Lord Harland.

Chapter 213 Financial Income and Expenditure II

After winter, the supply of fuel is very critical. The climate in northern Xinjiang is cold. If there is insufficient fuel for heating in winter, a large number of people will freeze to death.

Richard spent a lot of gold coins to buy people, so he naturally cared about whether the contracted slaves had winter fuel.

Coal mines have been discovered in Harland's territory, and there is no shortage of wood, and the supply of fuel has never been flawed.

This year, about [-] tons of coal were mined and [-] tons were sold, bringing in cash income of [-] gold coins.

Of the remaining 1 tons, [-] tons will be supplied to the army, and [-] tons will be given priority to contract slaves.

Most of the indentured slaves are more than a dozen people crowded into a house of [-] square meters, and a house consumes one ton of coal every year to survive the winter.

Although there are more than 9 indentured slaves in Harland's territory, 1 tons of coal is enough.

Because of the increase in mining volume, Li Cha plans to expand the scale of the coal mine next year and increase the output to more than [-] tons.

In fact, this year's coal miners have only been mining for one and a half months, and the rest of the time is basically spent on building coal mines.

Fix wooden tracks, build houses, build a coal washery, and even dig toilets and more.

There is enough food and enough fuel. Although there are many indentured slaves entering the territory this year, the conditions are actually not too difficult.

At the very least, he could have a full meal after entering Harland's territory.

Many serfs, because the lord squeezed them too hard, even had a luxury to eat a full meal.

After the time entered December, Li Cha once again summoned all the officials of the territory to summarize the income.

The first person to report was Thomas, the person in charge of the steel business.

"The iron and steel trade in the territory is very stable this year, and the annual income is 1 gold coins, which is about 50.00% lower than the peak year. If the orcs still invade at the frequency of once every three years, the profit of steel weapons will increase sharply next year, possibly reaching [-] More than [-] gold coins."

Today, the steel production in the Harland Territory has no longer increased, mainly due to market restrictions.

The iron and steel industry is also a traditional industry on the Chenxi plane, and the competition is fierce.

Harland Territory's profit of more than 1 gold coins a year has almost eaten up most of the market, and the rest of the market can only be grabbed unless prices continue to drop.

There are bound to be opponents in grabbing the market, and the business competition method of the Chenxi plane is very cruel and direct.

In the past, Richard grabbed the market, mainly Baron Franklin's market.Now Baron Franklin's mine has been squeezed by Richard and the output has dropped by [-]% to [-]%.

Several big steel merchants in northern Xinjiang, besides Li Cha, are some powerful nobles.

Before he is ready, Li Cha will not hit the market of the big nobles and easily lower the price of steel products.

In the future, the steel trade will mainly rely on the growth of the domestic market, unless Richard is promoted to a great nobleman and has enough strength to compete with the dukes in northern Xinjiang for the market.

After Thomas finished speaking, the second person to report was Scott who was in charge of the textile business.

Since the manufacture of new spinning machines, the textile business in Harland's territory has been developing faster and faster. By this year, there were already 80 sheep in the territory.

10,000 tons of woolen cloth are woven every year, enough to clothe [-]+ people.

In addition to the wool cloth clothes provided to the indentured slaves, Harland Territory earned [-] gold coins by selling wool cloth to the outside world.

There has always been a shortage of cloth in northern Xinjiang, and even the Kingdom of Harland did not produce enough cloth.

Whether it is linen, cotton or wool, as long as the cloth is produced, there is no need to worry about sales.

The third is the income from hunting monsters. Last year, the territory earned [-] gold coins from hunting monsters.

The liquor market has now fallen to fourth place, and fruit wine only earns [-] gold coins a year, which is almost only one-third of the peak period.

With the increase of free people in the Harland Territory and the expansion of the market, the liquor income should increase. However, if we want to recover to two years ago, I am afraid that we will have to wait for the expansion of the domestic demand market, which will take several years.

The fifth item is the taxation of the territory. Counting miscellaneous taxes, the total is [-] gold coins.

The sixth item is brown sugar income. It has been five years since the establishment of the brown sugar industrial park, and the output of brown sugar this year has reached [-] tons.Although the price of brown sugar dropped a little, to twelve copper coins a catty, it still brought [-] gold coins in cash to Harland's territory.

Moreover, the brown sugar industrial park is still developing rapidly, and the output of brown sugar may reach about [-] tons next year.

The potential of this business is very great, and it will be an important financial income for Harland's territory in the future.

The seventh item is the hemostatic ointment, limited by the production of royal jelly from Purple Head Peak, the income from the hemostatic ointment is very stable, about [-] gold coins per year.

The eighth item is income from coal mines, which brought in cash income of two thousand gold coins.

The ninth item is glass income. Because of the sales of fruit wine and canned food, the glass mine has reached [-] gold coins this year.

The rest of the brick kiln, cement, fruit sales, flame spider silk, honey and other miscellaneous proceeds add up to [-] gold coins.

In addition, Mrs. Ola's business in Black River Castle is quite stable for a year, and can bring in cash flow of [-] gold coins.

Not counting Mrs. Ola's small treasury, Harland's territory had about 5 gold coins in cash last year.

This year, he robbed Baron Harden's treasury and obtained a large windfall. He got [-] gold coins, which added up to [-] gold coins.

There is no war this year, and the military expenditure is not very large. In the spring, the army will be expanded by [-], plus the expenses for supporting the army and pensions, the total will be [-] gold coins.

The number of bureaucrats in the territory is relatively small, about a few hundred in total, and the salary expenditure is less than five thousand gold coins.

Next is investment in hospitals and education.

The cost of treatment at the Harland Territory Hospital is not too high, even if it is an operation, the cost is only about one gold coin.

Because the hospital has expanded a lot this year, and some necromancers have been added, and these people have to pay high salaries.Throughout the year, the hospital lost two hundred gold coins.

In terms of education, because the territory of Harland has cultivated some talents, the salary of new teachers has been reduced to six silver coins per month.

In addition, the number of students has expanded a lot, and the balance of income and expenditure has been achieved throughout the year.

After all, the tuition fees in Harland Territory are too expensive. Only children from upper-class families can afford one gold coin per year.

Next year, Li Cha plans to reduce the tuition fee by about half.

The tuition fee of six silver coins per year should be able to benefit some of the middle-class population.

Calculated this year, Harland's territory has a balance of [-] gold coins.

After operating the territory for eight years, Li Cha finally had cash income in his hands.

With this amount of money, Li Cha is not going to continue buying people.

A large number of people have poured into the territory this year, and it will take some time to digest this part of the population. Moreover, war is likely to break out next year.This money is a reserve fund, used as war funds to make up for the lack of income from the territory.

Throughout this year, Li Cha has learned two new spells, one is the four-ring magic to summon fire elements.

This is a summoning magic. Before learning this magic, you need to open the door of space and sign a contract with the summoned creature.Every time he summons the fire element to fight, Li Cha needs to pay a magic crystal.

Magic crystal is a kind of crystal ore enriched with magic energy particles, which is usually mixed in metal veins.

Magic crystals are very precious in the plane of dawn, and one magic crystal can be exchanged for ten gold coins.

Although Li Cha had a lot of gold coins in his hand, he was reluctant to exchange them for magic crystals.Now he only has a dozen magic crystals in his hand.

These magic crystals were accumulated from mining iron ore for many years, and Li Cha was reluctant to use them at all.

Li Cha has not yet learned the five-ring magic space gate, and he would not be able to learn to summon the fire element on his own.It was Sophia who helped him open the door to the elemental space, and Richard signed a contract with a fire elemental, making this fire elemental his summoned creature.

When Li Cha uses this magic, the fire element in the elemental world will drop a projection to cooperate with Li Cha in combat.

The fire elemental projection is powerful, immune to fire attribute magic, and most spiritual magic is useless to fire element, and the power of fire attribute spells is doubled.

But it is restrained by water attribute and ice attribute magic.

Using this magic consumes a lot, and it costs ten gold coins at a time, which is equivalent to hiring a four-ring fire mage for a short period of time.

Although mages with a single attribute are more lethal, they are easily restrained by comprehensive mages. They are only suitable for large-scale wars, not suitable for adventure activities and fighting alone.

The other one is the five-ring spell dreaming spell, which is a psychedelic spell.After using this spell, one can enter the dream of a sleeping person and explore the secrets deep in the subconscious of the dreamer.

This spell is very useful in special situations.

After entering the winter, Li Cha would occasionally personally instruct the master apprentices in the territory and teach them some magic knowledge.

Now there are more than a dozen magic apprentices in Harland's territory. These people have different foundations, different learning progress, and different knowledge.

Most of these magic apprentices are very ordinary, and the knowledge they have learned is not deep.

The five magicians of the Harland Mage Association all have the task of teaching. Generally speaking, there is one class a week, and each class is about two hours.

Richard is talking about classical mechanics knowledge.

The physical and chemical rules of the Dawn plane are slightly different from those of Earth.In particular, quantum mechanics cannot be copied at all.

After Li Cha's verification, there is almost no difference in the rules of classical mechanics, only the acceleration of gravity and the gravitational constant are different.

Classical mechanics plays a very important role in magic.Many transformation and protection magics require stress analysis.

But most of the mages in the Dawn plane don't understand some concepts of classical mechanics. They mainly rely on the teacher's experience to release spells.

3000 years ago, the legendary magician Ayrin proposed the law of inertia, and 200 years ago, another legendary magician, Flat, proposed the law of action and reaction.

Two of the three major laws of classical mechanics have appeared on the Dawn Plane, but the development of science has its chances. So far, no magician has proposed the law of acceleration.

Li Cha, a plagiarist, became the first person in the Chenxi plane to propose the law of gravitational acceleration, and was also the first to measure the gravitational acceleration and gravitational constant in the Chenxi plane.

Many wild mages are just magic tools. They can only cast spells like cats and tigers, and they don't understand the principles and essence of magic at all.

Li Cha doesn't want the magicians of the Harland Mage Association to be such magic tool people, but hopes to cultivate magic researchers, even if they are not talented, they should have a heart to study magic.

Sometimes great discoveries come from ordinary people with average talents.Relying on the promotion of a large number of magic researchers with ordinary talents, the science of magic can only develop.

(End of this chapter)