Above the Port of Hope, busy dock workers are carrying goods down.

Li De went out to sea for a month and brought back a fleet and several ships of cargo, which made Hanhai protectors feel extremely excited.

However, compared to the excitement of the residents, Li De seemed very calm. Because after unloading the goods brought back from Kezan, Hanhai Dudu could sell them to Kezan, but there were very few things:

It is nothing more than deep-processed coconut, air-dried turtle meat, lizard meat, crystal-scale lizard skin products, and some gems obtained from the Zerg.

In the end, he wasted a lot of effort and barely filled the three ships, which made the merchant ship manager of the hot sand very dissatisfied because there were two ships running away completely.

This is not a good sign. If the Hanhai Duhun does not have enough goods to meet the trade, it will eventually lead to the dumping of the Hanhai Duhun by Kezan.

In other words, Kozan can earn gold from Hanhai Protector through ships of goods, but Hanhai Protector has no commodity to earn gold from Kozan.

If this continues, it will inevitably lead to a large amount of gold loss in Tanalis! If this continues, even if Tanalis has a large gold reserve, it will always be hollowed out.

Therefore, we must find a way to reverse the trade deficit of Hanhai Dutu!

It is definitely unrealistic to develop farmers and traders. In the future, Hanhai will protect its own grain and rely on imports for a long time.

Based on the actual situation of the Tanalis Desert, the richest one here is ore and oil and gas resources. Relying on raw material exports is one direction, but this will fall into a resource trap again.

For this purpose, Li De summoned all the management personnel, and after several days of research, he planned a route for Hanhai Protector: to develop manufacturing.

Manufacturing is the optimal solution to keep pace with Kezan's trade. Kezan's main race is goblins. Goblins have developed engineering technology, but it is difficult for goblins to scale their advanced technology.

This is because compared to engineering, goblins are more keen on investing in business and finance, but engineering technology is difficult to scale. Many technologies are managed and inherited in the form of small family workshops.

For example, Gary Vicks, who was good at creating explosions, was inherited from his third-rate inventor Dad. Engineering technology is a money-burning business, and many goblins who were obsessed with inventions were in debt. In fact, Gary Vicks' first explosion was to help his father blow up several high-interest creditors who were catching up on their accounts.

Under such circumstances, if Hanhai Dudu relies on manufacturing to connect with Kezan, spend a lot of money to buy goblin patents, and then rely on Tanalis' rich raw materials to produce a large number of engineering products, the trade deficit with Kezan will naturally be able to reverse the trade deficit with Kezan!

Of course, developing manufacturing is not an easy task.

The first thing is to examine what kind of engineering products the market needs, and even if you buy patents, you must buy reliable patents. Otherwise, you will waste your efforts to create a bunch of waste, which is to waste money and waste it! It is still the kind that you can't get it back after the battle!

And in addition to this, there is another obvious problem in front of the Hanhai Guardian: population.

Under the rule of Hanhai Dudu, there are currently 1,000 humans, 1,000 goblins, and a little more than 7,000 trolls, and the total total is less than 10,000 people.

Among them, the human race is mainly small shop owners and craftsmen. In addition to more than 200 elderly people and children, nearly half of the young and middle-aged people work in plantations, fishing grounds, breeding farms and various workshops.

Goblins are mainly skilled workers and shop owners. There are not many elderly people and children, only more than 100, but more than one-third of them are young and strong, working in the city's water supply system.

The trolls have the largest population, but the elderly and children are the largest, with more than 1,000 people. One fifth of the remaining young and strong people work in the farm, and one fifth of the remaining one is also working in the water supply system (Zuer Farak has also been planning urban water supply issues recently).

In other words, Hanhai Protector is now in a state of shortage of manpower, and he still needs to maintain a land standing army of about 1,000 people! Not to mention that after having a fleet, he will also have to form a navy!

Even if we consider that the future grain relies on imports and the food production industry can release some labor, the ideal number is only more than 1,000 people.

Some people may be curious that as the most populous troll, in addition to the elderly, children, troops and those with jobs, there are at least 2,000 young and strong people. How could they lack labor?

This is Li De’s most troublesome problem. All of these 2,000 young and strong people are doing nothing to study the classics!

The importance of religious sacrifices to trolls is self-evident. In order to calm people's hearts, Li De built Stonehenge and inspired Nozdom to establish the "Light of Civilization".

The Light of Civilization has played a huge role in increasing the development of the Protector of the Sea, but the Light of Civilization also has its own problem, that is, it is too different from a religion.

Compared to religion, it is more like a doctrine and a thought, and does not have its own divine system. Apart from the highest "road", there is no god to worship.

Many old trolls have a very strong traditional concept, and it is difficult for old minds to accept the abstract concept of "the way" immediately. In contrast, many young trolls are willing to believe in the light of civilization, which has led to some family conflicts within the trolls.

What's more serious is that many young trolls are willing to enrich the concrete "God" of the light of civilization. This leads to a large number of young and strong people doing nothing to study the classics in order to solve the problem of the light of civilization.

Managers all understand that there is not so much time for them to hold a "truth discussion" now. A God must be invited to let the elderly know that the light of civilization has a concrete god. At the same time, they also tell young people not to waste time here and quickly participate in labor production.

The best choice for this concrete god is Nozdom to come again.

But since the last time I gave Li De's blessing, Nozdom has been heard of, and there are no courageous guys trying to explore the cave of time.

But even though anyone who dares to enter the Cave of Time is not in danger of life, he will fall into a "ghost beast" for a long time: he will see his future self at the entrance of the Cave of Time, or when he comes out, he will see his past self.

Moreover, even if the problem of a large number of young and strong trolls not working, the population of the other two races must increase.

Because once a large number of single races are bound to a profession and a class, it will leave a huge hidden danger to the harem: this means that the society is likely to be divided.

Haven't you seen that even among a race, the inner workings of the night elves in history were cut off from the upper elves because of their study of arcane and invasion of the Burning Legion?

Therefore, if you want to solve the problem, you must take a two-pronged approach, properly dealing with the religious beliefs of the trolls, while increasing the population of human race and goblins.

If you want to increase the population, it is definitely not enough to rely on natural childbirth.

Recently, the family without children has given birth to some newborns. At the same time, more than 300 single men and women have formed dozens of new families. Before leaving for Kezan, Li De also held a group wedding for them.

But this is a drop in the bucket, and the situation on the goblin side is also not optimistic.

So in the near future, we must find a way to immigrate in large quantities!

It is not difficult for the goblins to deal with immigration issues. Because the nearest one is Kozan Island, there are many rich people in goblins, but there are also many poor folk inventors.

If they can absorb them to immigrate, wouldn’t they make a profit if there are really excellent inventors? The patent fee may be saved a lot. Even if it is just a bad civil science, isn’t it easier to become a skilled worker than to have no foundation after education and training?

In contrast, the human immigration plan is much more troublesome. If you want to absorb refugees from the Eastern Kingdoms continent, you not only have to have mature sailing, but also deal with the princes and nobles.

Fortunately, Li De already had a plan in his mind, but if he wanted to achieve these, he had to wait for the navy to complete the training.

So before that, Li De decided to deal with the trolls' belief issue first.

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Chapter completed!