Chapter 150 Knight's Pledge of Allegiance

Through meetings with the management personnel below, Richard had a general understanding of the territory's economic situation.

According to statistics, the population of the territory is about 43,600 people, most of whom are contract slaves, and there are less than 2,000 free people.

Free people are grassroots managers, soldiers who have fought in wars, or family members of disabled soldiers who died in battle.

However, in February next year, the first batch of contract slaves will become free people, and this group of people will be about 3,600 people according to statistics.

When this batch of contract slaves regain their freedom, the population structure in the territory will be slightly more normal.

Free people will of course consume when they have money, and the tertiary industry in the territory will develop.

More than 40,000 people can already form a small-scale market and complete some internal circulation.

After the meeting, Richard wrote a letter for Butler Gibson to bring to Mrs. Ola.

In recent years, with the help of the power of the Harland family, the business controlled by Mrs. Ola has developed a lot, and she has accumulated 3,000 gold coins in private money over the years.

After receiving Richard's letter asking for money, Mrs. Ola looked a little ugly.

Although she was a young lady from a merchant family, she had a long-term vision. She chose William, who was more than a dozen years older than her, and caught a rich husband, which enabled her to achieve class transition.

Mrs. Ola's children also became members of the nobility. Even her brother Rand benefited greatly and expanded his business.

Because Richard was too outstanding, Mrs. Ola had already understood that it would be difficult for her children to inherit the territory.

Richard's influence in the Harland territory had now surpassed William, and Mrs. Ola did not dare to let her children compete with him for the inheritance.

The struggle for inheritance between nobles was a life-and-death struggle, and even life-threatening if not careful.

She did not dare to compete for the territory, but she planned to leave the gold coins and her business to her children.

Although these words were not said explicitly, they were recognized by William, and Richard would not object.

In the past, the gold coins that Mrs. Ola had saved from her business had supported the development of the territory.

Now that she had finally saved some more, Richard wanted to borrow from her again.

Mrs. Ola wanted to object, but she did not dare to offend Richard. After all, she is not Richard's biological mother. She is a little old and ugly now, and William's favor is not as good as before.

Mrs. Ola cherishes everything she has now.

She knows clearly that the most fundamental reason why she can get such a status, be flattered by noble ladies, and earn more than a thousand gold coins every year, far more than her father and brother, is the bloody battles of the men of the Harland family.

Every night, she sometimes touches the scars on her husband William's body, and naturally knows how difficult it is to get everything now.

Richard has created such a big situation, and I don't know how many dangers and hard battles he has experienced.

Mrs. Ola is very afraid of Richard, a strange son. This is the fear of power.

When William is not around, she doesn't even dare to talk to Richard.

Richard wants to borrow money. Although Mrs. Ola is dissatisfied, she still takes out the gold coins and lends the money.

After borrowing the money from Mrs. Ola, Richard took out the thousand gold coins treasured in the vault and bought two thousand tons of grain, increasing the grain reserves to 11,000 tons.

With food in hand, there is no panic in the heart.

Richard planned to slow down for a while, and after the Goddess's Birthday, he would continue to take out 2,000 gold coins and buy another 1,000 tons of food.

By then, even if the climate was abnormal next year, or there was a natural disaster and the food harvest was poor, the stored food would still be enough for tens of thousands of people in the territory to eat for several months.

After purchasing the food, Richard immediately started training the two newly formed squadrons.

Richard appointed Lost as the captain of the ninth squadron.

Lost was a nobleman of the Kingdom of Ryan. After the defeat, he became a contract slave and served the slave traders.

Because the contract was about to expire, he was sold to Richard by the slave traders.

After Richard bought the contract, he let Lost return to the Kingdom of Ryan to find his relatives. It has been five months now.

Lost was born in a distant branch of the baron. He had a good talent and awakened the knight's bloodline. He was already a second-level knight before being captured. After being captured, his baron cousin was unwilling to pay the ransom for him, so he became a slave, and his wife also committed adultery with his cousin of the same clan.

Leaving three sons to depend on their old parents, they became citizens. Although they still had some money and their wife occasionally helped them, they could live a decent life, but it was still a world of difference from before.

After Lost went back, he took his parents and sons away and forgave his wife.

Because he knew in his heart that his cousin had already coveted his wife. As a woman without power, she could not protect herself at all.

Lost hated not his wife, but his stingy uncle.

He was captured for fighting for the territory, and his uncle was unwilling to pay the ransom, which led to all this.

After seeing his family, Lost decided to pledge allegiance to Richard, and after returning to the territory, he advanced to the third level.

The combat effectiveness of a third-level knight exceeds that of a fourth-level warrior.

Today, Lost is stronger than veteran third-level professionals such as Martin and Heyman.

Richard only spent eighty gold coins to get the loyalty of a third-level knight, which is a very cost-effective investment.

Lost used to be the captain of the 8th Squadron. This time, Richard planned to let him lead the new recruits and serve as the captain of the 9th Squadron.

Richard chose the young Jennings as the captain of the 10th Squadron.

Jennings has good talent and can be compared with William, who has outstanding talent.

He studied breathing techniques for five years and advanced to the second-level professional without many resources.

Hayden, Ron and others have practiced breathing techniques for more than ten years, and they often take Tenghui potions, but they are still not as good as others.

If this officer who came out of slavery had not fallen in the war, according to Richard's estimation, he should have been promoted to the fifth level.

Harland's Silver Wolf Breathing Technique comes from the Stopa family, and can be promoted to the fifth level at most.

I don't know whether Jennings' luck is good or bad.

He is lucky. Jennings met Richard when he was young and was rescued by Richard when he was suffering from the plague. After joining the army, he easily learned the breathing method, relied on his talent to stand out from the soldiers, and became the captain of the squadron at a young age.

He is simply a template for ordinary people to struggle.

He is unlucky. The upper limit of the Silver Wolf Breathing Technique he learned is not high, which wastes his excellent talent. He may never be promoted to a high level in this life.

After Lost and Jennings were appointed as squadron leaders, Richard also promoted seven new professional officers.

Richard participated in blocking the plane channel and obtained a batch of potion resources rewarded by the Grant Kingdom.

In addition to allowing Soros to advance to the sixth level, the 100 Tenghui potions also trained seven new professional officers for the Harland Territory.

Richard selected two of them and appointed them as deputy captains of the ninth and tenth squadrons, and the remaining five were added to the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron.

With these five new professionals, the number of professionals in the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron reached thirteen.

Although it is far from the Warcraft Cavalry of Duke Roger, where everyone is a professional, compared with the Warcraft Cavalry under Baron Harden, the professionals have reached 40% of Baron Harden's Warcraft Cavalry, and the combat effectiveness has also increased to about half of Baron Harden's Warcraft Cavalry.