Richard's offer was too high, almost beyond Parson's authority.

As an emissary, Parson is eloquent and personable, but he has no decision-making power in his hands when it comes to real matters.

Seeing that Richard bit to death and did not let go, he must get a large amount of extraordinary resources from the Sith Kingdom before he was willing to return the prisoners of war and the magic ship.

In the face of Parson's implicit threat, Richard showed no concern, and his playful eyes seemed to be a joke.

The Dukedom of Haaland is far away from the Sith Kingdom, and the Sith Kingdom poses little threat to the Dukedom of Harland for a short period of time. Since it is impossible to threaten the opponent from the actual situation and wants to redeem the magic ship, the Sith Kingdom can only come up with real money.

But Haaland received this extraordinary resource, and in the long run, it is tantamount to offending a human kingdom.

Over the years, the Haaland family has offended the Delong Kingdom, the East Coast United Kingdom, the Ryan Kingdom, and the Stark Kingdom. If relations with the host countries are not good, it will be particularly difficult for Haaland to expand the market to the surrounding areas.

Richard also wants to maintain the external situation, but as long as Haaland's leadership continues to develop rapidly, it will pose a threat to neighboring countries, and conflicts will inevitably break out between the two sides because of various interests. Unless it can develop and grow and become a big force like the Divine Radiance Empire and the Southwest Magic Kingdoms, the external situation can get better.

After returning to the inn, Parson decided to write a letter to King Anthony after much deliberation. In his heart, he was inclined to agree to Duke Haaland's conditions.

"Based on the captured officers and soldiers, plus the redeemed large magic ships, combat effectiveness can be quickly formed. I will write to King Anthony and persuade him to accede to Duke Haraland's terms. Exchanges between countries should take priority on interests, and should not be mixed with personal grievances, as long as our Sith kingdom can continue to prosper, we can always wait for the day of revenge. ”

Although Richard's asking price is very high, it is about the same as building a new large magic ship, but the new magic ship needs to line up in the Holy Aura Empire, and the Sith Kingdom needs to dredge up relations and take favors. Moreover, Richard also agreed to Parson's request, as long as he paid this money, he would release the captured soldiers of the Yunhai Slave Catcher.

In the battle a few months ago, Richard led the soldiers of Haaland to fight two battles, capturing more than 400 people in the Sith Kingdom, including two high-level professionals, fifty middle-level professionals, and more than 300 beginner-level professionals. If these people pay the ransom according to the rules, they will also have to pay about 200,000 gold coins. However, if you want to cultivate an army of 400 professionals, you need at least 500,000 gold coins for the investment of personnel.

It is equivalent to the extraordinary resources paid by the Sith Kingdom for 500,000 gold coins to redeem the magic ship worth millions of gold coins and the captured officers and soldiers.

Parson's letter was delivered to the city of BlackRock in the Sith Kingdom through the Lion Knight, at a speed of 500 kilometers a day, in three and a half days. After discussions with the court ministers, King Anthony finally decided to agree to Richard's request to exchange extraordinary resources worth 500,000 gold coins.

Because the Sisi Kingdom has a high degree of centralization, in late November, a small magic ship loaded with super-magical metal sailed near the mouth of the Black River.

In late November, the temperature in the northern Xinjiang region was already very cold, and at night there were often low temperatures of minus ten degrees, and the middle and lower reaches of the Heihe River began to freeze.

By the time the two parties completed the transaction, it was already early December.

Haaland leads December into the busiest time of the year. Not only is the goddess's birthday celebrated at the end of the month, but the civil servants of the territory also have to submit their annual accounts and statistical reports to it.

It has been more than 20 years since the formation of this tradition in the Haaland territory, and although the territory has become very large now, and it is difficult to be accurate in various statistics, there is a general data, and Richard can also have a general understanding of the development of the territory.

By the end of December, various statistical reports were sent to Richard, and from this thick stack of statistical reports, Richard knew that there were 2.4 million freemen and 4.85 million indentured slaves in Haaland's territory. The total population under the direct control of the territory has increased by 450,000 this year to 7.25 million. There are more than 40 vassals under his command, with a total of 620,000 people.

Of the 2,400,000 freemen, 15,000,000 acres of arable land were allocated. It accounts for about a quarter of the territory, although many places have suffered floods this year, Richard has reduced some agricultural taxes, and still collected 480,000 gold coins of field tax, plus commercial tax, customs duties, real estate taxes and other income, this year Haaland received a total of 790,000 gold coins in taxes.

The tax of 790,000 gold coins is roughly equivalent to about 80% of the income level of a duke, and if Harland converts all the serfs into freemen, Richard estimates that the land tax plus other taxes, even if the current light tax policy is maintained, can collect three million gold coins a year. Without a large-scale military expansion, three million would be enough to maintain the financial balance of the territory.

Moreover, since the development of Haaland's territory, taxation is not the largest fiscal revenue, and the development and maintenance of the territory mainly depends on the profits paid by state-owned enterprises.

Now there are 2.4 million freemen in the territory, the market size has been quite level, coupled with the strong demand for building railways, the steel output of Harland has been soaring in the past two years, according to the statistics of the three steel-making plants this year, the output of Harland's steel has increased to 125,000 tons, and the output of pig iron is also 60,000 tons.

Steel production adds up to more than 185,000 tons, and as long as the railway is still being built, steel production will continue to increase.

185,000 tons of steel, about 25,000 tons of exports, and now almost all the nobles of the Grant Kingdom buy steel ingots from Harland. Harland led the large-scale production of steel, and the direct fight against the Grant Kingdom's handmade iron was crushed, even if it was transported hundreds of kilometers, the price of the steel products of the Harland Leader was lower and the quality was better, no matter who the nearby lords were, as long as they produced steel, every company would lose money.

Now the price of Haaland's steel products has dropped to a kilogram of copper coins. An ordinary middle-aged laborer can buy four kilograms of steel products in one day of work.

Compared to 20 years ago, the price of steel has dropped 30 times, and the quality has improved dramatically. The variety of steel products has also increased a lot, and the iron pot and iron basin have become daily consumer goods in Haaland.

Because of the popularity of iron pots, even the cooking methods of food have changed, and iron plate barbecue and iron pot stir-fry have appeared in Haaland's restaurant.

The price of basic materials such as steel has been greatly reduced, which has undoubtedly greatly reduced the cost of living and improved the living standards of ordinary people. The quality of life of the freedmen of Haaland has far surpassed that of the citizens of Nolan.

Although the price of iron continues to fall, because the production capacity is increasing, the steel department still handed over a profit of 400,000 gold coins this year.

Nowadays, the price of steel has been reduced a lot, and if it were not for the use of a large number of indentured slave workers, there would not be much labor cost, and the overall profit of the steel sector would be 50 percent, not counting the cost of iron ore land. Richard communicated with the managers of the steel, economic planning, and commercial departments many times, and decided not to continue to dump steel products at lower prices.

The agricultural sector, although larger, does not have much surplus this year due to widespread flooding in the summer and autumn, with less than two million tonnes of surplus in the food system's treasury.

Although 2 million tons of grain is a lot, Haaland needs to feed 5 million indentured slaves, which consumes at least one million tons a year. In addition, 300,000 tons of grain will be allocated for growing grain, and in addition to the grain needed for brewing wine and food processing, there will be only 300,000 or 400,000 tons of surplus grain this year.

Although 300,000 or 400,000 tons of grain is a lot, it can be used for nearly 8 million people in Haaland's territory, and it will only take a month and a half at most.

This is the first year of territorial consolidation, and with the devastation of some arable land, the food system is still accumulating and has not played a role in improving the territory's finances.

The animal husbandry industry has developed rapidly, because the number of free people has increased, the scale of the domestic market has been greatly improved, and now the number of sheep in the government-run pastures has exceeded 4 million, and the number of sheep slaughtered this year is as high as 3.8 million. Because a large number of sheep-like prisoners of war were used in the ranch run by the Haaland Consulate, the labor cost was very low.

In addition to supplying the army, this year it turned over a profit of 300,000 gold coins.

The income of Snow Crystal Lake is still very stable, plus the hunting of demonic beasts, a total of 25,000 bottles of Tenghui Elixir were refined last year, 20,000 bottles of 1,000 bottles were digested internally, and 1,400 more professionals were added.

At the current rate of development of Haaland's leadership, if an all-professional army is formed, it can increase the number of people by 1,000 a year.

Now the first infantry brigade has become an all-professional army, with a total of 1,500 soldiers, and the soldiers of the special squadron have been expanded to 100 people, plus 100 lion knights, 50 bipedal wyvern knights, 500 witchers, 300 elven archers, and 150 magicians, and the army of all professionals led by Haaland has reached nearly 3,000 people.

Although the Warcraft cavalry is not an all-professional army, but because of the Warcraft War Horse, the combat effectiveness is also very strong, and the Harland Leader now has three thousand three hundred Warcraft cavalry, and the most elite transcendent troops have six thousand.

Coupled with the nine squadron artillery units, magic airships, and magic hot air balloon troops, they can also play a decisive role in the battle, and the essence of Haaland's leading regiment is actually more than 10,000 people.

Because of the lack of finances in the territory this year, 4,000 bottles of Tenghui Elixir were exchanged for 100,000 gold coins in cash, 20,000 gold coins in grain, cotton and other commodities.

Twenty-five bottles of Styx Elixir were auctioned this year, one of which was exchanged for four vials of Life Evolution Elixir, and twenty-four bottles of Styx Elixir earned a profit of 120,000 gold coins.

Because of the increase in the number of freemen and the rapid expansion of the domestic demand market, the flour processing industry is still developing at a high speed, and despite the continuous entry of private capital into this industry, the state-owned flour mill still handed over 250,000 gold coins of profits to the territory this year.

The production capacity of brown sugar is still increasing with the increase of the domestic demand market. Because of Haaland's policy of emancipating indentured slaves, this industry still has great prospects for development.

After 20 years of development, some nobles have stolen brown sugar tree seeds, but now that Haaland has developed to such a scale and strength, the small and medium-sized nobles who stole brown sugar tree seeds do not dare to plant them in large quantities, which violates the economic interests of Haaland.

Whether it is the Dawn Plane or the Grant Kingdom, it is not a reasonable place, the law of the jungle is the basic rule of the world, and the small nobles do not dare to touch the interests of the big nobles at all, nor do they dare to easily enter the industry controlled by the big nobles.

If you want to challenge the great nobles, you must have enough strength to check and balance.

Now the brown sugar market in the Grant Kingdom has been monopolized by Harland, the honey industry of the southern aristocracy has been crushed by brown sugar, a large number of beekeepers have gone bankrupt, and the southern earls have given up this industry. The counts can't stand it in their own territory, and even more so the viscounts and barons.

Whoever dares to enter this industry may face not only commercial competition, but also military and political competition.

Moreover, it has been twenty years since the Harland Leader entered the brown sugar industry, and the scale is extremely amazing, and the other nobles of the Grant Kingdom cannot compete with the Harland Leader at all.

Because of the expansion of a large number of territories, the overall population of 16 million people was swallowed, and more than a million freedmen were added. Both the export market and the domestic demand market have expanded a lot, and the brown sugar department has turned over 280,000 gold coins in profits this year.

The size of the population has increased dramatically, the number of freedmen has increased by 900,000 in just two years, and the real estate industry in Haaland is of course developing rapidly, selling houses this year, and making a profit of 200,000 gold coins in the territory. The rental money received by the territory also has 120,000 gold coins this year. The real estate business has brought 320,000 gold in profits to Haaland's territory this year.

This year's arms trade income is very large, bringing more than one million gold coins of profits to the territory, just selling four hundred sets of magic hot air balloons, as high as 1.2 million gold coins profit, but most of the profits from arms sales have been exchanged for population, Haaland's territory has increased nearly 200,000 people through arms sales this year, and the cash income is not much, and the mess adds up to 200,000 gold coins in cash.

The minting department has made a lot of profits this year, because the economy is developing rapidly, Haaland led to mint nearly 190,000 gold coins last year, and also printed 200,000 vouchers.

After years of accumulation, the voucher scrolls have been circulated in the territory of Haaland's territory, and the total amount has exceeded 400,000 gold coins, and Richard's idea of exchanging money for supplies by printing tickets has been partially realized.

The minting department brought Haaland a profit of 350,000 gold coins this year.

Haaland led the Duke's Bank, which has also developed well in the past two years, and has handed over 100,000 gold coins in profits this year.

The cotton spinning industry is also developing well, although this industry has small aristocrats, freemen to participate in the competition, but because of the increase in population, the expansion of the domestic demand market, Haaland led the official textile factory, this year still handed over 140,000 gold coin profits.

The soap and soap departments performed very well this year, handing over 150,000 gold coins in profits.

The pharmaceutical sector is also developing very well, and now Haaland has cultivated six purple head peak nests, and the production of hemostatic ointment has been greatly improved. Not only can it supply Haaland's army for free, but it can also supply a part of the royal family at a low price, and if it is sold on the market, it can provide Haaland with a profit of 80,000 gold coins.

Coupled with painkillers, two bombshells of anthelmintic drugs, three fist commodities can bring Haaland 190,000 gold coin profits, plus more than 20 other medicines, 260,000 gold coin profits have been handed over this year.

With the successful development of the Burren Coal Mine, the output of the Harland Collar Coal Mine exceeded 900,000 tons this year, and although the coal mining department invested very much, it still handed over 200,000 gold coins in profits this year.

The income of the wine industry is also very good, although because of the diffusion of technology, there are many competing commodities in the market, white wine, red wine and fruit wine, a total of 160,000 gold coins have been handed over this year.

The rest are basically small industries, such as brick kilns, lime kilns, glass kilns, wood processing factories, lumber yards, fresh fruit industry, and paper industry, all of which add up to 450,000 gold coins in profits for the territory.

After defeating the ogre tribe, about 300,000 gold coins were seized in cash, a third of which was distributed by Richard to reward the soldiers, and the remaining third was deposited in the vault.

Taken together, plus the material income, Haaland's fiscal revenue this year has exceeded 7 million, and the cash income is as high as 4.77 million gold coins, which is almost equivalent to 90% of the royal family's income.

Swallowed hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, added millions of indentured slaves, and 900,000 freedmen, so that Haaland's financial revenue increased by 60 percent again, and by next year, as long as there is no catastrophe, it will inevitably be close to the level of the Grant royal family.

(End of chapter)