Richard succeeded in building a brick kiln and began to build a brick house in a hurry.

To speed things up, Richard also hired more than twenty masons from Fort Black River at a high price.

In addition, there were more than a dozen masons among the slaves, and with these people as the backbone, Richard formed a construction team.

Hundreds of construction teams were active throughout Haaland's territory, forming the prototype of villages.

Second Uncle Powell's side also built a large number of wooden houses.

Wood is a very important resource in life, and there is no shortage of wood in Haaland's territory.

Dozens of wooden houses have been built in Fort William.

By the time the winter came, everyone was crammed together to accommodate about 1,000 slaves.

According to the schedule, the slaves will have a house to live in this winter.

Although a dozen people were crammed into one room, the living conditions were not very good, and they finally settled in Haaland's territory.

With a benevolent lord, even though the daily work is hard, the slaves have hope in their hearts.

After half a year of hard fighting, the Haaland family's territory has changed dramatically.

Although the physical rules of the Dawn Continent are different, Richard still established some basic industries within the territory.

Brick kilns, cement kilns, lime kilns, and wood drying kilns have been put into operation.

Both summer and autumn grains have been harvested.

This year, the Haaland family invested 12,000 gold coins to reclaim 400 hectares of farmland, harvest 940 tons of grain, and build more than 300 houses. In addition, there is a brick kiln, a cement kiln, a lime kiln, and a wood drying kiln.

It's just that most of the materials produced at the kiln mouth are used in the territory and have not been exchanged for money.

In particular, important lime, cement and other materials were basically used in the construction of Fort William.

Lime and cement were used, and the pace of construction of Fort William began to accelerate.

By October, the foundations were completed and the castle was built three or four meters high.

In winter, the slaves still had to brave the cold winter to work and continue to burn bricks.

As long as there are enough bricks, wait until next winter and the castle will be finished.

Normally, for a hereditary family that has just obtained a fief, the castle construction needs to last for more than ten years.

Develop a deserted barony, invest 50,000 gold coins, and the territory will break even.

You need to keep putting money in before you break even. The new nobles who do not have much wealth often can't hold out for that long.

Most of the hereditary nobles of the Grant Kingdom are accumulated over three generations, and the first generation joined the army and became middle-level professionals, leaving a breathing inheritance for the family.

There are many brothers in the second generation, some of whom are in the army and some of whom make money. We will build a solid foundation and accumulate various resources as much as possible.

In the third generation, there is a leader with outstanding ability, who joins the main army and makes military achievements, so that he can be promoted to hereditary nobility and complete the transformation of identity.

William became a hereditary nobleman in the first generation, although Lady Ola could make a lot of money, and the accumulation was actually worse than that of normal new nobles.

Because of a plague in the Nolan slave camp, the Harland family received an excess of population resources.

Four thousand slaves joined the development of the territory, and the territory ushered in a very rapid development.

And Richard the traverser brought some advanced knowledge, developed some basic industries, increased productivity, and accelerated the development of the territory.

After so many years of research, Richard discovered that classical mechanics is also the basic physical rules of this world.

However, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics cannot copy the experience of the earth because they involve the magic factor.

If you want to study the scientific laws of this world, Richard's accumulated knowledge is still a little worse, and there are no basic conditions. I can only wait for the knowledge reserve to improve in the future, and I have more powerful magic methods. Using the materialist view of science formed by education in previous lives, there should be some discoveries.

A normal new barony's territory, reaching the level of development of the Haaland family, should be accumulated for seven or eight years.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has entered March 3254 of the Dawn calendar.

After a year in business, Haaland's territory has changed dramatically, from a wild place in March last year to six settlements and beautiful and sturdy brick buildings.

More than 1,000 square kilometers of territory are already quite inhabited.

For a whole year, despite the hard work, no war broke out in the territory. Without the ravages of war, the population of the territory is multiplying rapidly.

Last year, more than 300 women became pregnant, almost half of the territory's working-age population.

In other words, this year, there will be a baby boom in the territory.

Entering March, Haaland's territory still needs to continue to reclaim farmland.

Last year, 400 hectares of paddy fields were cultivated, and this year slightly fewer paddy fields have been cultivated.

Richard plans to reclaim 300 hectares, and if this year's harvest is similar, Haaland's territory will be able to sell 600 tons of grain.

The price of grain in the Kingdom of Grant is not very expensive, and one copper coin can buy one and a half kilograms of grain.

One gold coin can buy 540 kilograms of grain, and in a normal year, the price of grain will not fluctuate by more than 20 percent.

More than 600 tons of grain, enough to exchange for 1,200 gold coins, can pay off some of the debts.

Construction has ceased in the vicinity of Fort William, which are poorly constructed, often leaking wind and water, and are not as warm as brick houses.

When farming was over, Richard was ready to build a brick house in Fort William, aiming to have all the houses in order to be repaired within three years.

When the slaves were restored to their status as freemen, they sold their houses to their lords.

It is also a lot of money to be able to recover some housing payments every year.

This year, Richard is also planning to build several small reservoirs, in addition to several improvised roads.

Taking advantage of the fact that the slaves did not become freemen, the cost of use was low, and the infrastructure was as good as possible.

On March 16, spring ploughing began.

Richard and Powell took three indentured slaves and controlled the Iron Wildebeest to reclaim the wasteland.

The three indentured slaves were all employed by slave traders, and were ransom by Richard for 300 gold coins.

Their families didn't have that much money, and the slave traders weren't willing to pay the ransom for them, so they had to become indentured slaves of the Harland family, and they had to work for the Harland family for ten years.

Two of these three indentured slaves were low-ranking officers captured in the Delong Kingdom, and one was a low-ranking officer from the private army of hereditary nobles.

All three are junior professionals, two second-order and one first-order. The names are Jarvis, Bradlick, Graeheim.

All three were now appointed by Richard as deputy squadron leaders to assist the retired officers invited by William.

William recruited more than twenty cadres from among the wounded soldiers of the Northern Legion.

Several of these demobilized injuries are also professionals.

The two strongest are both third-order professionals. He once served as a squadron leader in the Northern Legion, and his names were Martin and Heyman.

Both men had less serious physical disabilities, one was blind in one eye and the other was missing two fingers. You can't pull the bowstring.

The main squadron of the Northern Frontier Corps was under great pressure to compete, and these disabled officers had to take a back seat.

Although they were paid handsomely, William's old subordinates remained idle.

The two were still relatively young and had no plans to retire for the time being, and after being invited by William, they decided to continue to follow the old chief.

Their salary was four gold coins per month, which was slightly lower than in the regular army.

The senior squadron leader of the Northern Frontier Legion has a monthly salary of about five gold coins and four silver dollars.

Just after Christmas this year, William also recruited a heavyweight to join the territory, and this person was Roland, who Richard was familiar with.

Roland was missing a leg, and although his movements were inconvenient, he was still appointed by William as the chief training officer of the territory's soldiers.