The manufacture of the microscope was very unsuccessful, and it took several years to make it unsuccessful.

That is, until Ruiz joined the project team. He had a talent for seeing the subtleties of lenses, and although Ruiz was later transferred to the intelligence department and required special assignments, he worked part-time at the Optics Research Institute. Last winter, under Ruiz's guidance, the first microscope was built in Haaland's domain.

Through this microscope, which is magnified fifty times, the doctors in Harland's territory saw cells and bacteria for the first time.

The discovery of bacteria will greatly promote the progress of medicine.

The discovery of cells also played a very important role in the study of magic.

Because the microscope is so magical, the magicians and doctors in Haaland's territory are all vying to use the microscope.

In order to plan the use of the microscope, Richard also established strict regulations, and developed a system of machine time use according to different grades and different contributions.

If you want to get a longer machine, you need to prove your ability and contribute to the research of medicine and magic.

For every successful study, Richard has developed a contribution system, and only those with a high contribution system will have priority in using advanced instruments.

The doctors and magicians in Haaland's territory who can use a microscope to do research add up to a dozen people.

Heath, Butler, Adrian and others contributed less, and in order to use the microscope, they even needed to adjust their daily routines and sleep during the day and study at night.

Since the manufacture of microscopes in the territory last winter, it has been less than half a year now, and a lot of research results have been made in both medicine and magic, and more than 20 papers have been published in journals within the territory.

There were several papers that were of very high quality and refreshing to Richard.

Now in Haaland's territory, there are already more than 30 magicians, magic apprentices, 20 doctors, and 6 teachers who have published papers.

Although these papers are not published publicly, only a few dozen copies are printed at a time. But scientific research in Haaland's territory has begun to take root, and as long as this seedling is protected, it can one day grow into a towering tree.

After the first microscope was made, Ruiz and two mirror sharpeners continued to work hard and spent three months making adjustments to build the second microscope.

This microscope magnified even more, up to 120 times.

It is simply impossible to study the microstructure with a 120x microscope.

But there is magic in the Dawn plane, and through visual magnification magic, superimposed on a microscope, you can continue to magnify the visual effect.

Visual magnification is only a two-ring magic, and standard magic can only magnify the image tenfold. However, if you invest thirty points of spiritual power, the effect of visual magnification will increase to a thousand times, and with a microscope of one hundred and twenty times, the magnification effect will be superimposed to 120,000 times, and the internal structure of the crystal can barely be observed.

While Richard asked the Institute of Optics to continue to improve the microscope, he began to study the differences in the structure of magic crystals from those of discarded magic crystals.

Gradually, Richard noticed the difference.

There is a special mechanical structure in the magic crystal atom full of magic energy, this structure is a natural magic rune, once the magic power in the magic crystal is exhausted, this special mechanical structure will lose its balance, and the rune will also dissipate.

By studying this rune, Richard discovered a fundamental problem with the storage of magical energy.

He used the super magic metal to create the first artificial magic crystal, even if this artificial magic crystal is very large in size and has a mass of several hundred catties, the magic energy stored in it is not enough to release a zero-ring trick, and the artificial magic crystal that was created by spending thousands of gold coins before and after is not practical at all.

But this is a breakthrough from zero to one, and after completing this step, the mage's theory of magic energy storage has been completely opened.

There was already a light at the end of the tunnel, and Richard immediately mobilized all the magicians to participate in the project.

There are many problems that need to be solved, such as the problem of magic energy conversion, the problem of magic power output accuracy, the problem of magic energy interface, the problem of charging formation efficiency, etc., and I don't know how much time it will take to research successfully by relying on Richard alone?

The first meritorious one was Butler, who had a special understanding of the magic factor because he had converted to meditation, and a sudden inspiration allowed him to create a special rune that solved the problem of magic energy transformation.

Immediately afterwards, with the help of the Institute of Optics, the Territory Mage Guild overcame the problem of the accuracy of mana output.

The magic energy interface problem didn't get stuck for long, and it entered May, and was overcome by Wendy and the research team.

The hardest part is the efficiency of the charging circle.

This problem is particularly difficult to solve, and the charging efficiency of the current charging circle is too low, only about one in five hundred, and it takes more than ten days to charge a piece of magic crystal.

Mana Wells can provide a steady stream of energy, and a lot of mana energy is wasted every year, even if the charging efficiency is too low, this technology is still starting to bring profits to Haaland's territory.

With the continuous improvement of the charging circle, the charging efficiency has gradually improved, reaching about one percent.

The efficiency is increased by a factor of five, and a standard magic crystal can be charged in about three days.

If there are enough discarded shards, this technology can bring Haland's territory a hundred gold coins per month.

As the charging efficiency continues to increase, the benefits will increase, and if the charging efficiency can be increased to 30%, relying on this small magic well, Haaland's territory will receive 36,000 gold coins per year.

According to the salary of eight silver coins per month for veterans of Haaland's territory, four thousand soldiers can be supported.

In addition, the Tower of Lightning is also equipped with a formation to gather magic power, and the magic core of the legendary magic beast is equivalent to a magic energy battery that can be used an infinite number of times, and it can also recharge the discarded magic crystal.

Because this technology is extremely promising, it will even advance the level of magical civilization in the Dawn plane. So Richard took this technology very seriously, and Wendy was personally involved in improving the charging efficiency.

Despite the small amount of money he had made now, Richard still ordered Hayden to mobilize the elite soldiers of the intelligence department to secretly monitor the personnel involved in the research and prevent them from contacting outsiders.

This research was also arranged by Richard at the Tower of Flames.

Fearing that the Venus family would leave behind a secret door, Richard had not arranged for anyone to the Tower of Flame in recent months.

By the end of June, the Tower of Lightning had been built, and members of the Harland Mage's Guild had largely migrated to the vicinity of the Tower of Lightning.

The territory's magic laboratory has also been moved to the Tower of Lightning.

In order to serve the group of magicians, Richard also arranged a few thousand people near the Tower of Lightning.

The Tower of Lightning is located at the northern end of the Harland Territory, more than a hundred kilometers away from Malte Castle to the south, and due to the territory's strict migration order, there are basically no outsiders in this area.

The Tower of Fire is very close to the Tower of Lightning, and the mages of the realm can do research in the Tower of Fire during the day and return to the Tower of Lightning at night.

Outside the two magic towers, Richard arranged garrisons to prohibit idlers from approaching.

The time entered September, and the efficiency of the charging formation had improved again, reaching about three percent. At this rate, it can charge a discarded magic crystal in a day.

Because of the increased charging efficiency, the abandoned magic crystals in Haaland's territory were soon consumed.

Richard began in June, through the commercial channels of Haaland's territory, and began to buy abandoned magic crystals at a premium of 10%.

After years of development, the scale of the commercial channels in the Haaland territory has been quite large, relying on a wide variety of goods, it has spread all over the three provinces of Northern Xinjiang, and has also developed into the three dukedoms of Jonathan, Edward, and Fox.

The size of the caravan is second only to the three dukedoms in northern Xinjiang.

Relying on the commercial tentacles of Haaland's territory, the caravan negotiated with hundreds of hereditary nobles, and also found many professional families, and in a few months, the caravan traveled all over the three provinces of northern Xinjiang and purchased more than 5,000 magic crystals that had exhausted their magic power.

Compared with the purchase price of the royal family, Haaland's territory has given a premium after all, and it can also exchange discarded magic crystals for various goods.

The little nobles are all living on a budget, and this acquisition has almost scavenged the abandoned magic crystals that the little nobles in Northern Xinjiang have accumulated for several years.

Having acquired enough discarded shards, Wendy continues to lead the research team to improve the efficiency of the Charged Magic Circle.

As we enter September, the autumn harvest has been completed.

This year's climate has been somewhat dry, and grain production has dropped by 30%.

Fortunately, this year, the Haaland Territory has developed a large-scale paddy field near Grayfordson and extracted water from the Black River for irrigation, which is relatively less affected by the drought, and by the time the autumn grain is put into storage, the grain depot has stored 80,000 tons of grain.

Grain reserves are a matter of life and death for the territory.

In order to prevent the granary managers from embezzling and reselling grain, Richard formulated a strict system, allowing Tang En, who was in charge of agriculture, to inspect and count the grain depot once every half a month, and Richard would also conduct random inspections from time to time.

Although the random inspection system cannot fundamentally solve the problem and treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, it can still play a little role and catch some big rats.

These people also came to burn down the granary, and there was no proof of death.

In his previous life, Richard had seen the granaries of the world, and he also knew the news of the burning of the granaries, but he didn't expect that in his territory, he would change the soup instead of the medicine, and the same thing happened.

It's a pity that the lords of the transcendent world don't need to compromise with the bureaucrats under their rule, all the bureaucrats in the grain depot were executed by Richard Lingchi, and their families were sent to the mines to be accompanied by the orcs, even the two-year-old children.

The soldiers guarding the grain depot were all executed because they failed to fulfill their duties, and the soldiers were expelled from the army and never hired for three generations.

Among them are professional officers who have been in the army for eight or nine years, and there are also veterans who have been in a hundred battles. The officer at the head is even a distant branch of the Harland family, and a blood relative of Gibson, the grand butler of the Harland family.

Richard also showed no mercy in his treatment of these people.

Even if many people interceded with Richard, they were severely reprimanded by him and pushed back.

Harsh punishments can still have some deterrent effect.

Especially when the territory is not too big and Richard can still supervise it, the bureaucrats dare not go too far in order to save the family's head.

Of the 80,000 tons of grain, Richard had to feed 140,000 indentured slaves, and he had to leave next year's grain to grow and reserve grain, and only 20,000 tons could be sold.

This year, due to the drought, the grain output in the western inland region has been seriously reduced. The price of grain in Heihe Fort is higher than in previous years, and 20,000 tons of grain can be sold for 46,000 gold coins.

After September, Richard continued to patrol the territory, dealing with a number of corrupt officials, dismissing a number of incompetent officials, and promoting a number of newcomers with better performance.

For two whole months, Richard's footprints traveled to every village, factory and mine in Haaland's territory.

The lord worked tirelessly to personally contact the grassroots, so that a lot of filth could not be hidden.

In a village near Fort Vick, Richard walked into a random freeman family and asked, "How was this year's harvest, and did the officials at the town hall bully you?" ”

"This year's harvest is not very good, the village chief is very unfair when dividing the fields, our family has not been allocated paddy fields, we can't eat enough after paying taxes, we can only live with wild vegetables and grass roots, we don't even have money to buy winter clothes, and life is not as good as when we were indentured slaves, Master Richard, you must not ignore us!"

The freedman's name was Joseph, a slave that Richard had purchased from the Grand Duchy of Starnik, and had been industrious in Harland's domain for five years, though he had not made any merits or mistakes.

These men were pardoned by Richard a month ahead of schedule and became freedmen in March of this year.

Becoming a freeman before March will not delay spring ploughing, and generally speaking, indentured slaves who enter Haaland's territory before July will become freedmen some time in advance before spring ploughing.

In the face of Richard's questioning, Joseph was very frightened, but he may have a deep resentment towards the village chief and the bureaucrats in the agricultural department, so he was very angry when he complained.

Richard looked in the yard and found that a large amount of firewood and grass had been piled up in the yard, and it seemed that the family was relatively poor and could not afford coal, so they could only collect shrubs and dead grass for the winter.

The clothes they wore were also very shabby, they should have been issued when they were indentured slaves, and the clothes on the children's bodies had long been worn to tatters, and their skin was exposed, and now the climate was cold, and they were already a little blue and red.

The situation of this family can be said to be surrounded by four walls, and there is nothing.

After listening to Joseph's statement, Richard would not be biased, he nodded and said to the soldiers beside him: "Gather the villagers of this village, and then bring the officials of the agricultural department who have divided the fields for this village, and bring the village chief, and we will hold a meeting on the spot to see if the problem in this village is serious?" ”

After a short time, the soldiers took the village chief to the courtyard of Joseph's house, and the village chief wanted to be angry with Joseph, but because of Richard's presence, he did not dare to talk nonsense. However, when he heard all kinds of rumors about Richard's punishment of bureaucrats, his face turned pale, his legs trembled, and he looked trembling.

Soon the villagers also gathered, and Richard could see the numb expressions on the faces of some people.

Generally speaking, the freedmen of the territory have changed their lives and their lives have greatly improved, and their mental state is often positive. Seeing the many freedmen who were submissive and insensitive in their expressions, Richard immediately knew that the problem in this village should be more serious.

(End of chapter)