After exchanging knowledge with the Church of Dawn, Richard rested for a few days in the City of Victory and returned to Haaland's territory alone.

After being in a coma for more than ten days, it was already October after returning to the territory.

In this counterinsurgency battle, Richard annexed several squadrons of serfs, who together numbered more than five hundred.

Casualties in counterinsurgency battles were not significant, and the three infantry squadrons almost doubled in size after returning to the territory.

The selection of serf squadrons was not very good, most of these soldiers were crooked melons and cracked dates, and Richard was ready to remove some of them.

Select some elite soldiers from the serf soldiers, and then recruit some personnel from the territory, and continue to expand the two squadrons of soldiers.

Rush to complete the training of new recruits before next summer.

At that time, there will be ten squadrons of infantry in the Haaland territory, one squadron of Warcraft cavalry, and three squadrons of auxiliaries.

Such a strong force, as long as it is not facing an orc army, is enough to repel one or two orc brigades and protect the safety of the territory.

During the time that Richard was in a coma, the Haaland family had already let out the wind and was willing to exchange three bloodline enlightenment potions for a batch of food, and many nobles came to Vicburg to negotiate with Richard.

A bloodline enlightenment potion needs to be exchanged for five small skills.

In the main legion, it is usually said that a small skill can be exchanged for a resource of 100 gold coins.

Many grassroots officers who have made military merits and have no hope of being knighted will exchange their merits for cultivation resources and trade with nobles before retiring.

Roughly speaking, a bloodline enlightenment potion is worth about five hundred gold coins.

The price of grain in the Kingdom of Grant is not expensive, and two gold coins in the northern region can buy a ton of grain.

An adult male works for a year, and his salary is about three or four gold coins, which is enough to feed seven or eight people.

But a family will have all kinds of expenses, in addition to food expenses, it also needs to buy cloth and salt. You have to pay rent and buy all kinds of necessities.

A citizen family needs two laborers to have a better life.

Exchanging a bloodline enlightenment potion for two hundred and fifty tons of grain seemed to be a good deal.

But many times the value of an item is not converted in this way.

There are many noble heirs, and bloodline enlightenment potions are always scarce.

An upstart like the Haaland family, the family is still a first-generation member, and basically there is not much knight blood, so they will take out the bloodline enlightenment potion in exchange.

If you wait for more than ten years, Richard's children will grow up, and Hayden, Wendy, Donn, and Adrian will all have children. Even if he was very short of food, Richard couldn't exchange the bloodline enlightenment potion.

For most aristocrats, food, although a precious strategic resource, was not scarce.

Geda Province has a vast territory, and the output of grain is not low during the same period of water and heat. The per capita arable land area is very large, and although it is on the front line, there is no shortage of food, but it is the food export area of the Grant Kingdom.

Every year, a large amount of grain from the three northern provinces enters Nolan through the North-South Canal along the provinces of Geda, Sodamia and Gabria.

If Haaland's territory hadn't swallowed 18,000 people, there would have been no shortage of food next year.

Therefore, from the point of view of scarcity, if you want to exchange for bloodline enlightenment elixir, you must trade at a premium.

In exchange for the bloodline enlightenment potion, many nobles came to the Haaland Territory in person.

The first to come was his uncle Soros, accompanied by Soros's brother, Baron Dark.

After refining the magic essence potion, Soros was successfully promoted to the sixth order. This time to counter the rebellion Soros has made a lot of achievements, and he has accumulated more than half of his merits as a hereditary baron.

Although Baron Darke did not like his half-brother.

But for the sake of his son's future, he must get the bloodline enlightenment potion, and Baron Darker is still cheeky and finds Soros, hoping that Soros will mediate and let him get the bloodline enlightenment potion.

Even though he had a conflict with Baron Dark's brother, when Baron Darker begged to come to the door in a low voice.

Soros remembered his father, and remembered the days when he was a young man living in the barony of Dak.

Countless past events came to his mind one by one, and although some memories were sad and bitter, there was still a hint of sweetness in the bitter memories.

"When I was young, my father had no plans to change the heir, because my mother came from an ordinary background, and he was not a threat to his brother. At that time, my brother was still very good to himself, and when he was young, he followed his brother's buttocks.

During a hunting trip, a black bear pounced on him, and it was his brother who stood in front of him and stabbed the black bear to death with his sword, leaving a scar on his shoulder. ”

Soros suddenly remembered the good side of his brother.

Although Baron Darker once used his connections to squeeze him out, making it impossible for him to continue in the Grizzly Legion, resulting in a very slow accumulation of achievements.

But at this moment, he still chose to forgive his brother, remembered the goodness of Baron Dark, forgot the unpleasant side, and decided to ask Richard for personal favors.

After doing this, Soros finally felt a little relieved.

Since Uncle Soros has come to the door, this favor must be given, and Richard will not ask for a premium, making his uncle's favor very cheap.

Directly exchanged two hundred and fifty tons of grain with Baron Dark's for a bloodline enlightenment potion.

After Baron Darker exchanged for the bloodline enlightenment potion, there was an endless stream of nobles who came to visit.

Most of these people were members of the noble branches, and many of them were particularly wealthy enough to buy grain in exchange with Richard.

But they don't have a high political status and can't bring other resources to Haaland's territory.

Soon Baron Sharp came to the door, he was Richard's old comrade-in-arms and old commander, and the two also put down the rebellion together this time.

Baron Sharp had several children, but these children did not have knightly blood.

In order to become a hereditary nobleman, he has divorced his ex-wife, and he exchanged blood-inspired potions for his current wife, Baroness Raphael.

Although Baron Raphael did not have a public husband before, he had many lovers and gave birth to six children.

Even though Baron Raphael was a powerful knight, he still lacked the Bloodline Enlightenment Elixir.

This time, I asked Baron Sharp to plan for the future of his fourth son.

Baron Sharp's territory is adjacent to Haaland's territory, and the old prefect can't help but give face.

However, Baron Raphael did not lack food, and promised to exchange four hundred tons of food.

The last bloodline enlightenment potion was traded to an acquaintance, Baron Rice, who was more distant from Richard and had a greater premium.

Five hundred tons of grain can be exchanged for a bloodline enlightenment potion.

Five hundred tons of grain were sold, worth thousands of gold coins, and the premium was almost doubled.

Using the three bloodline enlightenment potions, 1,150 tons of grain were traded, and counting the grain stored in the territory, the grain reserve has exceeded 9,000 tons.

Richard did a little math and decided to continue to increase the grain reserve by 3,000 tons.

Three thousand tons of grain, worth six thousand gold coins.

Although Haaland's territory has developed rapidly, because of Richard's large-scale expansion of the army, the territory has been built and developed at a high speed, which has consumed a lot of money, and six thousand gold coins is still a lot of money for Richard.

Almost all of the gold coins captured during the counterinsurgency war were used to reward merit.

Although there is a sum of money in the territorial treasury, this money is for the purpose of preventing emergencies.

If it is all used to buy food, when there is an urgent need for money, not a penny can be difficult for a hero.

(End of chapter)