Chapter 412 Adjustment of Administrative Divisions

Soon after the Goddess's Birthday, Richard personally signed a decree to pardon this year's indentured slaves.

This year is also a big year for pardoning indentured slaves. Five years ago, Harland Territory participated in the southern expedition to the Kingdom of Delong, and captured about 350,000 people. This year, this part of the population was pardoned six months in advance. In the three provinces of the northern border, there are about 320,000 free people left in the two major territories of Edward and Fox, and there are 50,000 newborn free people. The number of free people in Harland Territory has increased by 720,000.

In addition to the original 1.5 million free people, according to the population statistics submitted by the civil affairs department, as of January this year, there are a total of 2.22 million free people registered in Harland Territory, and the number of indentured slaves is about 4.6 million.

The population directly controlled by Harland Territory is more than 6.8 million.

Richard now has about 46 hereditary nobles under his command, and these hereditary nobles together control about 600,000 people.

The total population of Harland Territory is about 7.4 million.

Although the territory traded with the royal family, although it gained the vast land of the eastern coastal forest and the estuary, it lost more than 500,000 people in terms of population, which is about 2.5 million gold coins.

Because the statistical data is too large, the population can only be roughly estimated now.

The territory of Harland has expanded by more than 400,000 square kilometers, and the population has increased by nearly 4.8 million. The original number of civil servants is far from enough. Especially in the past few months of merging the territory, the handover of management rights, the demarcation of boundaries, population statistics, food and currency sealing, etc., have made Harland managers overwhelmed and busy.

During this period of time, the local area has also become very chaotic. Some people took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and obtained a lot of resources and obtained a lot of illegal wealth through various means. Richard also understands this chaos. After all, Richard did not expect that the territory would develop rapidly in a few months. Although some civil servants were recruited in advance last year, the territory has more than doubled its population, and qualified managers are naturally in short supply.

Moreover, when they go to the new territory, they are still unfamiliar with the place, which will naturally give many people room to fish in troubled waters.

The bureaucrats who manage the local areas are important assets of the great nobles. Edward, Fox and the Grant royal family basically moved the management staff and their families away when they went south.

So since last winter, Harland Territory has expanded the recruitment of civil servants on a large scale, spreading to the new territory to take charge of management through old and new, and recruiting some management talents from the south. In just a few months, the number of civil servants in the territory has increased by 12,000.

Now the number of civil servants in Harland Territory has exceeded 30,000, but it is still very difficult to manage. The new territory has hired a large number of temporary staff. In fact, the total number of civil servants who eat fiscal meals in the civil service system has exceeded 45,000.

In February of this year, Richard began to distribute a large amount of farmland controlled by great nobles such as Edward, Fox, and Grant to the new free people, and at the same time increased investment in education on a large scale. Ten primary schools and four middle schools were newly built. Now Harland Territory has 34 primary schools and 10 middle schools.

The new schools are located in the three provinces of the northern border, Edward and Fox dukedoms, and mainly serve the free people added this year. After all, contract slaves do not have the political status and financial ability to go to school.

Ten new primary schools have been built. Compared with last year, the number of new students has increased by nearly 7,000. This year, the total number of new students who need to test their magic qualifications in Harland Territory is about 20,000.

From the base of 20,000 people, 203 apprentices with magic qualifications were selected. Including these more than 200 new apprentices, the scale of the Harland Territory Mage Association has exceeded 900 people. It is a relatively large medium-sized magic organization, slightly worse than a large magic organization.

In the past, due to the small number of people, the training of magicians in Harland Territory was basically the apprenticeship system of the traditional magic tower. With more and more new apprentices, Richard has already planned to establish a magic academy.

After all, the magicians of the East Coast United Kingdom left a very deep impression on Richard. Harland Territory will also summarize the experience of last year's war, and Richard naturally has to learn from the advantages of the enemy.

The headquarters of the magic academy was chosen in the swamp basin. Richard personally served as the dean of the magic academy, and Sophia, Undine, and Eve, three senior magicians, served as vice deans. However, the people who are really responsible for managing and educating students are mainly middle-level figures of the Mage Association, such as Heath, Adrian, Roentgen, Capeson, and Bella.

The magic academy also has an elementary school attached. The teachers of this elementary school are selected from older mage apprentices. They are responsible for teaching new apprentices basic knowledge such as writing and mathematics. They will start to teach meditation methods and contact magic common sense after one year. In the third year, they will enter the research group of formal magicians and follow formal magicians for training.

The magic academy has a six-year study system. If you are promoted to a mage within six years, you will serve in the magic academy, the mage association, and the magic research department for ten years. If you still cannot be promoted to a formal mage within six years, you will be arranged in the military and join the military mage group to undertake various tasks such as combat and treatment. The service period is twenty years.

After serving in the army for twenty years, you can choose to quit and then teach at the Magic Academy, or join the Mage Association, Demon Hunter Guild, Mercenary Guild, Pharmacy Department and other units to continue serving Harland Territory. You can also leave Harland Territory and go to other places in the Dawn Continent. As long as you fulfill the training contract, Harland Territory does not restrict the freedom of magicians.

From this point of view, Richard was very confident and generous. He believed that as long as a social environment suitable for magic research was created and a superior platform was built, magicians would naturally be attracted to serve Harland, rather than forcing magicians to sign a lifelong service contract.

Sincere support from the heart and superficial service are two different working states, and Richard was very clear about this.

Compared with the nobles of the Dawn Plane, Richard was more confident and less afraid of challenges.

So in terms of extraordinary knowledge, he never cherished his own knowledge, but especially liked equal exchange.

Only with sufficient communication can magic civilization develop.

In addition to establishing the Harland Magic Academy in the Swamp Basin, Richard also rebuilt the Knight Academy in the Dragon Canyon.

Last winter, the Grant Kingdom Knight Academy had moved to the south with the royal family.

Richard graduated from the Knight Academy, and of course he knew the benefits of this academy for cultivating talents.

Harland trained warrior professionals, basically through violent agencies such as the military, intelligence, and public security. Soldiers who can start learning breathing methods are roughly between eighteen and twenty years old.

In fact, this age is a little late for good seedlings.

For people with excellent talents, the best age to learn breathing techniques is about fourteen to sixteen years old.

Some nobles even use some precious potions to help children lay a good foundation from an early age, stimulate their physical strength a few years in advance, and practice breathing techniques at around twelve years old.

Richard, Hayden and other children who entered the Knight Academy to study practiced breathing techniques at around fourteen or fifteen years old. In the first few years, they basically trained their bodies to lay the foundation for learning breathing techniques.

According to Richard's observation, the students who graduated from the Knight Academy generally have a better future than the soldiers in the army. The reason why the military system can have more than a thousand professionals promoted every year is entirely due to the huge population base.

Rebuilding the Knight Academy can provide some families with better qualifications and good conditions with a place to cultivate and educate professionals. Although it may cause the spread and leakage of breathing techniques, it is beneficial to the long-term development of the territory. Moreover, Richard also intends to spread and leak the apprentice-level breathing techniques.

After all, if you learn the apprentice-level breathing techniques, you can only join violent institutions such as the army to develop if you want to make progress.

At present, Harland has mastered more than a dozen melee-type extraordinary skills, some of which are warrior breathing methods and some are knight fighting methods.

There are seven types that can be promoted to the ninth level, and there are two sets of extraordinary skills that are the most precious and can be successfully promoted to the legendary realm.

These two sets of breathing methods are from the East Coast United Kingdom. One set is called the Fiery Breathing Method, which can be practiced to the second legendary level. It was seized by Richard from the Caesar of the Eunis family. It is said to come from the first generation ancestor of the Eunis family.

Another set of legendary fighting methods came from Mark Dean, called the Holy Light Fighting Method, which can also be promoted to the second legendary level.

This set of fighting methods should be created and practiced by Mark Dean himself, and it records many of his experiences. However, the threshold for practicing this set of fighting methods is very high. You need to awaken the knight bloodline with holy light attributes before you can start practicing.

After Mark Dean died in battle, he left a space bag, which not only contained the fighting methods he practiced, but also a royal seal that fell into Richard's hands.

Although he did not get through the relationship with the Royal Church, Richard has already obtained eight royal seals through various means.

Two of them came from the Grand Duchy of Stannic, and they were exchanged with Grand Duke Jonathan. The remaining six came from the Kingdom of Delong, and the two dukes Hubble and Isaac made great contributions to Richard.

In the battle last year, Richard directly led his troops to destroy the two dukes Isaac and Hubble. Although some remnants escaped, the most precious collections of the two dukes still fell into the hands of Lord Harland, including five royal seals, plus one seized from Mark Dean. Now Harland has no shortage of precious props such as royal seals.

In addition, after William was promoted to Legend, he also wrote down a lot of experiences and feelings. Together with the breathing method of the Northern Legion that Lord Harland had already mastered, it can barely be regarded as a half-set of legendary inheritance.

The reason why William was difficult to be promoted to Legend and almost overturned with the help of the Water of Life was that his breathing method inheritance was mediocre. After all, the breathing method of the Northern Legion came from the Jonathan family, which could only be promoted to the ninth level.

The method of advancing to the legendary level still needs to be deduced by future generations.

Although William also has some experience, he has not deduced the complete legendary breathing method, and can only use the most brutal method to advance. If Richard's magic level is not equivalent to that of a legendary wizard to provide close protection, William's state will be very troublesome after his promotion.

Of course, the elven fighting method mastered by Sutton and Sylph can only be practiced by people with a high concentration of elven blood.

After the establishment of the Knight Academy, Richard appointed Roman as the dean and Roland as the vice dean. The specifications and importance of the Knight Academy in Harland Territory are far from comparable to those of the Magic Academy from the perspective of the dean selection.

Because there are relatively few people with knight blood in the Harland Territory, the Dragon Canyon Knight Academy established on the original site is relatively inferior in the training of knights compared to the Grant Kingdom Knight Academy.

Shortly after the establishment of the two extraordinary academies, Richard began to negotiate with Rogge many times, preparing to readjust the administrative divisions in the territory.

Before the southern expedition last year, Harland Territory had ten counties and more than thirty counties, including East Grota County, West Grota County, Harland County, Losa Basin County, Salt Lake County, Southern Eagle Mountain County, Martins County, Palani County, Snow Mountain County, and Western Deep Forest County.

Now that the Eastern Coastal Plateau, the two major duchies of Edward and Fox, and the three provinces of the Northern Frontier have been added, it is inevitable to readjust the divisions and divide counties.

In the past, the Duchy of Harland did not establish provinces, and the highest administrative unit was the county.

The four-level administrative units of county, county, township, and village manage the territory.

Usually, the territory of a county is about 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers, which is about the same area as the city in Richard's previous life.

But now Harland Territory has 780,000 square kilometers of land, and it can already establish a provincial unit.

First, the coastal highland forest area, the establishment of the East Coast Province, this area is very vast, about 240,000 square kilometers, because it is uninhabited, it has not been developed and only has a false name, and there is no further subdivision of counties.

In addition, there is the northern area of ​​the Eagle Mountains and the area south of the Samba River. This area is also about 120,000 square kilometers. With more than a dozen front-line military stations as the core, the Eagle Province was established, divided into three counties, Snow Mountain, Roman, and Burren, and seven counties. The Eagle Province has been developed for a relatively short time, and has only a population of more than 400,000 for the time being, mainly concentrated in the two counties of Lake West and Lake East in Snow Mountain County. Snow Mountain County is also the focus of the development of the Eagle Province.

The two counties of East and West Grotta were reintegrated into the Grotta Province, and the hereditary nobles near the Viscount Sutton's territory were all under the custody of this province. Including the territories of hereditary vassals, the Grotta Province covers an area of ​​more than 90,000 square kilometers, divided into three counties: East Grotta County, West Grotta County, and Elf County, with a total population of about 600,000.

Then there are the three provinces of the Northern Frontier, with a total area of ​​more than 80,000 square kilometers. Together with the population controlled by hereditary nobles, the total population is about 2.3 million. Because the Grant royal family has been developing for many years, this area is considered to be the most densely populated and affluent area in Harland.

Richard merged the three provinces of the Northern Frontier into the Black River Province, which has three counties, Geda, Lach, and Gascoigne, with a total of more than a dozen counties.

The original core territories of Harland Territory, Harland County, Losa Basin County, Salt Lake County, Eagle Mountain South Foothill County, Western Forest County, and Martins County were merged into the Central Province, with a total area of ​​about 70,000 square kilometers. Although the Central Province is the smallest in area, it is the most essential area of ​​Harland Territory, with a total population of 2.8 million and very rich extraordinary resources.

The remaining Palani County was merged with the territories of Edward and Fox into the Vera Province, with an area of ​​about 180,000 square kilometers, divided into Palani County, Maple Leaf County, Rock County, and Eternal City County. Due to the years of development by Edward and Fox, the two dukes, the total population is about 1.4 million.

After the administrative divisions were readjusted, the Dukedom of Harland already has six provinces, namely East Coast, Eagle, Black River, Grotta, Central, and Vera, with more than 20 counties and more than 70 counties under its jurisdiction. Its land area exceeds that of the Grand Duchy of Stanik, but its population is slightly smaller than that of the Grand Duchy of Stanik.