After the reorganization of the army was completed, Richard came to the riverbank elementary school, and after a year of study, the older children had mastered the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division arithmetic, and the writing of thousands of words.

These fifteen or sixteen-year-old, soon-to-be-grown children, will graduate next spring.

Compared with eight or nine-year-old playful children, these older children have experienced hardships and know the preciousness of knowledge, and it is not easy for their families to send them to study, so they study very hard, and the three-year basic study is basically completed in one year.

Having mastered the basic knowledge, Richard placed thirteen graduates in the army command, and this group of people was the first batch of staff officers trained by Richard.

Those who are physically strong and able to practice the breathing method have begun to practice the breathing method and train it as a military staff officer. Those with poor talent can also be the most basic logistics personnel because they have mastered superficial mathematical knowledge.

When he had free time, Richard would also teach them about drawing and assign them some drawing tasks to mark contour lines.

After this group of personnel is trained, Richard will be able to improve the establishment of a staff officer system, set up logistics, operations, and other subjects, and form a complete and efficient command organ.

Bonova, Connie, and Ellie, three children with magical talents, also learned the words on the meditation method, completed the initial meditation practice, and became the lowest magic apprentice.

These three children were not very talented in magic, and Richard would not have invested magical resources in them unless they had made significant contributions to the study of magic.

The three children studied at Riverside Primary School and interned at the Territory Hospital.

When they learn how to heal minor injuries, they will be able to sign a contract with the territorial hospital and become official staff members of the hospital.

Anne has a good talent for magic, and in a year she has been promoted to a medium magic apprentice, learned two zero-ring magic, and can help Sophia with some simple magic experiments.

As we entered October, the first snow fell on Haaland's territory.

Every year when the snow falls, Richard is very busy, for fear that if there is a mistake in his work, the new slave will freeze to death.

The 6,000 slaves captured this year were basically settled by Richard on both sides of the Harland Valley.

The orcs built a military station at the northern entrance to the Harland Valley, and there were ready-made buildings. The coalition of nobles of the province of Geda was also stationed here for several months, strengthening the fortifications.

The walls inside the station were built relatively simply, with stout timber coated with mud on the outside and rammed earth on the inside. There were moats outside the city walls, and moats were dug to bring in water.

The three-way junction where the military station is located is a strategic point.

Giving it to Richard actually burdens the Haaland family.

After the army was reorganized, Richard sent the 3rd Infantry Brigade to be stationed here, and 6,000 indentured slaves were responsible for clearing the valley for suitable farmland.

On the slopes on either side of the Haaland Valley, there are plenty of wild orchards.

Because this place is the main point of the orc garrison, it has not been developed.

Now the territory was divided between the Haraland family, and Richard built a castle and stationed troops at the entrance to the valley.

The large area of wild fruit trees on both sides has development value.

The harvested fruit can not only be sold for money, but also mixed with brown sugar to make preserves.

In addition, Richard also asked for the establishment of a winery in the valley to make fruit wine from the fruit resources of the mountains, and enrich the variety of drinks of the Harland family.

The production of fruit wine is not very complicated, and the winery has trained seven or eight qualified winemakers in the past few years, and they have developed fourteen fruit wine recipes after a little exploration.

Because the wine is more well-packaged, glass bottles produced in the territory are used.

Fruit wine produced in Haaland's territory is five times more expensive than liquor, and one silver coin can buy four bottles of fruit wine.

The wine is not sold in small quantities, and the purchase is accompanied by a delicate hand-held wooden box, which is packaged in a high-end package than the wines on the market.

The taste of fruit wine is sweet, the degree is not high, and the cost is actually slightly higher than that of liquor.

This wine is mainly aimed at the mid-to-high-end market.

Noble ladies and ladies often hold banquets, and if the fruit wine in Haaland's territory can become the banquet wine of the nobles, it is estimated that they can make a lot of money.

If you can't open a market among the nobles, even if you sell it at a reduced price, relying on the current consumption level of Haaland's territory, it is estimated that you won't be able to make money.

Richard sent the brewed fruit wine to Fort Blackriver.

In recent years, Lady Ola has been fond of holding banquets of all kinds, spending a lot of money every year.

The biggest expense of holding a banquet is the consumption of alcohol, and the liquor is too strong for ladies to drink. Every year, Lady Ola buys wine from the south, which costs hundreds of gold coins.

Fruit wine produced in the territory can save a lot of money.

Although Mrs. Ola thinks that the wine used for banquets, red wine is more high-grade, and drinking red wine has the feeling of nobility.

But Richard's request was difficult for her to refuse, and the packaging of the fruit wine was good, so she used it several times at the banquet, but she did not expect to win unanimous praise from the noble lady.

Because the price of fruit wine is only half that of high-end red wine, the nobles of Heihe County are willing to save some of it.

As the sales of fruit wine are getting better and better, in the northern region, the red wine of the south is completely squeezed out of the market.

After all, the three counts of the southeast are too far away from the northern frontier and do not have too high influence in the north. There is no competition at all with the Haaland family, which is rooted in northern Xinjiang.

In desperation, he had no choice but to give up the northern Xinjiang market and develop the main force to the royal capital.

Richard also once looked for wine merchants in the royal capital, but he couldn't enter the royal capital's market at all. The Third Earl was almost blatant and used violent means to monopolize the market.

The red wine business can bring tens of thousands of gold coins to the third earl every year, and if anyone dares to cut off their financial route, they will dare to kill people and exterminate their clan.

Now the Haaland family's liquor has monopolized the market in the three provinces of northern Xinjiang, and the income from the sale of liquor in Duke Jonathan and Duke Edward's domain, Richard only needs half, and the rest is all filial piety to the two dukes.

Despite the war this year, the liquor business increased slightly, and the net profit reached 13,000 gold coins.

However, because it cannot open up markets in other regions, the profits of the liquor business are about to be saturated.

Richard estimated that with another two or three thousand gold coins, it would almost reach its peak.

Richard walked through the snow to inspect the Haaland Valley and found that most of the slaves who had joined the territory this year lived in simple wooden houses.

Because the brick kiln factory is already fifty kilometers away from the Haaland Valley, there is no water transportation over such a long distance, and there is not much brick transportation at all.

Relying on the carriage to pull a little, it was used to build a military station fort.

Without bricks, only wooden houses could be built.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of timber resources nearby, so there are no large numbers of people who freeze to death.

Because this group of slaves was in the first year of developing the territory, the conditions were not very good, and the old and frail still could not survive, and Richard also saw a few children who froze to death on the side of the road being eaten by wild wolves, looking very pitiful.

(End of chapter)