Due to the intervention of the Divine Radiance Empire and the Kingdom of Haland, the civil war in the Kingdom of Delong has been going on for a year and a half. Now that both sides have strong supporters behind them, they can't tell the winner in a short period of time, and they are locked in a stalemate war.

However, King Anton has already begun to push for reforms, and his stamina is far greater than that of the rebels.

Judging from the balance of forces between the two sides, King Anton already controlled a population of 14 million, while the rebels controlled only about 6 million. There is a big gap between the financial revenues of the two sides, and if it is consumed for a long time, there is a high probability that the rebels will not be opponents.

After all, without interests, Richard would not sell his blood to support nobles such as Duke Marcel.

Now the time has entered the year 3284 of the Dawn calendar.

After more than 30 years of development, not counting the Red Moon Plane, the total population of the Haaland Kingdom has already exceeded 30 million.

The first is the native population, which has grown to 21 million after two years of vigorous migration. Among them, 18.5 million were freemen and 2.8 million were indentured slaves.

Otherwise, after two or three generations, the average arable land will decline rapidly, and the standard of living will also fall sharply. The quality of life is very different between five acres of land per capita and one acre of land per capita.

In the past ten years, with the massive use of steam engines, the continuous progress of mechanical processing technology, papermaking and printing technology have advanced by leaps and bounds, which has increased the difficulty of cottage cost. There is already a groundwork for the mass implementation of paper money.

The bureaucrats sent by the Kingdom of Haaland could only extend their tentacles into larger castles.

Finally, there is the Red Moon Plane Territory, although this territory is the largest, the Haaland Kingdom does not value it, and it has been ruled by fetters in recent years, and it can be said that the imperial power is not lower than the county.

After years of development, the internal relationship of major iron and steel enterprises has been intertwined, the production efficiency has been reduced a lot, and a lot of profits have been swallowed. Because of the ills of the major steel mills, Richard has secretly decided to abandon the steel franchise and support private capital into the steel industry.

Odaye, Immorton, and Rand took the lead, united more than 30 small businessmen, formed an investment consortium, and used 100,000 gold coins to obtain the exploration rights in the southern part of the East Coast Province. As soon as iron ore is discovered, the consortium will invest in steel plants to compete with state-owned enterprises.

The entry of private capital will have a great impact on the profits of state-owned enterprises.

Excluding the internal territories of the Grant Kingdom, the Harland Kingdom had a total fiscal revenue of 16 million and 300,000 yuan last year, of which 8.46 million yuan was from land taxes, accounting for about 52 percent of the total finance. The profits and taxes paid by state-owned enterprises account for 48 percent of the total fiscal revenue.

Despite this, the Duke of William still can't make ends meet, and last year the province of Rex of the Kingdom of Harland supported the Duke of William with 100,000 gold coins, so that William was not disarmed.

However, from private flour mills such as Odaye, the Kingdom of Haaland can receive a tax of 300,000 gold coins. In terms of government revenue, efficiency is improving.

The total amount of money needed to expand the army by 40,000 and to manufacture and purchase weapons and equipment is close to 3 million, which will be spread evenly over two years, and 1.5 million yuan will be invested in a year.

Due to the entry of private capital, continuous competition with state-owned factories, the sharp increase in production capacity has led to the lower and lower price of flour, which has reduced the profits of the industry as a whole and greatly improved the living standards of the people of the Kingdom of Haaland.

Coupled with the annual disability and death pension of 250,000 gold coins in the military system, the annual cost of raising the army alone is as high as 600,000 yuan.

In addition to the above three territories in the Haaland family, there is also a duke and an earldom in the Kingdom of Grant.

Since a sum of gold had already accumulated in the treasury, Richard and Rogge, after consultation, decided to invest part of the surplus funds in the bank, expand the bank's capital, and invest part in industrial projects.

The land of the four provinces of Heihe has been allocated, and most of the cultivated land of the two major provinces of Eagle and Grotta has also been divided.

Of course, the highest profit this year is still the arms sales, if converted into gold coins, the profit from the arms sales exceeded 3.5 million gold coins, but Haaland received this profit in exchange for 800,000 people.

Since two years ago, brown sugar plantations have sold ripening brown sugar seedlings to mountain dwellers in Grotta, Eagle, East Bank and Priland provinces.

In addition to military spending, government spending is as high as three million a year.

The reason why Richard sold brown sugar seedlings to mountain people was that the core was to tilt resources to the mountainous areas and alleviate poverty for the mountainous economy. At present, there are nearly 8,000 households and 40,000 people living in the mountainous areas who have benefited from this policy.

Last year, the medical and education departments invested 600,000 gold coins, and the investment in scientific research institutes and magic research departments exceeded one million.

In addition, the county of Philip left 10,000 local troops, and the duchess of William also had an army of 50,000. Of course, these 60,000 troops rely on local finances, and they don't need to pay too much from the Haaland Kingdom, and they coordinated three or four hundred thousand gold coins in previous years, which was reduced to 100,000 last year.

Among them, the dukedom under the direct administration of William had 1.8 million men and an army of 50,000. The county of Philip had a population of 1.2 million people, and only 10,000 local garrisons remained.

In fact, with the competitiveness of the industry and commerce of the Haaland Kingdom, the tax can be set at about 30 percent. But Richard didn't want to increase the burden on the people and didn't like inflation, so he didn't change the tax rate.

The 18.5 million freedmen in the Kingdom of Haland, the agricultural tax revenue alone has exceeded 6.2 million. Combined with customs duties, business income tax, and real estate tax, the tax revenue generated locally is already close to 10 million.

From the perspective of national strength, except for a slight shortage of population, the Kingdom of Haaland has come far ahead.

For example, the flour manufacturing industry opened up by Richard, and the factories set up by capitalists such as Odaye and Immorton have won from the competition, and their market share has exceeded 70%. Although the market of the Haaland Kingdom has expanded several times, the state-owned factory can only hand over a profit of more than 100,000 gold coins, which is only equivalent to the level of ten years ago.

In addition, there was about 2.6 million gold coins invested in infrastructure last year, and the total financial surplus last year was about 3 million gold coins.

This year, the steel industry will be liberalized, and next year will be liberalized mechanical processing, coal, textiles, soap, chemicals, real estate, and glass are all on Richard's open list.

More than 95 percent of the 11 million people in Rix Province were serfs and could only maintain a very low standard of living. The remaining hundreds of thousands of freedmen are generally not very wealthy, and their spending power is not comparable to that of the native provinces. Due to its low industrial capacity, the Harland Kingdom has actually exploited the inhabitants of this province very severely.

Although the morale of the East Coast Kingdom has been slightly reduced compared to a few years ago, the people of Rex Province are still in dire straits.

Of course, with the development of the economy, the proportion of military spending has been reduced considerably, to only about 37 percent last year. Five or 10 years ago, military spending would have accounted for at least half of fiscal revenue.

The assets of three million gold coins will not be kept in the treasury by Richard, and only when the gold coins are liquid will they generate income for the territory.

Coupled with the profits handed over by state-owned enterprises in wine, flour, textiles, soap, machinery, real estate, glass, perfume and other large and small industries, the local financial revenue of the Haaland Kingdom is as high as 13 million gold coins, which is more than twice the level of the kingdoms of Ryan and Grant.

The financial income of 2.4 million gold coins is normally equivalent to three dukedoms.

Even if there is no production in the first two years, the brown sugar tree can be planted in the barren mountainous land, which is still very cost-effective for farmers.

At that time, Richard began to implement the voucher system, and after more than 20 years of foreshadowing, Richard carefully maintained the credibility of paper money.

In addition to taxes, the treasury of the Kingdom of Haaland also has profits handed over by state-owned enterprises.

After two years of development, not only has the local fiscal revenue increased significantly, but the southern province of Rex has developed at an even faster pace.

The first is the steel industry, with the launch of the Ricks Provincial Steel Plant, Haaland has produced more than half a million tonnes of steel.

Moreover, with the current financial income of the Haaland Kingdom, it can easily suppress its competitors. The situation was not so bad that it required Richard to use all his forces to increase fiscal revenues and expand the army on a large scale.

For the 310,000 troops, 3.6 million yuan will be paid every year, and 700,000 yuan a year will be spent on logistics.

On the whole, the Kingdom of Haaland has implemented a policy of light taxation in industry and commerce, and the overall burden is only about 8%.

Now if you want to be a farmer and divide the land, you have to go to Prilland, and the reclamation on the east bank is extremely difficult, and this kind of life is only willing to be done by indentured slaves.

In addition, the investment of private capital and the introduction of the patent bill have also promoted technological progress and milled higher quality flour.

The governance of local villages is basically entrusted to the indigenous powerful faction and tax collectors.

The province of Rex was densely populated, and would not accept the Covenant slaves from outside the Covenant, and Richard had to find a way to move the surplus population to the east coast and Prryland.

Of course, the so-called local powerful factions, the indigenous tax collectors are also the class supported by the Harland Kingdom, and the vast majority of them are the families of officers and soldiers and the surrendered nobles.

Because of the iron ore monopoly system, although the state-owned steel mills in the territory have a large enterprise disease and devour a lot of profits, but this year, the fourteen iron and steel enterprises in the Haland Kingdom still handed over 600,000 gold in profits.

Although there are already more than 6 million people in the Red Moon Plane, the tax is not high, and as of last year, only 700,000 gold coins have been collected, which is far from enough for the local garrison.

Eighty-eight percent of the native Harland Kingdom are free people, and if it weren't for the 1.7 million people who migrated from the war of the Delong Kingdom, there would have been almost no indentured slaves in the homeland. After years of development, although the local area has the same policy as the Rix Province, in fact, the proportion of taxes borne by the people has become very light.

As for the brown sugar trade, private capitalists can no longer compete with Haaland's brown sugar plantations. Growing a brown sugar tree requires not only a large area of land, but also the support behind a magic plantation, and the barrier to entry is actually very high. This year's brown sugar production has reached 48,000 tons, bringing Haaland 340,000 gold coin profits.

Compared with a few years ago, although the Kingdom of Haland's fiscal revenues have increased considerably, its expenditures have also increased considerably, although it cannot be said to make ends meet, and there is not much fiscal surplus every year.

Coal production has increased to three million tons, and last year it handed over 300,000 gold coins in profits for the territory.

The 18.5 million freedmen in the territory form the largest consumer market in the Dawn Plane, and even the Divine Radiant Empire, which has a population of one billion people, is not as good as the Haaland Leader.

The income of the Duke of William is not high, and the treasury is not enough to support the army, but the Count of Philip breathes a sigh of relief, and can coordinate 200,000 gold coins for the Duke of William every year.

After careful calculation, the cultivation of brown sugar trees, a cash crop, has five times higher profits than growing grain.

For more than 30 years, the economy has developed to such a scale that although the Kingdom of Haaland has discovered a lot of minerals, the precious metal reserves are no longer enough.

In the past two years, the kingdom of Haaland has been slowly expanding its army, with a total strength of 310,000 troops. Among them, the garrison of the Red Moon Plane has been expanded to 100,000, the garrison of Rex Province has been expanded to 60,000, and the local garrison has been 150,000.

The Kingdom of Grant is already considered a regional power in the eastern countries, but compared to the Kingdom of Haaland, it is not a level of opponent at all.

The above six provinces are basically considered to have been successfully developed, and the government no longer allows the reclamation of wasteland in principle.

In principle, officially purchased indentured slaves are not allowed to be distributed to the six major provinces.

With the resumption of production, the province of Rex handed over 1.8 million gold coins in the field tax alone. In addition to the commodity transit tax, customs duties, and real estate taxes, the province of Rex collected 400,000 taxes. The factory invested two years ago began to make profits, and last year it handed over 200,000 gold coins, and as a whole, last year's financial income was as high as 2.4 million gold coins.

Judging by last year's data, the income on the gold coins of the Haaland Kingdom has been three times that of the Grant Kingdom. The income on the magic crystal also reached 140,000, which was about nine times higher than that of the Grant Kingdom.

Because of the outbreak of war, the pharmaceutical business also brought a lot of profits to Haaland. Today, Haaland Pharmaceuticals has developed a variety of new drugs. Despite material limitations, he was still able to hand over 500,000 gold coins to the country last year.

After a decade-long experiment, Richard decided to slowly relax market restrictions and continue to support private capital.

Since two years ago, the Kingdom of Haaland has put a large number of banknotes on the market, and the exchange rate is linked to the physical gold and the gold standard has been implemented.

The cultivated land in the local area has basically been allocated to the four major provinces of Heihe, Central, Annis, and Vera. It is not possible to allocate public land. If the next generation of peasants wants to maintain a better life, they can only find ways to enter the cities and develop in addition to reclaiming land in the border areas.

Since 20 years ago, the speed of coinage has not kept up with the speed of economic development.

Although the fiscal revenue is not low, the per capita tax burden of Rex is about one-third of the local level. Of course, the actual standard of living in Rex Province is far less affluent than that of the mainland.

After almost two decades of foreshadowing, the banknotes did not cause a riot in the market after they were issued. The year before last, Richard issued three million notes, and last year issued four million.

This year, Rogge and Richard discussed the preparation of another release of water, and more than five million banknotes will be put on the market.

(End of chapter)