Everything went better than expected.

I don't know if it was the large number of gifts from the envoys that had an effect, or if the "trip to the underworld" was too restrained.

April got his promise of peace from the Trip to the Dead at the cost of several kilometers of barren mountains and mountains around the Sleeping House.

This was an unprecedented diplomatic victory for the legations, and LeBron, the head of the "Scorching Eye" Knights, even thought that he was going to become the first major sinner in Hoblens to pay reparations.

"What are you looking for...... Hire a large number of workers from our country to work for you? Aprile was incredulous at Fran's request.

Fran nodded and said, "Yes, we need a lot of workers to build the 'Divine Sleep House', and we are seriously understaffed right now. ”

"The next one of our hiring conditions is that they are in good health and have no disabilities, and the remuneration for the work is two meals in the morning and evening, as well as one token per day."

This condition is not to mention recruiting workers, even if it is a death squad, there are people who are willing.

If it weren't for April's familiarity with Fran, she would have thought it was a trap for those who were fooled for money and sacrificed to the devil......

Fran was surprised to see her, shrugged her shoulders and said, "The villagers of Lingqi Village are treated like this, you can completely inquire about it, Tong Su is not bullied." ”

"However, this place is very far away from other towns, and it may cost a lot of financial and material resources to deploy a large number of workers. ”

Fran replied: "You can arrange the specific matters yourself, but our salaries are all paid daily, and they are paid directly to each person, without any discount." ”

……

After the peace treaty was signed, the envoys did not return to Flame City in full.

Except for the "Burning Eye" Knights, who returned with the signed treaty, the rest of the envoys stayed in Lingqi Village.

The accompanying convoy began to build an embassy in the small village, which would be the site of a permanent meeting between Hoblens and the "Sleeping House".

At April's behest, Lord Kathras began to organize the idle labor in his realm and send them to work in the "Sleeping House".

Two meals a day for one coin and two meals a day are treated like honey attracting bee colonies, and hundreds of healthy laborers have almost poured into the not-so-spacious depression of the "Divine Sleeping House".

However, Lord Cathras was not a favor, and he soon researched a new tax specifically for these migrant workers.

Labor dispatch tax, per capitation, is 10 tokens per month.

All workers (except locals in Lingqi Village) who have passed through Lingqi Village Customs must pay taxes according to their working hours when they return again, otherwise they will enter the country illegally.

This tax was indeed ruthless enough, directly taking a third of the workers' income, and even Aprile felt that Lord Kathras was a bit excessive.

However, Lord Kathras said that seventy percent of the tax would be given to the Vulcan Holy See, that is, to April.

And then there was no then.

……

After receiving a large amount of manpower, the construction speed of the Federation's general colonial command base has been raised to a new level.

Although it took a lot of time to teach these workers how to operate the machinery and how to ensure safe production, the subsequent benefits were very considerable.

At the current pace of construction, the Federation's general colonial command base will be completely completed in half a month at most.

The tokens brought by the "Journey to the Underworld" have also begun to consume wildly, with hundreds or thousands of tokens a day, and now they are sitting on empty again, and the pressure on the Mamba is very great.

"Fran, you give me the bottom, how long can we last with the money in our hands?" At the internal meeting, Mamba didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.

Fran looked at Catherine on the side and said, "We only have more than 30,000 tokens left in the cash in our hands, and even if all the members contribute their tokens, it will only be enough to last for one and a half to two months." ”

Susie on the side breathed a sigh of relief: "That's enough, I'll try to finish it within half a month, and then there will be nothing for them." ”

Fran looked at her: "Susie, I remember you mentioned that after the construction of the Federation's general colonial command base, there will be follow-up buildings such as a supply synthesis station and a motorized infantry equipment manufacturing factory. ”

"Our need for labor is likely to be long-term, and if we don't solve the problem of compensation......"

Fran was halfway through her speech when Susie interrupted her with a wave of her hand: "Fran, you're thinking too much, and you're thinking crookedly. ”

In the puzzled eyes of everyone, Susie knocked on the drawings on the table and said, "As long as we build a general colonial command base of the Federation, there will be no need for these cheap and inefficient manpower." ”

"Do you think that in this era, we still need to build a new world with one hand?"

She picked up the idea of the Federation's general colonial command base and shook it in front of everyone's eyes.

"The core function of this building is to make a construction tool called a space engineering vehicle."

"With it, one person can build a city single-handedly, and where do you need workers to carry it on your shoulders. You have a very superficial understanding of the power of science. ”

……

While everything in the base was thriving, Tang Hao was worried about another thing.

"Adjutant, the spare materials we brought back from the machine-building factory have been consumed a lot."

He pointed to the subspace warehouse on the "Giant Rhino", which originally contained about 150,000 tons of various materials, but now almost one-third of it has been used.

"We will also need a lot of materials to build buildings such as supply synthesis stations in the future, so you can't sit back and eat nothing, do you have any other way?"

The base intelligence lieutenant replied: "The space engineering vehicle should have its own construction drawings of the automated ore refinery, and we can search for possible mining areas nearby through the orbit control center, and then build an automated ore refinery there." ”

Tang Hao nodded: "This method is good, but there is a follow-up problem, that is, how to transport materials." ”

"We have a lot of multi-foot transport vehicles, but they are too inefficient, what do you say?"

This also made it difficult for the adjutant: "Your Excellency, Commander, we can build a heavy ground vehicle factory, which is also one of the construction drawings that come with the space engineering vehicle. ”

The lieutenant put a construction tree map on the screen: "The Federation General Colony Command Base and Space Engineering Vehicle will always be the first line of the Federation Star Domain Government to colonize the entire galaxy. ”

"With them, we can build a new colony and start a new era."