Lord Harland.

Chapter 395 Annual Summary
  There are [-] million free people, and the land tax collected is as high as [-] gold coins. In addition to commercial taxes, customs duties, real estate taxes, installment payments, house rents, etc., this year's tax revenue has reached four [-] gold coins, an increase of [-] gold coins compared to last year, a year-on-year increase of [-]%, which is a very huge increase.

Next year will also be a great year for pardoning freedmen, with more than [-] new freedmen added. It is estimated that by the end of next year, Harland will receive more than [-] in taxes, which will reach the fiscal revenue level of the Marquis Territory.

From the first day when the territory was established, Lord Harland's main financial revenue was not taxes, but profits turned over by state-owned enterprises.

In the early days, the territory mainly relied on steel, liquor, and brown sugar. In the following years, the distillation process of liquor was leaked, and the income from liquor decreased. However, the steel trade still accounted for a large proportion of the profits turned over by state-owned enterprises.

Today's Harland leader, the most profitable items are various magic products, such as Tenghui potion, Styx potion, alchemy bomb, magic hot air balloon, searing ray gun and so on. But the products that create the most jobs and deliver the highest profits are still steel products.

In recent years, due to the outbreak of war and the need to build railways, Harland's steel industry has been increasing production capacity. This year, the steel sector produced a total of [-] tons of iron and [-] tons of steel. The total steel production capacity exceeds eight million tons, which has exceeded the level of most township steel plants in the [-]s.

Most of the [-] tons of steel production capacity is absorbed within the Harland territory, and other regions in northern Xinjiang consume one-fifth of the production capacity.

Nowadays, the retail price of steel products has been very stable. Although the export of steel is only [-] tons, the aristocratic steel industry in northern Xinjiang has been defeated. Now Harland's retail price of steel has dropped to two copper coins per kilogram. No matter which nobleman produces one kilogram of steel, he will lose money.

Compared with twenty years ago, the price of steel products has dropped fifteen times. Nineteen years ago, Richard purchased iron materials to make weapons. The price of poor quality pig iron was as high as one silver coin per kilogram.

Prices have dropped significantly, and incomes have improved significantly compared to twenty years ago. From this, it can be seen that the living standards of the free people in Harland Territory have far exceeded those in the three northern Xinjiang provinces.

Due to the considerable increase in production capacity, the steel department handed over a profit of [-] gold coins to the territory this year. Compared with last year, it increased by a quarter.

Due to the production constraints of Xuejing Lake, Tenghui Pharmaceutical's market share is relatively stable. As in previous years, most of the Tenghui potions were used within the territory to recover meritorious deeds.

This year, Harland led the refinery of [-] bottles of Tenghui potion, and the production capacity was close to that of the Grant royal family. Among them, [-] bottles were consumed within the territory, and more than [-] professionals were added.

It was precisely because of the promotion of a large number of professionals that Richard was able to continuously expand his army, form an all-professional army, and establish special units.

The four thousand bottles of Tenghui potions sold were exchanged for food and ore worth more than [-] gold coins, and extraordinary materials worth [-] gold coins. More than [-] gold coins in cash were also recovered from the territorial soldiers.

This year, because the territorial vassals could not pay their debts, Richard did not provide them with the Tenghui potion. Not counting the merits recovered from the soldiers, hunting the snow crystal fish and refining the Tenghui potion not only saved Harland a lot of money. He spent a sum of money on buying Tenghui Pharmacy and made a profit of about two hundred thousand gold coins.

Styx Potion, newly launched this year, is also Harland's flagship product. Although it was only in its first year on the market, only [-] bottles were auctioned, and it still brought Harland [-] in cash.

The magicians who bought the Styx potion were mainly people from the Grant Mage Association. Both of the two medium-sized Styx potions were sold to high-level officials of the Mage Association. One of them was an acquaintance of Richard, Yi who had spoken for Richard in the world of the dead. Vince Shane.

Fifteen years have passed, and Xia En has been promoted to a nine-ring magician. However, he is approaching seventy years old and has little chance to break through the legendary bottleneck and complete this promotion.

The risk of being promoted to Legend is relatively high. If you fail to succeed, you will be seriously injured or killed. Xia En came to Harland to buy the Styx potion this time, probably just to make a last push before he runs out of energy.

Anyway, Richard is not very optimistic about his success in promotion.

This year, the Harland Territory reclaimed more than three million acres of wasteland. However, these newly reclaimed farmland delayed spring plowing. In the first year, only some miscellaneous beans were planted. The harvest of the newly reclaimed farmland was less than [-] tons. Seeds and grains ratio remains at a very low level.

Today, Harland Territory has reclaimed [-] million acres of farmland, of which approximately [-] million acres are in the hands of freedmen. Haaland directly controls more than [-] million acres of farmland.

This year's total agricultural grain output in the territory reached [-] million tons.

Although [-] million tons of food is a lot of food, the Harland Territory already has [-] million people. In addition, it has to feed more than [-] satyrs, more than [-] orc slaves, and more than [-] orc slaves. With more than [-] large livestock, [-] tons of food alone are consumed. In addition, the territorial breeding industry requires a large amount of feed, which adds up to about [-] tons.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of grain will be reserved next year. Grain is also needed for wine making and flour milling. The grain produced in the Harland territory this year is already somewhat insufficient.

If the Southern Expedition hadn't made a fortune from the Delong Kingdom and spent [-] gold coins to purchase hundreds of thousands of tons of grain, the grain in the treasury would have been completely exhausted.

Although Harland Territory's agricultural production is very good this year, with grain production rising steadily and new reservoirs and ditches built, due to the increase of more than [-] people, there is not much profit in a year, and [-] gold coins are paid out. cash.

As the population expands, the flour manufacturing industry in Harland is still not saturated and is still developing rapidly.

This year, Harland led more than [-] free citizens, and the market size increased by more than one-third. Although the flour manufacturing industry does not restrict private capital and competition is very serious, several flour processing factories still handed over [-] gold coins this year. Profits increased by [-]% year-on-year.

The private flour mill paid a tax of [-] gold coins, which has been included in the tax revenue.

The livestock industry is developing well. Due to the expansion of the domestic demand market, the territory's official pasture stock has increased significantly this year, supply has increased by a quarter, and meat prices have basically remained stable.

The ranch run by the leader of Harland delivered an excellent report card at the end of the year, in addition to supplying the army. A total of [-] gold coins were handed over in profit in one year.

The number of freedmen increased and the domestic demand market expanded. The production capacity of the brown sugar market increased again this year. In addition, Harland led the smuggling route in the south. This year, the brown sugar planting and sales department handed over a profit of [-] gold coins.

Next year is the year when the indentured servants expire. In the spring, nearly [-] people will be pardoned. The domestic demand market will continue to expand, and the brown sugar planting sector will hand over more profits.

Now Harland's brown sugar plantation has expanded to more than [-] acres, forming a huge sugar market, which has greatly reduced costs and is no longer afraid of competition from other nobles.

The population size has increased, and the vitality of the real estate industry has greatly increased. Because the population of Harland is still rising rapidly, the real estate industry may maintain its prosperity for many years. Richard's three views were formed in the technological world with developed capital, and he knew very well that the real estate industry is related to people's livelihood. In previous lives, many countries have failed in this industry. This kind of industry has strong financial attributes. Richard strictly controls the scale of real estate development and strictly prohibits private capital from getting involved in this industry.

The Duchy of Harland is still an emerging country, and the intricate network of relationships within the territory has not yet been formed. Richard is the founding monarch, and he is very powerful. He can suppress the demands of interest groups in the territory. He has very strong control over the territory and does not need to compromise too much to interest groups and give up a lot of profits.

Therefore, although some officials and nobles in the territory were not satisfied, they still did not dare to oppose Richard's decision.

The real estate industry has a long industrial chain, involving masonry, cement, glass, wood and other industries, and is related to economic development and people's livelihood.

Harland Territory builds a large number of houses every year and rents them to free people in the territory at low prices.

The annual rent payment and installment payment are very stable, making it a profitable business. This year, the income is as high as [-] gold coins.

As the arms business in the Harland Territory sells well, this abnormal trade becomes more and more prosperous. The nobles in the south buy weapons from the Harland Territory, then capture slaves from the Kingdom of Delon, and finally sell them to the Harland Territory.

Those involved in this business range from the Dukedom of Duran and the Dukedom of Guise to hereditary barons and noble vassals. Even the legions directly under the royal family have begun to get involved in this business and work for the Harland Territory.

Last year, Richard purchased [-] slaves, paid [-] million gold coins in cash, and sold more than [-] gold coins. The arms production and sales department handed over [-] gold coins in profit to Harland.

The coin casting department also turned over a lot of profits. Due to the rapid economic development, Harland Territory is still in a money shortage. Although the Dragon's Nest was conquered this year and [-] million gold coins were seized, the money was used to buy slaves and was quickly consumed. clean.

However, because a large amount of gold was seized from the dragon's nest and handed over to the Grant royal family, [-] gold coins were exchanged for it, so the money shortage was slightly alleviated.

Throughout last year, Harland led the minting of silver coins and copper coins worth [-] gold coins. In order to promote the credit currency of banknotes, he also printed [-] gold coin vouchers and distributed them to civil servants and soldiers as salaries.

After printing vouchers for three consecutive years, everyone finally gained some confidence in this special currency, and a small amount of it began to circulate in the market.

Having harvested a large amount of funds from laying down Dragon's Nest, Haaland did not issue treasury bonds this year. Because of the lack of financial talents and his somewhat conservative thinking, Richard was very cautious about issuing bonds.

Today, Leader Harland has only issued [-] gold coin treasury bonds. Compared with the government's revenue, the debt leverage is very light.

This year we laid down the dragon's lair and seized a large amount of jewelry. After selling it for most of half a year, we recovered about [-] gold coins in cash.

Harland took over the Duke's Bank. He made a lot of profits by investing in a private flour processing factory. The bank's profit this year exceeded [-] gold coins. Richard asked the Duke's Bank to hand over [-] gold coins in profit and keep [-] gold coins in the banking system to enrich the bank. gold.

Due to the increase in population and the expansion of the domestic demand market, the profits of the cotton spinning business have also increased significantly. Although the price department led by Haaland is very strict in managing prices related to people's livelihood, the profit margin of the cotton spinning industry is not high. This year, it still turned in a profit of [-] gold coins. .

Harland has a commodity monopoly law, and the government controls almost most of the people's livelihood commodities. Richard requires not only profits from these state-owned enterprises that control basic resources, but also requires them to provide relatively safe and cheap commodities. State-owned enterprises monopolize the market and have the responsibility to provide low-priced goods and maintain territorial stability.

The domestic demand market is increasing, and the soap and toilet soap industries are also increasing production capacity. This year, the soap department handed over a profit of [-] gold coins.

The sales of Harland's medicines are still skyrocketing. The sales of Harland's medicines are divided into two types: magic potions and ordinary drugs.

Each of these two products has its own flagship product. The hemostatic ointment is actually a low-level magic potion. The insect repellent that began to be sold on a large scale this year is also a blockbuster, bringing very large profits to Haaland's tie.

The most basic characteristics of magic potions sold by the pharmaceutical department are large supply and low cost.

Analgesic pills are a new drug developed in the territory. The composition of this drug is similar to aspirin, and it is entirely attributed to the chemistry department. With Richard's personal intervention, sulfonamide drugs are also under development.

The largest variety is natural plant extract medicines, with more than a dozen types of medicines.

All kinds of medicines are in full bloom, and the medicine production and sales departments turned in profits of [-] gold coins this year.

Coal production capacity is still increasing rapidly, and now three coal mines have been discovered in Harland Territory, namely the Tulum Coal Mine near Fort William, the Kasan Coal Mine in the upper reaches of the Burnie River, and the Losa Coal Mine in the eastern Losa Basin.

All three coal mines have been put into operation and their production capacity will be increased to [-] tons this year. This year, the three coal mines have turned over a total of [-] gold coins in profit.

The rest are basically small-scale industries. Due to the expansion of the domestic demand market, these large and small industries combined can turn over [-] gold coins in profit.

Not counting the cash gains from conquering Dragon's Lair, Harland's fiscal revenue this year reached [-] million gold coins, an increase of [-] million gold coins from last year and a year-on-year increase of [-]%. Well above the levels expected at the end of last year.

After the Grant royal family secured the southern territory, its fiscal revenue stabilized at around [-] million gold coins. According to Harland's fiscal revenue this year, it is roughly equivalent to half of the royal family's fiscal revenue.

This year, there are only [-] million people in the Harland Territory, but the royal family directly controls tens of millions of people, and also has complete minting rights, and lords big and small will pay more or less tribute.

Haaland's per capita productivity is almost [-] times the level of the royal family.

Including the cash income from the Dragon's Nest, Harland received [-] million gold coins, which is almost equivalent to [-]% of the Grant royal family's financial income. After conquering the Dragon's Nest, Harland received this year's income. The cash returns are very encouraging.

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