When Peter's letter was sent out, the main body of immigrants had only just set off. At this point, they were probably still somewhere along the way.
Considering the main body's travel efficiency, by the time they arrived, it would probably already be late summer.
That Peter fellow had not surprised him in the slightest. True to form, he had waited until all the spring plowing was finished before arranging for another batch of immigrants to come over, making full use of them and then tossing them aside.
However, this batch consisted of quite a lot of immigrants—more than ten thousand—so Zhou Xu said nothing.
After all, when it came to immigration, he still planned to maintain long-term cooperation with Peter.
Compared with the Rakshasa Republican Party, if the Smith Party had any advantage, it was probably its population.
The fundamental reason was that, during the era of the Smith Kingdom, the slave owners had basically treated slaves like livestock.
This referred not only to labor, but also to reproduction.
To ensure that they had enough slaves to use, they made the slaves give birth continuously.
As for the risks of pregnancy, childbirth, and even the children dying soon after birth, they simply never considered them.
If one survived, one survived. If not, they would just have another.
In their eyes, slaves were plentiful, after all.
As a result, after Peter had risen in revolt, established the Rakshasa Republican Party, and liberated the slaves in three cities, he had a huge population under his command—so huge that he could not even afford to support it with the resources at hand.
The agreement Zhou Xu had reached with them to trade population was indeed mutually beneficial for both sides.
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