As the economy of the territory becomes more and more prosperous, the salaries of army soldiers have gradually increased, and the main legionnaires have experienced three rounds of salary increases, and now the salary of the soldiers led by Haaland is about the same as that of the Grant royal family, and the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is about ten silver coins, and with the length of service, combat skills have improved.

If a soldier upgrades his archery skills to the fourth level, even if he is not promoted to a professional, he will receive an additional six silver coins for combat skill subsidies, which will greatly increase his income.

In addition, the soldiers of the Haaland army also have some in-kind subsidies, such as a set of cotton clothes and three sets of single clothes a year, and major festivals will also distribute mutton, liquor, soap, brown sugar and other goods, and pensions for the war dead and disabled, in fact, the treatment is a few points higher than that of the central forbidden army of the Grant Kingdom.

The soldiers of the major dukedoms are paid thirty percent less than those of the Haaland lords.

The economic income of the marquisate and county is even lower, and the treatment of the main army is only a few points better than that of the auxiliary soldiers led by Haaland.

The difference in military salaries and treatment can affect the combat effectiveness to a large extent, and in general, the central forbidden army of the royal family exceeds the duke's leading regiment, and the duke's leading regiment exceeds the regular army of the marquis and earldom.

As for the viscount and baronial families, the army is relatively small, the aristocratic background is different, and the strength of the army fluctuates greatly, and some baronial armies seem to be small in number, but their combat effectiveness is very strong, such as the former barony of Harden, which has a formed Warcraft cavalry, and some baronies seem to be numerous, but they have just been knighted, and they are all serf soldiers under their command, and their combat effectiveness is very sparse.

After the 20,000 soldiers of the United Kingdom on the East Coast were recruited, the remaining 40,000 captives were all converted into indentured slavery.

After half a year, Haaland has led the soldiers to take this breath, and Richard will not continue to abuse them. After five years of service to Haraland, they will be granted freeman status. Look at the book

With this co-optation, the Haaland Mage Association has been greatly expanded.

As of March this year, the number of official members of the Harland Mage Association has exceeded 200, and with the addition of 67 new mages, the number of Haaland Mages has reached 271. Almost catching up with the level of the Grant royal family, there are only about 300 official members of the Grant Royal Family Mage Association.

Mages are also in the upper echelons of the East Coast United Kingdom, where they have friends and family.

Richard secretly thought that it would be difficult for them to join Haaland sincerely. After all, a magician is fundamentally different from a dispossessed serf soldier.

In order to get the captive magicians to serve Haaland, Richard had them sign a ten-year contract of service. Once the contract is complete, they will be free again.

During the contract service, Haaland was paid according to their rank, which was about one-third of the salary of a normal magician. Richard will also open up some insensitive transcendent knowledge, as long as they earn contributions, they can exchange for learning to improve their knowledge level.

This kind of thing is a routine operation in the Dawn plane, and if the defeated and captured cannot pay the ransom, they can only serve as indentured slave soldiers, and Lost, Wilde, and Drifen led by Harland are all slave soldiers.

The ten-year contract is neither long nor short, and Richard pays them a salary, and the treatment is already counted.

Richard actually used these sixty-seven mages as coolies, and all of them were incorporated into the Legionnaire Mage Support Squad.

Now Haaland leads four regular legions, and the mage support team of each legion has also expanded to thirty people.

With a 30-member mage support team, the strength of the mages has far exceeded the normal level of the Grant Kingdom.

The central legion of the Grant royal family, the mage team is only twelve people, the most of the big nobles such as dukes and earls in the country do not even have a mage support team, and a few magicians are only in the court of the big nobles in the service industry.

A legion of thirty mages has caught up with the level of the United Kingdom on the East Coast. In the Dawn plane, it can be regarded as mid-to-upper-class.

Among the major kingdoms of the Dawn plane, the most powerful mages are several West Coast Magic Kingdoms, such as the Magic Kingdom of Markholm, the United Kingdom of Celtic, the Kingdom of the Storm Strait, the Kingdom of Palmera Ice and Snow, etc., and the number of mages in a legion reaches 300.

A group of three hundred mages, yes

Play a decisive role on a medium-sized battlefield. The combat power can compete with the 2,000-strong Warcraft cavalry.

The mages of the Divine Radiance Empire are also not weak, and a legion will often be organized into a mage group of sixty to a hundred people, as well as different extraordinary troops. For example, the Lion Cavalry, the All-Profession Heavy Infantry, the Warcraft Cavalry, and so on. Generally speaking, the Holy Radiance Empire has a regular legion, and the number of professionals is about 6,000. The proportion of professionals in the army exceeds that of Harland.

Haaland led a regular army of about 3,000 professionals. The Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is under the command of the headquarters and has not been incorporated into the main army for the time being. With the addition of the Warcraft cavalry, Haaland led a legion of professionals, only the first legion has the largest number of professionals, and the first brigade of all professionals has been formed, and the number of professionals is close to 5,000.

If only one legion is taken out, although the army led by Haaland has an advantage in equipment, it is estimated that it is not the opponent of the Holy Radiance Empire, if all 80,000 troops are dispatched to fight a large-scale melee, both sides have their own advantages, and the outcome is unknown.

Last spring, Haaland had begun planning to build the Marte to Flying Eagle Castle railway, and now a year has passed from the Castle of Malte to Grey Fosson section, and more than 50 kilometers have been built from the Eagle Castle to the west.

The east and west sides were working at the same time, and now about 120 kilometers of road have been built. This section of the railway is located on the plain on the north bank of the Heihe River, and according to the railway department's plan, it will be completed in September this year, even if it does not increase the population.

As of March this year, Haaland had built 380 kilometers of railways. If we wait until the end of the year, it will be more than 500 kilometers.

Over the years, Haaland has led the manufacture of steam locomotives, and the railway sector has invested more and more year by year. Although the economic benefits of operating the railway are very average, with seven or eight hundred thousand gold coins invested, and there is not much profit, the successful construction of the railway has greatly improved the comprehensive national strength of the Haaland leadership.

Railways are not only the main economic arteries connecting the east, west, north and south, but also can be used for disaster relief and troop mobilization, which plays a very important role in maintaining the rule.

This year, Haaland plans to build two railways, one from No. 10 to No. 3, which is about 110 kilometers away on the northern plains of the Eagle Mountains.

The second railway is the section from Castle Malte to Fort Black River, which is about fifty kilometers long.

Although Marte Castle to Heihe Fort can be transported by water, and the transportation cost is lower than that of the railway, the climate in the Heihe River basin is relatively cold, and the river will freeze in winter.

The railway was built, and the efficiency of transportation in winter was greatly increased.

Because the Powell River does not have much water and cannot be used by large boats, it is very necessary to build this railway.

The railway is relatively short, all along the plains, and may be opened to traffic earlier than the section from Malte to Fort Flying Eagle, and according to the plan of the railway department, it will be completed in July this year.

In late March, Richard took time to visit Philip, nearly a month of hard life, a lot of exercise for Philip, seeing that Philip's mood gradually stabilized, Richard let go of the worries in his heart, accompanied Philip for two days, accepted labor with him, and then went directly to Grayfordson.

Today, Richard's cousin, Gavin, is a cabinet minister and also secretary of transport, overseeing railroad engineering.

Since last year, the railway department has been lobbying Richard to separate from the Ministry of Transportation and become a new department.

Gavin, a veteran of the Department of Transportation and a prominent figure in the Harland family, has always been very disgusted by the rebellion of the railway department. But as the length of the railway became longer, the investment became larger and the influence increased, Gavin's opposition became weaker and weaker, and now it became clear to anyone with a discerning eye that the independence of the railway sector was imperative.

Today, Haaland leads the railway department, and the three people have the loudest voices and the highest authority.

The first is named Bonova, who is the first in line to the title of Lostster and a second-ring magician. Despite his very average magical aptitude, Bonova is very talented at manufacturing machinery.

The first steam locomotive was built under his auspices, and although Richard also gave a lot of advice during the development of the locomotive, the steam locomotive could be built, and Bonova's contribution accounted for it

According to more than sixty percent. It can be said that he is a genius mechanic with a very strong creativity.

It's a pity that he hasn't made much progress in the study of magic, so the magic level is also at a low level.

Bonova was already in his thirties and was already the chief engineer of the railway department, and he successfully designed two sets of steam locomotives, the Dragon 1 and the Dragon 2. In just a few years, an improvement has been made to the steam locomotive, which has increased the power of the steam locomotive, reduced the failure rate, and made great contributions to the railway department.

The second, Konstantin, joined Haaland 18 years ago, was soon selected as a civil servant, and has since been in the transport sector. This man is very capable and has always been Gavin's important assistant, who once contributed to the promotion of the four-wheeled carriage by Haaland, and slowly rose to the upper echelons of the civil service.

Four years ago, the steam locomotive was born, and Konstantin was sent by Gavin to the railway department to take charge of management. As the influence of the railway sector grew, Konstantin also became an iconic cadre of the system. The railway department was independent into a ministry, and in fact it was mainly he who was promoting.

After all, no one wants to be someone else's assistant, if the Ministry of Railways is established, Konstantin will definitely become a minister, and with the development of the railway department, the authority will be heavier than the Ministry of Communications.

The ass is here, and Konstantin can't help but care.

The third is named Clement, who joined the army in his early years, but his talent is very average, and he retired after four years and transferred to the civil service. Clement has a strong management ability, has been responsible for various large and small projects in the territory, worked in the indentured slave management department, and gradually rose to the middle level.

From the beginning of the construction of the first railway led by Haaland, Clemen was responsible for the construction of the section from Fort William to Fort Soldier's Station, and he personally directed the planting of explosives and the digging of holes.

The above three people are the troika of Haaland who is now leading the railway department, the core of management.

Richard went to Graveson and did not inform the officials below. When he went to the grassroots level to inspect, he was always light and simple.

When Richard arrived at Grayfordson, the weather suddenly changed and soon it began to rain heavily, and Clement had to order the work to be stopped first.

Richard stepped on the muddy water and went straight to the huts where the indentured slaves rested and slept, which were made of woolen cloth and were not very waterproof.

Soon a large amount of rainwater seeped into the tents.

Seeing this scene, Richard secretly frowned, but he also knew that railway construction was very hard work, and life, heating, water, and housing had to move with the railway line.

It's just that in the previous life, there were waterproof and windproof materials, and the quality of the tent was very good, and it would not leak rain and wind.

The reality is like this, and you can't be too harsh on the people below.

Richard saw that the contract slaves who built the railway put on waterproof hats one after another, and looked at Richard and the others at a loss.

Richard glanced around the tent and found some coal in the tent, as well as an iron stove, apparently for indentured slaves to keep warm. Seeing this scene, Richard was in a slightly better mood.

"How have you been doing lately?" Seeing Richard asking in Northern Xinjiang, the indentured slave in the tent looked ignorant.

The indentured slaves who built the railroad were mainly indentured slaves from the United Kingdom of the East Coast, the Kingdom of Delong, and the indentured slaves in northern Xinjiang, who were mainly responsible for clearing the land and cultivating the land, which was relatively easier than the slaves who were engaged in engineering in the field.

Soon Richard asked in King Delong's Chinese language, and the indentured servants in the tent began to answer the question tremblingly.

"We can get by, we can eat roughly enough every day, and we also have black stone burning in winter. Although the north is far colder than our hometown, no one can freeze to death. Our work was very hard, and we were often whipped by the overseers, but when we were wounded, we were healed by a noble magician.

I heard from the preacher that as long as we work for five years, we will be able to resume our status as freemen, and each of us will be given six acres of land.

Before Richard could reply, Clement ran briskly into the tent in the pouring rain. His ears were very sharp, and he heard the indentured slave's question outside the tent

Carved replied loudly: "We, the Harland Lord, have been pardoning indentured slaves for twenty years, making harsh decrees, and engraved on the walls of Fort William, Palos, what special ability do you have to make the great duke change the decree?"

I know you're a little confused, but that's what the average person thinks. But we can't use our own dirty thoughts to figure out the great duke. I was also a contract slave and joined the Haaland Territory eighteen years ago. Shortly thereafter, he joined the army, killed orcs on the battlefield, and became a free people.

In just eighteen years, although I was not promoted to hereditary baron, I was valued by the duke, and I could command tens of thousands of indentured slaves to work and labor, and I could get a salary of eight gold coins a month.

My children also entered the Knights Academy of Dragon Canyon, learned the breathing method, and laid the foundation from an early age to charge towards hereditary nobility.

My own experience can tell you that as long as you work hard in Haaland's territory and serve the lord, your future is not only a free people, but also a noble lord.

Here you can achieve your dreams through personal struggle, which we call the Haaland dream. You are undoubtedly very lucky to be in the Haaland territory."

A bowl of chicken soup was poured down, and suddenly there was thunderous applause.