Chapter 359 Annual Summary

The next day, Senna and Richard repeated their old tricks, but unexpectedly, the Pale Scourge was not fooled and did not send any undead creatures.

Because they did not know the details of the Undead Lord, Senna, Richard and others did not dare to go deep into the mausoleum at night.

However, Princess O'Farland's consciousness could not control the sub-plane of the Pale Scourge. It was impossible to send a large number of undead creatures out to die and break this situation.

Seeing that the mausoleum of Princess O'Farland had stabilized, Richard left a large group of soldiers to Archbishop Senna to help. The high-level forces mainly relied on the personnel of the Church of Dawn to maintain the operation of the base of Princess O'Farland's mausoleum.

Richard took the backbone forces of Harland and returned to different castles.

For this operation, Richard drew personnel from all aspects.

Wilde of the Demon Hunting City, Soros of the Norman Castle, and Jennings of the Nitburg were all drawn here, as well as the vassal lords of the territory. They were the backbone of each force and the commanders, and they could not leave their posts for too long.

Richard left the first squadron, the Lion Duck Knights, and the members of the Territory Mage Corps at Sam Castle to garrison, so that these capable forces could support Archbishop Senna at any time. He returned to Fort William with a few people including Sophia.

When Richard returned to Fort William, it was already December 24th. Various data at the end of the year had been counted, and they were ready to wait for Richard to hold an annual meeting and make a year-end summary.

First of all, the population. The population data counted at the end of the year was 10,000 more than the estimated data in the fall.

After more than ten years of development, the Harland Territory has cultivated tens of thousands of literate people, the quality of officials has been greatly improved, and a complete household registration system has been established.

The territory prohibits private slavery. Richard has formulated strict laws. Once a private slave reports to the authorities, he will immediately restore his freedom, and he will also severely punish the slave owner who keeps private slaves.

Not only will the slave owner face a huge fine, he will also lose his citizenship and become a contract servant again.

In addition, the Harland Territory also has a private slave purchase law. After the slaves purchased from outside enter the territory, the official will pay to buy and compensate the slave owner.

With Richard's support, these decrees can be enforced. Therefore, in the Haland Territory, basically no one dares to violate the decree and keep private slaves.

Without private slaves, the household registration department of the territory can accurately count the population.

The more than 10,000 people registered this year are mainly free people who migrated from the northern border area.

Because the laws of the Haland Territory are relatively fair and strict, and the political order is not only far beyond other lords, but also beyond the territories controlled by the royal family, so it can attract a part of the population to migrate every year.

Many of these foreign free people are doing well, and a considerable number of them are from professional families. Many of them have aristocratic blood, which is a very scarce high-quality population.

They have savings themselves. After joining the Haland Territory, they can immediately drive consumption, which is very beneficial to the economic development of the territory.

According to the household registration books at the end of the year, the Haland Territory has a population of 1.476 million.

Because 240,000 contract servants became free people this year, the Haland Territory already has 695,000 free people. After more than a decade of development, the proportion of the population occupied by freemen has exceeded 47%. If a large number of contract slaves are not added next year, this proportion will increase significantly.

Nearly 700,000 freemen have formed a large consumer market in the northern border, which is much larger than the capital of Grant Kingdom, Nolan.

The total number of people with consumption capacity in Nolan is about 500,000.

The land tax in Harland Territory is not heavy. One freeman is charged three silver coins. With nearly 700,000 tax-collecting population, a total of about 170,000 gold coins of tax are collected.

Normally, 174,000 gold coins of land tax should be collected this year, but this year the new freemen are relatively poor, and the grain they sent is all new grain, which contains a high amount of water. When it is sold, the weight is lost, and finally only 170,000 gold coins of tax are collected.

In addition to the land tax, this year's commercial tax is more prosperous, and the income from tariffs is also rising. Coupled with the unexpected income such as real estate tax, installment purchase payment, etc., Harland Territory's tax revenue this year has reached a new high, and the total amount has reached 232,000 gold coins.

Land tax occupies the absolute majority of tax revenue.

More than 230,000 gold coins in tax revenue, this money is enough to support 10,000 regular troops, but it is far from enough compared to the defense needs of Harland Territory.

Looking at tax revenue alone, Harland Territory is relatively low, only equivalent to the level of an earldom.

The traditional nobles are extremely cruel in exploiting the people in the territory. Each freeman living near the castle pays an average of six silver coins in tax. The land in the countryside belongs entirely to the lord. The serfs are hungry and almost struggling on the verge of death. There is basically no self-cultivating class in the territory, and all profits are taken away by the lord.

An earldom with a population of 400,000 to 500,000 can collect nearly 300,000 gold coins in taxes to support a legion soldier.

The dukedoms of Edward, Fox and other dukedoms, with a population of 1.2 to 3 million, can receive taxes of about 1 million gold coins.

The bulk of Harland Territory's fiscal revenue has never been taxes, but the profits of government-run enterprises.

This year, Harland Territory reclaimed 2 million mu of wasteland, and the total amount of cultivated land in the territory has reached nearly 10 million mu. Although the yield of newly reclaimed cultivated land is not high, the total grain output of the territory has reached 940,000 tons, with an average yield of 188 kilograms per mu.

This year is not a good year, and a large part of the farmland has suffered from floods and waterlogging. Overall, it is at most an average year. The reason why the average yield per mu has not dropped too much is mainly due to the supply of fertilizers and the water conservancy projects built in recent years.

The water conservancy project in the Harland Territory has been ongoing for more than ten years, because the territory has a large number of indentured slaves, which is very suitable for large-scale water conservancy projects. Moreover, the territory also has a group of mages who can use it.

Magicians can use it to build projects, as if cheating, and it can play a very big role. Two fossils can be turned into mud, and the magic of turning mud into stone can turn decay into magic and create large-scale projects that far exceed the industrial level.

In the past ten years, twenty-one reservoirs have been built in the Harland territory, which not only facilitates the water supply of various castles, but also plays a strong role in water conservancy regulation, which greatly helps agricultural production.

After Richard took over the territory, he began to promote farmyard manure on a large scale. After using farmyard manure, the average grain output increased by nearly twenty kilograms. No

The average yield per mu of the territory has increased to nearly 200 kilograms, mainly due to the extensive use of natural potash fertilizer.

Last year, the production of natural potash fertilizer in the Haaland territory increased to 15,000 tons, with an average of 15 kilograms of fertilizer per mu, which can apply natural potash fertilizer to one million acres of land.

With the application of natural potash fertilizer, the average yield per mu has increased to about 460 kilograms.

Of course, these cultivated lands with potassium fertilizers are mainly fertile paddy fields. High-yielding crops are grown in these paddy fields, and the original yield per mu is 300 kilograms.

Of the 940,000 tons of grain, nearly half was in the hands of the freedmen. The grain harvested by the territorial government farms this year totaled approximately 490,000 tons.

The old grain accumulated last year is mainly used to prevent natural disasters. There are a total of 90,000 tons in the grain depot.

The total number of grains that have been put into storage this year has reached 580,000 tons.

Since the severe treatment of cousin Tang En, the food system bureaucrats have become more honest. In addition, the official who manages the food system, Brian, is a capable person. In the past two years, there have been relatively few things that have failed in the food system. They were all buried a little bit.

In order to refine the steel golem, Richard sold 40,000 tons of old grain to raise funds.

In addition, 35,000 tons were supplied to flour mills, leaving only 55,000 tons of grain reserves in the grain depot.

Although half a million tons of grain is a lot, the Harland territory still needs to provide food rations for more than 700,000 indentured slaves. Even if a person averages 450 kilograms, 160,000 tons must be reserved.

Moreover, there are 80,000 armed personnel in the Harland territory. A soldier consumes at least three kilograms of food every day, which is more than half a ton a year. Even if the auxiliary soldiers are trained less and eat less, the annual military rations are at least 40,000 tons.

The consumption of military horses is also very serious. As the saying goes, one horse is worth three soldiers, and the food intake of Warcraft horses is equivalent to ten soldiers. Including the World of Warcraft breeding base, there are nearly 2,000 Warcraft war horses in the Harland territory, which is equivalent to supporting 20,000 soldiers. Plus the consumption of war horses and pack horses, it also costs 20,000 tons a year.

Sixty thousand tons of military rations are for maintaining military rations. If the orcs are attacked, the consumption of military rations may increase several times. Next year, the orcs will invade again, and Richard needs to reserve 100,000 tons of military rations.

A large amount of grain will be left behind for next year's farming. This year, 240,000 indentured servants have become freedmen, and 1.44 million acres of farmland have been allocated. The area of ​​government farms has been reduced a lot, and 50,000 tons of grain must be left. .

As the market expands, winemaking also requires 10,000 tons of grain. In addition to the need to reserve 100,000 tons of grain to prevent natural disasters, only 90,000 tons of stocks in the grain depot can be used.

Although the Harland territory is short of money this year, Richard does not intend to sell the 90,000 tons of surplus grain. He will face a war next year, and grain reserves are a top priority.

Once Richard won the battle and rescued a large number of slaves from the orc empire, these grains were reserved for the new indentured slaves.

Richard had no experience before and had some problems during planning. He sold some grain during the war. After the autumn, due to the increase in indentured servants, he had to buy grain from the market. Not only did he pay an extra transaction cost, but also a A very dangerous thing.

Fortunately, the northern Xinjiang region was the grain-producing area of ​​the Grant Kingdom, so there were no problems with the development of the Harland Territory.

Grain cannot be sold, but flour can be sold. Thirty-five thousand tons of grain were sold to flour mills, which brought 70,000 gold coins to the finance.

With the invention of the steam flour mill, white flour entered millions of households.

According to the factory wholesale price in Harland's territory, one ton of flour costs six gold coins, while the retail price in the shops in the castle is three copper coins per kilogram.

A flour mill sells a ton of flour, excluding various costs, for a gross profit of about three gold coins.

However, purchasing a steam flour mill requires a huge capital of eight hundred gold coins. In addition, operating a flour mill requires purchasing coal, wood and other fuels, and hiring skilled workers.

Calculated last year, a net profit of about two gold coins was earned from processing one ton of flour.

The Harland Territory processed a total of 60,000 tons of flour last year, bringing a net profit of 120,000 gold coins to the territory.

However, part of the profits belong to private flour processing factories such as Odaye, and the state-owned flour mills in Harland Territory have a total profit of 100,000 gold coins.

The private flour processing factory run by Odaye and others still needs to pay 35% tax. The seven thousand gold coins are included in the tax, which is a new tax in Harland Territory.

Today, the government-run enterprises in the Harland Territory are still very simple. Most of them operate monopoly products and must hand over all profits every year without paying taxes.

The first reason why Richard is willing to allow private capital to enter the flour processing industry to compete with the government for profits is to promote competition. Only with sufficient competition can the level of technology continue to improve.

The second is to allow private capital to flow within the territory.

Some successful people who entered the territory earlier, such as Odaye and others, have accumulated thousands of gold coins after more than ten years of accumulation.

If they don't find a place to invest these funds, they can only hide the gold coins in the cellar, or take them out to buy land estates to accelerate land annexation.

The Haland Territory Ordinance restricts land annexation. The more arable land you own, the heavier the tax on land exceeding the standard base. As long as the tax can be collected, buying a large amount of farmland is basically working for the territory.

Richard takes the issue of taxation very seriously. No matter how high or low the position is or how big the merit is, as long as you evade or resist taxes, you will be severely punished by Richard, and no one will be lenient.

Whether it is a relative of the Haland family or a nobleman of the Stob family, as long as you find one, Richard will not give anyone face, confiscate all the property, and demote them to contract slaves to participate in labor. These people include Richard's uncle, Sofia's cousin, and some officers and soldiers who have made meritorious contributions.

After many struggles, the bureaucrats in the territory dared not to resist the tax collection.

At least in Richard's generation, there were not many people who evaded taxes.

Unable to annex land, gold coins could only be hidden in the cellar.

The economy cannot operate without gold coins.

Only when gold coins flow can they create demand, drive economic development, and play the role of currency. Therefore, Richard must continue to reduce restrictions on private capital investment and play the role of this part of gold coins.

The development of animal husbandry is relatively stable this year. The official ranch sheep output has exceeded 2 million heads. However, the territory has 700,000 free people this year, and free people are people with consumption power. Nearly 1 million sheep are digested in the territory market.

The consumption of more than one million troops is also very amazing. In addition to the benefits for civil servants, pensions and bonuses for the families of soldiers who died, were injured, and made meritorious contributions, 800,000 sheep entered the mouth of this huge gold-eating beast.

The remaining 200,000 sheep were basically sold to the two castles of Heihe and Lieyan.

This year, the people in the territory have become richer again, and there are more than 200,000 freemen. The market has expanded very quickly, and there is no need to travel thousands of miles to drive the sheep to Nolan and the southern provinces.

Excluding the expenses of feed and labor, the government-run ranch brought the territory a profit of 96,000 gold coins this year.

Because the government-run ranch uses a large number of sheep-like people who are familiar with the habits of sheep and is very successful, the number of free-range sheep raised by the people has become very scarce. Occasionally, farmers raise a few sheep for themselves, so basically no taxes can be collected in this regard.