Lord Harland

Although he is extremely busy every day, Richard still practices hard every day.

No matter how tight the time is, breathing in the morning and meditation in the evening never stop.

A year after the war ended, Richard's experience had increased a lot, and he opened the attribute panel.

In more than a year, although Richard has not advanced in professional level, he has gained more than 15,000 experience points in breathing techniques.

In addition, in the past year, Richard spent a lot of time learning magic.

Especially after marrying Sophia, the two had the same hobbies. Under Sophia's guidance, Richard learned a variety of magic and his strength increased significantly.

In March of this year, Wendy's professional level was also upgraded by one level.

She has never taken any potions that increase her mental power. At the age of eighteen, her magic level was raised to the second level. Even if Wendy's talent is not as good as Sophia's, it can be said to be excellent.

Although swordsmanship and fighting skills can be advanced, Richard wants to save some experience.

The meditation method is the most difficult to increase experience, and Richard wants to use his experience in meditation method.

In the past year, two more people in Harland's territory have become professionals.

The two men were veterans of the war, one named Perrin and the other named Julian.

Having become professionals, Richard promoted them to mid-level officers in the territory.

Counting the squadrons adapted from the mercenaries under Soros and the Sophia Territory Squadron, the Harland family now has a total of six infantry squadrons and two trebuchet squadrons.

The trebuchet squadrons are all auxiliary soldiers. Except for war conditions, they train for three months a year. Each freedman auxiliary soldier receives a gold coin allowance per year.

However, there were only a few outstanding trebuchets among the auxiliary troops. They were promoted to freemen by Richard, and their military pay did not exceed thirty gold coins a year, which was almost negligible.

Infantry squadrons are standing armies.

Among them, the Sixth Squadron is under the management of Soros and Kent and his son.

Richard has discussed with his uncle Soros that if Soros becomes a hereditary baron, he will take away the Sixth Squadron.

The fifth squadron is a garrison in the Stopa territory, and the squadron leader is Sofia's uncle Vito.

The 1st and 2nd Squadrons are the old troops of Harland Territory, and the squadron leaders are still Martin and Heyman.

Deputy squadron leader Richard appointed Perrin and Julian.

The Third Squadron has been established for nine months and has completed recruit training. The squadron leader is Yalvis and the deputy squadron leader is Jennings.

The Fourth Squadron has just begun to be organized and is undergoing recruit training. The squadron leader is Bradrick, and the deputy squadron leader is Vincent. Among them, Bradlik's professional level has been advanced to the third level.

In last year's Orc invasion war, the use of heavy trebuchets played a decisive role.

Relying on this new weapon, the Grant Kingdom won two major battles.

Count Martins even used a heavy trebuchet as a bait to kill the legendary orcs, slightly changing the strategic situation.

Even though the news of Dawn Continent spread slowly, equipment in the form of heavy trebuchets also reached the ears of the nobles.

Recently, nearby nobles have sent people to the Harland territory to gather information.

Richard had a very strong sense of confidentiality, and the auxiliary squadron equipped with heavy trebuchets was not disbanded and has been stationed at Fort William.

There are no outside free people in Fort William today, and the residents are all garrison troops and their families.

Richard also formulated a lord's decree prohibiting random migration within the territory and restricting the flow of the population.

The closed social environment makes outsiders unable to hide and is very eye-catching.

In recent times, Richard has caught many spies.

Although they were demoted to slaves, this still could not stop the nobles from being tempted.

Forced by helplessness, Richard could only strengthen confidentiality propaganda.

Most hereditary nobles have secret intelligence forces, usually under the control of intelligence adjutants.

Intelligence is a very important force for the nobility and is not suitable for management by outsiders.

After discussion, Richard, Sophia and William decided to hand it over to Richard's compatriot brother Hayden.

After several years of training in the military, Hayden finally opened the Seed of Life not long ago and became a first-level professional.

Having become a professional, Hayden had just been promoted to a military rank. He was originally planning to be promoted to deputy squadron leader of the Sixth Squadron of the Eighth Battalion of the Mad Lion Legion, partnering with Richard's old comrade Diarra.

But after William talked to him, Hayden gave up on a military career and decided to serve as a territorial intelligence officer.

After Hayden took office, he removed fifteen soldiers from the main squadron, and then recruited some smart people from slaves to establish the Harland Territory Intelligence Agency.

With the intelligence department, the efficiency of catching spies is faster. Harden sends people to keep an eye on factories, mines and castles. As long as they are strangers from outside, they will arrest them. These people are often spies.

Even though they were captured, the nearby nobles still refused to give up and sent spies to Harland territory.

There are many things in the territory that need to be kept secret, including steel plants, brick kilns, and brown sugar tree plantations. Any leakage of the process would cause huge losses to the Haaland territory.

Even if Richard sent troops to protect him, there would still be a risk of leakage over time.

In order to avoid trouble, Richard sent a message to the nobles behind him, willing to exchange the heavy trebuchet blueprints.

At this time, the Grant royal family also publicly promised to exchange heavy trebuchet drawings with the nobles in the territory.

After a two-pronged approach, Richard's territory was less troubled.

In the recent period, almost all of the more than 100 nobles from the three provinces of Northern Xinjiang have sent spies to the Harland territory.

In just two or three months, more than 300 spies were caught, which shows the trouble caused by the leakage of the heavy trebuchet.

Another reason why there are so many spies in Harland Territory is that their strength is average. If the Harland family were hereditary earls, the vast majority of viscounts and barons would not dare to send spies to cause trouble for themselves.

Richard hated spies very much, and he demoted these spies as slaves and would never be pardoned in his life.

Richard is planning to use this batch of slaves in the mines.

The work in the mines is very dangerous and difficult, just for these spies to do it.

Most of the people responsible for mining now are orc slaves. They mix spies with orc slaves, let the orcs punish the spies, and then make a big publicity.

I hope this can deter these messy foreign spies.

Fortunately, the Harland Territory is a new territory with only a few free people.

Many places are protected by garrisons, such as brick kilns and steel plants. If outsiders break in, they will be immediately arrested by the garrisons.

If after a few years, a large number of indentured slaves become free citizens, and the territory is filled with small traders, it will be difficult for spies to identify them.

The blueprint of the heavy trebuchet in the hands of the royal family is clearly priced, and can be exchanged for one thousand gold coins.

Some nobles in northern Xinjiang disliked the high price. They had a second choice, so they sent people to negotiate with the Haaland family.