Lord Harland.

Chapter 149 Territory Development II

Richard promoted Rooney from an ordinary clerk to the position of the director of the brick kiln factory. In the past few years, he was even appointed as the village head to manage the villages near the brick kiln factory.

Rooney is very grateful for such kindness.

Besides, he has been with Mrs. Ola for many years. He is an old man who followed the Harland family before they made a fortune, and he is also very loyal to Richard.

So he had an opinion in his heart, and he still raised it at the venue.

Rooney talked about the estimated income of the villagers near the brick kiln factory, and then compared it with the free folk of Black River Fort.

Li Cha suddenly discovered that the income of the free peasants in the territory is higher than that of the citizens of Heihebao.

It is well known that the income of urban freemen exceeds that of serfs.

The aristocratic lords squeezed the serfs very seriously. The agricultural tax can receive [-]% of the output. The vast majority of serfs almost live below the food and clothing line, and their living conditions are very poor.

The situation of the free people is better, especially in the larger cities. The free people are basically small businessmen and handicraftsmen, and their living conditions exceed the food and clothing line.

Bricks, a bulky building material, are basically not competitive once they are transported long distances.

Now Fort William and Fort Sophia have been built, Iron Mountain Fort has been half built, and the roads between the main castles have been repaired.The production tasks of Bobby Brick Kiln Factory will be much reduced next year, and it is estimated that it will mainly transform to the civilian market in the future.

If the wages of the workers are set too high, the pressure on the brick kiln factory will indeed be greater.

After listening to Rooney's opinion, Richard nodded and said, "Rooney is right. The main business of the nearby villagers is already agricultural production. It is really not appropriate to set the wages of odd jobs too high. I will do as you want."

Rooney was able to seek truth from facts, and did not blindly follow Li Cha's wishes, but instead made Li Cha think highly of him.

At this meeting, Rooney caught Richard's eyes.If he does a good job in the future, Richard plans to promote him to be the Civil Affairs Officer of Fort Sophia.

Now Fort William and Fort Sophia are almost equivalent to military forts. Most of the people stationed are soldiers and their families, with only a small number of service personnel.

In the future, if a new fief is obtained and the two castles become the rear, a civil affairs officer must be needed.

The Harland Territory is currently very short of qualified civil affairs officials.

As a civil affairs official under the lord's banner, one must not only understand politics and economics, but also understand the law.

Those who can do this are basically members of the nobility.

Although the Harland family has developed well, it has not yet received the support of the nobles.

In addition to working for their own families, noble members basically serve the royal family, dukes, and earls.

Even hereditary earls like Roger and Martins don't have many noble bureaucrats serving them.

After Sophia wrote letters to her two brothers, her third brother Rogge agreed to return to Northern Xinjiang to serve her sister.

Rogue served as comptroller in the province of Illinois, and was appointed civil officer of Vickburg after his return.

Uncle Rogge came back and shared part of Sophia's work.

In the past, Fort Vic, like Fort William, used military law to rule the people, and this kind of thing could not be done for a long time.

After Rooney finished speaking, it was the turn of Thomas Weber, the director of the steel mill.

"The income of the steel project is very good this year. Although the ex-factory price has dropped by 30.00% because of our large-scale sales of steel products, and a ton of steel has dropped from 54.4 gold coins to 38 gold coins, but because of the increase in production, our income has been higher.

In the past two months, the iron and steel production capacity of the territory has exceeded [-] tons, and the monthly output value exceeds [-] gold coins.

Because there are a large number of kobolds mining, which is equivalent to free labor, the income of the steel factory is very considerable.Excluding the consumption inside the territory, the net cash income exceeded [-] gold coins this year. ",

Steel and liquor have been the financial pillars of Harland's territory for the past two years. Without the rich gold coins brought by the steel and liquor industries, Harland's territory would not have developed so fast.

Not only did it feed tens of thousands of people, but it also continued to train the army, and even formed a magic beast cavalry regiment.

"The iron and steel plant is very profitable, how about the liquor?"

This spring, the managers in charge of selling liquor were corrupted. Sophia found out that Li Cha sent soldiers to execute the corrupt criminals.And he demoted his family to slaves to dig mines. As long as the Harland family exists, the descendants of the embezzlers will be slaves forever, and will not be pardoned at any time.

In fact, once it is reduced to a generation of slaves, it is basically tantamount to extinction.

Most of the Harland family are indentured slaves. Except for orc slaves, indentured slaves usually sign a five-year contract.

After five years, they can turn over. A normal female slave would never marry a person who has been a slave for generations.

The wife of the embezzler found Li Cha immediately after his accident, insisted on a divorce, and abandoned her two children.

It's just that the two children are pitiful. With such a father, their fate is doomed to be miserable.

There is extraordinary power in the plane of dawn, although the oppression of the nobles is ruthless, the oppression of the bureaucrats is lighter.

Because of the existence of power words, once a bureaucrat is suspected, using a spell such as power word or truth speaking, it is impossible to conceal corruption.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are not a cooperative relationship, but a strict subordinate-subordinate relationship.

If the lord is very disgusted with the issue of corruption, the bureaucrats in the territory must restrain themselves.

The risks brought by corruption are too great, but the benefits cannot achieve class transition.

In the Dawn Plane, if a person has a lot of money and is not protected by powerful forces, the ending will often be very tragic.

The route to success in this plane is always to become a powerful professional, make military exploits, and obtain titles.

After completing this step, it is considered to have achieved a class transition.

After this incident, Uncle Powell was in charge of the liquor trade, and the management of the winery was also under his control.

"The liquor trade is very stable. With the entry into Jonathan and Edward's two duchy markets, the monthly net profit has increased to [-] gold coins. This year's cash income should be close to [-] gold coins."

The income of [-] gold coins, even if put in the main army, can support four squadron soldiers.

The salaries of soldiers in the Harland Territory are half that of the main army, and the salaries of officers are not far from the main army.

For example, the salary of the first squadron needs to cost two thousand gold coins a year.

Now Li Cha has formed ten infantry squadrons and one cavalry squadron. Although there are many recruits who have not participated in the war and made contributions, there is no need for Li Cha to send money for the time being.

The military expenditure is still huge, and the territory has also engaged in major projects, all of which require money.

Even though his income has increased a lot this year, Li Cha's treasury has only accumulated [-] gold coins, which is not enough to store food.

The hospital is completely net investment this year, and I don't know when it will make money.

Although the output value of agriculture is very high this year, there are [-] mouths in the territory.Not only can the food not be sold, but it has to be paid for.

After the Harland family became a baron, Richard was always short of money for five years.

It feels like the time when the family is the richest is before being knighted.

At that time, there were still several thousand gold coins in Mrs. Ola's treasury, and the number of gold coins was increasing every month.

Unlike now, although there are many gold coins, the treasury is empty.

(End of this chapter)