Lord Harland.

Chapter 230 Promotion to Tier [-] Warrior
Relying on his own hard work in recent years, Li Cha's breathing method has finally been promoted to the eighth level, and he has been promoted to a fifth-level warrior.

The warrior level has been raised to the fifth level, the physical fitness has been improved again, and the strength has reached [-] points.When the warrior level is raised to the sixth level, the strength attribute will exceed [-] points, and then a talent in physical attributes will be awakened.

When William's strength exceeded [-] points, he awakened a very excellent talent, the heart of rage. Whenever he was angry, his physical fitness would be greatly improved.

Although this talent is not as perverted as the Hulk, it can improve physical fitness without limit.

When this talent is turned on, William's power will increase by about half, and his destructive power will become amazing.

Although the heart of rage is activated for a short period of time, it has no side effects.

In addition to combat skills and combat experience, the warrior profession also determines the strength of a warrior by its own talent.After awakening the excellent talent, you will be able to defeat the enemy in battle.

I don't know what kind of talent Li Cha will awaken when his strength breaks through [-] points?
The opening of talent has no rules at all, and it is almost impossible to inherit.

Regarding this point, Li Cha can only leave it to fate.

A few days before the goddess's birthday, Li Cha finally had a few days of free time to spend with Margaret.

The father and daughter walked on the street, looking at the street scenes around them.

On the streets of Fort William, there is already some commercial atmosphere.Li Cha discovered taverns, barbershops, gold and silver jewelry stores, as well as grocery stores, grain stores, and so on.

Half of them are officially run shops, such as grain stores, grocery stores, taverns and so on.

Li Cha entered the grocery store and found that there were already a lot of products in the store. In addition to brown sugar, wool cloth, iron farm tools, and bulk liquor, the grocery store also had honey, canned fruits, high-end drinks and other slightly extravagant products. .

As soon as Li Cha entered the grocery store, he alarmed the shop assistants and customers.

Most of the residents in Fort William have seen Richard.

Those who settled here, apart from military families, were the first batch of indentured slaves.Many people have participated in the construction of Fort William and have personally contacted Richard.

He appeared on the street with Marguerite and immediately caused a sensation.

"Is it Master Li Cha?"

"Yes, I have seen Master Li Cha with my own eyes, I can't be wrong."

"I participated in labor with Master Li Cha, and we lived in adjacent tents. Nine years have passed. I wonder if Master Li Cha will remember me?"

The clerk whispered to the customer and looked at Li Cha's father and daughter with eager eyes.

They wanted to go forward and have a few words with Li Cha, but the fact that the nobles and ordinary people in the Chenxi plane had a clear hierarchy made them very hesitant and did not dare to show their enthusiasm.

"Is it Peter? We haven't seen each other for almost ten years. The young Peter is now middle-aged."

Li Cha glanced and suddenly found an acquaintance.

Peter was the first batch of contract slaves in the territory. He was bought by Richard because of the plague, and he followed Richard to the territory of Harland.

He was one of the earliest masons in the territory. He commanded more than a dozen workers in the early days of the construction of Fort William. At that time, his tent was very close to Richard.

Richard's role at that time was equivalent to the boss, project manager and part-time chief engineer of the Fort William construction project.

At that time, he was with the workers every day, often contacted the grassroots, and had a lot of communication every day.

Peter was in his twenties at the time, and looked very young.

Nine years have passed now, and the working people are aging far faster than the nobles. Peter has changed a lot, becoming a middle-aged man with rough skin.

Because of his strong mental power, Li Cha's memory far exceeds that of ordinary people. Even if he had contact with him ten years ago, he can recognize old acquaintances at a glance.

"Yes, Master Richard. I am Peter the stonemason. I didn't expect you to still remember me after so many years."

Peter's ability is average. He is the earliest group of craftsmen in the territory. Although he became a freeman very early, his class has not achieved a leap.

Up to now, Peter is still a farmer, and he will come to Fort William to do odd jobs in his spare time to subsidize his family.

"How has your life been in recent years?"

"Life is good. Now I am the father of four children. My wife and children can have enough food and clothing. They are born as free citizens. They can only be born in Harland's territory if they are favored by the goddess of fate."

According to the statistics of the officials, the free people in Harland Territory have already solved the problem of food and clothing.

Because the per capita arable land is more, the territory also has mineral resources such as coal, and the production of woolen cloth, the first generation of free citizens who have just allocated land should not be too poor.

But after the second generation and the third generation, Harland's territory does not have so much arable land, and as the per capita land resources decline, farmers will fall back into poverty at that time.

Five mu of land per capita is completely different from one mu of land per capita.

People living on five mu of land per capita are relatively rich, but people living on one mu of land per capita are bound to fall into poverty and hunger.

To improve this situation, the first is to expand the territory to reclaim farmland, and the second is to control the population growth.

Harland's territory is vast and sparsely populated, and it should still be an environment with fewer people and more land in the last 100 years.

As for the population in the future, what should we do?It can only be passed on to the next generation.

Li Cha came over, shook hands with Peter, and asked, "Has your child gone to school?"

"No, Master Li Cha."

"Why don't children receive education? Only when children receive education can they change their destiny."

"The tuition fee of six silver coins a year is too expensive, and it is difficult for a family like ours to afford it. When the children grow up, if they are in good health, I want them to join the army. If they are in good health, follow me as a stonemason. You can also support your family if you have a craft.”

Li Cha chatted with Peter for a few words, and finally shook hands and said, "I'm going back, Peter, Happy Birthday to Goddess, I wish you good luck!"

Li Cha saw more and more people outside the shop.In order to avoid a stampede, Li Cha picked up Margaret, greeted the people in the store, and then returned to the mansion.

Li Cha has a high prestige in Harland's territory, and ordinary citizens want to see the lord, and they will be bragging capital after returning.

"The status has improved, and it will be troublesome to go out."

Li Cha and Sophia complained a few words, and then began to read the report sent by the territorial officials.

With the graduation of the first batch of students from He'an Elementary School, there are more than 100 people in the territory of Harland who are proficient in writing and basic mathematics.

These people have become staff officers, teachers, and grassroots bureaucrats. With their participation, the written report requested by Li Cha can finally be implemented.

Through these written materials, Li Cha can have a certain grasp of the basic situation of Harland's territory.But the things on the report cannot be completely trusted, and we must guard against irresponsible nonsense written by bureaucrats.

There is a very high probability that bureaucrats will be irresponsible.To see the real situation from the report, Li Cha needs to strengthen supervision, constantly check, and often contact the grassroots.

Now that there are more literate people, the demand for paper will increase.

The price of parchment is very expensive, and it is not suitable for the popularization of knowledge at all.

As early as many years ago, Richard asked craftsmen to study papermaking, and now the technology of using plant fiber to make paper has been successfully researched.

By using various plant fibers to make paper, craftsmen in Harland discovered that the quality of paper made from bark and tempeh is better.

Today, in Harland's territory, paper has begun to circulate on a small scale.

Not only the City Hall, the Riverbank Elementary School, and Harland's leading army distribute paper, but the government-run grocery stores in Fort William, Fort Sophia, and Fort Depot all sell paper. In order to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge, Richard did not plan to use paper to earn money profit.

Today, the paper market in Harland's territory has exceeded the size of more than 100 gold coins.

In order to avoid stimulating the nerves of the nearby nobles, Richard did not sell paper on a large scale.But the circulation of cheap paper still promoted the dissemination of knowledge.

With the spread of knowledge, the literacy rate will increase, and the quality of the population will improve. In the long run, it will greatly promote the development of Harland's territory.

Because of Li Cha's policy of dividing land and light taxation, the free people in Harland's territory are relatively wealthy and have high spending power, almost comparable to the families of the city defense army.

The brown sugar, white wine, steel products, and woolen clothes produced in the territory of Harland have been popularized to the free people class because the price of the place of origin is not very high.

According to the statistics Li Cha saw, the average freeman class consumes one kilogram of brown sugar a year.

In Harland's territory, the price of brown sugar has dropped to twelve copper coins per kilogram.When brown sugar was first produced, the price was almost the same as honey, almost one silver coin per kilogram.

In just a few years, the price of brown sugar dropped by 60.00% in Harland.

With the increasing production of brown sugar, Richard believes that there is still room for decline.

Because of the impact of the brown sugar from the Harland Territory, the price of honey in the northern border area has also dropped a lot. Brown sugar replacing honey is already in sight in the northern border area.

This year, the production of brown sugar in the territory exceeded [-] tons, and hundreds of tons of brown sugar entered the market. Such a powerful impact made brown sugar no longer a luxury.

There are three provinces and four duchies in the northern part of the Grant Kingdom, with a combined population of tens of thousands of people.

But the vast majority of the population were serfs, without any spending power.

The population with real spending power, apart from nobles, religious people, professional officers, and soldiers of the main army, plus a small number of merchants and high-level technicians, is some opera singers, monster hunters, and high-level mercenaries.

Adding up all the consumer groups, the northern region does not add up to more than 30 people.

The average amount of brown sugar produced in Harland's territory is close to a catty per person.

According to the annual consumption of one kilogram per freeman in the Harland Territory, when the Territory produces [-] tons of brown sugar per year, the market will be saturated.

At that time, in addition to expanding the market outside, we can only continue to reduce prices and let the market sink.

To expand the market to the south, it must face the competition of honey.

The southern provinces of Selldorf, Illiano, Duke of Guise, and Duke of Duran all have a large population of bees.

Brown sugar, a specialty of northern Xinjiang, is difficult to sell in the southern sphere of influence through formal channels.

There is no such thing as free trade in the Grant Kingdom, and every lord hates the outflow of gold coins.Unless a war can be fought to overthrow the rule of others, brown sugar can be sold and profited in other people's sphere of influence.

Even if some brown sugar is sold by smuggling, under the brutal attack of official forces, the high cost may not be able to make much profit.

Moreover, in the place where honey is grown, the retail price of honey is only fifteen copper coins per kilogram.

Even if the brown sugar from Harland's territory is transported to the south, it may not be able to compete with the honey from the south at the current price.

On the contrary, Nolan's market can be contended for in the future.There are no lords who raise a large number of bees near Nolan, and their own interests are not involved, so the resistance is not particularly large.

But to enter the Nolan market, one must have the status of a great aristocrat and deal with some influential people in Nolan.

Otherwise, your business will soon be swallowed up by others.

The influence of the Harland family is only useful in the northern border, and even very effective in the province of Gedda, and the deterrence in the provinces of Gascoigne and Lah is less.After going to the territories of several other dukes, Li Cha had to bow his head and be a man.

In Jonathan, Fox and other duchies, Richard is doing wholesale business. This year, the wholesale price of brown sugar has dropped to twelve copper coins per kilogram.

The wholesale price has been reduced, and Li Cha does not need to bear the transportation responsibility.After the brown sugar is squeezed, it is sent directly to the Heihebao market, and then sold at wholesale prices to several chambers of commerce controlled by the duke.

The markets directly operated by the Harland Territory are only the three northern provinces.

The retail price of brown sugar in the three northern provinces, the store controlled by the Harland family, has also dropped to fifteen copper coins per kilogram, which has dropped by almost half compared to a few years ago.

Because the price cut was serious this year, although they competed for the market, the income of brown sugar did not increase too much, and it only brought a profit of [-] gold coins.

On the contrary, the price of liquor has been very stable.

The lords have already divided the market, and the market that the Harland family can control now is Heihe County.

If you want to increase the income of liquor, you can only expand the consumer group.

The selling price of steel products also fell by 60.00% due to the continuous increase in steel production in Harland Territory.

Now the Harland Territory controls two iron mines, and the monthly output of steel exceeds [-] tons.

According to the current speed, next year's steel output may exceed [-] tons.

One thousand tons of steel output, placed on a population of 20, averages only five kilograms per person.

What's more, Li Cha has to take out half of the steel to sell to outsiders. The wholesale price of Li Cha's steel sales is already 28 gold coins per ton, an average of ten copper coins per kilogram.

It can be said that in the area near Harland's territory, the price of steel products has dropped by [-] to [-]%.The current retail price in the market, for iron materials of average quality, has dropped to twelve copper coins per kilogram.

The price of goods is constantly decreasing, the income of free people is increasing, and with the improvement of living standards, spiritual needs are also increasing.

Now in Fort William, there are drama and opera actors, and there are often music performances.

(End of this chapter)