Chapter 42 Territory Development

Richard successfully built a brick kiln and began to waste time building brick houses.

In order to speed up the process, Richard also hired more than 20 masons from Heihe Fort at a high price.

In addition, there were also a dozen masons among the slaves. With these people as the backbone, Richard formed a construction team.

Construction teams of several hundred people were active throughout Harland's territory, forming the prototypes of villages.

Second uncle Powell also built a large number of wooden houses.

Timber is a very important resource in life. Living materials in Harland's territory are scarce, but there is no shortage of timber.

Dozens of wooden houses have been built in Fort William.

In winter, everyone squeezed in and could accommodate about 1,000 slaves.

According to the progress, the slaves will have a house to live in this winter.

Although more than a dozen people were crammed into one room and the living conditions were not very good, they finally settled down in the Harland territory.

Following a kind and kind lord, slaves have hope in their hearts even if they work hard every day.

After half a year of hard fighting, the Haaland family territory has changed drastically.

Although the physical rules of Dawn Continent are different, Richard still established some basic industries within the territory.

Brick kilns, cement kilns, lime kilns, and wood drying kilns have been put into operation.

Both summer and autumn grains were harvested.

This year, the Harland family invested 12,000 gold coins, reclaimed 400 hectares of farmland, harvested 940 tons of grain, and built more than 300 houses. Wingdings: ♦︎♦︎⬧︎♦︎◆︎⌧︎♦︎♦︎□︎❍︎ In addition, there are one brick kiln, cement kiln, lime kiln and wood drying kiln.

However, most of the materials produced at the kiln entrance were used within the territory and could not be converted into money.

In particular, important materials such as lime and cement were basically used in the construction of Fort William.

Lime and cement were used, and the construction of Fort William began to speed up.

By October, the foundations were completed and the castle was built three or four meters high.

After entering winter, slaves still had to work in the cold and continue to bake bricks.

As long as there are enough bricks, the castle can be completed by next winter.

Normally, a hereditary family that had just obtained a fief would need to build a castle for more than ten years.

Develop a deserted barony and invest 50,000 gold coins before the territory can break even.

You need to keep investing money until you break even. New nobles with little wealth often cannot persist for that long.

Most of the hereditary nobles of the Grant Kingdom were accumulated through three generations. The first generation joined the army and became mid-level professionals, leaving the breathing method inheritance to the family.

There are many second-generation brothers, some of whom are in the military and some who are making money. To the greatest extent possible, lay a solid foundation and accumulate various resources.

In the third generation, only when a leader with outstanding abilities joins the main army and achieves military exploits can he be promoted to a hereditary noble and complete the transformation of his status.

William became a hereditary noble in the first generation. Although Mrs. Ola can earn a lot of money, her accumulation is actually less than that of a normal new noble.

Because of a plague in the Nolan slave camp, the Harland family received excess population resources.

Four thousand slaves joined the development of the territory, and the territory ushered in very rapid development.

The time traveler Richard brought some advanced knowledge, developed some basic industries, increased productivity, and accelerated the development of the territory.

After traveling to this world, after so many years of research, Richard discovered that classical mechanics is also the basic physical rule of this world.

However, because electromagnetism and quantum mechanics involve magic factors, they cannot copy the experience on earth.

If he wants to study the scientific laws of this world, Richard's accumulated knowledge is still a little behind, and he doesn't have the basic conditions. We can only wait until the knowledge reserve increases in the future and we have more powerful magic methods. Using the materialistic scientific outlook formed by education in previous lives, there should be some discoveries.

Normally, it would take seven or eight years for a newly promoted barony to reach the level of development of the Harland family.

Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye it has entered March of the dawn calendar year 3254.

After a year of operation, the Haaland Territory has changed greatly. It was still a wilderness in March last year. Now it has formed six gathering places and built many beautiful and solid brick buildings.

The territory of more than one thousand square kilometers is already populated by many people.

For a whole year, despite the hard work, no war broke out in the territory. Without the destruction of war, the population of the territory is also multiplying rapidly.

More than 300 women were pregnant last year, nearly half of the territory's working-age female population.

In other words, this year, there will be a baby boom in the territory.

Entering March, Harland Territory still needs to continue to cultivate farmland.

Last year, 400 hectares of paddy fields were reclaimed. This year, slightly less paddy fields were reclaimed.

Richard plans to cultivate 300 hectares. If there is a good harvest this year, Harland Territory will be able to sell 600 tons of grain.

Food prices in the Grant Kingdom are not very expensive. One copper coin can buy 1.5 kilograms of food.

One gold coin can buy 540 kilograms of grain. In a normal year, grain prices will not fluctuate by more than 20%.

More than 600 tons of grain, enough to exchange for 1,200 gold coins, can pay off some of the debt owed.

The construction of wooden houses near Fort William has stopped. The wooden houses are crudely constructed, often leaking air and water, and are not as warm as brick houses.

When the farming season is over, Richard plans to build brick houses in Williamburg, and strive to complete all the houses within three years.

When the slaves regain their status as freemen, they will sell the houses to the people with loans.

Some house payments can be collected every year, which is a lot of money in the long run.

This year, Richard also plans to build several small reservoirs, and also build several simple roads.

While the slaves have not become freemen, the cost of using them is low, and the infrastructure should be as good as possible.

On March 16, spring plowing began.

Richard and Powell took three contract slaves, controlled the iron-horned horses, and reclaimed wasteland.

These three contract slaves are professionals under the slave traders, and Richard set a ransom of 300 gold coins.

Their families do not have so much money, and the slave traders are unwilling to pay the ransom for them, so they can only become contract slaves of the Harland family and need to work for the Harland family for ten years.

Two of these three contract slaves are low-ranking officers captured by the Kingdom of Delong, and one is a low-ranking officer from the hereditary noble private army.

All three are junior professionals, two are second-level and one is first-level. Their names are Alves, Bradrick, and Graham.

Now all three have been appointed by Richard as deputy squadron leaders to assist the retired officers invited by William.

William recruited more than 20 backbones from the wounded soldiers of the Northern Legion.

Among these retired soldiers, several are also professionals.

The two strongest are third-level professionals. They used to be squadron leaders of the Northern Legion, named Martin and Heiman.

Both of them have minor physical disabilities, one is blind in one eye, and the other is missing two fingers. They can't pull the bowstring.

The competition pressure in the main squadron of the Northern Legion is not small, and these disabled officers can only retreat to the second line.

Although they have received generous compensation, William's old subordinates are still doing nothing.

The two are still relatively young and have no plans for retirement for the time being. After being invited by William, they decided to continue to follow their old superior.

Their salary is four gold coins per month, which is slightly lower than when they were in the regular army.

A senior squadron leader of the Northern Army, with a monthly salary of about five gold coins and four silver dollars.

This year, just after the Goddess's birthday, William also recruited a heavyweight to join the territory, and this person was Roland, who Richard was familiar with.

Roland was missing a leg, and although it was inconvenient for him to move, he was still appointed by William as the chief training officer of the territory's soldiers.