Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 61 59. Inside the Salt Mine 3
The people in the salt mine were still cheering, but Rand didn't stop. There was another camp in the northeast of the salt mine, and there were hundreds of barbarians in it.

Rand led the cavalry and knights around him to advance directly, preparing to directly attack another camp a few kilometers away. First, he had to bypass a few stone houses for mining brine, and then there was only a dry riverbed on the ground.

The salt mine canyon is severely narrowed at the southwest and northeast entrances, the narrowest point is less than 100 meters, and the middle is relatively wide, 200 meters. The entire canyon is bare and has no vegetation.

The mountain wall on the west is like a huge rock, and the slope on the east is gentler. Now the double sun is slowly rising from the east to the sky, and the temperature is also rising.

Lante led the cavalry to the north and approached the northern camp 10 kilometers away. Looking from the mountain, it looked like a group of black spots. Only the shadows on the ground could tell that it was a group of people on horseback.

In the entire 15-kilometer canyon, the main mines and production and living facilities are located within 2 kilometers from the south exit to the south, and the camp on the north seems to only guard the north exit of the canyon.

Because of this, the relationship between the North Camp and the salt mine is very alienated. According to Lania, the account of the North Camp is not up to her. They have their own human slaves, their own vassal tribes, and even their own output .

The northern camp sent coal to the salt mine every month in exchange for grain and long-wool sheep, but the ratio of sheep and grain exchanged was not the same every month.

Laniya's guess about the northern camp is that they should also be mining salt mines near the camp, but there is no means of purification, so this kind of mining is not successful.

When Rand arrived at the northern camp, there were only some old and weak non-magic people left in the northern camp.

Lante asked the old and weak who were left behind, only to learn that there were not many barbarians in this camp for a long time.

Although the north camp of the salt mine guards the northernmost entrance of the canyon, after leaving the canyon to the north, it is still a canyon. It can be said that the north entrance is a westward opening of the entire canyon that stretches for more than 50 kilometers. This coal mine is the main source of fuel for the entire salt mine.

There used to be more than 100 barbarian cavalry in the northern camp. In addition to defending the canyon, they also tried to form a cavalry team to loot the surrounding or northern camps; excavate the rocks in the mountain to find coal mines, but the results were not very good.

There was a mining disaster in the mine a month ago, which caused a small number of barbarian casualties. However, this mine disaster dealt a great blow to the confidence of the barbarians in the camp. Gradually, some barbarians fled the camp. Therefore, a few days ago, the barbarians in the northern camp had already Not much more, this morning the barbarians ran away when they saw Lante approaching aggressively. The most powerful barbarian in the camp, the uncle of the head goose, took his young and old to ride away on the few black-scaled horses in the camp.

Although Rand was very interested in the coal mines dug by the barbarians, he didn't care about staying for a long time now, and asked Neil to take the cavalry to store all the non-monsters and valuables, and Rand himself ran to the main tent to think about it. Check to see if there is a magic sealing box buried under the headman's tent in the northern camp.

But Rand was disappointed. The place where the magic box should be buried has been dug up, and a big pit is empty.

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Four hours after Rand rushed into the camp, the salt mine people lived on the sixth floor of the cave. The former actual manager of the salt mine and the wife of the mid-level knight Pete Maned Wolf, Lania Maned Wolf, used to be the famous family member of Dragon Tooth City Frost. Makoto Frostwolf, the daughter of the wolf family and Neil's mother, and Wendy and Lili, the disciples of the old priest of Gray Goose, are at the side of a 4-by-4-meter bed in the most luxurious room in the cave.

The original animal skins on the bed were piled aside, but now the bed is covered with white paper. Outside the door of the room, Albert, Rolle, and the middle-level knights in the camp all stood together.

"I said Leniya, why is our account so messy?"

"My lord, I am a non-demon, and I have to manage the accounts of more than 2000 people. It is not bad to be able to count like this."

"Understood, it is not good to bully the barbarians"

"You misunderstood. It's not good to count them without me. What I bully them is that they can't count."

That's right, Rand is now taking all the people under his command who can do multiplication to look at the accounts.

After Rand took over the camp, Rand found Laniya and asked to check the list of supplies in the entire salt mine. Laniya took out a list very happily, but Rand found it after looking at it. . .Lania was wrong. . .

Not only was there a problem with the first list that Lania showed Rand, but the next three or four lists had various problems, ranging from the production of salt to the stock of food to the entry of gold coins. Both sheets have problems.

So Rand asked Laniya why there was such a big problem in the calculation.

Laniya is very calm, "It's normal for me to settle accounts. What I'm good at is managing servants, not accounting. The barbarians ask me to settle accounts because they don't even know numbers."

"Then you count it like this, won't there be any problems when the materials are distributed?"

"There are often problems, but the population in the camp is fixed, the food is about the same, and the monthly output is also about the same, so it is enough to receive an approximate amount of food and send an approximate amount of salt every month."

"Won't the gray goose camp check?"

"Gray Goose's account is also settled by me!"

"Then what should you do if you count more or less in the gray goose camp?"

"They don't understand their own numbers, so I'll take some if they count too much, and if they count too little, I'll just make up for it next month."

Seeing Laniya speak the truth without any scruples, not only Rand was shocked, but even Albert, Pete, and Gandalf beside him were also shocked. They couldn't imagine managing two camps in Lania After receiving all the finances and supplies, she dared to make false accounts under the noses of the barbarians.

"Then the demon possessors of the Gray Goose Tribe really haven't found anything?"

"I checked once before," Laniya recalled, "Tou Yan left the camp 2 months ago and checked how many armors there are in the camp. I gave him a number, which was 20 sets less than the actual number in the camp. He then found 32 suits of armor in his own enchanter tent"

The accounts in the entire camp were chaotic, and Rand came to count the supplies directly, just like what he did after occupying the barbarian tents, but soon Rand found that it was completely unrealistic to count without the accounts.

According to the traditional strength level of the Dragon Kingdom, a knight group with more than 1000 non-magic citizens, more than 100 demon possessors, and 50 knights can reach the level of enfeoffing earls, and the human race in the entire salt mine has more than 2000 people. There are no demons, more than 200 demon possessors, and 51 intermediate to reserve knights.

There are many caves on each floor of the cave, which store a large amount of animal skins, wood, metal, stones, wax blocks, cloth and other materials, as well as a large number of cooking pots sent by the Imperial Salt and Iron Division to support the operation of the salt mine. , iron picks, shovels, minecarts, gears, iron wires and other equipment and tools, and some alchemy tools, magic scrolls, rune boards, etc. that have been preserved in caves for a long time. Some of these materials are strictly organized However, some are piled up indiscriminately. In other words, if there is no account, Rand doesn't even know what is there.

So Rant took all the people in the camp who were able to count to Laniya's room, and asked Laniya to find out all the accounts in the camp.

Dozens of bills and item lists were spread out on Leniya's bed, and Rand and a few girls stared at them.

Leniya looked at Rand and spread his hands, "My lord, I have settled accounts for several years, and I am really not suitable for this job. Why don't you just find someone to take over."

(End of this chapter)