Chapter 70: Smuggling of Slaves
"Guys, business has been going on pretty good lately, isn't it?"
Wang Hong made an appointment with the people in charge of the various forces in Luxi, feasted and drank together in the city lord's mansion, drank three rounds, and asked them casually.
If it had been three months ago, eighty percent of these people would not have dared to come to the City Lord's Mansion casually.
But now that the interests of the two sides are being combined more and more deeply, and the trust between them has also been greatly improved, Wang Hong shouted that they were drinking, and these people naturally would not shirk again.
"Under the care of Lord Meng, everyone's business has expanded a lot recently."
Zhou Huan, the head of the Songbai Sword Sect, said to Wang Hong with a smile on his face.
If it weren't for the fact that everyone present knew him, it is estimated that no one would think that this flattering fat man was an innate martial artist.
In fact, Zhou Huan doesn't like to pat people's ass, the Songbai Sword Sect is the strongest of the three major forces in Luxi, and as a congenital martial artist, in the past, only others patted his ass, and he didn't need to flatter others at all.
But the new city lord in front of him is too strong, regardless of his own strength, status, wealth and power, he can overwhelm him in all aspects.
In addition, in the past few months, the income of the Songbai Sword Sect has skyrocketed several times, and various cultivation resources have been rolling in, and the root cause of this is from the person in front of him.
In this case, even if Zhou Huan is confident of his identity, he will naturally be a little shorter when facing Wang Hong, and there is not much psychological pressure when he pats a sycophant.
And no one else at the banquet scene would despise Zhou Huan.
Because the people who came today are the same, all of them get a large number of goods from Wang Hong at a low price, and sell them to Yunzhou and Pugan at a high price, so as to make a fortune in the city.
As soon as Zhou Huan's words fell, these guys raised their wine glasses one after another, saluting Wang Hong, who was sitting at the top, and all kinds of meaty words were endless, making the city lord look comfortable.
After these people finished a round of sycophants, Wang Hongcai said with a smile:
"Everyone, we can't just look at the immediate interests, we have to hurry up the construction of the city at Ila Pass."
"If we can't build the city within a year, I'm afraid that the Modai County of Pugan will come to us for trouble."
The overall strength of Pugan is about the same as that of Yunzhou, the territory is three or four times larger, and the population is more than half, but the number of strong people is not as good as Yunzhou, and there are only two martial arts masters in the whole country.
What's even more nonsense is that these two grandmasters still have a deep personal vendetta.
Although the two sides did not fight directly, they also divided Pugan into two, one ruling the south and the other ruling the north, so that the country was one step away from being completely divided.
The county of Mordai belongs to North Pugan, but it is in the southernmost part of North Pugan, so the actual situation is quite complicated.
As for Wang Hong's construction of the city in Yila Pass, Modaijun has not taken care of it for the time being, but it is impossible to ignore it all the time.
According to the normal efficiency of this world, it will take at least two or three years to build a new city.
But in addition to cultivating during this time, Wang Hong went to Earth Star to carry a large amount of reinforced concrete, as well as some relatively simple construction equipment.
With these cross-generational building materials, the construction speed of the new city has naturally increased significantly.
Coupled with the application of cranes and the warriors sent by various forces in Luxi to assist in the construction of the city, in just three months, two of the four walls of the new city have been completed.
This kind of construction efficiency has made the local forces in Luxi jaw-dropping, but Wang Hong is not satisfied, and still wants to further accelerate the construction of this new city faster.
The design drawings of the new city were specially designed by him at a high cost in Dixing and by experts.
At that time, Wang Hong's various requirements made those experts almost slap the table.
If it weren't for the tens of millions of design fees, such a primitive urban planning map would never have flowed out of that provincial-level design institute.
However, you get what you pay for, although the city in the design drawing is primitive, but the sparrows are small and complete, and the various areas are very reasonable.
There were tens of thousands of drawings attached, and Wang Hong found a few smart craftsmen and spent more than half a month teaching them how to read the drawings.
In the future, he almost didn't need to worry too much about building a city, and in addition to practicing every day, he could go to the earth star to transport building materials.
The scale of the new city is not large, so it is built according to the permanent population of 300,000, and there are many residential buildings with six or seven floors in the city, which further reduces the floor area.
The first thing to be built is definitely the city wall, as long as the four walls are built first, the other buildings in the city can be built slowly.
With the advantage of the city wall, even if Modai County sent an army over, with the strength of Luxi City, there was no need to be afraid of the other party in a defensive battle.
There were four congenitals on the face of Modai, and two of them led the army to stay on the front line to guard against the relatively strong Nampugan.
The remaining two are one in the early congenital stage and the other in the middle congenital stage, even if they lead the army to kill Xincheng together, Wang Hong can also clean them up.
In fact, once the scale of the war is tens of thousands, ordinary innate martial artists will not affect the overall situation at all.
Unless there is a grandmaster-level powerhouse, or Wei Xiang's innate who has top combat power and is good at using poison.
Otherwise, the army will fight, and the innate martial artists may also run out of true qi and be hacked to death by ordinary soldiers.
The siege battle is more extreme, if the city wall is short and dilapidated, or the defenders are few, the innate warrior can fly directly to the city, slaughter ordinary soldiers, and even break the city gate with a knife, and then lead the army down with a drum.
But if you encounter a strong city with a high city and deep pools, especially if there are strong people of the same level in the city, then the innate martial artist will hardly play much role.
When attacking the city, they have to hide themselves, otherwise it is very likely that they will be set on fire by the defenders, and in the case of ten thousand arrows, even the warriors in the late stage of the innate may not be able to survive.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I need more people to help build the city, but Luci can't draw more manpower, and the number of free people you bring back is not enough."
Wang Hong paused at this point, pointed to the west and said:
"As far as I know, South Pugan is at war with the Star Luo Country all year round, and North Pugan also invades the Sam Country from time to time, and there are as many as four or five million prisoners of war in the country."
"I've heard that the prisoners of war in the Sam country are obedient, cheap, and numerous."
"In the future, when you trade with the merchants of Northern Pugan, let them use the prisoners of war of the Sam State as much as possible to settle the account, I wonder if you can do it?"
At first, Wang Hong didn't want to use slaves, but building a new city required too much labor, especially he was afraid to bring heavy engineering equipment such as excavators.
In this case, more than 10,000 local laborers are really not enough for Wang Hong to drive. If you want to complete the construction of the new city within a year, at least 30,000 or 40,000 young people will come.
Originally, the western part of Yunzhou was overpopulated, and as long as he was willing to spend money, he could easily gather tens of thousands of people.
But now the eastern counties have fought with the Guizhou Buddhist army, and a large number of people in the west have been transferred.
If Luxi City suddenly recruited a large number of young people at this sensitive moment, it would be easy for the surrounding counties and even the federation to think more.
Wang Hong didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he had to choose the method of smuggling slaves.
Although it will pay a little more, as long as the new city can be built as soon as possible, that effort can be earned back thousands of times soon.
Although the people in charge of the various forces present did not know Wang Hong's idea of industrialization, everyone understood the truth that things have changed over time.
Besides, the slave Wang Hong who was exchanged for it will also pay for it, and there is no reason why they should not agree to this kind of win-win thing. Mobile phone users please browse to see the catastrophe of the sky, a better user experience.