Tang Jie looked at Darius, nodded approvingly, and said: "I need two hundred experienced sailors, you can find these sailors for me, you can tell them in advance, I give them a very high remuneration, as long as they are willing to get on my ship, I can even give each of them five gold coins first...... Hey, why are you looking at me like that?"

Darius looked at Tang Jie with a strange look in his eyes, and smiled dumbly: "Captain Tang Jie, oh, please allow me to call you that. [Ran^Text^Library] [ ] This is a strange request of yours, are you sure you want me to recruit sailors for you? You know, your prestige and fame in Sisis are unmatched! If you stop in the bars of Sisis, in less than a minute, you will be full even if you have ten boats!"

Tang Jie was stunned for a moment: "Why is this? I thought that as long as I stepped on the soil of Sisis, the people here would want to cramp and skin me!"

Darius let out a strange laugh in his throat: "The families of the officers and men of the Third Coast Guard who you killed may hate you to the bone, but the sailors on the docks who have been oppressed and exploited by exorbitant taxes all day long, they will cheer and welcome you, of course, as long as you don't harm them in turn!"

Tang Jie shook his head: "I'm short of manpower now, it's too late to welcome them to join me, how can I harm them? Moreover, I can swear to you here that I will never harm any common people! As for the Third Coast Guard, they want to kill me, I can't sit back and wait for them to throw my body into the sea to feed the fish, right?"

Darius nodded: "It seems that I haven't heard of anything bad done by you, nor have I heard of any caravans looted by you......"

Speaking of this, Tang Jie couldn't help but feel weak in his heart, and he and Nia glanced at each other, wanting to laugh, but not daring to laugh, so they had to endure it.

"Well, I know what you said, but you still have to recruit these sailors, and I don't fit to show my face here. As long as we make a deal, you'll be my spokesperson for Siss, understand?"

Darius, who had been nervous a lot more relaxed after the more relaxed conversation between the two just now, then asked, "What about the two hundred sailors?"

Tang Jie took a deep breath, he knew that the next request was the most important thing for him, and it was also the most difficult part.

"I need a lot of manpower......" Tang Jie stared at Darius tightly and said slowly.

"How much is the amount?, how do you arrange the ratio of these women and children in your hands?" Darius immediately asked, "What are the requirements of these people?"

Tang Jie said: "I need about 300 to 500 people, most of them are men who can do their jobs, and women can do it, but I don't want old people and children, don't stuff these people into them to fool me! Moreover, among these people, I need a technician who is proficient in masonry and construction, find one and I will give you 10,000 gold coins more, how about it, can you find it?"

When Darius heard this, his eyebrows suddenly wrung together, his eyes rolled quickly, and he kept thinking, and after a while, he slowly shook his head: "It's difficult, it's too difficult......"

Tang Jie's heart sank, he knew that if he wanted to build Alcatraz Island into his base fortress, he would have to have a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out all-round transformation and construction.

said three hundred to five hundred people, this is Tang Jie dare not speak, in fact, even if he says a thousand people, it is not too much at all.

Alcatraz Island doesn't look big, but it covers a lot of land, Tang Jie himself has walked on the island, this island covers an area of at least twenty square kilometers, and there are some scattered and dense slap islands around the island.

According to Tang Jie's idea, he planned to build these scattered and dense islands around Alcatraz Island into a chain-like battery belt to form the first barrier against enemy attacks, and then he would build fortress cannons on the promontory on both sides of Alcatraz Island to form a second barrier for left and right attacks, and then he would build a third fort barrier in the cave where the Black Dragon King was located.

This is also thanks to Tang Jie's previous strategy of playing interstellar and Warcraft, I really dare to think that if I want to give it to Nia and William, it will really kill them and dare not settle down on Alcatraz Island, in the eyes of these pirates, once the pirates take root, they are a wolf pack with traces, and they no longer have the ability to move and strike suddenly.

They can hit others at any time, and others can also touch their doors at any time to hit them!

But Tang Jie's vision of the future outlined for them was really tempting and challenging, and Nia knew that Tang Jie was making an unprecedented gamble, and he was in a race against time with all his potential enemies!

Will his enemies come first, or will he build the defenses of Alcatraz first?

In Tang Jie's series of plans, one of the most important links is manpower!

Where are you going to get so many people?

How did you transport so many people to Alcatraz Island without realizing it?

Moreover, you know, this is not a cultivation game, even if you get so many people, this is a strong labor force far beyond Tang Jie and them, they are living people who can laugh, cry, get angry, and be angry, but they are not digital NPCs!!

On a closed island, what if these people make trouble?

What if these people rebel?

These people had to eat, drink, and lazar on the island, and the food consumption must be huge, and what if the supply line for food at sea was cut off by the enemy?

Thinking of these questions, Tang Jie wondered more than once if he was too whimsical?

But he knew more clearly that this was the only way he could go, unless he willingly abandoned the Black Dragon King.

Bisselio was imprisoned by the king of the Duchy of York, and all the news about Athos that he had was likely to have been taken out, and in the face of the treasure of Athos, it is conceivable that the Duchy of York would definitely send their strongest navy to visit him, and there would definitely be the navy of the Duchy of Marta who would come with him!

What's more, behind these two countries, there is also a world's first empire, the Pound Empire, and an ancient and terrifying first family, the Kelsman family!

These two behemoths are like the haze peaks standing in the sky, they silently watch Tang Jie's movements, and they will make a fatal blow to the top of Mount Tai at any time!

In the face of the terrible storm that is coming in the future, the only thing Tang Jie can do is to grow his strength madly in the shortest possible time!

To survive or to perish, it is a question of no choice.

When Tang Jie saw Darius shaking his head, his heart seemed to sink to the bottom of the sea: "What's the difficulty?"

Darius sighed: "If you want to find someone who is proficient in masonry and construction, I can help you find it, but at most there are only three or four, and the number is not much at all." As for the three hundred to five hundred sturdy men you want, this is even more difficult, you must know that the slave market is now in the off-season, the thirteenth expeditionary force of the empire has just set off for the southern continent, and after they return from the battle, bring back those dark-skinned barbarians and orcs in the southern continent, and we will have fresh slaves to replenish it. ”

"Slave?!" Tang Jie was stunned for a moment, his face was full of strangeness, "Wait, I didn't say that there should be so many people who are proficient in masonry and construction, as long as someone understands masonry and construction, I will promote this person to be my construction consultant, who is specifically responsible for commanding! As for the slave you are talking about, what is going on?"

Darius glanced at Tang Jie strangely: "Dear Captain Tang Jie, don't you know? The largest slave trading market in the Principality of Marta is in Sisis, where we can buy the labor we want, do you think that we will go to the harbor to recruit young and strong labor like recruiting sailors? You know, recruiting coolies and recruiting sailors are two completely different concepts!" If your prestige wants to recruit two hundred sailors, that's an easy task, but if you want to recruit three hundred coolies, I'm afraid you won't be able to recruit even thirty!"

Sailors are proud, expensive, this is a short-term non-renewable resource, the work they do is irreplaceable, only the sailor can do it, an experienced old sailor, it takes years to train, an old sailor at sea is a treasure, even the captain respects them very much, sometimes, their experience can save the life of a boatman.

And these coolies were reduced to slavery for various reasons, they were lowly, cheap, undignified, and they worked hard, doing the heaviest and hardest work. These coolies are renewable resources in a short period of time, and the work they do can be replaced, as long as they have the strength to do it.

Therefore, there is absolutely no interchangeability and reversal between the two, and it is no problem to let these sailors as secondary laborers for auxiliary labor, but it would be strange if they were to be the main laborers and let them build a fortress on Alcatraz Island alone, and these arrogant sailors would not be overturned!

In the same way, these recruited coolies, even if they are all powerful, must not arm them with weapons and let them board the ship to fight.

Whether they can adapt to naval warfare, whether they can adapt to war is secondary, and most importantly, who knows if these coolies, who have always been oppressed, take up arms and will fight back?

Tang Jie was said by Darius, he suddenly thought of these things that required high vigilance, and he felt more and more crazy in his heart.

Why do you read the novel, those protagonists want to do one thing, it's really handy, it's my turn to do something, but it's so troublesome?

Tang Jie was silent for a while, then raised his head and said, "What if I allow you to count some women in these hundreds of people?"

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