"How much money did we get from that Brotherhood camp?"

In De Herim's Peony mercenary office, Byron is struggling with a large pile of accounts.

When they stormed the Brotherhood's camp before, the soldiers were very excited. In the past, robbers would hide their looted belongings somewhere, such as this camp.

The Peony mercenaries quickly took down the hopelessly sick robbers, gathered the rest of the captives together, and searched the entire camp while interrogating them about their whereabouts.

Although with the help of the system, Byron relied on the yellow arrows to find a lot of hidden silver coins, gold and silver utensils, and a few gems, but the gap was still very large compared to the cost paid, and Byron was very disappointed.

"When those things are converted, plus the silver and gold we have obtained, it makes a total of 3,750 dinars."

Manid replied after carefully checking the accounts.

"And what about our expenses?"

After Byron's questioning, Manid was silent for a moment, a black line appeared on his forehead, and he spat out a number in a very slow voice.

"After getting back the mortgage with the king, the expenditure is 15,000."

"Then if you dispose of all those captives..."

"Those captives can be exchanged for 2,000 dinars, which is already the maximum."

"Oh my God..."

Despite still holding a huge sum of 10,000 dinars, Byron felt a deep sense of powerlessness and his head was a little dizzy.

When he returned to Dehrim yesterday, he had been very proud to have returned victorious, a whole group of prisoners, and the medals given to him by the local lords.

But when Jamila and Manid handed him a stack of statements full of expenditures and deficits, they were not even in the mood to attend the banquet.

[You have eliminated the bandit force "Brotherhood of the Green Forest", and your reputation among the nobles and people of the Swadia Kingdom has increased, reputation +30;]

[One-Handed Mastery +2; Two-Hand Mastery +5; Longpole Weapon Mastery +8]

Indeed, after this battle, Byron's reputation increased a lot, and the Peony mercenaries became the premier private mercenary team in the Swadia Kingdom.

However, Byron paid 10,000 dinars for this, plus the cost of the banquet after the victory, and I am afraid that it will take several months to earn this money back.

However, after Byron was depressed for a few days, Kress returned with Desail. The two of them managed to kill Ike and bring his head back.

After taking revenge, Desaivi finally chose to join Byron. She told Byron that it was for Kress's sake, but Byron knew it was because she and her men had been exposed and it was hard to get along as a robber.

Alleyne expressed his displeasure at this, believing that it was a shame to have such an ugly female robber join their ranks. However, at the shooting range, Desaivi taught Alleyne a lesson with a bow and arrow, and used his excellent archery and fighting skills to force Alleyne to admit her strength and continue to lead her former bandit siblings.

And Desaivi reminds Byron that the Brotherhood has collapsed, but in addition to the seized property, the robbers still have an inheritance waiting for Byron to take over.

That's the intelligence network that the Brotherhood of the Green Forest has accumulated over the years, as well as its strongholds and informants in various villages. This network has been around since before Ike integrated this bandit force. Even if the Brotherhood is destroyed, as long as someone can take over, these broken intelligence lines can be reassembled into a network.

In addition, the stronghold of the Brotherhood of the Green Forest, which was also occupied by Byron, was half burned down by Lund, but there were still many stone facilities left that could be used after repairs.

A brotherhood's lair and many strongholds, Byron wants to be included in the Peony mercenaries.

Byron gave Desaivi and Kress some men to take them down, and they did.

And the old ministers and informants of the previous brotherhood also submitted to Byron under coercion and temptation.

From them, Byron figured out the relationship between the Kinte, and the matter. In fact, not only the peony mercenaries, but also many of the rivals of the Golden Hand family, the brotherhood has attacked them.

Every month, the Golden Hand family would send 500 dinars to the higher-ups of the Brotherhood of the Green Forest, and they would also plant their own people in it to limit Ike's power.

The direct battle between the Peony mercenaries and the Brotherhood was instructed by them.

In this regard, of course, Byron could not let them go.

After mastering the Brotherhood's network of information in various villages, Byron began to have them gather information related to the Golden Hand family.

Soon, a caravan of the Golden Hand family was robbed by a group of "robbers", and a small notebook full of the deeds of the Golden Hand family over the years was also sent to the Golden Hand.

To the surprise of the outside world, the Golden Hand family did not launch a counterattack because of the robbery of the caravan. Jin Shou also went to Byron in person, and the two sides talked for an hour.

The next day, Byron received 5,000 dinars of silver, and most of the evidence was taken away by the golden hand.

Many of those silver coins had been filed, and it was the goldsmith who was expressing his displeasure.

But Byron doesn't care, just deal with it, and spend it if he can.

Counting the shipment he had snatched from the Golden Hand, and after deducting recent expenses, Byron's silver count exceeded 15,000.

On the troupe's side, Jose had already arranged a new play and gave Byron a lot of tickets.

Byron's investment was correct, and after the repertoire was improved, the company's craftsmanship was upgraded to the back of the chair, and Byron also got a lot of returns, and the profit was not much lower than that of the dyeing house of the Riwa Cheze.

After dealing with this, Byron gave himself a vacation and spent a week comfortably in Decherim. He visited the nobles of the city every day, raced horses with them, and occasionally gambled.

As for the work, he left it to his heroes.

Except for Manid and Alleyne, who don't like each other, the other heroes get along well. And they all have their own jobs, and when they work together, they save Byron a lot of effort.

Now there are more people in the office, and the nobles and powerful rich people are happy to hire peony mercenaries to do things for them.

Peony mercenaries are reliable and trustworthy, which is the quality they expect most from mercenaries. The mercenary team is making more money, and its reputation is getting better day by day.

There are even jobs from Vekia, where the Kugit Horse Thieves and Nord Bandits are said to have harassed many parts of Vekia, and mercenaries will always have work to do in case of security problems.

In this way, Byron spent the summer with ease, expanding his strength and learning more about what a leader needs.

In his spare time, he would also tinker with gunpowder, but because of the purity of the material, the work was not going well, and I am afraid that it would take a while to make high-quality black powder.

However, even if it succeeds now, it will be difficult to mass produce it in the short term.