Chapter 16: Salt - the First Deposit

"昨天在战场上,我杀了两个哥布林.凭着发现这个盐矿的功劳,我肯定能摆脱农奴身份,成为一名自由人.

 

"唉,我没有那么幸运.即使有发现盐矿的功劳,我也只杀了两个.不知道下一场战斗会是什么时候.

 

"不要气馁.既然我们的主人在扩大他的领土,肯定会有很多战斗.也许我们明天可以跟着骑士领主去消灭周围的哥布林部落.

 

"我希望如此.一旦我摆脱了我的农奴身份,我必须...你看,是主人.

 

一个农奴士兵话说到一半就停了下来,看到远处出现的身影,大声喊道.

 

当维林走近时,一个农奴上前拉着红磷马,另外两个人立即报告道:"师父,这里是盐矿.里面没有危险.

 

"干得好.继续努力.

 

维林下马鼓励三个农奴.然后他领着贝尔德进了山洞.

 

走了一百多米后,一个一百多平方米的山洞出现在他们面前.周围的墙壁都是用盐矿石制成的.

 

他上前一步,用自己的斗志感应.在他的感知范围内,都是盐矿石,而且都是高纯度的.只需粗略的净化,它就可以作为中等质量的盐出售.

 

至于表面有害杂质较多的岩盐,只占了很小的一部分.

 

"这个盐矿的储量相当大.这真的是一个意想不到的惊喜.

 

贝尔德有点怀疑.他也执行了感知,脸色顿时一变.他连忙说道:"大人,这里是一片宝地.我们必须严格捍卫它.我建议所有的矿工都应该是那些无良的土匪奴隶,军队应该驻扎在外围进行防御.

 

"这正是我的想法.但是,在初期,不建议大规模开采,以免被发现无端招惹麻烦.Verin 抚摸着他的下巴,对 Baird 说.

 

"我的领主说的是对的."

 

很快,两人离开了山洞,发现了一块巨大的石头,并先封住了入口.成功建立定居点后,人们可以被送到这里进行采矿.

 

趁着剩下的时间,维林带着贝尔德等人探索了十二公里外的池塘,准备敲定最初定居点的位置.

 

十多分钟后,他们来到了一个宽阔的湖边,不远处有一些动物在饮水.

 

Looking at the beautiful scenery, the people who came here felt relaxed both physically and mentally.

 

"Baird, it's a beautiful place, isn't it?" Verin turned his head to look at Baird, whose expression didn't change much, and showed a sincere smile.

 

"My liege, it is beautiful. The land is fertile and suitable for irrigation. There is also a slope in the distance, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and a castle can be built there. This place is also close to the salt mine, so it can provide support at any time."

 

"Maybe you don't mean the same thing as I do, but it doesn't matter." Verin shrugged and said helplessly.

 

"Come on, let's take a stroll around. This may be our future home for a long time." Verin said to the several knights behind him, and then rode his horse towards the slope in the distance.

 

Seeing this, Baird led the people and quietly followed behind him.

 

It took more than two hours for Verin to circle around the lake. He recorded some general ideas on the paper, such as where was suitable for building a castle, where was suitable for reclaiming farmland, where could be used as a barracks, or where could be used as a place to store excrement, so as not to pollute the quality of the lake water.

 

Although the water in this lake was flowing and had the effect of self-purification, Verin didn't want to drink the lake water with excrement in it.

 

Seeing that it was getting late, Verin ended this exploration trip and led the people back to the Boulder Tribe, preparing for the final preparations before the expansion.

 

...

 

The news of the destruction of the Boulder Tribe and the six surrounding tribes spread with the surviving goblins.

 

As Verin expected, the first thing the leaders of the remaining goblin tribes did after getting the news was not to resist, but to prepare to migrate, leave this place, and head further west.

 

They had been like this for more than a hundred years, and now they were just repeating what they had done before.

 

They would rather compete with the gnolls and kobolds for living space than fight against the human pioneers. When fighting against other alien races, if they failed, they could still become slaves and eke out a living.

 

If they fought against the human pioneers and failed, it meant the destruction of their entire clan. There had been too many such examples in the past hundred years, and the goblins on the Gray Mang 荒原 had engraved this memory deep in their bones.

 

In the next few days, migrating goblins could be seen everywhere in the outlying areas of Toxik.

 

Thousands of green-skinned monsters hid during the day and moved at night, leaving this barren land where they had lived for more than thirty years.

 

Some goblin tribes in other regions, upon hearing the news that the human pioneers had appeared again, were all preparing to move their families and leave this place.

 

They were not sure whether this was a signal of another large-scale expansion by humans, so it was better to leave as soon as possible.

 

In this way, Verin, relying on his own strength, forced hundreds of goblin tribes and tens of thousands of goblins in the outlying areas of the Yellowstone Region to migrate.

 

This move was a veritable feast for the monster tribes deeper inside. They could gain a large number of slave tribes from it, increasing the combat power and food reserves of their own tribes.

 

However, all of this had nothing to do with Verin.

 

What he had to do now was to establish the first village, the first farmland, the first castle, expand his territory, pass the assessment four years later, be promoted to a baron, and become a real noble in this world.

 

After returning to the Boulder Tribe, after discussions among everyone, mainly Verin's narration, with others nodding and occasionally Baird putting forward his own opinions in the meeting.

 

Lying on the carpet and looking at the planned construction drawings, he felt exhausted.

 

This meeting made Verin even more eager to get an administrative talent.

 

A group of knights with muscles all over their heads made him feel a lot of pressure.