Lord Harland.

Richard discovered through experiments that if six points of mental power are invested, iron metal will be generated, if twelve points of mental power are invested, copper metal will be generated, and if eighteen points of mental power are invested, silver metal will be generated. Once the mental power invested exceeds two At fourteen o'clock, about one kilogram of gold metal will be generated.

Gold is a very precious precious metal. Even if the value is not as high as gold coins of the same quality, one kilogram of gold is worth about thirteen gold coins and four silver coins.

According to Li Cha's estimation, the ratio of his mental power to magic power is higher than that of ordinary people. A normal magician wants to use the creation technique to transform gold, and the investment of mental power is about points.

In order to verify his conjecture, Li Cha had Sophia and Wendy learn the Creation Art successively, and devoted all his mental power to release this spell.

Wendy's mental strength is still slightly insufficient, so she can only wear a star necklace to release powerful creation spells.

Through continuous research and testing the strength of mental power, Richard found that Sophia needed to consume about 27 points of mental power to make gold, and Wendy needed to consume 29 points of mental power.

Why do different kinds of magic power produce different metals?

Why do different people need to invest different mental energy to create different metals?

Why is the magic structure of Creation so special?

With a strong desire for knowledge, Li Cha especially wants to figure out the principle behind it.

In the knowledge that Richard learned in his previous life, elements are the general term for atoms of the same type with the same number of protons.

Atoms are composed of nuclei and electrons, and nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons.

Endless matter is composed of different combinations of two basic types of matter, namely nuclei and electrons.

Among them, the positively charged nuclei are protons, and the uncharged nucleons are neutrons; electrons are negatively charged.

What keeps protons and neutrons together in the nucleus is cohesion.

But the interior of the atomic nucleus is still unstable, because half of its nucleons are positively charged protons, which causes two opposite forces to exist in the nucleus: one is the surface tension that binds the nucleons together, and the other is the nuclear force. The repulsive forces between the charged parts tend to split the atom into several pieces.

If surface tension prevails, the nuclei will not split apart on their own, and two such nuclei will tend to come together and fuse when they come into contact with each other;

If repulsive electricity prevails, the atomic nucleus has a tendency to split itself into two or more fragments that fly away at high speed, a process called fission.

However, whether it is fusion or fission, it requires extremely strong influence to be possible.

Assume that the onlooker physics in the Dawn Plane also has an atomic structure, but among protons, neutrons and electrons, there is another kind of basic particle, magic energy particle.

Magic energy particles exhibit various magical effects through special operation rules.

Although the conditions are not yet mature for studying the rules of the operation of magic energy particles.

However, you can study the spell structure of Creation and create new spells.

From the knowledge he learned in his previous life, Richard knew that the number of electrons in the outermost shell of atoms of metallic elements is small, generally less than four; the number of electrons in the outermost shell of atoms of non-metallic elements is larger, generally greater than four.

Why can creation make metal?This may be the key factor.

In addition, there is a magic water-making technique, which can also create things out of thin air, creating hydrogen and oxygen elements.

With doubts in his mind, Richard set up a research team and organized the most thoughtful magicians in the territory to calm down and study the structure of these two spells.

By splitting the two spell structures, Sophia keenly found the key points and discovered the most critical basic spell structure, which can bring together different elements. Using this most basic spell structure, Sophia creatively added a new spell structure and developed a four-ring spell, gold manufacturing.

After releasing this magic, about grams of gold can be produced by consuming ten points of mental power.

An ordinary four-ring magician with a mental power of around 16 points can cast a four-ring magic gold manufacturing technique, which can produce gold worth about six gold coins and eight silver coins.

If the mental power is consumed too much, ordinary magicians will recover in about three to four days without the use of potions to restore mental power.

A magician with four rings can use the gold making technique once every three days, and can make gold worth about 800 gold coins a year.

The Dawn plane is a gold-magic crystal joint standard system. Both magic crystals and gold are extremely scarce resources. Because of the lack of gold-magic crystals, almost all regions are in deflation.

In a deflationary economy, asset prices fall and market demand slumps, which is very detrimental to economic development.

Hundreds of years ago, the Glorious Empire of the Holy God wanted to break the status quo and issued a parchment currency based on national credit.

However, firstly, the neighboring countries did not accept the account, secondly, the anti-counterfeiting problem could not be solved, and thirdly, the rulers of the Holy God’s Glorious Empire did not cherish the national credit and issued banknotes indiscriminately, destroying the most important circulation basis of parchment currency.

Various reasons led to the failure of parchment currency issuance.

Although the gold coins of various major kingdoms now have different weights, they are still mainly made from gold smelted into waste magic crystal powder.

Normally, it would be difficult for an ordinary fourth-ring magician to earn 800 gold coins a year.

If a magician of this level is not proficient in side jobs such as potions, enchantments, and alchemy, and is placed in the main army, his normal salary is about one hundred and twenty gold coins.

But the magician of the four rings can be regarded as a big shot in a certain area, relying on the protection of some merchants, the combined annual income is between three and four hundred gold coins.

Before William became a hereditary nobleman, his annual income was only gold coins including the dry shares offered by his uncle Grande.In addition to Mrs. Ola, Powell's part of the business, and Bernie's military salary, the Harland family, which had no family at that time, had an annual income of about to gold coins.

Now, as long as an ordinary fourth-ring magician learns this new spell, his income can be doubled immediately.

The gold created by the magician is equivalent to increasing the amount of gold put into the market, and it is also quite good for alleviating deflation.

However, compared to gold manufacturing techniques, iron, copper, and even silver are metals with relatively large reserves. Using these three magics is not so economically beneficial.But in special circumstances, creation out of thin air can play a very important role.

Because gold manufacturing technology has a very significant impact on the economy, Richard has no plans to make it public for the time being.

When Harland's territory has developed to a certain level, there are a large number of fourth-order magicians in the territory, and the royal seal in the family's hands can prevent magicians from leaking secrets, then Richard will spread this spell in a limited way to make gold , to increase part of the income for Harland's territory.

After Sophia created the gold manufacturing technology, Richard, Wendy and others also created the steel manufacturing technology, brass manufacturing technology, and silver manufacturing technology.

After mastering the element aggregation structure, the magician can study different elements, create different magic structures, and use them to make different elements.

If you delve deeper into the research, you can also refer to the water-making technique to create different elemental compounds. This research must be very promising in the magical world.

After inventing a new magic, Sophia's meditation speed immediately increased by about ten times. This kind of rapid progress, like an empowerment-like meditation, lasted for about two months.

Because the feedback from meditation is particularly good, in just two or three months, the effect of meditation is equivalent to two or three years.However, it is still short for her to break through the six-ring magician, and it will take some time to accumulate before the meditation method is advanced. According to the normal meditation speed, it will take about four or five years.Unless new magic can be created again and new magic theories can be researched, the speed of advancement can be accelerated.

After entering October, Richard began to patrol the territory, contacting the most grassroots free citizens and indentured servants, breaking the information cocoon set up for him by the bureaucrats, redressing the grievances of the people, and dealing with the bureaucrats who were corrupt, derelict in their duties, and oppressed the people.

By the end of this year, according to statistics from the civil affairs department, the Harland Territory already had a population of 258,000. Compared with last year, the population increased by about 28,000, of which 10,000 were Duke Richard Tongis. Purchased indentured servant.

Of the other 18,000 people, more than 1,000 are private slaves purchased by merchants in the Harland territory, and more than 1,000 are outsiders who migrated into the territory in admiration.

Last year, there were approximately 15,000 newborns in the territory.

The fertility rate in Harland territory is about 5%.

Because they are well fed and clothed, the territory's high fertility rate has been maintained for ten years. Children under the age of twelve add up to more than 23 people, accounting for about % of the total population.

Whether it is a private slave purchased by a merchant or a migrant who migrated, they can only settle in agricultural planting areas such as Vicburg and Malte Castle to prevent the core secrets of the territory from being leaked.Only a small number of foreign populations can pass the review of the territorial intelligence department and enter the core castles such as Fort William and Fort Sophia, and must be subject to strict supervision. They can only move around in specific places and cannot wander around at will.

For example, private slaves purchased by merchants in Fort William must not appear in confidential places such as the City Lord's Mansion, Riverbank Elementary School, research institutes, and laboratories. If something goes wrong, many people will be held accountable by law.

Secret-related departments such as Fort William, Sophia, and Marsh Basin have soldiers standing guard and patrolling.

After so many years of education and the lessons of blood, no matter if they are free citizens or contract slaves, they have all formed the habit of staying away from secret-related departments.In order not to be thrown into the mine because of being too curious and commit a taboo, and become food for orcs.

The area of ​​Harland's territory is already quite large, with more than 18,000 square kilometers of land and about a hundred villages of various sizes. In addition, there are various factories and mines. It would take two months to visit each village. about.

After Richard inspected the territory and returned to Fort William, it was already mid-December, not far from the goddess' birthday.

Before the Goddess' Day, Richard first summarizes this year's income and expenditure. He summoned the bureaucrats from the territory to the city lord's palace to count this year's income and make a budget for next year.

The first one to report was still Gibson. He was William's butler and a distant member of the Harland family. He was William's cousin according to his seniority.

Because Richard and William have no separation, William's territory has always been managed by Richard. Although Gibson has no position in Harland's territory, his status is very high, second only to Richard's uncle, Brother Rogge, and he is regarded as a civil servant. No. character in .

"The business of Black River Castle is very good this year, with a net profit of 2,400 gold coins. However, this year Mrs. Ola spent 5,000 gold coins to purchase a manor. The manor has about 1,300 acres of farmland and 160 slaves. It is close to the river and has waterwheels to irrigate the farmland. It is a very high-quality property. If the owner of the manor had not planned to live in the royal capital, it would have been impossible for us to purchase this property. After purchasing the manor, there is not much in the treasury of Heihe Fort. For working capital, Mrs. Ola also owes a short-term debt of one thousand gold coins.”

Gibson talked eloquently and clearly introduced the various businesses of Heihe Fort.

After William became a hereditary baron, the business of the Harland family in Heihe Castle developed rapidly. Mrs. Ola not only owned a large number of properties for rent, but also hotels, chain pubs, wool spinning and clothing stores, grain stores, shoe stores, and cobbler stores. There are also farms, waterwheel mills, four-wheeled carriage transport teams outside the city, and a large mercenary dedicated to serving Mrs. Ola.

Mrs. Ola has a hand in almost any business that makes money.

In the past few years, the territory was unable to make ends meet, and cash was drawn from Mrs. Ola every year.Madam Ola dared not to speak out, and when she had money in her hand, she immediately borrowed money to invest, fearing that Richard would borrow it away, and the meat bun would beat the dog.

Mrs. Ola's property is going to be passed on to her children, and Li Cha knows this well.Of course he would not object to his younger siblings inheriting the property.As long as he doesn't compete with Li Cha for the inheritance of William Land, Li Cha will try his best to satisfy some property requirements.

After Gibson, it was Richard's cousin Tang En who reported.

Tang En was in charge of the agricultural work in the Harland Territory.

Agricultural income is the bulk of a territory.The same is true for Harland's territory.It's just that Richard takes out the agricultural income every year to buy slaves, which is reflected in the cash flow, as if there is no income from agriculture.

In fact, relying on the accumulation of agriculture to purchase contract slaves, coupled with the population entangled in the war, Baron Cisse compensated the population, and Harland's territory could develop to the present level.

"Excluding this year's grain reserves, we sold 26,000 tons of grain in exchange for about 10,000 indentured servants. From the grain trade, there is no cash income this year."

"The growth momentum of textile trade this year is very good. Wool spinning has brought a net profit of gold coins, and cotton spinning has a profit of about gold coins. Wool spinning plus cotton spinning, the net profit of the textile industry adds up to gold coins, which is already gold coins. The largest income of the territory. The most important point is that half of the income from textiles depends on the internal market of the territory, and half depends on the outside."

The head of the textile department was Scott, who had invented a new loom which increased the efficiency of weaving more than eightfold.

Because of his outstanding contributions, he was promoted by Richard to be in charge of the textile business.

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