With money to spare, Richard was ready to take out a sum of gold coins and buy surplus ploughing cattle from nearby lords.

Throughout the winter, the caravans of Haaland's territory traveled all over the three provinces of Northern Xinjiang, and even entered the Duke of Jonathan, adding up to 4,000 cattle, plus the cost of transporting the cattle, costing 26,000 gold coins.

Half of the 4,000 cattle were ploughing cattle and the other half were bison. Bison cannot yet be used to plow the fields and need to be domesticated for a while.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, a ploughing ox can help four free households to cultivate farmland during the spring ploughing period, and if they choose to cultivate the wasteland, they can cultivate about 80 acres of farmland. On average, three to five acres can be cultivated per day.

If you are cultivating cooked land, the plough is relatively shallow, and you can cultivate ten acres of land every day. If you plough shallowly, the mule ploughs the land faster.

If you use Warcraft War Horse, because of its strong strength and good endurance, the efficiency of plowing the field is ten times that of the ploughing ox. However, the Warcraft War Horse is extremely powerful, has a violent temper, and is relatively intelligent in itself, so it is not easy to use, and only professionals can control it.

There are only more than 100 iron wildebeest horses in Haaland's territory, and even if they are all used to plow the fields, it is a drop in the bucket.

The main force of spring ploughing also relies on mules, horses, and oxen to do it.

4,000 head of cattle can cultivate 480,000 mu of farmland.

Haaland's territory originally had 3,600 head of cattle and more than 6,000 mules and horses for cultivating land, but now the territory has only 1.1 million mu of farmland.

This year marks the tenth year that the Haaland family has been a nobleman.

By the end of the decade, the population of Haaland's territory had reached 216,000.

Richard did not buy slaves this year, and most of the 14,000 additional people were newborns, and only 2,000 slaves were also privately purchased indentured slaves.

All privately purchased slaves must be converted into indentured slaves after entering the Haaland domain, and the territory will compensate the slave purchaser a sum of money after the contract expires.

When private slaves enter the territory, it is difficult to access the core secrets of the territory.

Generally speaking, most of the industrial and mining enterprises in the territory will choose slaves purchased by the Grand Duchy of Starnik, and the managers at the grassroots level will only choose from the free people.

The leakage of the winemaking process has caused a lot of losses to Haaland's territory. All factories with technological advantages are very strict in guarding against the outside world. Even salespeople who are in constant contact with the outside world are now not allowed to enter Fort William and Fort Sophia. Basically, business dealings are conducted through Vicburg.

Because of the leak of the salesperson, the territory summed up the lessons learned, and Richard ordered the salesperson to rotate every three months.

Although this will affect the business, it is the only way to prevent salespeople from being bribed. After all, there is no such thing as perfect in the world, and now for the sake of secrecy and security, we can only sacrifice efficiency.

In November, the efficiency of the charging formation has increased to six percent, and a magic crystal can be filled with magic energy in twelve hours, relying on the magic well of the Tower of Flames, the gross income of Haaland's territory has reached six hundred gold coins per month.

It only takes a small amount of money to buy a discarded magic crystal, and the cost is only thirty-three gold coins per month. The formation of running the magic crystal charge requires a magician and two magic apprentices to take care of it, and it adds up to a salary of seven gold coins per month.

The profit of more than five hundred and sixty gold coins per month from a magic well is already very considerable for Haaland's territory.

In December, Richard summoned the officials in charge of the finances of the territory. Report this year's fiscal revenue and make next year's financial budget.

The first to speak was Gibson. In the last year or two, Mrs. Ola has let go of the business business, and most of it has been handed over to Gibson and Mrs. Kelly.

As the Haaland family grew in power and produced more and more goods, the business of Blackriver Fort also got better and better.

The Harland family's industry in Blackriver Fort is very chaotic, with chain taverns, inns, trading stations, transportation companies, real estate properties, mills outside the city, grain stations in the city, garment stores, shoe stores, and so on.

This year's income has exceeded two thousand gold coins, which is definitely a huge amount of money for ordinary merchants.

The Haraland family is already one of the largest chambers of commerce in Blackriver Castle, and Lady Ola plans to build a theater and form a cabaret troupe next year.

In recent years, Richard had not borrowed money from Lady Ola, and she had accumulated a huge sum of five thousand gold coins in her small treasury.

Next up is Leiden.

A few years ago, Richard promoted Rooney to civil affairs officer in Fort Sophia, and Layton succeeded Rooney as factory director.

In recent years, because there are no large orders from the outside world, the income of the brick kiln factory is very average, this year the territory has increased a large number of free people, real estate has begun to develop rapidly, the construction market is relatively active, and the profit has reached 1,300 gold coins.

Because the demand for real estate is relatively large, the output value of cement and glass has increased a little, making a lot of money.

By this year, the glass production technology of Haaland Territory has become better and better, relying on copper molds, and has begun to produce flat glass in large quantities.

The windows of many houses have been replaced with clear glass. Together with the glass bottles needed for cans and wine, and the glassware needed for hospitals, schools, and laboratories, the income of the glass kiln this year has exceeded 3,000 gold coins.

Glass, bricks, wood, cement and other real estate chains, this year's income adds up to 6,000.

The steel industry is still very stable, Haaland's territory has produced 1,300 tons of steel this year, and the selling price of steel has fallen a little compared to last year.

Now the retail price of steel has fallen to 25 gold coins per ton, and a kilogram of good quality iron ingots sells for only nine copper coins.

The output value of steel in Haaland's territory has reached 32,500 gold coins. Of the 1,300 tonnes of steel produced, only 800 tonnes were sold, and the remaining 500 tonnes were mainly used in the territory.

The sale of 800 tons of steel brought in about 20,000 gold coins, and in addition to the wages of a few hundred workers and the food consumed by the orc slaves in the mines, the net profit of the steel trade was about 16,000.

The profit of the wool business has surpassed that of steel this year, and the number of sheep in Haaland's territory has exceeded 2 million this year, and the net profit of the wool business has reached 23,000.

Grain cultivation brought 40,000 gold coins, but 26,000 were consumed to buy ploughing cattle, and 14,000 gold coins remained.

This year, there are already 60,000 freemen in Haaland's territory, and they need to pay a land tax of 15,000 gold coins, plus commercial taxes, house rents and other miscellaneous income, adding up to about 18,000.

Brown sugar plantations have doubled their output this year and a half to 260 tons. Because the production has increased too much, the wholesale price of brown sugar has been reduced a little. Now the price of brown sugar in Haaland's territory on the market has been reduced to twelve copper coins per kilogram, and the wholesale price has been reduced to ten copper coins per kilogram.

In Haaland's territory, brown sugar is no longer considered a luxury, and free people can eat some often.

But in the royal capital of Nolan, the price of brown sugar is still high, and it is still a luxury like honey.

The next few years will be the years of the explosion of brown sugar production, which will exceed 1,000 tons in three years and may exceed 2,000 tons in five years.

With such a huge production capacity, it is absolutely not enough to rely on the 200,000 or 300,000 people in northern Xinjiang who have the ability to consume.

For the impact of the explosion of brown sugar production capacity, Richard made two preparations, the first is to reduce the price of sales, the market will sink, and the second is to develop to the royal capital Nolan.

This year, the profits brought by the brown sugar plantation have already reached 5,500 gold coins.

Last summer, the Flame Spider Queen laid eggs and hatched new Flame Spiders, and this year she began to spin silk, and the production of Flame Spider Silk increased by half, and the income increased to 1,500 gold coins.

The output value of coal mines is still rising, and the output value of coal mines this year has reached 21,000 tons, and the output value of coal mines this year has reached 7,000 gold coins, and the profit has also reached 5,000 gold coins.

Richard lowered the selling price of coal in order to get coal into freedmen homes and reduce deforestation.

The price of a ton of coal is only four silver coins, and if it is raised to eight silver coins, the profit will exceed 10,000 yuan.

But when the price is high, many freedmen will not choose coal, but will cut down trees and burn wood for the winter.

With the increase of the number of freemen, the income of fruits and fruit preserves also increased, especially canned fruits, after several years of foreshadowing, the market was completely opened, and fresh fruits could be eaten in winter, although the price was relatively expensive, and the nobles liked it very much.

Relying on the large wild orchards on both sides of the Haaland Valley, the net income has exceeded 3,000.

In addition, the rose perfume was also successfully produced, and it was sold to aristocratic women through the channel of Lady Ola, and this year was the first year, and the income was relatively small, only eight hundred gold coins.

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

Hunting Warcraft is now also an important benefit for Haraland's territory.

Throughout last year, the demon hunting team went deep into the Eagle Mountain Range more than a dozen times, successfully hunted the monster three times, and the territory received 8,000 gold coins by sharing dividends with the demon hunting team.

In addition, last year, he made a four-wheeled carriage and earned 1,400 gold coins. The Haaland Territory used four-wheeled carriages to form a transport team, and the profit was also two thousand.

The magic crystal charging technology researched in Haaland's territory is very promising, and he has charged two hundred and sixty discarded magic crystals in a year, earning more than two thousand four hundred gold coins.

By next year, the magic well of the Tower of Flames will be able to bring a net income of 6,500 gold coins to the territory, which is a lot of money. In addition to the Tower of Fire, there is also the Tower of Lightning in Haaland's territory.

The energy core of the Tower of Lightning is the magic core of the legendary monster, which can slowly absorb magic from the natural environment, and can also install the magic crystal charging formation, and the two mage towers will charge the abandoned magic crystal, and the income to the territory will exceed 10,000.

For the whole of this year, the cash income of Haaland's territory was 160,000. Excluding the windfall of 40,000 gold coins from the Venus family, the income of the territory is still 120,000.

The income of 120,000 gold coins is already equivalent to half of that of the Southern Earl.

This year's cash proceeds of 160,000 gold coins cost 26,000 to buy ploughing cattle, about 40,000 to pay soldiers' salaries, 10,000 to spend on army logistics supplies, 6,000 to territorial officials, and 3,000 to medical and educational funds.

The expenses for a year are about seventy-five thousand gold coins.

By the end of the year, 85,000 gold coins had been saved in the treasury.

It was useless to keep so many gold coins in the vault, and Richard was going to leave a reserve of 15,000 gold coins, and the remaining 70,000 gold coins were going to the Grand Duchy of Starnik to buy slaves.

Seventy thousand gold coins can buy 14,000 slaves, and with these 14,000 slaves, the population of the territory will exceed 230,000.

Entering the fall, the recruits have completed their training. Richard mixed eight squadron recruits with veterans from the third and fourth brigades to form the fifth and sixth battalions.

Richard, the captain of the Fifth Brigade, appointed Roland, who was still a little inconvenient to fight on horseback although he was fitted with a prosthetic leg. This time, the territory army was greatly expanded, and Richard took the opportunity to transfer him to the infantry to do his old job.

Richard, the captain of the Sixth Brigade, appointed Jennings, whose talent was very outstanding, and he was promoted to the fourth rank at the age of twenty-seven, two years faster than William, Roland and other people with better talents.

This year, 46 soldiers were promoted to professional positions, and all the new professional officers were transferred by Richard to the Fifth and Sixth Brigades.

Although these two brigades are newly organized, a large number of veteran officers have been transferred, and their combat effectiveness is not weak at all, because they have received a large number of enchanted equipment from the Venus family, and their combat effectiveness can be comparable to that of the main army.

With more and more troops under his command and higher ranks of professionals, Richard knew in his heart that the Haaland family must be promoted to earl as soon as possible.

A nobleman is promoted to an earl in order to be canonized.

According to the nobility law of the Kingdom of Grant, a count could be canonized as a baron.

In the Kingdom of Grant, the lowest hereditary title is a baron.

The royal family would bestow on the Praetorian Guard the title of Lord of the Mid-Rank Professions, and give them a portion of the land and estate. However, the lord did not have the status of a member of the noble council, and his descendants could not inherit this part of the land and estate if they could not be promoted to the middle ranks.

Professionals struggle all their lives, just for this title and land that can be passed on to future generations, to open the door to the upper class, and to let their descendants achieve a class jump.

If the Haaland family stagnates, it will become less attractive to talented people. Richard knew in his heart that titles, domains, and honors were the cornerstones of loyalty in this era.

Even though Richard promoted many professional officers from among the slaves and changed their fate, many people were grateful to Richard.

However, if the channel for professionals to rise to the nobility is blocked, I am afraid that it will develop to a certain extent, and many people will still choose to leave the Harland Domain, join the main army or defect to other big nobles, and be promoted to hereditary barons.

This kind of thinking is determined by the social atmosphere of the Dawn Plane for thousands of years, as long as you live in this plane, you will be influenced by mainstream values, and it is difficult to forcibly change.

Judging from the accumulated merits, Richard was not far from being promoted to earl. He has two viscount lands under his name, and obtaining one more viscount fief will promote him to the rank of earl. If the next orc invasion war can seize the opportunity to make a meritorious battle, he should be able to become an earl.

(End of chapter)