Chapter 537
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Chapter 537: Goblin Construction Team
“Gawain, what specific tasks are your goblins good at?”
“There’s quite a lot. Military and civilian equipment research and manufacturing, of course. Besides that, we’re quite successful as merchants, and city construction is generally a field we goblins excel in. Oh, and some are good at housework.”
Without a doubt, Luo Ji had hit the jackpot.
What his Myriad World Civilization lacked most right now were builders!
There was no time to waste.
Regardless, he’d first have Gawain call in a goblin construction team to help with the work!
The wolf tribe’s settlements were being handled by human construction teams.
But with the newly acquired productivity, his Mirror City also had many things that needed building.
For instance, his Golden-tier Grand Opera House! And his Golden-tier Ancient Nursing Home!
With this thought, Luo Ji decisively took out the design blueprint for the Golden-tier Grand Opera House and handed it to Gawain.
“Gawain, take a look at this. Can it be completed within a month and a half?”
Gawain took the blueprint and quickly scanned it.
Although he wasn’t personally a builder, as the ruler of a goblin civilization, he’d had enough exposure to construction matters to have a general idea.
“My lord, what tier is this design blueprint?”
“Golden-tier.”
Luo Ji stated calmly.
Gawain’s heart skipped a beat at the answer.
Then he immediately spoke with confidence.
“With the bonus effects of a Golden-tier design blueprint, and considering the efficiency of our goblin construction team, it can be finished within a month.”
Luo Ji’s eyebrows raised slightly, and an almost imperceptible curve appeared at the corner of his lips.
This was the perfect opportunity to thoroughly assess the efficiency of the goblin construction team!
“Then I’ll leave this matter to you. Make a list of the materials, and I’ll have someone provide them. Within a month, I want to see this Grand Opera House built in my main city!”
Having gone on a support mission and directly annexed a new special civilization, Luo Ji was clearly going to be very busy.
For a moment, feeling overwhelmed by everything he had to do, Luo Ji felt a little dizzy.
He decided to temporarily hand over all of the original civilization’s political affairs to Lu Yang and focused wholeheartedly on the matters of the goblin civilization.
Sorting through his thoughts, one decree after another was issued from the Hall of Political Affairs.
Luo Ji first, as always, used the storytellers to inform the people of Myriad World Civilization about the existence of the goblin race.
At the same time, he dispatched his forces, taking Gawain with them to thoroughly integrate the goblins in the various cities.
Unlike the relatively limited numbers of the beastmen civilization, the goblin population was quite massive.
This undoubtedly increased Luo Ji’s workload.
Fortunately, with Gawain, the Goblin King, present, the goblins in each city were quite cooperative.
This allowed Luo Ji to relatively smoothly dispatch human garrisons to the four goblin cities.
For Gaoling City, which served as the western border, and Hot Sand City, the eastern border, Luo Ji even directly assigned Guo Zhen and Zhao Pan respectively to personally take command.
Of course, there were also troublesome issues.
The goblins were generally short, each only about 1 meter tall.
This meant the houses built within their cities were significantly shorter, making them unsuitable for normal-sized adult humans to live in.
Garrison troops could simply live in military tents, which wasn’t a problem.
But if he wanted to resettle large numbers of humans into the goblin cities, that would likely have to be pushed back for a while.
As for promoting exchange and integration between the two races, Gawain had been a considerable help.
As mentioned before, many goblins were skilled merchants.
So, with the dual encouragement of Emperor Luo Ji and Goblin King Gawain, trade routes were quickly established between the goblin cities and human cities.
At the same time, the goblin race’s affinity with humans, boosted by Luo Ji’s Myriad World Civilization’s ‘Racial Coexistence’ trait, started at 3 points from the beginning.
Just 1 more point, and it would reach ‘Friendly’ status.
This was certainly a good start.
Several more days passed.
The goblin construction team, summoned by Gawain from Gaoling City, arrived in Mirror City in full force.
Despite their small stature, the construction team’s presence was by no means small.
Upon seeing this goblin construction team, even Luo Ji’s face showed a hint of surprise.
This was because he saw several pieces of equipment in the goblin construction team that resembled cranes and hoists.
Of course, the goblin civilization was still in the Bronze Age, so there were no energy-driven machines.
According to Gawain’s explanation, their civilization’s cranes were conceived by him and designed by his civilization’s goblin engineers.
They were essentially ancient versions of cranes.
Simply put, they could suspend heavy objects from one end, and then a few goblins would push rotating handles below.
This way, utilizing certain lever principles and pulley systems, even strength-challenged goblins could easily lift heavy objects.
Other equipment was largely similar, primarily requiring manual operation.
However, with these devices, tasks that were originally very strenuous became much easier, while also increasing the efficiency of transporting construction materials and working.
At this moment, Luo Ji undoubtedly gained a new understanding of the goblin civilization’s technological prowess.
Luo Ji had thought about such devices before.
However, due to the current limitations in technology, they couldn’t build them.
Drawing a crane or a hoist was easy for Luo Ji.
But the difficulty lay in the details of the internal structure.
Such modern equipment was originally powered by diesel, kerosene, or electricity.
He didn’t have the cleverness to convert these energy-driven structures into manually operated ones.
The intricate gears and pulley systems involved were highly complex.
Here’s a simple question: As a modern person, you know about airplanes, tanks, and armored vehicles, but can you build them?
Luo Ji wasn’t a fool who took things for granted.
So he clearly understood that some things weren’t as simple as just knowing about them.
To achieve this, he’d need an engineering talent with at least a 4-star rating in a single attribute.
And Luo Ji had always lacked such talent.
However, Gawain’s goblin civilization excelled in technology, and he clearly had no shortage of engineers.
Thus, his Golden-tier Grand Opera House officially began construction in full swing.
During this period, the goblins bustling about the construction site undoubtedly drew considerable attention from the residents of Mirror City.
Unlike with the beastmen, the human and goblin populations of Myriad World Civilization got along surprisingly peacefully.
On one hand, having already had the experience with the beastmen, people’s acceptance of unusual races had greatly increased.
On the other hand, these short goblins didn’t look particularly threatening, unlike some of the more intimidating beastmen.
In any case, this was undoubtedly a good thing.
It saved him a lot of trouble for his subsequent series of new policies.
