Lord Harland

Through observation around the Snow Crystal Lake, Richard discovered that there are many underground rivers around the Snow Crystal Lake, five of which flowed into the Snow Crystal Lake from the direction of the main peak of the Eagle Mountain Range.

The main source of water for the underground river that flows into Snow Crystal Lake is melted snow from the mountains.

Because Snow Crystal Lake is the spawning ground of Snow Crystal Fish, it is very dangerous under the lake water. Richard did not send anyone to explore the detailed situation.

There are two underground rivers flowing out of the Snow Crystal Lake. According to Richard's estimation, they should merge into the Samba River dozens of kilometers away.

The Samba River is the main artery on the northern grasslands. It turns a corner in the northern area of ​​Snow Crystal Lake. With this river acting as a natural line of defense, it is easier to defend Harland's territory in this section.

In June of this year, Harland Territory engineers succeeded in building a steam-engine-powered paddle steamer.

This new type of ship still needs to go through a lot of water testing and inspection due to imperfections in design and manufacturing.

In order to prevent the information from leaking and keep it secret, Richard placed the testing work to the north of the Eagle Mountains, away from the core area of ​​Harland's territory.

So far, three steam paddle steamers have been built, and it is estimated that it will take next year to complete water testing and modification.

The three steam paddle steamers are already a considerable water force in the northern prairie and can assist the nearby Wilde and Sutton troops in defending their defense lines.

From early August to late October, it is the spawning season of snow crystal fish, and the time when you can catch snow crystal fish is less than three months.

Through constant observation and summary, Richard discovered that there are six populations of snow crystal fish that enter the snow crystal lake to spawn. The number of the six snow crystal fish populations is about 50,000 to 60,000, and the smaller ones are 10,000 to 20,000. The total number is roughly 20 to 30. Ten thousand.

The battles between the snow crystal fish populations turned out to be very fierce, and every conflict would result in some casualties. The dead and injured snow crystal fish made Richard feel very painful, because the snow crystal fish in this lake are resources of Harland's territory.

On average, a fishing team requires twelve magicians and thirty warriors, and can catch dozens of snow crystal fish every day, which is worth thousands of gold coins.

Because freezing the ice requires the concerted efforts of a large number of magicians, Harland Territory could only organize three fishing teams. By late October, the number of snow crystal fish caught exceeded 10,000.

The internal organs of 10,000 snow crystal fish can be used to refine 20,000 bottles of Tenghui potion, which is worth 600,000 gold coins.

As long as the six snow crystal fish populations are not extinct and still have the habit of entering the snow crystal lake to spawn, this income will continue.

With an annual output value of 600,000 gold coins, it is undoubtedly a very large industry. The output that Snow Crystal Lake can bring to Haaland is larger than the steel industry that has been cultivated for many years.

Before refining the Tenghui potion, the pharmacist needs to prepare a special potion to extract the viscera and brain fluid of the monster. Then we have to extract the extract from two extraordinary plants, mix the extracted liquid, and finally go through a special magic circle conversion to make a bottle of Tenghui potion.

To make a bottle of Tenghui potion, the market price of the main material is about twelve gold coins. Using the magic circle can transform twelve bottles at a time, which requires the consumption of three magic crystals. Each bottle also costs three gold coins. The two auxiliary materials can be grown on a large scale in the Magic Botanical Garden. Each plant costs one gold coin. Making a special potion also costs eight silver coins. Adding the wear and tear of the refining tools, on average, a bottle of Tenghui potion can be made. In terms of materials, The cost is approximately eighteen gold coins.

However, the price of Tenghui Potion in the market is often around thirty gold coins. The profit exceeds two-thirds, which is only slightly lower than profiteering luxury goods.

Luxury goods are just a small industry that serves the nobility. Harland's perfume industry basically monopolizes most of the market in the Grant Kingdom, and the annual profit to the territory is only 10,000 gold coins.

The aristocratic dress industry is slightly larger in scale, but the clothing industry is an extremely personalized industry and basically cannot be monopolized.

The market size of shoes, hats, accessories, etc. is not even comparable to that of perfume, and the profits are even less.

The annual demand for Grant Kingdom's Tenghui Potion exceeds 100,000 bottles, but the annual output is only a little more than half, and the market size exceeds 1.5 million.

Producing more than 20,000 bottles of Tenghui potion a year, the net profit will reach 240,000 gold coins. Moreover, Harland Leader does not need to purchase materials, the cost will not exceed 100,000 gold coins, and the total profit will reach 500,000.

The net income of 500,000 gold coins is enough to support 30,000 main troops. Even if this money is placed in a duchy, it is a huge source of wealth. Even if most of this batch of potions has to be digested within the territory, selling a few thousand bottles can exchange for a large sum of extraordinary resources.

In order to protect the resources of Snow Crystal Lake, the magicians in Harland's territory must carefully calculate every time they fish, and catch according to the population of Snow Crystal Fish. The quota is fixed every year to prevent the fish from being exhausted. According to careful estimates, the number caught in the first year was a little more than 4%, and the total number was 10,000.

In order to catch more snow crystal fish, Richard sent people to establish a simple stronghold near Snow Crystal Lake. The nine magicians who were promoted this year also came here to train.

Sophia took the members of the pharmacy team and established a simple alchemy workshop near Snow Crystal Lake. Because there are so many materials this year, Sophia can also train pharmacists.

Three mage towers have been built in Harland's territory. Each mage tower has a magic plant plantation, and there is no shortage of auxiliary materials for refining the Tenghui potion. There are magic crystal mines in the Lothar Basin, and magic crystal charging technology has also been invented. The supply of magic crystals can be self-sufficient. Now there are enough main materials. In just three months, the territorial pharmacist has consumed 20,000 bottles of materials. Because it was necessary to train new pharmacists, the success rate was much lower than in previous years, and only 17,600 bottles were successfully refined.

Refining Tenghui Potion, if the success rate is less than 60%, it is considered a loss. This year, the success rate of the territorial pharmacist is only 88%. If all the materials are purchased from outside and the premium is paid, there is actually no extra profit. .

After consuming 2,400 materials and resources worth more than 40,000 gold coins, the Harland Mage Association added six pharmacists. Through the high-intensity refining of Tenghui Potion this year, the level of experienced pharmacists in the territory has also improved. . From the perspective of long-term benefits, the territory is still profitable.

Six new pharmacists have been added, and the Harland Territory Pharmacy Society, including the two elven pharmacists, already has thirteen members.

Normally, training a pharmacist requires a very high cost. Even with the guidance of a mentor and extending the training time, it still requires a lot of trial and error costs. If you want to make Tenghui Potion without losing money, you need to pay all the steps. Three to four thousand gold coins for materials.

Because Harland Territory caught too many snow crystal fish, the materials could not be stored for too long, so the training time could only be shortened, allowing the pharmacy apprentices to spend a lot of materials in practice. Summarizing experience, the cost of training six newly trained pharmacists has exceeded 7,000 gold.

There are now thirteen pharmacists in the Harland Territory, and the number is already comparable to that of the Grant Mages Association. Although the number of formal members of the Harland Mages Association is less than one-third of the Grant Mages Association. On the contrary, there are more mage apprentices, and Harland leads more.

Relying on catching snow crystal fish, a large amount of raw materials for refining Tenghui potions were obtained. Coupled with this year's harvest of hunting monsters, by the end of October, more than 21,000 bottles of Tenghui potions had been successfully refined in Harland territory.

More than 20,000 bottles of Tenghui potion have been refined. Not only do they not need to be imported this year, some can be sold at the commodity expo in exchange for various extraordinary resources.

After repeated discussions among the top leaders of the territory, it was finally decided to leave 15,000 troops for the Haaland Territory army. Among them, there are 13,000 main legions, 1,000 city defense corps, and 1,000 security corps each.

Army soldiers need to pay merit and gold coins to exchange for extraordinary potions.

Generally speaking, qualified officers who are expected to be knighted will accumulate meritorious service and exchange it for gold coins. Especially officers who have a good background and have support behind them will not waste their merits in exchange for such low-level extraordinary resources.

An officer with average qualifications and average background basically has no hope of becoming a knight, so he would exchange his meritorious service in the hope of increasing his strength by taking Tenghui Potion.

Professionals with low qualifications and slow progress in training disdain extraordinary potions. They will accumulate merit and exchange them for gold coins when they retire to make their lives easier.

In addition to the fifteen thousand Tenghui potions left for the army, some should also be reserved for more than a dozen noble vassals in the territory.

Harland now has thirteen vassals, twelve barons, and one viscount. Except for Viscount Sutton, who does not need this low-end potion, the other twelve baronies are in short supply.

The number of people under Sutton's command is very small. Including his direct descendants, humans with half-elf blood, there are only more than 60 members in total, a dozen of whom are still minors.

These children are cared for by high-level professionals such as Sutton, Sylph, and Undine, and they have no shortage of basic things like Tenghui Potions.

The remaining elves and half-elves have been promoted to professionals. The elves generally use a basic potion called natural essence. They have their own pharmacists who can collect materials to refine potions.

The effect of natural essence is better than Tenghui potion.

The Viscounty of Sutton did not exchange it, and the other twelve barons reserved a total of 1,200 Tenghui potions, each with a share of 100.

The coalition of nobles under the vassals is also an important force in the Harland Territory, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than the city defense army and the security army. It's just that Harland's vassal accumulation time is short and he has few resources. Tenghui Pharmacy was left to them and they needed to be credited.

In addition, the Demon Hunter Guild reserves 500 units, the Mercenary Union reserves 500 units, and the Intelligence Department reserves 500 units. Each system in the Harland Territory is divided among them, requiring the consumption of 17,800 Tenghui Potions.

The nobles of Gedda Province cooperated with the Duke of Harland and played a key role in this battle. They also needed Richard's care.

Harland Territory provided an additional 1,500 Tenghui potions to exchange resources with them.

The food produced by the nobles of Geda Province, the captured orc slaves, and even the mined mineral resources can be exchanged with the Duchy of Harland for a certain amount of extraordinary resources, including Tenghui potions and alchemy bombs.

It is actually very difficult for the small nobles of the Grant Kingdom to obtain extraordinary resources. Most of them exchange their merits with the royal family. The annual share exchanged for their merits is relatively small. A baron can exchange for up to thirty pieces. Normally, You can train three or four professional officers.

The second is to exchange other extraordinary resources with the great nobles. This kind of exchange requires luck and opportunity.

Then you can train your own pharmacist and collect materials for refining. This kind is even more difficult. The vast majority of hereditary nobles have no magic inheritance at all. Occasionally, by luck, they train magicians, who are also wild mages. It is difficult to master the knowledge of refining potions.

Richard is willing to exchange Tenghui potions and alchemy bombs for ordinary resources such as food, minerals, orc slaves, which is undoubtedly a great support to the nobles of Geda Province.

The remaining 1,700 Tenghui potions were placed at the commodity expo in exchange for various extraordinary resources. For example, elf black tea, horned rabbit fur, flame spider silk, snake scales, etc., as long as they are extraordinary materials, Harland Territory will accept anyone who comes, even if they suffer a slight loss, they are willing to exchange them.

After entering October, before the commodity expo was held, Richard had dispatched personnel from the territorial business system to spread the word in advance and strengthen publicity.

It's October in the northern Xinjiang region, and the climate is already relatively cold. In order to defend against the invasion of orcs this year, Richard is planning to stay in the north of the Eagle Mountains to spend the winter after the winter.

After entering October, Richard's warrior level has reached the peak of level six. After four years and five months of hard training, his warrior experience value can no longer be improved.

At this moment, Richard has accumulated enough strength to break through the seventh level.

Generally speaking, warriors need to use high-level potions to help them break through to the seventh level. If they don't use potions, once the breakthrough fails, the violent fighting energy will destroy the body's acupoints.

Although seventh-level potions are very precious, as a duke lord and the third most powerful person in the Grant Kingdom, Richard has seventh-level life evolution potions that are not scarce for him.

Sophia was originally a seventh-level pharmacist, and the main material of the life evolution potion was the seventh-level magic core. Harland Territory had already mastered the formula of the medicine. As long as Richard needs it, Sophia will be able to refine it soon.

In mid-October, Richard took the life evolution potion and successfully completed the advancement.

After being promoted to a seventh-level warrior, Richard found that his strength had increased to twenty-three points by checking the attribute panel.

When the strength exceeds twenty points, the first talent will be awakened. Warrior professionals usually awaken their first physical attribute talent after being promoted to the seventh level.

After William was promoted to the seventh level, he awakened the talent of violent power. When he was emotional and crazy, his power would increase by three to six points.

When Soros was promoted to a seventh-level professional, he awakened the talent of super endurance. This talent greatly improved endurance, greatly helped to utilize Soros' outstanding shooting skills, and extended Soros' fighting time.

After Jennings reaches the seventh level, his awakened talents are even better, which strengthens his nerve reaction speed and allows him to avoid danger calmly.

Richard's strength exceeded twenty points, which also gave him a talent. This talent is called copper skin and iron bone, which can strengthen the toughness of skin, muscles, and bones, and has a great impact on a warrior's ability to resist blows. s help.

This talent, to be honest, is dispensable to Richard.

Because of his outstanding mental strength and being a duke, his current fighting method is mainly based on magic means, and close combat with the enemy is very rare.

Moreover, Richard is wearing seventh-level enchanted armor, and his defensive capabilities far exceed that of copper skin and iron bones. This kind of talent should be reserved for strong generals who need to charge into battle, and Richard is a duke and a monarch. A talent that strengthens defense is not really of much help to him.