Lord Harland

The Duke of Guise died in battle, and the Guis family would certainly not give up. They joined forces with the two great dukes, Duran and Lorraine, and continued to impeach Duke Harland in the noble assembly for his refusal to save his life.

The three Dukes joined forces and had a very high number of votes in the Noble Council. In just seven or eight days, the momentum was so great that the Harland family's power in the Noble Council could not be suppressed at all.

As a last resort, Richard sent envoys several times to tell the noble council about his difficulties and explain why no troops were sent for rescue.

The envoy was questioned several times in the Noble Council and explained that Harland's leader did not refuse to save the enemy, but fought two consecutive battles with less than 4,000 troops and could not save them at all.

Although Richard had a good excuse, the Duchy of Guise was still unyielding and initiated several motions to impeach the Duchy of Harland. In order to silence the Duke of Guise, Richard was forced to agree to give up part of the money. Benefit compensation.

In the end, after six rounds of negotiations between the two parties, Richard gave up 600,000 Delong Kingdom gold coins to settle the situation with the Gis family.

After using part of the captured loot to settle the Guise family, Richard returned to the Harland Territory with hundreds of thousands of people in late May. At this moment, the spring plowing had already ended.

The 240,000 indentured slaves rescued from the Losar Basin this spring have served the Harland Territory for four years and nine months.

Before spring plowing, the Harland Territory pardoned them three months in advance as usual and allocated land to them. With the addition of many free people who had made meritorious services and were pardoned in advance, the number of free people in the Harland Territory has exceeded 109. Ten thousand.

With a consumer population of 1.09 million, the market size is far larger than that of the Norland Province.

In fact, except for a few nobles, the spending power of the Grant Kingdom's population mainly relies on military families.

Now that the army is moving south, most of the family members have followed. On the land directly under the royal family, the consumption power of the south has exceeded that of the north.

After all, there are six regular legions in the south, plus the noble armies such as Gis and Duran, the total number is about 250,000. Including the families of soldiers, the southern region has a consumer population of at least one million.

Due to the army's southward transfer, today's Grizzly Bear Fort and Black River Fort have declined very quickly. The commercial institutions of Black River Fort have reduced the profits they can turn over to Harland by 85%.

Last year, the Northern Army Corps was transferred south. Richard took the opportunity to recruit more than 3,000 veterans who were unwilling to leave their hometowns. These soldiers were still undergoing training. Richard planned to mix them with the 6,000 recruits trained this year to form six new brigades.

When the six new brigades are formed this year, General Haaland will have thirty-nine infantry brigades, and the number of regular troops will increase by about 10,000.

This time he led his troops south, and Harland led the army to capture 300 flaming horses. Richard planned to use these 300 flaming horses to form the third Warcraft Cavalry Brigade. If the newly formed 300 Warcraft Cavalry were added, Harland would The number of Warcraft Cavalry leaders will increase to 1,900.

Coupled with the expansion of the headquarters, the number of regular troops will reach 66,000 by the end of the year, and the number of auxiliary troops will also increase by 8,000. After the reorganization is completed, the number of Haaland's troops will exceed 100,000.

The size of the army of 100,000 is larger than that of the Duke of York.

They brought back 400,000 people from the south, and now the population of Harland Territory is 2.24 million. Both the territory area and the population size are quite impressive for a duchy.

It has a population of 2.24 million and nearly 1.1 million free people. Although Harland leads a light tax policy, the annual land tax can collect 300,000 gold coins, plus customs duties, business taxes, corporate income taxes, etc. , this year’s tax revenue is estimated to exceed 400,000 gold coins.

Four hundred thousand gold coins is estimated to account for about one-fifth of the fiscal revenue.

During spring plowing, Sophia and Rogge migrated part of the population to the north of Hurricane Castle, totaling about 40,000 people.

Eighty kilometers north of Hurricane Castle is the Samba River. Now Harland's army has established a naval force on the Samba River. Although this navy is relatively small, with only six steam paddle steamers, it can already blockade a hundred people. Many kilometers of river surface.

Blocked by the natural line of defense of the Samba River, the northern areas of Military Station No. 9 and Military Station No. 11 are relatively safe. Most of this area is plain, with only a small amount of mountains, with a total area of ​​about 11,000 square kilometers.

Last year, Harland Territory decided to develop this area first. This year, Snow Mountain County was also established, and Powell, the deputy consul of Harland Territory, was appointed as the county governor.

The core area of ​​Xueshan County is Xuejing Lake, but the county seat was not built in the Xuejing Lake area, but in the northwest of Xuejing Lake. This new castle was named Brilliant Castle by Richard to commemorate That glorious win last year.

After the establishment of Snow Mountain County, in order to give this county a foundation for development, Richard included Hurricane Castle and Snow Mountain Castle into Snow Mountain County. Together with the people who settled near the two castles, Snow Mountain County had just been established and the total population was already 50,000. About six thousand people.

In order to speed up the development of Snow Mountain County, Richard will move 100,000 indentured slaves into Snow Mountain County this year.

Although spring plowing was delayed this year, indentured servants were able to reclaim wasteland, build houses, clear roads, and build reservoirs. Anyway, there are more than 100,000 tons of grain brought back from the Delong Kingdom, which should be enough to feed the 400,000 new people for a year.

In addition to Snow Mountain County, the focus of the development of Haaland Territory this year is the southeastern part of Snow Mountain Castle. This part of the land has been incorporated into Haaland Territory for many years and has not been developed.

Stretching from Sophia Castle to the northwest and bordering Martins County, there is basically not much population.

In recent years, some scattered settlements have been established, mainly for logging.

Now Martins County has been merged into the Harland Territory. Although this land is a mountainous area, it is also the hinterland of the Harland Territory. The front line extends to the 12th and 13th Military Stations in the north of the Eagle Mountains. The Harland Army has complete control. Entering the Kelaniya Valley, this land is ripe for development.

In the center of this territory, Richard decided to build a new castle and named it Forest City. In this land of more than 20,000 square kilometers, Richard plans to settle 40,000 indentured slaves.

When this land matures, Richard will establish a new county. With this foundation, he can continue to extend northward and develop the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

In addition, the population of the two counties of East and West Grotta is relatively sparse, and Richard plans to relocate 60,000 indentured slaves.

The northern area of ​​Nitburg is the area with the highest troop density on the northern defense line. Last winter, the orcs were repelled in this area. Although it was the front line, in order to provide supplies nearby, Richard still decided to invest heavily in developing this area and decided to move in a population of 100,000 people.

In order to strengthen the defense force, Richard assigned the 8,000 auxiliary soldiers who expanded southward and their families here.

Although the auxiliary troops expanded southward do not have sufficient combat effectiveness, after all, they have undergone military training for more than a year and have fought several battles. They have certain war experience and can be used for defense.

After being incorporated into the Harland territory, many soldiers who were born as serfs learned the breathing method, and their physical fitness gradually improved, making up for their lack of personal ability.

The remaining 100,000 new people will all stay in the core areas of Fort William and Losa Basin to serve as a reserve population for the development of industry.

After Richard led his troops back to the territory, he continued to inspect newly developed areas such as Snow Mountain County and Forest City every day, and his days were extremely busy.

Field work in the summer is very difficult, and you have to face mosquito bites every day, especially when working in forests and swamps. Mosquitoes are the biggest killer that threatens humans.

More people may die from mosquito bites than are killed by war.

Soldiers who have practiced the breathing method are strong and have strong resistance to diseases. Overall, the attrition ratio is very small, but ordinary indentured servants cannot resist diseases such as malaria at all.

Harland led the development of the swamp forest, and a large number of indentured servants died. This territory can be so prosperous because of its numerous bones.

More than ten years ago, Harland Territorial Hospital began research on malaria, encephalitis, and yellow fever. After Richard's guidance, they quickly discovered that mosquitoes were the biggest culprits in spreading these diseases.

But in the face of this murderer, the doctors had no choice at all. Although magicians can treat injuries through magic power, and can heal an indentured slave by releasing healing spells for several days in a row, there are not enough magicians in Harland. There is not even one magician in a slave work camp, and the healing power is almost a drop in the bucket. ,Far from enough.

Even now, there are more than 160 official magicians in Harland Territory, but there are hundreds of thousands of indentured servants working in the field.

The mages led by Harland have combat missions, research missions, and some must stay on duty in the wizard tower. Only a dozen people can be transferred to the hospital system, and a dozen people are responsible for the treatment of hundreds of thousands of people. Basically, We can only focus on treating some high-value indentured slaves.

To combat the disease, Harland Medical Department has been researching new drugs.

Starting many years ago, the medical sector has started from two aspects.

The first is the development of drugs to combat malaria, yellow fever and other diseases. After more than ten years of research, doctors have discovered that an alkaloid extracted from the leaves of the cockscomb tree can treat mild malaria to a certain extent.

Following this discovery, a drug to treat malaria was developed in Halland two years ago. By this year, the production of this drug has increased a lot, and it can be sold on the market on a large scale.

In addition to researching drugs to treat diseases, doctors are also working on repelling mosquitoes.

The Dawn Plane is a super-magic plane, and all mage apprentices can cast a zero-ring spell called Mosquito Repelling.

By studying the principle of this spell, Leader Harland created an apprentice-level magic prop, an insect repellent sachet, but the cost was as high as a dozen gold coins. Not only did it consume magic crystals to use it, but the magic apprentice also had to provide magic power.

Because the threshold is too high, insect repellent sachets are of little use in solving this problem.

In the following years, Richard developed fighting spirit and magic power conversion runes, which could spread the power of magic to knights and warriors. He also improved the insect repellent sachet, allowing knights and warriors to use this magic prop.

When there are knights and warriors leading the team, carrying this sachet will be of great help in reducing mosquito bites.

However, the cost of insect repellent sachets is very high, and magic crystals must be consumed, so they cannot serve the low-level indentured servants.

In order to find a low-cost deworming method, doctors in Haaland Territory began arduous research.

Many years ago, they discovered that burning mugwort and atractylodes could drive away mosquitoes. They used mugwort, atractylodes and pine wood as raw materials to make mosquito coils, which solved part of the problem.

But in field work, mosquito coils are basically useless.

Three years ago, researchers in the Harland Territory discovered a new magical plant, Poison Aconitum. This magical plant contains very little magic power, but it is somewhat helpful for knights and warrior professionals to temper their bodies.

Poison Aconitum is a new magical plant discovered by Harland magician. This magical plant contains low magic power, between ordinary plants and first-level magical plants. Perhaps because it has less magic power, it has not attracted any targeted research by magicians.

After discovering poisonous aconite, the magician of Harland Territory wrote a paper and added poisonous aconite to the magic plant catalog.

When a new magical plant is discovered, it is natural to study it carefully.

By studying the medicinal properties of Aconitum, Sophia and other pharmacists created Aconitum potion, which was of great help to soldiers who had just practiced breathing techniques to improve their physical fitness.

However, after the strength is increased to three points, the physical strength is increased to two points, and the agility is increased to one point six, the effect of the Aconitum potion will be seriously attenuated. After using ten sticks, it will basically have no effect.

The aconite potion studied is mainly suitable for apprentices of knights and warriors.

Poisonous Aconitum, a magical plant, contains a small amount of poison. The smoke released after burning can poison nearby mosquitoes. After discovering this, Leader Harland created a mosquito repellent using poisonous aconite as raw material and alcohol and herbs as auxiliary materials.

This kind of mosquito repellent comes with a strong irritating temperature. Once released, it can last for half a month. Mosquitoes will be poisoned instantly after smelling it.

After the poisonous Aconitum mosquito repellent is used, it will kill mosquitoes in a very wide range. Within a radius of 150 meters from the point of use as the center, all mosquitoes will either be poisoned to death or will escape.

If aconite essential oil is poured into a stagnant pool, it can also have the effect of killing mosquitoes and insects, which can often last for about 20 to 30 days.

The only obstacle limiting the popularity of Aconitum mosquito repellent is the insufficient number of poisonous Aconitum.

Poisonous Aconitum is a magical plant that needs to grow in an environment containing magic.

Although there are three mage towers in the Harland Territory, and magic plant plantations are built inside the mage towers, these plantations are full, and they mainly grow the raw materials of Tenghui potions. It is impossible to waste the magic plantation space. Plant poisonous aconite.

After all, compared to professional officers, the status of indentured servants is much lower, and they cannot compete with the army for resources. Poisonous Aconitum grown in small quantities is also used for magical research.