Lord Harland.

Chapter 182 Year-End Summary
The open-pit mining went very smoothly. Li Cha mobilized hundreds of slaves in their prime, and they were able to mine [-] tons of coal a day.

It is more difficult to transport coal to castles such as Ordnance Fort, Fort Sophia, Fort Vic, and Fort Iron Mountain.

Li Cha could only use a wheelbarrow to go over the mountains and ridges. Fortunately, the furthest distance from these castles to the coal mines was only [-] to [-] kilometers, which was not too far away.

Even so, the cost of transportation is considerable.

Because the threshold for mining coal is very low, in order to prevent illegal mining, Li Cha has formulated strict laws. Anyone who finds illegal mining will be fined ten times.

If you have no money, you have to sign a contract and become a contract slave to pay back the money.

Coal mine income is part of the fiscal revenue of the territory, and anyone who dares to dig into it will be in trouble with Li Cha.

Time passed slowly like this, and it entered December.

Li Cha once again summoned the officials in the territory to make a year-end summary.

In addition to last year's participants, there are two newcomers, Flora and Otto, attending this year's meeting.

Flora was in charge of the education work in the territory and served as the principal of the Riverside Elementary School.

Otto is the judge of the territory. He is accompanied by several underage students. He studies law with Otto and recites the code. He is the assistant judge beside Otto.

Most of the laws of the Harland Territory followed the Grant Kingdom Code.

However, Li Cha thinks that there are problems with the designation of many laws in the Grant Kingdom's code, and the management of citizens is too lenient and too strict, and the enforcement is selective when it is implemented, which is not fair at all.

The country is the tool of the ruling class, the army is the violent machine of the ruling class, and the law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class.

Li Cha knew this when he was in middle school.

And Otto studied law for 30 years before he gradually understood the mystery behind the law.

Because the governance of the people is relatively lenient, Otto also behaved more tolerantly during the trial, and would not copy the code of law for minor crimes and execute those who made mistakes.

The cases that Otto tried, except murder, injury, robbery, rape and other vicious cases, will be sentenced to death.

Generally, fines will be chosen for minor cases such as theft, fighting, and damage to property.

If there is no money, they will be sentenced to a short-term slave contract until the compensation is paid off.

Otto was in charge of managing the law, and his younger brother Rogge was appointed by Richard as the civil affairs officer of the territory, responsible for managing most of the civil affairs in the territory.

Because the fruit wine was selling well, the net profit of the property under Mrs. Ola's management this year was [-] gold coins, which was a bit more than last year.

Although the fruit wine has only been brewed for more than three months, it has already brought in a lot of profits. Including the liquor industry, this year's income is [-].

The output value of the brown sugar plantation has exceeded [-] gold coins this year, and the sales are far from saturated, and are still developing rapidly. Next year, the output value will exceed [-] gold coins.

There are not many orders for brick kilns, lime kilns, wood distillation kilns, and coke firing kilns this year, and the territory does not sell cement and coke to the outside world. This year, it barely makes ends meet and does not make much money.

The glass kiln is developing well. It not only competes with the glass kiln controlled by Viscount Luomen for the market, but also opens up new markets by making high-end fruit wine. This year's net profit has already reached [-] gold coins.

With the continuous improvement of the technology of burning glass in the territory, Li Cha decided to end the excess profit next year, reduce the price of glass by half, continue to compete with Viscount Luomen for the market, and wait for the summer to open a fruit canning factory to manufacture new products and promote new products. industry.

Even if the newly produced canned fruit is unsalable, Li Cha will stabilize the order through the military purchase contract and support the development of this new industry.

Coal mining is a new industry in the territory this year. After only three months of coal mining, the output value has reached [-] gold coins. As the population increases and the free people become richer, this industry will continue to develop.

The Zitoufeng industry in the territory has returned to the heyday of the Stopa family this year. The output value of honey has reached [-], and the value of royal jelly has reached [-].

Purple Head Peak Royal Jelly is one of the main materials for refining second-order healing potions.

Li Cha exchanged the formula of the second-order healing potion from the Church of Dawn, and after handing it over to Sophia, he successfully refined a batch of healing potions.

This year's royal jelly, Li Cha did not exchange for gold coins.

Even the money from selling honey was spent to buy other materials for refining the healing potion, and gave it to Sophia to refine the healing potion.

This batch of healing agents was basically used to treat the wounded.

Besides liquor, the largest industries in the territory are food and steel.

This year's steel production is still increasing. Because of the war, the steel business is particularly good. The annual net profit reached [-] gold coins, almost double that of last year.

The reason why Li Cha was able to expand the recruits of ten squadrons at one go was entirely because he had money this year.

The recruits have not made any military exploits, and they are still indentured slaves for the time being, so they don't need to be paid.But the clothes the recruits wear, the weapons and armor they use, and the golden drum flags in the barracks all cost money.

Eating, drinking, and daily training also cost money.

Most of the ten infantry squadrons and cavalry brigades in the old territory have made military exploits this year and become free citizens.

There are nearly 500 veterans, plus officers, the annual salary exceeds [-].

Coupled with the fact that hundreds of soldiers who were disabled or died in battle needed pensions, this year's pension expenditure, including supplies, was already [-].

The food expenses of more than 3000 soldiers are also a lot of money.

Because of the high intensity of training and the need to repair breathing techniques, nutrition is indispensable.

On average, a soldier needs two catties of grain and one catty of meat per day, plus the cost of fuel, salt, condiments, and pickles. The food he eats is far better than that of ordinary people, and he consumes three copper coins a day.

One month is three silver coins, twelve months a year, it takes three gold coins to support a soldier.

Of course, you can also save money from food, but it is impossible for soldiers who are undernourished to practice breathing techniques, and it is impossible to practice them every day.

The Wild Lion Legion that Richard used to serve used two gold coins and four silver coins for each soldier's food expenses every year.

Even if the logistics are more greedy, basically the difference is not much.

The soldiers in the Harland Territory ate better than the main army, and there was no shortage of meat every day. The lambs saved by the thousands of goatmen were all cheaper than the rough men in the army.

Although the recruits have been in the army for less than a year, they have spent more than [-] gold coins on raising the army this year.

This year's grain harvest is still good. Although there has been a war, no war broke out in Harland's territory.

The population that flooded into the territory last year has opened up 1 hectares of dry land this year, which is as high as 18 mu in terms of mu.

Even if the dry land depends on the sky for food, this year, the Goddess of Chenxi and her elders have rewarded the rice, and the grain output of the territory has reached [-] tons.

This grain is sold and can earn [-] gold coins.

It is impossible to sell grain. If more than 5 people need to feed, they need 1 tons of grain.

The remaining [-] tons of grain need to be brewed into liquor, which is used as a reserve to prevent disasters.

Because he has raised more than 3000 soldiers and has the army, the gold-swallowing beast, although his income this year is very large, exceeding [-] gold coins, which can be called explosive growth, Li Cha still doesn't have much cash in his hand.

By the end of the year, the balance was less than [-] gold coins, which was just enough to pay off Mrs. Ola's debt.

If there is no war next year, the sales of steel will definitely drop sharply, and the expenditure of the army will increase. If there is no deficit, Li Cha has to find a way to continue to make money.

(End of this chapter)