Lord Harland.

Chapter 289
Harland Territory has a small population. According to the current development speed, it will be enough to mine 10,000+ tons of coal next year.However, with the extensive use of steam engines, the consumption of coal will also increase greatly.

When the amount of coal mining increases, the coal chemical industry can be developed.

It has been many years since Richard established the Chemical Research Institute, but in this field, there has been no rapid progress.

Under Li Cha's guidance, the Institute of Chemical Engineering has begun to study coal tar, and with the help of a microscope, they have somewhat discovered it.

If you want to extract various substances from coal tar, you must do many experiments, and there is no shortcut.

After observing for more than half an hour, the steam mine car started twice and transported the coal accumulated in the mine to the outside.

Hearing the roar of the steam engine, Richard left the mine and returned to Chaveson's office.He randomly searched in Chavison's office and found the miner's salary.

Li Cha opened it and looked, and found that the wages of the miners increased rapidly, and the monthly salary increased to eight silver coins, catching up with ordinary soldiers.

The work in coal mines is quite dangerous. There have been many accidents in recent years, killing and injuring dozens of people.

The coal mine is now operating well, and can turn in a large amount of profits every year, so the salary of the coal mine unit has improved rapidly, and Li Cha knows in his heart that this is human nature.

Li Cha put down his salary and said to Chavison: "Is there a file of the miner in the mine? Go and find the file of the miner, I want to have a look."

"Two years ago, the coal mine assigned several educated people. Under their work, the file registration work has been completed."

When the Harland Territory was first established, a household registration file system was established.In the first year, both Richard and Wendy personally participated in the construction of the household registration and archives department.

At that time, there were not many literate people in Harland Territory. In order to leave a file for everyone, Li Cha often wrote files late at night, and wrote more than a dozen files every day.

The early files were very simple, and usually recorded the name, gender, age, household registration, occupational skills, etc. In the lower left corner of the file, there was also a red handprint.

With the establishment of the River Bank Primary School and the continuous development of education work, there are now a large number of literate people in the Harland Territory, and the household registration and file systems have been effectively implemented.

Files are also becoming more and more complex, adding education, work experience, height and weight, physical health, marital status, immediate family members and so on.In addition, the honors obtained and the crimes committed will be recorded in the file.

In today's Harland Territory, files and household registration are very important to a freeman, and they are related to a person's future and life.

Li Cha opened the files of the miners, and began to look through them at a glance, and found that their cultural level was extremely bad, and there were hardly any knowledgeable people.

The only five or six primary school graduates were also assigned to coal mines in the past few years, and they were basically in the logistics and archives departments.

Among front-line workers, the illiteracy rate exceeds 90.00%. It is estimated that there are only a few team leaders and managers who can understand documents.

After reading the file, Li Cha said with a heavy heart: "The illiteracy rate is too high."

"We also want to recruit educated front-line workers, but the working conditions in the mines are too harsh. Those with knowledge can basically find an easy job, they can pay tuition fees, and the conditions at home are also very good. Even if they are allocated coal mines, they are unwilling to go down the mines. The people who go down the mines are all poor ghosts who have just become freemen, for a high salary and to become government workers. They are not afraid of death because we give pensions. "

"You have to improve the conditions and directly give the status of basic officials. You are a deputy county-level department with high autonomy and rapid promotion. It is attractive to some young talents who are interested in official careers. Coal mines need to recruit some capable The new workers with knowledge will focus on training them in the future, and train these people into skilled workers. The improvement of mining technology should not only rely on experience, but also rely on knowledge and scientific calculations.

Although output is important, production safety must also be paid close attention to.Next year, you will be equipped with steam minecarts, and your efficiency will increase.Your main task is to focus on production safety and reduce accidents.If there is a serious accident, I will hold you accountable. "

After inspecting the coal mine, Li Cha returned to the barracks.

From last autumn to this year, the Harland Territory has increased by [-] soldiers, almost doubling the number of troops, but the average quality of soldiers has dropped severely.

In a year and a half, the [-] captive soldiers recruited last year have completed literacy, changed their equipment, and started practicing breathing techniques. Two soldiers with good qualifications have been promoted to intermediate soldier apprentices, and have received key training from the army. Department directly under the headquarters.

People with good talent and aptitude can basically be promoted to high-level fighters as long as they invest resources in training and work hard to improve themselves, and they can play a great role in the battlefield.

The Harland leader is not an old noble after all, and there are not many available people. As long as they are talented, they can easily be valued by the high-level.

People with outstanding talents have very smooth upward channels.

This group of soldiers has been fully integrated into the Harland territory because their relatives have moved here.

Although the combat effectiveness of the captive soldiers is not as good as that of the veterans in the Harland Territory, after all, they have many years of war experience, and they are considered qualified soldiers in terms of thinking and skills.Having practiced breathing techniques and replaced them with sophisticated weapons and armor, their combat power far surpassed that of before, and they are considered good soldiers in the main army.

Four thousand recruits have completed their recruit training and are about to be assigned to various units.

The training period for recruits in the Harland Territory is one year. When they first joined the army, the amount of training was not very large, and the training tasks were not heavy.In the morning, there will be queue training, in the afternoon, literacy activities, and after dinner, you must recite military regulations, familiarize yourself with military drums and horns, learn to obey orders, and begin to cultivate military style.

Three months later, the literacy work was over, and I started to practice breathing in the morning, and trained various military skills in the afternoon, and I had to train in formation and physical fitness every few days.

During the one-year training period, the management is very strict. There are only two days a month to leave the camp and receive family members to visit relatives.

After completing recruit training, soldiers have been reborn and have the style of soldiers.But without actual combat experience, without having fought a few brutal wars in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, recruits will not be able to complete their transformation, and they will never become veterans.

The influx of a large number of recruits into the army will inevitably go through a period of adjustment, and it will also make the commanders of the various troops somewhat uncomfortable.In order to avoid affecting the combat effectiveness of the old troops, most of the 14 recruits were divided into the seventh, eighth, ninth, and No. [-] infantry brigades. Each new brigade needs to receive [-] new recruits and [-] converted captive soldiers.

The proportion of recruits in these four brigades exceeds 40.00%, and the proportion of converted prisoners exceeds 40.00%. The old foundation of Harland's territory is only [-]%.

The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth brigades will also receive [-] new recruits and [-] converted prisoners.More than half of the veterans of these four old troops, because the number has increased a lot, the combat effectiveness has improved compared to before the reorganization.

The second brigade received 60 new recruits and [-] captive soldiers, and the previous old base was basically not mobilized.This reorganization also added more than [-] pieces of enchanted armor made of ogre skin, strengthening a backbone squadron.During the recent period, Captain Lost always has a smile on his face, and walks with wind.

The first brigade was the core of the infantry in Harland's territory. Not only did it not lose blood, but it also recruited [-] veterans from other infantry, and its combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

The rest of the recruits, converted captive soldiers, were mainly assigned to the guard brigade, second-line units and so on.

The special troops in Harland's territory, such as the magic hot air balloon troop, lion cavalry, magic beast cavalry brigade, and scout cavalry brigade, will not select soldiers from recruits.If there is a shortage in these troops, all the veterans will be transferred.

After Li Cha came to the barracks, the recruits will hold their final parade three days later, followed by a farewell ceremony, and finally they will be assigned to different armies.

In recent days, the boot camp is about to be disbanded, and the boot camp has dinner every day.

The officers and soldiers in the boot camp spent a year together, and many of them developed deep bonds.

It seems that we are about to part, and in this era of frequent wars, once separated, we may not see each other for the rest of our lives.

The recruits were about to leave the army, and many officers paid out of their own pockets to invite the soldiers to eat and drink. During this time, the discipline of the recruit battalion was not tight enough.

Li Cha also participated in a recruit dinner, but with him present, the soldiers behaved more cautiously, and the atmosphere was serious.

Seeing that he affected the farewell of the officers and soldiers, Richard did not continue to participate, but found Frank who was in charge of recruit training.

It has been ten years since Frank joined the Harland Territory. When he first entered the Harland Territory, he was already a Tier [-] professional.At that time, Harland's territory was not strong, and Tier [-] professionals were relatively rare.Ten years ago, Frank was an officer that Richard relied heavily on.

Among the officers in Harland's territory, Frank's qualifications were already very deep.

Frank is from the Grizzly Legion and has practiced the giant bear breathing method.Because of being stuck in advanced exercises, he has not been promoted for more than ten years.

As time passed, Frank's status in the Harland Territory became lower and lower, and his position had not been transferred for eight years.

"The army is expanding recently. Have you ever thought about going down and leading the troops?"

Li Cha and Frank are both in Fort William, and Li Cha often comes to the boot camp. The two often meet and have a deep relationship.

"I've thought about this issue. My professional level is only at the third level. I can't convince people to be a team leader, and I'm too old to be a squadron leader. I'd better stay in the recruit training camp and make some contributions to the territory."

"The captain can't do it, but he can be the deputy captain. Do you just want to be the chief officer and not the adjutant?"

Frank shook his head and said, "I have been a deputy squadron leader in the Grizzlies for three years. Of course I would like to be an adjutant. It's just that I have been in the boot camp for these years, and I have feelings for this place, and I don't want to leave."

Frank's talent is good, but it's a pity that his background is too low.He has no family-inherited breathing method, and he was controlled by others after joining the army.After escaping from the Orc Empire, he served in Harland.If he is an ambitious person, for the sake of his own future, he will immediately leave the Harland Territory and join the Grizzly Legion for development.

Frank is not very ambitious, and he doesn't seem to want to go down and lead troops to fight for his life.Since Frank didn't want to go down and lead the troops, Li Cha didn't make things difficult for him.

Harland Territory now has a lot of elite soldiers, and there are more than dozens of third-tier fighters. Some of Li Cha's men are aggressive and capable people who want to stand out and make military exploits.

Li Cha stayed in the army for three days, and in a blink of an eye it was time for the recruits' parade.

"The Sixth Squadron changed teams and stepped forward!"

At the command of the commander, the 120 soldiers of the sixth squadron quickly changed from a horizontal line to a column, and rushed to the front of the line.

After one year of queue training, the soldiers formed a very strict queue, with a distance of about half a meter between them, and there was no chaos in the operation.Just looking at the queue, it feels like an elite soldier.

"After the No. 100 Squadron draws, the column changes to a horizontal one, marching [-] meters at an accelerated pace, shooting arrows in array, shooting six rounds rapidly, ready to start!"

Following the command of the military officer, the No. 100 Squadron quickly changed the marching column into a horizontal line, and then turned back and began to march quickly.At a position of about [-] meters, the queue was rectified and six rounds of feathered arrows were shot.

The first squadron of new recruits is of good quality, even in the accelerated march, the queue is not too chaotic.After arriving at the predetermined location, the time for the whole team is also very short.

Li Cha checked the hit rate and found that more than half of the arrows were hit from 60 meters away.

The bows and arrows used by recruits are about eight bucket bows, which are soft bows compared with the main force.

There are quite a few good men in the main force, they are very powerful and accurate. After more than ten years of accumulation, there are more than a hundred people whose archery level has reached the third level.

Quite a few of these soldiers who have reached the third level of archery are already professionals and have become grassroots officers. They use the three-stone enchanted bow.

Professionals are much stronger than ordinary people, coupled with the destructive power attached to fighting spirit, the lethality is very strong, and the destructiveness is very astonishing.Even if the snake-body man, the backbone of the orcs, was targeted by a third-tier shooter, he might lose his life.

For example, the enchanted bow and arrow used by Richard's uncle Soros, if the bowstring is fully drawn, the strength is close to a thousand kilograms, which is more than sixteen stones.Among the more than 2 officers and soldiers in the Harland Territory, no more than ten people can draw their bowstrings.When this kind of enchanted bow is used, even if it does not add grudges, and does not use enchanted crossbow arrows, its destructiveness is equivalent to that of a bed crossbow.Professionals below the middle level, as long as they are shot to the point, it is impossible to survive.

Although the combat effectiveness of the recruits is far inferior to that of the veterans and grassroots officers, their qualities shown in the drills already have strong discipline, and they are considered qualified soldiers.Relying on these [-] recruits, Li Cha is sure to defeat [-] serf soldiers.

Recruits can sometimes play a key role on the battlefield, the key is to see how the commander uses them.

Especially in defensive battles, recruits can also rely on fortifications and equip equipment to kill professionals. A recruit can also kill professionals by using bows and arrows and throwing alchemy bombs.Soldiers' quality, tactics, equipment, psychological state, geographical conditions and even climatic conditions are all part of determining the outcome of a war.

(End of this chapter)