Lord Harland

Chapter 46 Petrification

The planning of Fort William was mainly based on Richard's opinion, with the consent of family members, and the construction process was mainly supervised by his second uncle Powell.

After the city wall was completed, the construction of the Baron's Palace began.

It will take about three years until the fortifications of the three cities in East and West are completed.

After receiving the books from Li Cha, Sophia didn't care much at first,
After teaching the breathing method to several literate slave soldiers, Sophia appointed these literate soldiers as officers.

She has no military knowledge, and although she really wants to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, she has nowhere to start.

In the end, only an uncle of the Stopa family could be found and appointed as the commander.

Then hand over the craft book to the housekeeper in charge of production, and enter into magic learning by yourself.

If you want to gain a foothold in northern Xinjiang, strength is fundamental.

Leaving Makholm, the magical kingdom, it is already difficult for Sophia to communicate with others in terms of magic.

But she was born in the Baron Stopa family, and her father and elder brother instilled in her aristocratic education since she was a child.

Without the protection of the Stopa family, it would be impossible for her to learn magic carefree and well-clothed.

Now the Stopa family needs her strength, and the brothers are weeping and pleading.

Sophia had no choice but to leave Makholm, sold her unique magic knowledge, and returned to Vicburg with more than 2 gold coins to build the territory from scratch.

Suddenly one day, Sophia picked up the advanced algebra written by Richard himself.

Seeing this, Sophia was taken aback. She had never seen the content inside, and her knowledge was very in-depth.

After only reading two or three pages, I figured out a point of knowledge and many doubts about magic, and Sophia immediately solved them.

In just two months, she improved three new magic patterns, which is equivalent to creating a new spell.

Create new magic, and the magic factor will give feedback.

During this period of time, a new magic was successfully created. Sophia's meditation effect was particularly good, and she successfully advanced to a five-ring magician.

After five years of studying magic in Makholm, Sophia only raised one level.

The learning of magic becomes more and more difficult, especially the accumulation and innovation of knowledge, which is a test of a magician's talent.

It costs a lot of money to learn any kind of knowledge, especially the magic knowledge unique to some powerful magicians.

During the five years in Makholm, Sophia participated in seven adventures, found more than a dozen magic materials, and only exchanged for three kinds of relatively precious magic knowledge.

These three kinds of precious magical knowledge are far inferior to the advanced algebra sent by Richard.

While Richard was busy on the embankment, Sophia personally came to Harland's territory and asked him about advanced algebra.

At the same time, he answered some questions about learning magic for Li Cha, and asked Li Cha to copy many spells he knew.

As the two communicated, they felt that they had gained a lot. After a while, Li Cha asked his younger sister Wendy to join in the exchange.

Wendy advanced to become a ring magician in April, and soon learned petrification

The petrification technique is a ring of magic that Sophia asked Richard to copy. This magic is generally powerful in war. To turn living creatures into stones requires very strong spiritual power.

Sophia has personally calculated that even a magician with four rings can only turn an ordinary person into stone if he puts all his mental power into it.

If the natural magic resistance is strong, a sixth-level magician may not be able to kill the opponent with petrification.

But petrification is especially suitable for building various buildings.

This spell can easily turn sand and dirt into stone.

In key load-bearing places, use petrification to integrate the stones in the building.Especially for the construction of support columns, having a magician to help can save a lot of effort.

Richard sent Wendy to Fort William and asked her to help build various buildings. The addition of Wendy, a magician, accelerated the construction of the castle.

Sophia lived in Harland's territory for four months, entered July, and had mastered advanced algebra before returning to Vickburg reluctantly.

And Li Cha and his younger sister Wendy copied sixteen spells from Sophia.

Counting the thirteen spells that have been mastered, the Harland family collection has accumulated nearly thirty spells.

Although most of them are low-level magic below the third ring, they are already very good among wild magicians.

Many nobles do not have magician inheritance, even the powerful Baron Harden family is no exception.

It was a coincidence that Sophia obtained the magic book. Not every baron has the opportunity to collect magic books.

Seeing that the effect of petrification is so good, Li Cha also mastered this spell after two months of study.

With the help of their brothers and sisters, the main project of the Baron's castle has been completed before winter, and the rest is decoration.

Harland's territory still had a bumper harvest this year, harvesting 1800 tons of grain.

The yield per mu is slightly higher than last year.

But the most fertile and most easily exploitable lands have largely been reclamated.The rest of the paddy fields need to set up water trucks and build canals to complete irrigation.

The waterwheel needs to be built before October, otherwise it will be delayed until next year when the heavy snow falls.

In the spring of next year, the farmland will not be irrigated, and the reclaimed farmland will also delay the farming season and affect agricultural production.

Of the 1800 tons of grain, 800 tons were left as rations for slaves, [-] tons were stored in Fort William, and the remaining [-] tons were ready to be sold to Fort Heihe.

Li Cha doesn't want to sell food, but the territory lacks gold coins now.It can only rely on borrowing to survive, and this is not the way to go. Food is already the most suitable wealth in Harland's territory.

But in order to transport the grain out, nearly [-] kilometers of roads need to be built.

Roads have to be built, and waterwheels have to be built.

The climate in northern Xinjiang was cold, and the slaves did not have enough clothes to keep out the cold, so they could only work for about a month.

In one month, even if all the slaves were asked to build roads, it would be difficult to build [-] kilometers of roads.

So Richard planned to store the grain for one year, put it in the warehouse of Fort William, and lead the slaves to build waterwheels.

In the second year after obtaining the fiefdom, the Harland family still had no income.Some are still a steady stream of expenditures.

Fortunately, the investment this year is much less than last year.

Food is already self-sufficient, and bricks, timber, lime, and cement can all be produced by themselves.Occasionally, some prey can be found in the forest.

The main purchases were cloth, salt, metal tools, needles and thread, and some medicines to treat diseases.

This year's expenditure adds up to about 4000 gold coins, basically spent on cloth and salt.

The Harland family invested 12000 gold coins in the first year, and 4000 gold coins in the second year.

There is only input but no output, and the funds of the Harland family have become somewhat unbearable.

There is not much liquidity left, and a lot of debts have been carried.

In the past two years, the slaves have given birth to more than 500 people, the baby boom has appeared in the territory, and the labor efficiency of women has been affected.

If there are still major projects next year, more slaves will need to be purchased to increase the population.

In order to increase income and reduce expenditure, Li Cha built a glass kiln and planned to sell glass products to make some money.

The province of Gerda already has a good glass-burning technology. The glass produced by Viscount Luomen has monopolized the glass market in the province and can earn a lot of gold coins every year.

But without a qualified glassmaker, Li Cha underestimated the difficulty of burning glass.

Although it is simple to burn glass, it is not easy to burn transparent glass without impurities, and it is necessary to sum up a lot of techniques.

The glass kiln established by Li Cha almost sums up experience from scratch, and can produce qualified glass. I don't know how long it will take?
(End of this chapter)