Lord Harland.

With spare money in hand, Li Cha was going to take out a sum of gold coins to buy extra cattle from the nearby lords.

Throughout the winter, the caravan from the Harland Territory traveled all over the three provinces of northern Xinjiang, and even entered the Duke of Jonathan. They only bought head of cattle in total. Including the cost of transporting the cattle, it cost gold coins.

Half of the oxen were farm oxen and the other half were bison.Bison cannot be used for plowing fields yet, it needs to be domesticated for a period of time.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, during the period of spring plowing, one ox can help four families of free people open up wasteland and plow fields. If they choose to plow and open up wasteland, they can cultivate about mu of farmland.On average, three to five acres can be cultivated every day.

If the cultivated land is cultivated, the plow is relatively shallow, and ten acres of land can be cultivated every day. For shallow plowing, mules can plow the land faster.

If you use Warcraft horses, because of their strong strength and good endurance, the efficiency of plowing the field is ten times that of cattle.However, the Warcraft Warhorse is extremely powerful, has a violent temper, and is relatively intelligent, so it is not easy to control, and only professionals can control it.

Harland's territory only has more than a hundred iron horned horses. Even if they are all used for plowing, it will be a drop in the bucket.

The main force of spring plowing still depends on mules, horses and oxen.

Four thousand cattle can cultivate 480,000 acres of farmland.

The Harland Territory originally had 3,600 cattle and more than 6,000 mules and horses for plowing. Now the territory cultivates only 1.1 million acres of farmland. Even in the past three or two years, even large-scale land reclamation has basically not been done. There will be a shortage of cattle.

This year marks the tenth year that the Harland family has become a peer.

After ten years of development, by the end of the year, the population of Harland Territory had reached 216,000.

Richard did not purchase slaves this year. Most of the 14,000 additional people were newborns, and only 2,000 slaves were privately purchased indentured servants.

All privately purchased slaves must be converted into indentured slaves after entering Harland Territory. After the contract expires, the territory will compensate the slave purchaser a sum of money.

After private slaves entered the territory, it was difficult to get access to the core secrets of the territory.

Generally speaking, when the industrial and mining companies in the territory recruit workers, most of them will choose slaves purchased by the Grand Duchy of Stanik, and the grassroots managers will only choose among free people.

The leakage of the brewing process has already caused a lot of damage to Harland's territory.All factories with technological advantages are very strict against the outside world.Even the sales staff who are often in contact with the outside world are not allowed to enter Fort William and Fort Sophia.Business contacts are basically carried out through Vic Fort.

Because the sales staff leaked the secret, the territory summed up its experience and lessons, and Richard ordered the sales staff to be rotated every three months.

Although doing so will affect the business, it is the only way to prevent salespeople from being bribed.After all, there is no perfect thing in the world. Now for the sake of confidentiality and safety, we can only sacrifice efficiency.

Entering November, the efficiency of the charging array has increased to 6%. It takes twelve hours to fill a magic crystal with magic energy. Relying on the magic well of the Tower of Fire, Harland's territory has a monthly profit The profit has been six hundred gold coins.

Purchasing abandoned magic crystals only requires a small amount of money, and the monthly cost is only thirty-three gold coins. To operate the magic crystal charging formation, a magician and two magic apprentices are required to take care of it, which adds up to a monthly salary of seven gold coins.

The profit of a magic well of more than 560 gold coins per month is already very considerable for the Harland Territory.

Entering December, Richard summoned the officials in charge of finance in the territory. Report this year's fiscal revenue and prepare next year's fiscal budget.

Gibson was the first to speak.In the past one or two years, Mrs. Ola has let go of business matters, and most of them have been handed over to Gibson and Mrs. Kelly.

As the Harland family becomes more and more powerful and produces more and more various goods, Black River Fort's business is getting better and better.

The Harland family's property in Black River Fort is very complex. There are chain pubs, hotels, commercial stations, transportation companies, real estate properties, mills outside the city, grain stations in the city, and clothing stores, shoe stores, etc. .

This year's income has exceeded two thousand gold coins, which is definitely a huge sum of money for ordinary businessmen.

The Harland family is already one of the largest chambers of commerce in Heihebao. Mrs. Ola plans to build a theater next year and form a song and dance troupe.

In recent years, Richard has not borrowed money from Mrs. Ola. She has accumulated a huge sum of five thousand gold coins in her small treasury.

Leighton was next to report.

A few years ago, Richard promoted Rooney to be the Civil Affairs Officer of Fort Sophia, and Layton succeeded Rooney as the factory director.

In recent years, because there were no large orders from the outside world, the income of the brick kiln factory was very average. This year, a large number of free citizens increased in the territory, the real estate began to develop rapidly, the construction market was relatively active, and the profit reached gold coins.

Because the demand for real estate is relatively large, the output value of cement and glass has increased a little, and a lot of money has been made.

This year, the glass production technology in the Harland Territory is getting better and better, relying on copper molds, and began to mass-produce flat glass.

The windows of many houses have been replaced with transparent glass.In addition to the glass bottles needed for cans and drinks, and the glassware needed by hospitals, schools, and laboratories, the income of the glass kiln this year has exceeded gold coins.

Glass, brick, wood, cement and other real estate chains have a combined income of 6,000 this year.

The steel industry is still very stable. The Harland Territory has produced tons of steel this year, and the sales price of steel has dropped a bit compared to last year.

Nowadays, the retail price of steel has dropped to 25 gold coins per ton, and a kilogram of good quality iron ingots costs only nine copper coins.

The steel production value of Harland territory has reached 32,500 gold coins. Thirteen hundred tons of steel were produced, only 800 tons were sold, and the remaining 500 tons were mainly used in the territory.

The 800 tons of steel sold brought about 20,000 gold coins in revenue. In addition to hundreds of workers' wages and the food consumed by the orc slaves in the mines, the net profit from the steel trade was about 16,000.

The profit from the woolen business has exceeded that of steel this year. The number of sheep in the Harland Territory has exceeded two million this year, and the net profit from the woolen business has reached 23,000.

Grain planting brought 40,000 gold coins, but the purchase of cattle consumed 26,000, leaving 14,000 gold coins.

This year, there are already 60,000 free people in Harland Territory. They need to pay land tax of 15,000 gold coins, plus commercial taxes, house rent and other miscellaneous income, which adds up to about 18,000 gold coins.

The output of the brown sugar plantation has doubled this year, reaching 260 tons. Because the output has increased so much, the wholesale price of brown sugar has dropped a bit. Now the market price of brown sugar in Harland territory has dropped to twelve copper coins per kilogram, and the wholesale price has dropped to ten copper coins per kilogram.

In the territory of Harland, brown sugar is no longer considered a luxury, and free people families can often eat some.

But in the royal capital Nolan, the price of brown sugar remains high, and it is still a luxury product like honey.

The next few years will be a few years when brown sugar production will explode. Three years later, the output of brown sugar will exceed tons, and five years later it may exceed tons.

Such a huge production capacity is absolutely not enough for the two to three hundred thousand people in Northern Xinjiang who have the purchasing power.

For the impact of the explosion in brown sugar production capacity, Richard made two preparations: first, selling at reduced prices to sink the market, and second, developing into the royal capital of Nolan.

The profit brought by the brown sugar plantation this year has already reached gold coins.

Last summer, the flame spider queen laid eggs and hatched a new flame spider. This year, she started spinning silk. The flame spider's silk production increased by half, and the income increased to gold coins.

The output value of the coal mine is still rising. The coal mined this year has reached tons. The output value of the coal mine this year has reached gold coins, and the profit is also gold coins.

In order to allow coal to enter the homes of freedmen and reduce deforestation, Richard lowered the sales price of coal.

The selling price of one ton of coal is only four silver coins. If it is raised to eight silver coins, the profit will exceed ten thousand.

But when the price was high, many freedmen would not choose coal, but would cut down trees and burn wood for the winter.

With the increase of free people, the income of fruit and fruit preserves has also increased, especially canned fruit. After several years of laying the foundation, the market has been completely opened up. You can eat fresh fruit in winter. I like it very much.

Relying on the large wild orchards on both sides of the Harland Valley, the net income has exceeded 3,000.

In addition, the rose perfume was also successfully produced, and it was sold to noble women through Mrs. Ola's channel. This year was the first year, and the income was relatively small, only gold coins.

The income from hemostatic ointment is very stable, with a fixed amount of three thousand gold coins every year.

Hunting monsters is now also an important benefit of Harland's territory.

Throughout last year, the Demon Hunting Team went deep into the Eagle Mountains more than a dozen times, and successfully hunted monsters three times. The territory gained gold coins through dividends with the Demon Hunting Team.

In addition, last year he made four-wheeled carriages and earned gold coins.The territory of Harland used four-wheeled carriages to form a transport team, and the profit was also two thousand.

The magic crystal charging technology developed by Harland Territory is very promising. In one year, he charged 260 abandoned magic crystals and earned more than 2,400 gold coins.

By next year, the magic well of the Tower of Flame will bring a net income of gold coins to the territory, which is quite a lot of money.In addition to the Tower of Flame, there is also a Tower of Lightning in Harland's territory.

The energy core of the Tower of Lightning is the magic core of legendary monsters, which can slowly absorb magic power from the natural environment. It can also be installed with magic crystal charging formations. The two mage towers can charge the discarded magic crystals, and the income brought to the territory will exceed ten thousand.

Throughout this year, Harland's territory has a cash income of 160,000. Excluding the unexpected fortune of 40,000 gold coins obtained from the Venus family, the territory's income still amounted to 120,000.

The income of 120,000 gold coins is already equivalent to half of the Southern Earl.

This year's cash income of 160,000 gold coins, 26,000 gold coins were spent on buying cattle, about 40,000 gold coins were spent on soldiers' salaries, 10,000 gold coins were spent on army logistics, 6,000 gold coins were spent on territorial officials, and the total medical and education funds were 3,000 gold coins.

The annual expenditure is about gold coins.

By the end of the year, there were gold coins saved in the treasury.

It was useless to keep so many gold coins in the treasury. Richard planned to leave a reserve of 15,000 gold coins, and the remaining 70,000 gold coins were going to the Grand Duchy of Stanik to buy slaves.

Seventy thousand gold coins can buy 14,000 slaves. With these 14,000 slaves, the population of the territory will exceed 230,000.

Entering the fall, recruits have completed their training.Li Cha mixed recruits from eight squadrons with veterans from the third and fourth brigades to form the fifth and sixth brigades.

Li Cha, the captain of the Fifth Brigade, appointed Roland. Although Roland had prosthetics, it was still inconvenient for him to fight on horseback.The large-scale expansion of the territorial army this time, Li Cha took advantage of the situation and transferred him to the infantry to do his old job.

Richard, the captain of the Sixth Brigade, appointed Jennings. Jennings' talent was very outstanding. He was promoted to the fourth level at the age of twenty-seven, two years faster than those with better talents such as William and Roland.

This year, forty-six soldiers were promoted to professionals, and all the new professionals were transferred to the fifth and sixth brigades by Richard.

Although these two brigades are newly formed, they have drawn a large number of veteran officers, and their combat effectiveness is not weak at all. Because they have received a large amount of enchanted equipment from the Venus family, their combat effectiveness can be comparable to that of the main army.

As the number of troops under his command increased and the level of professionals became higher and higher, Richard knew that the Harland family must be promoted to earls as soon as possible.

Only when nobles are promoted to earls can they be canonized nobles.

According to the nobility law of the Grant Kingdom, an earl can be granted the title of baron.

In the Kingdom of Grant, the lowest hereditary title is Baron.

The royal family will bestow the title of lord of the mid-level professional of the Imperial Guard, and give them a part of land and manor.However, the lord does not have the status of a member of the noble council, and if his descendants cannot be promoted to middle-level professionals, they cannot inherit this part of the land and manor.

Professionals strive all their lives for nothing more than a title and land that can be passed down to future generations, opening the door to the upper class and allowing their descendants to achieve a class jump.

If the development of the Harland family stagnates, the attraction to outstanding talents will weaken a lot.Li Cha knew in his heart that titles, territories, and honors were the cornerstones of loyalty in this era.

Even though Li Cha promoted many professional officers from the slaves and changed their fate, many people were grateful to Li Cha.

However, if the passage for professionals to rise to nobility is blocked, it may develop to a certain extent, and many people will still choose to leave the Harland Territory, join the main army or join other nobles, and be promoted to hereditary barons.

This kind of thinking is determined by the social atmosphere of the Chenxi plane for thousands of years. As long as you live in this plane, you will be affected by the mainstream values, and it is difficult to change it forcibly.

Judging from the accumulated meritorious service, Li Cha is not too far away from being promoted to Earl.He has two viscount fiefdoms under his name, and he can be promoted to earl if he gets another viscount fiefdom.If he can seize the opportunity to make achievements in the next orc invasion war, he should be able to become an earl.