Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

Tang Bo saw the salt-producing fields of the Yancave Territory, and also saw the castle of the Lord of the Salt Cave Territory.

This is a nearly circular castle. The outer city is all built with thick yellow mud and gravel, with a height of at least 25 meters.

This height is considered very high at the current level of craftsmanship.

The outer city wall is very smooth, and there are few places to borrow strength, which ensures that it will be very difficult for the enemy to attack.

The defense of this castle is also extremely tight, with battlements all over the walls, and soldiers patrolling back and forth.

"There are no civilians living here, only the lord and his soldiers and slaves." Gu Ding squatted in the grass and said to Tang Bo.

"The salt cave is inside the castle?" Tang Bo speculated.

Gu Ding: "Yes, in the middle is their salt cave, and the whole castle is built around the salt cave. It's not that the outsiders who often come here don't know where the salt cave is, but they know it and can't invade it."

Tang Bo understood, and finally understood why Yandong City was so messy and unplanned. It was actually a market and a large prison.

The Lord of the Salt Cave basically locked his people in that city and asked them to mine salt mines for him, and rarely let them out.

This is why there are very few villages around the salt cave collar.

From this point, his previous speculation can also be verified: the Yandong collar is the money bag of the Duke of Luma, so the local lord does not care about farming and other by-products, because he can use salt and money to buy enough grain from the Duke of Luma, He is not afraid that the Duke of Luma will cut off his food.

And the rich and salty salt cave lord can also get the goods he wants through the outsiders who come to trade.

"The place is here, how do you go in? What do you plan to do after you get in?" Gu Ding looked sideways at Tang Bo, as if deliberately posing a problem for him.

Tang Bo did not suffer from night blindness. With the light of the two moons and the sky full of stars, he could clearly see the figures of the soldiers walking back and forth on the battlements. He was counting the time for the soldiers to patrol.

"I know how to get in." Gu Ding put on a little expression like I'll tell you if you beg me.

Tang Bo patted his little head: "Drilling a dog hole?"

"You just drilled a dog hole!" Gu Ding blushed angrily, "Do you know how I found this place? I picked a lot of people, and finally found a salt steward, and I followed him to this castle. You see Is there a row of thatched houses, where the salt workers enter the city, and where the salt caves bring out the salt. There is a lot of salt there, but there are also many guards there. I wanted to sneak into the castle, but it can't help me, But I saw... Hey!"

Tang Bo snapped his fingers, and he jumped out.

"Big bastard! You agreed to take me in, but you ran away by yourself in the end." Gu Ding gritted his teeth angrily, staring at Tang Bo with red eyes as he quickly climbed up the unsupported earthen city wall like a ghost. It took a while to climb to the top.

Hmph, he doesn't admire the other party, not at all!

The defense of this castle can prevent ordinary people, but for Tang Bo who has special abilities, there are too many loopholes, almost opening the door for him to enter.

So Tang Bo was impolite.

The row of adobe houses outside the castle was obviously just a cover, and he wouldn't go there to get salt if he wanted it.

Tang Bo moved quickly in the shadows, and none of the patrolling soldiers spotted him.

Looking in from the height of the castle, you can clearly see a large mine in the center of the castle, where there are wooden shelves and a dark mine entrance.

Around the salt cave are circles of thatched huts, where a large number of salt workers live.

Tang Bo was close to the salt cave, and it was very quiet at night, and the soldiers did not guard the entrance of the salt cave strictly.

Because as long as there are not a large number of enemies invading, only a few people sneak into the salt cave and find the location of the salt cave, and they can't move the salt cave.

The soldiers were more concerned about the salt workers.

Compared with foreign enemies, the soldiers are more wary of these salt workers.

When the new lord took office, the salt workers once rioted, and were finally suppressed bloody. But after the first time, no one knows if there will be a second time. Anyway, the lord is very concerned and let the soldiers watch it These salt workers.

As long as anyone shows dissatisfaction or secretly conspires, they will be beaten to death, and they will be killed.

The lord has no shortage of salt workers, just like these soldiers are not locals, but brought from other places by the lord.

If these salt workers are disobedient, the lord can also find other slaves to replace these locals. Now the lord has not killed all the locals, but he just doesn't want to waste it.

After all, skilled salt workers need time to develop, why not use the ready-made ones?

Tang Bo slipped into the salt cave right behind the patrolling soldiers.

This salt mine is a combination of well salt and mine salt, with brine and large pieces of salt ore.

Tang Bo saw the oldest brine well here, a big hole, the wellhead was fixed with wood, and a vertical ladder was made to go down. Several wooden barrels were placed at the wellhead, and a wooden frame was fixed on it.

There is a cave-like cave near the brine well, where salt workers mined salt ore and boiled salt at the same time.

There are no iron pots, and the clay pots are fragile. The salt workers use stone pots to cook salt.

The stone pot is thick and not easy to evaporate, and cooking salt consumes a lot of firewood.

And these boiled salt grains are the fine salt sold to the nobles.

Mineral salt is much simpler. Salt workers save the step of boiling salt, and directly mince the mined salt ore, and divide it into low, medium and high according to the purity.

These mineral salts are now piled up in huge caves.

Tang Bo was not interested in the salt mines that were not available for the time being, and he did not go in for a closer look. He only picked up the purest salt mines and put them in the space, and also collected the salt grains that were extracted and put into sacks.

But from the perspective of quantity, this should not be a warehouse, and there should be another place for the salt warehouse.

It's not hard to find, though, and the best bread crumbs are sprinkled on the ground.

The inside of the mine is dark, and if the villagers of Bailuling come to see it, [-]% of them will have to shout that this is a cave that the devil crawled out of.

Tang Bo suddenly came up with inspiration, turned his heels, took out a bucket of deer blood he had collected from the space, found a brush made of wolf tail, and began to swipe on the wall of the salt cave.

When Tang Bo left the mine, he saw a blood-red giant crab with teeth and claws appearing on the wall of the mine.

The crab's two large claws and protruding eyes are obviously demonized and look extremely scary.

It is conceivable that the salt workers and supervisors will be terrified when they enter the salt cave tomorrow and see such a blood picture.

Thinking that he just played a little prank, Tang Bo followed the broken salt blocks that fell on the ground and searched all the way, and found the salt warehouse on the first floor of the castle.

Honestly speaking, this castle is really well built, it not only has an upper ground floor, but also a large underground floor.

Tang Bo suspects that this underground layer is the salt mine that was once hollowed out.

Now this basement is full of sacks filled with salt.

Tang Bo avoided the guards of the warehouse, the outer layer remained unchanged, he picked and picked inside, and took away all the best ones.

Look, he was right in not haggling with the salt seller, and the little river crab didn't show up even once.

This is the acquiescence of the river crab that he used this method to compensate for the loss and obtain compensation.

Of course, there must be a limit to compensation.

This speed is ten times - honest business, make up ten if there is a shortage.

That's why Tang Bo bought so much salt when he had the ability to clean up other people's warehouses.The more he buys, the more he loses and the more compensation he can get.

In the same way, this is also the reason why he paid twice the price to buy so much salt at Three Trees.

However, Sanshuling's account is not in a hurry to settle, he intends to accumulate it.

When Tang Bo got ten times the "compensation", he wanted to do it again, and the little river crab appeared, crawling around in front of his eyes to show his presence.

Tang Bo raised his eyebrows, stopped and left.

Wait, since it's a prank, it's natural to make it perfect.

So when Tang Bo left the castle, there was also a huge and terrifying scarlet demonized crab on the wall of the underground warehouse.

Before leaving, Tang Bo looked at the highest part of the castle. He really wanted to visit the lord's room and private treasury. With such a large salt mine, but the lord was extremely poor, the lord must be extremely rich.

But before the leader of the salt cave declared war on him, it was basically impossible for him to use the power of a river crab to become a thief.And with his current body, without the assistance of the power of a river crab, it is still a little bit difficult to be a thief who comes and goes without a trace.

Tang Bo doesn't like being restrained, monitored, or contained, no matter if it's a river crab or a dog's egg.But when he was still weak, he would choose to "be obedient".

Gu Ding, who had been nesting in the grass for more than an hour, saw Tang Bo come back, and gave him a cold head.

Tang Bo, who had gained a lot, was in a good mood and didn't mind the little guy's indifferent attitude. He rubbed his soft hair and asked, "What did you want to tell me before? We have to leave overnight. When dawn comes, they will will find it wrong."

Gu Ding will not lose track of business, temporarily put aside the fact that Tang Bo did not bring him in to meet the world, "Have you seen those salt workers?"

"It's not counted as seeing." Tang Bo motioned him to focus.

Gu Ding glared at him: "When I found this place, I saw soldiers beating a salt worker, and ordered many salt workers to watch. The salt worker was quickly beaten to death. The soldiers who beat him thought he was dead. , threw him into the wilderness, saying that he would let the coyotes eat his body, let the devil take his soul, and let him have no peace after death. I... wanted to bury him, but found that he still had one breath, but I can't save him, he's dying."

Gu Ding pursed his lips, he is not a sympathetic person, but seeing this miner, he somehow thought of himself, thinking that if he died, if someone could bury him instead of throwing him to the wild dogs Coyotes eat it, and he'll be grateful to that one.

"Is he dead?"

"Maybe. He told me not to bury him, and he didn't beg me. He just looked at the sky and prayed to the gods, praying that the gods would hear his prayers, let that cruel lord die, and let the people of the Salt Cave Land Back to the old days."

Tang Bo pressed the child's head, "Don't make any detours. If that person didn't make any pleas, you wouldn't mention him to me."

Gu Ding snorted: "Okay, he said he knew another salt mine that might produce salt. It's not here, it's in another place, and it's unoccupied land. But his condition is that we take over the salt cave. All the salt workers in the village were rescued."

Tang Bo understood why the child refused to say this in one breath, because the child wanted to get the salt mine alone.But with the child's current ability, it is undoubtedly a dream to rescue the salt workers in the salt cave collar, so he can only entrust him.

But the child was very unwilling, so he talked to him in circles.

Gu Ding tilted his head and looked at him rebelliously: "Can you?"

"Did you hide that person?" Tang Bo knew the answer without guessing.

Gu Ding didn't answer.

"I can save him, and maybe his companions, but I want to see him."

"Can you really rescue those salt workers? It's not just one or two people. According to the man, there are hundreds of people! And there are at least 600 soldiers in that castle."

Tang Bo didn't intend to save people or take them back to Bailuling on this trip, but an unowned salt mine?A piece of land without an owner?

He felt that it was still possible to take risks, and those salt workers who were rescued, as long as they could be brought back smoothly, they were all ready-made skilled craftsmen.

As for how he would rescue those salt workers, Tang Bo decided to make good use of the ability that Goudan rewarded him [Come on call].

This ability will also be upgraded after he upgrades to the third level, and the number of summons will reach a maximum of 300 people.

The best part is that before he could only randomly summon people in the enemy's territory to serve him, now he can designate the enemy's territory.

Although the size of that area cannot exceed 300 meters in diameter when it was specified, it is enough for this time.

In addition, the summoned enemy will not automatically go back after the service time limit is reached, but he can choose to let him stay forcibly or let him go back.

The only trouble now is that his mana is equal to his negative character,

He currently has just over 1000 mana at his disposal.

And summoning a person requires at least ten mana points, which means that he can only summon up to 100 people at a time.And because he can only designate a certain area, he can't guarantee that the salt workers will be summoned every time, and there is a high possibility that they will be soldiers or other people from the Salt Cave Leader.

In this way, he has to call repeatedly many times.

Fortunately, his mana recovery speed is fairly fast, and it takes about an hour to fully recover.

He had to figure out how to stay away from the salt cave collar and summon those salt workers from a safer place before dawn.

"I have a solution, but time is running out. Take me to find that dying salt worker first." He had to confirm that the unowned salt mine really existed, and not that the salt worker was talking nonsense.He doesn't want to be a white job.

Gu Ding jumped up and waved: "Come with me."