Chapter 200 Spy's Surgery

The currency system of Harland Territory is the same as that of Grant Kingdom, which is based on gold and magic crystal.

The gold coins in the Dawn Plane are made of gold and magic crystal powder, which can be used to arrange magic circles and are a precious resource in themselves.

This kind of coin is different from the credit currency anchored by national credit.

The deficit problem cannot be solved by printing money.

Moreover, the right to mint currency is a right that the Grant royal family pays great attention to. Only the nobles above the earl can obtain limited currency minting rights.

If you want to issue paper money with national credit, you need to overthrow the Grant Kingdom and formulate new rules of the game.

Although the Harland family has developed rapidly, it is far from strong enough compared with the Grant Kingdom, and naturally it is impossible to challenge the monetary rules formulated by the royal family.

Therefore, avoiding deficits is the most important task of the financial department.

Because of the heavy pressure of military expenses, Richard is unable to invest in industry and education this year.

Even the profits brought by primary industries were all taken away by him.

The annual cash income of more than 30,000, at the end of the year, only more than 1,000 gold coins were left.

Although there is still no cash flow, Harland Territory has reclaimed 60,000 acres of farmland this year, and the population has increased by 17,000, including newborns.

Population is the most important resource of a territory. If this year's harvest is converted into gold coins, the fixed assets of Harland Territory will increase by about 200,000 gold coins.

If the territory can be defended, the population and farmland can be regarded as wealth. If the territory cannot be defended, these fixed assets will only be destroyed and robbed by orcs.

In Vick Castle, it was getting dark. Ruiz finished the work at hand and walked towards home without looking back.

Ruiz has been migrating to Vick Castle for a year. He is a spy planted in Harland Territory by Viscount Sisse.

Although he has sent out a lot of public intelligence in the past year, the results achieved do not meet Vesta's requirements.

Vesta asked Ruiz to infiltrate key departments and obtain more important intelligence.

But Ruiz felt that this request was difficult to achieve.

The system of Harland Territory does not trust outsiders. The decree prohibiting random migration in the territory almost restricted Ruiz to the vicinity of Fort Vick.

Many colleagues would venture deep into the territory of Harland to find out more secret information, but these people all disappeared without exception.

Ruiz knew from the bloody lesson that he would be doomed if he was not careful.

Ruiz had a special talent. He was one of the lucky ones in ten thousand and awakened the extraordinary visual talent. His eyesight was ten times better than that of ordinary people.

For this reason, Ruiz was chosen by Vista to become a spy trained by the Cisse family.

When Ruiz returned home, his wife had already prepared food.

The staple food for dinner was wheat rice with a salted fish.

Although there was a water mill two kilometers away from Fort Vick, wheat could be ground into flour and more exquisite food could be made with flour. The bran left over from grinding flour could also be used to feed livestock.

However, the poor family was reluctant to spend the extra money and could not afford flour or livestock.

After entering the territory, Ruiz married a slave girl as his wife in order not to arouse suspicion.

His wife still has three years to become a freeman.

The work of indentured slaves is very hard. Ruiz's wife needs to go to the fields to farm during the busy farming season, and go to the clothing factory to sew and mend during the slack season.

Indentured slaves do not receive any salary, and most of them live in a collective life.

Female indentured slaves who set up a family only have 400 kilograms of grain, 10 kilograms of salt, 3 kilograms of brown sugar, and a set of clothes a year.

Male indentured slaves will be given an extra 100 kilograms of grain, and two kilograms of liquor will be distributed every month.

Such meager treatment makes it difficult for indentured slaves to get married and support their families.

However, most of the slaves purchased by the Harland Territory have complete families, and almost all strong male slaves have families.

The territory will provide subsidies for elderly and child slaves, and the food distributed can ensure that they will not starve to death.

Single young and middle-aged slaves are very rare in the Harland Territory.

Ruiz is a freeman who moved from other territories. After arriving in the Harland Territory, he quickly stood out because of his special talents.

He first had extraordinary eyesight. He was selected to join the auxiliary squadron as an observer to calibrate the position of the heavy catapult.

Then he was selected by the territory to join a secret research team.

The task of this team is to make telescopes and microscopes.

Since the territory can produce transparent glass, this team has started to make telescopes.

However, grinding glass requires a lot of experience and requires the grinder to have advanced grinding technology.

None of these are available in the Harland territory.

Although a simple telescope was made in more than three years and some experience and technology were accumulated, it is still a long way from making a microscope.

Ruiz's extraordinary vision was discovered by the Harland territory, so he was arranged to join the microscope manufacturing team.

After joining the team, Ruiz quickly played a role. His super vision can observe the subtle differences in glass mirrors. With hard work and special talents, he became the best grinder in the microscope manufacturing team, and his salary was also increased to about eight silver coins.

It is precisely because of the high-income job that Ruiz can get married and start a family.

Ruiz had just finished his meal and went to bed when he suddenly felt a strong pain in his abdomen, which made him even scream.

His wife heard the noise, woke up, and asked anxiously: "Ruiz, how are you?"

"I asked you to buy flour, but you didn't listen. Maybe you have a bad stomach."

Because of severe abdominal pain, Ruiz's face turned pale and he spoke intermittently.

Ruiz's abdominal pain was so severe that his wife had to get up overnight and go to the city lord's mansion to find a doctor.

Since the three magic apprentices learned the spell to treat minor injuries, the hospital in Harland's territory has approximately doubled in size.

Normally, there are four magic apprentice doctors in the territory.

Except for Adrian who is at the hospital headquarters, the remaining three magic apprentice doctors all follow the medical team and undertake certain medical missions to the countryside.

It is Richard's request to go to the countryside for medical treatment. Not only can he treat patients, but he can also accumulate experience and improve his medical skills.

Recently, the medical team came to Vicksburg.

In order to create a sensational effect, they also publicly demonstrated the operation, cutting open a soldier's belly and performing an appendix removal operation.

It was because of this scene that Ruiz's wife decided to seek help from a doctor.

The medical team is led by Wendy and includes about ten people including doctors and nurses. In addition to treating illnesses and saving people during this medical trip to the countryside, Wendy also wanted to test the medical use of a new method of ultrasonic detection.

Ruiz's wife was blocked from the city lord's palace and quarreled with the guards, alerting Griffin, the doctor on duty.

After hearing Ruiz's wife's story, Griffin roughly judged that it was acute appendicitis and decided to send someone to take Ruiz to the city owner's palace for surgery.

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