After the establishment of the Haaland Kingdom, Richard successively set up foreign affairs, finance and other cabinet departments, with the passage of time, the departments gradually straightened out, to January 3282 of the dawn calendar, the financial situation of the Haaland Kingdom was sent to Richard.

Today, Richard has three territories under his name, spread across different regions and even planes. The territory is geographically separated from different regions, which is naturally very difficult to manage, and it is obviously centrifugal.

Only a founding monarch like Richard had the prestige to suppress local forces and unite the three realms in one kingdom.

The first is the Haaland Kingdom itself, which covers an area of 1.26 million square kilometers and has a total population of 17 million people, including the vassals under its command.

With a population of 17 million and 14.6 million freemen, the land tax alone can collect 4.9 million gold coins in a year, which is equivalent to 80 percent of the level of the Grant royal family.

Haaland receives only one-third of the agricultural tax, while the Grant royal family can collect eighty percent of the agricultural tax. In terms of the area of farmland reclaimed, the Grant royal family controls a few more land than Haland's territory.

However, Haraland's agricultural income has exceeded that of the Grant royal family, and the agricultural income is equivalent to 1.5 times that of the royal family, and a very important reason is that Harland's leading officials are clear, Richard's deterrent effect on bureaucrats is far heavier than that of Roger's kingdom, and the corruption of tax collectors is far less serious than that of the Grant kingdom.

Another important reason is that the agricultural planting technology of Haaland Collar is higher, which has far exceeded the average level of the Grant Kingdom.

First of all, potash fertilizer is used on a large scale, and now Haaland leads has produced 150,000 tons of potash fertilizer every year, which can be used for fertilization and multi-purpose of 10 million acres of land.

According to the statistics of the agricultural department, planting wheat and fertilizing can increase the yield by 4 catties, and the release of 150,000 tons of potassium fertilizer can increase the grain output by 600,000 tons.

The second is the large-scale use of farm fertilizer, which has increased the average yield per mu of Haaland from 140 catties to 240 catties, 100 catties per mu, and 500 catties per mu. If a person's land is increased by 500 catties of grain, Haaland will be able to collect 160 catties in taxes. The tax of two silver coins per person may seem small, but magnifying it to 14,600,000 freemen can increase the tax revenue of 2,300,000 gold coins, which is of great effect on the treasury.

In addition, Haaland also likes to build water conservancy, cultivate good seeds, the average yield per mu still has room to rise, and after a few years, the southern province of Rex will be merged into the headquarters finance, and the agricultural tax alone can collect tens of millions of gold coins.

Over the years, local steel production has increased to 450,000 tons.

With the increase in the supply of steel, the price of iron is getting lower and lower, because of the construction of the railway, the logistics cost has been greatly reduced, relying on the transportation of the railway, a large amount of steel has flowed into Grant, Starnik and other friendly countries. The iron mines and blacksmith shops run by the traditional aristocracy could not compete with the big industry of the Haaland Kingdom at all, and in recent years, they have basically all gone bankrupt, and the steel markets of the two countries have basically fallen under the control of the Harland Lord.

Although the profit of smelting a ton of steel is only fifteen silver coins now, which does not seem to be high, but the total amount of 450,000 can still bring Haaland a profit of 560,000 gold coins.

The reduction in the price of steel can not only limit inflation and improve the living standards of the people under its rule, but also reduce the cost of infrastructure construction, which is also a great boost to the development of industry.

If Richard monopolized the supply of steel and raised the price of iron products, although he could earn a lot of gold coins, it would push up the cost of infrastructure and hinder industrial development.

Although gold coins are good, they cannot be eaten or worn, and if they are not circulated, they are of no use to the development of the territory.

The production of brown sugar has also increased significantly, reaching 40,000 tons last year. With the increase in brown sugar production, Haaland once again lowered the retail price of brown sugar to four copper coins per kilogram. Haaland has been relatively stable in the past 30 years, and the price of wheat is still three kilograms per copper coin this year. The selling price ratio of grain to brown sugar has been reduced to 12 to 1, which is equivalent to the level of Richard in his previous life and Ming Dynasty.

The price of brown sugar has been reduced to this proportion, and it has entered thousands of households, and even the Haaland Department of Indentured Slaves will allocate some brown sugar to slaves for use.

Although the price of sugar has dropped a lot, the production of one ton of brown sugar still has a net profit of more than seven gold coins, and 40,000 tons of brown sugar can bring Haaland a profit of 280,000 gold coins.

As of this year, Haaland has been operating the brown sugar industry for 30 years, reclaiming more than 500,000 acres of brown sugar plantations, with a yield of about 80 kilograms per mu of brown sugar. Nowadays, brown sugar planting is already a very important industry.

With the development of the economy, the price of sugar continues to decrease, and the market is still greatly expanded.

Haaland led the development of the brown sugar industry thirty years ahead of schedule, and there was simply no other aristocrat who could compete with it. After much deliberation, Richard decided to relinquish all control of the brown sugar industry, and the brown sugar trees would be sold to the poor of the Eagle Mountains after being matured and bred by the magic plantation.

Through detailed calculations, the output value of one acre of land planting brown sugar trees is eight times that of growing grain. The arable land in the mountainous areas is barren, and it is difficult for the industry to develop successfully, so planting brown sugar trees can increase the income of mountain people, which is a good thing for economic development.

Although the brown sugar planting department strongly opposed it, Richard made up his mind and did not care about the interests of the department at all, and the spread of brown sugar seedlings was already imperative.

In addition to steel and brown sugar, the Haaland Kingdom also had a large amount of income from arms trade, coal and medicine. In particular, the arms trade can bring millions of gold coins to Haaland's leadership a year.

Coal and pharmaceuticals are also bulk industries, which together can bring Haaland a net profit of 600,000 gold coins a year.

The two important industries of flour and textiles also exceed coal and pharmaceuticals in scale, and can bring Haaland 700,000 gold in profits a year.

Combined with miscellaneous incomes such as soap, soap, four-wheeled carriages, coinage income, bank income, etc., the financial revenue of the Haaland Kingdom last year was as high as 9.3 million gold coins.

This financial income is 3.6 million gold coins more than that of the Grant Kingdom, and it ranks first among the more than 20 kingdoms in the east.

The headquarters of the Kingdom of Harland has a very high finance, and the southern province of Rex is also a rich land, and last year the field tax alone collected 1.6 million gold coins, which is still Richard pardoned the rural farmers and herdsmen as indentured slaves, reducing the proportion of taxes from the countryside, otherwise according to the old practice of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, the Duke of Rex can collect two million gold coin agricultural taxes.

Ricks Province has belonged to the Haraland family for a year and a half, and in the past year and a half, Richard has successively transferred tens of thousands of bureaucrats to Ricks Province.

With this bureaucratic contingent of tens of thousands of people, the Haaland leadership has completely taken the province of Rex under its control. A large number of explorers began to enter the province of Rex to survey the veins. Some manufacturing factories also migrated to the Duchy of Rex, such as shipyards, soap factories, and textile factories. brick kiln factory and so on.

It's just that in the first few years, industry needed to invest and didn't make a profit.

In addition, the railway department also sent exploration personnel to prepare for the construction of a railway in the province of Rex to facilitate the deployment of troops.

The last territory was the Red Moon Plane, and as the forces of the Haaland Kingdom entered the Red Moon Plane, about 1.8 million square kilometers of land were given to Richard. There are about 5.6 million people in this territory. This population density is far less than that of the three wealthy provinces of Heihe, Central, and Rex. It can only be equated with such a desolate place as the East Coast Province and the Province of Priland.

In addition, the territory of the Red Moon Plane is not attached to the people, although the area is vast, but the tax is not much, last year only less than 600,000 gold coins were collected, which is not enough to maintain the cost of 80,000 garrisons.

The only good news is that the Red Moon Plane can now provide a large number of magic crystals for the Haaland Lord, and with the reduction of the frequency of the plane channel opening, the Red Moon Plane can provide the Haaland Territory with 18,000 magic crystals in a year, and with these 18,000 magic crystals, Richard can reduce some losses.

The sum of the three territories has a total of 11.5 million gold coins, which is about twice the level of the Grant Kingdom.

In addition, the three territories together can provide Richard with 130,000 magic crystals. Due to the solution of the hidden danger of the princess's mausoleum, Haaland has added a large magic well, and after adding the sunglasses charging circle, it can charge 24,000 magic crystals in a year.

Today, Haaland has five small mana powers, including the Tomb of the Princess, two large magic wells at the bottom of the Snow Lake, the Dragon's Lair, two medium-sized mana wells at the Kanas Academy of Magic, the Ogre's Lair, the Tower of Flame, the Tower of Lightning, the Tower of Petrification, and the Plane Passage of the Dragon Canyon, which together can charge 80,000 magic crystals a year.

Among the three territories, there are a total of nine magic crystal mines, which can mine 22,000 magic crystals a year, and the Red Moon plane also has a half-plane rich in magic crystals, which can increase by 10,000 magic crystals every year. In addition, by selling potions and alchemy items, the Harland Mage Guild can also earn 18,000 magic crystals a year.

Although the financial income of the Kingdom of Haaland has exceeded 10 million gold coins, the annual income and expenditure have also increased greatly in recent years.

Today, the Kingdom of Haaland has an army of 270,000, of which 80,000 are garrisoned in the Red Moon plane, 40,000 are garrisoned in the province of Rex, and 100,000 of the remaining 140,000 troops are stationed in the territory of the Harland Territory, and the remaining 40,000 are guest troops, stationed in the Earlland of Philip in the Kingdom of Grant.

Of these 40,000 guest troops, Richard is ready to slowly transfer back to Haaland's territory. If it weren't for the strong demand of the Roger Kingdom, the 40,000 Haaland Legion would have withdrawn last year.

With the demise of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, DeLong and Lane were also a little frightened.

The outcome of this war made the two kings Anton and Thomas clear in their hearts that the alliance between Grant and Haaland had surpassed the Triple Alliance on the East Coast. Now that the East Coast has been destroyed and 600,000 troops have been lost, Ryan and Delon cannot defeat the alliance between Grant and Haaland.

Under the auspices of the Divine Radiance Empire, DeLong and Ryan signed a peace pact with the Kingdom of Grant, and as long as the kings of the three kingdoms did not die, they could not take the initiative to provoke war.

As for the Kingdom of Haaland, because it does not share a border with DeLong and Ryan, Richard naturally does not need to be signed.

The number of troops increased to 270,000, and the annual cost of military salaries alone was nearly three million gold coins.

Supporting 270,000 troops also costs nearly 600,000 gold coins a year in logistics.

The cost of maintaining an army of 270,000 alone will cost 3.6 million gold coins a year.

The army not only needs to maintain costs, but also needs to invest a huge amount of money to replenish equipment, building a magic crystal cannon costs 2,000 gold coins, a magic airship requires 5,000 gold coins, and refining a seventh-order steel golem requires a huge amount of 40,000 gold coins. Even if it's the cheapest piece of individual armor, a set will cost a few gold coins.

On average, Haaland Ling's annual investment in equipment is about one million gold coins.

Among the three territories, the total population of the government is nearly 500,000, of which 80,000 are government civil servants and 420,000 are employees of official enterprises.

The salaries of 500,000 people add up to 2.8 million gold coins a year.

In addition, the education and medical departments need to spend 500,000 gold coins every year, and scientific research institutes and magic research departments also need to invest 800,000 gold coins every year.

Although Haaland's income is as high as 11.5 million, in fact, he has less than 2 million gold coins in a year.

These 2.2 million gold coins will also be invested in a large number of infrastructure and industrial projects.

Last year, Haaland led the construction of more than 300 kilometers of railways, which cost more than 400,000 gold coins. More than 200 kilometers of highways were built, 80,000 gold coins were spent, more than a dozen small reservoirs were built, more than 100,000 gold coins were spent, and some miscellaneous projects were spent 870,000 gold coins on infrastructure alone, roughly equivalent to 7.5 percent of the fiscal revenue.

The remaining more than a million gold coins Richard will not be kept in the vault, but will be invested in industrial projects.

Richard had less than 600,000 gold coins in his treasury at Fort William. Rather than a territory that prefers to store gold coins in a vault, Richard prefers to let the money run and circulate into the territory.

The main reason why the finances of the Kingdom of Haaland are so tight is the heavy cost of raising troops. The annual investment in military spending alone is as high as 4.6 million gold coins, which has far exceeded the standard of the Grant royal family.

The Grant royal family has a total of eleven legion regular armies, six legion auxiliaries, and the royal family directly supports 300,000 troops, including logistics supplies, and 3.4 million gold coins a year.

Although the cost of raising an army was huge, although it made the kingdom of Harland seem a little embarrassed, it also helped Richard to establish a great reputation, helped him wear a crown, drove out the orcs, and won peace.

According to Richard's estimates, Haaland will usher in a period of peace in a short period of time, and with the gradual fullness of technical equipment, Haaland has gradually reduced the cost of weapons and equipment in recent years, even if Richard is still preparing to expand the army by 30,000, the number of military spending will not increase significantly. The province of Rex will also slowly pardon indentured slaves, so that the domestic demand market will increase significantly.

As the domestic demand market increases, local industries will naturally increase their production capacity, and fiscal revenues will continue to grow, and the fiscal pressure will gradually ease.

(End of chapter)