896. Tribal Meetings

The shack was originally intended for indigenous miners, but with the construction of a large number of wooden huts on the camp, they were initially left unused, and three of them have now been converted into warehouses.

The shed was actually intended to be used as a warehouse, but the last miners had only moved out a few days ago, and this side was close to the mine's canteen.

The Aboriginal mine manager wanted to turn it into a canteen so that meals could be eaten without wind or rain.

There are already long wooden chairs in the shed, which are broken directly with a saw from the logs in the forest area.

Divided into two halves, the plane is facing up, the base is slightly fixed, the wider one is the table, and the narrower one becomes the long stool.

In Invercargill, there may be a lack of other things, but timber is everywhere in the mountains.

Sitting on a bench, the merchant Malacombe introduced to Surdak that the bulk commodities brought back by the merchant group manager to San Carlos this time were mainly in the hope that this big customer would be able to choose a few goods.

However, in addition to the magic pattern structure that Surdak left, he only left some bed crossbows and catapults, which are also very expensive in the Grimm Empire, especially the magic bed crossbow, which is not much cheaper than the magic pattern structure.

Although he made some money from this beast tide, as a self-made lord, he needed to use every gold coin where he needed it most.

Malacombe sat next to Surdak and struggled to convince Surdak to buy the items he highly recommended, such as a tray with heating, a faucet that automatically flows water when nailed to any wall, and a magic mattress that automatically shakes slowly......

He even had a little suspicion that the Grimm Empire's magic pattern construction was so scarce, maybe it was because these magicians didn't do their jobs all day.

"Lord Surdak, there are almost no people in our tribe except for women, old people and children, all the strong laborers either ran to the side of the mine or joined your army, fortunately there are no demonic beasts in the hills now, otherwise a small group of mane beasts can flatten my tribe." The patriarch of the Dakuni tribe came in from outside the hut and complained to Surdak.

At first, he strongly opposed the tribesmen in the tribe joining the lord's private army, but unfortunately, due to the sudden change in the situation in the forest of Ferkagill, all the lords accepted the rule of the lord of Surdak, and he had to adapt to the situation, otherwise the Dakuni tribe would also need to migrate to the Anya swamp.

"I know, don't worry! I'll take care of this! ”

Surdak sat on a bench at the front and comforted the old patriarch.

The indigenous women outside the shed brought in some warm water soaked in mint leaves, and a little lemon was added to the water, which tasted pretty good.

Other indigenous patriarchs walked into the shack one after another, whispering to each other to discuss the incident with the aborigines, and a large number of young natives surrounded the shed.

Almost all the indigenous chiefs of the Invercargill Forest gathered here, and it was impossible for the young natives of the mine to remain indifferent, and everyone was crowded outside the shed, and the aboriginal mine manager stood outside the shack, and organized these young natives to sit on the ground, and he came forward to silence everyone.

The open space outside the hut was almost full of young natives.

After the thirty-seven indigenous patriarchs had gathered, Surdak got up from the bench, supported the table with both hands, tapped lightly on the table, and said:

"Patriarchs, I know that it is not easy for everyone to come to the mine camp in their busy schedules, and I also thank you for your continued support of Invercargill Territory, now the mine is basically able to operate normally, the miners here are basically young people from various tribes, each of them is very good, almost hard work in the mine, they have never complained to me, poor living, poor food, less salary, less time to rest......"

"I've been working hard since I came to the mine, and here, I want to make it clear to all the young people of the tribe that they have overturned my superficial perception of the tribesmen."

When Surdak said these words, the workshop suddenly became silent, and all the indigenous patriarchs listened carefully to Surdak's speech.

Those natives who had mastered the imperial Chinese language suddenly brightened up a little when they heard Lord Surdak's affirmation of the young people in the tribe.

Surdak knocked heavily on the table and said loudly:

"However, due to the limited scale of this mine itself, you should have seen that I just customized three sets of refining furnaces, and the amount of copper ore that these furnaces can swallow every day is fixed, which means that even if I have more miners, I can't actually smelt the mined copper ore into copper ingots."

"The maximum number of miners recruited by this copper mine is 2,500, and once these numbers are exceeded, the copper mine will not actually be needed......

"So please ask the tribal patriarchs to restrain the young people in the tribe a little, in fact, I hope that the tribes can make a rotation table, of course I hope that the young people of the tribe can come to work in the mine, but now the scale of the mine is limited, then the patriarchs need to restrain it, I want each tribe to come to the mine to work on the young people, it is best not to exceed sixty people, if any tribe is willing to come to the mine too many young people, then you can also carry out a shift system......"

Hearing Surdak's words, the tribal patriarchs who had originally planned to complain to Surdak immediately expressed the hope that Surdak would relax the number of miners in this limit.

Surdak waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then continued:

"As for the army in the territory, in fact, I prefer to have a complete recruitment system, neither can it be like the current influx, everyone wants to come to serve in the military, and don't want this enthusiasm to be extinguished, just no one wants to join the army, my army is now almost more than 2,000 people, there can be more, 3,000 people can also be, if there are more, I'm afraid it won't work, weapons and equipment can't keep up, and a series of other welfare benefits may not be able to keep up."

"Then it is divided into each tribe, in fact, there are about sixty people, I hope that the patriarch can control this number, and I hope that the number of young people who will join the army in each tribe every year in the future will be less than half of the times!"

"I understand that if all the young people in the tribe leave, it will hinder the development of the tribe itself."

"So I hope that the recruitment of soldiers should be orderly and planned."

Hearing that Surdak did not intend to keep all the young people of the tribe in the army, the indigenous patriarchs, who were originally a little worried in their hearts, were relieved at this moment.

Then they wanted to complain to Surdak, so they heard Surdak say directly:

"I know that there has just been a beast tide here, this forest needs to recuperate, now that there are fewer wild beasts, the hunt may not be able to fill alone, and life in the various tribes may be a little difficult, but you have a large area of land in this forest, which is a wealth in itself, and the tribes can try to engage in animal husbandry ......"

"Malacombe is a big businessman in Wilkes City, and this time I invited him over to discuss with you that he could buy a batch of yellow sheep on his behalf."

Surdak turned to look at the merchant Malacombe.

Malacom, who was sitting on the sidelines, immediately understood, coughed a little, and then said to the chiefs of these indigenous tribes:

"Each tribe will raise some for the time being, and the ...... Raise about 1,000 heads, the yellow sheep have a very high rate of giving birth, a ewe basically gives birth to two cubs in three years, if more than half of the sheep are ewes, the number can be doubled in three years......"

These indigenous patriarchs almost crossed their fingers underneath to understand that it was really ......

Immediately agreeing to Surdak's proposal, thinking that he would soon have a large flock of yellow sheep, he couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Some tribal patriarchs even lamented in the indigenous language: "If I had known that raising sheep was so profitable...... Who is still hunting! ”

In fact, Surdak really wanted to remind them that it was actually more profitable to hunt Warcraft.

But thinking about it, I swallowed this sentence back into my stomach......