Clemen was busy for more than half a month before drawing up the list, and in the end, more than 10,000 people were awarded the Outstanding Railway Worker Medal for the Eastern Ring Line of the Eagle Mountains, and more than 1,400 people were awarded meritorious awards in the Haaland Territory.

Richard awarded medals to more than 10,000 people, and it took five or six days to make meritorious deeds.

It takes a long time to meet with two or three hundred people every day, say a few words about the scene, and say some scene words, repeat the same few words, say that Richard's cheeks hurt, and finally finish the scene.

Although Richard was a little impatient in his heart, and it was impossible to recognize more than a thousand members of the railway department who had made meritorious contributions, for ordinary people, these short two or three minutes were estimated to be the most glorious time of their lives, and this beautiful memory filled their hearts. So despite his impatience, Richard still showed a smile and showed his best side.

Among the more than 10,000 people who have received meritorious service awards, there are more than 100 magicians.

In order to open up the extremely difficult tunnel, almost all the members of the Harland Leader Mage Association have taken time to participate in the construction of the railway, and even Richard and Sophia have personally acted as magic tool people, constantly releasing spells every day to drain their magic power, and this process lasted for two or three months.

It is precisely because of the full assistance of the magician that Haaland and the engineering designers can build super projects that significantly exceed the level of productivity, after all, a magician like Richard can dig tunnels better than shield machines.

It stands to reason that Richard is the first contributor to the development of the railway, and his importance is more than that of Bonova, but Richard is the master of Haaland's collar, and it is impossible to compete with his subordinates for merit, and he will issue medals and official positions to himself. He is not a medal control, nor a mighty general, nor is he a drama spirit, and the actor is coming.

Not only Richard and Sophia, but even Wendy, Eve and other high-level mages of Haaland, Richard did not give them meritorious deeds.

Haaland led high-ranking mages to participate in wars, and there was no shortage of meritorious deeds in their own right.

Wendy's name has accumulated more than 30 great merits, and if it is exchanged for a title, the territory will be expanded by three times and promoted to the viscount level, but Wendy does not value the merits in his name.

As long as there is a hereditary aristocracy and no discrimination is made, Wendy is satisfied. Although she is nearly forty years old, she has never been in a relationship or married, and as Wendy gets older, this situation also gives Richard some headaches.

In the early years, because of the unstable foundation of the Haaland Collar, Wendy mastered almost all the magic inheritance of the Haaland Collar, and Richard didn't want her to marry or marry in his heart, and he didn't care about Wendy's marriage. As the situation in Haaland's leadership became more and more stable, and Wendy got older, Richard gradually began to get anxious, and thoughts of regret often came to his heart.

In recent years, although Richard has introduced Wendy to some up-and-comers in the territory, looking at Wendy's meaning, there is no trace of the idea of getting married, starting a family, or having children, and her time is almost obsessed with magical research.

As the most important nobleman of the Haaland Lord, Wendy doesn't like aristocratic banquets, doesn't like to talk highly, and doesn't like to waste time traveling, and he doesn't like men or women very much, and he has almost no worldly desires, and is completely immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

In addition to meditation and rest, Wendy's daily time is the library, the laboratory, and occasionally going to the stargazing platform to see, which is very boring and stable.

Sophia herself is already a magic fanatic, an extreme workaholic, because giving birth to a child delayed her learning magic, and complained to Richard to this day, Wendy's situation is more serious than Sophia, making Richard suspect that she is a magic tool man. It may be because of this persistence that Wendy was able to be promoted to the Eighth Ring Magician at the age of less than forty.

Richard continued to issue medals to the employees of the Ministry of Railways who had made meritorious contributions, and many of the meritorious service lists had already died, and it was their family members who received the medals. During the construction of the railway, more than 2,000 indentured slaves were killed and wounded, especially in the bitter cold winter, and the work was not interrupted, although some of them were treated and regained their health. However, the number of indentured slaves who died and were disabled because of the construction of the railroad totaled 1,200.

Twenty years earlier, Richard had decreed that all indentured slaves who were disabled in the line of duty would be pardoned for their families. The civil affairs department will also issue a certain degree of subsidy.

In the early years, Haaland received average financial income, and the subsidies were relatively small, only some grain, oilseeds, brown sugar, and liquor, which could help his family have a good year.

Compared to the disabled soldiers of the army, the treatment is very different.

With the continuous improvement of Haaland's financial level, the intensity of subsidies has gradually increased, and this year not only two silver coins can be issued every month, but various materials are also distributed more.

In order to prevent the corruption of life-saving money at the grassroots level, Richard formulated a very severe punishment, once someone embezzled disability and death benefits, not only would he be executed, but everyone in the family would be implicated. The immediate family members will be reduced to slaves and sent to the mines to be accompanied by orcs, and basically live less than half a year.

At the same time, colleagues in the department, officials in higher departments who fail to fulfill their supervisory responsibilities, will also be implicated, and if this happens, almost the entire department will be uprooted, and in the past two decades Richard has dealt with four cases of embezzlement of death benefits, because of which more than hundreds of officials have been dismissed.

Haaland led the punishment of corrupt officials with such force that the bureaucracy almost changed color.

In this world where supernatural powers exist, ordinary bureaucrats can hardly use lies, and a four-ring magic mantra can make most of the high-level and lower-level professionals tell the truth. Because of the presence of magical powers, it is relatively simple to manage the rule.

The world of supernatural power has greatly suppressed conspiracy and lies, and the underlying logic of this world is that strength determines everything.

Most of the fights are straight and relatively straightforward.

This year's celebration was held, not only did a lot of money be spent on the scene, but those who won the medal could also receive an extra silver coin subsidy every month, and the railway department alone would increase this year's subsidy by 10,000 gold coins, which was not a small amount of money.

After the opening of the Eastern Railway Loop in the Eagle Mountains, Richard held a very large celebration at the Twin Star Castle, and all the workers who participated in the construction of the railway received invitations from the government.

If you get this invitation, you will get a free train ride before the celebration, a free stay in an officially run hotel, and a wonderful gift during the celebration, which will be of great value.

By mid-January, the number of workers who came to the Twin Star Castle to participate in the celebration had reached 150,000 or 60,000. The remaining tens of thousands of workers have basically transformed into professional railway workers, because the construction schedule of the railway is too tight, and they can only send representatives to participate in the celebration.

After the opening of the railway, Richard also took a sum of money from the duke's fund, and everyone who participated in the construction of the railway was given two silver coins each.

Two silver coins are roughly equivalent to half a month's work for an ordinary person. Although it is not a lot of money, the sum of more than 200,000 people is 35,000 gold coins.

The messy costs add up, and it cost a total of more than 100,000 gold coins to hold this celebration.

Although it cost a lot of money to support the scene, half of the gold coins are equivalent to issuing subsidies. The people of the railway department contributed a lot to the territory, and Richard had a responsibility to make their lives better.

Compared with more than 20 years ago, although the scale of Haaland's economy has expanded by hundreds of times, because of the continuous import of population, the labor force is still very sufficient, and the average monthly wage level has increased from three silver coins and twelve copper coins to four silver coins and twenty copper coins.

Wages have risen modestly, and there is little inflation. Major commodities have been sold at reduced prices, especially the bulk commodities produced by Haaland, such as steel, alcohol, brown sugar, cotton and other essential goods, have been reduced to a level that can be consumed by poor households, and food prices have also stabilized at the baseline.

In fact, the living standards of ordinary citizens, life expectancy, social security, and class mobility, Haaland has been at the forefront of the Dawn plane.

The income of the peasants is relatively better, an ordinary family of six can produce 6,000 catties of grain a year on 30 acres of land, and can earn six gold coins; plus doing odd jobs in the slack time, engaging in animal husbandry, and planting some flowers, plants, vegetables, and fruit trees, the average income of a family exceeds 10 gold coins, and the life is obviously better than that of the citizens.

A considerable part of the burghers in Haaland's territory were free people who had migrated from other territories, and some were second sons and children who were unwilling to leave home and settled in the city with the help of their parents.

Because of the distribution of land, they changed from serfs to wealthy squires, and the peasants were the most supportive of the territory, and they were very keen to let their children join the army and fight for the lord.

Now with more than 7 million freemen, Haaland is firmly on his feet.

If you want to defeat Haaland, you need to fight with a population of 7 million. When defending the territory, under the maximum mobilization, the Haaland Territory can pull out a million well-equipped troops.

By the end of January 3277, the mileage of the Haaland Collar Railway had reached 1,900 kilometers, and more than 300 steam locomotives were put into operation on the main sections.

A railway line is also being planned for the Western Region, which began in March this year and has already been built from Castle Phillip to Fort Flame.

Prepare to head west from Flame Castle across Maple Leaf Castle to the Grand Duchy of Starnik.

Richard was also preparing to negotiate with the Grand Duchy of Starnik to build a major north-south artery in the Grand Duchy of Starnik, which would then be connected to the railway network in the territory of Haraland.

Eventually, the railway would reach the county of Philip, connecting the north and south parts of the Harling family.

If the construction of this railway network is completed, the steam train will only need to run for two days for a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, and then the county of Philip will not become an enclave, and with the help of the railway line, the mobilization of troops and logistical supplies will become very simple.

But Grand Duke Jonathan was no fool, and with the Haraland Railroad being extended, the Grand Nobles already knew quite well about this nascent machine.

In the last two or three years, the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom have come to Richard to probe and exchange railroad construction technology.

Railways are the products of industrial development to a certain extent, and without a qualified industrial base, even if a railway is built, it is still a source of water and a tree without roots.

Considering the situation in the surrounding area, Richard did not intend to export industry in a short period of time, so he naturally rejected the requests of several nearby nobles very clearly.

Because Haaland has a series of advanced technologies such as steel manufacturing, machining, red rubber grass refining, coal mine excavation and production, alloy steel smelting, etc., Richard is not afraid of his neighbors stealing technology in a short period of time, imitating Haaland to build railways.

If you want to transplant a series of technologies from Haaland to the past, you need not only Richard's cooperation, but also some institutional reforms, which are more suitable for the development of industrialization, and establish education to cultivate a population suitable for industry.

Even if everything goes well, it will take at least a dozen years before there is an industrial base.

Although the Dawn plane is a supernatural power first, Richard will not easily let the industry outflow, he has already made preparations in advance, all important factories are state-owned enterprises.

The political considerations of state-owned enterprises always come first, and they will not engage in industrial export because of economic interests.

Although there are private capitalists in Haaland's collar, they are all in the development of secondary industries, such as Odaye, Immorton and others, all of whom are developing in the flour manufacturing industry, and such businessmen with strong capital have entered the surveillance list of the intelligence department. Haaland will not let them move the factory out of the territory, causing the leakage of technology.

Moreover, in Haaland's territory, they have all become hereditary nobles, realized the value of life, and led their families to achieve class jumps.

Without full trust, the capitalists will not easily leave Haaland's territory and enter unfamiliar areas to develop.

Because Richard attached great importance to the secrecy of technology, the factory had a large number of intelligence officers, and it became very difficult to rely on spies to steal technology and develop industry.

Moreover, the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom did not dare to provoke Richard in the first place, and there were not so many high-quality personnel under the second hand.

Talents who are literate and hyphenated and understand basic mathematics are basically aristocrats. The aristocracy had very good prospects and was reluctant to act as spies.

Moreover, the railway project is a systematic project, involving all aspects, and requires a large number of industrial talents to build, and the difficulty of the cottage is very high, and it is not like brewing distilled spirits, which can be learned at a glance.

If the big nobles want to steal from the cottage, they need to develop in all aspects of industry, even if they fully learn everything that Haaland leads, without guidance, it will take at least fifty to a hundred years.

In the year 3277 of the Dawn Calendar, according to the population statistics of the civil affairs department, the population directly managed by the Haaland Leader was already 10 million, and the population controlled by the 63 vassals under his name was about 800,000.

The population of the territory directly under the territory is 10 million, of which 7 million are free people, and the 5 million people who were seized by annexing the Delong Kingdom back then have completed the five-year contract. This wave of people was promoted to freemen this year, and it almost changed the demographics of Haaland's territory.

(End of chapter)