Chapter 410: Tense Raw Materials
Walking along the street, Anvis casually bought a federal newspaper to see if there were any major events recently, and incidentally rejected several players' requests for help.
The headlines in the newspapers are still about a series of latest actions taken by the Sixth Prince of the Kingdom of Leica after he came to power.
For example, we will devote the whole country's strength to vigorously support the development of assembly, and welcome all foreign forces to establish assembly factories within the kingdom.
A large number of private construction engineer colleges have been opened, and favorable policies such as exempting new students from all tuition fees for the first five years of enrollment have been introduced.
Obviously, when certain forces behind the construct supported the Sixth Prince to ascend the throne, it is now the turn of the Sixth Prince Leica to fulfill the original agreement.
In addition, there are also some news about the three major kingdoms, as well as occasional news such as where natural disasters, monsters and other dangers have occurred, and the need to pay attention to one's own safety.
In general, the situation in the Federation seems to be normal. Under the leadership of wise nobles, society is booming, people live and work in peace and contentment, and life seems to be getting better and better.
Although the expansion of a large number of assembly factories occupied a lot of farmland and caused a lot of difficult-to-handle magic radiation pollution, many original farmers had to put down their farm tools and enter the assembly factories to work to make a living.
But according to a laudatory newspaper report, it was thanks to these assembly factories that the people had more jobs and income.
Although there are some minor negative effects, for the development of the Federation, these are just negligible pains. As long as we can survive this difficult time, a better tomorrow will eventually come! "Tsk - these hypocritical nobles, why don't they experience the beautiful tomorrow they talk about themselves."
At the side, a young half-elf in a light green cloth robe, also holding a newspaper, seemed to be somewhat dissatisfied with this article full of praises. He couldn't help but sneer.
"Be careful! Do you want to stay in there for a few more days?"
Hearing his words, one of his companions instinctively looked around, and only felt relieved when he saw that there were no guards nearby paying attention to them.
"What are you afraid of? I've been bullied in real life, so why should I bear it here again? When my level rises one day, the first thing I'm going to do is kill all these people."
However, his companions' dissuasion seemed to have aroused the rebellious psychology of the half-elf player.
"Alright, alright, just a few words..."
With a stiff and slightly awkward smile on his face, his companions forcibly pulled him away.
However, the brief conversation between the two had already been completely heard by Avis.
In fact, the attitude of the half-elf just now is also a true portrayal of many current players.
Currently, the average level of players has reached over level 30. If someone organizes them, it will be enough to cause quite a stir.
What they lack now is a camp that can reasonably cause trouble.
This time, Avis came to Silvermoon City, not only to take out the secret treasure of the ancient magic empire, but also to bring this camp to them.
Although the Federation's magical constructs seem to have developed rapidly, they are not without hidden dangers.
When the nobles and merchants discovered that the cost and efficiency of using skeleton laborers were far greater than that of normal workers, the seeds of conflict were planted.
After finding the secret black market in Silvermoon City, Avis put on his isolation cloak and entered the underground guild hall of the black market. After paying a 5% deposit to the people there, he placed a special task in it.
——Acquire 100,000 finished skeleton laborers of the third-generation architecture.
In the mission description, Anvis said that he was an outside chamber of commerce representative who was preparing to invest heavily in the construction of an assembly factory in the Federation. The site for the factory had already been selected, but there was a lack of sufficient workers.
At the same time, he offered an astonishingly high purchase price: one hundred and twenty gold coins per skeleton laborer.
You know, hiring an ordinary worker for ten years only costs about eighty gold coins, and the current average price on the market is just this number.
However, for convenience, the minimum number of people for each transaction is fifty.
When this task was posted, it was found to be profitable, and someone immediately responded by purchasing a large number of finished skeleton laborers from the market and selling them to Avis.
But after selling nearly 10,000 of them, the dealers found that the goods on the market had almost been sold out.
The principle is simple, the number of dead is limited.
Although under ideal conditions, the lifespan of a skeleton laborer can be as long as fifteen to twenty years.
But the truth is, due to long-term high-intensity work and various other factors, the soul fire of the skeleton laborers is severely depleted. Often, they can only be used for less than ten years before they completely decay and turn into a pile of useless garbage.
After the original skeleton laborers were exhausted, the merchants and nobles had no choice but to purchase new skeleton laborers.
As an important material, many magical experiments in the School of Necromancer require corpses.
But now, with another breakthrough in magic skills, the development of construction factories has directly occupied most of the resources of this originally very niche market.
Since they were bought to be used as productive forces, the big businessmen didn't care about the price at all. As long as the price was lower than using ordinary workers, they would buy as many as they could.
For the sake of gold coins, it’s not that no one has thought of the old graves, but it’s useless to bury corpses for too long, and the number of newly buried dead is just a drop in the bucket.
In response to this strange phenomenon, the Mystic Card Chamber of Commerce has specially launched a new special field card [Construction Factory].
The Necromancer deck can choose to put its skeleton monsters and the spell card [Scourge] into the factory to work, which will produce a certain amount of mana every round.
If consumption continues at this rate, the soaring price of "raw materials" is secondary. The most important thing is that the number of dead will soon be insufficient.
In order to obtain materials, the number of death sentences in the major kingdoms of the Federation has increased a lot in recent years, and activities to encircle and suppress bandits have been held time and time again.
But the number of death row prisoners and bandits is limited after all. After almost wiping them out, it would not be a good idea to randomly massacre civilians without any reason just to obtain materials.
There is only one way, then, to obtain sufficient labor.
war--
A war of sufficient scale would be enough to obtain a lot of high-quality materials.
Turning the people of other countries into your own labor force, producing more various types of equipment, gaining stronger war power and rich spoils of war, is a business that makes huge profits with no investment.
At present, everyone is relatively restrained. But when Avis announced this acquisition mission, it immediately produced some special effects.
Of the 100,000 skeleton laborers, more than 20,000 have been received so far, and there is still a gap of about 80,000, which is a large order of about 9.6 million gold coins.
So, what should we do to take on as big an order as possible?
(End of this chapter)
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