Chapter 272 Harvest x Progress

Exchanging population for food, isn't that just giving money?

Xia Jieren was well aware of what the nobles were thinking, but he didn't care at all.

Just take what you need!

Xia Jieren needs people, but food is worthless to him.

As long as there is energy, you can have as much food as you want.

In this way, the Kingdom of the Netherlands tried to trade with several countries.

Seeing that the World Government did not stop it, the Kingdom of the Netherlands increased its trading efforts.

For the following period of time, population trade between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and various countries was in full swing.

Thanks to the efficient and orderly management of the Zerg people, the newcomers to the Kingdom of the Netherlands did not cause too much chaos.

However, those countries that traded with the Kingdom of the Netherlands did not have good intentions. The trading population was mostly old, young, sick, disabled and weak, with very few young and strong people.

In response to this, the Kingdom of the Netherlands imposed restrictions, requiring that the proportion of young and strong people in each transaction must be controlled within a certain range.

Besides, these people are a mixed bag, including spies, hooligans, and criminals...

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder!

After the traded population arrives at Eastport, they will be isolated, undergo a series of checks, and finally have biochips installed without anyone noticing.

After installing the biochip, if these people have any bad thoughts, they can be immediately identified.

By this means, spies and those who have done evil deeds have nowhere to hide.

As soon as such people are discovered, they will be immediately decomposed into energy, which is also a waste utilization.

The population trade in the West Sea finally came to a halt after two months.

During this period, all parties cooperated very happily and got what they wanted.

Only the Wester Empire and the Golden Lion Empire acted as the biggest enemies.

Because most of the grain distributed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands was sold at high prices to the Wester Empire and the Golden Lion Empire through various channels.

The injured worlds of the Wester Empire and the Golden Lion Empire were reached.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands became the biggest winner.

Of course, it's not without disadvantages.

The Netherlands Kingdom's lavish spending has attracted the covetous eyes of countless people, countries, and even the world government.

They could never have imagined that the tiny Kingdom of the Netherlands could produce millions of tons of grain.

Perhaps because of fear or other reasons, they did not choose to take direct action, but instead instigated the pirates to test the bottom line of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Of course, Xia Jieren would not give in. He would sink all the ships that did not follow the rules in the Dutch waters, whether they were pirates or ships from other forces.

Even when threatened by other forces, Xia Jieren had no intention of compromising.

Over time, conflicts between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and pirates, the mafia, and the underworld intensified.

Seeing this, the kingdoms in the West Sea also wanted to get involved.

As the saying goes, there are only eternal interests, no eternal friends.

It hasn't been long since then, and the countries in the West Sea have begun to unite against the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The branches of the White Tiger Chamber of Commerce in various countries in the West Sea were subjected to unreasonable difficulties, and the prices of the goods they wanted to purchase suddenly increased.

"Hmph! You are so shameless!" Xia Jieren sneered, with no intention of indulging them at all.

The White Tiger Chamber of Commerce counterattacked very quickly. After identifying the mastermind behind the incident with its eagle eyes, it directly resorted to assassination and other means to solve the problem in a simple and crude way.

As the number of pirates, powerful merchants, and nobles continued to die, everyone came to their senses.

"This is the revenge of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." Those who knew the inside story couldn't help but tremble.

Since the problem is difficult to solve, then solve the person who caused the problem.

After learning about the Netherlands's methods, many people chose to stop targeting the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

But there are all kinds of birds in the forest. There are always people who fail to recognize the situation or are overconfident in their own abilities, and in the end they all pay a heavy price.

As the number of attacks was too frequent, the Kingdom of the Netherlands received reports from some countries in the West Sea, and the World Government also intervened in the investigation.

However, the Kingdom of the Netherlands acted very covertly, and after the investigation yielded no results, the World Government couldn't hold on to them.

Although he gave up on further investigation, Xia Jieren understood that the World Government had secretly stepped up its infiltration and suppression of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

In addition, the targeting by the countries in the West Sea caused the White Tiger Chamber of Commerce to lose a lot of profits.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands has achieved self-sufficiency in most resources and does not need to rely too much on the outside world.

Therefore, the Kingdom of the Netherlands had enough confidence to deal with the difficulties posed by various countries.

"It seems that a war is needed to once again demonstrate the strength of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." Xia Jieren smiled playfully.

Humans are animals who only remember to eat and not to be beaten. Without feeling the pain, it is impossible to curb their greedy hearts.

"Which country should I choose?" Xia Jieren stared at the map, stroking his chin and thinking.

"XX Kingdom? No, it is a member of the World Government and cannot be occupied."

"XX Kingdom? This country is not worth occupying."

"XX Kingdom? It's too far away."

Xia Jieren scratched his head in distress.

Who understands the feeling of wanting to establish your authority but not being able to find an opponent?

"Oh... forget it, let's send the navy to maintain the waterway first." Xia Jieren temporarily gave up the plan of finding a country to establish his authority.

After dealing with the affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Xia Jieren also paid attention to the research progress of biological colonization equipment and genetic optimization fluid.

Version 2.0 of the Bio-Colonization Suit will be available soon.

As for the effect of the gene optimization liquid, it was far from what Xia Jieren expected.

What made Xia Jieren happiest was that the analysis of the animal-type devil fruit was about to be completed.

The analysis of the Animal-type Devil Fruit lasted about half a year, and Xia Jieren once suspected that there was something wrong with the Zerg's research capabilities.

For this reason, Xia Jieren also brought up Vegapunk.

But Kerrigan explained that the analysis of animal-type devil fruits was so slow because the number of samples was too small.

Hearing this reason, Xia Jieren could only curl his lips helplessly.

There was nothing wrong with what Kerrigan said. Xia Jieren only provided Kerrigan with an accidentally obtained Ma-Ma fruit in zebra form for research.

The World Government has more animal-type devil fruits in its hands, so one can imagine the speed and difficulty of Vegapunk's research.

Skipping this topic, Xia Jieren took another look at the current coverage of the fungal blanket.

"Well, that's very good. The fungal mat has covered two-thirds of the West Sea." Xia Jieren nodded with satisfaction, with an undisguised smile on his face.

Then he asked, "By the way, have all the people we have gathered during this period been settled?"

"Yes!" Kerrigan replied.

"What is the current population of the Kingdom of the Netherlands?"

"More than 600 million."

"600 million, that's pretty good." Xia Jieren said to himself with a smile.

He also didn't expect to take advantage of the surplus food to gather more than one million people.