Soon after Richard and the others returned, Sylph brought the elves of the East Coast Province to the Viscounty of Sutton, and after five years of construction, many wooden and stone buildings had appeared in the Viscount of Sutton.

The architectural style of these houses is very special, mainly based on natural materials such as trees and stones, and the architectural style is simple and elegant, taller than the houses inhabited by humans, and the roofs are mainly round and oval.

In the past five years, although Sutton has often been absent from the territory, he is responsible for creating two or three thousand indentured slaves in the territory.

Under the command of the elves, the indentured slaves had worked for a long time to build elven houses that were large enough for hundreds of people to live in.

In Sutton's territory, a huge garden has also been established, a magic plantation has been opened, and many magic plants have been planted. new

When Sutton submitted to Richard, he discussed with Richard very clearly, the territory he was granted did not accept long-term human settlement, and the territory should be left to the elves to live in.

The way of life of the elven tribe is very primitive, mainly gathering, fishing and hunting. The elves of the Eastern Continent will grow a very thick bread tree as their main food.

A medium elven tribe with a very large range of activities, capable of reaching about 100,000 square kilometers. On the contrary, large elven tribes often choose to settle in order to protect the tree of life, and the range of activities is relatively small. A large elven tribe with a population of several thousand may have an activity range of about one-tenth that of a medium tribe.

Although the area of the Eastern Continent is not as vast as that of the Central Continent, and the number of elves adds up to a million people, the power of this transcendent race is relatively scattered, and the elven royal court has a population of more than 30,000. A few particularly famous elven tribes have a population of more than 10,000.

The elven slave hunting group in the Central Continent generally does not provoke large elf tribes, and the targets of their slave hunting are mainly small and medium-sized elf tribes.

The current situation in the Eastern Continent, as long as the tree of life is found, the elves will choose to settle down. If they don't find the Tree of Life, they will choose to hunt and herd, and they won't stay in one place for long.

The elves under Sylph's command are all people who have lost their homeland, and the cruel reality makes them very clear about the current situation, except for Richard, who has a relationship with the elves by marriage, it is difficult for them to find shelter in the high-level of the human state. Therefore, they are not opposed to sedentary life, and they are willing to serve and fight for the lord Richard.

Unless they suffer heavy losses, the elves will not oppose Richard, the human lord.

Today, the Sutton family's territory has 28,000 square kilometers of territory, and for a few hundred elves, the range of activities is roughly enough.

With Hilf settling down with the elves, Harland led the annual trade fair to begin again.

Today, Haaland leads the Commodity Fair, which lasts for 12 days, with regular goods sold in the first nine days and auctions held in the last three days, where a large number of extraordinary materials are sold.

From magic plants, monster furs, super magic metal materials, to alchemy bombs, enchanted weapons, enchanted armor, to a variety of potions, in recent years, even Styx potions, magic hot air balloons, high-end alchemy props and other high-end goods are available.

Today, the Harland Collar Commodity Fair can not only attract the caravan nobles of the Grant Kingdom, but also the magicians and knights of several nearby countries have poured into the Harland Collar in large numbers to trade all kinds of transcendent things.

In fact, before the auction every year, there will be a large number of insider transactions, especially Richard's vassals, the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom, which are basically based on insider trading.

At last year's trade fair, because it happened to be in time for the war, Haaland led almost no otherworldly resources were sold. This year, the demand for all kinds of transactions has almost exploded.

In particular, the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom all asked Richard to trade magic hot air balloons.

Now the main opponent of the Grant Kingdom has changed from the Orc to the Delong Kingdom and the East Coast United Kingdom, and the Orc has become the main opponent of the Duke of Haraland.

The Kingdom of Delong and the United Kingdom of the East Coast have not developed flying troops, and they are unable to restrain magical hot air balloons.

There are magic balloon troops in the air to scout, enemy movements are completely one-way transparent, two years ago Richard sold magic balloons to Duke Duran for the first time, in last year's battle

, this force played a very crucial role.

Seeing that the magic hot air balloon force is so useful, whether it is the Seven Earls of the South, the Four Marquis of the East, or several other dukes of the Grant Kingdom, they all want to buy a large number of magic hot air balloons from the Harland Territory.

The market was in short supply, and Richard immediately opted for barter, demanding a set of magic hot air balloons in exchange for a thousand serfs.

In last year's war, the Grant Kingdom swallowed up a large number of people, and the hands of the big nobles increased by hundreds of thousands, and at most millions of serfs.

Richard proposed to replace people with ***, which is not too high a requirement.

According to the establishment of Harland, a squadron is organized into six magic balloon teams, equipped with eight magic hot air balloons, two of which are spare parts, once damaged or fallen in training or battle, there are spare parts to quickly perform the task.

A magic balloon brigade is organized into ten squadrons, and eighty magic balloons are required.

Now Haaland has led the regiment to train a total of three magic hot air balloon brigades, which is completely enough in regular battles.

Two years ago, Duke Duran bought thirty magic hot air balloons, and six groups fell in last year's battle, and this year Richard sold him fourteen sets, expanding Duke Duran's magic hot air balloon force to half a brigade of forty groups.

Edward, York, Guise, and Fox, the four southern dukes, the Richard family sold twenty-four groups to them, just to form three magic balloon squadrons, Duke Lorrain had no combat mission, only bought eight groups from Harland, and formed a magic hot air balloon squadron.

Duke Jonathan formed six magic balloon squadrons at one time because of his presence in the northern frontier, purchased fifty magic balloons from Richard, and Grand Duke Starnick placed an order for one hundred and twenty sets of magic balloons from Richard.

Of course, the Jonathan family does not have that much population, and is willing to hand over the agency of Elf Black Tea in the Grant Kingdom to Richard, and provide 500,000 gold coins of Elf Black Tea in five installments according to the market price.

Elf black tea is a very important export commodity of the Grand Duchy of Starnik, and its annual market share in the Kingdom of Grant is about 1230,000 gold coins. obtained the monopoly trade right of elf black tea, even if Richard increased the selling price by one-third, he could earn an extra profit of 40,000 gold coins a year.

Moreover, strengthening the strength of the Grand Duchy of Starnik will also be of great help to Harland's defense against the orc invasion.

Based on this consideration, Richard decided to accede to the Jonathan family's request.

Agreeing to the Jonathan family's request, the production capacity of Haaland to lead the magic hot air balloon is somewhat insufficient, and the fourth marquis in the east and the seventh earl in the south Richard can only agree to trade a squadron magic hot air balloon.

The only exception was William, who was joined by Richard by mobilizing three squadrons of magical hot air balloons directly from Haraland's active forces to join the Earldom of William.

Through various internal transactions, Richard negotiated orders for 368 sets of magic hot air balloons, traded the exclusive agency rights of Elf Black Tea to the Jonathan family for fifteen years, about 500,000 gold coins for five consecutive years, and traded 198,000 people from other nobles.

Thirty-two sets of magic balloons remained, and Richard was ready to sell them at auction.

According to the plan, Haaland will sell 400 sets of magic hot air balloons this year.

A set of magic hot air balloons includes an alchemy prop, a magic flamethrower, a set of large binoculars, a set of large silk balloons, and a set of balsa wood hanging baskets.

The silk balloon also needs to be painted with a very thin layer of rubber paint, which is very labor-intensive to make. It requires the cooperation of many units such as the magic alchemy factory, the silk textile factory, the wooden processing factory, the lens grinding laboratory, and the rubber processing factory. Cottages require magical civilization, and the industrial level has developed to a certain extent, which actually implies a very high degree of difficulty.

Whether it's a magic flamethrower, or large binoculars, or waterproof and breathable rubber silk cloth, the threshold for copycats and imitations is very high. Even a kingdom that is not weak may require a long period of effort.

Moreover, Haraland already has flying classes such as the Lion Horse and the Biped Wyvern, and Richard is not afraid of a large-scale leak of magic hot air balloon manufacturing technology.

Back in the spring of this year, Richard was ready to sell in large quantities

Magic hot air balloons, the factories have been working overtime to produce magic hot air balloons, and in November, before the commodity fair, only 260 sets were produced in an expedited manner. Compared with this year's 400 sets of orders, it is far from enough.

In desperation, Richard had no choice but to take out all the spare goods of Haaland's leading group, and directly draw out the eighty groups of hot air balloons of the First Magic Hot Air Balloon Brigade before he could barely complete the order. They took away the active weapons of the 1st Magic Balloon Brigade, and in order to appease the troops, Richard promised to build them a more expensive magic airship as a replacement for the magic hot air balloon.

In fact, Haaland has already built three magic airships and started experimenting with new tactics.

This time, the Magic Airship Unit and the First Magic Hot Air Balloon Brigade were reorganized into the First Magic Airship Brigade, and the investment in magical power was strengthened. There were ten magicians and thirty magic apprentices in one brigade.

The biggest difference between a magic airship and a magic hot air balloon is that it has a device for propulsion and control of flight status. In addition, the magic airship uses buoyancy gas (helium) to provide buoyancy, while the magic hot air balloon needs to heat the air, taking advantage of the physical property of the reduced density of the air when heated to provide buoyancy.

To build a magic airship, it is necessary to build not only sealed airbags, auxiliary airbags, but also pods, propulsion devices, rudders, elevators and other devices, at a cost of about six thousand gold coins.

A magic airship brigade is equipped with thirty magic airships, and the cost of equipment also requires an expenditure of 200,000 gold coins.

After more than ten years of continuous development, Haaland's magic steam engine technology has been fully matured. On top of the magic airship, a magic energy steam engine is installed to drive the propeller to provide kinetic energy for the magic airship.

Richard also plans to continue to transform the magic airship, and then arrange a defensive and offensive magic array on the airship, and gradually improve the magic airship into a magical creation like a copycat floating city.

In fact, as long as a legendary magic core is the core, and with the current level of magical civilization led by Haaland, Richard's idea should be realized. It's just that the actual combat performance may be poorer, and in the face of the spell attacks of high-level magicians, it is difficult to defend against them, and the cost performance is far less prominent than that of ordinary magic airships.

Although the cost of the magic airship is higher, the load capacity, safety, handling, and flexibility are far beyond the magic hot air balloon, and there is room for further improvement. If you are willing to invest more, you can also add defense and offensive spells to the magic airship. With the advancement of technology, magic airships are bound to replace magic hot air balloons step by step.

In fact, Harland has already made a plan and decided to build three magic airship brigades separately for three years to replace the magic hot air balloon.

Of course, the magic hot air balloon unit will not be completely abolished, but will be dismantled and attached to the artillery and become a subsidiary unit of the artillery to perform calibration and observation tasks.

According to the plan of Haaland's leading regiment, in the past three years, three artillery squadrons have been added each year to form a magic airship brigade and four infantry brigades, and the investment in new equipment alone is as high as about 300,000 gold coins a year. Coupled with the investment in equipping magic ships with magic crystal cannons, creating new magic ships, increasing the number of Warcraft cavalry, etc., three years apart, weapons and equipment alone will consume 500,000 gold coins a year, which is undoubtedly a very large expenditure.

If it weren't for swallowing a large number of territories and millions of people, the finances of Haaland's territory would not be able to support it at all. o

It is precisely because of the tight finances that Richard chose to strengthen arms sales, and vigorously promote the influence of the commodity fair, in order to start the name of the auction, this year Haaland led a lot of precious materials to sell at the auction, including high-level enchanted armor, high-level Styx potions, and some extraordinary items are very rare even in the Harland Mage Association.

The most precious thing this year is the ninth-order enchanted armor that Richard and Wendini have teamed up to refine from the thick skin of the legendary ogre.

The ogre has a serious stench on his body, although the defensive effect of this armor is very outstanding, but the unbearable stench makes Richard not like this thing, anyway, Richard rarely participates in front-line battles now, and he has the eighth-order enchanted armor that captured Pilosa, which is not much different from the ogre armor, and he doesn't need this thing urgently.

Of the two ninth-order ogre armors that were successfully made this year, Richard gave one to his uncle Soros, and the other was sold at auction this year. Solo

As the leader of Haaland's army, Si needs to participate in front-line battles, and he has more endurance than Richard, so he is very happy to accept this precious gift.

Although the ninth-order ogre armor was flawed, it was still a very precious and extraordinary treasure, estimated at around 300,000 gold coins.

Of course, this kind of precious transcendent prop cannot be purchased with magic crystals, and even if it is auctioned, it is necessary to take out extraordinary resources and barter.