Lord Harland.

Chapter 200 The Spy's Surgery

The currency system of the Harland Territory is the same as that of the Grant Kingdom, which is a standard system of gold and magic crystals.

The gold coins on the Dawn plane are all smelted from gold and magic crystal powder, which can be used to arrange magic circles, and are a precious resource in itself.

This kind of currency is different from the national credit as the anchor credit currency.

The deficit cannot be solved by printing money.

Moreover, the right to mint currency is a right that the Grant royal family is very concerned about. Only the nobles above the earl can obtain limited currency minting rights.

In order to issue banknotes with national credibility, the Kingdom of Grant needs to be overthrown first and new rules of the game must be formulated.

Although the Harland family is developing rapidly, it is far from powerful enough compared to the Grant Kingdom. Naturally, it is impossible to challenge the currency rules formulated by the royal family.

Therefore, avoiding deficits is the most important task of the financial department.

Due to the heavy pressure of military expenditures, Li Cha was unable to invest in industry and education this year.

Even the profits brought by the primary industry were all taken away by him.

The annual cash income of more than 3 yuan, at the end of the year, only more than 1000 gold coins were left.

Although there is still no cash flow, 7000 mu of farmland has been reclaimed in the Harland Territory this year. Including newborns, the population has increased by [-].

Population is the most important resource of a territory. If this year's harvest is exchanged for gold coins, the fixed property of Harland's territory will increase by about 20 gold coins.

If the territory can be defended, the population and farmland can be regarded as wealth. If the territory cannot be defended, these fixed properties will only be destroyed and robbed by the orcs.

In Fort Vic, it was getting late. Ruiz finished the work at hand and walked home without looking back.

It has been a year since Ruiz migrated to Vicburg. He was Viscount Cisse's spy who had entered Harland's territory.

Although he sent out a lot of public information over the past year, the results he achieved did not meet Vesta's requirements.

Vesta asked Ruiz to infiltrate key departments to obtain more important intelligence.

But this request, Ruiz found it difficult to achieve.

The system of the Harland Territory does not trust outsiders.The territory's law prohibiting random movement almost restricted Ruiz to the vicinity of Fort Vic.

Many colleagues ventured deep into Harland's territory in order to obtain more secret information, but all of them disappeared without exception.

The lesson of blood made Ruiz clear in his heart that if he was not careful, he would be doomed.

Ruiz has a special talent. He is one of the lucky ones in ten thousand who has awakened his extraordinary visual talent.His eyesight is ten times better than that of ordinary people.

For this reason, Ruiz was selected by Vesta to become a spy trained by the Cisse family.

When Ruiz got home, his wife had already prepared the food.

The staple food for dinner is wheat rice with a piece of salted fish.

Although there is a waterwheel mill two kilometers away from Vickburg, wheat can be ground into flour, and flour can be used to make more exquisite food.The bran left over from milling can also be used to feed livestock.

But the poor families are still reluctant to bear the extra cost, unable to eat flour or raise livestock.

After Ruiz entered the territory, in order not to be suspected, he married a slave girl as his wife.

His wife had three more years before she could become a freedman.

The work of indentured slaves is very hard. Ruiz's wife needs to go to the fields to till the fields when the farming is busy, and she has to go to the quilt factory to sew and mend when the farming is not.

Indentured slaves do not receive any salary, and most of them live collectively.

Female contract slaves who set up a family only need four hundred catties of grain, ten catties of salt, three catties of brown sugar, and a set of clothes a year.

Male indentured slaves will be given an extra [-] catties of grain and [-] catties of liquor every month.

Such meager treatment made it difficult for indentured slaves to get married and support their families.

However, most of the slaves purchased by the Harland Territory had complete families, and almost all strong male slaves had families with them.

Elderly people, children and slaves, the territory will be subsidized, and the food distributed can ensure that they will not starve to death.

Single young and middle-aged slaves are very rare in Harland's territory.

Ruiz is a freeman who moved from another territory. After coming to the territory of Harland, he quickly stood out because of his special talent.

First, because of his extraordinary eyesight.He was selected into the auxiliary squadron as an observer, and calibrated the orientation of heavy trebuchets.

Then he was selected by the territory and entered a secret research team.

The task of this group is to manufacture telescopes and microscopes.

Since the territory can produce transparent glass, this group has started to manufacture telescopes.

But the grinding of glass requires a lot of experience, and the mirror grinder needs to have excellent grinding technology.

None of these Harland territories.

Although a simple telescope has been manufactured in more than three years and some experience and technology have been accumulated, it is still a long way from making a microscope.

Ruiz's extraordinary vision was discovered by Harland's territory, so he was arranged to join the microscope manufacturing team.

After entering the team, Ruiz quickly played a role. His super vision can observe the subtle differences in glass mirrors. Coupled with his hard work and special talent, he became the best mirror grinder in the microscope manufacturing team. Yes, his salary has also been raised to about eight silver coins.

It is precisely because of a high-paying job that Ruiz was able to marry and start a family.

Just as Ruiz fell asleep after eating, he suddenly felt a strong pain in his abdomen, which made him even scream.

The wife woke up when she heard the movement, and asked anxiously, "Ruiz, how are you doing?"

"I asked you to buy flour, but you didn't listen, maybe it hurt your stomach."

Because of the severe abdominal pain, Ruiz's face was pale, and he spoke intermittently.

Ruiz's abdominal pain was so severe that his wife could only get up overnight and go to the Santo's Mansion to find a doctor.

Since the three magic apprentices learned to treat minor injuries, the size of the hospital in Harland's territory has doubled.

Normally, there are four magic apprentice doctors in the territory.

Except for Adrian at the hospital headquarters, the remaining three magic apprentice doctors followed the medical team and undertook certain medical missions to the countryside.

It is Li Cha's request to send medical care to the countryside. It can not only treat patients, but also accumulate experience and improve medical skills.

Recently, the medical team came to Vickburg.

For sensational effect, they also performed a public display of surgery, cutting open a soldier's stomach and performing an appendectomy.

It was precisely because of this scene that Ruiz's wife decided to seek help from a doctor.

The medical team was led by Wendy, plus about ten doctors and nurses.In addition to curing diseases and saving lives, Wendy also wanted to test the medical application of the new magic of ultrasonic detection.

Ruiz's wife was blocked outside the city lord's mansion and quarreled with the guards, which alarmed Griffin, the doctor on duty.

Griffin heard Ruiz's wife's story, probably judged that it was acute appendicitis, and decided to send someone to take Ruiz to the Santo's Mansion for surgery.

　Insomnia has been very severe in the past few days. I can only sleep for three or four hours a day. I am seeing a doctor of Chinese medicine. I have no code words. What I consume is saved manuscripts, and I can only update [-] words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)