Chapter 429 Military Training

This year, Harland Territory has a cash income of 4.77 million gold coins. Although it is not as much as the year when the dragon's lair was captured, it is far more than last year. Last year, Harland Territory's cash income was only 3.08 million. Because it swallowed up a large area of ​​territory, it needed to spend money everywhere. Although it invaded the East Coast United Kingdom territory and robbed a large amount of money, it was first skinned by the multinational chamber of commerce. A large amount of money was awarded as a reward, and 1.2 million gold coins were paid out in cash, emptying most of the treasury.

As of the beginning of the 3273rd year of the Dawn Calendar, the territory's reserve funds were only 500,000 gold coins. For a lord with a population of 8 million and an area of ​​780,000 square kilometers, 500,000 gold coins could not support it for too long. Even Richard's mobile funds were 300,000 gold coins a year.

The annual pension of the Duke's Mansion was also 200,000 a year. Of course, these 200,000 are considered pocket money for the Harland family. Generally speaking, Richard gets 60,000, Sophia gets 50,000, Undine gets 30,000, and Margaret gets 20,000. Philip has not yet become a professional and cannot receive money from the public account for the time being. The Duke's Mansion spends 5,000 gold coins a year on food, clothing, living expenses, dinners, and gifts. In the past two years, the Duke's Mansion has accumulated 70,000 gold coins in private money.

According to the living standards of Harland, four gold coins a year are enough to feed and clothe six people, eat meat once a week, and watch an opera performance once a month.

And the living expenses of Richard's family in a year are equivalent to the expenses of 7,500 ordinary people living a middle-class life. The luxury of the nobles can be seen.

Richard and Sophia do not like luxury, do not love vanity, do not spend money unnecessarily, and rarely hold luxurious dinners. Even so, the annual expenditure of 5,000 gold coins in the Harland court is a huge amount of money for ordinary people. Territory capitalists like Odaye only earn 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins a year. Ordinary barons, whose territories have just started to develop, only earn 3,000 to 5,000 gold coins a year from selling grain.

The court expenditure of the Roger Kingdom, the gold coins used for formal dresses, is more than 100,000 gold coins. The royal family members never wear an expensive dress a second time. The Grant royal court has a lot of government agencies, and the craftsmen, servants, and maids serving the royal family add up to more than tens of thousands.

The annual expenditure of the Grant court royal family is more than 500,000 gold coins, accounting for one-tenth of the total income of the royal family. 500,000 gold coins, if saved, can support two regular legions.

Although the cash income of the Duke of Harland this year is 4.77 million, the expenditure is far more than two years ago.

First of all, the military expenditure, this year alone, the purchase of new weapons has cost 160,000 gold coins.

In addition, the logistics expenses of 140,000 troops are also a lot of money.

A soldier is issued four sets of clothes a year, consumes three catties of food and three taels of meat a day, plus supplies such as brown sugar and white wine, which costs two gold coins a year. The material cost of raising a soldier is equivalent to raising three citizens with good living conditions. The logistics of 140,000 soldiers together cost 280,000 gold coins.

In addition, there are military salaries. At present, there are not many contracted servitude soldiers in Harland. Although the salary of auxiliary soldiers is lower, the annual salary also requires 1.24 million gold coins.

Another major expense is pensions. Now, the number of soldiers who died or were disabled in Harland over the years has reached nearly 30,000. According to statistics from the civil affairs department, there are 28,000 families in the territory who receive pensions, and the pension expenses of 28,000 families are as high as 120,000 gold coins.

Although there was no large-scale war this year, the investment in military expenditure alone was as high as 1.8 million gold coins this year, which is roughly 37.7% of the territory's fiscal revenue. Compared with a few years ago, the proportion of military expenditure in the territory has been greatly reduced.

A few years ago, the proportion of military expenditure could reach more than 60%, and the pressure was very heavy. Richard woke up every morning and had to find a way to make money to support the army.

Military expenditure is as high as 1.8 million, and other expenses are also increasing rapidly. The first is the salary of civil servants. There are already 35,000 civil servants in Harland Territory, and the annual salary of these people is as high as 240,000 gold coins.

If it were based on the standards two years ago, the salary of civil servants would exceed 300,000 gold coins. Because of the great financial pressure, Richard made a harsh statement, which pushed civil servants to reduce their salaries and save some expenses.

In addition to 35,000 civil servants, Harland Territory also has 15,000 temporary workers. These temporary workers have lower salaries and treatment, and the total cost is 60,000 gold coins.

The salary of civil servants is as high as 300,000 gold coins.

Then there is the railway department of Harland Territory. In recent years, the railway department of Harland Territory has invested more and more. Last year, 230 kilometers of railways were built. Because there are more than 100 kilometers of mountain railways, 460,000 gold coins were spent.

Today, the railway mileage in Harland has exceeded 600 kilometers, and the more than 400-kilometer railway line from Feiying Fort to Songtao Castle has been fully completed. The 150-kilometer railway from Heihe Fort to Bingzhan Fort has also been put into operation.

In the planning of Harland, the section from Songtao Castle to King's Castle and the section from Feiying Fort to King's Castle have been planned and will be invested and constructed next year. Both sections are mountain railways and require higher costs. However, it may take a long time for the railway department to make a profit.

Then there is industrial investment. Last year, Harland invested 300,000 gold coins in the industrial sector, mainly to purchase advanced steam machinery and invest in production improvements.

Harland has invested a lot of money in the education industry, established more than a dozen schools, and almost doubled the enrollment scale, investing 100,000 gold coins.

The investment in the medical industry is also increasing. The territory has added millions of people. The number of doctors in the past is far from enough. Training doctors and building hospitals require a lot of gold coins. This year, the investment in the medical industry has increased to 110,000 gold coins. According to the standards of the Grant royal family, the medical investment can support 10,000 regular troops.

As the territory expands, the number of people in the Mage Association increases, and the investment in scientific research funds increases. This year, the research institutes and the mage department have more than 200,000 funds.

In addition to the 200,000 annual pension of the Duke's Mansion and the 300,000 funds of Richard's Office. Last year, the Harland government spent 3.77 million gold coins, leaving a balance of one million gold coins.

Counting the inventory at the end of last year, there are now 1.5 million gold coins in the Harland treasury.

In addition to gold coins, since there was no war this year, Harland Territory increased its reserves of 50,000 magic crystals. Although it participated in a war last year and suffered serious losses in magic crystals, Harland Territory has a reserve of 100,000 magic crystals because of the seizure of the dragon's lair and the trade with nearby lords. In addition, the territory has 60,000 empty magic crystals that can be charged.

With the current scale of the Harland Territory Mage Association, it consumes about 3,000 magic crystals a year. The industrial sector consumes 6,000 magic crystals a year because of the addition of many magic steam engines. The military departments maintain training and consume 2,000 magic crystals a year.

Harland Territory consumes about 11,000 magic crystals a year. In fact, this consumption has far exceeded the normal annual consumption of the Grant Royal Family.

Under normal circumstances, the Grant Royal Family consumes more than 3,000 magic crystals a year.

Generally speaking, the output of magic crystal mines is usually low. Although the royal family controls three magic crystal mines, it can only dig out more than 4,000 standard magic crystals a year. The royal family can accumulate more than 100,000 magic crystals, all thanks to more than 100 years of accumulation.

The reason why Harland County was able to save 100,000 magic crystals was mainly due to magic crystal charging technology and spoils of war. After conquering the dragon's lair, 80,000 magic crystals were seized. This year, the Yunhai Slave Hunting Group was defeated and the magic ship was redeemed, and another 30,000 magic crystals were obtained. A commodity fair was held to sell high-level magic items, and 30,000 magic crystals were exchanged successively.

Although the two battles of Samba River and Aisha Castle were fought for two consecutive years, more than 90,000 magic crystals were consumed in the war, but after all the miscellaneous calculations, Harland County still increased its magic crystal inventory by 80,000.

In the past two years, the magic crystal charging efficiency of Harland County has continued to improve, and this year it has increased to 9.2%.

Harland County controls four wizard towers and the natural magic well of the ogre's lair, which can charge 32,000 magic crystals a year.

Even if the charging technology does not improve, Harland County cannot control other magic wells. It can develop for at least ten years before it falls into the dilemma of magic crystal consumption exceeding charging.

After reading a pile of reports, Richard also recalled Philip to the Duke's Mansion.

As of December, Philip had been trained for ten months, including three months as a contract servant on the farm, and then seven months in the factory. After ten months of hard training, Philip no longer had the arrogance, and his image became much rougher. Seeing that the training had achieved great results, Richard recalled Philip to Fort William two months in advance.

After the Goddess's Birthday, Philip was already thirteen years old. Because he had been well-nourished since childhood, his height had grown to nearly 1.6 meters, and he looked like he was sixteen or seventeen years old. Although he was trained in the farm and factory this year, with the personal guidance of Jennings and others, he finally got started with breathing methods, and was promoted to a medium-level warrior student after entering winter.

Judging from the progress of promotion, he is better than Richard and William when they were young. After all, Philip is already the eldest son of the Duke, and his status is extraordinary. Even if he is mediocre in talent, the education he received and the resources he has are far more than Richard and William of similar age.

However, professional promotion is a long-term career, which requires decades or even hundreds of years of perseverance.

If you don't practice for a long time, your professional level will even degenerate. For example, Richard's second uncle Powell has not practiced breathing for more than 20 years, and his combat effectiveness is not as good as that of a high-level warrior student.

Richard read all the statistical reports, and then handed them to Philip, saying seriously: "You have to read these reports carefully, and you will have a general understanding of the territory after reading them. But if you want to manage the territory well, you can't just read the reports, you have to investigate and practice.

You must remember that you have no right to speak without investigation.

This year you have been to the farm and the factory successively. Before the holiday, you can go down and take a walk, take a look, and hand in a survey report to me. You have grown up, and you have to help me share some of the government affairs slowly."

After sending Philip away, Richard summoned Morgan, Jennings, Vito, Wendy, and Annie to the Duke's Mansion.

Richard politely asked the five people to sit down and bowed to them. In the eyes of everyone who was a little surprised, Richard slowly said: "Philip has been sent down to train for a year, and the effect is very obvious. Not only has he mastered the breathing method, but he has also been promoted to a medium-level soldier student in eight months. As his father, I want to thank you. It is because of your hard work that Philip has made such great progress.

Next year, I plan to let Philip go to the army for training. For the time being, I plan to train in the Levin Brigade for three years.

The reason why I let Philip go to the army for training is mainly to let him understand the thoughts of the soldiers and learn military experience. So he can't be floating on the surface, he must be like an ordinary soldier, and enter the real grassroots training.

Philip must receive actual combat training when he enters the army, but he must not be in danger of his life.

This balance is very difficult to grasp, I can only leave this difficult problem to you.

Jennings, after you go back, you will still serve as the commander of the Third Legion.

Morgan, I hope you give up the management of the territory and return to the Third Legion as the deputy commander, and concurrently serve as the commander of the Third Warcraft Cavalry Battalion. Philip is in the Third Legion, and it depends on you to take care of him.

As for Vito, please take care of Philip for a while.

Philip is relatively safe in the army. Wendy and Annie have stopped their magic research projects for a long time, so they don't need a substitute to protect him. I will let Bella and Harrison take care of Philip for a few years instead of you. "

Bella and Harrison are both magicians trained from Harland. Bella's talent is relatively better, and she is of the upper middle level like Wendy.

Although she is not as resourceful as Wendy, she has a better environment for learning magic than Wendy. She has been promoted to the fifth ring in thirteen years, almost catching up with Wendy's promotion speed. Bella is only twenty-seven years old. A fifth-ring magician of this age has the hope of breaking through the bottleneck of legend, and is considered an important figure in any magician organization.

In the Harland Mage Association, Bella has also received special attention. Attention. However, Bella's meditation method needs to be deduced from scratch. Now Richard is busy with affairs and has no time to deduce the meditation method. Bella and Butler can only rely on themselves. The two do not have the reference of the legendary fourth-level starlight breathing method, nor do they have the contribution to exchange for the legendary second-level death book. They don't even have the fourth meditation method used by the ogre meditation. In addition, their comprehension is not as good as Richard's, and it is very difficult to deduce the meditation method. It may take longer to be promoted in the future.

Harrison is the second-generation mage apprentice of Harland. He has been studying magic for sixteen years. Although he is of inferior talent, the elements His affinity is higher than Adrian and others, mainly because of his innate physical fitness and mental strength. If he had laid a good foundation since childhood, Harrison's elemental affinity could be comparable to that of a medium-level talent.

Harrison is already 32 years old and has just been promoted to the fourth level. The reason why he was promoted in his thirties is mainly because of his hard work, which is much harder than ordinary people.

Harrison has a strong character and can endure pain that ordinary people cannot endure. Ordinary people meditate for two hours a day, but he can meditate for about four to six hours. After sixteen years of persistence, Harrison has far surpassed his classmates. 's progress, and has taken a very solid step.

Bella and Harrison were both born into indentured slave families. Their fathers were purchased by Lord Harland and were the first batch of free people in the territory. The two were successively detected by Richard and Sophia as having magical talents, and became noble magicians, changing their class. They have a deep affection for Lord Harland and are very grateful to the respected lord from the bottom of their hearts.

Seeing that Richard personally assigned the task to the two, Bella and Harrison happily agreed to Richard's request. The two of them will be responsible for protecting Philip within three years.