The next day, Senna and Richard repeated their old tricks, but they didn't expect that the Pale Plague was not fooled and did not send any undead creatures.

Because they didn't know the details of the undead Maharaja, in the dark of night, Senna, Richard and others did not dare to go deep into the mausoleum.

And Princess Offaland's consciousness cannot manipulate the secondary plane of the Pale Calamity. It is impossible to send a large number of undead creatures out to die and solve this situation.

Seeing that the Mausoleum of Princess Offaland had stabilized, Richard left a brigade of soldiers to help Archbishop Senna, and the high-level forces mainly relied on the manpower of the Dawn Church to maintain the operation of the base of Princess Offaland's Mausoleum

Richard took Haaland and led the backbone of the army and returned to different castles.

For this operation, Richard drew manpower from all sides.

Wilde of Demon Hunting City, Thoros of Norman Castle, Jennings of Nitburg were all transferred here, as well as the vassal lords of the territory, they were the backbone of each army, and the commanders were inseparable from their posts for too long.

Richard left the first squadron, the Lion Knights, and the members of the Territory Mage Regiment at Sam Castle to garrison them, so that these capable forces could support the Archbishop of Senna at any time. He took Sophia and a few others and returned to Fort William.

When Richard returned to Fort William, it was already December 24, and the various data at the end of the year had been counted, and he was ready to wait for Richard's annual meeting to make a year-end summary.

The first is the population, which was 10,000 more at the end of the year than estimated in the fall.

After more than ten years of development, Haaland's territory has cultivated tens of thousands of literate people, the quality of officials has been highly improved, and a complete household registration system has been established.

The territory forbade the possession of private slaves, and Richard enacted strict decrees, once the slaves were reported to the authorities, they would immediately restore their freedom, and they would also severely punish the slave owners who kept private slaves.

Not only did the slave owner face a large fine, but he also lost his citizenship rights and became an indentured servitude again.

In addition, the Haaland territory also has a private slave purchase decree, and after the slaves purchased from the outside enter the territory, the official will pay to compensate the slave owner.

With Richard's support, these decrees could be enforced. Therefore, in Haaland's territory, basically no one dares to offend the law and keep private slaves.

Without private slaves, the territorial household registration department was able to accurately count the population.

The extra 10,000 people on the household registration this year are mainly free people who have migrated from the northern Xinjiang region.

Because the laws of Haaland's territory are relatively fair and strict, and the political order is far beyond the territory controlled by other lords, it also exceeds the territory controlled by the royal family, so it can attract a part of the population to move in every year.

Many of these foreign freedmen are well mixed, a considerable number of them are professional families, and many of them have aristocratic blood, which is a very scarce and high-quality population.

They have their own savings, and after joining the Haaland territory, they can immediately drive consumption, which is very beneficial to the economic development of the territory.

According to the year-end household register, the population of Haaland's territory is already 1.476 million.

Because 240,000 indentured slaves have become freedmen this year, there are already 695,000 freedmen in Haaland's territory. After more than 10 years of development, the proportion of free people in the population has exceeded 47 percent, and if a large number of indentured slaves are not added next year, this proportion will increase by a large margin.

With nearly 700,000 free people, a large consumer market has been formed in northern Xinjiang, much larger than Nolan, the capital of the Grant Kingdom.

The total number of people in Nolan who have spending power is about 500,000.

The land tax in Haaland's territory was not heavy, and a freeman collected three silver coins, nearly 700,000 people who collected taxes, and collected a total of about 170,000 gold coins.

Normally, this year should collect 174,000 gold coins in field tax, but this year, the new freemen are relatively poor, and the grain sent is all new grain, which contains high moisture, and the weight is lost when selling, and in the end they only get 170,000 gold coins in taxes.

In addition to the land tax, this year's commercial tax is more prosperous, and the income from customs duties is also rising. Combined with real estate taxes, installment payments and other windfalls, Haaland has received a record amount of tax revenue this year, with a total of 232,000 gold coins.

The land tax accounts for the absolute majority of the tax revenue.

More than 230,000 gold coins in taxes, this money is enough to support 10,000 regular troops, compared to the defense needs of Haaland's territory.

Looking at taxes alone, the level of Haaland's county is relatively low, only equivalent to the level of an earldom.

The traditional aristocracy oppressed the lords extremely cruelly, and the freedmen living near the castle paid an average tax of six silver coins per person. The fields in the countryside belonged entirely to the lord, the serfs were hungry and almost all of them were struggling on the death line, there was basically no yeoman peasant class in the territory, and all the profits were siphoned off by the lord.

An earldom with a population of four or five hundred thousand can collect taxes of nearly 300,000 gold coins to support a legionnaire.

Edward, Fox and other dukedoms, with a population of 1.23 million, can receive taxes of about one million gold coins.

The lion's share of Haaland's revenue has always been not taxes, but profits from government-run enterprises.

This year, 2 million mu of barren land has been reclaimed in the territory of Haaland, and the total amount of cultivated land in the territory has approached 10 million mu, although the output of the newly reclaimed cultivated land is not high, the total grain output of the territory has reached 940,000 tons, with an average yield of 188 catties per mu.

This year is not a good year, a large part of the farmland has suffered floods, and the overall calculation is that it is a normal year at most. The reason why the average yield per mu has not decreased too much is mainly due to the supply of fertilizer and the water conservancy projects built in recent years.

For more than ten years, the water conservancy project in the Haaland territory has been carried out, because the territory has a large number of indentured slaves, which is very suitable for major water conservancy projects, and the territory can also be used by the mage group.

Magicians use it to engage in engineering, as if it is open, it can play a very big role, two fossils into mud, mud into stone spells, can turn decay into magic, to make a large project far beyond the industrial level.

In the past ten years, 21 reservoirs have been built in the Haaland territory, which not only facilitates the water supply of the castles, but also plays a strong role in water regulation, which has greatly helped agricultural production.

After Richard ran the territory, he began to promote farm fertilizer in large quantities, and after using farm fertilizer, the average grain output increased by nearly 20 catties. No

The average production capacity per mu of the territory has increased to nearly 200 catties, mainly due to the large use of natural potassium fertilizer.

Last year, the production of natural potash fertilizer in the Haaland territory increased to 15,000 tons, with an average of 15 kilograms of fertilizer per mu, which can apply natural potash fertilizer to one million acres of land.

The average yield per mu of cultivated land with natural potassium fertilizer has increased to about 460 catties.

Of course, these cultivated land with potassium fertilizer is mainly fertile paddy fields, and these paddy fields are planted with high-yield crops, and the original yield per mu is 300 catties.

Nine hundred and forty thousand tons of grain, about half of which was in the hands of the freemen. The total grain harvested by the government-run farms in the territory this year is about 490,000 tons.

Last year's old grain was mainly used to prevent natural disasters, and there were 90,000 tons of grain in the depot.

This year, the total amount of grain put into storage has reached 580,000 tons.

Since the harsh treatment of his cousin Donn, the food system bureaucracy has been a little more honest, and the official who manages the food system, Burrien, is a capable person, and in the past two years, there have been relatively few bullshit things in the food system, and all kinds of big rats have been collected a few points.

In order to make the steel golem, Richard sold 40,000 tons of old grain to raise funds.

In addition, 35,000 tons were supplied to the flour mills, and only 55,000 tons of grain were left in the grain depots.

Although 500,000 tons of grain is a lot, the Haaland territory still needs to provide rations for more than 700,000 indentured slaves, even if a person averages 450 catties, 160,000 tons must be reserved.

Moreover, there are 80,000 armed men of various kinds in the Haaland territory, and a soldier consumes at least three catties of food a day, which is more than half a ton a year. Even if the auxiliary soldiers train a small amount and eat less, they will have at least 40,000 tons of military rations a year.

The consumption of military horses is also very serious, as the saying goes, one horse tops three soldiers, and the food consumption of Warcraft War Horses is equivalent to ten soldiers. Counting the Warcraft breeding base, there are nearly 2,000 Warcraft warhorses in Haland's territory, which is equivalent to supporting 20,000 soldiers, plus the consumption of warhorses and pack horses, it will cost 20,000 tons a year.

60,000 tons of military food is to maintain military food, if you attack the orcs, the consumption of military food may increase several times, and next year the orcs will invade again, and Richard needs to reserve 100,000 tons of military food.

This year, 240,000 indentured slaves will become freedmen and 1.44 million mu of farmland will be allocated, and the area of government-run farms will be reduced considerably, and 50,000 tons of grain will be left behind.

With the expansion of the market scale, winemaking also needs 10,000 tons of grain. In addition, 100,000 tons of grain reserves need to be left in case of natural disasters, and only 90,000 tons can be used in the stocks in the grain depots.

Although Haaland's territory is very short of money this year, the 90,000 tons of surplus grain Richard does not plan to sell, and next year it will face war, and grain reserves are the top priority.

Once Richard won the battle, he rescued a large number of slaves from the Orc Empire, and the food was just left for the new indentured slaves.

Richard had no experience before, and he had some problems in planning, selling some grain in the year of the Great War, and then buying grain from the market after the fall because of the increase in indentured slavery, which not only paid an extra transaction cost, but also a very dangerous thing.

Fortunately, the northern Xinjiang region is the grain land of the Kingdom of Grant, and the development of Haaland's territory has not gone wrong.

Grain could not be sold, but flour could be sold, and 35,000 tons of grain were sold to the flour mills, bringing 70,000 gold coins to the treasury.

With the invention of the steam flour grinder, white flour entered thousands of households.

According to the factory wholesale price of Haaland's territory, a ton of flour is six gold coins, and the retail price of the shops in the castle is three copper coins per kilogram.

The flour mill sells a ton of flour, which, excluding various costs, is about a gross profit of three gold coins.

However, it requires a huge capital of 800 gold coins to buy a steam flour mill, and to run a flour mill, it is necessary to buy coal, wood and other fuels, and hire skilled workers.

Last year, processing a ton of flour earned about two gold coins in net profit.

Last year, the Haaland Territory processed a total of 60,000 tons of flour, bringing a net profit of 120,000 gold coins to the territory.

But part of the profits go to private flour mills such as Odaye, and the state-owned flour mills in Haaland's territory have a total profit of 100,000 gold coins.

The private flour mill run by Odaye and others also had to pay a 35 percent tax, and the 7,000 gold coins were included in the tax, which was a new tax in Haaland's territory.

Nowadays, the government-run enterprises in the Haaland Territory are still very simple, most of them operate monopoly goods, and they have to pay all their profits every year, and they do not need to pay taxes.

The reason why Richard was willing to let private capital enter the flour processing industry to compete with the government for profits was first to promote competition, and only with full competition could the technological level be continuously improved.

The second is to allow private capital to flow within the territory.

Some successful people who entered the territory relatively early, such as Odaye and others, have accumulated thousands of gold coins in their hands after more than ten years of accumulation.

If they don't find a place to invest the money, they can only hide the gold coins in the cellar, or use them to buy land estates to speed up the land annexation.

The Harland Territory Decree restricts land annexation, the more arable land you own, the heavier the tax on land beyond the standard base, as long as the tax can be collected, the purchase of a large amount of farmland is basically for the territory to work.

Richard attached great importance to the issue of taxation, and no matter how high or low his position was or how big or small his merits were, as long as he evaded taxes and resisted taxes, he would be severely punished by Richard, and he would not tolerate mercy to anyone.

Whether it is a relative of the Harland family or a nobleman of the Stowe family, as long as he finds out, Richard will not give face to anyone, confiscate all property, and be reduced to indentured slavery to participate in labor. These people included Richard's cousin, Sophia's cousin, and some officers and soldiers who had made meritorious deeds.

After many struggles, the bureaucrats in the territory did not dare to take a hard top in the collection of taxes.

At least in Richard's generation, there weren't many tax evaders.

Land cannot be annexed, and gold coins can only be hidden in the cellar.

Gold coins are not in circulation, and the economy cannot function.

Only when gold coins are circulating can they create demand, drive economic development, and play a monetary role. Therefore, Richard also had to constantly reduce the restrictions on private capital investment to give full play to the effect of this part of the gold coin.

This year, the development of animal husbandry is relatively stable, and the number of sheep slaughtered in official pastures exceeds 2 million, but there are already 700,000 freemen in the territory this year, and the freedmen are all people with spending power. Nearly a million sheep are digested in the territorial market.

The consumption of more than one million troops is also very staggering, plus the welfare of civil servants, the bereavement pensions and bonuses of the families of soldiers who have died in battle, the disabled, and meritorious soldiers, and 800,000 sheep have entered the mouth of this huge gold-swallowing beast.

The remaining 200,000 sheep were basically sold to the two castles of Black River and Blazing.

This year, the wealth of the people in the territory has increased again, and more than 200,000 freemen have been added, and the market has expanded very rapidly, and there is no longer a need to travel thousands of miles to drive the sheep to Nolan and the southern provinces.

In addition to the expenses of feed and labor, the government-run ranch brought 96,000 gold coins to the territory this year.

Because the government-run ranches use a large number of sheep and are familiar with the habits of sheep, and they have been very successful, the number of free-range sheep has been particularly scarce, and occasionally a few farmers raise a few free-range sheep and keep them for their own food, so it is basically impossible to collect much tax in this regard.

(End of chapter)