Chapter 395 Annual Summary
1,150,000 freemen, the land tax collected is as high as 288,000 gold coins, plus commercial taxes, tariffs, real estate taxes, installment purchases, house rents, etc., this year's tax revenue has reached 420,000 gold coins, an increase of 120,000 gold coins compared to last year, a year-on-year increase of 40%, which is a huge increase.
Next year will also be a big year for pardoning freemen, with more than 300,000 new freemen. It is estimated that by the end of next year, the tax revenue of Harland Territory will exceed 500,000, which will reach the level of fiscal revenue of the Marquisate.
From the first day of the establishment of the territory, the main fiscal revenue of Harland Territory was not taxes, but the profits submitted by state-owned enterprises.
In the early days of the territory, it mainly relied on steel, liquor, and brown sugar. In the following years, the process of distilling liquor was leaked, and the income from liquor decreased, but the steel trade still accounted for a large proportion of the profits submitted by state-owned enterprises.
Today, the most profitable products in Harland Territory are various magic products, such as Tenghui potion, Styx potion, alchemical bombs, magic hot air balloons, scorching ray guns, etc. However, the products that create the most jobs and submit the highest profits are still steel products.
In recent years, due to the outbreak of war and the need to build railways, the steel industry in Harland has been increasing its production capacity. This year, the steel department has produced a total of 53,000 tons of iron and 30,000 tons of steel. The total steel production capacity exceeds 80,000 tons, which has exceeded the level of most township steel mills in the 1990s.
Most of the 80,000 tons of steel production capacity is consumed within the Harland territory, and other areas in the northern border consume one-fifth of the production capacity.
Nowadays, the retail price of steel products has been very stable. Although only 16,000 tons of steel are exported, the steel industry of the nobles in the northern border has been defeated. Now the retail price of steel in Harland has been reduced to two copper coins per kilogram. No matter which noble, it will lose money to produce one kilogram of steel.
Compared with 20 years ago, the price of steel products has dropped by 15 times. Nineteen years ago, when Richard bought iron materials to make weapons, the price of poor quality pig iron was as high as one silver coin per kilogram.
Prices have dropped significantly, and income has increased significantly compared with 20 years ago. It can be seen that the living standards of free people in Harland have far exceeded those of the three provinces in the northern border.
Due to the significant increase in production capacity, the steel department has handed over a profit of 300,000 gold coins to the territory this year. Compared with last year, it has increased by a quarter.
Due to the production restrictions of Xuejing Lake, the market share of Tenghui Potion is relatively stable. As in previous years, most of the Tenghui Potion is used within the territory to recover merits.
This year, Harland Territory has refined 24,000 bottles of Tenghui Potion, and the production capacity is close to that of the Grant Royal Family. ˜”*°•.˜˜.•°*”˜ Among them, 20,000 bottles were consumed within the territory, and more than 1,200 professionals were added.
It is precisely because of the promotion of a large number of professionals that Richard can continuously expand the army, form an army of all professionals, and establish special arms.
The 4,000 bottles of Tenghui Potion sold were exchanged for more than 50,000 gold coins worth of food and ore, 60,000 gold coins worth of extraordinary materials, and more than 80,000 gold coins in cash were recovered from the territory soldiers.
This year, because the vassal of the territory could not pay back the debt, Richard did not provide them with Tenghui potion. Not counting the merits recovered from the soldiers, hunting snow crystal fish and refining Tenghui potion not only saved Harland Territory a lot of money on purchasing Tenghui potion, but also earned a profit of about 200,000 gold coins.
The newly launched Styx potion this year is also Harland Territory's flagship product. Although it was only the first year of its launch on the market, only 54 bottles were auctioned, but it still brought Harland Territory 220,000 cash.
The magicians who bought the Styx potion were mainly from the Grant Mage Association. The two medium-sized Styx potions were sold to the top leaders of the Mage Association, one of whom was Richard's acquaintance, Evans Shane, who had spoken for Richard in the dead world.
Fifteen years have passed, and Shane has been promoted to a nine-ring magician, but he is nearly seventy years old and has almost no chance of breaking through the legendary bottleneck and completing this promotion.
The risk of being promoted to a legend is relatively high. If you fail, you will be seriously injured or even die. Shane came to Harland Territory to buy the Styx Potion this time, probably to make a last-ditch effort before his energy ran out.
Anyway, Richard didn't think he could be promoted successfully.
This year, Harland Territory reclaimed more than three million acres of wasteland, but these newly reclaimed farmlands delayed spring plowing. In the first year, only some miscellaneous beans were planted. The harvest of the newly reclaimed farmland was less than 60,000 tons, and the ratio of seeds to grain remained at a very low level.
Now Harland Territory has reclaimed 14 million acres of farmland, of which about 6.9 million acres are in the hands of free people. The official Harland Territory directly controls more than 7 million acres of farmland.
This year, the total agricultural grain output of the territory reached 1.1 million tons.
Although 1.1 million tons of grain is not a small amount, Harland Territory already has 2.5 million people. In addition, it has to feed more than 300,000 sheep-bodied people, more than 100,000 orc slaves, and more than 100,000 large livestock. The food alone will consume 550,000 tons. In addition, the breeding industry in the territory requires a lot of feed, which adds up to about 350,000 tons.
Next year, more than 100,000 tons of grain will be reserved. Winemaking and flour milling also require grain. The grain produced by Harland Territory this year is not enough.
If it weren't for the southern expedition to make a fortune from the Delong Kingdom, plus the purchase of more than 100,000 tons of grain at a cost of 300,000 gold coins, the grain reserves in the treasury would have been consumed.
Although the agricultural production in Harland Territory is very good this year, the grain output is rising steadily, and new reservoirs and ditches have been built, there is no profit in a year because of the increase of more than 700,000 people, and 300,000 gold coins in cash have been lost.
As the population size expands, the flour manufacturing industry in Harland Territory is still not saturated and is still developing rapidly.
This year, Harland Territory has added more than 300,000 free people, and the market size has increased by more than one-third. Although the flour manufacturing industry does not restrict private capital and the competition is very fierce, several flour mills still handed in 160,000 gold coins in profit this year, an increase of 12% year-on-year.
Private flour mills paid 56,000 gold coins in taxes, which have been counted in taxes.
The development trend of animal husbandry is good. Because of the expansion of the domestic demand market, the number of official ranches in the territory has increased significantly this year, the supply has increased by one-quarter, and the price of meat has basically remained stable.
At the end of the year, the official ranch in Harland Territory presented an excellent report card. In addition to supplying the army, a total of 150,000 gold coins were handed in in profit in a year.
The number of freemen increased, the domestic demand market expanded, and the production capacity of the brown sugar market rose again this year. In addition, Harland Territory opened up the smuggling route in the south. This year, the brown sugar planting and sales departments handed in 146,000 gold coins in profit.
Next year is the year when the contract slaves expire. Nearly 300,000 people will be pardoned in spring. The domestic demand market will continue to expand, and the brown sugar planting department will hand in more profits.
Now the brown sugar plantation in Harland Territory has expanded to more than 100,000 acres, forming a huge sugar production market, greatly reducing costs, and no longer afraid of competition from other nobles.
With the increase in population size, the vitality of the real estate industry has greatly increased. Because the population of Harland Territory is still rising rapidly, the real estate industry may continue to prosper for many years.
Richard's three views were formed in the technological world with developed capital. He knew very well that the real estate industry was related to people's livelihood. Many countries in the previous life fell in this industry. This industry has a strong financial attribute. Richard strictly controls the scale of real estate development and strictly prohibits private capital from getting involved in this industry.
The Duke of Harland Territory is still an emerging country, and the intricate network of relationships in the territory has not yet been formed. Richard is the founding monarch, and his own strength is also very strong. He can suppress the demands of interest groups in the territory, and has a strong control over the territory. He does not need to compromise too much with interest groups and give up a lot of profits.
So although some officials and nobles in the territory are not satisfied, they still dare not oppose Richard's decision.
The real estate industry has a long industrial chain, involving bricks, cement, glass, wood and other industries, which are related to economic development and people's livelihood.
Harland Territory builds a large number of houses every year and rents them to free people in the territory at low prices.
The annual rental payment and installment purchase payment are very stable. It is a business that is sure to make money. These profits this year are as high as 160,000 gold coins.
With the hot sale of Harland Territory's arms business, this deformed trade is becoming more and more prosperous. The nobles in the south buy weapons from Harland Territory, then capture slaves from the Kingdom of Delong, and finally sell them to Harland Territory.
The people doing this business ranged from the Duke of Duran and the Duke of Guise to hereditary barons, noble vassals, and even the legions directly under the royal family, and began to get involved in this business and work for Harland.
Last year, Richard bought 260,000 slaves, paid 1.3 million gold coins in cash, and sold more than 800,000 gold coins. The arms production and sales departments handed over 180,000 gold coins in profit to Harland.
The coin casting department also handed over a lot of profits. Due to the rapid economic development, Harland is still in a shortage of money. Although the Dragon's Nest was captured this year and 1.5 million gold coins were seized, the money was used to buy slaves and was quickly consumed.
However, because a large amount of gold was seized from the Dragon's Nest and handed over to the Grant royal family, it was exchanged for 300,000 gold coins, and the shortage of money was slightly alleviated.
Last year, Harland minted silver coins and copper coins worth 130,000 gold coins. In order to promote paper money as a credit currency, it also printed 120,000 gold coin vouchers and distributed them to civil servants and soldiers as salaries.
After three consecutive years of printing vouchers, everyone finally gained some confidence in this special currency, and it began to circulate in small quantities on the market.
After taking down the Dragon's Nest, a large amount of funds was obtained. Harland Territory did not issue national debt this year because of the lack of financial talents and conservative thinking. Richard was very cautious about issuing bonds.
Now Harland Territory has only issued 60,000 gold coins of national debt. Compared with the government's income, the debt leverage is very light.
This year, the Dragon's Nest was taken down, and a large amount of jewelry was seized. After selling it for more than half a year, about 80,000 gold coins in cash were recovered.
The Duke's Bank of Harland Territory made a lot of profits because of investing in private flour mills. This year, the bank's profit exceeded 100,000 gold coins. Richard asked the Duke's Bank to hand over 60,000 gold coins in profit, and 40,000 gold coins remained in the bank system to enrich the principal.
Because of the increase in population and the expansion of the domestic demand market, the profits of the cotton spinning business have also increased significantly. Although the price department of Harland Territory has very strict management of the prices of people's necessities, the profit margin of the cotton spinning industry is not high, but this year it still handed over 100,000 gold coins in profit.
Harland has a commodity monopoly law, and the government controls almost all livelihood commodities. Richard requires these state-owned enterprises that control basic resources not only to make profits, but also to provide relatively safe and cheap commodities. State-owned enterprises monopolize the market, so they have the responsibility to provide low-priced commodities to maintain the stability of the territory.
With the increase in domestic demand, the soap and perfume industries are also increasing their production capacity. This year, the soap department has submitted a profit of 80,000 gold coins.
The sales of medicines in Harland Territory are still soaring. The sales of medicines in Harland Territory are divided into magic potions and ordinary medicines.
Each of these two types has a flagship product. The hemostatic ointment is actually a low-level magic potion. The anthelmintic potion that has been sold on a large scale this year is also a blockbuster, bringing huge profits to Harland Territory.
The most basic characteristics of magic potions sold by the pharmaceutical department are large supply and low cost.
Painkillers are new drugs developed by the territory. The ingredients of this drug are similar to aspirin, which is entirely attributed to the chemical department. Under Richard's personal intervention, sulfa drugs are also under development.
The most common type is natural plant extract drugs, and there are more than a dozen of this type of drugs.
Various types of drugs are in full bloom, and the drug production and sales department has submitted a profit of 160,000 gold coins this year.
Coal production capacity is still increasing rapidly. Now Harland Territory has discovered three coal mines, namely Tulun Coal Mine near Fort William, Kasan Coal Mine in the upper reaches of the Bernie River, and Losa Coal Mine in the eastern part of Losa Basin.
All three coal mines have been put into production, and the production capacity has increased to 400,000 tons this year. This year, the three coal mines have handed in a total profit of 95,000 gold coins.
The rest are basically some small-scale industries. Because of the expansion of the domestic demand market, these large and small industries can hand in a profit of 260,000 gold coins.
Not counting the cash income from conquering the Dragon's Nest, Harland Territory's fiscal revenue this year reached 2.94 million gold coins, an increase of 1.11 million gold coins over last year, a year-on-year increase of 60.6%, far exceeding the level expected at the end of last year.
After the Grant royal family conquered the southern territory, the fiscal revenue stabilized at around 5.5 million gold coins. According to Harland Territory's fiscal revenue this year, it is roughly equivalent to half of the royal fiscal revenue.
This year, Harland Territory has only 2.5 million people, while the royal family directly controls tens of millions of people and has complete coinage rights. Lords of all sizes will also pay tribute to the king.
Harland Territory's per capita production efficiency is almost 2.4 times that of the royal family.
Including the cash income from taking down the Dragon's Nest, Harland Territory received 4.82 million gold coins, which is almost equivalent to 87.6% of the Grant Royal Family's fiscal revenue. After taking down the Dragon's Nest, Harland Territory's cash income this year is very gratifying.