After the winter, the supply of fuel is very critical, the climate in northern Xinjiang is cold, if the fuel for heating in winter is insufficient, a large number of people will freeze to death.

Richard spent a lot of gold coins to buy the population, so he naturally had to care about whether the indentured slaves had winter fuel.

Coal mines have been discovered in Haaland's territory, there is no shortage of wood, and the supply of fuel has not been leaked.

This year, about 20,000 tons of coal were mined, and 6,000 tons were sold, bringing in cash income of 2,000 gold coins.

Of the remaining 14,000 tons, 2,000 tons were supplied to the army, and 12,000 tons were given priority to indentured slaves.

Most indentured slaves consisted of a dozen people crammed into a 30-square-meter house, and each house consumed a ton of coal per year to survive the winter.

Although there are now more than 90,000 indentured slaves in Haaland's territory, 12,000 tons of coal is enough.

Because of the increase in mining, Richard plans to expand the scale of the mine next year, and increase the output to more than 30,000 tons.

In fact, this year's coal miners have only been mining for a month and a half, and the rest of the time is basically spent building coal mines.

Messy tasks such as fixing wooden tracks, building houses, building coal washing plants, and even digging toilets.

There is enough food, enough fuel, and although there are many indentured slaves who have entered the territory this year, the conditions are actually not too difficult.

At least enter Haaland's territory and have a full meal.

Many serfs, because the lord squeezed too much, even a mouthful of food is a luxury.

As the clock entered December, Richard once again gathered the officials of the territory to summarize the income.

The first to report was Thomas, the head of the steel business.

"The territory's steel trade has been very stable this year, with an annual income of 12,000 gold coins, down about 50 percent from the peak year. If the orcs continue to invade at a triennial rate, the profits of steel weapons will skyrocket next year, possibly reaching more than 18,000 gold coins. ”

Today, the steel production in Haaland's territory is no longer growing, mainly due to market constraints.

The steel industry is also a traditional industry in the Dawn plane, and the competition is fierce.

The profit of more than 10,000 gold coins a year in Haaland's territory has almost eaten up most of the market, and the rest of the market will only be able to grab the market unless it continues to reduce prices.

There will inevitably be opponents in grabbing the market, and the commercial competition methods of the Dawn plane are very brutal and direct.

In the past, Richard grabbed the market, mainly the market of Baron Franklin. Now Baron Franklin's mine has been run on by Richard, and production has fallen by seven or eight percent.

Several big iron and steel merchants in northern Xinjiang, except for Richard, are now some powerful nobles.

Before he was prepared, Richard would not have hit the market of the great nobles and easily lowered the price of steel products.

In the future, the steel trade mainly relied on the growth of the domestic market, unless Richard was promoted to a great nobleman and had enough strength to compete with several dukes in northern Xinjiang for the market.

After Thomas finished speaking, the second report was Scott, who was in charge of the textile business.

Since the manufacture of new spinning machinery, the textile business in Haaland's territory has developed faster and faster, and there are 800,000 sheep in the territory this year.

Every year, 1,400 tons of woolen cloth are woven, enough for more than 200,000 people to wear.

In addition to the woolen cloth clothes provided to the indentured slaves, the Harland Territory earned 10,000 gold coins from the sale of woolen cloth to the outside world.

There has always been a lack of cloth in the northern Xinjiang region, and even in the Haland Kingdom, the production of cloth is not very sufficient.

Whether it is linen, cotton or woollen cloth, as long as the cloth is produced, it is not very marketable.

The third is the income from hunting Warcraft, and the territory earned an income of 6,500 gold coins by hunting Warcraft last year.

The liquor market has now fallen to fourth, and the annual income of fruit wine is only 5,000 gold coins, which is almost only one-third of its peak.

With the increase of freedmen in Haaland's territory and the expansion of the market size, the income of liquor should increase somewhat, but if you want to recover to two years ago, I am afraid that it will take a few years for the domestic demand market to expand.

The fifth item is the tax of the territory, counting the miscellaneous taxes, a total of 4,300 gold coins.

The sixth item is brown sugar income, it has been five years since the establishment of the brown sugar industrial park, and this year's brown sugar brown sugar output has reached 60 tons. Although the price of brown sugar dropped a bit, to twelve copper coins a catty, it still brought 3,300 gold coins in cash income to Haaland's territory.

Moreover, the brown sugar industrial park is still developing rapidly, and the output of brown sugar may reach about 100 tons next year.

The potential of this business is very high, and it will be an important financial income for Haaland's territory in the future.

The seventh item is hemostatic ointment, limited by the production of royal jelly in Zitoufeng, the income of hemostatic ointment is very stable, about 3,000 gold coins per year.

The eighth item is the income from the coal mine, which brings in cash income of 2,000 gold coins.

The ninth item is the income from glass, because of the sale of fruit wine and canned food, the glass mine reached 1,800 gold coins this year.

The rest of the brick kiln, cement, fruit sales, flame spider silk, honey and other miscellaneous incomes add up to a total of four thousand gold coins.

In addition, Lady Aura's business in Fort Black River is quite stable for a year, and can bring in a cash flow of 1,500 gold coins.

Not counting Lady Ola's small coffers, Haaland's territory had about 52,000 gold coins in cash last year.

This year, he grabbed Baron Harden's vault and got a big windfall, getting 17,000 gold coins, adding up to 69,000 gold coins.

There was no war this year, and the military expenditure was not very large, and the army was expanded by 1,000 in the spring, plus the expenses for raising the army and bereavement pensions, adding up to 38,000 gold coins.

The number of bureaucrats in the realm was small, adding up to a few hundred people, and the cost of salaries was less than five thousand gold coins.

Next is the investment in hospitals and education.

The cost of treatment in the Haaland Territory Hospital is not too high, even if it is an operation, the cost is only about one gold coin.

Because the hospital has expanded a lot this year, some necromancers have been added, and these people have to pay high salaries. Over the course of the year, the hospital lost 200 gold coins.

In terms of education, because Haaland's territory has cultivated some talents, the salary of new teachers has been reduced to six silver coins per month.

In addition, the number of students has expanded a lot, and it has been able to break even throughout the year.

After all, the tuition fee in Haaland's territory is too expensive, one gold coin per year, and only the children of upper-class families can afford it.

Next year, Richard is ready to cut tuition by about half.

The annual tuition fee of six silver coins should benefit a part of the middle-class population.

This year, Haaland's territory has a balance of 26,000 gold coins.

After eight years in the business, Richard finally had cash income in his hands.

With this amount of money, Richard is not ready to continue to buy population.

This year, the territory has a large number of people, and it will take some time to digest this part of the population, and war is likely to break out next year. This money is used as a reserve fund to finance the war and to make up for the lack of revenue from the territory.

Throughout the year, Richard learned two new spells, one of which was the four-ring magic summoning the fire element.

This is a summoning magic, and before you can learn this magic, you need to open the door of space and sign a contract with the summoned creature. Every time he summoned the fire elemental to fight, Richard needed to pay a magic crystal.

Magic crystal is a crystal ore enriched with magic energy particles, which is generally mixed in metal veins.

The Magic Shard is very precious in the Dawn Plane, and one Magic Shard can be exchanged for ten gold coins.

Although Richard had a lot of gold coins in his hand, he was reluctant to exchange them for magic crystals. Now in his hands, there are only a dozen magic crystals.

These magic crystals were all accumulated from years of iron mining, and Richard was reluctant to use them.

Richard hadn't learned the Five Rings Magic Space Gate yet, and he wouldn't have learned to summon the fire element on his own. It was Sophia who helped him open the door to the Elemental Realm, and Richard signed a contract with a fire elemental to make it his own summoned creature.

When Richard uses this magic, the fire elemental in the elemental realm will drop a shadow to cooperate with Richard in battle.

The fire elemental projection is powerful and immune to fire-based magic, and most spiritual spells are useless against the fire element, and the power of fire-based spells is doubled.

However, it is restrained by water and ice magic.

The use of this magic consumes a lot, and it costs ten gold coins at a time, which is equivalent to hiring a four-ring fire mage to fight for a short time.

Although the mage with a single attribute is more lethal, it is easy to be restrained by the comprehensive mage, and is only suitable for large-scale warfare, not for adventure activities and solo combat.

The other one is the Five Rings Spell Dream Technique, which is a psychedelic type of spell. After using this method, it is possible to enter the dream of a sleeping person and find out the secrets of the dreamer's subconscious.

This spell is very useful when it comes to special situations.

In the winter, Richard would occasionally personally instruct the apprentices of the realm mages and teach them some magical knowledge.

Today, there are more than a dozen magic apprentices in Haaland's territory, and these people have different foundations, different learning progress, and different knowledge.

Most of these magic apprentices are ordinary and have not learned much in depth.

The five magicians of the Harland Mage Guild have the task of teaching, and generally one class a week, each class is about two hours long.

Richard was talking about classical mechanics.

The physical and chemical rules of the Dawn plane are somewhat different from those of Earth. Quantum mechanics, in particular, simply cannot be copied.

After Richard's verification, there is almost no difference in the rules of classical mechanics, except for the gravitational acceleration and gravitational constant.

Classical mechanics plays a very important role in magic. A lot of variational and protective magic needs to be analyzed.

However, the vast majority of the magicians in the Dawn Plane do not understand some concepts of classical mechanics, and they mainly rely on the experience of their teachers to release spells.

Three thousand years ago, the legendary magician Erin proposed the law of inertia, and two thousand two thousand years ago, another legendary magician, Frath, proposed the law of action and reaction.

Two of the three laws of classical mechanics have appeared in the dawn plane, but the development of science has its own accidents, and no magician has proposed the law of acceleration until now.

Richard, a plagiarist, became the first person to propose the law of gravitational acceleration in the Dawn plane, and was also the first to measure the gravitational acceleration and gravitational constant of the Dawn plane.

Many wild mages are just magic tool people, who can only cast spells according to cats and tigers, and have no understanding of the principles of spells and the essence of magic.

Richard didn't want the magicians of the Harland Mage Guild to be all this kind of magic tool people, but hoped to train magic researchers, even if they were not talented, they should have a heart to study magic.

Sometimes great discoveries come from ordinary people with average talent. It is only with the support of a large number of magical researchers with ordinary talents that the science of magic can develop.

(End of chapter)