Chapter 329 Year-End Summary

Hearing Richard's request, Salamo looked embarrassed.

"My Lord, the new alloy chain gold furnace uses a special magic circle. If you want to expand the scale, you need to redesign it. This is undoubtedly a big project. I am afraid it will take a long time to succeed."

"This matter will be handed over to your project team. If it doesn't work, cut some unimportant projects from it and transfer people from other project teams. Although the new alloy has good performance, only by increasing production and equipping more soldiers can the combat effectiveness of the army be improved and play a greater role."

Richard inspected the Alloy Research Institute for a whole day, had dinner with Salamo and other meritorious researchers, held a simple party, and returned home late at night.

It's the end of the year, and the territory needs to do this year's statistics and next year's budget.

Although there is a war this year, the war has not affected the level of economic development in Harland. After all, the war did not burn to Harland, and the four-province coalition army reaped a lot in the Kingdom of Delong. The gold coins seized are enough for Richard to pay salaries and reward merits.

According to household registration statistics, the population of Harland Territory has reached 1.4 million this year, ranking sixth among the eight duchies, surpassing Fox and Guise.

The population statistics of most nobles in the Kingdom of Grant are very rough. In most cases, the castle bureaucrats go to the villages to ask and get a rough number, which is summed up by adding up the numbers of each castle and region. Unless there is a strict household registration system like Harland Territory, and there are enough bureaucrats to manage the household registration, a roughly accurate population figure can be obtained.

A population of 1.4 million is roughly equivalent to the population level of a small prefecture-level city in the previous life. However, the area of ​​Harland Territory is equivalent to that of a small province. Generally speaking, the population is sparse, the development level is low, and a large amount of land is barren mountains and wilderness.

Including the 60,000 freemen in East Grota County, there are already 440,000 freemen in Harland Territory.

After taking East Grota County, the officials of Harland Territory made new adjustments to the cultivated land, distributing part of the land directly under the royal family to some freemen who lacked land, so that their cultivated land reached the level of six acres per capita.

The two banks of the Grotta River are located on the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains. Generally speaking, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are far more arable land than people. Distributing land to local freemen can not only win the hearts of the people, but also quickly increase the level of taxation.

After the exchange of territories was completed, it was already September, the autumn harvest had been completed, and the grain tax was also being paid. After the exchange of territories was completed, the royal bureaucrats took away the floating wealth. This year, more than 60,000 local freemen only contributed about 5,000 gold coins in taxes to the Haland Territory, which was at a relatively low level.

The other 380,000 freemen are the elderly in the Haland Territory. They contribute more grain taxes. The average land tax alone can reach three silver coins per person, adding up to a total of 95,000 gold coins in taxes.

This year, the land tax alone received 100,000 gold coins, plus commercial taxes, tariffs, property taxes, installment purchase payments and other miscellaneous taxes, taxes alone received 143,000 gold coins.

By next year, the 60,000 freemen in East Grotta County will be integrated into the Haland Territory, and can contribute at least 25,000 gold coins in taxes.

Besides, next year is a big year for converting freemen. It has been five years since the battle for the throne of Grand Duchy of Stannic. About 240,000 people will be allocated land a few months in advance and converted into freemen. The land tax brought by these freemen is also 60,000 gold coins.

According to the territory's estimate, the land tax next year will exceed 180,000 gold coins. In addition to various miscellaneous taxes, the tax alone can support more than 10,000 soldiers.

This year, the northern border area has good weather and a good harvest overall. The mining volume of natural potash fertilizer in Harland has increased to tens of thousands of tons, and the average per-acre yield has increased to 200 kilograms.

Including East Grota County, the cultivated land area of ​​Harland has exceeded 8 million acres, and the overall grain output may exceed 800,000 tons. According to estimates, about 30% of the grain is scattered in the hands of freemen.

According to statistics, by the end of the year, the grain reserves in the territory's grain depot exceeded 500,000 tons.

Richard asked Borien, who is in charge of the agricultural system, that this year the grain harvest ratio of Harland Territory has reached 12 to 1, which has been raised to a very high level.

The Haland Territory has always attached great importance to the level of agricultural development. Every year, it draws contract slaves to repair reservoirs and carry out water conservancy projects.

Richard also attaches great importance to breeding. Sophia has a group of magicians who study breeding. Over the years, there have been some results. The wheat seeds have been improved, and the wheat yield has increased by about 8%.

In addition, the Haland Territory has discovered natural potash fertilizer mines, and with the large-scale use of farmyard manure, this year the average yield per mu has finally exceeded 200 kilograms.

Compared with other areas in the northern border, the average yield per mu of cultivated land in the Haland Territory has increased by about 30%.

Although there are 500,000 tons of grain in the granary, Richard now needs to feed one million contract slaves. Even if the average contract slave consumes 450 kilograms of grain, it will take 225,000 tons in total. Moreover, next year, wasteland will continue to be reclaimed, and 75,000 tons of grain will be left.

Now the Haland Territory has a total of 43,000 regular troops, more than 30,000 second-line troops such as auxiliary troops and security troops, and needs to consume 35,000 tons of military rations.

Harland had only two cavalry battalions, and the army owned more than 8,000 war horses and pack horses. As the saying goes, one horse is worth three soldiers. Even if pack horses consume less food and mainly rely on fodder, the total amount of food consumed by war horses and pack horses is about 10,000 tons.

In addition, Harland Territory also has 1,000 Warcraft horses. Warcraft horses have a very large appetite. One Warcraft horse consumes about the same amount of food as ten soldiers. 1,000 Warcraft horses consume about 5,000 tons of food each year.

In addition to leaving rations for contract slaves, military rations, and next year's grain, brewing also requires 6,000 tons of food, plus the 80,000 tons of grain stored in the territory to prevent natural disasters.

Although there are 500,000 tons of inventory, only 60,000 tons and 4,000 tons of food can actually be used.

Richard sold part of this part of the grain through the Black River Fort Grain Station to the citizens of Black River Fort, and part of it to Vera and other merchants from the Grand Duchy of Stannic.

This year, the drought in the Grand Duchy of Stannic lasted for a long time, the affected area was very large, and the disaster was also serious. After the autumn harvest, the grain merchants of the Grand Duchy of Stannic were everywhere in the northern border.

Today, the commercial interests in the northern border area are controlled by two gangs, one is the merchants of the Goddess of Wealth Church represented by Vera, and the other is the Chamber of Commerce Flame Dragon directly controlled by Duke Jonathan.

The Flame Dragon Chamber of Commerce is an official merchant of the Grand Duchy of Stanik. The Jonathan family holds 55% of the shares, and the other 35% is the direct vassal who supports Duke Jonathan. The remaining 10% is reserved for the management of caravans in various places.

Because Stanik has a very strong purchase of grain, although the grain harvest in the northern border is good, the market is still in short supply and the grain price has also increased. The 64,000 tons of grain sold by Harland County was quickly sold out.

This batch of grain brought Richard 150,000 gold coins in total.

This year, the vitality of animal husbandry began to recover. Last year, the Losa Basin was conquered, tens of thousands of sheep-bodied people were captured, and the number of slaves grazing sheep increased greatly. This year, the scale of the official ranch in Harland County has exceeded the level of its heyday.

The number of stocks in the official ranch exceeds 2 million, and the number of slaughtered is also 1.8 million. On the contrary, the private breeders have not recovered from the heavy losses caused by the sheep plague a few years ago. Except for a small number of professional breeders, there are not many people raising sheep in the private sector.

The output of 1.8 million sheep has exceeded the market consumption level of Harland Territory.

Although Harland Territory has expanded its military on a large scale this year, the military consumption has increased greatly, and the government has also increased orders, provided benefits to civil servants, and increased mutton to the families of injured and dead soldiers, and 800,000 sheep have been consumed.

The remaining one million sheep cannot be digested in the market at all, and there are also sheep raised by the public competing with the official.

Now that the Iron Lion and Grizzly Legions have gone south, the Northern Xinjiang region has lost about 40,000 families with consumption power, which has a very serious impact on the economy of the four provinces in the Northern Xinjiang. Following the main legion to the south, there are also their direct families, which has disappeared more than 200,000 people with consumption power.

If Harland had not added 110,000 free people, expanded the domestic demand market, and sold goods to the newly established provinces in the south, the economy would have been seriously affected.

One million sheep, relying on the two major markets of Harland Territory and Northern Xinjiang, only 200,000 were sold. The remaining 800,000 Richard could only send people to drive the sheep to Nolan and the southern provinces.

On the way south, you need to pass through a lot of noble lands, and you need to coordinate and pay taxes every time you pass through a noble territory.

Richard was promoted to Duke, and he made a great reputation in the Kingdom of Grant. The great nobles gave him face, and the small nobles did not want to offend Duke Harland. The transit tax along the way was greatly reduced, and it was profitable to sell sheep in the south.

Although 800,000 sheep were sold for 80,000 gold coins, various transit taxes along the way paid 34,000 gold coins. In order to protect the flock, Richard also sent more than 3,000 shepherds and a brigade of soldiers. These people spent a month on the road, and the messy expenses also consumed 6,000 gold coins.

In addition to consumption, animal husbandry brought 60,000 gold coins of pure profit to the territory this year.

Because of the invention of the steam engine, the steel industry in Harland Territory has developed very rapidly, and this year's steel production has increased to 15,000 tons. There are more than 5,000 workers in steel mills and rolling mills.

As steel production increased by 60%, the price of steel continued to fall, and the price of one kilogram of steel in Williamburg was reduced to five copper coins. Due to the surge in steel production in Harland Territory, the price of iron in the northern border area also fell sharply, and the price of iron in Heihe Fort even fell to six copper coins per kilogram.

When Harland Territory was just established more than a decade ago, the price of one kilogram of steel was as high as one silver coin. Equipping hundreds of soldiers with iron gun heads would make Richard feel heavy pressure.

Although the production capacity of 15,000 tons of steel is large, it is still far from enough compared to the market demand of millions of people nearby. Even if the price is reduced, the sales of steel this year has exceeded 210,000 gold coins.

Because of the large-scale use of orc slaves for mining, the labor cost is reduced, and steel products bring Harland Territory a profit of 180,000 gold coins.

With the recovery of the scale of animal husbandry, the production capacity of the wool spinning market is still increasing rapidly. This year, the production of woolen cloth has increased by 40%, and the price has also increased slightly compared with last year, bringing a total profit of 48,000 gold coins to Harland Territory.

The profit of brown sugar trade is still expanding. This year, the production of brown sugar in Harland Territory exceeds 5,000 tons.

According to the sales data of the territory, each freeman consumes five kilograms of brown sugar per year on average. The domestic market alone consumes two thousand tons of brown sugar per year.

The remaining three thousand tons of production capacity, five hundred tons are used by the military and government departments, and the remaining two thousand five hundred tons can only rely on the external market. In addition to the traditional northern border market, the Norland market, the Grand Duchy of Stannic market, and the newly occupied southern market have also been opened up.

Throughout the year, the brown sugar industry brought Harland a profit of 60,000 gold coins.

Nowadays, the price of brown sugar has dropped to five copper coins per kilogram in Harland Territory. It is no longer considered a luxury product and has entered thousands of free people's households.

Another important income for Harland Leader this year is coinage income. After Richard was promoted to earl, Harland Leader discovered copper mines and began to accelerate the development of Tongshan Town.

In recent years, the mint has been focusing on researching the technical level of minting coins.

Minting currency is not an easy task. The quality of the currency minted by the mint in the past few years was very low, and Richard has not allowed it to be circulated on a large scale. With the invention of the steam engine, Harland invented a new stamping machine, and fine coins began to circulate in the territory this year.

In the first year alone, the casting of copper coins brought Harland a profit of 60,000 gold coins. In addition, silver mines were discovered in the Losa Basin. Although silver mines are very difficult to mine and smelt, the casting of silver coins also brought 30,000 gold coins to the territory. profit.

The two mints operated for a year, bringing Harland a profit of ninety thousand gold coins.

Minting a large amount of coins did not bring inflation to the territory, but instead alleviated the money shortage and played an important role in economic development.

The magic crystal charging efficiency has not improved this year, and the three mage towers have brought Harland a profit of 28,000 gold coins.

After controlling the Lothar Basin and blocking several important passages, the central area of ​​the Eagle Mountains fell under the control of Harland. This year, Harland led the demon hunting team to hunt more than a dozen monsters and captured more than 30. Iron Horned Horse's most important achievement was the successful hunting of a seventh-level bipedal flying dragon. In addition to the rewards given to the demon hunting team, it brought a total of 23,000 gold coins to the territory.

The arms trade is also an important source of income for the Harland Territory. This year, it sold 4,000 alchemical bombs, 1,600 collar armors, and 120 searing ray guns. Excluding costs, it brought about 54,000 gold coins to the territory. profit.

This year, new products appeared in Harland, and the most profitable one was porcelain. Because of Richard's low-price dumping policy and the domestic demand market, the income from porcelain brought a net profit of 28,000 gold coins to Harland.

In the past, those who sold porcelain in the Grant Kingdom were large multinational chambers of commerce. Such large multinational chambers of commerce were very powerful and would share part of the profits with the Grant royal family.

The multinational chamber of commerce has complex equity interests. It controls the trade routes from the Holy Glorious Empire to the Eastern Kingdom, monopolizes the goods sold by the Holy Glorious Empire, and deals in high-value commodities such as antiques, porcelain, silk, magic crystals, potions, and extraordinary items.

There are only two multinational chambers of commerce active in Grant Kingdom, one is called Fanxing Chamber of Commerce and the other is called Cangqing Chamber of Commerce. According to Richard's estimation, these two chambers of commerce can sell about a few hundred pieces of porcelain every year, with a sales volume of 30%. Between forty thousand gold coins.

The porcelain business is also a huge profit for them.

If it weren't for Harland's strength and Richard's fame in the Grant Kingdom, Harland's porcelain business would have been targeted by the multinational chamber of commerce.

Although the multinational chamber of commerce is very powerful, it has mercenaries with strong combat capabilities under its command, and there are also legendary powerful people as backers. After all, it is a dragon in the Grant Kingdom.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm the local snakes. The current strength of the Harland Leader is somewhat stronger than that of the local snakes in the Grant Kingdom. Even if the power of a multinational chamber of commerce is concentrated, it may not be able to defeat the Harland Leader.

Although the porcelain business has been affected, with profits of 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins lost every year, the two major multinational chambers of commerce have not issued any statement, nor have they targeted Harland.

With the expansion of the market, the soap and toilet soap business has also increased profits, because the animal husbandry industry has developed well, animal fat raw materials have increased significantly, and the production of soap and toilet soap has expanded its production capacity.

This year, Richard led his troops to the south, and along with Harland's goods, he entered the south and captured a new market. The soap and soap business brought Richard a profit of 36,000 gold coins.

The alcohol business is also developing very well. Although the distilled wine brewing process was leaked and the monopoly market was lost, Richard imposed heavy taxes on imported liquor and monopolized the domestic market in Harland.

Relying on the domestic demand market alone, the wine business can make a lot of money. Moreover, Haaland Ling Liquor controls a large number of markets in Black River Fort and Flame Fort, making a profit of 32,000 gold coins this year.

This year, Harland Territory's pharmaceutical revenue has surged again. First, a new queen bee has been cultivated, and the production of hemostatic ointment has increased significantly, with an increase of approximately 60,000 servings. This additional part of the hemostatic ointment can be sold in the market, priced at three silver coins a piece, which can increase Harland's income by 15,000 gold coins. In addition to the material and labor costs, it can increase the income by 12,000 gold coins. Gold coin net profit.

In addition, the territory also developed a medicine to treat internal injuries. Although the output was relatively low, only 300 copies a year, the sales price was very high. Richard sold 120 copies and received 12,000 gold coins.

In addition, the sales of analgesic pills invented this year are very good, with 220,000 bottles sold a year. Even if the price is not high, the sales volume is as high as more than 18,300 gold coins, bringing a net net income of about 10,000 gold coins to the territory. profit.

All in all, drug sales increased by 60% this year.

The proceeds from the medicine brought Harland a profit of sixty-four thousand gold coins.

The output of the coal mine has also increased dramatically. Due to the use of steam engine power, the coal mine has improved the conveyor belt this year, designed a steel drum shearer, and put the No. 3 mine into operation. Coal output has increased by 20%.

According to the data reported by the coal mine at the end of the year, the coal mine's capacity has reached 200,000 tons. Due to the limitation of the ore deposit, it is difficult to continue to find new mines, and it is difficult to continue to increase the capacity of this coal mine.

This year, the coal production capacity has increased by 20%, but the mine has not increased the number of people, which has brought 48,000 gold coins of profit to the territory.

The transportation industry and the four-wheeled carriage manufacturing industry are relatively stable. This year, Harland Territory has also received some military transportation orders. The profits brought by the two businesses are the same as last year, with a total income of 15,000 gold coins.

Now the real estate industry contributes more and more to the territory.

Because of the surge in population, a large number of contract slaves become free people every year.

After becoming a free man and making money, of course, he will not continue to live in wooden houses and simple shacks. Building a house requires the purchase of bricks, cement, glass, wood, etc. These industries have brought about 60,000 gold coins to Harland Territory this year.

Although dyeing cloth is a new industry with great prospects, Richard expanded the southern market this year, which only brought 13,000 gold coins of profit to the territory this year.

The perfume industry is a luxury product. As long as luxury products occupy the market, the income is very stable. This year, it brought 10,000 gold coins to Harland.

With the increase of schools, the papermaking business is also increasing rapidly, bringing a total profit of 8,000 gold coins to the territory this year.

In addition, the fruit industry, fresh fish business, river transportation income, etc., together brought 13,000 gold coins to Harland.

This year's southern expedition has a rich harvest. The spoils of several battles and the seizure of land have successively obtained more than 100,000 gold coins of wealth. These floating wealth are basically distributed to the soldiers in the southern expedition.

In total, this year Harland's cash income is 1.163 million gold coins, which is roughly equivalent to one-third of the level of the Grant royal family. Such cash income has exceeded Edward and Fox Dukedom in the northern border, and even exceeded the Dukedom of York, second only to the Grant royal family and Grand Duke Jonathan.

Fiscal revenue has increased by 67%, and the territory's expenditure is also increasing.

First of all, there is the expenditure on military pay. Now, the number of soldiers receiving military pay under Harland's army has reached 28,000, and subsidies and pay for 30,000 second-line personnel are also required. The annual salary requires about 400,000 gold coins.

In addition, about 300 people died in the war this year, 200 soldiers were injured and disabled, and the number of people receiving pensions increased to nearly 10,000. Last year, the pension standard was raised, and this year 30,000 gold coins were spent on this item.

The expenditure on logistics materials is also very large. Now Harland has 43,000 regular troops, and the annual logistics expenditure requires 80,000 gold coins. In addition, auxiliary troops, security troops and other troops must be maintained. These second-line troops add up to 30,000 people, and various logistics materials add up to 40,000 gold coins.

The total logistics expenditure is a huge amount of 120,000 gold coins. This does not include internal adjustment materials such as food, meat, and brown sugar. After all, a soldier needs to be issued two sets of clothes every year, one single coat and one cotton coat, in addition to bedding and tents. The expansion of the army also requires the distribution of weapons and the construction of barracks, each of which requires a large amount of gold coins.

Only by ensuring sufficient supply can the combat effectiveness of the soldiers be guaranteed.

In total, 550,000 gold coins were spent on maintaining the army, accounting for 48% of the fiscal revenue. It is far lower than the level of previous years.

This year, East Grota County was captured, and the civil servants of Harland Territory were expanded on a large scale again. Now the civil servants in the government system, including the lowest village chiefs, are about 8,000 people, and the salary expenditure is about 65,000 gold coins. In addition to the various subsidies and benefits issued by the government, more than 80,000 gold coins were consumed.

Although Richard has always opposed it, the salary of civil servants has gradually increased to a higher level in the territory, and gradually it can be on par with soldiers.

At this year's meeting, Richard got angry and made it clear that he would cut government spending next year, reduce the salary of civil servants, and control spending at the level of 65,000 gold coins.

After all, the army will be expanded by 6,000 people every year in the next two years, and 12,000 regular troops will be added, and at least 160,000 gold coins will be added to the military expenditure every year.

The territory's finances cannot be increased indefinitely. Except for steel, brown sugar, and medicine, other commodities have gradually become weak. The government's expenditure must not increase dramatically every year.

This year, four primary schools and one middle school were newly built in Harland Territory, and the number of teachers increased by more than 200 people. Including fixed investment, the territory invested 16,000 gold coins in education, accounting for about 1.39% of fiscal revenue, which is a relatively low level.

A new hospital was built in the medical sector, and a medical college was established, with an investment of about 10,000 gold coins.

This year's scientific research investment has increased a lot. Major research institutes received 36,000 gold coins in scientific research funds, and the Harland Mage Association also received 24,000 gold coins in scientific research funds.

In addition to the salaries of scientific researchers and territory mages, a total of 74,000 gold coins were spent, accounting for about 6.4% of fiscal revenue, which is a very high level.

In summary, this year's fiscal expenditure is 730,000 gold coins, and the surplus is 433,000 gold coins.

Including the surplus from previous years, Harland's treasury has saved a huge sum of 600,000 gold coins, which is undoubtedly a huge amount of money even for a dukedom.

With this huge sum of money as a backup, it is enough to support Richard's expansion of the army in the next two years.