Chapter 89 Intelligence Officer

Although he was busy every day, Richard still practiced hard every day.

No matter how tight the time was, he never stopped practicing breathing in the morning and meditation at night.

One year after the war ended, Richard's experience increased a lot, and he opened the attribute panel.

In more than a year, although Richard did not advance in his professional level, he gained more than 15,000 experience points in breathing.

In addition, in the past year, Richard spent a lot of time learning magic.

Especially after marrying Sofia, the two had the same hobbies. Under Sofia's guidance, Richard learned a variety of magic and his strength increased significantly.

In March this year, Wendy's professional level was also upgraded by one level.

Without taking any potions to increase mental power, Wendy's magic level was upgraded to the second level at the age of 18. Even if Wendy's talent was not as good as Sofia's, it could be called excellent.

Although swordsmanship and fighting skills can be advanced, Richard wants to save some experience.

Meditation experience is the most difficult to increase, and Richard wants to use the experience in meditation.

In the past year, two more people in the Harland Territory have been promoted to professionals.

Both of them are veterans who have participated in the war, one is named Perrin and the other is named Julian.

After becoming professionals, Richard promoted them to middle-level officers in the territory.

Including the squadron reorganized from the mercenaries under Soros and the squadron in the Sofia Territory, the Harland family now has a total of six infantry squadrons and two trebuchet squadrons.

The trebuchet squadrons are all auxiliary soldiers. Except for the state of war, they train for three months a year, and each freeman auxiliary soldier receives a gold coin allowance a year.

However, there are only a few excellent trebuchets among the auxiliary soldiers, who were promoted to freemen by Richard. The annual military pay does not exceed thirty gold coins, which can be almost ignored.

The infantry squadron is a standing army.

Among them, the sixth squadron belongs to Soros and Kent, father and son.

Richard has discussed with his uncle Soros that if Soros becomes a hereditary baron, he will take the sixth squadron away.

The fifth squadron is the garrison of Stopa Territory, and the squadron leader is Sofia's uncle Vito.

The first and second squadrons are the old troops of Harland Territory, and the squadron leaders are still Martin and Heyman.

Deputy squadron leader Richard appointed Perrin and Julian.

The third squadron was established nine months ago and has completed the recruit training. The squadron leader is Alvis and the deputy squadron leader is Jennings.

The fourth squadron has just started to be organized and is undergoing recruit training. The squadron leader is Bradrick and the deputy squadron leader is Vincent. Among them, Bradrick's professional level has been advanced to the third level.

The use of heavy trebuchets played a decisive role in the orc invasion war last year.

Relying on this new weapon, the Kingdom of Grant won two major battles.

Count Martins even used the heavy trebuchet as bait to kill the legendary orc, and the strategic situation has changed slightly.

Even if the news of the Dawn Continent spreads slowly, the heavy trebuchet has also been heard by the nobles.

Recently, the nobles nearby have sent people to the Harland Territory to gather intelligence.

Richard has a strong sense of confidentiality. The auxiliary squadron equipped with heavy catapults has not been disbanded and has been stationed in Fort William.

There are no foreign freemen in Fort William now, and the garrison and their families live there.

Richard also formulated the Lord's Decree, prohibiting random migration within the territory and restricting the flow of population.

The closed social environment makes it difficult for outsiders to hide, which is very eye-catching.

Recently, Richard has caught a lot of spies.

Although they were demoted to slaves, this still couldn't stop the nobles from constantly probing.

Out of helplessness, Richard could only strengthen confidentiality propaganda.

Most hereditary nobles have secret intelligence forces, which are generally under the control of intelligence adjutants.

Intelligence is a very important force for the nobles and is not suitable for outsiders to manage.

After Richard, Sophia, and William discussed, they decided to hand it over to Richard's brother Hayden.

After several years of military training, Hayden finally opened the seed of life not long ago and became a first-level professional.

After becoming a professional, Hayden had just been promoted to the rank of deputy squadron leader of the 6th Squadron of the 8th Battalion of the Mad Lion Legion, and he would partner with Richard's old comrade Diara.

But after William talked to him, Hayden gave up his future in the army and decided to serve as a territory intelligence officer.

After Hayden took office, he removed 15 soldiers from the main squadron, and then recruited some smart people from the slaves to establish the intelligence agency of the Harland Territory.

With the intelligence department, the efficiency of catching spies is faster. Harden sent people to watch in factories, mines, and castles. As long as they were strangers, they would be arrested. These people were often spies.

Despite being arrested, the nobles nearby still did not give up and sent spies to the Harland Territory.

There are many things that need to be kept secret in the territory, such as steel mills, brick kilns, and brown sugar tree plantations. Any leakage of technology will cause great losses to the Harland Territory.

Even if Richard sent garrisons to protect it, there is still a risk of leakage over time.

In order to avoid trouble, Richard asked someone to convey a message to the nobles behind him, saying that he was willing to exchange the heavy trebuchet blueprints.

At this time, the Grant royal family also publicly promised that they were willing to exchange the heavy trebuchet blueprints with the nobles in the territory.

After taking both approaches, Richard's territory was able to reduce trouble.

Recently, more than 100 nobles in the three provinces of the northern border have almost all sent spies to the Harland territory.

In just two or three months, more than 300 spies were caught, which shows the trouble caused by the leakage of heavy catapults.

Another reason why there are so many spies in the Harland territory is that its strength is average. If the Harland family is a hereditary earl, most of the viscounts and barons would not dare to send spies to cause trouble for themselves.

Richard hates spies very much. He demoted all these spies to slaves and would never pardon them in his life.

Richard plans to use this batch of slaves in the mines.

The work in the mines is very dangerous and difficult, just right for these spies to do.

Most of the people responsible for mining now are orc slaves. Mix spies with orc slaves, let the orcs punish the spies, and then publicize it.

I hope to deter these messy foreign spies.

Fortunately, the Harland territory is a new territory with only a few free people.

Many places are protected by garrisons, such as brick kilns and steel mills. If there are outsiders breaking in, they will be arrested immediately by the garrisons.

If a few years pass, a large number of contract slaves become free people, and the territory is full of small vendors, it will be difficult for spies to identify them.

The heavy catapult drawings in the hands of the royal family are clearly marked with a price, and can be exchanged for one thousand gold coins.

Some nobles in the northern border dislike the high price, and they have a second choice, so they sent people to negotiate with the Harland family.