Hearing the old man speak, Yun Lei squinted his eyes before speaking.
"Go on."
"Your Majesty, before, we had a reasonable quota of a short sword every 3 days and we could also take that time to work on other essentials like farming tools. However, because of the war, we have been forced to work on nothing but weaponry. Creating two swords in a day is something only master smiths could accomplish, whereas the majority of our numbers are barely good enough. Because of that, most of us aren't even being paid in full and cannot fulfil our other responsibilities. We cannot keep working in such conditions."
