Chapter 464 Laying a Solid Foundation
Harland has more than 10 million freemen, and the demand for education and medical departments is also extremely amazing.
Although the newly pardoned freemen were relatively poor in the first few years, the number of new students enrolled in the territory this year reached 80,000. 80,000 new students almost account for 60% of the level of the same age group.
After more than 20 years of development, the concept of reading and going to school has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Harland.
There are more than 80,000 new students enrolled in a year. From the 80,000 people, the Harland Mage Association has added more than 800 reserve members. According to statistics from the Mage Department, Harland now has more than 600 magicians and more than 3,600 apprentices. The foundation has become stronger and stronger. If it continues to develop for another five years, it will exceed the East Coast United Kingdom in scale and grow into the first among the eastern countries.
After years of hard work, Harland has trained more than 300,000 students who have received five years of basic education. This group of students who have received basic education are very adaptable to the industrialized society. Some of them have already reached important positions in Harland, and can be said to be the elite of Harland.
It is precisely because of this that the free people of the territory have personally experienced that reading and learning knowledge are very useful.
Today, Harland Territory has more than 300 primary schools, more than 50 middle schools, 12 high schools, and 8 technical colleges, with a total of more than 400,000 students.
When these 400,000 people enter society, the quality of the population will be further improved.
Although Richard and Sophia transferred a large number of magicians to the Red Moon Plane last year, the Harland Mage Association has made considerable progress in the research on elemental furnaces.
The first progress came from the Alloy Research Institute. After many experiments, they produced super-magic metals that are resistant to high temperatures and radiation.
This technology can be used on all furnaces, and it can be said to be the basic technology for whether the floating city can fly into the sky.
In the wizard civilization period, the Dawn Plane mastered the three manufacturing technologies of magic crystal furnace, element furnace, and eternal furnace. These three furnaces can be used to build interstellar battleships and floating cities. They were the most advanced technologies of wizard civilization at that time and represented the highest crystallization of wizard civilization in the Dawn Plane.
Unfortunately, after the Seven Gods Era, the magic civilization of the Dawn Plane declined severely. Now it is impossible to make the floating city fly into the sky, and it is impossible to make a powerful furnace.
Among the three magic furnaces, the magic crystal furnace has a relatively simple structure. As long as you master the high temperature resistance, radiation resistance technology, gravity well manufacturing technology, super large protective force field barrier and other pre-techniques, you will have a manufacturing foundation.
However, this furnace consumes too much. If you want to make the floating city fly high in the sky, you will inevitably consume millions of magic crystals. The annual maintenance cost is also an astronomical figure. Even the Holy Glorious Empire, the overlord of the Dawn Plane, finds it difficult to make up its mind to make a magic crystal furnace.
The structure of the element furnace is relatively complex. It is based on four element hearts and the magic energy conversion technology is the core. It consumes relatively less and is the most cost-effective furnace mastered by the Rule Wizard Organization at that time.
The manufacture of the eternal furnace is more complicated. You need to make an eternal heart first. The eternal heart needs to be transformed with the god core. If you want to get the god core, you need to kill a god or a powerful demigod creature first.
More than 20 years ago, Harland County discovered the remains of a floating city, and found many precious magic technologies from the remains, such as the manufacturing method of steel golems and energy-absorbing stones.
Even the manufacturing method of the elemental furnace is clear to Harland County.
In addition, by seizing the research materials of the Venus family, Harland County also mastered the manufacturing technology of artificial magic wells.
This is also a very high-end technology. The magic organizations in the entire Dawn Plane that have mastered the manufacturing technology of artificial magic wells, including Harland County and the Venus Family, are no more than five in total. It's just that Harland County happens to be in an area with a relatively high concentration of magic power and has many natural magic wells, which makes the artificial magic well technology seem a bit useless.
According to the information mastered by Harland County, four elemental hearts are needed to make an elemental furnace.
There are two types of elemental hearts. One is a natural elemental crystal, which is a very precious treasure in the magic world and is only produced in small quantities in the four major elemental planes. The other is the energy core of the legendary elemental lord. If you want to get it, you must kill the legendary elemental lord.
Now the channel from the Dawn Plane to the four elemental planes has been closed in the Seven Gods Era, causing spells such as summoning fire elements to become useless. Without the ability to operate across planes, it is impossible to get the heart of the element. Therefore, the prerequisites for the manufacturing technology of the elemental furnace are basically not met.
Now that Harland Territory has the ability to operate across planes, there are two channels to enter the alien plane, and the foundation of high temperature and radiation resistant materials has been laid. As long as the artificial gravity well, super-large protective barrier, magic energy conversion and other technologies are conquered, it can enter the four elemental planes through the Red Moon Plane, find a way to hunt down the elemental lords, and create an elemental furnace.
With these prerequisites met, Harland Territory has the technical foundation for manufacturing floating cities.
Now Harland Territory has the most in-depth research on magic energy conversion technology. Richard has read the report sent by the Harland Mage Association and is preparing to build a negative energy conversion furnace in Bolton Forest.
Building a negative energy conversion furnace requires an astronomical investment. First, he had to kill four legendary undead creatures and obtain four legendary soul crystals. He also had to use seven legendary extraordinary materials and a large amount of high temperature and radiation resistant metals. These resources would cost at least 20 to 30 million gold coins.
With the current economic development level of Harland, it is not enough to build an experimental energy conversion furnace, let alone an element furnace.
The most urgent task is not to be too ambitious, but to speed up economic development and have a stronger economic foundation.
In the 3279th year of the Dawn Calendar, Harland welcomed several good news. First, Richard's warrior level was promoted to the eighth level.
From the perspective of the warrior profession, Richard inherited his father William's talent, and his conditions were better than William's when he was young. He was promoted to the eighth level in his forties. But compared with Jennings, who is one in a million, the gap is obviously larger.
In January this year, Jennings successfully broke through the legendary realm. He chose a good time and found an opportunity that could help him break through the legendary realm.
At the commodity fair last year, a baron in a remote area took out a legendary magic plant, Tianjing Flower, and exchanged some extraordinary resources with Harland.
Harland is not unfamiliar with Tianjing Flower. William used the potion made from Tianjing Flower and the help of Water of Life to break through the legendary realm.
After getting the Sky Crystal Flower, Undine entrusted Sutton to take the Sky Crystal Flower into the Red Moon Plane and gave it to Sofia to successfully refine the Sky Crystal Potion.
With the resources to advance to Legend, the competition among the ninth-level professionals in Harland Territory was extremely fierce. Jennings, Wilde, Grumman, Terrason, and Rand all wanted to get this potion and break through the legendary realm. Even Richard's uncle Soros was a little tempted and wrote a letter to Richard. Uncle Bernie also gave in to his nephew and promised to serve Harland Territory after breaking through the legendary realm.
After years of development, Harland Territory already has ten ninth-level professionals. Except for Richard, Sofia, and Undine who are magicians, the remaining seven are eyeing the Sky Crystal Potion.
After all, after being promoted to Legend, not only will the career channel be opened, but the status will also be significantly different.
Among the seven warriors, Terrason is the eldest son of Viscount Romen, and Grumman and Rand are both vassals of Richard. They are relatively distant from the Harland family and are not the priority.
Although Wilde is a direct descendant promoted by Richard, he has been promoted to the ninth level for a short time, so there is no sufficient reason to leave the Tianjing Potion to him.
Jennings, Soros, and Bernie are all members of the Harland family. In terms of bloodline, Bernie is closest to Richard and is his uncle, Soros is his uncle, and Jennings is his cousin. But in terms of feelings, Soros is undoubtedly the closest to Richard.
After careful consideration, Richard's reason still overwhelmed his feelings and decided to leave the Tianjing Potion to Jennings, because the current situation in Harland is very much in need of legendary professionals to take charge.
Among the three people, Jennings has the highest probability of promotion. Because he has the best qualifications and is the youngest.
In order to avoid Soros and Bernie from feeling resentful, Richard wrote them a long letter respectively, explaining the reasons for such a decision.
Jennings spent all his accumulated merits and signed a twelve-year free service contract to successfully obtain this bottle of legendary potion. Relying on the power of the Sky Crystal Potion, he successfully promoted to the legendary realm.
Although Jennings' profession is a warrior, even if he is promoted to a legend, he is only slightly stronger than some powerful ninth-level knights. But after being promoted to a legend, he opened up a channel for him to continue to rise.
If a warrior is promoted to the fourth level of legend, the improvement of basic attributes alone is already very abnormal. The strength will reach 70 or 80 points, and the agility and physical strength will be close to 30 points. Coupled with a powerful legendary weapon, the destructive power is also very terrible, and the combat effectiveness will not be lower than that of the second-level legendary knight.
Comprehensively speaking, the status of a legendary warrior is still higher than that of a ninth-level knight, and can be compared with a nine-ring mage.
Shortly after Jennings was promoted to a legend, the situation in the Red Moon plane also changed slightly. Although Richard was determined to be stable and had no plans for too much expansion, last year's defeat still hit the Oro Empire hard. Not only did the legendary warriors die in the battle, but the casualties of the army also exceeded 20,000.
Seeing that the Red Moon Goddess had no further oracle and the fleet of the Holy Light Empire was eyeing it, the Oro Empire had already planned to withdraw its troops.
From last winter to now, the Oro Empire has withdrawn 40,000 troops to the Hagen Continent, and the two legendary warriors have disappeared from the front line.
Without the support of the Oro Empire's 100,000 troops, the strength comparison on the front line has obviously changed.
After entering the 3279th year of the Dawn Calendar, the Red Moon Church gave up the Aolaer Castle and chose to level the front line.
Richard did not choose to divide his troops to occupy it because of the insufficient military strength of Harland. However, the Red Moon Church gave up the Aolaer Castle, and the buffer zone area between the two sides increased greatly, which was undoubtedly a good thing for Richard, who was focused on defense.
Seeing that the situation on the front line was stabilizing, the Holy Light Empire handed over more than 100,000 square kilometers of land to Richard. This part of the land is basically behind Richard's garrison and has a population of more than 800,000.
More than two years after entering the Red Moon plane, Harland has controlled about 200,000 square kilometers of land and manages a population of 1.2 million.
The social structure of the Red Moon Plane is similar to that of the Dawn Plane, and it still has a traditional feudal system. Because of the Red Moon Goddess, both the Holy Light Empire and the Dawn Papal State are very cautious about the Red Moon natives. High-ranking officials and nobles are basically colonists, and the local natives are almost all serfs.
In fact, five hundred years ago, the Dawn Papal State did not discriminate against the Red Moon natives, and enfeoffed many Red Moon native nobles. Even the warrior breathing method was spread to the Red Moon plane by the Dawn Church and taught to the native nobles. Unfortunately, in the turmoil that broke out five hundred years ago, most of the native nobles were actually secret believers of the Red Moon Goddess.
After this turmoil, the natives of the Red Moon plane lost the trust of the Dawn Papal State. Now, the Red Moon natives who can stand out in the Dawn Papal State are some mixed-race people, except for a few hardcore supporters.
Although Richard controls more than one million people, 99% of them are serfs with no consumption ability.
In order to turn this part of the population into a consumer population, it is necessary not only to make some changes in the system, but also to develop the economy. The pure serf population is of no use to Harland Territory except for providing cannon fodder.
After Richard gained a firm foothold in the Red Moon Plane, he issued an amnesty decree. All the natives who joined the army of Harland were pardoned as freemen, and their direct families were distributed with land and houses. In addition, Richard also gave the natives of the Red Moon Plane a higher military pay. As long as they completed the recruit training, the initial military pay was about four silver coins a month.
As combat skills and professional levels improve, there will be higher subsidies.
Under various policies, the soldiers are already very motivated.
Although the Red Moon Plane is a super-magic plane with real gods, 99% of this plane are religious believers, but 90% of the believers are shallow believers.
The faith of shallow believers is not pious, and it is easy to be pulled away by external material conditions.
Moreover, a considerable number of the natives recruited by Richard are believers of the Dawn Goddess. The Red Moon Church cannot openly preach within the sphere of influence of the Dawn Papal State. Some soldiers who believe in the Red Moon Goddess are also secret believers hidden in the dark.
Whether it is the Dawn Papal State or Harland, the punishment for secret believers is extremely severe. In the short term, Richard was not worried that the Red Moon Church would use the power of faith to pull the native soldiers away.
After February, a soldier suddenly came to report that a legendary monster was found in the mountains south of Aular Castle.