In recent years, relying on his own hard cultivation, Richard's breathing method has finally been promoted to the eighth layer and promoted to a fifth-order warrior.

The warrior level has been raised to the fifth rank, and the physical fitness has been improved again, and the strength has reached eighteen points. When the warrior level is raised to the sixth order, the strength attribute will exceed twenty points, and then you will be able to awaken a talent in physical attributes.

When William's strength exceeded twenty points, he awakened a very good talent of rage, and whenever he was angry, his physical fitness would be greatly improved.

Although this talent is not as perverted as the Hulk, it can improve physical fitness without limits.

When this talent is activated, William's strength will increase by about half, and the destructive power will become very amazing.

Although the heart of rage is activated for a short period of time, it has no side effects.

In addition to combat skills and combat experience, the warrior profession also determines the strength of a warrior due to his own talent. If you awaken an excellent talent, you will be able to defeat the enemy in battle.

I don't know what kind of talent Richard will awaken when his strength breaks through twenty points?

The opening of the talent, there is no pattern at all, and it is almost impossible to inherit.

Richard had no choice but to leave this to fate.

A few days before the goddess's birthday, Richard finally had a few days of free time to spend with Margaret.

The father and daughter walked down the street, looking at the street scene everywhere.

On the streets of Fort William, there is already some commercial atmosphere. Richard found taverns, barbershops, gold and silver jewelry stores, as well as grocery stores, grain stores, and so on.

Half of them are officially run shops, such as grain stores, grocery stores, taverns, and so on.

Richard entered the grocery store and found that the store already had a relatively rich range of goods, in addition to brown sugar, woolen cloth, iron farm tools, and bulk liquor, the grocery store also had slightly more luxurious goods such as honey, canned fruit, and high-end liquor.

No sooner had Richard entered the grocery store than he alarmed the guys and customers in the store.

The vast majority of the inhabitants of Fort William had seen Richard.

In addition to the families of military personnel, the first batch of indentured slaves settled here. Many people were involved in the construction of Fort William and had personal contact with Richard.

His appearance on the street with Margaret caused an instant sensation.

"Is it Lord Richard?"

"Yes, I've seen Master Richard with my own eyes, and I can't be wrong."

"I worked with Mr. Richard, we lived in adjacent tents, nine years have passed, I wonder if Mr. Richard will remember me?"

The clerk whispered to the customer, looking at the Richard father and daughter with eager eyes.

They wanted to come forward and say a few words to Richard, but the status quo of the nobles and ordinary people in the Dawn plane made them very hesitant and did not dare to show enthusiasm.

"Is it Peter, we haven't seen each other for almost ten years, young man Peter, now he is middle-aged."

Richard swept his gaze and suddenly found an acquaintance.

Peter was one of the first indentured slaves in the realm, who was bought by Richard due to the plague and followed Richard to Haraland's domain.

He was one of the first stonemasons in the territory, commanding a dozen workers in the early days of Fort William's construction, and the tent he lived in was very close to Richard.

Richard's role at that time was equivalent to that of the boss and project manager of the Fort William construction project.

At that time, he was with the workers every day, often in contact with the grassroots, and had a lot of communication every day.

Peter was in his twenties at the time, and he looked very young.

Now that nine years have passed, and the working people are aging much faster than the aristocracy, Peter has changed a lot, becoming a middle-aged man with rough skin.

Because of his strong mental power, Richard's memory far exceeds that of ordinary people, even if he had contact with him ten years ago, he recognized old acquaintances at a glance.

"Yes Master Richard, I'm Peter, a stonemason, I didn't expect you to remember me after so many years."

Peter was of average ability, he was one of the first craftsmen in the realm, and although he became a freeman at an early age, he did not make the leap through the ranks.

To this day, Peter is still a farmer, and in his spare time he comes to Williamburg to do odd jobs to support his family.

"How has your life been in recent years?"

"Life is good, and now I'm a father of four. Wives and children can be fed and clothed, they are born as free people, and only by the goddess of fate can they be born in the territory of Haaland. ”

According to officials, the freedmen of Haaland's territory have solved the problem of food and clothing.

Because of the large amount of arable land per capita, the fact that there are mineral resources such as coal in the territory, and the production of wool cloth, the first generation of freedmen who have just divided the land should not be too poor.

But after the second and third generations, Haaland's territory does not have so much arable land, and as the per capita land resources decline, the peasants will fall back into poverty.

Five acres of land per capita is completely different from one acre of land per capita.

Five acres of land per capita is relatively affluent, and one mu of land per capita will inevitably fall into a state of poverty and hunger.

To improve this situation, the first is to expand the territory to reclaim farmland, and the second is to control the growth of the population.

Haaland's territory is vast and sparsely populated, and in the past 100 years, it should still be an environment with few people and many people.

As for what to do if the population increases in the future? It can only be handed over to the next generation.

Richard walked over, shook Peter's hand, and asked, "Is your child in school?" ”

"No, Master Richard."

"Why don't you let the children get an education? Children are educated to change their destiny. ”

"The tuition fee of six silver coins a year is too expensive, and it is difficult for a family like us to afford it. When the children grow up, if they are in good health, I want them to join the army, and if they are in average health, they will follow me to be a stonemason. If you learn a trade, you can also support your family. ”

Richard chatted with Peter for a few words, and finally shook hands and said, "I'm going back, Peter, Happy Nativity of the Goddess, good luck!" ”

Richard saw more and more people outside the store. To avoid a stampede, Richard picked up Margaret, greeted the people in the shop, and returned to the mansion.

Richard has a high prestige in Haaland's territory, and ordinary lords want to meet the lord of the lord, and after he returns, he is bragging capital.

"The status has improved, and it is troublesome to go out."

Richard complained to Sophia for a few words, and then began to read the report sent by the territorial officials.

With the graduation of the first class of students at Riverbank Elementary School, the Haaland Territory has more than a hundred people who are familiar with writing and basic mathematics.

These people became staff officers, teachers, and junior bureaucrats, and their accession to the written statements demanded by Richard could finally be implemented.

Through these written materials, Richard can have some grasp of the basic situation of Haaland's territory. However, we should not fully believe the contents of the report, and we must guard against irresponsible nonsense by bureaucrats.

There is a very high probability that the bureaucrats are irresponsible. In order to see the real situation from the report, Richard needs to strengthen supervision, constantly check, and often contact the grassroots.

Now that there are more literate people, the demand for paper will increase.

The price of parchment paper is very expensive and is not at all suitable for the popularization of knowledge.

Richard had craftsmen study papermaking many years ago, and now the technology of making paper using plant fibers has been successfully studied.

By making paper from a variety of plant fibers, the artisans of the Harland Territory found that the quality of paper made from bark and teng bark was better.

Today, in Haaland's territory, paper has begun to circulate in a small area.

Not only the city hall, the riverbank elementary school, and the Haaland army distributed paper, but also the government-run grocery stores in Fort William, Sophia, and Fort Soldier's Station all sold paper, and in order to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge, Richard did not plan to make a profit from the paper.

Today, the paper market in Haaland's territory has exceeded the scale of more than 100 gold coins.

In order not to irritate the nerves of the nearby aristocracy, Richard did not sell paper on a large scale. However, the circulation of low-cost paper has promoted the spread of knowledge.

When knowledge is disseminated, the literacy rate will increase, the quality of the population will improve, and in the long run, it will have a great effect on the development of Haaland's territory.

Because of Richard's policy of dividing land and light taxes, the freedmen in Haaland's territory were relatively wealthy and had a high spending power, almost comparable to the families of the city defense army.

The brown sugar, liquor, iron and steel products, and woolen cloth clothes produced in the Harland Territory have been popularized among the freedmen because the price of origin is not very high.

According to the statistics that Richard saw, the average freed class consumed one kilogram of brown sugar a year.

In Haaland's territory, the price of brown sugar has fallen to twelve copper coins a kilogram. When brown sugar was first produced, it cost almost the same as honey, almost a kilogram of silver coins.

In just a few years, the price of brown sugar has fallen by 60 percent in Haaland's territory.

As brown sugar production grows, Richard thinks there's room for decline.

Because of the impact of brown sugar in Haaland's territory, the price of honey in the northern region has also decreased a lot, and brown sugar replaces honey in the northern Xinjiang region, which is already a matter of imminence.

This year, the territory's brown sugar production exceeded 100 tons, and hundreds of tons of brown sugar entered the market, so that brown sugar is no longer a luxury.

There are three provinces and four dukedoms in the northern region of the Grant Kingdom, with a combined population of tens of millions.

But the vast majority of the population were serfs and did not have any spending power.

In addition to the aristocracy, religious figures, professional officers, and main legionnaires, plus a small number of merchants and high-level mechanics, the real population with spending power is some opera singers, monster hunters, and high-ranking mercenaries.

Combined, the total number of consumers in the northern region does not exceed 300,000.

The brown sugar produced in Haaland's territory is close to a pound on average for everyone.

According to the annual consumption of one kilogram per freeman in the Haaland Territory, when the territory produces three hundred tons of brown sugar per year, the market will be saturated.

At that time, in addition to expanding the market outside, we can only continue to reduce prices and let the market sink.

To expand the market to the south, it is necessary to face competition from honey.

The southern provinces of Seldorf, Iliano, Duke of Guise, and Duke Duran all have large populations that keep bees.

Brown sugar, a specialty of northern Xinjiang, is difficult to sell in the southern sphere of influence through formal channels.

There was no talk of free trade in the kingdom of Grant, and every lord hated the outflow of gold coins. Unless you can fight a war and overthrow someone else's rule, you can let brown sugar enter someone else's sphere of influence to sell and make a profit.

Even if some brown sugar is sold through smuggling, the high cost may not be much profitable under the brutal blow of official power.

Moreover, in the production areas of honey farming, the retail price of honey is only fifteen copper coins per kilogram.

Even if the brown sugar from Haaland's territory were transported to the south, it might not be able to compete with the honey of the south at today's prices.

On the contrary, Nolan's market can compete in the future. There are no lords who breed a large number of bees near Nolan, and there is no self-interest involved, and the resistance is not particularly great.

But if you want to enter the Nolan market, you must have a big aristocratic status, and you must also settle some influential people in Nolan.

Otherwise, your business will soon be swallowed up by others.

The influence of the Haaland family is only somewhat useful in northern Xinjiang, and even very effective only in Geda Province, and the deterrent effect in Gascoigne and Lahe Province is even worse. When he went to the territories of several other dukes, Richard had to bow his head and behave.

In dukedoms such as Jonathan and Fox, Richard is doing wholesale business, and this year's brown sugar price, the wholesale price has dropped to twelve copper coins a kilogram.

Wholesale prices were lowered, and Richard was not responsible for shipping. The brown sugar was squeezed and sent directly to the Blackriver Fort market, where it was then sold at wholesale prices to several duke-controlled chambers of commerce.

The market directly operated by Haaland's territory is only in the three northern provinces.

The retail price of brown sugar in the three northern provinces, and the shops controlled by the Harland family, have also been reduced to fifteen copper coins a kilogram, which is almost half compared with a few years ago.

Because the price reduction this year is more serious, although it has competed for the market, the income of brown sugar has not been too high, and it has only brought a profit of 4,000 gold coins.

On the contrary, the price of liquor has been very stable.

The lords have already divided the market, and the market that the Haraland family can control now is only one Black River County.

If you want to increase the income of liquor, you can only expand the consumer group.

The selling price of steel products, as steel production in Haaland's territory continues to climb, has also fallen by 60 percent.

Today, Haaland's territory controls two iron mines, with a monthly production of more than 70 tons of steel.

At the current rate, steel production could exceed 1,000 tonnes next year.

The output of 1,000 tons of steel, put on a population of 200,000, is an average of five kilograms per person.

Moreover, Richard had to sell half of the steel to the outside world, and the wholesale price of Richard selling steel to the outside world was already 28 gold coins a ton, with an average of 10 copper coins a kilogram.

It can be said that in the area near Haaland's territory, the price of steel products has fallen by 60 or 70 percent. The current retail price in the market, the average quality of iron, has dropped to 12 copper coins per kilogram.

Prices are decreasing, the incomes of the freedmen are rising, and as the standard of living improves, so does the need for spirituality.

Nowadays, in Fort William, there are theater and opera singers, and there are often musical performances.