Lord Harland.

Chapter 259 Year-End Summary
December is the season for territorial accounting statistics.

This year, through the sale of surplus food, the Harland territory received [-] gold coins and [-] slaves.

Among them, [-] gold coins are taxes, and the remaining [-] gold coins and [-] slaves are the balance of official food.

Now Harland's territory, the biggest benefit is actually farming official land.

After all, there are 10,000+ contract slaves planting official land, exploiting the labor force of 10,000+ contract slaves, of course it is very profitable.Through this income, Harland's territory not only feeds a large population surge, but also earns tens of thousands of gold coins in net income every year.

It's just that most of the gold coins in this income were exchanged by Richard for slaves.With such a rapid increase in the population of the territory, the income from official food is the most critical.

This year is a little better, accumulating [-] gold coins in cash.In the past few days, the territory of Harland has invested a large amount of gold coins to buy slaves every year.

The lords of the Dawn plane, even if they have money, basically spend it on luxurious enjoyment, and almost no lord can do this.

Running a territory in northern Xinjiang is very risky. Once the orcs break through the castle, decades of accumulation will be destroyed.

Normal aristocrats would choose to diversify their investments. When they earned money, they would often buy farm properties near Nolan. For example, Richard's father-in-law, Baron Stopal, arranged for his sons to go to the south and bought a large amount of property for them.

Baron Stopa is just a weak border baron. Nobles above the viscount almost all want to trade with the royal family, marry with the southern nobles, and develop to the south through various means.

There are also some misers who hide in the cellar even if they have money, and will not use it to buy slaves to reclaim wasteland.

The second income of the territory is the steel trade. This year's battle with the orcs has caused a lot of equipment losses in the northern Xinjiang area, and the demand for steel is very strong.

Whether it was the Grizzly Bear Legion or the noble private army, they suffered heavy losses, and a large amount of steel was needed to replenish weapons and armor.

Compared with several nearby lords who produce steel, the iron products in the Harland Territory are of high quality and low price. They have won a large order for the Grizzly Legion to supplement their armaments. Together with the weapons orders from other nearby lords, tens of thousands of them were produced at one time. A piece of armor, tens of thousands of spearheads, and long swords.

Not counting orders for civilian iron products, orders for military equipment alone will require thousands of tons of steel this year.

Although the territory's steel output this year has reached [-] tons, the supply is still in short supply, and the price of steel has also risen a bit.

The net profit of the steel trade has reached [-] gold coins, climbing to a historical peak.

If there is no war next year, the supply of steel production capacity will exceed demand, and profits will fall. According to the estimates of the steel department, it will fall below [-].

The textile business market is still increasing, and this year's profit is second only to steel, with a net profit of [-] gold coins.

The market of the textile industry is not yet saturated, and it will increase steadily next year, possibly surpassing the income from steel.

This year, the scale of sheep breeding continues to expand. The Yangshenren tribe directly controlled by the territory has 160 million sheep in stock, and 50 sheep have been slaughtered.

Because of the severe oversupply in the Harland Territory market, Richard could only drive the sheep to Black River Fort for sale.

In order to sell mutton, Li Cha also built a sheep trading market outside the city of Heihe Castle, stocked a large amount of fodder, purchased more than [-] acres of land, and invested about [-] gold coins.

Li Cha's supplies to the army and the distribution of benefits consumed 40 sheep. This year, through this trading market, the territory of Harland sold [-] sheep, bringing in an income of [-] gold coins.

The consumer population near Heihe Fort mainly relies on the families of soldiers from the Northern Legion, and the total is about [-].

After one year, at most 40 sheep will be consumed.

The serfs who accounted for the majority of the population, even if Richard lowered the price by three times, would not be able to consume mutton.Because the serfs had no savings, everything they had belonged to the lord.

Starting from next year, the Harland Territory will not expand the sheep population, and by then the number of sheep slaughtered each year will exceed 300 million.

The Heihebao consumer market plus the Harland Territory consumer market can only absorb 80 head.

Li Cha still needs to find a way to sell the remaining 200 million sheep.

In addition to grain, steel, wool spinning and mutton are now the top three industries with the highest profits in Harland's territory.

There are now more than 9 free citizens in the Harland Territory. The land tax income is [-] gold coins, plus the property tax, house installment purchase, and commercial tax income, the total is [-] gold coins. The tax revenue is already An important source of income for the territory.

The output of brown sugar has reached 850 tons this year. Because of the orc invasion, many soldiers of the main army died. The soldiers of the main army are the most important consumers in northern Xinjiang, and the sales of brown sugar in northern Xinjiang have also dropped a lot.For the first time in history, there is an oversupply situation.

Black River Fort, Flame Castle, and Grizzly Castle's brown sugar sales dropped a lot, especially Grizzly Castle, whose sales fell by more than half.

Fortunately, Li Cha opened up a new channel, through which the Church of the Goddess of Wealth can sell 100 tons of brown sugar. In addition, after the fall, Li Cha became an earl, and sold more than [-] tons of brown sugar to Nolan, and he sold all the brown sugar before December sold out.

Because of the rapid increase in production, the selling price of brown sugar continued to fall. The retail price of Harland's territory had dropped to eight copper coins per kilogram, and the wholesale price for the Fortune Church had dropped to seven copper coins per kilogram.

Even if it is sold to Nolan, the retail price of brown sugar is only fifteen copper coins per kilogram, which is about a third cheaper than the honey transported to Nolan in the south.

The price of honey in Nolan is about 22 copper coins per kilogram. In order to compete with the brown sugar produced in Harland's territory, the retail price of Nolan honey has been reduced by 13.00%. Now the price has been reduced to about [-] copper coins per kilogram, and it still cannot be regained market.

Nolan's main consumer groups, in addition to free folk traders, are the families of soldiers of the Imperial Guard. These low-end consumers are very sensitive to prices.

The cost of bee breeding is not low, and it is difficult to compete with the brown sugar produced in Harland's territory.By next year, Nolan's honey market will be largely taken away by brown sugar.

Now that Richard is selling brown sugar to Nolan, there is still room for a price reduction of four copper coins after excluding shipping costs and taxes.

When brown sugar production continues to climb, prices can continue to be lowered to sink the market.However, bee breeding is very labor-intensive, and it is particularly troublesome to catch up with the flowering period, so there is not much room for price reduction.

Because a large amount of brown sugar has flooded into the Nolan market, it can be predicted that in the future, beekeepers will usher in a wave of unemployment, and there may be some confusion in the areas where bees are raised.

Although the price of brown sugar has dropped a little this year, the net profit from the brown sugar trade has increased a lot, climbing to eighteen thousand gold coins.

Next year, the brown sugar production in Harland's territory will reach [-] tons, the selling price will still be slightly lower, and the profit will exceed [-] gold coins. After more than ten years of expanding operations and cultivating the market, the brown sugar industry has finally developed into Harland's An important source of income for German territories.

Affected by the war of orc invasion this year, the income from hunting monsters is hardly much.

In autumn and winter, after repelling the orc army, the territory demon hunting team entered the Eagle Mountain Range several times, and only once successfully hunted three Galewolves.Except for the bounty for the demon hunters, the income from the territory is only [-].

Last year, because of the successful capture of a group of lion ducks and the iron horned horse king, the cash income from hunting monsters exceeded 30 yuan, and the additional income exceeded [-] yuan.This year's income is only [-].

Hunting monsters is not only risky, but also the stability of income is relatively poor. It needs to rely on luck, which has never been the focus of Richard's business.

The magic crystal charging income was also affected by the war, which dropped slightly to only about [-].

Limited by the number of magic wells, if the charging efficiency cannot continue to improve, this benefit will no longer increase.

On the contrary, the profit of the beverage business has increased a lot. With the expansion of the territory's own market, the new channel of the Goddess of Wealth Church, and the entry into the Nolan market and other factors, the income of the beverage business has increased sharply, to [-].This income has almost reached the high point of the wine business.

In the Kingdom of Grant, the distilled grain wine in northern Xinjiang has completely defeated the wine in the south.

Now that the production of wine has dropped sharply, the price has increased a lot. It is only for the high-end market and serves the aristocratic class.

In fact, for any commodity, the most profitable is always the mass commodity, and luxury brands do not actually make much money.

In recent years, white wine and brown sugar have eaten up a lot of profits from red wine and honey in the South, and the Southern Earl's income has dropped a lot.

If it weren't for the strength of the Harland family, the territory is located on the front line of northern Xinjiang, and its strategic position is very important, and the count in the south has just been involved in a rebellion, and its strength has declined to varying degrees. I am afraid that the count in the south will cause a lot of trouble for the Harland family. Because of the commercial competition between the two sides, there might be a brutal civil war.

Now, due to various coincidences, they did not tear their faces apart.

However, with the entry of white wine and brown sugar into the Nolan market, Harland's territory continued to violate the interests of the Southern Earl. It is estimated that conflicts will break out soon, leading to civil strife.

As the little queen bee grew up, the income from the hemostatic ointment doubled to [-] gold coins.

Hemostatic ointment is a strategic resource in Northern Xinjiang, and the supply is still in short supply. The income of burn ointment is also very good, exceeding [-] gold coins.

With the reputation created by the hemostatic ointment, a lot of other medicines in the Harland Territory have also been sold. This year, the territory has made a total profit of [-] gold coins through the sale of medicines.

This year, the territory's four-wheeled carriage manufacturing industry has also ushered in rapid development. This year, through the relationship between William and Bernie, Harland's territory has received some military supplies transportation orders.

Through the war test, the transport efficiency of the four-wheeled carriage in Harland Territory is very high.

This kind of performance, many people saw it, and many new orders were added after the war.

The four-wheeled carriages are popular, and many nobles have imitated the four-wheeled carriages, but because the key materials, such as rolling bearings and hub brackets, are not up to standard, the quality is far inferior to the original goods produced in Harland's territory.

Although the counterfeit goods have affected part of the sales, the quality of the counterfeit goods is not up to standard. The profit of the territory has reached [-] yuan by selling four-wheeled carriages and rolling bearings.

There are even counterfeit and shoddy goods in the market that are fake Harland Land carriages, seriously affecting the brand value of Harland Land carriages, which makes Gavin very upset.

Gavin is Richard's cousin, who is in charge of the carriage business and supervises the transportation industry in the territory.Gavin was going to send people to conduct a secret investigation to find the four-wheeled carriage factory that manufactured fake and shoddy goods, and then dispatched troops to kill them all, and demanded that the nobles who provided protection pay a high fine.Otherwise, Earl Harland will send people to trouble them.

However, there are countless counterfeit manufacturers producing fake and shoddy goods, and some even have powerful nobles as their backers. Facing the severe local protectionism in the Dawn Plane, it is very difficult to crack down on fake and shoddy goods.Even if Li Cha became the earl, it still couldn't change this.

Although there are many counterfeit goods, the profit of carriage sales has increased sharply this year.

The profit of the transportation business also exceeded [-].Gavin is in charge of the business, and this year's profit is as high as [-] gold coins, which is already very impressive.

This year, the territory's coal production exceeded [-] tons, its sales volume reached [-] tons, and its net profit was close to [-] gold coins.

Miscellaneous income from masonry, cement, glass, fruit, etc. was higher than last year, totaling [-] gold coins.

The fastest growing is the rose perfume business. Even though the price is higher, because it has entered new markets such as Wright Castle, Fort Flame, Grizzly Castle, Duke of Jonathan, and Duke of Edward, it has increased by almost five times compared to last year. More than five thousand gold coins.

Now the vast majority of noble ladies and ladies in northern Xinjiang like to use rose water.This industry has no competitors for the time being, and it is quite profitable.

Next year, Richard can still be sold to Nolan, the capital of the kingdom, and sold to the Grand Duchy of Stanik through the channel of the Goddess of Wealth Church. The profit of the perfume business will reach [-].

Cash income, this year's territory has 26 gold coins.Compared with last year, there are three thousand gold coins less.

Excluding the income from hunting demons, the income of the territory has increased by [-] gold coins compared to last year.Li Cha doesn't pay much attention to the income from hunting demons. Through this year's income situation, Li Cha knows in his heart that compared with last year, this year's territory has a more solid foundation.Both industry and agriculture have increased by more than [-]%, and are still developing rapidly.

Especially in animal husbandry, after seven or eight years of accumulation, the number of sheep raised in Harland's territory has increased from 300 to 180 million.The flock of sheep directly controlled by the territory will reach 200 million by the end of the year.Counting the sheep raised by free folk families, the number of sheep in the territory has exceeded [-] million, which is close to the limit of the territory's carrying capacity.

Now that the animal husbandry industry has passed the accumulation stage, if there is no way to export it, the Harland Territory will sell more than 200 million sheep next year, and the terrible situation that mutton is cheaper than grain will appear.

Although there is a cash income of 26 gold coins this year, the territory has also increased a lot of expenses.

More than 6000 veterans are paid 1 gold coins a year, and more than [-] soldiers consume about [-] gold coins in food, cloth, meat and other messy materials every year.

In addition, the armor, weapons, vehicles, and beasts that need to be equipped for the expansion of the army by 3 are also a considerable expense, about 8000 gold coins.The pensions for soldiers killed in battle and disabled soldiers cost more than [-] gold coins a year.

The salary of the territorial bureaucrats needs to spend [-] gold coins, and the investment in education and medical care adds up to about [-] gold coins.

In terms of magic research, the territory has invested more than 2 gold coins this year.

Coupled with some small miscellaneous expenses, the total expenditure this year totaled about 17 gold coins.

With a financial surplus of [-] gold coins, of course Richard would not store them in the treasury.

There are already 9 gold coins in reserve in the treasury of Harland's territory, and Richard plans to use the remaining [-] gold coins this year for military expansion.

He first purchased 120 iron horned horses from Duke Edward, expanding the number of monster cavalry to three hundred.

Then he bought [-] bottles of Tenghui Potion from Duke Jonathan and the Grant royal family.For the remaining gold coins, Li Cha plans to buy some precious super magic metals, make some magic equipment, mid-level and high-level enchanted weapons, strengthen the power of magicians, and provide protection for mid-level and high-level officers in the territory.

After becoming the earl, Richard also began to recruit talents. Some of the under-appreciated aristocratic offshoots and weaker wild magicians also rushed to Harland's territory, swore allegiance to Richard, and began to serve the Harland family.

It's just that Li Cha still can't fully believe these foreign professionals, and won't put them in an important position.

Especially for secret-related places, they need to go through strict review before they have access.

If you want to recruit professional talents, you must first become a great noble, have a certain reputation, and be able to provide people with a step across the class, so that some talents will come to seek refuge.

In the Chenxi plane, learning literary and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family is still an eternal truth. The first choice of outstanding talents is always to be a civil servant and serve the government.

Now that Li Cha has become an earl, he finally has a platform. The big nobles are far more attractive to talents than the small nobles.

Less than half a year after Li Cha was promoted to Earl, more than 60 professionals came to join him, including two first-level magicians, one second-level magician, and one third-level magician.The descendants of nobles who are proficient in writing and grammar have more than a hundred of them.

When Li Cha hired several elementary school teachers, he needed to spend a lot of favors to pay a high price.Now that he has a reputation, it is not so difficult to recruit talents.

With these talents to rely on, Li Cha decided to increase investment in education and medical care from next year. After the spring, he plans to open a third elementary school. The annual tuition fee for students will be reduced to two silver coins, further benefiting the lower class families.In addition, Richard is also planning to open a middle school in Fort William to train more qualified talents.

In addition to investing in education, Richard is also preparing to build a second hospital in Vicksburg.

The vicinity of Fort Vic has been successfully developed. The two baronies of Stopa and Dirham have a living population of more than [-].In terms of dense population alone, this area is a bit more than the vicinity of Fort William.However, the number of free citizens in these two territories is still relatively small. The main industry is agriculture, and their economic contribution to the territories is not very large.In terms of policy, it is not as important as the Marsh Basin, and it cannot be compared with Fort William.

After years of development, Fort William Hospital has trained enough medical staff. This time, Richard decided to establish a second hospital in the southern region in order to balance the policy a bit.

(End of this chapter)