After killing the legendary undead and obtaining the legendary soul crystal, Sophia once again made a move to refine the legendary Styx Elixir.

Since Sophia was promoted to the Nine Rings, her spiritual power had increased by four points, and the level of refining potions had also increased a little. Although the legendary Styx potion is difficult to refine, Sophia has a successful experience in refining this potion. The refining process was relatively smooth and no material was wasted.

After the potion was successfully refined, Richard personally found the Kingdom of Roger, and used this legendary Styx potion to exchange a large amount of super magic metal and a legendary magic core with the royal family, ready to build a second large magic ship.

To build a large magic ship led by Harland, not counting the investment of the legendary magic core, it will take about 300,000 gold coins on the materials. Coupled with the labor input of magicians, shipyards, metallurgical departments, etc., not counting the technical costs, the actual cost is about 37800000.

After all, it takes thousands of workers and dozens of magicians to build a large magic ship for more than ten months.

After a lot of consumption in the past few years, Haaland's reserves of super magic metal are far from enough.

This time the two exchanged, Pansey Grant, the president of the Grant Mage Association, used the legendary Styx potion, and his mental power was increased to forty-two points, and he had the opportunity to break through the legendary bottleneck, and Harland also got the resources to build a second legendary magic ship, and his military strength was stronger.

Soon after the two sides reached a deal, it was the goddess's birthday, and time flew by in a flash, entering the year 3276 of the Dawn calendar.

At this moment, it has been thirty years since Richard crossed over.

After the goddess's birthday, Richard took the time to look at the reports sent by various departments, and last year the Duchy of Haaland had a population of more than 10 million. All in all, the cash income is as high as 5.23 million gold coins, which is a little more than the financial income of the Grant royal family.

However, due to the large-scale expansion of the magic airship and the Black River Fleet, last year's military expenditure exceeded three million gold coins, and there was basically no financial surplus in a year.

The accumulation of gold coins in the treasury is roughly seven or eight hundred thousand. For the huge Haaland territory, it can last for two or three months at most.

Because of the expansion of the market and the insufficient number of coins, Haaland led to print more than 300,000 vouchers at one time, barely closing the money shortage. After so many years of accumulation, Haaland has more than 600,000 gold coins in circulation.

These vouchers are basically in the hands of the military, bureaucrats, businessmen and other upper strata of society, and they are still relatively rare in the people's livelihood market.

According to the estimates of the territorial economic department, the size of the currency in circulation in Haaland's territory is about 60 million gold coins, and the number of vouchers is only equivalent to one percent of the currency in circulation, and it may take many years to replace metal currency with paper money.

After the Goddess's Birthday Festival, the education department of Haaland led began to be busy again, after more than 20 years of development, more than 100,000 students graduated from primary school, and 10,000 middle school students entered the society, which greatly alleviated the shortage of Haaland leaders.

Although compared with the population size of more than 10 million, the literacy rate of Haaland is still very low, and the quality of the population is not high, but the number of schools is still increasing rapidly, with more than 30,000 new students every year, and now the total number of students in Haaland's primary and secondary schools exceeds 130,000, and the number of middle school students is as high as 20,000, which is almost as large as the number of the army.

At the beginning of this year, the Academy of Magic has recruited more than 300 new students, and the number of Halland Mage Guild has increased to 1,600, which is far more than the Grant Mage Association.

In the whole of last year, a total of fifty-six apprentices of the Haaland Mage Guild were promoted to magicians, fourteen were killed in the war, and now there are three hundred and eighty-nine magicians, although the number of magicians is far less than that of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, but it is somewhat more than the Grand Duchy of Delong and the Grand Duchy of Starnik.

In terms of magical power, even the Grant royal family is no match for Haaland. Today's Harland Territory can no longer be called a magical desert, although the number of mages is small, and the level of magical civilization is probably more than that of the Divine Radiance Empire.

Soon after the new students entered the school, Philip in Northern Xinjiang was about to usher in his first life and death test.

After the Goddess's Birthday, Philip is already fifteen years old, because all kinds of cultivation resources are very sufficient, Philip has been successfully promoted to a professional, compared to Richard and William when they were teenagers, Philip has been far ahead.

But in the long run, Philip was actually far less gifted than his father. The reason why he was ahead of Richard and William when he was young was only because he had more extraordinary resources.

The higher the transcendent, the greater the role of their own talent, character, and perseverance, and the smaller the accumulation of external resources, although there are enough transcendent resources, at the age of forty, Philip may not be able to be promoted to the highest rank like Richard and William.

It's been almost three years since Philip took the bench down.

In the past three years, Philip has been in a factory, a serf, away from his family, and has been in the northern Xinjiang military camp for two years.

After three years of hard training, Philip gradually grew up physically and began to mature in character.

After the goddess's birthday, Richard originally planned to transfer him back to Fort William and serve as a grassroots civil servant for two or three years, but he didn't expect that before the transfer order was issued, Philip experienced the first hard battle in his life.

After entering the Third Legion, under the care of Jennings, Morgan and other elders, Philip has also experienced several battles in the past two years, but the first few battles have been secretly protected by the senior management of the legion, and there is actually no risk. But the first few battles also tempered Philip's courage, and the soldiers who had seen blood were a little more than the recruits after all.

And this battle, it was completely accidental, Jennings left Priland Castle with the guard squadron and went to patrol the frontline stronghold in eastern Priland, and happened to meet the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Squadron who went out to reconnoitre.

Although the orc army withdrew from the Priland region, and the Eastern Front of the Steppe Governorate basically retreated to the eastern part of the Silver Wolf Mountains, the orcs still left a pinned down team in the Priland region.

The orcs who are responsible for pinning down Haaland's army, although there are not many of them, are all all-professional armies such as Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry, Half-Orc Archers, and Harpy Scouts, which are actually very difficult to deal with.

In the past two years, the humans and orcs in the Priland region have actually fought a lot of battles. Because of the superiority of air power, the orc elite soldiers suffered some hardships, and gradually did not dare to show their heads in the Priland area.

I didn't expect that after the beginning of spring this year, the orcs would be so risky, and the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Force would dare to go deep behind enemy lines.

The Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Unit among the orcs is an all-professional army, and ordinary human elites are no opponent at all. In general, the combat capabilities of such a unit are superior to those of the same number of Warcraft cavalry brigades.

Although the guard squadron of the Third Legion under Jennings was of good quality, it was also unable to withstand the orc Silver Moon Wolf cavalry in the wild. If it weren't for the fact that there were a few masters with strong combat effectiveness in the Legion Department, it would not be the opponent of the orc professionals.

Last winter, Jennings took his career level one step further and became a ninth-order warrior. At the age of less than forty, he was promoted to the Nine Rings, which shows Jennings' talent.

It was by relying on Jennings and a few other masters, coupled with the alchemy bombs equipped, that the guard squadron was able to block the attack of the orc Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry.

Seeing that Jennings was so fierce, wearing gorgeous enchanted armor, and the combat effectiveness of the guards around him was also very good, the leader of the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Squadron who led the team knew in his heart that this battle would inevitably capture the big man in Duke Haraland's county.

With bloodthirsty and excited eyes, the fourth-order werewolf squadron leader asked the guards around him feverishly, "Carefully identify whether this person is a big man in the Duke of Haaland?" ”

The orc guard took out an atlas, looked through it carefully, and said with a little hesitation: "It looks like it should be the commander of the Third Legion, Jennings." ”

"What is the relationship between this person and Duke Haaland?"

"Jennings is Duke Haaland's cousin-in-law, and Duke Haaland's right-hand man, he is considered a high-ranking heavyweight officer in Haaland's collar, and he is a real big man."

The Captain of the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Squadron suppressed the joy in his heart and said: "Inform Ralph immediately, let him join us quickly, and be sure to kill Jennings before the arrival of enemy reinforcements, so that Duke Harland can also taste the pain of losing his loved ones." ”

Although the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry was stronger in combat effectiveness, the Jennings Guard Squadron was equipped with a large number of alchemy bombs, and the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry tried to launch a charge, but instead of crushing the guard squadron line, more than ten soldiers were killed. Four of them, the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry, died at the hands of Jennings.

Although Jennings' individual combat power is very strong, after all, it is far inferior to Silver.

If it is Silph, a person encountering a squadron of orc silver moon wolf cavalry can easily break the encirclement of the enemy and crush the opponent. Although Jennings was promoted to a ninth-order warrior and fought against the all-professional army, he was still no match for the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Squadron. If it weren't for the protection of the guard squadron, I am afraid that I would have died at the hands of the enemy.

In fact, fighting head-on with more than 100 fully armed and professional troops, even if they are legendary warriors, they may not be opponents. Only the Legendary Knight, who has mastered the power of spells, can easily defeat an army of more than a hundred all-professionals.

Generally speaking, the combat power of a legendary knight is often equivalent to that of three to five legendary warriors. There are some legendary warriors with weak combat power, and none of them may be opponents of the ninth-order knights.

If he didn't have Philip by his side, Jennings could still fight the orcs with his hands and feet, but with Philip by his side, Jennings could only try to avoid entangled and fighting with the orcs in an unfavorable situation. If Philippe has an accident, the consequences may not be able to be borne by Haaland.

The two armies fought against each other for more than three days in the field, fighting four or five battles of small scale.

After three days of hard fighting, Jennings's guard squadron was reduced by more than half, with more than 60 casualties, while the orc Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry also lost more than 40 soldiers, reduced by about one-third, and in the end, it was Harland who led the army to have an internal advantage, and rushed over to reinforce before the orcs and drove away this difficult opponent.

In this battle, although there were two mid-level magicians Bella and Harrison to protect him, Philip was also wearing precious enchanted armor, and Bella and the two also carried precious magic scrolls, but there were no eyes on the battlefield, and Philip was still injured, the enchanted armor on his chest was broken by the orcs, and he was slashed on the thigh, and the wound was deep and boneless.

After experiencing this battle, and feeling the threat of death firsthand, Philip understood the cruelty of the war in Northern Xinjiang for the first time.

As soon as Philip was injured, Richard transferred him back to Fort William.

Philip's injuries were not particularly serious, and after being treated with spells, he was soon able to walk on crutches. After he walked out of the hospital, Richard transferred Philip to the civil service.

If Philip wants to manage the territory, he must be both civil and military. He not only needs to be trained in northern Xinjiang to experience the life of a soldier, but also to be proficient in local management rules and learn to master the civil service.

Haaland has a special physique, and military generals can easily transform into civilian officials, but civilian officials are basically impossible to lead troops into battles.

Because of their extraordinary strength, the individual combat power of the Dawn Plane is very prominent, and to a certain extent, high-level professionals can decide the outcome of a battle.

With such a state of society, it is impossible to establish a so-called civilian government. It is simply impossible for a high-ranking officer to accept the command of a layman, and the overall will of the army cannot accept a weak lord.

From the perspective of social status, the status of military generals is far beyond that of civilian officials. Especially high-ranking officers, many of whom were hereditary aristocrats.

Hereditary aristocrats and ordinary people, legally and politically, are almost two different creatures.

This social status quo led to fierce competition among the nobility, and every succession to the title was usually accompanied by intrigue and killing.

After two years of accumulation, the defense line in the Priland region has gradually stabilized, and on this defense line, there are now nine barons and nobles, except for seven who are mercenary leaders, the rest of Odaye and Immorton are all Harland leading capitalists, they have seized the opportunity and have made further progress in their social status.

Because the Haaland Territory has been established for a short time and the accumulated time is not enough, the Monopoly with assets of more than 100,000 gold coins is very rare, and in the entire territory, only Odaye and Immorton can take out a large amount of property. Through the power of gold coins, you can obtain enough soul crystals and promote to hereditary nobility.

In fact, in other realms, merchants with assets of more than 100,000 are also very rare.

In the major kingdoms of the Dawn plane, the status of merchants is not high. The big merchants were intelligent people, and when they developed to a certain extent, they would control the scale of commerce, and then marry hereditary nobles to infiltrate the aristocracy.

Basically, wealthy merchants will not let their capital exceed 100,000 gold coins and become fat meat in the mouths of nobles.

After the Harland Territory enacted a decree to encourage commercial development, a large number of wealthy merchants in the Grant Kingdom entered the Harland Territory, including the merchants of Nolan, and many of them shifted the focus of their business to the Harland Territory. Combined, these people brought millions of gold coins to Haaland's collar, which greatly alleviated Haaland's money shortage.

Even if the merchants of the Grant Kingdom are combined, the asset size exceeds that of Odaye, and Immorton's is very rare.

After all, Odaye, Immorton is the factory owner, the factory owner after the industrial revolution, and the industrial scale beats the traditional businessmen, and their development in one year can be equivalent to the accumulation of traditional businessmen for ten years or a hundred years. The scale of assets can be compared to Odaye, and the merchants of Immorton are basically big nobles with white gloves, and they cannot operate independently.

After Odaye and Immorton were promoted to hereditary nobility, it can be regarded as opening a new path for future generations. Haaland's Hayden and Rogge are ready to be promoted to hereditary nobility in this way.

(End of chapter)