In recent times, Richard and Powell's uncle and nephew have stepped on every inch of the territory.

Richard also drew detailed maps.

They also went deep into the Eagle Mountains, scouting the nearby terrain and surveying resources.

Through more than a year of war experience, plus the performance of this purchase of slaves.

Richard's abilities were recognized by key members of the Haaland family.

William, Powell, Bernie and other elders have consulted and have given Richard full authority to run the territory

Although Haaland's territory is in the wilderness, there are many useful resources in the territory.

Giant trees tens of meters high abound, and if you can transport these giant trees, you can sell them for a lot of money at Heihe Fort.

But building more than 100 kilometers of roads is difficult for the Haaland family.

The most important work to develop a wild territory is to cut trees, plant trees, and burn bricks.

The Haaland family's territory is predominantly mountainous and hilly, with only a few riparian valleys suitable for farmland.

Richard estimated that there were only about 6,000 hectares of flat land in the territory.

The Haaland family covers an area of 1,460 square kilometers, of which only 60 square kilometers, or about 4 percent, can be reclaimed.

Seventy-six percent of these 6,000 hectares of flat land are dry land.

The paddy fields are only 1,400 hectares, which is a little more than 20,000 acres.

The climate in the north is not too arid, according to Richard's estimates, about 600 mm of precipitation per year.

The yield of one mu of dryland is very low, and the yield per mu is about 120 catties when planting drought-tolerant crops.

The yield of paddy fields is higher, and the yield per mu of grains such as wheat and barley can reach 300 catties.

Even in a good harvest year, all this land is reclaimed, and the annual grain production is about 3,500 tons, and the population can be fed by 15,000.

In mountainous territories, the carrying capacity of the population is naturally insufficient. If it is a plain area, such a large territory can support a population of more than 100,000.

The 400 hectares of land reclaimed this year are all paddy fields, and if there is a bumper harvest, 900 tons of grain can be harvested.

There are already more than 4,000 slaves in the territory, the elderly and children account for half of the population, and 900 tons of grain can barely be fed.

In order to give full play to the productive enthusiasm of slaves, Richard stipulated that slaves should be granted the status of freedmen after five years.

All slaves were given a share of the land, and each person, whether an adult, a child, or an old man, would be given five acres of land.

In addition, Richard also formulated a tax collection system, with a grain tax of 100 catties per mu for paddy fields and 40 catties for dry land.

In a disaster year, taxes will be reduced.

Richard published the articles on the spot, and read them to all the slaves.

For the average lord of the Dawn Continent, the agricultural tax can usually receive seventy or eighty percent.

The lord's warehouse was full of grain, and the entire family of serfs starved to death and fled into the wilderness.

The lord who collects fifty percent of the tax is already merciful.

Richard's agricultural tax was only set at 30%, which can be said to be very rare in the history of the Dawn Continent, and he can be called a benevolent lord.

After the agricultural tax was enacted, Richard was praised by all the slaves. Coupled with the fact that he had used healing techniques to save the lives of many slaves, his prestige among serfs had almost reached its peak.

After the cultivation was completed, Richard sent most of his slaves to start the logging work.

A small number of sturdy slaves, with old men and children, began to build brick kilns to burn bricks.

All kinds of buildings in the territory are built without bricks.

Several of the nobles in Geda Province have mastered the technology of burning bricks, and the castles in this area are basically both brick and stone.

The older ones are often made of stone, and the newly built castles are mostly made of bricks.

Mining stone requires much more labor than burning bricks.

The most important thing is that Richard does not have many stonemasons in his hands, so he can only choose to burn bricks.

The brick kiln was built near a clay field, halfway up the mountainside.

Because the roads have not yet been built, it is very difficult to transport all kinds of supplies.

Richard took the slaves and lived in tents every day, eating and sleeping in the open.

Richard ate a little better, and his daily work was as hard as a slave.

The sturdy slaves did the hard work, and the old and the children did the easier work.

Children over the age of six have to do a lot of work every day.

Although he has been in this world for six years, such a realistic environment still makes it difficult for Richard to fit in.

Every late at night, he would think about his past life, want to play games, watch movies, watch videos, listen to novels, and think about his relatives, friends, parents and family in his past life. It's a pity that he can't go back to that stable and peaceful world.

Of the 4,000 laborers, 1,000 were used to build Fort William.

These 1,000 slaves were all young and middle-aged slaves, accounting for almost half of the middle-aged slaves.

After three months of hard work, the foundation of the castle was almost finished.

The castle has been named Fort Wilhelm and is located on the hillside on the side of the valley.

The castle walls were to be built sixteen meters high and three meters wide. The inside is rammed earth, and the outside is covered with green bricks.

Once built, Fort William will be able to lock up this valley passage and relieve the pressure on Pratos.

Entering the Eagle Mountains from this valley passage can also attack the rear of the orc army, which is a new strategic point in the northern region.

After about two kilometers of road was built, Richard began building a brick kiln with a few hundred slaves.

Before Richard crossed, there was a relative in his hometown who opened a brick kiln, and when he was a child, he often went to his relative's house to play with his cousin, and he knew the structure of the brick kiln very well.

The brick kiln is set near the clay soil for the convenience of the soil.

Richard mobilized some stonemason slaves from Powell's side, first made thick stone bricks, and then directed the slaves to lay the bottom of the kiln and build the kiln walls.

After two or three days of busyness, the bottom of the kiln and the fire pit have been paved, and the kiln wall has been completed by more than half.

The next project also has kiln doors, kiln door tunnels, chimneys, flues, slope feeding ports, ceilings, etc.

In addition, it is necessary to make clay bricks and build brick drying sheds.

These works were busy until July, when the brick kiln was successfully put into operation.

Although the Blue Star is only an adobe kiln, the backward production capacity of the backward production capacity.

But in the Dawn Continent, the wheeled brick kiln appeared for the first time in the Dawn Continent.

The fifteen-meter-tall chimney is already a spectacle in Haaland's territory.

As soon as the brick kiln was built, the bricks were fired.

More than a dozen kiln mouths, each of which is interconnected, can burn bricks uninterruptedly.

Every three or four days, 250,000 large red bricks can be fired.

Burning bricks also requires technology, and the time of brick firing and the order of the yard kiln are very particular. Without experience, the success rate of burning bricks will be low

At first, the slaves who burned bricks had little experience, and Richard did not understand the details, and only 20,000 or 30,000 of the 250,000 bricks could be used.

It takes more than 100,000 catties of fuel to burn a brick.

Richard was not allowed to cut down large trees. Cutting down shrubs and collecting branches and leaves requires hundreds of old people and children to collect them for two or three days.

Fortunately, the labor of the Dawn Continent is not worth much, otherwise if you do this, you will lose all your pants.

Most of the slaves now lived in damp and cold tents.

Fortunately, there is not a lot of rain in Haaland's territory, otherwise the slaves would have been sick.

It's the height of summer, and it's time to build houses for the slaves.

Less than three months into winter, the winter in the north is so cold that if you stay in your tent all winter, half of the slaves will freeze to death next year.

With 20,000 or 30,000 bricks, you can build three or four brick and wood houses.

A dozen slaves can be crammed into a house, and a hundred or so slaves can have a house to live in a week.

With the increase of experience, the production of bricks will also usher in a great increase. Keep up with the development of the territory.