After taking control of the Lothar Basin, the Haaland Territory was already a principality straddling the north and south of the Eagle Mountains. With this promotion, King Roger also granted a large number of territories in the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains to the Duke of Haraland.

Today's Haaland is 400 kilometers from east to west and more than 200 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of more than 90,000 square kilometers, which is already equivalent to a small province in Richard's memory in his previous life.

As a mountain duke straddling the north and south of the Eagle Mountains, the roads between the counties are a top priority.

Overall, the southern part of the Harling Territory is relatively gentle, with large areas of hills and a small amount of plains. The northern region, with the exception of the Losa Basin, is largely mountainous.

Richard has always attached great importance to infrastructure projects, and more than ten years ago he personally participated in the construction of roads and mines, from the castle of Baron Far Harden to Fort Vic, from Fort Vic to Fort Wilhelm, from Fort Sophia to Fort Wilhelm, from Fort Wilhelm to Fort Pratos several roads have been built more than ten years ago.

With the expansion of the territory, Haaland also built the section from Malte Castle to Grayfordson, from Grayforson to Copperhill, from Copperhill to Fort Reindeer, and from Fort Reindeer to Salt Lake County. By three years ago, the highway had been built to Fort North in Salt Lake County.

The road network in the Haaland Territory is roughly one horizontal and two vertical, with a total length of more than 600 kilometers, and the lateral roads are mainly in the south, from the Iron Lion Castle (formerly Baron Harden's Castle) to Greyfordson in the south-east of the territory.

Two north-south kilometres, one from Graveson, to Fort North.

One starts at Castle Mart and runs along the gorge, heading north from Fort William, where the road is built to the north of Fort Gunstation, where it joins the swamp basin.

In addition, an improvised road has been built in the Grotta River county, which falls far short of the standard of the Haaland Collar Highway.

After being promoted to the knighthood and receiving the new territory, Richard immediately sent a large number of surveyors to prepare to replan the transportation.

First of all, the road from Fort Garrison to Fort Hurricane was built, which is now very difficult to walk, and it is the most important communication between the north and the south of the Duke of Haaland.

Fortunately, the road is located in a valley, and the elevation fluctuations are not very large, so it is not very difficult to build, and there is no need to climb over mountains.

After the summer harvest was completed, Richard transferred 7,000 middle-aged laborers from the Lothar Basin, and his uncle Gorog also transferred more than 3,000 indentured slaves from the Warstation Fort and the Marsh Basin.

In addition to this main road, the two sections of the road from Graveson Castle to Fellin Castle and from Fellin Castle to King's Castle were also started this year.

Graveson, Ferrin Castle and King's Castle are all located at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains, the terrain is relatively flat, and a large part of it is plain terrain, and the road construction is relatively easy. The vicinity of the King's Castle is also dominated by hilly terrain, and according to the estimates of the headquarters, only 220,000 people are needed to build two sections of the road.

In addition to these two roads, which have already been started, the two sections of roads from Fort Salt Lake to Fort Im and Fort Im to Fort Nit are also in the planning of the headquarters.

Nit Fort has not yet had time to build, and it is still in the planning of the headquarters of the Harland Domain, this castle is located at the northern foot of the Eagle Mountains, and is an important passage to communicate the north and south of the Eagle Mountains.

The Imburg is located in the upper reaches of the Imu River, the main confluence river in the salt lake region, which originates from the meltwater of the snow-capped mountains, and the construction of this road requires crossing a 3,800-meter peak in the Eagle Mountains.

If the construction of this road is started, it will be more difficult from a technical point of view.

After Richard was promoted to duke, he prepared to build Fort Nit in the northern part of the Thani Gorge to block the orcs in this area. But the area around the Tani Gorge is full of barren mountains and mountains, and there are hardly any people.

If you want to build Fort Nit in the north of the Tani Gorge, you need great manpower and material support, if you can't overcome the difficulties, the road between Salt Lake County and Fort Nit in Shannan will be built, and the human and material resources of Salt Lake County will be used. The Tani Valley area must be developed, as the Harland Valley area must be developed, so that there will be enough manpower and material resources to invest in the construction near Fort Nit.

Compared with the investment in the development of the Tani Valley, although it is difficult to build a winding mountain road, the manpower and material resources invested are not comparable at all.

The Dawn Plane has extraordinary powers, involving knights and magicians, and its ability to engage in engineering is far more powerful than in the ancient times of Richard's previous life. Whether it's a fossil to mud spell or a mud to stone spell, it's very useful in engineering infrastructure. If you give Richard hundreds of mid-level magicians, digging holes with magical power is a few points faster than the shield machine.

It's a pity that there are not hundreds of mid-level magicians in the Haaland territory, and as of this year, there are still only three middle-level magicians in the Haaland territory: Richard, Sophia, and Wendy. However, the three-ring magician has added Adrian and Capezon.

Adrian is one year younger than Richard, and almost at the same time as Richard and Wendy, he learns magic knowledge, but his qualifications are average, and it took more than ten years and a lot of precious meditation potions to advance to the third ring in July this year.

Normally, Adrian's inferior talent and advanced three-ring mage at the age of forty can be regarded as very successful.

The reason why Adrian was able to advance to the Third Ring at the age of thirty was due to the good research environment of the Harland Leader Mage Association. Let him make some contributions to the study of magic.

Adrian's most important achievement was the creation of a ring of magic detection rays, which is a very important magic in the field of medicine, the effect is equivalent to an X-ray machine, which greatly promoted the development of diagnostics and is the foundation of magical medicine.

Because of his contribution to the study of magic, Adrian's meditation feedback was particularly good for a while, saving a lot of time, and with the help of sufficient resources, the speed of advancement was a few points faster than that of intermediate qualifications.

Capeson is not a native of the Duchy of Haaland, he is from Maryland.

Coming from a wealthy family in the city, Capezon received a meditation book when he was young, and by chance became a magician, having been hanging out in Nolan for the past few years.

At a gathering of wild mages, Capezon befriends Röntgenium.

Capezon has a good talent, and after advancing to the Three Rings, he was already preparing to go to the Magic Kingdom of Makholm to develop, and after receiving a letter from Roentgenium, he decisively joined the Harland Collar and became the sixth Three Rings Mage of the Harland Mage Association.

Compared to Roentgen, Capezon's luck is better, and the meditation method in his hand is very complete, and like the highland meditation method led by Haaland, he can smoothly advance to the Nine Rings.

This meditation book has been exchanged by Richard for the Highland Meditation Method, and it also has a certain reference value for him to deduce the legendary meditation method.

Although you can't rely on the power of a mage to dig a tunnel, a mage can still play a very big role in road construction.

Mages are half-scientists, and they have a high level of mathematics, so they can be used as engineers, and in addition, they can also use various magic to solve many problems in the course of engineering.

Haaland's territory has always been involved in big projects, and magicians have always been involved.

After the Grizzlies moved south, Richard and the others returned to the Duchy of Haaland.

At this time, it has entered October, and the autumn harvest of the territory has been completed.

Despite the war this year, the damage caused by the orcs to the economy of the Harland Territory is not serious. After all, the orcs failed to enter the rear of Haaland's territory to burn and loot, although the area near Sophia Fort carried out the order of the fortified wall, after all, it did not last long, and Richard joined forces with William before April to defeat the orc army.

Because the orcs failed too early, it barely affected the spring ploughing of the Haaland Territory.

This year has been a good year with plenty of rain, the crop yield is not bad, and with the grain reserves in the Losa Basin, there are about 280,000 tons of grain in the Dukedom of Haaland.

Today, there were about 700,000 indentured slaves in the Dukedom of Haaland, each of whom consumed an average of 450 catties of grain, and the remaining rations required 157,000 tons. In addition, 15,000 tons of military rations are also needed, 3,000 tons of grain are needed for winemaking, and 30,000 tons of grain are reserved for next year. In fact, there is not a lot of rich grain, and the grain that can really be put on the market is about 80,000 tons.

This year's grain exchange for slaves is still going on, with Haaland receiving 50,000 tons of grain in exchange for about 20,000 slaves, which Richard used to develop the Nelson region.

Even if 20,000 indentured slaves were purchased, there were still few people in many areas of Haaland's territory, and the total population of more than 90,000 square kilometers of land was less than one million, and there were about ten people per square kilometer.

Counting the land developed by the orcs in the Lotha Basin, the cultivated land of the Duke of Haaland has already reached six million acres.

Despite the lack of water conservancy facilities and the backward agricultural production technology in the Lothar Basin, the territory's grain production this year has reached 350,000 tons.

In mid-October, the main construction of the Hurricane Castle had been completed, most of the defenders had moved to the castle, the fuel for the winter had been stockpiled in advance, and a lot of food had been hoarded, and the defenders had begun to prepare for the winter.

In the Hurricane Castle, Richard left behind about three thousand defenders. The main force was the newly built 11th Brigade, and the Guard Brigade returned to Lott Castle to rest. In addition to a full infantry brigade, a squadron of scout cavalry, a squadron of magic hot air balloons, plus about a thousand auxiliaries were stationed in the castle.

Twenty-six heavy trebuchets were installed in the castle, two thousand alchemy bombs were stored, and the stockpiled armament could arm five thousand soldiers. Relying on the castle's reserves, it is enough for the defenders to fight a large-scale war.

By the turn of October, the road from Castle Hurricane to Castle Lott had been opened, and it was easy to put the manpower and material resources of the Lothar Basin into the vicinity of Castle Hurricane.

This year's main task is to build castles and open roads, and next year the focus of the Lothar basin will be on the construction of water conservancy projects.

There are more than 200,000 people in the Lothar Basin, and there is not much capital to be invested by headquarters.

The rational use of human resources in the Lothar Basin, coupled with the advanced production technology brought by Haaland, can greatly improve the productivity of the Lothar Basin.

Although the Lothar Basin has been the territory of the orcs for many years, the orcs have very rough planning and poor infrastructure, and it will take several years to adjust if they want to develop this land.

In the Lothar Basin, which was under the control of Haraland, Richard built two castles of Lotter and Sam near the two large settlements according to the actual situation in the Lothar Basin. The area of these two castles is not large, and the main castle is only three floors, which is more like a military camp than a castle.

Since April of this year, Richard has requisitioned about 600 officials from Haaland to take charge of the management of the Lothar Basin. These officials come from a variety of systems such as law, taxation, health care, education, mining, agriculture, etc., and many of them are young people who have just graduated from primary school. Despite the lack of experience and bumps in the work, by October, the relationship was finally straightened out.

Due to the large population of the Lothar Basin, Richard also deliberately set aside funds to build three elementary schools in the Lothar Basin. With the addition of these three primary schools, Haaland has already established ten primary schools.

When the school opens in January, the number of students in Haaland's territory will exceed 10,000 for the first time.

In late October, the weather is already relatively cold, and the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains are even colder than the southern foothills.

Especially in the vicinity of Fort Hurricane, there are strong winds all year round. Even orcs with better physical fitness and thick skin are reluctant to move around Hurricane Castle in winter.

In late October, the road from Haaland to Fort Troop was about to be completed.

The road runs from Castle Mart in the south of Haraland's territory and travels north along Fort William to Hurricane Castle in the northernmost part of the territory, a total of 280 kilometers. To the north of Fort Garrison, the terrain becomes precarious, with high mountains on both sides of the road, until it enters the Lothar Basin, where the terrain becomes gentle.

Richard rode in a horse-drawn carriage and looked at the scenery on both sides of the road.

The first snow has already fallen in Haaland's territory in mid-October, as the snow on the mountainside has melted as temperatures have risen, and meltwater from the mountains has flowed into rivers. Taking advantage of the rising temperature, a large number of caravans walked on this road before the heavy snow closed the mountain, seizing the time to transport various materials and commodities.

The roads built by Haaland are of a high standard, with a road width of 12 meters, which allows four horse-drawn carriages to pass side by side. Drainage ditches were dug on both sides of the road, and there were road guards on the outside of the drainage ditches. Some sections of the road that are often washed away by water also use new material asphalt.

Asphalt is a by-product of the coal chemical industry, and according to the current production capacity of Haaland, the annual output of asphalt is only more than 1,600 tons. Even if the road surface is paved thinner, so much asphalt can only build a kilometer of road. Compared with the huge demand for road construction, this asphalt output is simply not enough, so this material can only be used in key places, and it can be used as a special waterproof road repair material with cement.

It's about to enter November, and in November Haaland needs to hold the fourth commodity fair, and Richard needs to meet some people in person during the commodity fair.

Once the snow closes the mountain, it will cut off the communication between the north and south of the Eagle Mountains, so Richard needs to take advantage of the rising temperature to return to Fort William before the heavy snow covers the mountain, and only one squadron of personal soldiers will act with Richard.

Due to the unstable situation in the Lothar Basin, in order to guard against the orcs, Richard left a large army at the northern foot of the Eagle Mountains.

If it is winter, it will be difficult for the Lothar Basin to get support from Fort William, and without a large army to garrison, it may not be able to withstand the attack of the orcs.

(End of chapter)