Although he was busy every day, Richard still worked hard to cultivate every day.

No matter how tight the time is, the morning breathing method and the evening meditation are never interrupted.

A year after the end of the war, Richard's experience increased a lot, and he opened the stats panel.

In more than a year, although Richard has not advanced in the professional level, he has added more than 15,000 points of experience in the breathing method.

In addition, over the past year, Richard has devoted a lot of time to learning magic.

Especially after marrying Sophia, the two have the same hobbies, and under Sophia's guidance, Richard learned a variety of magic, and his strength has increased significantly.

In March of this year, Wendy's career level was also raised by one rank.

She hadn't taken any potions to increase her mental power, and at the age of eighteen, her magic level had been raised to the second order, and Wendy's talent was excellent, if not as good as Sophia's.

Although both swordsmanship and fighting skills can be advanced, Richard wants to save some experience.

The meditation method is the most difficult to improve the experience, and Richard wanted to use the experience for the meditation method.

In the past year, two more people in Haaland's territory have been promoted to professionals.

Both men were veterans of the war, one named Perrin and the other Julian.

Becoming professionals, Richard promoted them to the rank of mid-level officers in the realm.

Counting the squadron adapted from the mercenaries under Soros and the squadron of Sophia's territory, the Harland family now has a total of six infantry squadrons and two trebuchet squadrons.

The trebuchet squadron is all auxiliaries, except for the state of war, training for three months a year, and the free folk auxiliaries each receive a gold coin allowance a year.

However, there were only a few good trebuchets among the auxiliaries, and they were promoted to free citizens by Richard, and their salary did not exceed thirty gold coins a year, which was almost negligible.

Infantry squadrons are standing armies.

Among them, the sixth squadron belongs to Soros and Kent father and son.

Richard had already discussed with his uncle Soros that if Soros became a hereditary baron, he would take the Sixth Squadron with him.

The fifth squadron was the garrison of the Stopa territory, and the squadron leader was Sophia's uncle Vito.

The first and second squadrons are the old units of Haaland's territory, and the squadron leaders are still Martin and Heyman.

Deputy Squadron Leader Richard appointed Perrin and Julian.

The 3rd Squadron has been in existence for nine months and has completed the training of recruits, Squadron Leader Yalvis, Deputy Squadron Leader Jennings.

The 4th Squadron has just begun to be formed and is undergoing recruit training. The squadron leader was Bradlick, and the deputy squadron leader Vincent. Among them, Bradlick's career level has been advanced to the third order.

Last year's orc invasion war, the use of heavy trebuchets played a decisive role.

Relying on this new weapon, the Kingdom of Grant won two major battles.

Count Martins even used a heavy trebuchet as a decoy to kill the legendary orcs, and the strategic posture changed slightly.

Even if the news of the Dawn Continent spread slowly, the heavy trebuchet was also introduced to the ears of the nobles.

Recently, the nearby nobles have sent people to Haaland's territory to inquire about information.

Richard had a strong sense of secrecy, and the auxiliary squadron equipped with heavy trebuchets was not disbanded and remained stationed at Fort William.

Fort William now has no foreign freemen, and is inhabited by garrison soldiers and their families.

Richard also instituted the Lord's Decree, which prohibited random movement within the territory and restricted the movement of people.

The closed social environment makes outsiders have nothing to hide, which is very eye-catching.

In recent times, Richard has caught quite a few spies.

Although they were reduced to slavery, this still did not stop the constant temptation of the nobles.

In desperation, Richard could only step up secrecy propaganda.

Most of the hereditary nobles have a secret intelligence force, which is generally under the control of the intelligence adjutant.

Intelligence is a very important force for the nobility, and it is not suitable for outsiders to manage.

After deliberation among Richard, Sophia, and William, it was decided to hand it over to Richard's brother Hayden.

After several years of training in the army, Hayden finally opened the seed of life not long ago and became a first-order professional.

Having become a professional, Hayden had just been promoted to the rank of deputy squadron leader of the 6th Squadron of the 8th Brigade of the Wild Lions, partnering Richard's old comrade-in-arms Diarra.

However, after William spoke with him, Hayden gave up his future in the military and decided to serve as the territory's intelligence officer.

After Hayden took office, he drew fifteen soldiers from the main squadron, and then recruited some nimble minds from among the slaves to form the intelligence agency of the Harland Territory.

With the intelligence department, the efficiency of catching spies is faster, and Harden sends people to keep an eye on factories, mines, and castles, as long as they are strangers, they will be arrested, and these people are often spies.

Despite being caught, the nearby nobles are still unrelenting and are still sending spies to Haaland's territory.

There are many things that need to be kept secret in the territory, such as steel mills, brick kiln factories, and brown sugar tree plantations. Any leak in the process would be a huge loss for Haaland's territory.

Even if Richard sent a garrison to protect it, there was still a risk of leakage after a long time.

In order to avoid trouble, the Richardians brought a message to the nobles behind them, willing to exchange heavy trebuchet drawings.

It was at this time that the royal family of Grant also publicly promised to exchange heavy trebuchet drawings with the nobles in the realm.

With a two-pronged approach, Richard's domain was less troublesome.

Recently, more than 100 nobles in the three provinces of northern Xinjiang have almost all sent spies to Haaland's territory.

In just two or three months, more than 300 spies were caught, which shows the trouble caused by the leakage of the heavy trebuchet.

Another reason why there are so many spies in Haaland's territory is that the strength is average. If the Haaland family is a hereditary earl, the vast majority of viscounts and barons would not dare to send spies to make trouble for themselves.

Richard hated spies so much that he relegated them to slavery and would never be pardoned for the rest of his life.

This group of slaves, Richard is going to be used in the mines.

The work in the mines is very dangerous and hard, and it is up to these spies to do it.

Most of the people in charge of mining are now orc slaves, mixing spies with orc slaves, making orcs punish spies, and then hyping it up.

Hopefully, they can deter these messy foreign spies.

Luckily, Haaland's territory is new, with only a handful of freedmen.

Many places are protected by garrisons, such as brick kilns and steel factories, and if there is an intrusion, they will be immediately arrested by the garrison.

Over the years, indentured slaves became freedmen in large numbers, and the territory was filled with petty traders, and spies would have been difficult to identify.

The heavy trebuchet drawings in the hands of the royal family clearly marked the price, and a thousand gold coins could be exchanged.

Some nobles in northern Xinjiang disliked the high price, and they had a second choice, so they sent people to negotiate with the Haaland family.

(End of chapter)