Chapter Two Hundred and Five: Audit
On the ball, his mouth kept chanting complex incantations.
Following the direction of Sinser's finger, Schweller saw a somewhat faint bright spot.
It's just that, perhaps due to the distance, the topographic maps of the vicinity are all blurry at the location of the bright spots, and the details are not clear at all.
And Emmen, who is responsible for providing magic to the map, is already sweating heavily at the moment.
Sinser pointed to the spot and succinctly recounted what had been detected:
"Commander, in this place we have detected a large amount of concentrated life energy, the number is about five hundred!"
"Five hundred", Schweller nodded, "Hulan! Did you first inquire about the number of slaves at the docks, about five hundred? ”
"Exactly!" Hulan nodded, confirming Schwell's conjecture.
"This piece of life breath is very mixed, although it is not clear about the specific races and attributes, it can be determined that there are more than ten racial breaths!" Sinsher pointed to the spot and added.
"If so..... Probably the slaves! Schweller nodded, then asked:
"Where's the direction and distance?"
"Azimuth north-northeast, distance ...... About 400 ...... No, four hundred and fifty kilometers! Sinser took a closer look and reported a string of data!
"Good!" Schwell clenched his fist.
"Let's have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we're going to beat up those bastards who owe money and don't give it!"
"Amen, Sinther, you two have worked hard, I have two bottles of high-grade magic potions, you can find a time to drink them."
After saying that, Shi Wei took out two small bottles and handed them to the two magicians.
"Captain Xie!" Emmen and Sinser took the potion with joy on their faces, and each found a place to rest. And in the direction of Emmen and Sinser, there are indeed more than 500 people at this moment, working in full swing on the edge of a cliff.
It was the goblin workers who dug the placer, and the accompanying inspectors and escorts.
Since he started digging placer iron ore, Liu Ergou's first order was to clean up this cliff.
Otherwise, not only would you be sick in such a dirty working environment, but the ore would be a little disgusting.
After some cleaning and repair, the traces of the former Yellow Iron Tribe have long been completely removed; In its place, there was a newly large-scale dump and a well-repaired fence and guard tower around the mine.
Even the original big garbage heap that had been accumulated for an unknown number of years, Liu Ergou ordered the goblins to shovel out all the garbage and burn it clean, and even the soil at the bottom was dug out more than three feet deep, and then backfilled with clean sand.
The stench when burning garbage made Liu Ergou have no appetite all day.
"When! While! While! While! While! ”
Five bells rang in a row, and the goblins in the mine immediately put down their tools, swarmed to a wooden platform in the center of the mine, and then consciously lined up and waited quietly.
Five bells mean that this group of goblins has finished today's work, and it is time to "settle"!
In fact, most goblins don't quite understand the meaning of the word "settlement".
However, after this period of work and education, the concept of "labor for food" has long been deeply ingrained in the mind of every goblin.
And in the near future, they will gradually learn to use their labor to "settle" all sorts of other things.
"Uh-huh!" On the other side of the wooden platform, a short man, the Maiss Rat Clan, cleared his throat and pulled out a booklet.
"Now the settlement begins! Everyone line up in order, don't cut the line! ”
The short man cleared his throat again, opened the booklet and began to read: "Tutusyph...... Forget your names are too tongue-twisting, I'll just pronounce the number! Is it all possible? ”
The goblins nodded, many of them unsure of their names.
But the number...... On the left wrist of each goblin is a small iron ring made of sanded iron, and their number is engraved on the ring.
This number is both for statistical convenience and to distinguish the goblins in Kitahara Castle from other wild goblins.
It is also made into an iron hoop so that it does not interfere with work and is easy to carry.
"Number 1!" The short auditor shouted at the top of his voice.
The goblin at the head hurriedly stepped forward and reached out to show the bracelet to the auditor.
"Hmm", the auditor glanced at the booklet, "four baskets, eight silver coins!" ”
The other auditor on one side took the eight "North Plains Silver Coins" handed over by the guards and handed them to the goblins.
"Number 2!" The numbered goblin immediately stepped forward, revealing the bracelet on his left hand.
"Three and a half baskets, seven silver coins!"
The same seven silver coins were handed over from the auditor to the goblin, who ran away in joy.
"Huh! Wait, wait, wait! The auditor quickly stopped the goblin, "Put the tools back in place, and then go back to camp!" ”
These silver coins are actually the silver coins commonly used in the castle today.
This is a difference from the previous batch of silver coins.
Due to the increase in usage, Liu Ergou and Hammer studied it, and finally decided to mint coins with sand iron, but a certain amount of special metal should be mixed into it, which is the batch that was brought back from the silver elf ruins.
In this way, the newly minted "silver coin" can be described as killing two birds with one stone, without losing its silvery-white luster.
However, Liu Ergou did not realize at this time that without a sufficient amount of precious metals, the value of the new currency would be completely determined by the issuer, that is, Liu Ergou's Beiyuan City.
Inadvertently, Liu Ergou issued the first credit currency in history in this other world.
The impact of this will not be felt until much later.
Aside from that, the goblins receive the same amount of silver as the common townspeople.
It's just that the goblins are limited to prisoner of war camps...... It's a goblin colony now, so the only thing you can buy with these silver coins is food.
The price given by Liu Ergou was two silver coins and a pot of exquisite food.
The reason why it was set into two silver coins was also to facilitate the calculation of the "half basket" of ore, so that the labor income of this half basket of ore could be accumulated, rather than being erased as a "fraction" like ordinary slave owners.
Subtly, Liu Ergou has made the goblins develop the habit of using currency.
Similarly, goblins who work in farms and garment factories are paid according to the amount of work.
In the next step, Liu Ergou is planning to open the exchange of clothes and other daily necessities to goblins, so as to meet the needs of goblins while achieving the purpose of "educating" them.
Standing on the terrace of the church, Hill looked at the brightly lit goblin settlement in the distance, and said to Liu Ergou with half emotion and half praise:
"Can you put these green ...... Goblins transformed like this, you're really good enough. ”
The term "green-skinned monster" is still occasionally uttered by Hill.