Zhou Xu had never planned to take all the captives to Black Moon Camp.
Especially after what had happened this time, he had clearly realized that Salt Lake Camp needed more people. Otherwise, the safety of the entire tribe could not be adequately guaranteed.
That was the main reason he had decided to leave ten people behind.
As for arranging those ten people, some of them would definitely be assigned to mining.
After all, limited by their tools and equipment, mining efficiency in this era was not high. The more people there were, the greater their daily consumption would be, and to keep up with that consumption, they naturally needed more miners.
As for the rest, Zhou Xu wanted to establish an Equipment Department at Salt Lake Camp as well, specifically to grind the stone tools and equipment needed there.
This was to account for their transportation capacity.
Although Zhuang Mengdie had already begun researching wooden carts, and their tribe's transportation capacity would certainly increase dramatically once the research succeeded,
that matter was, in the end, still far from settled.
If they failed to figure it out, this arrangement would have to be delayed considerably. Under those circumstances, the transport team's daily burden would remain enormous.
After all, Salt Lake Camp was lacking in supplies. Its food and fresh water now had to be transported from Black Moon Camp.
Under those circumstances, tools such as stone pickaxes also had to be shipped over from Black Moon Camp.
But if Salt Lake Camp established its own Equipment Department and began grinding stone tools and making implements such as stone pickaxes itself, they could save that much transportation capacity.
Of course, the director of the Salt Lake branch of the Equipment Department would be appointed after Zhou Xu returned to Black Moon