Everyone in Salt Mine was still cheering, but Landen did not stop. There was another camp in the northeast of Salt Mine, and there were hundreds of Barbarian inside.
Landen led the cavalry and Knight around him and moved forward directly, preparing to directly attack another camp a few kilometers away. First, he had to bypass several stone houses where Brine was mined, and then there was only a dry river bed on the ground.
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 wider at 200 meters. The entire canyon is bare with no vegetation.
The mountain wall on the west is like a huge boulder, and the slope on the east is gentler. Now Twin Suns is slowly rising from the east to the sky, and the temperature has also increased.
Landen led the cavalry to the north, approaching North Camp 10 kilometers away. From the mountain, they looked like a group of black spots. Only the shadows on the ground could tell that they were a group of people on horseback.
In the entire 15-kilometer canyon, the main mines and production and living facilities are located in the south within 2 kilometers of the south exit. The camp in the north seems to only guard the north exit of the canyon.
Because of this, the relationship between North Camp and Salt Mine is very alienated. According to Lannia, North Camp's debt is not settled by her. They have their own Human Race slaves, their own vassal tribes, and even their own output.
North Camp sends coal to Salt Mine in exchange for grain and Long-Haired Sheep, but the ratio of sheep to grain exchanged each month is different.
Lannia's guess about North Camp is that they should also be mining Salt Mine near the camp, but there is no means of purification, so this mining is not successful.
When Landen arrived at North Camp, there were only some old and weak Mana-Less left in North Camp.
Landen asked the old and weak who were left behind, and learned that there were not many Barbarian in this camp.
Although Salt Mine North Camp is guarding the northernmost entrance of the canyon, after exiting the canyon to the north, there is still a canyon. It can be said that this north entrance is a westward gap in the entire canyon that stretches for more than 50 kilometers. There is a Coal Mine in the canyon further north. This Coal Mine is the main fuel source of the entire Salt Mine.
North Camp originally had more than a hundred Barbarian Cavalry. In addition to defending the canyon, they also tried to form a cavalry team to loot the surrounding or northern camps; they also excavated the rocks inside the mountain to look for Coal Mine, but the results were not very good.
A mining accident occurred in the mine a month ago. Although it only caused a small number of Barbarian casualties, the mining disaster had a great impact on the Barbarian's confidence in the camp. Barbarian gradually fled the camp. Therefore, a few days ago, there were not many Barbarian in the North Camp.
This morning, when Barbarian saw Landen approaching in a menacing manner, they all ran away. The most powerful Barbarian and Head Goose's uncles in the camp took their own children and rode on the few Black-Scaled Horse in the camp and escaped.
Although Landen was very interested in the Coal Mine excavated by Barbarian, now he could not stay for a long time and asked Neil to take the cavalry team to collect all the Mana-Less and valuable items. Landen himself ran to the main tent to see North Camp Chieftain Is there any Magic-Sealing Box buried under the main tent?
However, Landen was disappointed. The place where Magic-Sealing Box was supposed to be buried had been dug up, leaving a big pit empty.
Four hours after Landen rushed into the camp, Salt Mine Human Race lived on the sixth floor of the cave. Salt Mine was once the actual manager, Intermediate Knight Pete·Bristle-Wolf's wife Lannia·Bristle-Wolf, once the daughter of Dragon Tooth City's famous family Frost-Wolf Family, the mother of Neil Makoto·Frost-Wolf, Gray Goose Old Priest's disciples, Wendy and Lily, are sitting next to the 4-meter by 4-meter large bed in the most luxurious room in the cave.
The original animal skins on the bed were piled aside. Now the bed is covered with white paper. Albert, Raul and Intermediate Knight in the camp are all standing together outside the door of the room.
"I said Lannia, why is our account so messed up?"
"Sir, I am Mana-Less, and I have to manage the accounts of more than 2,000 people. It is good to be able to calculate like this."
"I understand, it's not good to bully Barbarian"
"You misunderstood. I didn't bully them because they couldn't count. I bullied them because they couldn't count."
That's right, Landen is now taking all his people who can do multiplication to look at the accounts.
When Landen took over the camp, he immediately found Lannia and asked to check the list of supplies in Salt Mine. Lannia happily took out a list, but Landen took a look and found... Lannia had made a mistake...
Not only was there a problem with the first order that Lannia showed to Landen, but the next three or four orders that he gave to Landen had various problems. The problems ranged from the production of salt, to the stock of food, to the input of Gold Coin. Basically every order had problems.
So Landen asked Lannia why there was such a big problem with the settlement.
Lannia is very calm. "I'm just average at settling accounts. What I'm good at is managing my subordinates, not settling accounts. The barbarians asked me to settle accounts because they don't even know how to count."
"Then if you think so, won't there be any problems when distributing supplies?"
"There are often problems, but the population in the camp is fixed, the food is about the same, and the output every month is also about the same, so every month you only need to receive an approximate amount of food and send an approximate amount of salt."
"Then Gray Goose Camp won't check?"
"Gray Goose's account is also settled by me!"
"Then what should you do if your account in Gray Goose Camp is over or under calculated?"
"They don't understand their own numbers. If it's too much, I'll take some away. If it's too little, I'll just make up for it next month."
Seeing Lannia speaking the truth without any scruples, not only Landen was shocked, but also Albert, Pete, and Gandalf was also shocked and speechless. They could not imagine that after Lannia managed the finances and materials of two camps, she would dare to make false accounts under the nose of Barbarian.
"Then Grey Goose Tribe's Mana-Wielder really haven't found anything?"
"I checked it once before," Lannia recalled. "Head Goose took people out of the camp two months ago. Before leaving, I checked how many Iron Armor there were in the camp. I gave him a number, which was 20 sets less than the actual number in the camp. Then he found 32 sets of armor in his Mana-Wielder tent."
Due to the chaos in the accounts throughout the camp, Landen originally planned to directly count the supplies, just like he did after occupying Barbarian's tent, but soon Landen found that it was completely unrealistic to count without accounting.
According to the traditional strength level of the Dragon Kingdom, Knight Order with more than 1,000 non-magic Territory Residents, more than 100 Mana-Wielder, and 50 Knight can achieve enfeoffment Count level, and the entire Salt Mine Human Race has more than 2,000 Mana-Less, more than 200 Mana-Wielder, and 51 intermediate to Reserve Knight.
There are many cave warehouses on each floor of the cave, which store a large amount of animal skins, wood, metal, stones, wax blocks, cloth and other materials. There are also a large number of Cooking Pot, Iron Pickaxe, Iron Shovel, Mine Cart, gears, Iron Wire and other equipment and tools sent by the empire Salt and Iron Department to support the operation of Salt Mine.
There are also some Alchemy Tools, Magic Scroll, Rune Board, etc. that have been preserved in the cave very early. Some of these materials have been strictly sorted, and some have been randomly piled up. In other words, without an account, Landen would not even know what they have.
So Landen took all the people in the camp who were good at math to Lannia's room and asked Lannia to find out all the accounts in the camp.
Dozens of accounting sheets and item lists were spread out on Lannia's bed, and Landen and a few girls looked at it with wide eyes.
Lannia looked at Landen and spread his hands, "Sir, I have been calculating the accounts for several years. I am really not suitable for this job. Otherwise, you can just find someone to take over."