheaper.

Buying grain requires a lot of money, although Li Kaipeng has accumulated a certain amount of money in the early stage, Boss Qian and Yu Zhu have also brought a lot of money, plus the captured treasures of the bandits, there is a lot of start-up capital for the development of Liuqiu. However, according to Ouyang Xuan's requirements, it is not only necessary to build Liuqiu into an industrial base, but also to establish a strong navy, and to become a starting base for overseas development. Each of these three is a money-burning business, and the amount of money required for each of them is sky-high. That little money is a drop in the bucket compared to that.

The main way to raise capital is through maritime trade. The company has trading warehouses in Zhoushan and Lin'an, and also has trade contacts with merchants in Xiaoliu and Quanzhou. While continuing to operate the routes from Lin'an to Quanzhou and Xiaoliuqiu, Qian Laoda is going to open up routes from Keelung to Waguo, Goryeo, and even Shandong and Liaodong to carry out triangular trade. These routes were under the control of the Mongols except for the Wa Kingdom, and the Southern Song Dynasty officially banned them, so the trade was extremely risky. However, high risk means high profit and high return, which will provide a large amount of capital for the development of Liuqiu, and it is worth taking the risk.

Boss Qian is a businessman with an active mind, and his thinking is much more active in the strong business atmosphere of the southeast coast. The pressure of raising money reminded him of a conversation with Ouyang Xuan and Yang Xiucai when he was in western Sichuan. In that conversation, Yang Xiucai pointed out that it was inconvenient for finance, taxation, and commerce to be conducted in kind, but that banknotes issued by the government, such as Jiaozi, Huizi, and Zhuyuan, were also issued indiscriminately and lacked credit, which was like waste paper. Iron money is bulky, and there is a lack of precious metals such as copper, silver, and gold as currency, which is really difficult to do. Ouyang Xuan talked about this and proposed to set up a bank when the conditions were right, and issue Perak's own banknotes for internal settlement. After obtaining sufficient gold and silver from the Wa Kingdom, the Bison Continent, and the Alpaca Continent, the foreign settlement was carried out on the basis of gold and silver, and the seigniorage was obtained.

Boss Qian only half-understood these financial terms such as banking, gold and silver standard, and settlement, and he even heard seigniorage. However, he understood what Ouyang Xuan said about the shares and bonds. At that moment, he borrowed Ouyang Xuan's ideas and put forward the idea of raising funds by himself and issuing shares and coupons to the outside world. That is, the establishment of Liuqiu Overseas Exploration Company, and the sale of one-fifth of its shares to the outside world. The Liuqiu Agricultural Development Company was established, and the Liuqiu Company was used as a guarantee to issue bonds to raise start-up funds for agricultural planting such as rice and sugar. Boss Qian's proposal made Li Kaipeng applaud, and this method could not only solve the funding gap, but also establish interest ties with high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the coastal areas, especially in Lin'an.

According to Ouyang Xuan's description, the Bison Continent and the Alpaca Continent are both ternullius, and the gold and silver mineral resources here are extremely rich, and there are also large areas of excellent anointed land. To explore the routes to these two continents, a huge amount of investment is required in the early stage, but once the routes to these two continents are opened, it is difficult to get rich. The number of wealthy and wealthy families in Lin'an is extremely large, and a few hundred taels of silver is just a small amount of money to them, and they can take out the right to gamble, and the return will be hundreds or thousands of times, why not? As for the annual interest rate of the bonds, it is set at 20 percent, and with Li Kaipeng's good reputation and extensive contacts in Lin'an, he will certainly not be able to sell a lot of bonds if he takes out a sample of cane sugar. In fact, dignitaries and big businessmen such as Pu Shougeng all knew about the huge profits of sugar, but because they could not grow it on a large scale under the small-scale peasant economy, and lacked the technology to produce it, they could only sigh with joy.