The Duke of Rex, with a population of more than 12 million, had only 1.6 million freemen.

Most of these freedmen lived in large castles, and about half of them had noble blood. Especially near Kanas Castle, the former capital of the east coast, the traditional upper class of civil servants, merchants, and scholars were almost all aristocratic classes.

Magicians are also all from the aristocracy.

On the contrary, in the vast countryside, 99 percent were serfs, and only a few yeoman farmers and squires were found.

According to the decree of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, the land belonged to the aristocracy, and there was basically no terra nullius. Since the land has owners, it is difficult for yeoman farmers to appear.

A small number of yeoman farmers and gentry are basically the descendants of hereditary nobles, and their ancestors are favored by the nobles before they will inherit land and property.

Richard did not discriminate against the aristocracy of the former Duke of Ricks.

After conquering Kanas Castle, Richard only killed the descendants of the five dukes' families, adding up to a few hundred. Even the women, children and children of some ducal families, Richard did not cut the grass and eradicate it according to the rules of this world.

Instead, the rebellion was suppressed in the following months, implicating some several thousand people.

As for the members of the five dukes' family branches, Richard only abolished some aristocratic privileges and created a level playing field for them to compete with the freedmen of the Harland Lord, giving them time to integrate into the Harland Lord.

The tribal nobles did not inherit hereditary titles, and in addition to national feelings, they did not have a deep grudge with Haaland. Over time, Richard thought they could fit in with Haaland.

The remaining population of the Duke of Rex was serfs. As a rule, the quality of the serfs was not high, there were basically not many literate people, and they were unable to organize the production of the farms, and they relied heavily on the aristocratic steward class.

The butlers and stewards under the aristocracy are actually the ones who have the ability to organize and master the techniques of agricultural production.

Normally, a lord is inseparable from the steward class at all.

But Haaland is in a different situation.

After nearly three decades of development, Haaland has a large number of grassroots bureaucrats. These bureaucrats basically have studied and gone to school, and some of them have come from agricultural colleges, and their theoretical knowledge is far deeper than that of the farm stewards, and after the training of the grassroots level, their ability has generally surpassed that of the farm stewards, and they have mastered deeper agricultural production techniques, and their organizational ability is far beyond that of the aristocratic stewards and servants.

In order to control the Duke of Ricks, Richard transferred thousands of grassroots bureaucrats from the Harland Command at one time, and recruited tens of thousands of new graduates.

Today, Haaland has more than 300 primary schools, more than 50 middle schools, 12 higher secondary schools, and eight junior colleges, with a total of more than 400,000 students.

More than 10,000 middle school students and tens of thousands of elementary school students graduate each year.

After years of development, Haaland's academic qualifications have been depreciated very severely.

Today's middle school students are no longer baby bumps compared to more than a decade ago, and it is difficult for them to directly become civil servants after graduation and enter the ruling class of Haaland. In many border towns, civil servants are recruited, and teachers recruit middle school students.

Even high school graduates have a serious depreciation of their academic qualifications, and many people cannot find satisfactory jobs after graduation. On the contrary, it was the junior college that came out of the sweet pastry, and before graduating, it was coaxed by the higher departments and booked in advance.

Specialized sectors such as steel, railways, machinery, medical care, accounting, agriculture, and law are now basically recruiting people in vocational schools.

The vast majority of the freshmen recruited by Richard this time were primary and secondary school students. Although the distance is long and you need to go far away, in order to have a stable job and a background, many people are enthusiastic to sign up.

With thousands of bureaucrats, tens of thousands of students, and 50,000 troops, Harland was able to control the Duke of Rex in a matter of months.

According to Richard's plan, four secondary schools and thirty primary schools will be established in the Duke of Rex next year. However, without adequate publicity, it may not be able to recruit enough people.

Because the big nobles mainly rely on family education, and the small nobles rely on parental education or family genealogy, it is difficult for parents in ordinary serf families to understand the importance of education.

As Richard cleared out the fleeing rout, the handover gradually came to an end.

Order was re-established, and the Duke of Rex resumed agricultural production.

The land near Kanas Castle is a coastal plain, and the nobility of the United Kingdom on the east coast has operated on this land for many years, built countless towns, and cultivated more than tens of millions of acres of fertile land.

Although the treasury is empty and the people's livelihood is withered because of repeated wars, the foundation of this land is still very strong, and the resource endowment even exceeds that of Haaland's territory.

The Duchy of Rex not only has a large coastal plain, but also has better climatic conditions than in the north.

The land is warm and humid, with abundant rainfall due to its proximity to the ocean, and the winters are not too cold, and the agricultural conditions are not only good, but also rich in fisheries.

In addition, there is a medium-sized magic well near Kanas Castle.

This medium-sized magic well sits atop the Academy of Magic.

After mastering this medium-sized magic well and installing a magic charging circle, Haaland can increase the number of magic crystals charged by 10,000 per year, which is enough to reduce the pressure on the supply of magic crystals.

With the Harland Leader gaining a foothold in the Red Moon Plane, Richard consulted with the Divine Radiance Empire and the Church of Dawn to reduce the frequency of opening portals to the level of three years ago.

Open the interdimensional teleportation channel twice a month, and distribute it to the name of Haaland, consuming 2,000 magic crystals per month. Consuming 24,000 magic crystals in a year, the burden is very heavy for any country.

In fact, the Haaland leader seized the half-plane controlled by Sussman, which can mine 10,000 magic crystals per year, and the two magic crystal mines in the Red Moon plane, which can mine 4,000 magic crystals per year.

The real loss of magic crystals in a year of operating the Red Moon Plane is about 10,000 magic crystals.

The Red Moon Plane has some special magic resources, which can also be exchanged for magic crystals when obtained from the Dawn Plane. Although Harland has a short time to develop the transcendent resources of the Red Moon Plane, he can still earn two or three thousand magic crystals every year.

On the whole, although the operation of the Red Moon Plane is still beyond its means, it can barely afford it.

Now Harland Leader controls the Tower of Fire, the Tower of Petrification, and the Tower of Lightning, three mage towers, plus the Ogre Lair, and the Dragon Canyon Plane Passage, a total of five small magic wells. There are two medium-sized magic wells in the Dragon's Lair and Kanas Magic Academy, and a large magic well in the Starlight Mage Tower in Snow Crystal Lake.

These mana wells that the Haaland Leader can fully control are all equipped with magic crystal charging circles, which can charge 65,000 magic crystals a year.

Haaland also owns the princess's mausoleum, a large magic well, but Richard is not yet the owner of this magic well. In the mausoleum, there is not only the landowner of Princess Offalain, but also the guests of the Dawn Church. Magic crystal charging is the core technology of Haaland's leadership, and Richard does not want to be exposed to outsiders in a short period of time.

In addition, in the western part of Duke Rex, there is also a small and medium-sized magic crystal mine, which can produce about 3,000 magic crystals a year.

Although Haaland led the industrial revolution, he burned coal to provide energy, which greatly increased productivity. But to develop a magical civilization, the magic crystal is the core of the otherworldly version of the industrial revolution.

Whether it's a magic airship in the air or a magic ship in the sea, a large number of magic crystals are consumed every day. Haaland led the super combat power of the army, and more than half of it was made up of magic crystals.

If there is no sufficient supply of magic crystals, the decline in the combat effectiveness of Haaland's army will be very serious.

In recent years, Haaland has discovered several magic crystal mines after taking the lead, and with the production of the Red Moon plane, it produces 26,000 magic crystals a year. Every year, the territory sells some extraordinary resources through the commodity fair, and it can also be exchanged for seven or eight thousand magic crystals.

All in all, Haaland can earn 100,000 magic crystals a year.

This is a very high standard, the Grant Kingdom, a country in the eastern part of the continent, can produce 20,000 magic crystals a year through mining and trading. In addition to the loss of breeding monsters, it can only roughly break even. Although there are more than 100,000 magic crystals stored in the treasure house of the Grant Kingdom, it is the foundation accumulated by a kingdom for hundreds of years.

The Sith Kingdom, combined with the ocean-going slave trade, was able to produce about 30,000 magic crystals a year. However, maintaining the operation of nearly thirty magic ships and raising thousands of magical beasts, even if you save more, the annual consumption of magic crystals will exceed 30,000, and the actual net income is probably worse than that of the Grant Kingdom.

Backed by the Silver Wolf Mountain Range, the Ryan Kingdom has several medium-sized magic crystal mines, and can earn thirty or forty thousand magic crystals through mining every year, which is already a lot stronger than the surrounding countries.

Even in the Divine Radiance Empire, the annual output of magic crystals does not exceed one million. The Magic Kingdom of Makholm, the Dawn Holy See and other forces produce 300,000 magic crystals every year. On the contrary, it is the Orc Empire, because of its vast territory and many magic crystal mines, the annual output of magic crystals is as high as five or six hundred thousand.

Although it can produce 100,000 magic crystals per year, the consumption of magic crystals led by Haaland is also very serious, far exceeding that of traditional kingdoms such as Grant and Ryan.

The first is to maintain the Red Moon Plane Channel, even if the frequency of opening interdimensional teleportation is reduced, it will cost 24,000 a year. In the first three years, the consumption was as high as 36,000.

In addition, in the industrial sector, there are a lot of magic steam engines in operation, and the consumption of the industrial sector alone exceeded 5,000 last year.

Then there is the consumption of the army system, the nine magic ships consume nearly eight thousand magic crystals per year, and the training of artillery on magic ships and steam ships also consumes four thousand.

Six magic blimp brigades completed their training, and the magic crystals consumed in a year were nearly 6,000.

The artillery unit consumes magic crystals very seriously, and every firing and training consumes magic crystals, which seriously burns money.

Haaland has more than 1,200 magic crystal cannons, and the artillery conducts live-fire training two or three times a month, and consumes more than 10,000 magic crystals a year.

Raising Warcraft costs a lot of money. Haaland now has more than 6,000 Warcraft horses, and it costs 12,000 magic crystals every year. One hundred and forty lions were raised, consuming nearly 1,000 magic crystals every year, and hundreds of bipedal wyverns consumed as many as 3,000 magic crystals a year.

The magic crystals that need to be worn out in military training alone were as high as 45,000 last year.

This is still the cost of training and maintenance in peacetime, if there is a war, the consumption of magic crystals has to increase several times, this year's war only mobilized 120,000 troops, only three months of fighting, the inventory of magic crystals has been reduced by 100,000.

The reason why Richard stopped fighting in the west was that the consumption of magic crystals was too serious.

Not counting the new members recruited this year, the Harland Mage Association has more than 700 magicians, close to 5,000 magic apprentices, and engages in magic research every year, and the total magic crystals consumed for experiments are close to 20,000. The scientific research department spends a year researching the loss of magic crystals, which adds up to several thousand.

In the end, Haaland has consumed more than 100,000 magic crystals a year. According to statistics, there were 106,000 the year before last and 114,000 last year.

Before he got the Duke of Rex, Haaland led the magic crystal production of 85,000 a year, and the annual loss of magic crystal was nearly 20,000 or 30,000.

Fortunately, the Haaland leader once captured the dragon's lair and seized a large number of magic crystals, and the foundation accumulated in the past few years is very strong, and it is not a trouble to lose money in a short time.

This year, a full-scale war broke out, and Haaland led not only the magic fleet, but also five of the six magic airship brigades participating in the battle, hundreds of magic crystal cannons fired in a salvo, and more than a thousand magic crystals were consumed every day. The inventory of magic crystals accumulated in previous years has been consumed by a war this year.

However, starting this year, the number of times the plane passage is opened has decreased, reducing the consumption of magic crystals. After the war, he got the Duke of Rex, and the production of magic crystals increased, so he should be able to break even.

If there is no war next year, there will even be some surplus.

Looking at the statistics sent below, Richard thought in his heart: "There are only 60,000 magic crystals left in the inventory, and it is impossible to sustain a big war at all." It seems that in recent years, we should try to avoid using troops, and the consumption of magic crystals should be reduced. The military system, in particular, needs to be endured for a few years for the time being. ”

Due to the worst consumption of magic crystals in the army, Richard decided not to expand the technical classes for a few years.

Today, Haaland has an army of 250,000 troops, 4,600 Warcraft cavalry, a Warcraft War Horse breeding base, and a bipedal Wyvern Knights and a lion cavalry. The number of Warcraft classes is relatively close to that of the two royal families of Grant and Ryan.

In addition to the Warcraft troops, the Harland Collar also has a magic fleet, a magic crystal cannon, and a magic airship, and the number of these special troops exceeds 20,000.

The mage power that Haraland has mastered is also a little stronger than that of Grant, Ryan and other royal families, especially after the annexation of Kanas Academy of Magic, the total number of Haaland Mage Association has reached more than 16,400 people, and there are more than 1,600 official members. In order to eliminate the original influence, Richard also changed the name of the Kanas School of Magic to the Rex School of Magic.

Thanks to the foundation laid by the United Kingdom on the East Coast, the scale of Rex's School of Magic is a few points larger than that of Harland's School of Magic.

After taking control of Rex's Academy of Magic, Richard inherited the good policy of the East Coast, and still provided free testing qualifications for children, but limited by vision and family income, the people who came to the test were basically the aristocratic class.

(End of chapter)