Lord Harland.

On the night of February th, there will be a grand square dance.

February 8th was the day when the first batch of slaves came to Harland's territory. At that time, this area was still a virgin forest and there was no one there.

It was these slaves who built Fort William with their hard-working hands and ushered in a better life. In addition to being grateful to Richard for changing their destiny, the first generation of indentured slaves gathered almost spontaneously on February 8th to celebrate their new life.

This day, February th, was also named New Life Day by the free folk of Fort William.

Richard also asked the Fort William City Hall to designate Freshman's Day as a statutory holiday, so that people can relax with a day off.

Through the reports one after another, Richard knew that the largest cash income of the Harland Territory this year turned out to be the wool spinning and garment business. Relying on wool spinning, the territory earned sixteen thousand gold coins.

Of course, the output value of agricultural planting is the largest, but this year there was an influx of 76,000 people into the Harland Territory. This group of indentured servants came to the territory and ate up all the food accumulated this year.

Starting this year, wool weaving has spread in northern Xinjiang, although due to production efficiency, the original textile machines cannot compete with the new textile machines in the Harland territory.

Ranked second is steel products, and the annual profit of steel products is gold coins.

The income of steel has been very stable. Even if the price gradually drops, the income is still increasing.

Territory taxation, which ranks third, has totaled nine thousand gold coins this year.

Last year's top-ranked income from hunting monsters was reduced a lot due to the war. This year, the income was only gold coins.

Ranked fourth is the liquor business, which earned gold coins in profit in one year.

Brown sugar, coal, and hemostatic ointment are all around gold coins, and the total income is gold coins.

In addition to honey, glass, masonry, flame spider silk, cement, alloy parts, carriage manufacturing, plus the income from running a carriage and horse shop for transportation, the total profit is 12,000 gold coins.

Last year, the cash income of Haaland's territory exceeded 70,000 gold coins. However, due to the outbreak of the war, the territory's military expenditures were also under heavy pressure, and more than 10,000 tons of grain were sold to pay it off.

With the expansion of the reconnaissance brigade, there are already four infantry brigades, two cavalry brigades, and headquarters personnel in Harland territory, with a total strength of more than 5,000 people.

In addition, the territory also has reserve auxiliary troops. The number of auxiliary troops is not large. Each castle has an auxiliary squadron, and the number of personnel is not fixed. There are now eight squadrons, with a total of fifteen hundred men.

The cost of raising auxiliary soldiers is very low. They only need to train for two months every year. Even though Richard increased the annual subsidy for auxiliary soldiers, the training fee was increased to six silver coins, catching up with the average salary. The annual cost of raising 1,500 auxiliary soldiers is no more than 2,000 gold coins.

But with regular troops, even if the cost of raising the army is not as high as that of the main army, it will consume gold coins a year.

Soldiers in the Harland Territory, as long as they make military exploits and become free citizens, will receive a salary of eight silver coins per month, and the salary of a professional officer is roughly equivalent to two-thirds of that of an officer of the main army.

On average, a veteran's annual salary is eight gold coins, and contract slave recruits have no salary yet, so Richard does not need to pay for it.

There are more than 4,000 veterans in the territory, and their salary is as high as 34,000 gold coins.

In addition, the salaries of hundreds of officers added up to more than gold coins.

In addition to soldiers' salaries, raising an army also requires input in materials

Fortunately, for food, meat, clothing, weapons and equipment, nutritional supplies, etc., the cash that really needs to be spent, including the purchase of iron horned horses and other messy expenses, is 50,000 gold coins.

The salary of the lower-level bureaucrats in the territory is the same as that of soldiers, but there are only more than 500 people in number. Including the investment in medical care and education, they only consume 10,000 gold coins.

This year's finances actually have a cash balance of more than 9,000 gold coins.

Richard's treasury has always been relatively empty. Every time he has a balance of gold coins, he will immediately spend them to buy people to increase territory and develop the territory.

But as a lord, breaking the capital chain is a dangerous thing.This sum of money Li Cha plans to put in the treasury as a reserve fund.

The goddess's birthday is approaching, and Li Cha brought his family to Heihe Castle to celebrate the goddess's birthday together.

This year's Goddess's Birthday, third uncle Bernie specially asked for leave and returned to Heihe Castle.

After the Goddess's Birthday, and entering the Dawn Calendar 3262, William's age is nearly sixty.

In the past seven years, although William has made a lot of contributions to the Harland family's management of the territory.But he also accumulated three great achievements. After the end of the war last year, William exchanged for the eighth-level professional breathing method, which was successfully advanced in winter.

At the age of fifty-six, William was promoted to an eighth-level professional. William was already an extremely talented person.

Generally speaking, when professionals reach the age of sixty, their physical functions begin to decline, and the difficulty of advancement becomes much higher. Even a man as talented as William can maintain his best condition until he is seventy years old at most.

You cannot advance to Legend at the age of seventy, and it is even less likely to succeed if your physical condition declines.

According to the speed of William's advancement and the difficulty of being promoted to legend, it is very difficult.

William is the most talented person in the previous generation of the Harland family, even he is the same, and the third uncle Bernie is even less likely to be promoted to the legend.

On the contrary, the next generation of the Harland family, Richard, Sophia, and Wendy have greater potential and are younger, and have the opportunity to break through the legendary bottleneck.

After the birthday of the goddess, Richard had just returned to Fort William. The soldiers who developed the swamp basin rushed to the lord's mansion and reported an unexpected situation to Richard.

In the swamp basin, a lizardman was discovered.Hearing this news, Li Cha was shocked.

According to the treatment that Li Cha learned, lizardmen like hot and humid environments, and they generally live in the southern jungles.

Lizardmen are widely distributed in the Dawn Plane. There are lizardmen not only in the south of the central continent, but also in the eastern continent where the elves are, the western continent where the dwarves are, and in the hot and humid jungles.

It is said that the lizardmen are all alien species, following a lizardman god to invade the plane of dawn.

In the end, the lizardman gods were hunted down by ancient wizards, and even the godhead became a collection of wizards.

The wizard captured a large number of lizardmen for experiments, and even hybridized lizardmen with creatures from the Dawn Continent, creating many messy varieties.

According to the records in the data, lizard people live in the swamps and jungles in the south, and the discovery of lizard people in the northern border area is not a small news.

But the soldiers in Harland's territory couldn't be deceiving, especially the soldiers in charge of scouting. They were basically veterans, and the backbone force was the elite cavalry riding on Warcraft horses.

The elite monster cavalry has not made any mistakes in the investigation and intelligence.

Hearing this news, Li Cha took the Magical Beast Cavalry Brigade, Scout Cavalry Brigade, First Brigade, Harland Mage Association and other backbone forces to station near the Mage Tower in the swamp basin.

After obtaining the swamp basin fief, Richard spent a sum of gold coins on the construction of the mage tower.

From last fall to now, the mage's tower has been raised by two floors.

Wendy took the magic apprentice and used the spell of turning mud into stone to build the mage tower into an integrated building, and set some magic traps inside the mage tower.

This mage tower has the legendary magic core as energy, and is also equipped with a magic circle to gather magic power. Inside the magic tower, a small artificial magic well is built.

The magician of the tower of death has already built half of the mage tower.

The core mage tower energy room has been constructed.

Richard only needs to spend less than half of the funds to modify some runes that gather magic power to obtain a complete mage tower.

Richard is going to build a seven-story space on the surface.

The first floor is the offices of the Harland Mages Association.The second floor is the magic conference room.Install the portal on the third floor.The fourth floor is the magic plant plantation.The fifth floor is the private magic laboratory of Richard, Sophia, and Wendy.The sixth floor is the bedrooms of Richard, Sophia, Wendy and other high-level officials.

A defensive magic circle is arranged on the seventh floor.

Li Cha is going to set up a large-scale attack magic circle that releases a chain of lightning. The energy channel of the magic circle is directly connected to the energy room.

Normally, the magic power of the magic tower is restricted.

At a critical moment, use the magic energy stored in the legendary magic core to release a powerful magic chain lightning, plus the bonus of the lightning staff, the power can be compared with the legendary magic.

The several underground floors are used as energy rooms, warehouses, public magic laboratories, magic libraries, and magic training grounds.

When building a magic tower, the only trouble now is the portal.

Back then, Li Cha exchanged a batch of magical knowledge with the Church of Dawn in the words of wizards, and there were methods for building space altars and portals.

But to build these magical buildings, precious materials are needed, and this precious material must contain spatial properties. For example, the dragon crystal of the space-time dragon, the stomach bag of the ancient giant lizard, the magic crystal containing space attributes, etc.

Now Harland Territory does not have this kind of material with space attributes, so it is not possible to build space altars and portals.

A magic tower without a portal can only be regarded as a semi-finished product.

The swamp basin covers an area of ​​only more than 300 square kilometers. Richard kept sending people to search with nets, and soon found clues. It turned out that these lizard people were hiding in a ruins.

This ruin is less than ten kilometers away from the Mage Tower.

After arriving near the ruins, Richard and others carefully surveyed the ruins and found that the coordinates of the ruins actually corresponded to special stars.

Richard had studied the Book of Astrology carefully, and when he saw this scene, his expression became a little solemn. Because Richard discovered that this ruins turned out to be a city ruins. In the center of the ruins, there was a huge energy supply center. Such a huge energy supply device could only be used by the legendary floating city.

Nowadays, there is no floating city in the Dawn Plane. The floating city is the product of the ancient wizard civilization.

After the Church of the Seven Gods defeated the ancient wizards, the gods fell into a deep sleep and all the floating cities crashed. Some legendary wizards who were lucky enough to survive left the plane of dawn with the last few interstellar magic ships, and the magical civilization fell into a serious decline.

Although many relics from the Age of Wizards and the Age of Seven Gods have been excavated in the past three thousand years, and the level of magical civilization has made some progress, it is still not comparable to the magical knowledge mastered by ancient wizards.

Sophia and Wendy also read the Book of Astrology and quickly discovered the anomaly. The two looked at each other, walked to Richard and said quietly: "It looks like the building left by the astrological magician, but it doesn't look like a magic tower, but rather similar to the legendary floating city."

"It's indeed a fallen floating city ruins, but it's not safe inside. The danger should not only come from the lizardmen."

Li Cha awakened his talent for danger perception, and when he came to the ruins of the Floating Void City, he immediately had a warning of danger in his heart.

The internal area of ​​the floating city is generally divided into a comprehensive defense area, an energy core area, a comprehensive management area, a residential area, a commercial entertainment area, a material production area, and an education and training area.

Depending on the strength of the energy, a small floating city only has an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters and no more than one or two thousand people.

Large floating cities cover an area of ​​more than several hundred square kilometers and can accommodate millions of people.

This floating city in the swamp basin is medium-sized, covering four to five square kilometers, and should be home to twenty to thirty thousand people.

Li Cha walked around the ruins of the floating city a few times, and decided to dig out the ruins of the floating city to see if he could find some precious magic materials and magic knowledge.

Because there are unknown dangers hidden inside the Floating Void City, Li Cha's actions are very careful. He decided to start searching from the residential areas, commercial and entertainment areas, and education and training areas.

These three areas are relatively less dangerous, and the excavation work should go smoothly from here.

Li Cha put the No. Squadron with the strongest fighting power, the Warcraft Cavalry, on alert, and the rest of them slowly walked into the ruins of the floating city.

The soldiers from Harland's territory had just entered the floating city when a powerful magical light suddenly came from inside the floating city. Several magicians actually activated the teleportation array and left the floating city ruins.

Seeing this scene, Li Cha was taken aback. He never expected that there were still people hiding in the dark in the ruins of this floating city.

It's just that the people hiding in the floating city should not be strong enough to defeat the army in Harland's territory, so they decisively chose to teleport away.

In order to fear that the enemy would move reinforcements, Li Cha had to quickly destroy the teleportation array.

Richard didn't know that it was the legendary magician Elena of the Venus family who was hiding in the ruins of the floating city.

If Elena was intact, she would certainly not be afraid of the army in Harland's territory.

As a legendary magician, even if he cannot defeat thousands of regular troops head-on, he can still withdraw from the battle at any time and seize the initiative on the battlefield.

However, Elena was severely injured by Duke Brener. Although she survived with the help of the Book of Artifact Contract, she could not use the power of magic to fight for three years. It would take twenty years to rest and recover to restore the strength of the legendary mage.

So after discovering that the troops from the territory of Harland had entered, Irina estimated the strength of both sides, and felt that with a few high-level magicians from the Venus family and more than a dozen middle-level and high-level knights, even if they occupied a favorable location, there would be a building built underground. With the help of the mage tower and the controlled lizardmen soldiers, it was difficult to defeat the two thousand elite soldiers in Harland's territory.

Although there was some reluctance in his heart, the Venus family suffered heavy losses when they gave up this secret base.

The Venus family has been operating this secret base for more than a thousand years. There are not only a large amount of materials inside, but also a lot of precious information. The most important thing is that the ruins of the floating city also contain many magical techniques of ancient wizards, which are of extremely high research value. After leaving this ruins, many subsequent studies will be impossible to carry out.

Unless the Venus family was reborn, overthrew the rule of the Grant family, and gained absolute authority, it would be possible to regain this hidden stronghold from the Harland family.

Otherwise, this site can only belong to the Harland family.

Even if this battle is won, the soldiers of the Harland family are repelled. After the secret base is exposed, the Harland family suffers a loss and will definitely report to the capital. When Nolan sends an army, the secret base will still not be able to defend. Live, it will also consume the lives of members of the Venus family.

Yi Lianna is a decisive person. Once she realized that she couldn't do anything, she immediately decided to preserve her vitality and left the floating city with the Venus family.