Even on Earths with unusually developed transportation and communications, it is very difficult to get accurate demographics.

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

But even if you don't need accurate statistics, you can see that the population of Stratholme and surrounding areas is extremely rare, if you look at it with the naked eye.

Looking around, surrounded by a large field of wilderness, except for the Stratholme city, where you can see a little outline in the distance, it looks like a place to live, probably just two distances from Stratholme. Not too far from a small village.

According to the data provided by Count Alexandre City, the head of the city of Stratholme, the total number of people in the Malo Empire under Stratholme is about 50,000, even compared to the original Bangta City. Not as good as it is.

The city of Stratholme is already the largest city in the northern coastal area of ​​the Marlow Empire and has the largest population.

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

"The Baron adults, according to the plan, after the successful creation of this base, the total number of workers required by each factory will exceed 200,000. But the total number of people who set up Stosom is only 50,000, and many of them are Unable to participate in the work of the old, weak and sick, can not meet the needs." Hogan is very helpless.

⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ,, c → + t "Hmm ... This is indeed a very serious problem." Franklin touched the chin just full of soft fluffy beard, thinking for a moment, continued: "But this problem It's not that difficult to solve. We can openly recruit inside the empire. I just want to know that there is a good job of earning a lot of gold coins a month. There are definitely many people willing to come."

"That may not be." Hogg shook his head. “The environment here is far worse than the inland. Especially the temperature in winter is simply unbearable. Although our Chamber of Commerce is fully prepared, it does not allow everyone to rule out this concern. The key question is... this will keep them away from home, but many people are not willing to accept it."

Franklin frowned. "Yes, for the people of the empire, staying in your hometown is more important than anything else. No one wants to leave home."

Hogan sighed softly: "This...the Baron adults, of course, is not completely impossible. Just see if you and the Marquis can make up your mind?"

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

"What? You want us to help you force some people from the empire to move over? This is very difficult..."

"No, no... I never said it, don't misunderstand the Baron." Hogan waved his hand. "I mean, can you buy some slaves as workers by your relationship between the Sosgaard family and the Macaros family?"

"Slaves?" Franklin was surprised. “Do you think these low-lying guys are capable of the complex work in the factory?”

"This is the case... In fact, when we first founded the Chamber of Commerce, we used a lot of slaves as workers because of the shortage of people. They may not be competent for complicated work, but some ordinary, mechanical and repetitive work is given to them. But there is no problem," Hogan explained.

"But the slave..." Franklin frowned and thought. Shake his head. "I am afraid it will not work. It is different from the past, because there have been no major wars on the mainland for many years. There are fewer and fewer slaves, and even our family now has more than a thousand slaves. The demand for the 200,000 people you said, I am afraid that the slaves of all the noble families who have a relationship with our family are not enough."

"Is it?" This is a problem that Hogan did not expect.

Originally, he thought that the Marlow Empire was one of the two great empires in the mainland. It has a long history and it is not like the complete abolition of slavery in the Stadt, so the slaves it owns must be a very large number.

But I did not expect that even the slaves in the Marlow Empire are now very few, and even 200,000 are hard to get together.

Hogan couldn't help but frowned.

It is not difficult for the base to build, but the most critical issue is that the factories in this magic industrial base will start smoothly.

The most important thing to start is the manpower.

If the manpower is not enough, then everything will be taken.

“Does it still have to be invested again after all?” Hogan sighed in his heart.

At the time of designing this magical industrial base, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce certainly took into account the impact of the harsh environment here, so there was the idea of ​​buying slaves to act as workers.

But now Franklin said that there are not many slaves in the Marlow Empire. Besides, the nobles obviously will not transfer their privately owned slaves at will, so it is even more difficult to get together.

If this plan does not work, then the only way left is to increase investment in the area and increase the salaries of workers so that more people are willing to work here.

However, the environment here is too bad. If you want to have enough attraction to come here to work, the salary you need to pay must obviously reach a very high level.

At the beginning of the plan, Xinfei’s salary for the workers of several magic machinery factories 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 by ten gold coins.

Hogan roughly estimated it in his mind, I am afraid that this standard will be upgraded to at least fifteen gold coins.

The base is expected to recruit about 200,000 workers. One worker spends five gold coins per month, so 200,000 workers will spend more than one million gold coins a month!

This has greatly increased the investment in this magic industrial base, I am afraid that it is not the result that the New Flyer and other people who invest in this base are willing to see.

"Right." Franklin suddenly slaps his hand. "Hogan is in charge, in fact... slaves certainly can't come out of thin air. But we can make it ourselves."

Hogan looked at him boredly: "How do you make it yourself?"

"Look. The vast majority of slaves appear. They are all coming through war. Because there have been no major wars on the mainland for hundreds of years, so there are fewer and fewer slaves..."

"Wait..." Hogan couldn't help but raise his hand and interrupted him. "Baron, are you wanting us to take the initiative to wage war? You... are you kidding?"

Franklin smiled and shook his head: "It is too exaggerated to start a war, but it is not a big problem to find a man to be a slave."

"I still didn't understand what you mean." 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, take the initiative to attack other countries, then it is really a war. Although our Marlow Empire is not afraid of any country on this continent, but arbitrarily attack other countries. I am afraid that the noble emperor is also Can't hold us."

"Then you mean..."

"You can't attack other human countries, but it doesn't mean you can't attack other races..." Franklin showed a tempting smile.

"Ha? Other races?" Hogan was a little bit stunned.

"Yes. In fact, because of the harsh environment in the northern part of the empire, few people in the empire are willing to live here for a long time, so that they are sparsely populated. But for the races that cannot survive on our human territory, here is a A good place. As far as I know, there are three orc tribes in the vicinity of Stratholme, and the orcs add up to at least four thousand."

"The orc family?" Hogan stunned. “There are also orc people here?”

As soon as he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh.

This is simply nonsense.

There is no doubt that the most ethnic race on the mainland of Sainz is, of course, human.

And second only to humans, the second largest race. It is the orc family.

With the scattered dwarfs, the elves are rarely seen. The gnomes, which have almost become legendary, are different races, and the orcs are the most common races on the mainland of Sainz.

Even in many countries, the orc race's power is still huge. Although it is impossible to suppress the human state in turn, but it occupies a territory of its own, it is no problem.

Because the land they occupy is the barren land that most humans don't quite see, and the orc family still maintains quite good force. So, as long as the orc family does not cause trouble, the human state will not go to the meeting. .

This is actually evident in the Kingdom of Lampari.

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

However, a large number of orc races have been entrenched in the black rice wilderness, and the Kingdom of Lampari and the Kingdom of Sark simply did not pay attention to it, allowing the orcs to live on it.

Of course, because of the emergence of the new Feishang Chamber of Commerce, most of the orc tribes in the black rice wilderness 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 mainland. A widespread problem.

The Marlow Empire is one of the two great empires on the mainland of Sainz. It is certainly not unusual to have orcs in the country.

"Of course, there are a lot of them." Franklin was very honest and nodded. "Although there is no specific statistics, there are a lot of orc people living in the northern part of the empire. Even some people in the empire have estimated that the orcs here will add up to more than one million. It is a rather large number."

"More than a million?" Hogan was really scared by this number this time.

Although there are many orc people on the black rice wasteland, they all add up to more than 200,000, less than 300,000.

I don’t think it’s just that there are more than one million orc people in the northern part of the Marlow Empire. It’s really scary.

"Well, the biggest one of the orc tribes is said to have more than 100,000 people. Think about it, if you can capture all these orcs as slaves, can you solve the problem all at once?" Franklin's words are full of words. Alluring.

Hogan had seen too many orc workers in the new flying chamber of commerce. He did not have any resistance to adopting the orc family. He couldn’t help but think about it and thought it was a good idea.

However, when he settled down and saw Franklin’s look of hope, he thought about it later: “It’s a big deal, I need to ask the president first.” (To be continued...)

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