Chapter 396 William's Advancement

Although there is a cash income of 4.82 million this year, the expenditure of the territory is also amazing.

First of all, the purchase of slaves. Richard purchased 260,000 slaves in two installments, consuming a huge amount of 1.3 million. In addition, 150,000 tons of food were purchased this year, consuming 300,000 gold coins.

Slaves and food cost a huge amount of 1.6 million gold coins.

This year, Harland has a total of 64,000 regular troops, 40,000 auxiliary troops such as city defense troops and security troops, and 6,000 new recruits, with a total of 110,000 troops in the territory.

For an army of 110,000, the annual salary of officers and soldiers alone requires 920,000 gold coins, plus the 360,000 gold coins reward issued during the war, this year's salary alone consumed 1.28 million gold coins.

In addition, this year, Harland's army died and was disabled in battle, which greatly increased the cost of pension expenditure. Compared with the same period last year, the pension expenditure has increased seriously, reaching 80,000 gold coins this year.

Although the pension does not seem much, it will be paid for 20 years, which is a long-term expense. If the increase is too much, it will greatly increase the financial burden of Harland.

The logistics expenses of 110,000 soldiers are also a huge expense, especially in the past two years of fighting with orcs, it is necessary to transport supplies to the front line, stockpile ammunition, and it costs 400,000 gold coins a year to feed people and horses.

The military expenditure alone has reached 1.76 million gold coins, an increase of 56 gold coins compared with last year.

If it were not for the huge increase in fiscal revenue this year, Harland would have been overwhelmed and unable to support it.

The military expenditure has skyrocketed, and other expenses are also increasing.

This year, Harland has increased its population by 750,000, and the number of civil servants has also skyrocketed. This year, various departments have recruited more than 6,000 civil servants. Counting these 6,000 newcomers, Harland has 18,000 civil servants.

Although in Harland, the social status and salary level of civil servants are not as good as those of regular soldiers, compared with general occupations, civil servants are also considered high-income people.

Eighteen thousand civil servants, including salaries and subsidies, have consumed 160,000 gold coins this year.

The Harland Territory is very supportive of the railway department. Last year, a large amount of gold coins were allocated to this department. A hundred kilometers of railways were built, which cost 240,000 gold coins.

Normally, it costs 1,500 gold coins to build one kilometer of railways in plain areas, but the cost of building railways in mountainous areas will increase greatly.

Although most of the route from Malte Castle to the Fortress is in the river valley, the mountains are getting steeper and steeper from Fort William to the north. After a tunnel was dug, the cost of building this hundred-kilometer railway increased to 240,000 gold coins.

The new higher education in the Harland Territory this year also requires a lot of investment. Although the enrollment scale of the eight major colleges is relatively small, the construction of new schools and the recruitment of teachers cost 40,000 gold coins in cash. In addition, 30,000 gold coins are needed to maintain 24 primary schools and 6 middle schools. This year's investment in education adds up to 70,000 gold coins in cash.

With the increase of 750,000 people, the investment in medical care is also increasing. This year, the Harland Territory has established two new large hospitals, which consumed about 30,000 gold coins. With the establishment of various schools, Adrian and Richard discussed and decided to establish a medical school to select and train doctors from students.

With the rapid increase in population, the burden of medical care is gradually increasing.

The investment in the medical sector of Harland is also increasing. This year, it has exceeded 80,000 gold coins. 80,000 gold coins is also a considerable amount of money for a dukedom. This money can support 8,000 regular troops, which is equivalent to the general expenditure level of civil servants in the territory.

As the territory develops better and better, the investment in scientific research funds is also increasing. This year, the major scientific research institutes, plus the mage department, have exceeded 120,000 gold coins in scientific research funds.

In total, Harland’s total expenditure this year is 4.03 million gold coins. Because of the Dragon’s Nest, there is a surplus of 760,000 gold coins.

In recent years, Harland has been able to have a surplus of funds every year. Last year, the treasury had accumulated 930,000 gold coins. With the 760,000 gold coins accumulated this year, there are now 1.69 million gold coins in the territory’s treasury.

Although Richard wanted to spend this huge sum of money, unfortunately the supply of commodities in the market was far from enough.

This year, Harland Territory has swept away all the slaves accumulated by the southern nobles over the years, and there is no place to buy people.

In addition to the population, nearly 1.7 million gold coins have been put into the market, which can already manipulate the market.

Richard is the lord of Harland Territory. Although manipulating the domestic demand market can make money and reap wealth from the free people, it will undermine the stability of the territory and damage long-term interests.

Richard is not a fool, how could he ruin the pot himself? What good is it for the ruler of the country to let the country fall into chaos?

Richard himself will not manipulate the market, nor will he allow other large sums of money to enter Harland Territory.

Whoever dares to enter Harland Territory to mess around and stir up trouble in the market, Richard will only use a knife and fists to kill him with administrative means.

In the history of the Dawn Plane, the strong is never capital, but the extraordinary people themselves. A legendary fourth-level magician is enough to determine the rise and fall of a kingdom and influence the fate of the kingdom.

This fall, Richard and Sofia attended the auction held by the Sorenheim family. At the auction, Richard spent a total of 11,000 magic crystals. However, last year, after conquering the Dragon's Nest, Harland Territory received 80,000 magic crystals. Although the war with the orcs consumed a lot of magic crystals, the territory's magic tower still preserved more than 60,000 standard magic crystals.

Continuously collecting over the years, the Harland Territory has approximately 80,000 empty magic crystals.

With Harland taking control of the mage tower at the bottom of Snow Crystal Lake, because the energy room of this mage tower is a large magic well, the amount of magic crystals charged will increase greatly.

According to Richard's estimation, the four mage towers controlled by Harland's territory can charge 26,000 magic crystals a year.

Among them, the Snow Crystal Lake Mage Tower can supply energy for 20,000 magic crystals a year.

At present, the charging efficiency of magic crystals is not high, only maintaining at the level of 8%. If the charging efficiency of magic crystals is improved, Harland Leader can charge more magic crystals.

Twenty-six thousand magic crystals are charged in one year, which is enough to sustain the consumption of Harland's magic crystals.

This year we fought a full-scale war with the orcs, with an army of nearly 100,000, and only a total of 24,000 magic crystals were consumed. Harland led the industrial department and consumed 4,000 magic crystals throughout the year, while the Mage Association combined consumed less than 2,000 magic crystals.

After the financial meeting, the time soon came for the Goddess’s Birthday.

The Haaland family had quite a few people at Christmas dinner this year.

Because Richard had obtained the Water of Life, in order to prevent the news from leaking, Hayden rode a Warcraft horse and went to the south at an accelerated speed of 800 miles to deliver a message to William.

Hayden's cultivation talent is very average. At the age of thirty-eight, he has just broken through to the fourth level warrior. Although he has already transformed into a civilian bureaucrat, he has never given up the practice of breathing techniques.

Growing up in a cruel place like Northern Xinjiang, both Richard and Hayden have a very deep understanding of power. Even if you have average talent, you still have the perseverance to practice hard, gradually improve your strength, and hold the core power in your hands.

Although Hayden is already a fourth-level warrior and has a certain ability to protect himself, in order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Richard also dispatched Jennings and four intermediate professionals to protect Hayden along the way.

Six people rode twenty iron horned horses, marching at a speed of more than 200 kilometers every day. It took only five days to enter the southernmost province of Ferdinand in the Kingdom of Grant.

Hayden found William directly and carefully informed him of the water of life.

Hearing that Richard had the water of life in his hands, William immediately realized the importance of the news. He greeted Mrs. Ola and immediately returned to Harland territory with Hayden.

Although William set out much later than George and others, he returned to Harland a few days earlier than them.

Returning to the territory, Richard immediately handed the last piece of water of life to William. After William drank this water of life, his life span increased by twenty years, and his physical condition became younger.

After the birthday of the goddess, William was already sixty-eight years old. Although he was gifted and energetic, his health was still declining. Without the Water of Life, it would be almost impossible for him to break through the legendary bottleneck.

After drinking the water of life, his life span was increased by twenty years. William instantly felt that his vitality had increased dramatically.

At this time, his physical condition has returned to its peak, and William is preparing to have Christmas dinner and break through the legendary bottleneck under Haaland.

In order to help William break through, Sophia has refined the Sky Crystal Flower into a Sky Crystal Potion, and Richard is also preparing to leave the legendary power fruit for William to use after he breaks through.

Although the Sky Crystal Potion is more difficult to refine than the Styx Potion, Sophia's mental power has been greatly improved after drinking the Styx Potion and the Water of Life. After the mental power is enhanced, the refining potion can feel more subtle changes. Moreover, the successful refining of the legendary Styx potion will also improve Sophia's potion refining level.

Although it was more difficult to refine the Tianjing potion, Sophia still succeeded. If she could successfully refine another legendary potion, Sophia would be truly a legendary pharmacist.

There are only a dozen or so legendary pharmacists in the Dawn Plane.

In addition to William, his third uncle Bernie also returned to Fort William to meet his eldest brother.

Bernie now serves as the second captain of the Mad Lion Legion. He has been promoted to a seventh-level warrior and is barely considered a high-ranking member of the Mad Lion Legion. In recent years, the elite troops of the Grant Kingdom have moved south, leaving only the Mad Lion Legion in the northern frontier.

If it weren't for the purpose of maintaining the Grant royal family's presence in Northern Xinjiang, King Roger even planned to send the Mad Lion Legion southward, completely leaving the burden of the orcs to Richard, Edward, Fox, Macmillan and other northern Xinjiang people.

It has been four and a half years since William led his troops south, and he has not seen his relatives in northern Xinjiang for a long time.

Whether you are a warrior or a magician, there are great risks in advancing to a legend. Everyone who takes this step has the determination to succeed or succeed.

King Roger and other ninth-level professionals who have been promoted for many years cannot break through the legend because they do not have the determination to fight to the death.

Especially the aristocratic class, which has money, power, and beauties, makes it even more difficult for them to make this determination.

On the contrary, people like William who have climbed up from the bottom have a strong yearning for power and a strong desire to break through the legendary bottleneck.

William was also very happy to be able to see most of his relatives before his breakthrough and to get together with his family before the goddess' birthday.

The three branches of the Harland family, William, Powell, and Bernie, are close relatives. Richard's grandfather had two biological brothers. The biological uncle of William's third brother died in the orc invasion, and neither of his two cousins ​​survived to adulthood. Except for the three brothers William, the remaining members of the Harland family are all distant relatives such as Green, Noel, and Anne.

Although there is no aristocratic blood, the surname Harland has a large population. The total number of distant relatives of Harland totals about two to three thousand people.

The ancestors of the Harland family were hunters. The earliest ancestor and his seven children purchased land in the northern part of the Dragon Canyon and established a village. They were considered to be the earliest free people in the Gedda Province.

In more than a hundred years, the village grew from small to large to several hundred people, and it was not until William was promoted to a hereditary noble that it completely turned around.

After William was promoted to the hereditary nobility, the population of the Harland family increased four to five times in just twenty years, but the quality was relatively average, and there was basically no knight blood.

After William went south, he gave birth to another child with the palace lady Kelly, and married his second palace lady. His legal spouses were three wives and two palace ladies.

Not counting the illegitimate children raised outside, William had ten children in total. Except for Barron who died in the early battles, all the remaining children survived. After all, at William's level, if his family members got sick, they could seek help from magicians.

The Powell and Bernie families also had a large population. By Richard's cousin's generation, there were more than twenty brothers and sisters in total.

Counting illegitimate children, there are already hundreds of members of the Harland family, including nearly thirty adults.

Regardless of whether they are distant relatives or close relatives, Richard uses them equally.

Richard gave opportunities to all the people in the Harland family, but their first positions were all at the grassroots level. Whether they can climb up from below depends on their ability and luck.

Nowadays, in addition to having a smaller population, the Harland Territory's military strength and economic scale are several points higher than those of the Grand Duchy of Stanik. In managing such a large territory, it is impossible for Richard to directly promote a person to a high level like he did more than ten years ago.

At this year's Christmas dinner, perhaps because everyone knew that William was about to be promoted to legend, they acted cheerfully and wanted to keep the best in William's memory.

Everyone sang and danced happily all night.

Early the next morning, Richard took William and teleported to the Crystal Lake Mage Tower, preparing to break through the legendary bottleneck.

After entering the secret room, William drank the sky crystal potion and began to circulate his fighting energy crazily, absorbing the magic power around him. The fighting energy seeds accelerated, and soon a stream of magic power entered William's body. His body exudes a red fighting spirit light, which complements the orange light emitted by the magic lamp.

In Richard's induction, countless magical powers fell like heavy rain and poured into William's body.

Thousands of magic powers poured into William's body. At this moment, William felt as if his whole body was being eaten by insects and ants, and the severe pain seemed to crush his soul.

The Harland family has no background. William is the first person in the Harland family to break through the legend. The family has no successful experience to record, so William can only rely on himself to explore.

Although Sylph also successfully broke through the legend, she used a bottle of water of life, and the breakthrough was very smooth. Her experience cannot be replicated, and William can only rely on himself to achieve breakthroughs.

William has survived in a difficult environment since he was a child and has an unusually tough character. He gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain for three days.

When the severe pain began to subside, William instantly felt that his originally strong body and spirit were strengthened again. William suddenly felt that his consciousness entered the core of fighting spirit.

At this moment, William had discovered that there were cracks in the core of his seed.