Lord Harland

The next day, Senna and Richard repeated their old trick, but to their surprise, the Pale Disaster did not fall for the trick and did not send any undead creatures.

Because they did not know the details of the Undead Lord, Senna, Richard and others did not dare to go deep into the tomb at night.

And Princess Oflan's consciousness cannot control the sub-plane of the Pale Disaster. There is no way to solve this situation by sending a large number of undead creatures out to die.

Seeing that Princess Oflama's Mausoleum was stabilized, Richard left a large group of soldiers for Archbishop Senna to help out. The top management mainly relied on the manpower of the Church of Dawn to maintain the operation of Princess Oflanda's Mausoleum base.

Richard took the backbone of Harland's leadership and returned to different castles.

For this operation, Richard mobilized manpower from all aspects.

Wilde from the Demon Hunting City, Thoros from the Norman Castle, and Jennings from Nitburg were all transferred here, as well as the vassal lords of the territories. They are the backbone and commanders of each army, and they are all inseparable. Post too long.

Richard left the members of the First Squadron, the Griffin Knights, and the Territorial Mage Corps to garrison in Sam Castle, so that these capable forces could support Archbishop Senna at any time. He took Sophia and a few others back to Fort William.

When Richard returned to Fort William, it was already December 24th. All kinds of data at the end of the year had been compiled, and he was ready to wait for Richard to hold the annual meeting and make a year-end summary.

The first is population, which was calculated at the end of the year by 10,000 people more than estimated in the fall.

After more than ten years of development, the Harland Territory has cultivated tens of thousands of literate people, the quality of officials has improved very much, and a complete household registration system has been established.

Private slave-keeping is prohibited in the territory, and Richard has formulated strict laws. Once a private slave reports to the official, his freedom will be restored immediately, and slave owners who keep private slaves will be severely punished.

Slave owners not only faced huge fines, but also lost their citizenship and became indentured servants again.

In addition, the Haaland Territory also has a private slave purchase law. After slaves purchased from outside enter the territory, the official will pay to purchase and compensate the slave owners.

With Richard's support, these laws can be implemented. Therefore, basically no one in Harland's territory dares to violate the law and keep private slaves.

Without private slaves, the territorial household registration department could accurately count the population.

The more than 10,000 additional people registered in the household registration this year are mainly free people who migrated from northern Xinjiang.

Because the laws of the Harland Territory are relatively fair and strict, and the political order is not only far beyond that of other lords, but also beyond the territory controlled by the royal family, it can attract a part of the population to move in every year.

Many of these foreign free citizens are doing well, and a large part of them are from professional families. Many of them have noble blood, which is a very rare high-quality population.

They have their own savings. After joining the Harland Territory, they can immediately drive consumption, which is very beneficial to the economic development of the territory.

According to household registration statistics at the end of the year, the Haaland Territory has a population of 1,476,000.

Because 240,000 indentured servants have become freedmen this year, there are already 695,000 freedmen in the Harland Territory. After more than ten years of development, the proportion of free people in the population has exceeded 47%. If a large number of indentured servants are not added next year, this proportion will increase significantly.

There are nearly 700,000 free people, and they have formed a large-scale consumer market in northern Xinjiang, much larger than Nolan, the capital of the Grant Kingdom.

The total number of people with spending power in Nolan is only about 500,000.

The land tax in the Harland territory is not heavy. A free citizen collects three silver coins, and there are nearly 700,000 tax collectors. The total tax collected is about 170,000 gold coins.

Normally, a field tax of 174,000 gold coins should be collected this year, but this year the new freedmen are relatively poor, and the grain sent is all new, containing high moisture, and the weight was lost when sold, so in the end, only One hundred and seventy thousand gold coins in taxes.

In addition to land tax, commercial tax is more prosperous this year, and customs revenue is also rising. Coupled with the real estate tax, installment payment and other windfalls, Harland's tax revenue this year reached a new high, with the total amount reaching 232,000 gold coins.

Land tax occupies an absolute majority of tax revenue.

The tax revenue of more than 230,000 gold coins is enough to support 10,000 regular troops. Compared with the defense needs of Harland Territory, it is far from enough.

Simply looking at taxation, the level of the Harland Territory is relatively low, only equivalent to the level of an earldom.

The traditional nobles were extremely cruel in their oppression of the people. Each freedman living near the castle paid an average tax of six silver coins. The land in the countryside belonged entirely to the lords. The serfs were starved of food and almost all struggled to death. There was basically no yeoman class in the territory, and all the profits were siphoned off by the lords.

A county with a population of four to five million people could collect nearly three hundred thousand gold coins in taxes to support one legionnaire.

The dukedoms of Edward, Fox and others, with a population of 12 to 300,000 people, can receive about one million gold coins in taxes.

The bulk of Haaland's fiscal revenue has always been not taxes, but profits from government-run enterprises.

This year, the Harland Territory has reclaimed two million acres of wasteland, and the total number of cultivated lands in the territory has reached nearly 10 million acres. Although the yield of the newly reclaimed cultivated land is not high, the total grain output of the territory has reached 940,000 tons, with an average yield of one mu. One hundred and eighty-eight pounds.

This year has not been a smooth year. A large part of the farmland has suffered from floods. Overall, it has been an average year at best. The reason why the average yield per mu has not dropped too much mainly depends on the supply of fertilizers and the water conservancy projects built in recent years.

The water conservancy project in the Harland Territory has been going on for more than ten years, because the territory has a large number of indentured slaves, which is very suitable for large-scale water conservancy projects. Moreover, the territory also has a group of mages who can use it.

Magicians can use it to build projects, as if cheating, and it can play a very big role. Two fossils can be turned into mud, and the mud-to-stone spell can turn decay into magic and create large-scale projects that far exceed the industrial level.

In the past ten years, twenty-one reservoirs have been built in the Harland territory, which not only facilitates the water supply of the castles, but also plays a strong role in water conservancy regulation, which greatly helps agricultural production.

After Richard took over the territory, he began to promote farmyard manure on a large scale. After using farmyard manure, the average grain output increased by nearly twenty kilograms. No

The average yield per mu of the territory has increased to nearly 200 kilograms, mainly due to the extensive use of natural potash fertilizer.

Last year, the production of natural potash fertilizer in the Haaland territory increased to 15,000 tons, with an average of 15 kilograms of fertilizer per mu, which can apply natural potash fertilizer to one million acres of land.

With the application of natural potash fertilizer, the average yield per mu has increased to about 460 kilograms.

Of course, these cultivated lands with potassium fertilizers are mainly fertile paddy fields. High-yielding crops are grown in these paddy fields, and the original yield per mu is 300 kilograms.

Of the 940,000 tons of grain, nearly half was in the hands of the freedmen. The grain harvested by the territorial government farms this year totaled approximately 490,000 tons.

The old grain accumulated last year is mainly used to prevent natural disasters. There are a total of 90,000 tons in the grain depot.

The total amount of grain that has been put into storage this year has reached 580,000 tons.

Since the severe treatment of cousin Tang En, the food system bureaucrats have become more honest. In addition, the official who manages the food system, Brian, is a capable person. In the past two years, there have been relatively few things that have failed in the food system. They were all buried for a while.

In order to refine the steel golem, Richard sold 40,000 tons of old grain to raise funds.

In addition, 35,000 tons were supplied to flour mills, leaving only 55,000 tons of grain reserves in the grain depot.

Although half a million tons of grain is a lot, the Harland territory still needs to provide food rations for more than 700,000 indentured slaves. Even if a person averages 450 kilograms, 160,000 tons must be reserved.

Moreover, there are 80,000 armed personnel in the Harland territory. A soldier consumes at least three kilograms of food every day, which is more than half a ton a year. Even if the auxiliary soldiers are trained less and eat less, the annual military rations are at least 40,000 tons.

The consumption of military horses is also very serious. As the saying goes, one horse is worth three soldiers, and the food intake of Warcraft horses is equivalent to ten soldiers. Including the World of Warcraft breeding base, there are nearly 2,000 Warcraft horses in the Harland territory, which is equivalent to supporting 20,000 soldiers. Plus the consumption of war horses and pack horses, it also costs 20,000 tons a year.

Sixty thousand tons of military rations are for maintaining military rations. If the orcs are attacked, the consumption of military rations may increase several times. Next year, the orcs will invade again, and Richard needs to reserve 100,000 tons of military rations.

A large amount of grain will be left behind for next year's farming. This year, 240,000 indentured servants have become freedmen, and 1.44 million acres of farmland have been allocated. The area of ​​government farms has been reduced a lot, and 50,000 tons of grain must be left. .

As the market scale expands, winemaking also requires 10,000 tons of grain. In addition to the need to reserve 100,000 tons of grain to prevent natural disasters, only 90,000 tons of stocks in the grain depot can be used.

Although the Harland territory is short of money this year, Richard does not intend to sell the 90,000 tons of surplus grain. He will face a war next year, and grain reserves are a top priority.

Once Richard won the battle and rescued a large number of slaves from the orc empire, these grains were reserved for the new indentured slaves.

Richard had no experience before and had some problems during planning. During the war, he sold some grain. In the autumn, due to the increase in indentured servants, he had to buy grain from the market. Not only did he pay an extra transaction cost, but also a A very dangerous thing.

Fortunately, the northern Xinjiang region was the grain-producing area of ​​the Grant Kingdom, so there were no problems with the development of the Harland Territory.

Grain cannot be sold, but flour can be sold. Thirty-five thousand tons of grain were sold to flour mills, which brought 70,000 gold coins to the finance.

With the invention of the steam flour mill, white flour entered millions of households.

According to the factory wholesale price in Harland's territory, one ton of flour costs six gold coins, while the retail price in the shops in the castle is three copper coins per kilogram.

A flour mill sells a ton of flour, excluding various costs, for a gross profit of about three gold coins.

However, purchasing a steam flour mill requires a huge capital of eight hundred gold coins. In addition, operating a flour mill requires purchasing coal, wood and other fuels, and hiring skilled workers.

Calculated last year, a net profit of about two gold coins was earned from processing one ton of flour.

The Harland Territory processed a total of 60,000 tons of flour last year, bringing a net profit of 120,000 gold coins to the territory.

However, part of the profits belong to private flour processing factories such as Odaye, and the state-owned flour mills in Harland Territory have a total profit of 100,000 gold coins.

The private flour processing factory run by Odaye and others still needs to pay 35% tax. The seven thousand gold coins are included in the tax, which is a new tax in Harland Territory.

Today, the government-run enterprises in the Harland Territory are still very simple. Most of them deal in monopoly products and must hand over all profits every year without paying taxes.

The first reason why Richard is willing to allow private capital to enter the flour processing industry to compete with the government for profits is to promote competition. Only with sufficient competition can the level of technology continue to improve.

The second is to allow private capital to flow within the territory.

Some successful people who entered the territory relatively early, such as Odaye and others, have accumulated thousands of gold coins in their hands after more than ten years of accumulation.

If they don't find a place to invest these funds, they can only hide the gold coins in the cellar, or use them to purchase land estates and accelerate land annexation.

The Harland Territory Decree restricts land annexation. The more farmland you own, the heavier the tax on land that exceeds the standard base. As long as the tax can be collected, buying a large amount of farmland is basically to work for the territory.

Richard takes the issue of taxation very seriously. Regardless of his position or credit, anyone who evades or resists taxes will be severely punished by Richard, and he will show no mercy to anyone.

Whether it was a relative of the Harland family or a nobleman of the Stowe family, as long as Richard found out about it, he would not give anyone face, confiscate all the property, and demote him to an indentured servant to participate in labor. These people include Richard's cousin, Sophia's cousin, and some officers and soldiers who have made meritorious deeds.

After many struggles, bureaucrats large and small in the territory will never dare to impose taxes.

At least in Richard's generation, there aren't many people who evade taxes.

Unable to annex land, gold coins can only be hidden in the cellar.

Without gold coins circulating, the economy cannot function.

Only when gold coins circulate can they create demand, drive economic development, and play their role as currency. Therefore, Richard must continue to reduce restrictions on private capital investment and bring the effectiveness of this part of gold coins into full play.

The development of animal husbandry this year has been relatively stable, with more than 2 million sheep produced in the official pasture. However, there are already 700,000 free people in the territory this year, and the free people are all people with spending power. Nearly a million sheep are digested in the territorial market.

The consumption of more than one million troops is also staggering. Add to this the benefits provided to civil servants, pensions and bonuses to the families of soldiers who died in battle, were disabled, and made meritorious service, and 800,000 sheep entered the mouth of this huge gold-swallowing beast.

The remaining 200,000 sheep were basically sold to the two castles of Heihe and Lieyan.

This year, the people's wealth in the territory has increased again, and more than 200,000 free people have been added. The market has expanded very quickly, and there is no need to travel thousands of miles to drive the sheep to Norland and the southern provinces.

Excluding feed, labor and other expenses, the government-run ranch brought a profit of 96,000 gold coins to the territory this year.

Because the government-run ranches use a large number of sheep-bodied people who are familiar with the habits of sheep and are very successful, the number of private free-range sheep has become extremely rare. Occasionally, farmers keep a few free-range sheep and keep them for themselves. In this regard, there is basically no way How much tax is levied.