Because the Venus family built an artificial mana well and built a magic channel to power the mage tower, this mage tower has a decent defense, and can release ten firestorms a day.

The half-finished mage tower built by the Tower of Death uses the magic core of the legendary monster as the core of the energy room, even if it uses the legendary magic equipment thunderbolt staff to save magic energy, it can only release ten chain of lightning.

The defense power of the two mage towers is actually not very different, one has strong magic energy, and the other has the blessing of legendary magic equipment, even if there are only low-level mages in the magic tower, it is enough to resist the sneak attack of high-level mages, even in the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, they are all high-level mage towers.

After Richard captured the mage tower, he immediately destroyed the teleportation altar and removed the portal.

The Teleportation Altar is the coordinates of spatial teleportation, and destroying the Teleportation Altar is equivalent to erasing the teleportation coordinates. But this mage tower was built by the Venus family, I wonder if the Venus family left a secret door?

If you are unprepared and are raided by the Venus family, you will suffer heavy casualties.

Now the number of magicians in Haaland's territory is small and weak, so it is not suitable to be scattered in two strange mage towers, and there are still many magic laboratories in Fort William, and some people also need to be left.

Greedy and chewy, the Venus family's mage tower, Richard is not ready to leave the mage stationed for the time being.

This mage tower is mainly used for magic research, focusing on magic wells and magic power.

Richard plans to focus his business on the half-finished mage tower built by the Tower of Death.

This mage tower was named the Tower of Lightning because Richard inscribed a chain of lightning defense spells.

The Tower of Lightning will take two months to complete. After the completion of the mage tower, Richard decided to move most of the mage power in Harland's territory to the lightning tower.

Richard migrated the magical organization to the swamp basin, and together with the garrison protecting the mage tower, the population of the swamp basin has exceeded 10,000 people.

Although the swamp basin has been developed for more than a year, because of the lack of investment, only more than 10,000 acres of paddy fields have been reclaimed, a ditch has been built, and only a few floors of the Mage Tower have been built.

As a result, more than a few dozen slaves died of illness in the prime of life.

Even though the Harland Territory is a mid-temperate region, with a relatively low mosquito population and no serious malaria, it still costs a lot of lives to develop the swamp.

With the presence of mages and armies, the Haraland Territory will be greatly invested in the swamp basin. At the very least, when it comes to infrastructure, a magician can be of great help, and a spell that turns mud into stone can play a key role when repairing drainage ditches.

After the Goddess's Birthday, Riverside Primary School opened again, and this year the number of new students reached 300 because the tuition fee was cut in half.

Today, there are more than 1,000 students in Haaland's territory, and in a few years, all these people will graduate, which will greatly promote the development of the territory.

Among the more than 300 freshmen, seven of them had magician qualifications, and Berica had the best magical talent, and her earth elemental affinity reached medium. These seven children with magical talents can't be counted on for the time being. Before learning meditation, you still need to learn the basics, at least a few months later, you know some words and understand some magical terms, and then you can start the practice of meditation.

Counting these seven magically qualified freshmen, there will be more than forty members of the Harland Territory Mage Association.

The forty-member mage organization has surpassed the four marquisates in the east. Today's Haaland Territory Magic Association is already one of the top ten magical organizations in the Grant Kingdom.

The countries in the northern part of the Central Continent are economically backward and socially poor, and one is a magical desert, and a magic organization of forty people can only be regarded as a small magic organization in the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, and it is not ranked at all.

The Magic Kingdom of Makholm has more than 3,000 mage towers and more than 1,000 magical organizations large and small. Even the Divine Aura Empire, seeing the thousands of mage towers on the map, felt a huge headache.

Even though the Magic Kingdom on the southwest coast is very disobedient and often challenges the authority of the Holy Aura Empire, the Holy Radiance Empire has no intention of sending troops to fight a war with little chance of victory.

According to Sophia's account, placing the Harland Territory Mage Association in the Magic Kingdom of Makholm can roughly rank three hundred.

From the hidden base of the Venus family, Richard obtained weapons capable of equipping 2,000 elite soldiers.

This batch is very well-equipped, no less than the Nolan Praetorian Guard. Enchanted armor, enchanted bows and crossbows are all available, and now all are cheap Richard and equipped with the infantry of the Harland Territory.

There was an abundance of weapons and equipment, and Richard immediately decided to expand the army on a large scale, forming two recruit brigades with an increase of 1,600 troops.

The Recruit Brigade temporarily trains four squadrons of recruits, and after completing the recruit training, it will be mixed with veterans of the 3rd and 4th Infantry Brigades.

After the completion of the expansion of the army, the Haaland territory will have six infantry brigades, two cavalry brigades, plus guard squadrons, headquarters personnel, a total strength of more than 6,500 people.

Recruits were mainly selected from indentured slavery to save costs.

Last year, more than 76,000 indentured slaves were added to Haaland's territory, and it was easy to pick out 1,600 soldiers.

As long as the serfs at the bottom are given a chance, in order to change their fate and turn over, the serfs will enthusiastically join the army, and they are not afraid of death and sacrifice at all.

In late February, the conscription process was fully completed. Now that the territorial army has been regularized, the training of recruits is in charge of a special person, and there is no need for Richard to worry about it.

Because of the influx of a large number of people last year, the task of spring plowing this year is somewhat heavy.

In order to complete this year's spring plowing task, Richard also asked the army to participate in spring ploughing.

The vicinity of Graveson Castle is the focus of this year's spring ploughing, and from last year to this year, 65,000 people will be arranged here to reclaim 300,000 acres of farmland.

This area is flat, with easy access to water on both sides of the Black River, and great agricultural potential, but unfortunately it is on the front line of the orc invasion, so it has not been effectively developed.

Now the Haaland family is building the Flower Castle in the north of Grayfordson, if they can stop the orc army in the Flower Castle, Grayfordson Castle can become the rear, and there is a possibility of large-scale development.

But developing the vicinity of Graveson Castle is still very risky.

Once the Flower Castle is lost, or the Orcs bypass the Flower Castle, Graveson Castle is vulnerable to Orc attacks, and the population living in this area will be captured by the Orcs.

To develop the land near Graveson Castle, the strength must be strong.

After analyzing the situation, Richard believed that as long as the main force of the orcs did not invade from the direction of Geda Province, with the strength of the Harland family, it could already withstand the attack of most of the orc legions.

Although the Haaland family fiefdom is large, there are relatively few areas suitable for agricultural development.

The two territories of Dirham and Stopa have basically been successfully developed. If you want to get more farmland, you can only build terraces and develop hills.

It takes a lot of labor to build terraces, and according to the manpower of Haaland's territory today, building terraces is a bit of a double effort, and now the population of the territory is insufficient, and there is a lot of arable land per capita.

It was not yet time to build terraces and reclaim hillside farmland.

Although some farmland can still be developed in the river valley near Fort William and Fort Sophia, there are many factories and mines here, which are the core of Haaland's territory, and it is not suitable to arrange too many people in order to prevent technology leakage.

Areas suitable for agricultural cultivation are only near Greyforsen Castle, with marshy basins too.

The farmland near Graveson Castle, which is less difficult to develop, began cutting down trees and digging up roots last fall.

After this spring, the barrier was dug first, and then a fire was set to burn the wasteland, and the dead grass, vines, and shrubs were burned, and the stones in the land were picked out and deeply cultivated with iron wildebeest.

As for the water conservancy project, some of them have been built last year, and the remaining canals can be repaired after planting.

Large tracts of farmland in Graveson are on both sides of the Black River, and water from the Black River can be lifted into the canal using a waterwheel.

This area can reclaim one million acres of fertile land, enough to feed five or six hundred thousand people.

In addition to the key development of Grayfordson, Richard also arranged more than 10,000 people in the vicinity of the prosperous castle and the fort of the military station.

There are a large number of roses growing near the Castle of Flowers, and Richard plans to use these wild roses to make rose perfume and sell it to Nolan's noble lady.

According to Richard's observations, Nolan did not yet have a perfume maker, and there was no need to compete with vested interests to create rose perfumes. When the rose perfume is made, Haaland's territory will add a monopoly commodity to earn a profit for the territory.

Even if someone is red-eyed and has researched the perfume formula, without a large number of rose resources, he is not able to compete with Haaland's territory.

In April, Richard and Sophia's second child, Philip, was born. Philip was born smoothly, and Margaret was not Richard's only heir.

Because it was the second child, Philip was born very smoothly.

In the last year or two, the Department of Surgery in Harland's territory is still developing, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been separated from the Department of Surgery, and now the hospital has formed four major departments of internal and external pediatrics and gynecology.

However, in addition to surgery, the other three departments still have to rely on the experience of doctors to treat diseases.

Under Richard's guidance, the hospital invented forceps, and with the help of magicians, caesarean sections could also be performed, and the mortality rate of pregnant women and newborns in the territory was greatly reduced.

Because of the development of medicine, the average life expectancy of Haaland's territory has far surpassed that of Wang Du Nolan, and according to statistics, it has increased to forty-six years old, reaching the leading level of the Dawn plane.

Five years ago, taking advantage of the Scarlet Horn rebellion, Richard had snatched 18,000 outcasts from County Brainer, and by the autumn the contract had expired, plus a number of slaves purchased from the Grand Duchy of Starnik.

By this fall, there will be more than 20,000 freedmen in Haaland's territory.

By the end of the year, the number of freedmen in the realm could exceed 60,000.

The affluent freemen with a population of 60,000 had a fixed annual land tax of 15,000 gold coins, and a small consumer market was formed.

With the consumer market, the hematopoietic ability of the Haaland family will be greatly improved.

At present, the economic income of Haaland's territory mainly depends on various monopoly commodities, and most of the market is controlled by others.

Once the trade routes are cut off and the market is lost, the primary industry established because of the information gap will fall into a situation from which it will never recover.

The territory was without funds, and the only thing Richard could do other than squeeze the people was to disarm.

The Haaland family has today's influence, relying on thousands of elite soldiers.

After disarmament, the influence will inevitably decrease, and it may not be able to withstand the continuous attack of the orcs.

Only when the territorial market is cultivated, the internal skills are well trained, and the domestic demand market is expanded, will the foundation of the economy be stable. With a stable economic base, Haaland's territory can maintain the size of the army, and even be used to expand it. The army has increased, and the territory gained through the achievements of the war can be improved, and the influence can be increased, forming a positive cycle.

For each additional freeman in Haaland's realm, the foundation of the realm is solid.

After obtaining the Venus family's magic energy technology, Richard was immediately attracted to this technology.

The Venus family has been researching the Floating City Elemental Forge for many years, and has also successfully built an artificial magic well, and is also very good at studying the operation of magic energy, creating new magical runes.

By studying these magical runes, Richard gained another layer of understanding of magical energy.

His mind was very active, and he thought of the rechargeable battery in his previous life, and immediately wanted to study the magic energy battery in this world based on the magic energy knowledge he mastered.

The materials are also readily available, that is, magic crystals that have been depleted of magic energy.

The magic crystal is a special crystal in the Dawn plane, a standard magic crystal is worth ten gold coins, and the magic energy contained in it can release about one two-ring spell.

Normally, depleted magic crystals are ground into powder and minted with gold.

The magic crystal that has depleted its magic power is also a low-level magic material, and it has many functions. Generally speaking, the cost of this discarded magic crystal that has exhausted its mana is about four silver coins each.

If you can research the technology to recharge the discarded magic crystal, you will earn thirty times the profit.

In order to study this technology, you need to know how the magic crystal full of magic power is different from the magic crystal that is exhausted in terms of structure.

The study of the onlooker structure of two crystals requires the use of advanced microscopes.

Haaland's territory set up an optical research department very early on, trained mirror sharpeners, and wanted to make microscopes.

But Richard underestimated the difficulty of the technology, and even after several years of research, the project has not made much progress, and although the skills of the mirror grinder have been continuously improved, he has barely built a telescope only two years ago.

Of the more than 20 mirror grinders who have been trained successively, only two of them have a certain technical level in a few years, are familiar with some optical knowledge, and can stably polish telescopes with high precision.

The remaining mirror sharpeners can only be trained as ordinary craftsmen to make ordinary telescopes with low precision.

In the past two years, Haaland's army has been equipped with a large number of monoculars, and the squadron-level officers, plus the backbone scouts, everyone has a telescope in their hands.

(End of chapter)