Chapter 13: Gold Mines and Sowing

According to the large map, the straight line distance from Sige Town to the Salt Mine was only forty kilometers.

If one were to spare no expense in quickly clearing a mining and transportation route, it was not an impossible task.

Importantly, the ore layer of this salt mine was quite shallow; there was no need to dig a hundred meters deep, digging around ten meters would be sufficient.

Essentially, this was an open-air salt mine, which was quite rare.

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A salt mine had been found, but Roman had not been completely satisfied.

He was a Lord who needed a vast amount of resources to develop his territory.

Lacking capital, he felt no confidence even when going out to rob, he needed continual development, to rear a professional army.

And resources came from labor and production.

If there was no salt, other resources would be sought:

If the ore veins were poor, then hunting beasts for their pelts to accumulate initial funds would be next;