Chapter 213 Financial Revenue and Expenditure II

After winter, the supply of fuel is very critical. The climate in the northern border is cold. If there is insufficient fuel for heating in winter, many people will freeze to death.

Richard spent a lot of gold coins to buy population, so he naturally cares about whether the contract slaves have fuel for the winter.

Coal mines have been discovered in the Haland territory, and there is no shortage of wood, so the supply of fuel has never been leaked.

This year, about 20,000 tons of coal were mined, and 6,000 tons were sold to the outside, bringing in cash income of 2,000 gold coins.

Of the remaining 14,000 tons, 2,000 tons were supplied to the army, and 12,000 tons were given priority to the contract slaves.

Most of the contract slaves are more than a dozen people squeezed into a 30-square-meter house, and a house can survive the winter with one ton of coal consumed every year.

Although there are more than 90,000 contract slaves in the Haland territory now, 12,000 tons of coal are enough.

Because of the increase in mining volume, Richard plans to expand the scale of the coal mine next year and increase the output to more than 30,000 tons.

In fact, this year's coal miners only mined for one and a half months, and the rest of the time was basically spent on building the coal mine.

Repair wooden tracks, build houses, build coal washing plants, and even dig toilets and other messy tasks.

There is enough food and fuel. Although there are many contract servants entering the territory this year, the conditions are not too difficult.

At least you can have a full meal in the Harland territory.

Many serfs are too oppressed by the lords to even have a full meal.

After December, Richard once again summoned the officials of the territory to summarize the income.

The first person to report was Thomas, the head of the steel business.

"The territory's steel trade is very stable this year, with an annual income of 12,000 gold coins, which is about 50% lower than the peak year. If the orcs continue to invade at a frequency of once every three years, the profit of steel weapons will surge next year, possibly reaching more than 18,000 gold coins."

Today, the steel production in the Harland territory has stopped growing, mainly due to market restrictions.

The steel industry is also a traditional industry in the Dawn Plane, and the competition is fierce.

The profit of Harland Territory is more than 10,000 gold coins a year, which almost takes up most of the market. The remaining market can only be seized if the price continues to drop.

There will inevitably be competitors to seize the market. The means of commercial competition in the Dawn Plane are very brutal and direct.

In the past, Richard seized the market, mainly the market of Baron Franklin. Now the output of Baron Franklin's mine has dropped by 70% to 80% due to Richard's squeeze.

In addition to Richard, several large steel merchants in the northern border are now some powerful nobles.

Before he is well prepared, Richard will not impact the market of the nobles and easily reduce the price of steel products.

In the future, the steel trade will mainly rely on the growth of the domestic demand market, unless Richard is promoted to a noble and has enough strength to compete with several dukes in the northern border.

After Thomas finished speaking, the second person to report was Scott, who was in charge of the textile business.

Since the new spinning machinery was manufactured, the textile business of Harland Territory has developed faster and faster. By this year, the territory has 800,000 sheep.

1,400 tons of woolen cloth are woven every year, enough for more than 200,000 people to wear.

In addition to the woolen cloth clothes provided to the contract slaves, the Haland Territory earned 10,000 gold coins by selling woolen cloth to the outside world.

The northern border area has always been short of cloth, and even the Haland Kingdom does not produce enough cloth.

Whether it is linen, cotton or woolen cloth, as long as the cloth is produced, there is no need to worry about sales.

The third is the income from hunting monsters. Last year, the territory earned 6,500 gold coins by hunting monsters.

The liquor market has now fallen to the fourth place, and the annual income from fruit wine is only 5,000 gold coins, which is almost only one-third of the peak period.

With the increase of free people in the Haland Territory and the expansion of the market scale, the income from liquor should increase a little, but if you want to return to the level two years ago, I am afraid you have to wait for the domestic demand market to expand, and it will take a few years.

The fifth item is the tax revenue of the territory, including miscellaneous taxes, a total of 4,300 gold coins.

The sixth item is the income from brown sugar. The brown sugar industrial park has been established for five years. This year, the output of brown sugar has reached 60 tons. Although the price of brown sugar has dropped a bit, down to 12 copper coins per kilogram, it still brings 3,300 gold coins in cash income to the Haland Territory.

Moreover, the brown sugar industrial park is still developing rapidly, and the output of brown sugar may reach about 100 tons next year.

This business has great potential and will be an important fiscal revenue for the Haland Territory in the future.

The seventh item is hemostatic ointment. Limited by the production of royal jelly in Zitou Peak, the income from hemostatic ointment is very stable, about 3,000 gold coins per year.

The eighth item is the income from coal mines, which brings in 2,000 gold coins in cash income.

The ninth item is the income from glass. Because of the sales of fruit wine and canned food, the glass mine has reached 1,800 gold coins this year.

The remaining miscellaneous income from brick kilns, cement, fruit sales, flame spider silk, honey, etc., adds up to a total of 4,000 gold coins.

In addition, the business of Madam Aura of Black River Castle is quite stable and can bring in a cash flow of 1,500 gold coins a year.

Not counting Madam Aura's small treasury, Harland Territory had a cash income of about 52,000 gold coins last year.

This year, we robbed Baron Harden's treasury and obtained a large amount of unexpected wealth, 17,000 gold coins, and a total income of 69,000 gold coins.

There was no war this year, so military expenditure was not very large. The army was expanded by 1,000 in the spring, plus the expenses for maintaining the army and pensions, adding up to 38,000 gold coins.

There are fewer bureaucrats in the territory, about a few hundred in total, and the salary expenditure is less than 5,000 gold coins.

Next is the investment in hospitals and education.

The cost of treatment in the hospital in Harland Territory is not too high. Even if surgery is performed, the cost is only about one gold coin.

Because the hospital has expanded a lot this year, some necromancers have joined, and these people have to be paid high salaries. Throughout the year, the hospital lost 200 gold coins.

In education, because Harland Territory has cultivated some talents, the salary of new teachers has been reduced to six silver coins per month.

In addition, the number of students has increased a lot, and the income and expenditure have been balanced throughout the year.

After all, the tuition fees in Harland Territory are too expensive. Only children from upper-class families can afford one gold coin per year.

Next year, Richard plans to reduce the tuition fees by about half.

The tuition fees of six silver coins per year should benefit some middle-class people.

This year, the Harland Territory has a surplus of 26,000 gold coins.

After eight years of operating the territory, Richard finally has cash income.

With this money, Richard is not going to continue to buy population.

A large number of people have poured into the territory this year. It will take some time to digest this part of the population, and there is a high possibility of war next year. This money is a reserve fund, serving as war funds to make up for the lack of territory income.

Throughout this year, Richard has learned two new spells, one of which is the fourth-ring magic to summon fire elements.

This is a summoning magic. Before learning this magic, you need to open the door of space and sign a contract with the summoned creature. Every time you summon a fire element to fight, Richard needs to pay a magic crystal.

Magic crystal is a crystal ore enriched with magic energy particles, usually mixed in metal veins.

Magic crystal is very precious in the Dawn Plane, and one magic crystal can be exchanged for ten gold coins.

Although Richard has a lot of gold coins in his hand, he is reluctant to exchange for magic crystals. Now he has only a dozen magic crystals in his hand.

These magic crystals were accumulated from years of iron ore mining, and Richard was reluctant to use them.

Richard had not yet learned the five-ring magic space gate, and he could not learn to summon the fire element by himself. It was Sofia who helped him open the space gate of the elemental world, and Richard signed a contract with a fire element, making this fire element his summoned creature.

When Richard used this magic, the fire element in the elemental world would drop a projection to cooperate with Richard in combat.

The fire element projection has strong lethality, is immune to fire magic, and most mental magic is useless to fire elements, and the power of fire spells is doubled.

However, it is restrained by water and ice magic.

Using this magic consumes a lot, and it takes ten gold coins at a time, which is equivalent to hiring a four-ring fire mage for a short period of time.

Although magicians with a single attribute have strong lethality, they are easily restrained by comprehensive mages. They are only suitable for large-scale wars, not for adventure activities and single combat.

Another one is the five-ring spell Dreaming, which is a psychedelic type spell. After using this spell, you can enter the dream of a sleeping person and explore the secrets deep in the subconscious of the dreamer.

This spell is very useful when encountering special situations.

After entering winter, Richard occasionally personally instructs the territory mage apprentices and teaches them some magic knowledge.

There are now more than a dozen magic apprentices in the Harland territory. These people have different foundations, different learning progress, and different knowledge.

Most of these magic apprentices are very ordinary, and the knowledge they have learned is not in-depth.

The five magicians of the Harland Mage Association have the task of teaching. Generally speaking, there is one class a week, and each class lasts about two hours.

Richard talks about classical mechanics.

The physical and chemical rules of the Dawn Plane are somewhat different from those of the Earth. Especially quantum mechanics, it cannot be copied at all.

After Richard's verification, there is almost no difference in the rules of classical mechanics, except for the gravitational acceleration and gravitational constant.

Classical mechanics plays a very important role in magic. Many transformation and protection magics require force analysis.

However, most of the magicians in the Dawn Plane do not understand some concepts of classical mechanics. They cast spells mainly based on the experience of their teachers.

Three thousand years ago, the legendary magician Ailin proposed the law of inertia, and two thousand two hundred years ago, another legendary magician Flat proposed the law of action and reaction.

Two of the three laws of classical mechanics have appeared in the Dawn Plane, but the development of science is accidental, and no magician has proposed the law of acceleration so far.

Richard, the plagiarist, became the first person in the Dawn Plane to propose the law of gravity acceleration, and was also the first to measure the gravity acceleration and gravitational constant of the Dawn Plane.

Many wild magicians are just magic tools who can only cast spells by copying others, and have no understanding of the principles of spells and the essence of magic.

Richard does not want the magicians of the Harland Mage Association to be such magic tools, but hopes to cultivate magic researchers. Even if they are not talented, they should have a heart to study magic.

Sometimes great discoveries come from ordinary people with average talents. The science of magic can only develop with the promotion of a large number of magic researchers with average talents.