Through his observation around the lake, Richard found that there were many underground rivers around the lake, five of which flowed into the lake from the direction of the main peak of the Eagle Mountains.

The main source of water for the underground river that flows into the Snow Crystal Lake is the melting snow from the mountains.

Because Snow Crystal Lake is the spawning ground of Snow Crystal Fish, it is very dangerous under the lake, and Richard did not send anyone to explore the detailed situation.

There are two underground rivers that flow out of the lake, and according to Richard's estimates, they should flow into the Samba River dozens of kilometers away.

The Samba River is the main artery in the northern grasslands, and it has turned a bend in the northern part of the Snow Crystal Lake, and with this river acting as a natural line of defense, this section of the defense of Haaland's territory can be easier.

In June of this year, engineers in the Haaland Territory succeeded in building paddle steamers powered by steam engines.

This new type of ship, because of the imperfection of design and manufacturing, still needs to go through a lot of water testing and inspection.

In order to prevent the leakage of information and facilitate the secrecy, Richard placed the test work in the north of the Eagle Mountains, far from the core area of Haaland's territory.

Up to now, three steam paddle steamers have been built, and it is estimated that it will be completed until next year to complete the water test and transformation.

The three steam paddle steamers were already a significant water force in the northern prairies, which could assist the nearby Wilde and Sutton departments in defending their defensive lines.

From early August to late October, it is the spawning season for snow crystal fish, and the time to catch snow crystal fish is less than three months.

Through continuous observation and summarization, Richard found that there were six populations of snow crystal fish that entered the snow crystal lake to spawn, and the number of the six snow crystal fish stocks was about 50,000 or 60,000, and the small one or 20,000 was about 20,000, and the total number was roughly two or three hundred thousand.

The fighting between the snow crystal fish population is very fierce, and there are some casualties in each conflict. The dead and injured snow crystal fish made Richard feel very painful, because the snow crystal fish in this lake are all resources of Haaland's territory.

On average, a fishing squad needs twelve magicians and thirty warriors, and can catch dozens of snow crystal fish every day, which are worth thousands of gold coins.

Because it required the concerted efforts of a large number of mages to freeze the ice, only three fishing teams could be formed in the Haaland territory, and by the end of October, the number of snow crystals caught exceeded 10,000.

10,000 snow crystal fish, the internal organs taken out can refine 20,000 bottles of Tenghui Elixir, which can be converted into gold coins worth 600,000.

As long as the six snow crystal fish populations do not become extinct, they will still have the habit of spawning in the snow crystal lake, and this income will continue to flow.

With an annual output value of 600,000 gold coins, it is undoubtedly a very large industry, and the output that Snow Crystal Lake can bring to Haaland is greater than that of the steel industry that has been cultivated for many years.

Before refining the Venerant Elixir, the pharmacist needs to prepare a special potion to refine the internal organs and cerebral fluid of the demonic beast. Then the extract from the two transcendent plants has to be extracted, mixed and refined, and finally it has to go through a special magic array transformation before it can be made into a bottle of Tenghui Elixir.

To make a bottle of Tenghui Elixir, the market price of one main ingredient is about twelve gold coins, and the use of magic array can transform twelve bottles at a time, which requires the consumption of three magic crystals, and each bottle will also cost three gold coins. The two auxiliary materials can be planted on a large scale in the Enchanted Botanical Garden, each plant costs one gold coin, and it also costs eight silver coins to make a special potion, plus the wear and tear of the refining tools, on average, the cost of refining a bottle of Tencel Elixir is about eighteen gold coins.

However, the price of the Ventec Elixir in the market is often around thirty gold coins. The profit is more than two-thirds, just a little lower than the profiteering luxury.

Luxury goods are only a small industry that serves the aristocracy, and the perfume industry of Harland Collar basically monopolizes most of the market in the Grant Kingdom, and the annual profit to the territory is only 10,000 gold coins.

The aristocratic dress industry is slightly larger, but the clothing industry is an extremely personalized industry and basically cannot be monopolized.

Shoes, hats, jewelry, etc., the market size is not even comparable to perfume, and the profit is even less pitiful.

The annual demand for Grant Kingdom Ventec Elixir is more than 100,000 bottles, but the annual output is only about a little more than half, and the market size is more than 1.5 million.

More than 20,000 bottles of Tenghui Elixir are produced a year, and the net profit will reach 240,000 gold coins. Moreover, Haaland does not need to buy materials, and the cost of spending does not exceed 100,000 gold coins, and the total profit will reach 500,000.

The net income of 500,000 gold coins is enough to support the 30,000 main army. Even if this money is placed in a dukedom, it is a large source of wealth. Even if most of this batch of potions had to be digested in the territory, selling thousands of bottles could be exchanged for a large amount of extraordinary resources.

In order to protect the resources of the Snow Crystal Lake, the magicians who fish in the territory of Haaland every time they fish carefully calculate and catch according to the number of snow crystal fish populations. The quota is fixed each year to prevent the depletion of fishing, and according to careful estimates, the number of catches in the first year is a little more than four percent, for a total of 10,000.

In order to catch more snow crystal fish, Richard sent people to set up a simple base near Snow crystal Lake, and the nine magicians who were promoted this year also came here to practice.

Sophia and the members of the apothecary team also set up a simple alchemy workshop near the Snow Crystal Lake, because there are many materials this year, Sophia can also let go of cultivating apothecaries.

Three mage towers have been established in Haaland's territory, each of which has a magical plant plantation, and there is no shortage of auxiliary materials for refining Tenbright Elixirs. There are magic crystal mines in the Lothar Basin, and the magic crystal charging technology has also been invented, the supply of magic crystals can be self-sufficient, and now there are enough main materials, in just three months, the territory pharmacists have spent 20,000 bottles of materials, because to train new pharmacists, the success rate is much lower than in previous years, and only 17,600 bottles have been successfully refined.

Refining Tenghui Elixir, the success rate is less than sixty percent, even if it is a loss, this year's overall calculation, the success rate of the territory pharmacist is only eighty-eight percent, if all the materials are purchased from the outside and the premium is paid, in fact, there is no more money.

After spending 2,400 materials and more than 40,000 gold coin resources, the Haaland Mage Association added six pharmacists, and through this year's high-intensity refining of Tenghui Elixir, the level of experienced pharmacists in the territory has also improved a little. From the perspective of long-term benefits, the territory is still profitable.

Six new pharmacists have been added, the Harland Territory Apothecary Society, counting the two elven apothecaries, there are already thirteen members.

Normally, it takes a very high cost to train a pharmacist, even if there is a mentor's guidance and lengthening the cultivation time, it also requires a lot of trial and error costs.

Because there are too many snow crystal fish caught in the Haaland Territory, the materials cannot be kept for too long, so the training time can only be shortened, so that the pharmacy apprentices spend a lot of materials for practical operations, and summing up the experience, the cost of the newly trained six pharmacists has exceeded 7,000 gold coins.

Today, there are thirteen pharmacists in the Harland Territory, which is comparable to the Grant Mage Association, although the number of official members of the Harland Mage Association is less than one-third of the Grant Mage Association. On the contrary, it is the mage apprentice, and Haaland has more of them.

Relying on catching snow crystal fish, a large number of raw materials for refining the Venant Elixir were obtained, plus the harvest of this year's hunting of demonic beasts, by the end of October, the successful refining of the Venant Elixir in Haaland's territory exceeded 21,000 bottles.

More than 20,000 bottles of Tenghui Elixir have been refined, and not only do they not need to be imported this year, but they can also sell some at the commodity fair in exchange for various extraordinary resources.

After repeated discussions at the top of the territory, it was finally decided to leave 15,000 troops in Haaland's territory. Among them, there are 13,000 main army corps, 1,000 city defense army, and 1,000 security army systems.

The exchange of military soldiers for transcendent potions requires merit and gold coins.

Generally speaking, officers who are qualified and hope to be knighted will accumulate meritorious deeds and exchange them for gold coins. Especially an officer with a good background and a supporting force behind him will not spend his merits to exchange for such a low-level transcendent resource.

Officers with average qualifications and average backgrounds are basically hopeless to be knighted, so they will exchange their merits for merit, hoping to improve their strength a little bit by taking Tenghui medicine.

Professionals with inferior qualifications and slow cultivation progress, on the contrary, disdain the transcendent elixir, they will accumulate meritorious deeds and exchange them for gold coins when they retire to make their lives better.

In addition to the fifteen thousand Radiant Elixir left for the army, some should also be reserved for more than a dozen noble vassals in the territory.

The Haaland Lordship now has thirteen vassals, twelve barons, and one viscount. Except for Viscount Sutton, who didn't need this low-end potion, the other twelve baronies were very lacking.

The number of people under Sutton's command is very small, plus his direct descendants, humans with half-elven blood, there are only more than sixty members in total, and more than a dozen of them are still minors.

These children have the care of high-level professionals such as Sutton, Sylph, and Wendini, and they don't lack basic things like Tenbright Elixir.

The rest of the elves, half-elves, have been promoted to the profession, the elves usually use a basic potion called natural essence, they have their own apothecary, can collect materials to refine potions.

The effect of natural essence is better than that of Tenghui Elixir.

The Viscount of Sutton did not exchange it, and the other twelve barons reserved a total of 1,200 Tenghui Elixirs, each with a share of 100.

The aristocratic coalition under the command of the vassals is also an important force of the Haaland Command, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the city defense army and the security army. It's just that the accumulation time of Haaland's vassals is relatively short, and he has no resources himself. The Ventec Elixir is left to them, and they need to be paid on credit.

In addition, the Demon Hunter Guild reserved 500 pieces, the Mercenary Guild left 500 pieces, the intelligence department reserved 500 pieces, and the various systems in Haaland's territory were divided, which required the consumption of 17,800 Tenghui potions.

The cooperation between the nobles of Geda Province and the Duke of Haaland was crucial in this battle, and they also needed Richard's care.

The Haaland Territory took out an additional 1,500 Radiant Elixir to exchange resources with them.

The grain produced by the nobles of Geda Province, the orc slaves captured, and even the mineral resources mined can be exchanged with the Duke of Harland for a certain amount of extraordinary resources, including Radiant Elixir and Alchemy Bomb.

The small nobles of the Grant Kingdom, it is actually very difficult to get extraordinary resources, most of them are exchanged with the royal family with meritorious deeds, and the annual share of merit exchange is relatively small, a barony can be exchanged for a maximum of thirty branches, and normally three or four professional officers can be trained.

The second is to exchange other supernatural resources with the great nobles, and this exchange requires luck and chance.

Then he trained his own pharmacist and collected materials for refining. This kind of is even more difficult, the vast majority of hereditary nobles have no magic inheritance at all, and occasionally they have cultivated a magician by luck, and they are also a wild mage, and it is difficult to master the knowledge of refining potions.

Richard was willing to exchange Tenhui potions and alchemy bombs for ordinary resources such as grain, minerals, orc slaves, etc., which was undoubtedly a great boost to the nobles of Geda Province.

The remaining 1,700 Venerant Elixir were placed at the trade fair in exchange for various extraordinary resources. For example, elf black tea, the fur of the devil-horned rabbit, the spider silk of the flame spider, the scale armor of the snake body, etc., as long as it is an extraordinary material, those from Haaland's territory will not refuse, even if they suffer a little loss, they are willing to exchange.

After entering October, before the commodity fair was held, Richard had already dispatched personnel from the territory's commercial system to release the news in advance and strengthen the publicity.

This year, in order to defend against the invasion of orcs, Richard planned to command the defense line of the troops, and Richard was ready to stay in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains for the winter after the winter.

After entering October, Richard's warrior level had reached the peak of the sixth order, and after four years and five months of hard training, his warrior experience points could no longer be improved a little.

At this moment, Richard had accumulated enough strength to break through to the seventh order.

Generally speaking, a warrior needs to use high-level potions to break through the seventh order, and if he doesn't use potions, once he fails to break through, the violent Dou Qi power will destroy the body's acupoints.

Although the seventh-order elixir is very precious, Richard, as the duke lord, the third person in the Grant Kingdom, and the seventh-order life evolution elixir, are not scarce to him.

Sophia was originally a seventh-order pharmacist, and the main material of the life evolution potion was the seventh-order magic core, and the Harland territory had already mastered the potion formula. As long as Richard has a demand, Sophia will soon be able to refine it.

In mid-October, Richard took the Life Evolution Potion and completed his advancement smoothly.

After being promoted to a seventh-order warrior, by looking at the attribute panel, Richard found that his strength had increased to twenty-three points.

If you exceed 20 points, you will awaken your first talent. Warrior professionals, generally after being promoted to the seventh rank, will awaken the first physical attribute talent.

After William was promoted to the seventh rank, he awakened the talent of berserk power, and when he was emotional and went crazy, his strength would increase by three to six points.

When Soros was promoted to a seventh-order professional, he awakened a super endurance talent, which greatly improved his endurance, helped him to give full play to Soros's outstanding archery skills, and prolonged Soros's combat time.

After Jennings was at the seventh order, his awakened talent was better, and his neural reaction speed was strengthened, and he was able to calmly avoid danger.

Richard's strength broke through twenty points, which also brought him a talent, this talent is called copper skin and iron bones, which can strengthen the toughness of skin, muscles, and bones, which is of great help to a warrior's ability to resist blows.

This talent, to be honest, is dispensable to Richard.

Because of his outstanding mental strength, coupled with the fact that he is a duke lord, his current combat method has been dominated by magical means, and melee combat with the enemy has become very rare.

Moreover, Richard was wearing a seventh-order enchanted armor, and his defensive ability far exceeded that of copper skin and iron bones. This talent should be reserved for fierce generals who need to charge into battle, and Richard is a duke and a monarch, and a talent to strengthen defense is actually not of much help to him.

(End of chapter)