Lord Harland

Chapter 42 Territorial Development
Li Cha successfully built a brick kiln and began to hurry up to build a brick house.

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

In addition, there are more than a dozen masons among the slaves. With these people as the backbone, Li Cha formed a construction team.

A construction team of hundreds of people was active throughout Harland's territory, forming the prototypes of villages.

On the side of the second uncle Powell, a large number of wooden houses were also built.

Timber is a very important resource in life. Harland Territory lacks living materials, but there is no shortage of wood.

Dozens of wooden houses have been built over Fort William.

In winter, if everyone squeezes together, it can accommodate about 1000 slaves.

According to the schedule, the slaves will have houses to live in this winter.

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

Following a benevolent and kind lord, even though the daily work is very hard, the slaves have expectations in their hearts.

After half a year of hard work, the territory of the Harland family has changed drastically.

Although the physical rules of Chenxi Continent are different, Li Cha still established some basic industries in the territory.

Brick kilns, cement kilns, lime kilns, and wood drying kilns were put into operation one after another.

Both summer grain and autumn grain have achieved good harvests.

This year, the Harland family invested 1 gold coins, reclaimed 940 hectares of farmland, harvested 300 tons of grain, and built more than [-] houses.In addition, there is a brick kiln, a cement kiln, a lime kiln, and a wood drying kiln.

It's just that most of the materials produced by the kiln are used inside the territory and have not been exchanged for 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 accelerate.

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

After entering the winter, the slaves still need to brave the cold winter to work and continue to burn bricks.

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

Normally, for a hereditary family that has just obtained a fiefdom, the construction of the castle needs to last for more than ten years.

To develop an uninhabited barony, invest [-] gold coins, and the territory will break even.

You need to keep throwing money at it until you break even.Newly promoted nobles with little wealth often can't last that long.

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

There are many second-generation brothers, some join the army and some make money.Consolidate the foundation as much as possible and accumulate various resources.

In the third generation, there is a leader with outstanding ability who joins the main army and makes military exploits before he can be promoted to the hereditary noble and complete the change of status.

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

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

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

The traverser Li Cha brought some advanced knowledge, developed some basic industries, increased productivity, and accelerated the development of the territory.

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

But electromagnetism and quantum mechanics cannot copy the experience on the earth because of the magic factor involved.

If he wants to study the scientific laws of this world, Li Cha's accumulated knowledge is still a little short, and he doesn't have the basic conditions.You can only wait for the knowledge reserve to increase in the future, and you will have more powerful magic methods.Using the materialistic scientific view formed by the education in the previous life, there should be some discoveries.

A normal newly promoted baronial territory, reaching the level of development of the Harland family, should accumulate for seven or eight years.

Time flies by, and in a blink of an eye, it has entered March in 3254 of the Dawn Calendar.

After a year of operation, Harland's territory has changed drastically. It was still barren in March last year. Now six gathering places have been formed, and many beautiful and sturdy brick buildings have been built.

There are already many people living in the territory of more than 1000 square kilometers.

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

More than [-] women became pregnant last year, almost 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, the Harland Territory still needs to continue to cultivate farmland.

Last year, [-] hectares of paddy fields were reclaimed, and this year the number of paddy fields reclaimed is slightly less.

Richard plans to reclaim 600 hectares. If the harvest is also good this year, Harland Territory can sell [-] tons of grain.

Grain prices in the Kingdom of Grant are not very expensive, and one copper coin can buy [-] kilograms of grain.

One gold coin can buy 540 kilograms of grain. In normal years, grain prices will not fluctuate more than 20.00%.

More than 600 tons of grain, enough to exchange for 1200 gold coins, can pay off some of the debts owed.

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

When the farming is over, Richard plans to build brick houses in Fort William, and strives to repair all the houses within three years.

After the slaves regained their status as freedmen, they sold the house to the locals on loan.

Some house payments can be recovered every year, and it is also a lot of money under the long stream.

This year, Li Cha is also planning to build several small reservoirs, in addition to building a few simple roads.

Taking advantage of the fact that slaves have not become free people, the cost of using it is low, and the infrastructure construction should be done as well as possible.

On March [-]th, spring plowing begins.

Richard and Powell took three contract slaves, controlled the iron wildebeest, and reclaimed wasteland.

These three indentured slaves were all professionals under the command of the slave merchant, and Richard set a ransom of 300 gold coins.

Their family didn't have that much money, and the slave merchants were unwilling to pay the ransom for them, so they could only become indentured slaves of the Harland family, and they had to work for the Harland family for ten years.

Two of the three contract slaves were low-ranking officers captured by the Delong Kingdom, and one was a low-ranking officer from the private army of hereditary nobles.

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

Now these three people are all appointed by Li Cha as deputy squadron leaders to assist the retired officers invited by William.

William recruited more than 20 backbones from the wounded and retired soldiers of the Northern Army.

Several of these demobilized injuries are also professionals.

The strongest two are Tier [-] professionals.He once served as the squadron leader of the Northern Legion, whose names were Martin and Heyman.

Both had minor physical disabilities, one was blind in one eye, and the other was missing two fingers.Cannot draw the bowstring.

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

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

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

Their salary is four gold coins a month, which is slightly lower than in the regular army.

A senior squadron leader of the Northern Legion, his monthly salary is about five gold coins and four silver dollars.

Just after Christmas this year, William also recruited a heavyweight to join the territory. This person is Roland, whom Richard is familiar with.

Roland was missing a leg. Although it was inconvenient to move, he was still appointed by William as the chief trainer of the soldiers in the territory.

(End of this chapter)