"President Xu, why do you have to keep these goblins as laborers?" After giving up the idea of dissuading Xu Yi, Varus quickly turned his question to a new aspect.
"Yes, if you need labor, my people are much stronger than the goblins." Garn Firehammer said while bending his arms vigorously, showing everyone the well-developed biceps on his upper arms. . "No matter in terms of strength or brains, those despicable goblins cannot compare with us."
"It's very simple. There is only one reason." Xu Yi stretched out a finger. "That means there are enough goblins. Garn, of course your people are excellent, but let me ask you, even if all the dwarves in the entire Demon Cloud Continent were gathered together, how many would the total number be?"
The proud look on Garn Firehammer's face immediately became unnatural.
As a dwarf, he is not good at lying, and he is even less good at telling lies in front of so many people.
After hesitating for a while, he replied dejectedly: "Probably... probably more than half a million..."
"Five hundred thousand?" Xu Yi turned to Varus again. "Varus, how many elves are there in total?"
Varus smiled bitterly: "President Xu, I understand what you mean. In terms of population alone, our races combined are probably not even one-tenth of the goblins. But the goblins are not very capable. It can even be said that they are very weak. I’m afraid it’s not that easy to use them as laborers, right?”
"I don't expect them to be very useful." Xu Yi shook his head. "You all know what many of the factories under our Chamber of Commerce do. You should also know that many of the jobs do not require high IQs at all, and they do not even require high physical strength. These jobs are just simple ones. It's just boring repetitive work. However, no matter how simple it is, someone still needs to do it. Without these goblins, how big an industry can you think you can support alone?"
Several representatives of the indigenous races looked at each other with expressions of helplessness.
In the previous Moyun Continent, all other races except the dragons could only barely survive under the high pressure of the goblins. No one has the ability to feed a larger population.
The races present now can be regarded as the races with the largest population on the Demon Cloud Continent, but the largest number of humans among them is probably only a million or so at most. Compared with the vast number of goblins, it is still far behind.
"Think about it, just for the farmland magic machinery production base that is being planned, I estimate that it will require more than 100,000 workers. Of these 100,000 workers, more than 80,000 of them are engaged in the simplest and most basic jobs. "
"The output of such a production base in the past few years was only about 5,000 farmland magic machines a year. But according to the current calculations of our Chamber of Commerce. If you want to initially reclaim the cultivated land on the Magic Cloud Continent, you need to At least more than 200,000 various farm magic machines, which means that more such production bases are needed.”
"Calculating this, how many workers do you think I need to meet the demand? Not to mention that in addition to farm magic machinery, we also need a large number of other types of magic machinery to improve the environment on the Magic Cloud Continent. We also need a lot of manpower. Invest in transportation, communications, medical care, management and other areas of people’s livelihood.”
"Taking it all together, it's far from enough to use the combined population of your races."
Having said this, Xu Yi sighed and shook his head slightly.
"If possible, I certainly don't want to keep the goblins. Because this may cause hidden dangers. But now I need these populations, and you races who have high IQs and are easier to learn new skills and new knowledge need Use it in more important places. Do you understand what I mean?"
After hearing Xu Yi's last words, the eyes of these representatives of the indigenous races suddenly lit up.
In fact, they had been worried for a long time, just because they were worried that if Xu Yi used a large number of goblins, it might threaten their future development on the Demon Cloud Continent.
But from what Xu Yi said just now, we can know that Xu Yi does not intend to put much emphasis on the goblins, but still values these races more seriously.
"President Xu is right. I have been to Sainz Continent, and I know very well how big the gap is between our Demon Cloud Continent and Sainz Continent. And if you want to make up for this gap, you will need a lot of population,” was still the first to express his opinion.
"That's right, let the goblins do the simplest work. Our fellow dwarves on the continent of Sainz are all skilled craftsmen with superb skills. How can we be worse than them? So many." Jiaen Huohui also said.
Varus did not speak, but nodded to express his opinion.
Seeing that everyone had unified their thoughts, Xu Yi smiled slightly.
He is not worried that someone will really oppose him. After all, the power currently controlled by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is in an absolute position on the Demon Cloud Continent, and other races have no ability to resist.
But since you want to use the power of these indigenous races. Then it would be better to unify their ideas.
After all, if we want to properly develop the Demon Cloud Continent, we cannot do without the assistance of these indigenous races.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi felt a strange feeling in his heart.
The situation in Demon Cloud Continent reminded him of the history of America on Earth.
After discovering the New World, a group of Europeans poured into North America, but they massacred the local indigenous Indians. Then, after taking control of the entire North American continent, they kidnapped a large number of black slaves from the African continent to work for themselves. This laid a solid foundation for the United States.
Comparing it to Moyun Continent, the counterparts to the Indians should be the indigenous races currently standing around him.
However, Xu Yi has no idea of killing them all, because even if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can currently do this, it will not be able to develop the Magic Cloud Continent due to its own lack of manpower.
Corresponding to the black slaves, they should be the goblins.
The level of civilization is also not high, but they have basic working abilities. Goblins are very suitable for doing the simplest and most basic jobs like black people.
Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can indeed treat goblins just like the American ancestors treated black slaves, and Xu Yi has no sense of guilt about this.
After witnessing a group of goblins slaughtering a human village and cooking all the humans in a pot, he no longer treated these goblins as equal intelligent beings.
After discussing with the surrounding indigenous race representatives for a while, Hart returned.
"Mr. President, we have surrounded the Goblin King's City and we guarantee that no goblin will escape." Hart paused and added. "Just now, a group of goblins rushed out and wanted to attack, but I ordered them all to be killed."
"I think this team of goblins doesn't want to attack, but wants to escape, right?" Xu Yi glanced at Hart and said.
Hart immediately lowered his head and said, "The President clearly understands."
Xu Yi waved his hand and did not go into details. He turned around and explained to the other representatives of the indigenous races: "You are here to cooperate with Hart to seal off the royal city. I will go in to meet the so-called Goblin King."
Hart and others were shocked at the same time.
"President Xu, do you plan to go alone?"
"President Xu, don't take risks!"
"President Xu, how can you risk your life with such a precious body? Just let us break through this royal city and capture the Goblin King before you, so you can interrogate him at will, okay?"
"No need, the goblins have been frightened by us and have long lost the courage to resist. I won't be in any danger. Besides..." Xu Yi showed a confident smile. "Have you forgotten who I am?"
Everyone was stunned, and then remembered Xu Yi's other important identity besides the former president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce—the most powerful magician in Sainz Continent!
Xu Yi ignored everyone's reaction, patted Hart on the shoulder, said "be careful and be careful", and suddenly disappeared on the spot.
The next moment, Xu Yi had appeared inside the Goblin King City.
This so-called Goblin King City is actually just a larger goblin stronghold.
There are no regular buildings or any gorgeous decorations here. The goblins around are sitting or lying around, with no order at all.
If you twitch your nose casually, you can smell all kinds of unpleasant smells coming, making you want to vomit.
Seeing this situation, Xu Yi couldn't help but shook his head.
Although goblins have never had high IQs, it is really disappointing that a huge race that can be said to have ruled the Demon Cloud Continent for thousands of years has not been able to develop a decent civilization after such a long time.
Of course, if the goblins can really develop a certain level of civilization, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce will not be able to open up a situation on the Demon Cloud Continent so easily.
Seeing Xu Yi's sudden appearance, the surrounding goblins were stunned for a moment, then they all made unpleasant screams and rushed over.
Xu Yi was too lazy to tangle with these goblins. With the magic power in his body, he placed a magic shield around his body to block all the goblins rushing towards him. Then he slowly flew up into the air and activated a loudspeaker magic.
"Goblin King, come out. I am the leader of the army outside, Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. I request to meet you and talk face to face. I know you understand, and you should also know that you have no choice. ”
Xu Yi used the common language of Moyun Continent, which was actually a language evolved based on the incomplete language of the goblin race.
The sound dispersed, and after Xu Yi waited patiently for about ten minutes, a row of goblins whose body shape was obviously different from other goblins, and who even wore a complete set of costumes made of unknown materials, came from the front on the right.
Where they passed by, other goblins quickly made way for them, allowing them to walk over unimpeded.
Xu Yi's eyes fell on the middle of this special goblin team.
There, four strong goblins were carrying something like a sedan, and sitting on it was a somewhat skinny goblin, but his appearance and temperament were obviously different from other goblins.
"Are you the Goblin King?" Xu Yi asked, staring at him. (~^~)