Lord Harland.

The difficulty of making a hot air balloon lies in the fuel control technology. Although the magic flame lamp burns stably, it is difficult to adjust the size of the flame.

In the past six months, Annie has focused on solving this problem.

By engraving other runes and resetting the rune array, the power of the magic lamp was divided into three levels, which solved the problem of flame control.

The last problem is the hot air balloon descender. To solve this problem, the temperature needs to be controlled. The Harland territory already has a thermometer, which can visually observe the temperature.

Through brainstorming, a magic apprentice who is proficient in mechanical processing finally put forward a point of view, made a manual exhaust valve, and connected the exhaust valve with a string. When the string is pulled, the exhaust valve shrinks, and the lift force is formed in opposition to gravity. The pressure, as well as the principle of rising hot air, can force some air out of the balloon to reduce the temperature.

Overcoming all the difficulties, the manufacture of hot air balloons is no longer difficult.

A few days ago, with the help of her assistant, Annie successfully made a hot air balloon. Today, the wind is relatively small, and it is the first time to do a hot air balloon flight experiment.

For safety, Wendy and Annie participated in the experiment. Wendy can fly, even if the hot air balloon is in danger, she can save the pilot.

In order to prevent other people from copying, Li Cha also used the principle of sound wave recognition and set up the magic flame lamp to turn on the mechanism.

In the previous life on the earth, hot air balloons were tools that could only be manufactured after the development of industrial science to a certain level, and the manufacturing difficulty was the same as that of steam engines.Without the use of magic means, the territory of Harland could only produce simple Kongming lanterns. The earth did not produce mature hot air balloons until the eighteenth century.

Even if Richard handed over the hot air balloon to a dukedom, he would not be able to imitate it without cracking the principle of sound wave recognition.

Even if the Grant royal family got the hot air balloon, they would need to overcome a lot of technical difficulties if they wanted to copy it. I am afraid that they would need to mobilize a large number of magicians for research. I don’t know how many years it will take to overcome the principle of sound wave recognition, the control principle of magic flame lamps, and the use of exhaust valves. Alloy materials and other technical difficulties.

It is very difficult to copy the hot air balloon. Unlike the counterweight trebuchet, Li Cha is not afraid of being visited.

There were quite a few people who watched the hot air balloon experiment. In addition to the staff of the Mage Association, researchers from the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Optics, there were also military guards and staff officers.

Under the gaze of everyone, the hot-air balloon slowly flew into the sky. With the help of the wind, the hot-air balloon flew neither fast nor slow.

With the hot air balloon, although the Harland Territory has not yet organized the Lion Cavalry, it still has certain air combat capabilities through the hot air balloon.

Normally, a standard hot air balloon can carry four people into the sky.

Among the four people, there must be a magic apprentice who can control the magic flame lamp and adjust the size of the flame, and an archer who can prevent the harpy from approaching and protect the safety of the hot air balloon.There is an observer with a telescope, who performs observation tasks, and the last one is the pilot of the hot air balloon.

After the hot air balloon was successfully manufactured, Li Cha immediately ordered the manufacture of six hot air balloons to train pilots.

After the magic hot air balloon was successfully manufactured, Li Cha formed a hot air balloon squadron and recruited sharp archers, magic apprentices, and observers. Although the magic hot air balloon squadron had a small number of people, it was the first air force in Harland's territory. before the lion rider

The squadron leader of the Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadron, Richard appointed a second-level professional Istruan.

Istruan is a veteran who has been in the army for more than ten years. He is also a very talented archer. His archery skills are second only to Richard and Thoros. He is estimated to have reached the fifth level.

The magic hot air balloon squadron was formed, and the lion cavalry also began to train.

Half of the lion squirrels were traded with the royal family, and there were only six adult lion squirrels left in Harland's territory, and three were sub-adults.However, the eight lion duck eggs were kept by Li Cha. In April of this year, the eight lion duck eggs successfully hatched six young lion duck eggs.

These cubs grew up with humans, so it is easier to domesticate them. Li Cha recruited professionals from the army to take care of them one-on-one. Duck cavalry.

In order to train the lion's duck cavalry, Li Cha approached Deng Lejin, the bishop of the Dawn Church in Gerda Province, hoping to use ultrasonic waves to detect this new magic, and exchange the experience of the Dawn Church's formation of the Lion's Dawn Cavalry.

Not long after, news came from Deng Lekin's side, agreeing to Li Cha's exchange terms.

Having gained the experience of forming the lion-fly cavalry from the Church of Dawn, Li Cha immediately let the lion-fly cavalry learn the lion-fly language.

His cousin Audrey has the best language talent. She was the first to master the language of the griffon. Through communication with the griffon, she tamed an adult griffon and was the first to fly into the sky.

Audrey performed very well, and Richard also appointed her as the captain of the Griffin Cavalry Squadron.

Women from the Dawn Plane can also serve as military officers as long as they are strong.

The second daughter of Baron Fanta, Raphael, has advanced to the eighth-rank Golden Knight and has become a female viscount. Her strength has far surpassed her father's. She is a very powerful noble lord in the province of Gascoigne.

Audrey is already a third-tier knight, and her combat power is not weaker than that of a fourth-tier warrior. In addition, she was the first to tame the lion squirrel. Even if the lion squirrel cavalry felt that they were led by a young girl, they would not look good, so they did not dare to provoke Audrey. Li, asking for trouble.

Time entered August, and the territory began to harvest in autumn.

After the autumn harvest, approximately 13,000 indentured slaves completed their five-year contracts and were pardoned by Richard as free citizens.

These new freedmen, the territory will owe a year's rations on credit, grow food, and allocate fixed houses.

Of course, these houses are not free, and you need to pay about four silver coins a year to buy the houses.

Freedmen were required to pay installment payments for fifteen consecutive years before they could obtain the property rights of their houses.

There are now about twelve thousand freemen in Halland Territory. Among them, 4,000 are military families who have already purchased their houses in advance because of their higher incomes. There are also more than 1,000 families who are businessmen, bureaucrats, and skilled workers who have relatively affluent living standards and have also purchased their own houses.

There are less than households left, and the annual house payment income brought to the territory is about gold coins.

This year's land tax adds up to 15,000 gold coins, plus commercial taxes, customs duties and other miscellaneous income, the installment payment plus taxes is about 20,000 gold coins.

The tax of twenty thousand gold coins is already a lot of money.

This year, although due to fallow farming, grain production has decreased by about 10,000 tons.

However, the more than 75,000 free people in the territory did not need Richard's support, and the food reserve was enough to maintain at 80,000 tons. Forty thousand tons of grain are used as rations for the territory's 165,000 indentured servants, 10,000 tons of grain are reserved for growing grain next year, 2,000 tons of grain are used to brew liquor, and the remaining 28,000 tons are used as food reserves for unexpected emergencies.

Not counting tax and grain, the grain that can be sold in the territory is about tons.

The price of food this year was relatively stable. Richard received an order from the army, and the Wealth Church also had a new channel to sell food. Twenty-six thousand tons of food were sold, and approximately 52,000 gold coins were sold.

Cash of more than 50,000 gold coins poured into the territory, and of course Richard would not keep it in the treasury.

There are about gold coins in reserve in Fort William's treasury. As long as there are no major problems in the management of the territory, gold coins in reserve will be enough.

With this money, Richard still decided to buy slaves, but this time he didn't need to go to the Grand Duchy of Stanik himself.

Having purchased slaves for many years in a row, Richard is already the largest slave buyer in the Kingdom of Grant.

Richard has purchased more than 60,000 slaves in total over the years. As a big buyer of slaves, he has attracted the attention of the Duke of Guise.

The Duke of Guise sent someone to find Li Cha and was willing to transport the slaves to Heihe Fort. As long as Li Cha paid a few hundred gold coins for shipping, they were willing to come to serve him.

After meeting the head of the caravan under the Duke of Guise, Richard proposed a new business model. From next year, he would use the surplus food in Harland's territory to exchange the slaves captured by the Duke of Guise.

The Duke of Guise is relatively dry, and there are large areas of saline-alkali land in the territory. The grain production is not enough, so it has to buy grain from outside every year.

The slave-for-grain program bypassed secondary dealers such as grain merchants, transport merchants, and slave merchants, and was beneficial to the development of both territories.

The snowfall in northern Xinjiang came earlier this year, half a month after the autumn harvest, the mountain roads were blocked by heavy snow.

The mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and the demon hunting team also returned to the southern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range.

This year, the Demon Hunting Team has entered the Eagle Mountain Range eleven times. The biggest harvest is that after winter, due to lack of food, a group of iron wildebeests migrated to the middle of the Eagle Mountain Range.

The demon hunting team planned to go back and caught this group of wildebeests.

There are more than 40 wild iron horned horses in this group, including a third-level horse king.

No lord will sell the third-level horse king at all. With this horse king, the genes of Harland's subway wildebeest can be improved, which will be of great benefit to the breeding of Warcraft war horses.

Counting this group of captured wildebeests, there are about 360 wildebeests in Harland's territory.

About two hundred of them are sterile geldings. Almost all of these geldings are in the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade and the Reconnaissance Brigade. There are only about 160 Iron Horned Horses that can normally give birth and expand the population.

Among them, there are only 80 horses in the Iron Horn Horse breeding base, all of which are the best quality stallions and mares in the territory. The breeding base can give birth to about 20 foals every year.

After this successful hunting, Richard gave a large amount of bonuses to each demon hunting team member, with an average of about fifty gold coins per person.

Sulla participated in this hunting operation. After returning to the territory, he once again invited his old comrades from the First Squadron to dinner.

More than ten years have passed, and there are only about seven or eight old comrades who are still in the army.The best among them was Jennings, who was already a Tier fighter and also served as the captain of the Sixth Brigade of the Territory.Those who did not mix well were also promoted to senior soldier students and served as squad leaders in the army.

Although the team leader has a low position, he has a salary of one gold coin every month, plus the military service allowance, he has an income of twenty gold coins a year.

The Haaland territory is rich in products and the price level is lower than that of Black River Fort. Ten gold coins can make a family live a very prosperous life.

With an annual income of twenty gold coins, the standard of living is slightly better than that of the professionals in Black River Fort.

The place for entertaining guests was still the hotel in Odaille. After several years of development, there were already 18,000 freedmen near Fort William.

The free citizens of Harland Territory are all people with spending power.

With the increase of the consumer population, the market has also expanded a lot. The business of the restaurant opened by Aodaye is getting better and better. Since two years ago, it has turned from loss to profit, and can earn a net profit of gold coins a year.In another year or two, the gold coins Su La invested would be able to recoup the cost.

Jennings came on horseback, saw Su La standing at the door of the hotel, jumped off the horse hastily, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry for keeping everyone waiting for so long."

"You have become the captain, and you are extremely busy every day. It would be nice to come to the party to save face. It shows that you have not forgotten your old comrades in arms. Now everyone is here. If you don't come again, we will hold the meeting."

Jennings and Sura are very close. Sura is also a third-tier fighter and the captain of the infantry squadron. Although Jennings' status is much higher than that of Sura, the two are still in the same class.Occasionally, the officers could meet each other during meetings.

A few days ago, the demon hunting team returned to Fort William, and a group of stallions were eliminated from the Warcraft breeding base. When Jennings received the Warcraft horse, he met his old comrades.

Su La made a joke, talked and laughed with Jennings and entered the second floor of the hotel.

After entering, everyone still ordered a roasted whole lamb and two fishes. On Odaye's recommendation, they also ordered the restaurant's new signature dish, roast suckling pig.

After pouring the wine, everyone drank a few rounds. The distilled alcohol in Harland's territory has a relatively high alcohol content, and even strong professionals can get a little drunk after drinking a few catties.

After getting drunk, everyone let go and forgot the differences between each other for a while.

The theme of gatherings of old comrades-in-arms is often reminiscing about the past, recalling those friends who struggled with them and sacrificed for many years when they first joined the army.

"Do you remember the first time you participated in a battle? Although I became a professional at that time, I had never actually participated in a battle. I was very nervous inside. My legs were even shaking a little when I was in formation. I was so nervous that I couldn't express my feelings. Words come.

After the battle with the kobold squadron, Varanda and Thom stood by my side, and soon died at the hands of the kobolds.The people I got along with day and night died by my side, which made me a little dazed all of a sudden.At that time, my mind was only full of revenge, and I rushed to the depths of the kobold army, hacked six kobolds to death, and made my first military exploits. "

Jennings took a big gulp of a glass of wine, and shed tears as he spoke, obviously thinking of his old comrades who had died for many years.

"Actually, when I was in formation, I noticed your legs were trembling, and I still laughed at you, a little doll. Although you have a good talent for practicing breathing techniques and your physical fitness has improved rapidly, you are a cowardly person after all. I still I pray secretly, I hope you can hold on, and never run away. Once the officers run away, the soldiers will run away too. Once the battle fails, we will die without a place to bury us.

I didn't expect you to be so brave when we really fought. You were the first to rush into the kobold army and led us to defeat the kobolds. In addition, Mr. Richard and Captain Soros killed the kobold officers. Our casualties were minimal. Eaten the kobold squadron.After this battle, you have convinced me. "

Before Julian was captured, he was a serf soldier under the command of the nobles of the Delong Kingdom. Although he did not practice breathing techniques, he had several combat experiences.

At the beginning, Jennings, who was promoted to an officer at a young age, was not very convinced.

"Time has passed in a flash. Who would have thought more than ten years ago that we would become professionals and have the hope of becoming hereditary nobles. We owe our existence today to Mr. Richard."

"Yes, when Mr. Richard is promoted to a hereditary earl, he can be granted the title of baron. We will work hard to practice the breathing method. After being promoted to a high level, we will have the opportunity to become a hereditary noble. Especially Zhannings, he will definitely change his destiny and become a hereditary noble. "

Hearing everyone's compliments, Jennings shook his head hastily and said, "This kind of thing depends on luck. Only when Harland's territory develops rapidly and Mr. Richard is promoted to the hereditary earl, we have a future."

"Yes, I wish Master Li Cha will become a great nobleman soon. For Master Li Cha, let's have a toast." Sura raised his glass and drank a large glass of wine.

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