Chapter 106 Make some Slaves Yourself

Even on an earth where transportation and communication are extremely developed, it is very difficult to conduct accurate population statistics.

On the continent of Sainz, it is even more impossible to know the exact population figure on a map.

But even if you don't need accurate statistics, if you just look at it with the naked eye, you can see that Stratholme City and its surrounding areas are extremely sparsely populated.

Looking around, in the surrounding wilderness, except for the city of Stratholme, which can be vaguely seen in the distance, it seems that there are inhabited places, probably only two miles away from Stratholme City. Just a small village not far away.

According to the data provided by Earl Joe Hughes, the lord of Stratholme City, it can be known that the total number of people in the Maro Empire under the rule of Stratholme is about 50,000, which is even more than that of the original Bonta City. Not as good.

However, Stratholme City was already the largest city in the northern coastal region of the Maro Empire, and it also had the largest population.

Even the city of Stratholme has only 50,000 people, and the population in other places is even rarer.

"Lord Baron, according to the plan, after the base is successfully established, the total number of workers required by each factory will exceed 200,000. However, the total number of workers in Strathom's establishment is only 50,000, and many of them are basically The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled who can't work can't meet their needs at all." Hogan said helplessly.

"Well... this is indeed a very serious problem." Franklin stroked his chin, which had just grown a soft, fluffy beard, thought for a moment, and continued: "But this problem is not so difficult to solve. We can completely ask the inside of the empire Open recruitment. I think as long as I know that there are good jobs here that can earn a lot of gold coins a month, there must be many people willing to come.”

"That's not necessarily the case." Hogg shook his head. "The environment here is far worse than that of the inland. Especially the temperature in winter is simply unbearable. Although our chamber of commerce has made complete preparations, we can't let everyone get rid of this concern. And in the end The key issue is ... it takes them away from home, which a lot of people don't want to accept."

Franklin frowned: "Yes, for the people of the empire, staying in their hometown is more important than anything else. No one wants to leave their hometown unless it is absolutely necessary."

Hogan coughed lightly: "This... Lord Baron, of course there is no way out. It depends on whether you and Lord Marquis can make up your mind?"

Franklin looked at Hogan in surprise, blinked, and instantly understood what he meant.

"What? Do you want us to help you relocate some people from the empire? This is very difficult..."

"No, no, no... I never said that, Mr. Baron, don't get me wrong." Hogan waved his hands repeatedly. "What I mean is, can you buy some slaves as workers through the relationship between your Southgate family and the Macaroth family?"

"Slave?" Franklin was surprised. "Do you think these lowly fellows are up to the complicated work of a factory?"

"Well... In fact, when our chamber of commerce was first established, due to lack of manpower, we also used many slaves as workers. They may not be able to do complicated tasks, but some very ordinary, mechanical and repetitive tasks, we can give them It's not a problem," Hogan explained.

"But a slave..." Franklin frowned and thought about it. Shake your head. "I'm afraid it still won't work. Now it's different from before, because there haven't been major wars on the mainland for many years. Fewer and fewer people have become slaves, and even our family now has more than a thousand slaves. Want to satisfy The demand of 200,000 people you mentioned, plus the slaves of all the nobles who are related to our family, may not be enough."

"Really?" This was a question that Hogan hadn't expected.

Originally, he thought that the Maro Empire, as one of the two major empires in the mainland, had a long history, and it was not like the slavery system was completely abolished in the Principality of Standing, so the number of slaves it owned must be a very large number.

Unexpectedly, even the number of slaves in the Maro Empire has become very small, and it is difficult to get even 200,000.

Hogan couldn't help frowning.

It is not difficult to build the base, but the most critical issue is to make the various factories in this magical industrial base start smoothly.

If you want to start work, the most important thing is manpower.

If there is not enough manpower, then nothing will be mentioned.

"Is it still necessary to invest more after all?" Hogan sighed inwardly.

At first, when specifying the plan of this magical industrial base, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce certainly considered the impact of the harsh environment here, so it had the idea of ​​buying slaves to serve as workers.

But now Franklin said that there were not many slaves in the Maro Empire. Besides, those nobles obviously would not transfer their privately owned slaves at will, so it was even more difficult to get them together.

If this plan doesn't work, then the only way left is to increase investment in this place and increase workers' salaries so as to attract more people willing to work here.

However, the environment here is too harsh. If one wants to attract enough people to come and work here, the salary and benefits that need to be provided must obviously reach an extremely high level.

When the plan was first formulated, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce set the salary for the workers of several magic machinery factories under it at the standard of ten gold coins a month.

It should be said that this standard is extremely attractive to the vast majority of civilians in the Maro Empire, but it may not be so easy to attract people to the extremely cold north with ten gold coins.

Hogan made a rough calculation in his mind, and I'm afraid this standard should be raised to at least fifteen gold coins.

And this base is expected to recruit a total of about 200,000 workers. If one worker spends five more gold coins per month, then the 200,000 workers will have to spend an extra one million gold coins every month!

This has greatly increased the investment in this magic industry base. I am afraid that it is not the result that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and anyone else who invested in this base would like to see.

"That's right." Franklin suddenly slapped his hands hard. "Director Hogan, actually... of course slaves cannot emerge out of thin air. But we can create them ourselves."

Hogan looked at him wonderingly: "Make it yourself? How?"

"Look. The emergence of the vast majority of slaves. In fact, they all came through wars. Because there have been no major wars on the mainland for hundreds of years, there are fewer and fewer slaves..."

"Wait..." Hogan couldn't help but raised his hand to interrupt him. "Lord Baron, do you want us to take the initiative to start a war? Are you...are you kidding me?"

Franklin laughed and shook his head: "It's too exaggerated to start a war, but it's not a big problem to capture some people as slaves."

"I still don't understand what you mean." Hogan frowned: "Do you want us to take the initiative to attack other countries and capture some people from other countries as slaves?"

"No no, if you take the initiative to attack other countries, then you are really launching a war. Although our Maro Empire is not afraid of any country on this continent, if you attack other countries without authorization, I am afraid His Majesty the Emperor will also Can't keep us."

"Then you mean..."

"You can't attack other human countries, but that doesn't mean you can't attack other races..." Franklin revealed a seductive smile meaningfully.

"Huh? Other races?" Hogan was stunned for a moment.

"That's right. In fact, because of the harsh environment in the northern part of the empire, few of the people of the empire are willing to live here for a long time, so that it is sparsely populated. But for those alien races who cannot survive in our human territory, this is a place. A good place. As far as I know, there are three orc tribes just near Stratholme City, and the orc tribes add up to at least four thousand."

"Beastmen?" Hogan was stunned. "There are also orcs here?"

As soon as the words came out, he couldn't help laughing himself.

This is simply nonsense.

There is no doubt that the race with the largest number of people on the Sainz continent is of course humans.

And the second largest race after humans. It's the orcs.

With the scattered dwarves, the elves are rarely seen. Different from the dwarves and other alien races that have almost become legends, the orcs are the most common alien race on the Sainz continent.

Even in many countries, the power of the orc race is still huge. Although it is impossible to suppress the human country in turn, it is no problem to occupy a piece of territory that belongs to them.

Because most of the land they occupy is a barren land that humans don't think much of, and the orcs still maintain a fairly good force, so as long as the orcs themselves don't cause trouble, human countries generally don't pay attention to it. .

This is actually evident in the Kingdom of Lampari.

If the black rice wasteland is calculated theoretically, most of it belongs to the Lampari Kingdom, and a small part belongs to the Sark Kingdom.

However, a large number of orcs have been entrenched on the Hemi Wasteland, and the Lampari Kingdom and the Sark Kingdom simply ignored it and let the orcs live on it.

Of course, because of the emergence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, most of the orc tribes on the Black Rice Wasteland began to cooperate with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other human chambers of commerce, and basically integrated into the nearby human society, so that Hogan basically ignored this continent. common problems.

The Maro Empire is one of the two largest empires on the Sains Continent, so it is not surprising that there are orcs in the country.

"Of course there are, and there are many more." Franklin nodded honestly to express his affirmation. "Although there are no specific statistics, there are a lot of orcs living in the northern part of the empire. Some people in the empire even estimate that the total number of orcs here may even exceed one million, which is quite a huge number."

"More than one million?" Hogan was really shocked by this number this time.

Although there are many orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland, the total number of them is about 200,000 or less than 300,000.

Unexpectedly, there are more than one million orcs in the northern part of the Maro Empire, which is really quite terrifying.

"Well, one of the largest orc tribes is said to have more than 100,000 people. Think about it, if we can capture all these orc tribes as slaves, will the problem be solved at once?" Franklin's words were full of allure.

Hogan had seen too many orc workers in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so he didn't have any resistance to adopting orcs. Hearing this, he couldn't help thinking about it, and felt that this was indeed a good idea.

But when he calmed down and saw the expectant expression on Franklin's face, he thought for a while and said: "It's a very important matter, I need to ask the president for instructions first." (To be continued...)