Lord Harland.

Chapter 396 William Advanced

Although there was a cash income of [-] million this year, the territory's expenses were also staggering.

The first was the purchase of slaves. Richard purchased [-] slaves in two installments, consuming a huge amount of [-] million yuan. In addition, [-] tons of grain were purchased this year, consuming [-] gold coins.

Slaves and food cost a huge sum of [-] million gold coins.

This year, the Harland Territory has [-] regular troops, [-] city defense corps, security corps and other auxiliary troops, and [-] new recruits, making the territory a total of [-] troops.

For an army of [-], the annual salary of officers and soldiers alone costs [-] gold coins. Adding in the [-] gold coin bounty issued during the war, this year's salary alone consumes [-] million. Gold coin funds.

In addition, nearly [-] people in Haaland's army were killed or disabled in battle this year, which greatly increased the cost of pension expenditures. Compared with the same period last year, pension expenditures increased seriously, reaching [-] gold coins this year.

Although the pension may not seem like much, it is a long-term expense as it will continue to be paid for twenty years. If the increase is too large, it will greatly increase the financial burden on Harland.

The logistics expenditure of [-] soldiers is also a huge expense, especially in the past two years of fighting against the orcs, which requires transporting supplies to the front line, hoarding ammunition, and eating horses and chewing people for a year, which costs a huge sum of [-] gold coins.

The military expenditure alone reached [-] million gold coins, an increase of [-] gold coins compared with last year.

If it weren't for the huge increase in fiscal revenue this year, Haaland's leadership would have been overwhelmed and unable to support it.

Military spending has skyrocketed, and other expenditures are also increasing.

This year, Haaland's population has increased by [-], and the number of civil servants has also increased dramatically. This year, various departments have recruited more than [-] civil servants. Counting these [-] new people, Haaland leads a total of [-] civil servants.

Although the social status and salary level of civil servants in Haaland's territory are not as good as those of regular army soldiers, compared with ordinary occupations, civil servants are still considered high-income people.

Eighteen thousand civil servants, including salaries and subsidies, consumed [-] gold coins this year.

Leader Harland is very supportive of the railway department. Last year, he allocated a large amount of gold coins to this department and built [-] kilometers of railways, which cost [-] gold coins.

Normally, it costs [-] gold coins to build one kilometer of railway in plain areas, but the cost of building railways in mountainous areas will increase significantly.

Although most of the route from Malte Castle to Fort Depot is in the valley area, as it extends northward from Fort William, the mountains become increasingly steeper. After digging a tunnel, the construction cost of this [-]-kilometer railway increased to [-]%. One hundred and forty thousand gold coins.

Harland led the new higher education this year, which also requires a large investment in funds. Although the enrollment scale of the eight major colleges and universities is relatively small, [-] gold coins in cash were invested in building new schools and recruiting teachers. In addition, maintaining [-] primary schools and six middle schools also requires an investment of [-] gold coins. This year's investment in education adds up to [-] gold coins in cash.

An additional [-] people have been added, and investment in medical facilities has also increased. This year, Harland led the establishment of two large hospitals, which consumed approximately [-] gold coins. With the establishment of various colleges and universities, Adrian discussed with Richard and decided to establish a medical school to select and train doctors from among the students.

The population is booming and the medical burden is gradually increasing.

Harland's investment in medical treatment is also increasing. This year, it has exceeded [-] gold coins. For a duchy, [-] gold coins is also a large sum of money. This amount of money can support eight thousand regular troops, which is equivalent to the average expenditure level of territorial civil servants.

As the territory develops better and better, the investment in scientific research funds is also increasing. This year, the scientific research funds of major scientific research institutes, including the mage department, have exceeded [-] gold coins.

In total, Harland's total expenditure this year was [-] million gold coins. Due to the construction of the Dragon's Nest, there was a balance of [-] gold coins.

In recent years, Harland has been able to maintain a balance of funds every year. Last year, the treasury accumulated [-] gold coins. With the accumulation of [-] gold coins this year, there is now a total of [-] gold coins in the territory treasury. [-] million gold coins.

Although Richard wanted to spend this huge sum of money, unfortunately, the supply of bulk commodities on the market was far from insufficient.

This year, the Harland Territory has wiped out all the slaves accumulated by the southern nobles over the past few years, and there is no place to buy people.

In addition to the population, nearly [-] million gold coins have been put into the market, which can already manipulate the market.

Richard is the Lord of Harland. Although he can make money by manipulating the domestic demand market and harvest wealth from the free people, it will destroy the stability of the territory and harm long-term interests.

Richard is not a fool, so why would he throw the blame on himself? What good does it do the rulers of a country to plunge it into chaos?

Richard himself will not manipulate the market, nor will he allow other large sums of money to enter Harland's leadership.

If anyone dares to enter Harland territory and cause trouble in the market, Richard will only use knives on him, shake his fists, and use administrative means to kill him.

In the history of the Dawn Plane, it is never capital that is strong, but the extraordinary ones themselves. A legendary fourth-level magician can determine the rise and fall of a kingdom and influence its destiny.

This fall, Richard and Sophia participated in the auction held by the Solenheim family. At the auction, Richard consumed a total of eleven thousand magic crystals. However, after the Dragon's Nest was conquered last year, Harland received [-] magic crystals. Although the magic crystals were severely consumed in the war with the orcs, the Territory Mage Tower still preserved more than [-] standard magic crystals.

Continuously collecting over the years, the Harland Territory has approximately [-] empty magic crystals.

With Harland taking control of the mage tower at the bottom of Snow Crystal Lake, because the energy room of this mage tower is a large magic well, the amount of magic crystals charged will increase greatly.

According to Richard's estimation, the four mage towers controlled by Harland's territory can charge [-] magic crystals a year.

Among them, the Snow Crystal Lake Mage Tower can supply energy for [-] magic crystals a year.

At present, the charging efficiency of magic crystals is not high, only maintaining at the level of [-]%. If the charging efficiency of magic crystals is improved, Harland Leader can charge more magic crystals.

Twenty-six thousand magic crystals are charged in one year, which is enough to sustain the consumption of Harland's magic crystals.

This year we fought a full-scale war with the orcs, with an army of nearly [-], and only a total of [-] magic crystals were consumed. Harland led the industrial department and consumed [-] magic crystals throughout the year, while the Mage Association combined consumed less than [-] magic crystals.

After the financial meeting ended, the time soon came for the Goddess’s Birthday.

The Haaland family had quite a few people at Christmas dinner this year.

Because Richard had obtained the Water of Life, in order to prevent the news from leaking, Hayden rode a Warcraft horse and went to the south at an accelerated speed of [-] miles to deliver a message to William.

Hayden's cultivation talent is very average. At the age of thirty-eight, he has just broken through to the fourth level warrior. Although he has already transformed into a civilian bureaucrat, he has never given up the practice of breathing techniques.

Growing up in a cruel place like Northern Xinjiang, both Richard and Hayden have a very deep understanding of power. Even if his talent is average, he still has the perseverance to practice hard, gradually improve his strength, and hold the core power in his hands.

Although Hayden is already a fourth-level warrior and has a certain ability to protect himself, in order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Richard also deployed Zhannings and four intermediate professionals to protect Hayden along the way.

Six people rode twenty iron horned horses, marching at a speed of more than [-] kilometers every day. It took only five days to enter the southernmost province of Ferdinand in the Kingdom of Grant. Hayden found William directly and carefully informed him of the water of life.

Hearing that Richard had the water of life in his hand, William immediately realized the importance of the news. He greeted Mrs. Ola and immediately returned to Harland territory with Hayden.

Although William set out much later than George and others, he returned to Harland a few days earlier than them.

Returning to the territory, Richard immediately handed the last piece of water of life to William. After William drank this water of life, his life span increased by twenty years, and his physical condition became younger.

After the birthday of the goddess, William was already sixty-eight years old. Although he was gifted and energetic, his health was still declining. Without the Water of Life, it would be almost impossible for him to break through the legendary bottleneck.

After drinking the water of life, his life span was increased by twenty years. William instantly felt that his vitality had increased dramatically.

At this time, his physical condition has returned to its peak, and William is preparing to celebrate the Christmas dinner and break through the legendary bottleneck under Haaland.

In order to help William break through, Sophia has refined the Sky Crystal Flower into a Sky Crystal Potion, and Richard is also preparing to leave the legendary power fruit for William to use after he breaks through.

Although the Sky Crystal Potion is more difficult to refine than the Styx Potion, Sophia's mental power has been greatly improved after drinking the Styx Potion and the Water of Life. After the mental power is enhanced, the refining potion can feel more subtle changes. Moreover, the successful refining of the legendary Styx potion will also improve Sophia's potion refining level.

Although it was more difficult to refine the Tianjing potion, Sophia still succeeded. If she could successfully refine another legendary potion, Sophia would be a truly legendary pharmacist.

There are only a dozen or so legendary pharmacists in the Dawn Plane.

In addition to William, his third uncle Bernie also returned to Fort William to meet his eldest brother.

Bernie now serves as the second captain of the Mad Lion Legion. He has been promoted to a seventh-level warrior and is barely considered a high-ranking member of the Mad Lion Legion. In recent years, the elite troops of the Grant Kingdom have moved south, leaving only the Mad Lion Legion in the northern frontier.

If it weren't for the purpose of maintaining the Grant royal family's presence in Northern Xinjiang, King Roger would have even planned to send the Mad Lion Legion southward, completely leaving the burden of the orcs to Richard, Edward, Fox, Macmillan and other Northern Xinjiang people.

It has been four and a half years since William led his troops south, and he has not seen his relatives in northern Xinjiang for a long time.

Whether you are a warrior or a magician, there are great risks in advancing to a legend. Everyone who takes this step has the determination to succeed or succeed.

King Roger and other ninth-level professionals who have been promoted for many years cannot break through the legend because they do not have the determination to fight to the death.

Especially the big aristocracy, which has money, power, and beauties, makes it even more difficult for them to make this determination.

On the contrary, people like William who have climbed up from the bottom have a strong yearning for power and a strong desire to break through the legendary bottleneck.

William was also very happy to be able to see most of his relatives before his breakthrough and to get together with his family before the goddess's birthday.

The three branches of the Harland family, William, Powell, and Bernie, are close relatives. Richard's grandfather had two biological brothers. The third brother William's biological uncle died in the orc invasion, and neither of the two cousins ​​survived to adulthood. Except for the three William brothers, the remaining members of the Harland family are all distant relatives such as Green, Noel, and Anne.

Although there is no aristocratic blood, the surname Harland has a large population. The total number of distant relatives of Harland totals about two to three thousand people.

The ancestors of the Harland family were hunters. The earliest ancestor and his seven children purchased land in the north of the Dragon Canyon and established a village. They were among the earliest free people in the Gedda Province.

In more than a hundred years, the village grew from small to large to several hundred people, and it was not until William was promoted to a hereditary noble that it completely turned around.

After William was promoted to a hereditary noble, in just twenty years, the population of the Harland family increased four to five times, but their quality was relatively average, and there was basically no knight blood.

After William went south, he gave birth to another child with the palace lady Kelly, and married his second palace lady. His legal spouses were three wives and two palace ladies.

Not counting the illegitimate children raised outside, William had ten children in total. Except for Barron who died in the battle early in his life, all the remaining children survived. After all, at William's level, if his family members got sick, they could seek help from a magician.

The Powell and Bernie families also had a large population. By Richard's cousin's generation, there were more than twenty brothers and sisters in total.

Counting illegitimate children, there are already hundreds of members of the Harland family, including nearly thirty adults.

Regardless of whether they are distant relatives or close relatives, Richard uses them equally.

Richard gave opportunities to all members of the Harland family, but their first positions were all at the grassroots level. Whether they can climb up from below depends on their ability and luck.

Nowadays, in addition to having a smaller population, the Harland Territory's military strength and economic scale are several points higher than those of the Grand Duchy of Stanik. In managing such a large territory, it is impossible for Richard to directly promote a person to a high level like he did more than ten years ago.

At this year's Christmas dinner, perhaps because everyone knew that William was about to be promoted to legend, they acted cheerfully and wanted to keep the best in William's memory.

Everyone sang and danced happily all night.

Early the next morning, Richard took William and teleported to the Crystal Lake Mage Tower, preparing to break through the legendary bottleneck.

After entering the secret room, William drank the Tianjing potion and began to circulate the fighting energy crazily, absorbing the magic power around him. The fighting energy seeds accelerated, and soon a stream of magic power entered William's body. His body exuded a red fighting spirit light, which complemented the orange light emitted by the magic lamp.

In Richard's induction, countless magical powers fell like heavy rain and poured into William's body.

Thousands of magic powers poured into William's body. At this moment, William felt as if his whole body was being eaten by insects and ants, and the severe pain seemed to crush his soul.

The Harland family has no background. William is the first person in the Harland family to break through the legend. The family has no successful experience to record, so William can only rely on himself to explore.

Although Sylph also successfully broke through the legend, she used a bottle of water of life, and the breakthrough was very smooth. Her experience cannot be replicated, and William can only rely on himself to achieve breakthroughs.

William has survived in a difficult environment since he was a child and has an unusually tough character. He gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain for three days.

When the severe pain began to subside, William instantly felt that his originally strong body and spirit were strengthened again. William suddenly felt that his consciousness entered the core of fighting spirit.

At this moment, William had discovered that there were cracks in the core of his seed.

(End of this chapter)