Count Lloyd

After seeing Michael off, Victor resumed his work.

Fortunately, the remaining documents were all quite simple. Most were detailed records of the spoils compiled by Tors and the other clerks, such as the number and identities of prisoners, the classification of loot, and its preliminary estimated value.

Since Victor had no habit of bringing merchants along with him, the values Tors and his team had assigned to the spoils were clearly inaccurate. Many were based on market prices from before the civil war. Considering that grain and iron prices had now surged by one to two times, while other materials related to war preparations had risen by at least fifty percent, Victor estimated that the total value of the spoils collected during this southern campaign should be around thirty to forty thousand gold.

However, the most significant portion was the military rations collected by the Fourth Legion. Victor recalled what he had seen when they inspected the Fourth Legion's supply depot after the battle.

Countless burlap sacks filled with grain had piled up across the entire depot like small mountains. Because there were not enough storage tents, many of those mountains of sacks were covered by nothing more than a sheet of heavy cloth. After days of rain, the wheat in the topmost sacks had already sprouted and was essentially inedible.

Victor had been astonished at the time. How could the Fourth Legion have possessed so much military grain? Even a rough estimate put it at over five thousand tons.

Later, after Tors's team finished its tally, they found that the Fourth Legion's granaries contained a full eight thousand tons of grain. At current market prices, that batch alone could sell for at least gold to gold.

At first, Victor truly could not understand where the Fourth Legion had obtained