Li Ke could no longer understand Arthas' distress and Kel'Thuzad's heart for the time being. He only realized one thing.
Lack of people.
"In other words, Lagertha, the entire town can only provide me with 200 people?"
Li Ke looked at the blond maid in front of him and covered his face in pain. This manpower was only organized into the people of the mine. The rest...
"Yes, sir, because the harvest has already started, there will be a serious shortage of manpower. Most people will go to other farms to be hired, so there are only about two hundred people who can still be found who are capable of working.
Already."
Li Ke took a deep breath. Although he didn't have high expectations, he still asked.
"How many are literate?"
"Well, about one."
Suddenly, a sense of detachment appeared in Li Ke's heart. In other words, if he had not hired those 500 senior workers from Onyxia, he would not even be able to build a blacksmith shop.
, let alone other things.
Then there is the literacy rate. The literacy rate may not seem important, but in fact it is important. Just because the workers can read the ruler and look at the task requirements can already reduce most of the training and management time. Otherwise, the management costs will be directly
explode!
"ah……"
No matter how he thought about it at the beginning, he felt that even if this town had experienced the aristocracy, it would be able to recruit five to six hundred people. But now it seems that with the help of those experts, it is the limit to be able to build an iron foundry.
Already.
"What's wrong, dear?"
Jennifer looked at Li Ke incomprehensively.
"I have lowered my expectations as much as possible, but unfortunately, it didn't work out in the end. It seems that I can only build an iron foundry and an agricultural tool production factory this year, and I have to do it myself."
Li Ke took a deep breath, there is a shortage of people, right?
I originally wanted to hide the level of cheating of extraordinary people in the construction industry, but since it’s so troublesome, forget it!
"I'm going out for a while. Lagertha, please prepare. Prepare to receive workers, masons, miners and the like in the next few days."
Standing up from the chair, Li Ke was about to put on his own armor, go to Van Cleef to ask for someone, and kill a wave of murlocs and the like to reduce later maintenance costs.
Just to vent my frustration.
But at this moment, suddenly, a maid came over. After looking at Lagertha enviously, she came to Li Ke's side, and then spoke without saluting, looking very urgent.
"Sir, there are two groups of people who say they are your friends and have come to visit you. Among them are goblins. There are many people in these two groups. The guard captain said you'd better put on armor."
Li Ke was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the goblin would come to him at this time, but after thinking about it, he understood.
"Oh? What about the other team?"
"The other team said it was a gift from an old friend and wanted you to see it in person."
"Old friend?"
Li Ke was a little confused. He still had old friends in this world?
Hmm...when you're in doubt, just put your armor up first and then talk about it.
"Tell them to wait and I'll be there."
After saying that, Li Ke went to the side room to put on armor, and Lagertha quickly brought someone over to serve her, making the maid who sent the message even more envious.
When Li Ke walked out, he was already wearing armor and holding a sword.
When he walked into the courtyard, he did see two groups of people who looked completely different from each other.
The group of people was headed by goblins, about seventy or eighty in number. This goblin was sitting on the chair he had prepared for his guests. Behind him were a large number of humans wearing leather armor, but most of these humans had their faces covered.
And he tried his best to stand among the crowd. There were two trolls and an ogre beside him.
The guard captain whose name I forgot was standing at the door warily, watching them carefully.
There were about 200 people in the other wave, and they looked quite neat and tidy. Half of them not only had heavy plate armor, but most of them were holding three-meter-long spears.
And their helmet is very interesting. It is a helmet with a visor. It is designed to prevent water from flowing directly to the face.
The people protected inside were all wearing robes and holding scepters, but the patterns on their clothes were incompatible with the patterns on the warriors. They were completely different styles.
But Li Ke, who is no longer a country bumpkin in Azeroth through studying the aristocracy of this world, has already recognized who these people are.
However, when he saw the two groups of people waiting in the courtyard, he understood who his so-called old friends were.
Jaina and Kael'thas.
What are these two people doing here?
Li Ke was very confused, but his guard captain, whose name he had forgotten, came to him at this time and spoke nervously.
"Lord Li Ke, there are many wanted criminals around that goblin, but they are not in the same group as the other group of people. If we..."
He looked at the people in the goblin belt nervously. He had seen many wanted posters. Basically, the goblins were surrounded by famous thieves, robbers and murderers. If they were not on guard against another group of soldiers wearing armor, then
He must immediately command the soldiers to capture these people.
"I'm only curious about one thing."
Li Ke didn't have a good look on him, because the incident itself was an outrageous thing.
A troop of nearly 300 people was not detected until they arrived at the gate?
Is this a joke?
"Why didn't you report until you got to your door?"
The guard captain's face suddenly turned pale. He couldn't say that his first reaction was to report to General Jonathan, and then he subconsciously searched for the best defensive formation, and then he remembered that he wanted to report to Li Ke.
And most importantly, there were loopholes in his defense plan.
That was the seaside, and his defense plan facing the seaside had omissions.
"This... they, they come from the seaside, so... so..."
Li Ke sighed and said nothing.
"Forget it, you don't have to worry... um..."
Li Ke glanced at the nervous guy and found that he still couldn't remember the other person's name, so he shook his head helplessly.
"Everyone who comes is a guest."
After saying that, Li Ke quickly walked to the center, and the goblin eagerly jumped down from the chair, and then, in full view of everyone, knelt down in front of Li Ke with a shovel.
"Oh!! My dear Mr. Li Ke! You finally came to your loyal LaMelo! It's really touching!"
While talking, the goblin directly hugged Li Ke's leg, and then kissed Li Ke's shoes without hesitation.
