Richard spent three months in the recruit camp, watching the recruits finish their training almost every day.

Since this year, Richard has tried to delegate a large part of his day-to-day work to his assistants. He grasped the key points of territorial management by himself.

Now Haaland's territory has a territory area of nearly 30,000 square kilometers, and the number of troops is more than 10,000.

He handed over the government work to Rog, the third brother of Sophia, who had served the Haaland domain for ten years.

After Richard was promoted to earl, Rogge was appointed chief of affairs in the territory of Haraland, equivalent to Richard's cabinet premier, overseeing the overall situation, mainly in charge of taxation and finance.

Today, the county of Haaland is divided into one county and eleven cities by Richard, forming a three-level management system of counties, cities and villages.

This management system is still relatively rudimentary, in fact, the area of Haaland's territory is only slightly smaller than that of Geda Province. Normally, it should be divided into two or three counties, which will be slightly better managed.

It's just that the population of the territory is relatively small now, so a county was established, and when the population multiplies and increases, it will be better to divide it into three counties according to the geography of the county of Haaland.

As the snow began to close in November, the Demon Hunters returned to Fort William to recuperate.

Sula once again joined the demon hunting team, but unfortunately they were unlucky this year, and they entered the Eagle Mountain Range for two months and almost returned in vain, but on the side of the scout cavalry, they hit three wind wolves and made some money.

In just three months, Sulla noticed that Fort William had changed a lot, and the streets were bustling with people, even though it was winter.

All the shops on the roadside have been rented out, and almost all of them are open.

Looking at the strange sight, Sula felt as if she had gone to Blackriver Fort.

After returning to the Odaye Hotel, Sula asked suspiciously, "What's the matter lately, so many people on the street?" ”

"Tomorrow Count Richard is going to hold a commodity fair, and in the last few days there have been many foreign caravans from Fort William, and I heard that there are also caravans from the Church of the Goddess of Fortune to sell the goods of the territory to other countries."

"This person comes and goes, will the secret of the territory craft be leaked, why no one persuaded Master Richard?"

Sulla, who had been a squadron leader for many years, already had some political sensitivities. In order to cultivate the overall ability of officers, Richard would show the annual economic statements of the territory to middle and high-ranking officers.

Through these statements, Sulla understood that the monopoly goods produced in the territory contributed the most to the tax administration.

Most of the soldiers' salaries and supplies depended on trade income from brown sugar, liquor, woolen cloth, steel and other commodities.

And these trade revenues are heavily dependent on the production process, once the production process leaks out, there is no monopoly advantage, and the trade income will fall seriously.

A few years ago, the liquor distillation process was stolen by Viscount Cisse, which caused the profit of the liquor trade to fall by 70%, and it took almost five years to recover the original profit.

This incident had a great impact on Haaland's territory, and many officers in the territory opposed Richard's policy of relaxing the ban.

Sula was very satisfied with his current life and a sense of belonging to the territory, and he had doubts in his heart and decided to go to the City Lord's Mansion to talk to Lord Richard in person.

Sulla, a middle- and high-ranking officer, is still very easy to see Richard.

When Sulla arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, Richard was talking to Rogge, who was in charge of preparing for the fair.

After talking to Rogge about the work and telling him some details, Richard met with Sula, and after listening to Sula's persuasion, Richard explained a few words to him.

"You can come to me to talk about this, it shows that you have a sense of belonging to the territory and have some big picture in politics. At present, most of the secret-related units have migrated to the swamp basin, and although the larger factories cannot be relocated, there are a large number of intelligence officers watching them, and outsiders are forbidden to approach, and it is difficult to leak the technology.

The most critical issue is the brown sugar, steel, and textile trade, which relies on the scale of operation to make profits. Even if the production process is leaked, it will take a long time to cultivate brown sugar seedlings and raise a large number of sheep. When someone else produces a commodity, we can also sell it at a reduced price, or even sell it at a loss, seize his market, and cause a backlog of his goods, making the business unprofitable in the short term. If you want to compete with territorial commodities, the threshold is very high. ”

Seeing that Sula couldn't understand the meaning of his words, Richard poured Sula a cup of tea and asked, "Sulla, are you talking about this matter today, is it your own idea, or the opinion of many officers and soldiers?" ”

Sulla was a cadre from the army, and he was more lenient with Richard, a cadre from the army, and attached great importance to their opinions. In particular, Richard had to have a general grasp of the ideological dynamics of military cadres. He will adjust his policies at any time and must not deviate too far from the mainstream ideology of officers and men.

After all, the officers and men of the army are working with Haaland's territory with their heads in their hands, and their interests cannot be ignored in the slightest. Any ruler who ignores the interests of the violent apparatus will naturally be overthrown by the violent apparatus.

"This is just my own idea, because the army's salary and logistics mainly rely on trade income. If the production process leaks and loses its monopoly position, our trade revenues will plummet. At that time, our military salaries will be lowered, we will lose sufficient material support, and our combat effectiveness will be seriously reduced. The officers have become demoralized. ”

"You're right to think so. Merchandise trade revenues are really important now. But if we want to develop in the future, we can't forever suppress the flow of commerce, prohibit the migration of our people, and refuse to communicate with the outside world. Lockdown limits our vitality and is detrimental to the economic development of our territory in the long run. ”

Richard was still very satisfied with the fact that the officers below could take the initiative to think and give himself some advice. But the counter-espionage work could not be slackened, and after sending Sulla away, he summoned the officials of the intelligence system, such as Noll, George, and Vitas.

"During the commodity fair, what measures do you have to prevent the infiltration of espionage and the leakage of commodity production processes?"

Noll took office, and this was the first fire he encountered. If the matter is not handled satisfactorily and really leads to the leakage of the process, his life will not have a future at all, and he will lose his life for dereliction of duty.

Hearing Richard's question, Knoll stepped forward and said: "During the fair, all employees of the factory are not allowed to leave the factory, and they will stay in the factory for a few days. Our people will work with the city defense force to take on the responsibility of locking off the factory and preventing the employees in the factory from meeting outsiders.

In addition, we will arrange special personnel to keep an eye on the caravans sent by several great nobles, and we will let some intelligence officers with special talents come forward in person.

Finally, we will strengthen border checks as the last line of defense. ”

Richard knew in his heart that only the first would work. Since the decision to lift the ban will inevitably bring the risk of leakage, how to choose is just a matter of weighing the pros and cons.

There is no perfect thing in the world, there is no way to know how the secret intelligence transmission work will appear, there is magic in this world, and some methods are almost impossible to prevent.

Today, we can only do our best to postpone the leak by a few years.

Haaland's territory is still growing at a high rate, and with each year of delay, the territory becomes stronger.

The leak of the process was delayed for ten years, and according to the speed of development of the Harland domain, it was enough to fight the dukedom of the Grant Kingdom.

"The work of preventing espionage should be closely coordinated with the mages of the territory, and if the magicians should be involved in the intelligence work, I will issue an order to the Harland Mage Association to assign some magicians to the intelligence department to prevent the enemy from using magic to transmit information."

The officers of the intelligence system were sent away, and the first commodity fair was opened the next day.

The trade fair in November was very successful, during which the Haaland territory reached a foreign trade order of 60,000 gold coins.

The fastest growth rate of foreign trade is the channel of the Goddess of Fortune Church, and the trade volume between the two sides has exceeded 80,000 in just a few years. Among them, 30,000 were imported and 50,000 were exported.

The main imports are some magic materials and potions, and the magic materials are mainly super magic metals such as orichalcum and mythril, some of which are used to make magic equipment, and some of which are used for research and magic experiments. Magic potions are mainly Radiant Elixir plus a small amount of meditation Elixir.

Now there is a big gap in the Tenghui potion in the Haaland territory, in addition to the two channels of the Grant royal family and the great nobles of Northern Xinjiang, there is also the channel of the Wealth Church, and the annual import volume has reached 800.

This year, the soldiers of the advanced professional combined, more than a hundred soldiers. Now there are more than 500 professionals in Haaland's territory, and they are almost able to catch up with the Northern Legion.

After the expo was held, it was December in the blink of an eye.

In December, Haaland's territory began to count various reports and make an annual year-end summary.

Today, the largest output value of Haaland's territory is still agriculture.

The territory has reclaimed 1.9 million mu of farmland, of which about 500,000 mu is private land of free people and 1.4 million mu is official land.

This year, a total of about 200,000 mu of official land is fallow, and the scale of planting cash crops in the territory is not large, except for 30,000 mu of cotton, about 1.2 million mu of official land for grain planting.

The 1.2 million acres of grain planted in the official fields add up to about 105,000 tons. The average yield per mu of dry land and paddy fields is 175 catties, which is a little worse than 200 catties in a bumper year. With 105,000 tons of new grain and some of the old grain left over from last year, the grain accumulated in the Guantian grain storage depot this year has exceeded 120,000 tons.

In addition, this year's tax grain is also quite large, about 10,000 tons.

The accounts of the tax grain and the official grain are calculated separately, and the tax grain is counted in the tax revenue. The grain harvested in Guantian is equivalent to the profits paid by state-owned enterprises, which is calculated by another ledger.

Now there are 90,000 freedmen in the territory, and the next two years will be the two years when indentured slaves will become freedmen in large numbers, and the number of freedmen in the territory will exceed 200,000 by then.

As of this autumn, there are still 230,000 indentured slaves in Haaland's territory, including 40,000 children under the age of 14 and 30,000 elderly people over the age of 40.

According to the sampling statistics of the Harland Territory Hospital, the average life expectancy of serfs in the Dawn Continent is only 35 years, and the reason why the average life expectancy is so low is that in addition to poor living conditions, the high infant mortality rate is the key.

Within Haaland's territory, after so many years of development, it has been able to treat some diseases, and the average life expectancy has increased to 48 years in this year's sample survey.

According to this standard, the population of the territory is over forty years old.

As for the aristocracy, because they are all professionals, have strong bodies, better medical security, and live far longer than ordinary people, such as the Duke of Breenne, who lived more than one hundred and sixty years.

The average life expectancy of ordinary nobles is also more than eighty years, which is stronger than that of developed countries in previous lives.

There are only about 160,000 indentured slaves in Haaland's territory, and the rest are old people and children.

Indentured slaves did not have the complete right to freedom of life, and the elderly and children had to undertake the work within their ability, such as collecting dung, collecting firewood, making bricks, raising chickens and ducks, mowing grass and herding sheep, washing wool, and keeping watch at night.

230,000 indentured slaves, Richard needed to provide for food and clothing every day, and 50,000 tons of rations needed to be left. In addition, 12,000 tons of grain need to be left, and the wine market has expanded a lot, and next year 5,000 tons of grain needs to be left for winemaking.

In order to prevent accidents, Richard is preparing to leave 25,000 tons of grain reserves this year.

This year, the army will be expanded by 4,000, and the soldiers and horses are all big-bellied, and people eat horses and chew for a year, and 8,000 tons of military food will also be consumed.

The amount of grain that can be sold to the outside world, including tax grain, is only 30,000 tons.

The input of 30,000 tons of grain into the Heihebao grain market will cause grain prices to fall.

However, the Haaland territory sells grain, and there is a stable big customer, the Northern Legion, which consumes more than 16,000 tons of military rations every year, and through William's relationship, the Haaland Territory can occupy a large share, selling 10,000 tons of military rations.

Richard also opened up the channel of the Church of Fortune, and sold 5,000 tons through the channel of the Church of Fortune this year.

The remaining fifteen thousand tons of grain, Richard will not sell at the Blackriver Fort grain market, but will exchange slaves with Duke Guise.

Fifteen thousand tons of grain, which could be exchanged for six thousand slaves. These 6,000 slaves were all slaves with complete families, and there were only 2,000 young and middle-aged slaves, of which only 1,000 were male slaves.

According to the agreement between the two parties, Duke Guise's caravan began to escort slaves to the north in February, and returned to the south with grain in March.

The size of the annual transaction needs to be negotiated in the winter of the previous year. In order to make a deal with the Haraland family, Duke Guise established a sizable trading post in Blackriver Fort.

In addition to selling slaves, the trading post also sold some southern specialties.

In this year's battle with the orcs, the army in Haaland's territory suffered a lot of casualties, with 700 officers and soldiers killed, and 400 officers and soldiers were disabled and could not continue the battle.

As long as the disabled officers and soldiers are in good physical condition, Richard has arranged for them to serve as cadres at the most basic level in factories and rural areas, and they also receive disability allowances.

Together with the soldiers killed and injured this year, the pension now issued by Haaland's territory is about five thousand gold coins per year.

Time can heal the wounds of war, and in the blink of an eye, it has entered December.

(End of chapter)