Lord Harland.

Richard promoted Rooney from an ordinary clerk to the position of director of the brick kiln factory. In recent years, he even appointed him as the village chief to manage the villages near the brick kiln factory.

Rooney is very grateful for such kindness.

Moreover, he has been following Mrs. Ola for many years. He is an old man who followed the Harland family before they became prosperous. He is also very loyal to Richard.

So he had an opinion in his mind, but he still raised it at the meeting.

Rooney talked about the estimated income of the villagers near the brick kiln factory, and then compared it with the free people of Black River Fort.

Li Cha suddenly discovered that the income of the free peasants in the territory is higher than that of the citizens of Heihebao.

It is well known that the income of urban freemen exceeds that of serfs.

The aristocratic lords squeezed the serfs very seriously. The agricultural tax can receive % of the output. The vast majority of serfs almost live below the food and clothing line, and their living conditions are very poor.

The situation of freedmen is better, especially in larger cities. Freedmen are basically small businessmen and handicraftsmen, and their living conditions exceed the subsistence line.

Bulk building materials like bricks are basically uncompetitive once they are transported over long distances.

Now Fort William and Fort Sophia have been built, Iron Mountain Fort has been half built, and the roads between the main castles have been repaired.The production tasks of Bobby Brick Kiln Factory will be much reduced next year, and it is estimated that it will mainly transform to the civilian market in the future.

If the wages of the workers are set too high, the pressure on the brick kiln factory will indeed be greater.

After listening to Rooney's opinion, Richard nodded and said: "Rooney is right. The main occupation of the nearby villagers is agricultural production. The salary of casual workers should not be set too high. Just do as you wish."

Rooney was able to seek truth from facts, and did not blindly follow Li Cha's wishes, but instead made Li Cha think highly of him.

At this meeting, Rooney caught Richard's eyes.If he does a good job in the future, Richard plans to promote him to be the Civil Affairs Officer of Fort Sophia.

Now Fort William and Fort Sophia are almost equivalent to military forts. Most of the people stationed are soldiers and their families, with only a small number of service personnel.

In the future, if a new fief is obtained and the two castles become the rear, a civil affairs officer must be needed.

The Harland Territory is currently very short of qualified civil affairs officials.

As a civil affairs official under a lord, you must not only understand politics and economics, but also law.

Those who can do this are basically members of the nobility.

Although the Harland family has developed well, it has not yet received the support of the nobles.

In addition to working for their own families, noble members basically serve the royal family, dukes, and earls.

Even hereditary earls like Roger and Martins don't have many noble bureaucrats serving them.

After Sophia wrote letters to her two brothers, her third brother Rogge agreed to return to Northern Xinjiang to serve her sister.

Rogue served as comptroller in the province of Illinois, and was appointed civil officer of Vickburg after his return.

Uncle Roger came back and shared some of Sophia's work.

In the past, Fort Vick, like Fort William, used military law to rule the people. This kind of thing could not be done for a long time.

After Rooney finished speaking, it was the turn of Thomas Weber, the director of the steel plant.

"The steel project has very good profits this year. Although because we sell steel products on a large scale, the ex-factory price has dropped by 54.4%, with one ton of steel falling from 38 gold coins to gold coins. However, because of the increase in production, our profits are higher. Some.

In the past two months, the iron and steel production capacity of the territory has exceeded tons, and the monthly output value exceeds gold coins.

Because there are a large number of kobolds mining, which is equivalent to free labor, the profits of the steel factory are very considerable. Excluding the consumption within the territory, the net cash income this year exceeded 7,000 gold coins. ",

Steel and liquor have been the financial pillars of Harland's territory for the past two years. Without the rich gold coins brought by the steel and liquor industries, Harland's territory would not have developed so fast.

Not only did it feed tens of thousands of people, but it also continued to train the army, and even formed a magic beast cavalry regiment.

"The iron and steel plant is very profitable, how about the liquor?"

This spring, the managers in charge of selling liquor were corrupted. Sophia found out that Li Cha sent soldiers to execute the corrupt criminals.And he demoted his family to slaves to dig mines. As long as the Harland family exists, the descendants of the embezzlers will be slaves forever, and will not be pardoned at any time.

In fact, once you are demoted to a generational slave, you are basically destined to have no future.

Most of the Harland family are indentured slaves. Except for orc slaves, indentured slaves usually sign a five-year contract.

After five years, they can turn over. A normal female slave would never marry a person who has been a slave for generations.

The embezzler's wife found Richard immediately after his accident, insisted on a divorce, and abandoned their two children.

It's just that the two children are pitiful. With such a father, their fate is doomed to be miserable.

There is extraordinary power in the plane of dawn, although the oppression of the nobles is ruthless, the oppression of the bureaucrats is lighter.

Because of the existence of power words, once a bureaucrat is suspected, using a spell such as power word or truth speaking, it is impossible to conceal corruption.

The relationship between the nobility and the bureaucracy is not a cooperative relationship, but a strict superior-subordinate relationship.

If the lord is very averse to corruption, the bureaucrats in the territory must restrain themselves.

The risks brought by corruption are too great, but the benefits cannot achieve class transition.

In the Dawn Plane, if a person has a lot of money and is not protected by powerful forces, the ending will often be very tragic.

The route to success in this plane is always to become a powerful professional, make military exploits, and obtain titles.

Only after completing this step can one achieve a class jump.

After this incident, Uncle Powell was in charge of the liquor trade, and the management of the winery was also under his control.

"The liquor trade is very stable. With the entry into Jonathan and Edward's two duchy markets, the monthly net profit has increased to gold coins. This year's cash income should be close to gold coins."

The income of gold coins, even if put in the main army, can support four squadron soldiers.

The salaries of soldiers in the Harland Territory are half that of the main army, and the salaries of officers are not far from the main army.

For example, the salary of the First Squadron costs two thousand gold coins a year.

Now Li Cha has formed ten infantry squadrons and one cavalry squadron. Although there are many recruits who have not participated in the war and made contributions, there is no need for Li Cha to send money for the time being.

The military expenditure is still huge, and the territory has also engaged in major projects, all of which require money.

Even though his income has increased a lot this year, Li Cha's treasury has only accumulated gold coins, which is not enough to store food.

The hospital is completely net investment this year, and I don't know when it will make money.

Although the output value of agriculture is very high this year, there are mouths in the territory.Not only can the food not be sold, but it has to be paid for.

After the Harland family became a baron, Richard was always short of money for five years.

It feels like the time when the family is the richest is before being knighted.

At that time, there were still several thousand gold coins in Mrs. Ola's treasury, and the number of gold coins was increasing every month.

Unlike now, although there are many gold coins, the treasury is empty.