A cavalryman costs seventy kinnars a year, of which it costs at least ten kinnars to maintain horses, weapons and armor cost at least ten kinnars, and the salary of soldiers, the monthly salary of cavalry in the Florentine Kingdom is one kinnar, and it is twelve kinnars in a year, in addition to these, a cavalry must be equipped with at least two auxiliaries, although the cost of these auxiliaries is not as high as that of cavalry, but it is not a small amount in a year.

And that's not even counting the value of the horses, and the rate of loss of the horses, and a good war horse costs at least thirty jinnars. Cavalry combat horses were often damaged, which was another big expense.

Moreover, as a frontier territory, the materials in the early stage had to be transported from within the country, which caused the cost of a cavalryman to far exceed seventy jinnars, and sometimes even doubled, so the basic cost of maintaining a thousand-man knight order in the frontier territory required 100,000 jinnars.

This is only the expenditure of the army, and the cost of building a territory, recruiting a leader or buying slaves is not lower than this, so although it seems to be a very glorious thing to open up a territory, it will be found that without strong financial support, it is simply difficult to move an inch.

The income of a count's territory in a year, plus other income, is only about 100,000 jinnar, and there are a few pioneer nobles who can come up with this money, even if they can come up with so much money, the investment must be rewarded, how much is the harvest of the territory? The biggest harvest is the land, if it is just farming, at least for twenty years, this money cannot be recovered.

Of course, there are some territories that are not too expensive, but most of those territories are close to human cities, and there are not many wilderness tribes around, and their strength is weak, so they only need to maintain a small army to protect their territories, and the transfer distance of various materials is also close.

The amount of kinnar spent is not much, but these places have long been occupied, and these frontier territories are not available to anyone, just like Sulena's frontier decree clearly stipulates that he must be three hundred miles away from Black Rock City to establish a territory, otherwise, the Florentine Kingdom has the right to take back the territory.

And those closest frontier orders only need to be fifty miles away from Blackstone City, of course, this kind of frontier order is also limited, and the territory range is only ten miles away.

Although there are many advantages to the close frontier territory, the territory is small, and more importantly, there are basically few mineral resources, after all, the valuable minerals are basically discovered in the proximity to the city.

Although Suren's territory is far away, there is no area requirement, theoretically speaking, as long as the strength is strong enough, you can always expand outward, but the reality is that the vast majority of the territory is very reluctant, and expanding outward is even more foolish.

So has anyone succeeded? That's for sure, there are some lucky people who have gone through the shit luck and find precious minerals such as gold and silver when they open up their territories, and immediately a large number of nobles or merchants will come to support him, help him build his territory, and provide him with materials, in order to obtain the right to mine gold and other precious minerals.

There are also some people with the protagonist's aura who have found Mithril Associated Ore in the Silver Mine, which has been supported by a large number of wizards, Mithril Ore is a very important magic metal, and the production is scarce, and it is a very precious metal in the Elven Age of the Second Age, and many powerful magical equipment made by Elves use Mithril.

There is no law in the distribution of this mineral Mithril, and the reserves of Mithril ore found so far are very small, most of the Mithril ore is the associated ore of silver ore, if it can produce ounces of Mithril every year, then this mine can be called a rich mine, but this kind of ore is too little.

Many mines that produce Mithril produce only three to five ounces a year.

If Mithril is found in Suren's territory, then within three days, a group of wizards will come to support him in expanding the territory, asking for supplies, asking for Kinnar, and even wizards will personally help.

It's just that Mithril is completely available but unwanted, and Suren doesn't think he has that good luck.

The territory is up to now, and it is necessary to find a profit point as soon as possible, whether it is gold or silver mines, or even copper and iron mines, or other resources found in the territory, and then rely on these resources to attract merchants to come and trade, with merchants, Suren can obtain various materials, collect taxes, and the territory will have income, and then slowly develop the territory with the help of these resources.

In addition to solving the external hidden dangers, Suren led several barbarian warriors to search for minerals in the territory, his target was iron ore, and while fighting these gnolls, goblins, kobolds, and trolls, Suren found that these wilderness tribes had a small amount of iron weapons.

And those iron tools, the workmanship is crude, the quality is inferior, and there is not even the slag that has been taken out, even if the craftsmanship of the blacksmith apprentice is better than this, but they are indeed iron tools. Not long ago, Suren had interrogated the captives and obtained the approximate location of the iron mine. Then he took a few barbarian warriors and prepared to go in search of minerals.

Speaking of which, Suren's barbarian guards have now all advanced to barbarian warriors, and a small half have become barbarian giant axe warriors, and any one of them can complete the knight rank.

According to the information given by the gnolls captives, the iron mine was located in the northeast of the territory, about fifty miles away from the camp, and the speed of Suren and his men was very fast, and it took them two hours to approach the target area.

Contrary to Su Lun's expectations, the location of the iron mine was easy to find, and a few people only found the iron mine after a few rounds here, the iron mine was located on a small hill, the bare vegetation on the mountain was scarce, and from a distance, there was nothing else, and when they got closer, they found that there were many traces of excavation on the other side of the hillside.

When they came here, they also found that some kobolds gathered here, found a mine, and actually gave miners a gift, this kind of good thing Su Lun naturally smiled.

Su Lun picked up a stone from the ground casually, and started with a slightly heavy, reddish-brown appearance, it was not surprising that it was a piece of iron ore, and from the point of view of quality, the quality of this iron ore was not bad.

"I didn't expect this to be an open-pit mine!" Looking at the mine in front of him, Su Lun was very excited, you must know that the mine is very different from the mine, although some minerals are rich in reserves, but the mining difficulty is very high, and even cannot be mined, and some are buried in the mountains or underground, and need to dig a mine for mining.

The simplest is the open-pit mine in front of you, which does not need to dig a hole and can be mined directly.