Less than two months after the new fiefdom was obtained, the territory's minerals were not surveyed.

During this time, Richard successively dispatched more than a dozen groups of surveyors to search for various ores on a large scale within the territory. From clay mines, to lime mines, to various metal mines, the explorers finally made discoveries and drew various mineral resources on a simple map.

Because the conditions are difficult and the threshold is not low, the salary of mineral exploration personnel is high, reaching eight silver coins per month, which can be compared with the teachers of the riverside primary school.

After two months of exploration, the approximate minerals in the territory have been discovered.

The first to be found is the Clay Mine, which is not far from the Fortress.

Richard was ready for the snow to melt and built a second brick kiln near the clay mine to speed up the development of the Harland Valley.

It was inconvenient for the territory to be built without bricks, and despite its location in the mountains, Richard did not have that much manpower to build a quarry.

After the new brick kiln factory is completed, there is no need to consume transportation capacity to transport bricks from dozens of kilometers away.

After burning bricks for six years, the brick kiln factory already has a lot of technicians, and some of them can be used to build the shelves of the new brick kiln factory.

Now that the second brick kiln factory is being built, Richard is no longer required to take the lead in the demonstration.

Then lime mines were discovered, which could produce raw cement. Haaland's territory has such earthen kilns, and it doesn't need to be managed by Richard.

The third discovery was a coal mine with scarce territory, and after hearing about the discovery of the coal mine, Richard was so excited that he didn't even have time to put on his shoes.

He immediately wrote to the prospectors, held a feast at the fort, and gave the prospectors a gold allowance.

The coal mine was fifteen kilometers away from the Soldier Station Fort, and Richard personally went to inspect the coal mine and found that it was of very high quality, typical bituminous coal, with high carbon content and large calorific value, which could be used to smelt coke.

If coke can be produced on a large scale, the steelmaking process will also develop rapidly.

Moreover, coal is mined and can be used for heating in winter.

If the people burn coal in winter, they can reduce the felling of trees, prevent soil erosion, and avoid flash floods.

Richard has been in the Dawn Continent for more than ten years, and he has rarely seen anyone burning coal in the Grant Kingdom. Perhaps humans in other regions have already used coal resources on a large scale.

According to Richard's observations, there were very few open-pit coal mines in northern Xinjiang.

This time, it is very rare to find shallow coal mines that are easy to mine in the territory.

Because the miners in the territory had no experience in coal mining, Richard was a little uneasy, so he followed the miners and stationed in the coal mine for a few days.

Coal mines on the surface are best mined, and they can be excavated with a hammer steel drill.

The coal mine was found halfway up the mountain, and a kilometer of road needed to be built to transport the coal out.

After surveying the terrain with a surveyor, Richard decided to use wooden rails to transport coal.

The realm can now produce some steel, which is hammered into thin sheets of steel that are cut and nailed to wooden rails.

Relying on the power of downhill inertia, the coal is loaded on a wooden bucket truck, and the coal can be easily transported down the hill along the track.

There is a small river below the hill that allows boats to pass, and this small river is a tributary of the Powell River, through which coal can be transported to Fort William.

After coal mining, the territory will also have a new source of income.

Richard specified a cheap price for coal, only twice as much as wood.

The market price of 1,000 catties of timber is about one silver coin, and it can't be burned for ten days when it is the coldest time in northern Xinjiang.

A relatively wealthy family burns more than one gold coin of fuel in a winter, and more than 20 large trees need to be cut down to keep warm water.

The heat of coal of the same quality is much higher than that of wood, and three catties of coal can be burned overnight.

For an average family, one ton of coal will survive the winter.

The price of a ton of coal is only four silver coins, which is equivalent to an ordinary person's work for a month.

At such a price, the vast majority of families can accept some.

There are now about 10,000 freedmen in Haaland's territory, and because Richard's taxes are low, these freedmen have some money in their hands.

There were about 2,400 freedmen in the territory, and if the two thousand or so freedmen bought coal, the output value of the coal mine would reach 800 gold coins, and the net profit would exceed 500 gold coins, which was already a lot of money.

Moreover, many indentured slaves fulfill their contracts every year, and as the population of the territory increases, consumption increases, and coal production increases, the income from coal will become higher and higher.

The development of the coal mining industry will also bring about the development of coal chemical industry.

After a simple calculation, Richard found that the reserves of the coal mine were very large, and the hill was almost a coal mountain.

The shallow coal seam alone exceeds 10 million tons.

Based on the current mining volume of Haaland's territory, this coal mine can last for a hundred years.

The abundance of materials in the territory will promote the development of the territory's economy.

Now, even if Richard has no cash and lacks gold coins, he can give the soldiers food, brown sugar, liquor, coal and other materials to the top account for a period of time.

In the future, Richard will give out grain and coal for the pension in the territory.

No gold or silver mines have been discovered in the Haaland domain, and he does not become a hereditary earl and has no coinage rights.

Due to the lack of gold, deflation has occurred in the territory. Many freemen even had the habit of bartering with each other.

There are still many indentured slaves and few freedmen.

If there are more freemen, they have the habit of hiding their coins and saving them, and then the shortage of currency will be even more serious.

To solve deflation, it is necessary to revitalize the economy, provide more goods, increase the income of freemen, and cultivate consumption habits.

After the discovery of the coal mine, even in winter, the mining of the coal mine could not be stopped.

Coal is a necessary daily necessities in winter, and coal can be mined for money.

Even with such a big stall now, Richard is still short of money.

No matter how many gold coins flow into Richard's hands, they will be spent quickly, and although there are more and more materials and strength, Richard also feels more and more short of money.

In the months after the end of the war, Haaland's territory was preparing for war.

Richard made thirty more pieces of snake scale armor and equipped them with the third squadron, and at the same time made ten pieces of brute force armor and equipped them with the first squadron.

Today, the first squadron has twenty pieces of brute force armor, sixty pieces of snake scale armor, and seventy pieces of iron armor, and the quality of the equipment exceeds that of the first squadron of the first brigade of the Northern Legion, which is enough to compete with the royal guard.

The 1st Squadron fought a lot of hard battles, suffered heavy casualties, and only a dozen veterans who joined the army six years ago remained. Because of the continuous transfer of veterans to replenish, the quality of the soldiers in this squadron is very high, and now there are eight professionals, forty-three senior cadets, and the rest of the soldiers are basically intermediate cadets.

The armor rate is 100 percent, and the possession rate of enchanted armor is also more than 50 percent, which is the iron fist in Richard's hand.

The 2nd and 3rd squadrons were also the main squadrons, second only to the 1st squadron in terms of replenishment, and had priority over Richard's guard squadrons.

These three main squadrons are second only to the Warcraft Cavalry in importance in the Harland territory, and they are the backbone of the territory.

(End of chapter)