After taking a turn in the brick kiln village, Richard nodded with great satisfaction.

The brick kiln village was the earliest developed area in the territory, and the people were generally wealthy.

The brick kiln village is a family unit, not only can you go to work in the factory if you have allocated land, and the gross income is more than eight gold coins per year. After deducting the consumption of food, clothing, housing and transportation, you can balance about three to four gold coins a year.

Their general standard of living is close to that of the families of the main legionnaires. The families of the soldiers of the main legion are considered high-income families in the Grant Kingdom.

The grassroots bureaucrats in the royal capital have a salary of about one gold coin per month.

Richard's eldest brother, Otto, served as a junior judge in the royal capital, and his salary was only one gold coin and six silver coins per month. Of course, the son of a baron like Otto, did not rely only on salary, his main income in the royal capital depended on rent.

Sophia's father was very kind to the children, and after Otto settled in the royal capital, Baron Stopa spent 1,200 gold coins to buy him a courtyard by the street, which had seven or eight houses to rent.

Relying on rent, Otto earned about thirty gold coins a year.

Ordinary lords can have a balance of three or four gold coins a year, and their spending power is already quite good.

Richard's shop in Brick Kiln Village has been selling a lot of brown sugar and liquor since last year.

But villages as wealthy as the brick kiln villages are still relatively few in Haaland's territory. In addition to the 1,500 families of veterans, there are 1,200 families with the same standard of living, including the merchant class.

The population of the territory with a good standard of living is about less than 3,000 households, and about 14,500 people.

Next year, about 8,000 indentured slaves will be free, 8,000 more people will have spending power, the market will be more prosperous, and the territory will have more taxes.

Over time, the field tax will slowly become the largest income in the territory.

After Richard finished inspecting the territory, he began to inspect military affairs.

Last year, there was a massive expansion of the Haaland territory, with an increase of about 1,500 troops.

After more than a year of training, this group of soldiers has completed their recruit training.

Because of the large number of soldiers, a total of nine veterans have been promoted to professional positions this year.

Although a drinking war broke out with Viscount Cisse, with some casualties, the strength of the territory continued to grow rapidly.

During the year, whenever Richard had free time, he would make enchanted armor.

In nearly a year, Richard enchanted fifty pieces of snake scale armor, thirty pieces of brute force armor, and twenty pieces of light spirit armor.

After a year of hard work, the number of enchanted armors in the army increased by a hundred. The veterans of the 1st and 2nd squadrons, most of whom were equipped with enchanted armor.

There are still seventy sets of snake body scale armor left, and seventy pieces of snake scale armor can be made.

The blood steel produced in the territory can make thirty pieces of enchanted armor per year. The reason why we were able to make 50 pieces this year is because of the blood steel accumulated last year.

If the orcs are still the same as in previous years, they invade once every three years.

Before the orc invasion, Harland's territory could also make more than a hundred pieces of enchanted armor.

Richard put all his energy into making enchantment armor, and his enchantment experience increased very quickly, which was reflected in the attribute panel, and his enchantment skills had been upgraded to the fourth level.

Fourth-order enchantment, which can create fourth-order enchanted weapons, is already considered an enchantment master in Northern Xinjiang.

Richard was concentrating on making enchanted armor, and Sophia and Wendy were not idle. This year, the two made one hundred and fifty alchemy bombs, replenishing part of the alchemy bomb reserves.

At the current rate of reserves, by the spring of the following year, it should be possible to increase the reserve of alchemy bombs to about six hundred.

In recent years, because of the increase in the productivity of the territory, the material security of the army has become better and better, brown sugar and liquor have begun to be distributed to the army in large quantities, canned fruits have been added this year, sweaters and woolen military uniforms have been distributed in winter, and the fuel in the barracks has also become coal.

After talking to the soldiers, Richard found that the morale of the army was very good. The soldiers are very satisfied with their current life.

After one turn in each squadron, Richard returned to Fort William.

In November, the Haaland Territory finally had a belatedly heavy snowfall.

Officials from the Territory flocked to Fort William for this year's financial meeting.

Since Haaland's territory was on the right track, there has been an annual fiscal meeting in the winter.

The time of the meeting is not fixed, and it needs to be randomly arranged according to Richard's time.

As the officials in charge of the work reported one by one, it became clear to Richard that the territory was still in deflation this year.

With the end of the war, the steel trade fell into a trough, and the profit was about forty percent lower than last year, and this year's profit was only ten thousand and eight hundred gold coins.

The loss of the liquor trade was even more serious because of the leakage of the craft and the fact that Richard sold the brewing process and gave up the market, and for the whole year it was only about 6,000 gold coins, half of which was still fruit wine.

Although a large amount of grain was sold this year, there was no cash flow due to the exchange of slaves. The sale of the liquor brewing process also brought a large number of slaves, and there was also no cash flow.

In the coal business, the profit for the whole year is about 1,000 gold coins. More than half of them are military purchases, which is equivalent to a left-handed hand-to-right-hand hand.

The wool spinning business was very good, and although it was the first year, it still brought 2,000 gold coins to the territory.

The income of hemostatic ointment is very stable, 3,000 gold coins a year.

The spider silk produced by the Flame Spider earns a thousand gold coins a year.

The profit of brown sugar is still increasing rapidly this year, this year is the fourth year of the brown sugar plantation, the brown sugar trees planted have basically grown a lot taller, and this year's brown sugar production has increased by one or two times compared with last year. The profit of the brown sugar industry for the whole year reached 1,800 gold coins.

Brick kilns and cement kilns mainly rely on official orders, and this year's income is very average, and the profit is not much different from last year, adding up to 600 gold coins.

The profit of the glass kiln because of the canned fruit reached 800 gold coins.

With more and more glass production, glassmakers are more and more experienced, and the technical level and process level have caught up with Viscount Rohman, because of the scale of production, the profit is more than that of Viscount Rohmon glass kiln.

The fruit industry is also the new income of the territory this year, relying on tens of thousands of acres of wild orchards, the territory this year relies on the sale of fruits, canned fruits, candied fruits, dried fruits, adding up to 1,200 gold coins.

Purple Head Peak honey now has an income of 1,000 gold coins a year.

Capturing and hunting Warcraft is also an important income for the territory this year, the Demon Hunting Team went deep into the Eagle Mountains seven times, and successfully hunted Warcraft three times, in addition to obtaining a batch of Warcraft materials, it also caught seven iron wildebeests, and the territory received six thousand gold coins in cash income.

The other is taxes, which add up to just over four thousand gold coins.

This year, the cash income of Haaland's territory adds up to about 37,200 gold coins.

Compared to last year, cash receipts decreased by 3,000 gold coins.

Although there was no expansion of the army this year, the army's food and logistics supply has increased a lot, and the military expenditure is about 38,000 gold coins, plus a pension of 2,000 gold coins. This year, there will be a deficit in the territory, and it will be difficult to make ends meet.

(End of chapter)