The four words "100-year-old navy" describe the difficulties of naval construction. Liao Loach was anxious, so he approached Li Kaipeng to discuss whether he could buy a sea ship from the official army and recruit sailors with experience in long-distance sailing. Li Kaipeng took the opportunity to give a banquet to the officials of the Coastal Control Department and the generals of the navy, and put forward this idea while they were drunk, but he was flatly rejected. The ships of the sea are registered and regularly inspected, and if they are sold without authorization, they will lose their heads, and experienced sailors are the core combat strength of the navy, where will they let go? However, after they heard Li Kaipeng's offer, their eyes became hesitant again, and their tone became no longer resolute, saying that this kind of thing would be discussed after the war. Of course, Li Kaipeng knew what they thought, after the war, there would be damage to the warships and casualties. The things sold to the company and the people who lost can be reported as war damage.

For naval construction, Yu Zhu's mood is even more urgent than Liao Loach. Liuqiu Company tries to keep a low profile and pays attention to secrecy work, but the movement of tens of thousands of people on the island is really not small, which will definitely attract the attention of people with intentions, and then attract the attention of hostile forces. "You can't have the heart to hurt people, and you can't have the heart to prevent people", Yu Zhu is not worried about the life on the island. Those tribes were sparsely populated and hostile to each other, and many of them did not even speak the same language. Even if they were organized, it would be a fool's dream to defeat the Liuqiu Corporation with their bone and stone weapons. Those weapons are not very lethal at all if they are not smeared with poison, which is not easy to make and preserve, and cannot be used on a large scale.

Yu Zhu was worried about foreign forces, and the current armed forces had three battalions of a navy with a total of 1,500 men, a battalion of 500 troops, and a militia of about 10,000. After Keelung Port was equipped with artillery, it was not afraid of enemy attacks at all. Even if the enemy rushes to land near the port, the army has the ability to repel it. However, Yu Zhu and Liao Loach knew that the enemy would not attack the fortified port at all, but would use the advantage of the ships to harass everywhere after gaining sea supremacy, and even cut off the route between Liuqiu Island and the outside world or even blockade the port, so that the Thunderbolt army could not obtain a steady stream of people, food, and other strategic materials from the outside world. Without a strong navy, there will be no sea supremacy, and if sea supremacy is lost, even survival will be a problem.

Yu Zhu's worries were not unreasonable. At present, the 50 miles around Keelung Port are under the effective jurisdiction of the company, and many defense facilities have been built, but they are still easy to attack and difficult to defend. In this area the size of two or three counties, there were originally nineteen cannibal tribes, seven of which were relatives of the Yitaother tribe. After the communication of the sorcerer Balai, the seven tribes agreed to live in peace with the messenger of Thor, and the Liuqiu Company promised that if the Shengfan tribe did not attack, they would give them corresponding benefits, including teaching them to grow crops, selling food, salt, iron tools and other materials, and allowing the tribal children to receive education.

The other twelve tribes had no intention of making peace with the outsiders, and not only did they kill the emissaries sent by Yata and his relatives, but they also repeatedly attacked the site selection officials and prospecting technicians of the Liuqiu Company's reclamation site, for which Liao Loach unceremoniously retaliated. With the help of Yatata and his kinship, the Liuqiu infantry battalion easily found the raider's stockade in the jungle – a jumble of low, shacks, to be precise. In the case of little difference in personnel, a well-trained army armed with firearms can think of what the result is with the toes of a primitive man with a stone weapon in his hand. The tribes of attackers were either wiped out or fled deeper into the jungle.

The soldiers of the Wandering Infantry Battalion were also hurt - many vomited because they saw human bones everywhere in the village, some with tooth marks on them, and the shrunken heads and smoky limbs still hanging from the chieftains' houses. What's even more exaggerated is that the guide of the Yitata tribe who led the way actually drooled when he looked at the corpses all over the ground. It is said that after Yata and his relatives and tribes joined the messenger of Thor, they have promised not to eat people again. Thor's messenger told them that cannibalism would be damned, but how could the habits that had been cultivated for thousands of years be changed in the short term? The soldiers of the infantry battalion watched the guide who led the way biting in their mouths, and their faces were extremely happy, and their stomachs couldn't help but churn, and they all started retching on to the trunk of the tree.

After driving out the cannibal tribes who refused to coexist peacefully, the Liuqiu Company set up nearly 100 cantonment sites in the area. These settlements, each numbering about four or five hundred people, were located along the coast or near rivers where small boats could be navigated. In addition to the cantonment points, mines and lumberyards are also located along the coast and in places with easy access by water, which makes it very easy for the enemy attacking from the sea to penetrate these weak defensive places. Although trenches and wooden fences were dug in the various strongholds, the lack of firearms made it possible for the defenses and defense forces to deal with wild beasts and small-scale attacks, but they were unable to cope with large-scale attacks.

In fact, Yu Zhu and others are also in a dilemma in the plan for the site selection of reclamation sites and factories and mines. In this wild jungle land, it is too difficult to find a place that is easy to transport and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Since "you can't have both fish and bear's paws", the senior management of Liuqiu Company took convenient transportation as the first choice after repeated trade-offs, so as to make the economy develop rapidly. Only with strong economic strength and military industry can we build a powerful navy and defend ourselves against the enemy at sea. Another reason for this site selection is that the current development and construction workload is very heavy, and there is no surplus manpower and materials to build bridges and roads. While these two infrastructures are important, they are very expensive and not urgent.

Although most of the more than 60,000 people recruited to the island are young and strong, there are still some women, children, old and young, and there are only more than 50,000 strong laborers. Of these 50,000 people, 15,000 are in mines and factories. At present, the company has seven coal mines, five lime mines, three iron ore mines and one saltwater pan. In the vicinity of Keelung, factories such as coking coal plants, steelmaking blast furnaces and cement plants, agricultural tool factories, and arsenals have also been built. Since both civilian and naval construction required a large number of ships, the shipyard had the largest number of workers, with a full 3,000 workers.

There are 35,000 people engaged in agricultural production, including more than 3,000 fishermen, which are managed and operated by the newly established fishery company. In fact, the offshore waters controlled by Liuqiu cannot accommodate so many fishermen, and if you want to catch fish, you have to go to the surrounding waters or the offshore waters at the southern tip of the island, and even go to the far sea of Xiaoliuqiu, which is a certain risk. The risk comes from two aspects: on the one hand, the ship may capsize in bad weather such as a typhoon, or be lost and cannot return to the sea, and on the other hand, it may be robbed. Robbers are not only pirates, but can also be other fishermen or even passing merchant ships. There is no law on the vast sea, and many people who seek a living at sea are lawless.

The reasons why the top management of the company insisted on doing so were actually very simple: first, to gradually explore the waters around Liuqiu Island through fishermen, and second, to train reservists for the navy. The fishermen were militarily organized and trained, their boats reinforced and armed, and they often operated in platoon units, known as maritime militias, and were not afraid of small groups of pirates. Fishing in areas infested with large numbers of pirates is accompanied by the navy of the Liuqiu Company.