Magic Industry Empire - 917. Chapter 917

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

On the Sainz Continent, it is even more impossible to know the accurate population figures of a map.

However, even if accurate statistics are not needed, if you look at it with the naked eye, you can see that Stratholme and the surrounding area are extremely sparsely populated.

Looking around, in the surrounding fields, except for Stratholme, where you can see a little outline in the distance, it looks like a place where people live, probably just two distances from Stratholme. It’s just a small village not far away.

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

Stratholme is already the largest city in the northern coastal area of the Maro Empire with the largest population.

Even Stratholme has only 50,000 people, and people in other places are even rarer.

“My Lord Baron, according to the plan, after the establishment of this base, the total number of workers required for each factory will exceed 200,000. However, the total number of people who established Stathom is only 50,000, and many of them are basically The old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot work can not meet their needs at all.” Hogan said helplessly.

“Um… this is indeed a very serious problem.” Franklin touched the chin that had just been covered with a soft hairy beard, thought for a moment, and continued: “But this problem is not that difficult to solve. Open recruitment. I think as long as I know that there are good jobs that can earn a lot of gold a month, many people will definitely be willing to come.”

“That’s not necessarily.” Hogg shook his head. “The environment here is far worse than inland, especially the temperature in winter is simply unbearable. Although our chamber of commerce has made complete preparations, we cannot let everyone rule out this concern. The key issue is…this will make them far away from home, which many people are unwilling to accept.”

Franklin frowned: “Yes, for the people of the empire, staying at home is more important than anything else. No one is willing to leave home as a last resort.”

Hogan coughed slightly: “This… Lord Baron, of course, it’s not impossible, it depends on whether you and Lord Marquis can make up their minds?”

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

“What? Do you want us to help you forcibly relocate some people from the empire? This is very difficult…”

“No, no… I never said, Lord Baron, don’t get me wrong.” Hogan waved his hand again and again. “I mean, can you buy some slaves as workers first through the relationship between your Southgate family and the Macaros family?”

“Slave?” Franklin was surprised. “Do you think these lowly guys can do the complicated jobs in the factory?”

“Well… In fact, when our Chamber of Commerce was just founded, due to lack of manpower, many slaves were used as workers. They may not be competent for complex tasks, but some very common and mechanical repetitive tasks are given to them. But there is no problem.” Hogan explained.

“But slave…” Franklin frowned for a while and shook his head. “I’m afraid it’s still not possible. Now it is different from before, because there has not been a major war on the mainland for many years, and fewer and fewer people have become slaves. Even our family now has more than a thousand slaves. I want to be satisfied. The demand of 200,000 people you mentioned, I am afraid that the slaves in all the noble families who have relations with our family will not be enough.”

“Really?” This was a question that Hogan hadn’t expected.

Originally, he thought that the Maro Empire was one of the two major empires on the mainland, with a long history, and unlike the Principality of Stantin, who completely abolished slavery, the number of slaves must be a very large number.

Unexpectedly, even the number of slaves in the Marlow Empire has now become extremely small, and it is difficult to even collect 200,000.

Hogan couldn’t help frowning.

It is not difficult for the base to be built, but the most critical issue is to let the various factories in this magical industrial base start smoothly.

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

If the manpower is insufficient, then nothing is mentioned.

“Do you still need to invest more after all?” Hogan sighed inwardly.

At first, when designating the plan for this magical industrial base, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce took into account 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 Marlow Empire. Besides, those nobles obviously wouldn’t transfer their privately owned slaves at will, so it was even more difficult to get together.

If this plan doesn’t work, the only way left is to increase investment here and raise the salary of workers, so as to attract more people who are willing to work here.

However, the environment here is too bad. If you want to have enough attractiveness for people to work here, the salary package that needs to be provided obviously must reach a very high level.

When the plan was first made, the salary of the workers of the several magic machinery factories under the new flying business was about ten gold coins a month.

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

Hogan made a rough estimate in his mind, I am afraid that this standard can be raised to at least fifteen gold coins.

The total number of workers expected to be recruited by this base is about 200,000. If a worker spends five more gold coins every month, then 200,000 workers will spend a full one million more gold coins every month!

This has greatly increased the investment in this magic industrial base, which is probably not the result that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and anyone else who invested in this base would like to see.

“That’s right.” Franklin suddenly slapped hard. “Director Hogan, actually…Slaves can’t come out of thin air, but we can make them ourselves.”

Hogan looked at him wonderingly: “Make it yourself? How?”

“You see, the vast majority of slaves actually came through war. Because there has been no major war on the mainland for hundreds of years, so slaves are getting fewer and fewer…”

“Wait…” Hogan couldn’t help but raised his hand to interrupt him. “My Lord Baron, do you want us to take the initiative to start a war? You…are you kidding me?”

Franklin chuckled and shook his head: “It’s an exaggeration to start a war, but it’s not a big problem to capture a few people as slaves.”

“I haven’t understood what you mean yet.” Hogan frowned. “Do you want us to take the initiative to attack other countries and grab some people from other countries to be 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 that your majesty the emperor will also Can’t keep us.”

“Then what do you mean…”

“You can’t attack other human nations, but doesn’t it mean you can’t attack other races…” Franklin showed a fascinating smile meaningfully.

“Huh? Other races?” Hogan was stunned for a while.

“Yes. In fact, because of the harsh environment in the northern part of the empire, few people of the empire are willing to live here for a long time, so that there are few people. But for those alien races who cannot survive in our human territory, this is a place. Good place. As far as I know, there are three orc tribes in the vicinity of Stratholme alone, of which the orc tribes add up to at least four thousand.”

“Orcs?” Hogan was stunned. “There are orcs here too?”

He couldn’t help but laugh as soon as he said the words.

This is simply nonsense.

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

And the second largest race after humans is the orc race.

Unlike the scattered dwarf races, the elven races that are rarely seen, and the dwarf races that have almost become legendary races, the orcs are the most common races on the Sainz continent.

Even in many countries, the power of the orcs is still huge. Although it is impossible to suppress the human country in turn, it is no problem to occupy a territory of its own.

Because most of the territories they occupy are barrens that humans don’t appreciate, and the orcs still maintain a fairly good force, so as long as the orcs themselves don’t cause trouble, human nations generally don’t pay much attention to it. .

This is actually evident in the Kingdom of Lampari.

If the Black Rice Wasteland is calculated theoretically, in fact, most of it belongs to the Kingdom of Lampari, and a small part belongs to the Kingdom of Sark.

However, a large number of orcs have been entrenched in the Black Rice Wasteland, and the kingdoms of Lampari and Sark simply ignored them and let the orcs live on it.

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

The Maro Empire is one of the two empires on the Sainz continent. Of course, it is not uncommon for orcs to exist in the country.

“Of course there are, and there are many more.” Franklin nodded honestly in affirmation. “Although there is no specific statistics, there are a lot of orcs living in the northern part of the empire, and even some people in the empire estimate that the orcs here add up to more than one million, which is a huge number.”

“More than one million?” Hogan was really shocked by the number this time.

Although there are many orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland, they all add up to more than 200,000, and less than 300,000.

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

“Well, the largest orc tribe among them is said to have more than 100,000 people. Think about it, if you can capture all these orcs 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 New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and he had no resistance to adopting the 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 Franklin’s look of expectation, he thought for a while and said: “It’s important, I need to ask the president first.”