Lord Harland.

If a territory wants to have a big screen, it must not only have hard power, but also the so-called soft power, which is publicity and popular support.

Since Richard became the earl, the Harland territory has begun to build soft power, not only building museums, but also building arenas and grand theaters. Investing a part of the funds enriches the spiritual life of the citizens. If a country or a territory wants to be stable, it must grasp material civilization with one hand and spiritual civilization with the other. Both hands must be strong.

Nowadays, there is only material civilization, and it is a cultural desert spiritually. It is also easily penetrated by enemy culture and ideological invasion. In the past two or three years, the development of the Harland territory in the cultural field is also amazing.

Today in Fort William, musicians, dancers, theater actors, and minstrels often perform at the Grand Theater on weekends. The Earl's residence also hired painters to paint portraits of the Harland family members, and the palace paintings were displayed in the museum. Ordinary freedmen already had some entertainment.

The warehouse is well-versed in etiquette, and there are rich cultural and artistic activities, which is enough to prove that the development of Harland's territory has reached a relatively high level.

After more than ten years of development, the territory has finally begun to look like a city. Especially areas such as Fort William have the highest level of economic development. There are a large number of high-income people. The living standards of free people far exceed those of the Nolan middle class. The territory also has A heartfelt supporter. People's hearts have stabilized, and the rule of the Harland family has a basic foundation. The foundation has been relatively stable. Before the breakthrough in the manufacturing of steam engines, Richard spent most of the next period of time at the Botanical Research Institute, together with the staff of the institute. office.

The transplantation and domestication of red gum grass is very important. If that plant is successfully planted on a small scale, Cartman will not be able to produce a small amount of red gum, and will immediately retreat into the steam engine age, and productivity will not increase tenfold or a hundredfold.

At that critical moment, Richard dared not relax at all. Even Sophia was dragged to the Institute of Botany by Richard, because Sophia had not made many achievements in the study of life magic and was very proficient in magic in that direction. "It has not been two months since the discovery of red gum grass. You have basically studied the characteristics of that plant, but the transplantation and domestication work is the top priority. Next, you will send mages who are good at life magic to participate in the transplantation and domestication. work, the small-scale planting of red rubber grass has been successful, and the work of the Botanical Research Institute has been successfully completed,"

Richard called Leader Rand to his office, gave a few general instructions, and then continued: "The domestication and planting of red rubber grass are not the most important projects in the territory, and all the remaining resources will be used for that project. The glass greenhouses, fertilizers, and magicians he needs will all be provided. His task is to eliminate all interference, obscure the scientific issues that arise in the research, and try to ensure the success of the project.

Richard was vague in his heart. Any scientific research would definitely guarantee the success of discovering red rubber grass. The process of discovering red rubber grass was full of coincidences. This kind of plant is also relatively rare in the western part of the Eagle Mountain Range. The distribution range of the plant is only 800 square kilometers, scattered under eight mountain ridges.

Just two months before the red gumweed was discovered, from late January to late April, the Institute of Botany had previously organized eight field expeditions into the jungles in the western part of the Eagle Mountains, and none of them encountered cannibals. Demons, more than 70 plant researchers, topographic surveyors, and soldiers responsible for security missions died in the work. Our footprints are all over the western part of the Eagle Mountains. Adding up the inspection materials we have written, there are still more than a million words in the inspection reports. I found red gumweed in my place.

That is enough to show that the place where red rubber grass grows is not ordinary, and that kind of plant is easy to reproduce. After two months of research, Landling and others found that red rubber grass is a phototactic plant and has very low requirements for light. It needs to be Only with more than ten hours of light can they survive abnormally.

The root system of red rubber grass here is relatively strong and it is difficult for it to compete with shrubs and weeds for nutrients. Its seeds are hidden in the fruit. The fruit is relatively heavy and difficult to be blown by the wind, which is conducive to the spread of plant genes.

The western part of the Eagle Mountains is full of sparse, low-rise forests. Due to the biological characteristics of the polyphylls, it is difficult for red rubber grass to survive in that environment. But that plant was bred in the ordinary climate environment in the western part of the Eagle Mountain Range. After a long period of artificial domestication, it has basically adapted to the climate environment in other areas.

Cartman Territory is located in the middle of the Eagle Mountains, about 700 kilometers away from the western region. It is under the same dimension, but is wetter than the western part of the Eagle Mountains.

The climate difference between the two places is too small. According to common sense, transplantation and domestication should be successful. But scientific research, as long as the results are not available, everything is still certain. After more than ten years of development, glass greenhouses have bloomed everywhere in Cartman's territory, and even spread among the people.

Some freedmen from poor families ended up building glass greenhouses in their courtyards, planting off-season vegetables, and improving their lives. The smallest cost of building a greenhouse was not the cost of glass materials, but the second was the fuel supply in winter.

Coal mines were discovered in Cartman's territory. The price of a ton of coal is about eight to eight silver coins. For people without money, the cost of fuel supply is low. After more than ten years of development, the glass kiln has continuously summed up experience and improved its technical level. Today, small pieces of flat glass are widely used in house construction. Although the cost is still very low, it takes more than a dozen gold coins to build an acre of glass greenhouse. It is not difficult for the poor people in the territory. After more than ten years of accumulation of experience, Cartman Territory has accumulated very little temperature control and water control. Greenhouse planting experience, driven by cost considerations in Landerland, the biological characteristics of red rubber grass were slowly understood by Cartman Territory. By mid-April, all red rubber grass was successfully planted in the glass greenhouse.

When the bad news came, Richard immediately allocated eight thousand gold coins to the Institute of Botany to punish those who failed to discover and plant red gum grass. The families of the expedition team members who died in the forest also received generous condolences. Before receiving the penalty funds, the Institute of Botany held an awards ceremony. Richard personally appeared at the venue to award medals to the sacrificed and meritorious personnel. ,bonus.

Before the meeting was over, Richard held a banquet at the Earl's Mansion to entertain the unscrupulous officials. Under the banquet, Leader Rand took the time to report the results of that stage to Richard.

"Growing red gum grass in glass sheds has not been successful yet. It should not be difficult to produce red gum on a large scale. However, there are still many glass sheds in the territory, and the construction cost is low. Your next task is to produce red gum grass. Grass is planted into fields with heavy cover.

Because the climate and environment are the same, the domestication work may take a long time, and red rubber grass also needs to continuously adapt to the environment. You hope that the earl will not set aside a special territory for the Botanical Research Institute as a test field and give you a few years. The task is to be pushed too hard. "

After listening to Zuo Zhimeng's request, Richard nodded and said: "His request is too low to agree to. Although you will set a time to complete the task, they can also slack off in their work. The project has not been withdrawn for a long time. Zhan, you need to replace someone.

The work of planting and domesticating red rubber grass came to an end, and Richard went to Tongshan Town. The construction of Tongshan Town did not last for seven years. The next eight years were spent on infrastructure construction and terrain exploration. Last year, the mining of copper ore and ore smelting ended. , a foundry was established in Tongshan Town this spring, and most of the copper market gold coins were minted. Although the currency value is very low, they circulate in the market. In many people's lives, the least circulated items are not silver coins but copper coins, especially copper coins, which are widely used and have the least circulation in the market.

After the construction of the mint, Cartman's territory has been in a state of money shortage. The gold coins are relatively bad and are mainly used for internal trade. They are relatively common on the market. The profits from commerce in Cartman's territory are basically converted into gold coins and shipped back to the territory.

The shortage of silver coins is more of a problem. In recent years, Cartman Territory has been needing to find coin merchants to exchange gold coins for silver coins and pay salaries to soldiers and officials. The annual handling fee paid is less than two to eight thousand gold coins. In the past two years, transportation When the situation improved, the caravan would also send back a small amount of silver coins, and the money shortage situation turned slightly worse. The shortage of copper coins was the smallest. Because of the slight currency shortage, there was a slight deflation in the Zuo Zhimeng territory, and private transactions were rare. Even bartering.

The exchange rate in the Grant Kingdom was one gold coin for eight hundred and eighty copper coins. However, in Cartman Territory, the value of copper coins has skyrocketed by 80 to 70%. If there is no ban on migration in the future, it is estimated that a small number of private merchants will bring copper coins back to Cartman Territory. In the past two years, with the ban The Migration Act was abolished, and the circulation of the commodity economy has not yet appeared in a small amount. Smuggling of copper coins has not yet become very common. Border residents specializing in smuggling copper coins have appeared in the border areas. Even before retreating into the territory, strict inspections were issued at the checkpoints, and smuggling merchants also They can think of all kinds of ways to sneak into the country and let the border guards worry. The tax department has checked batch after batch. Unless the current situation of money shortage is solved urgently, will there be such low profits?

The town of Copper Mountain is an old castle that primarily serves the distant copper mines. The scale of the castle is relatively small. It only has one important factory: the mint, the copper ore smelting factory, and the weapons manufacturing factory. They are built in Tongshan Town, far away from the copper mine.

The castles in Cartman's territory are basically built with mud, masonry, and cement. Zuo Zhi made calculations himself and found that it is more expensive to build a castle with bricks. Although building a castle with stone is stronger, it requires the establishment of a quarry under the mountain and requires huge human resources. The Cartman Territory has mastered the technology of wheeled brick kilns. The same person can bake bricks a hundred times more efficiently than mining stones. Of course, he will choose to mine stones and use them as building materials. The architectural style of the Territory is actually determined by industrial technology and production efficiency. The retreat to Tongshan Before entering the town, Richard went directly to the mint.

"How is their work this year? How many copper coins have been minted? Is the problem of money shortage urgently solved?

The mint director's name is Harland, and it's only been a year and a half since I retreated into Cartman territory. This man was a low-level craftsman at the mint of the small principality of Stanik. He only knew the smelting of a dozen kinds of alloys and was vague about the coin-making process. Before being captured by Richard in the Waiya Castle, he joined the Cartman Territory in order to save his family's lives. In fact, those low-value talents were basically coerced by Richard into joining the Zuozhimeng Territory because they were low-skilled talents that were in short supply in the territory, haha Rand was pardoned by Richard, became a freeman directly and served as the director of the mint, becoming an important official in the economic system. It took Zuo Zhimeng a long time to join the territory. Although he was appreciated by Richard, he was not interested in that person. The Earl's character is completely understandable. In my impression, Richard is a heroic, cruel and decisive noble lord who kills people without mercy. When facing Richard, Harland felt the pressure of being beaten. My legs were no longer trembling, so I stumbled and said: "The smelter sent 800 tons of copper ore this year. According to the plan, you will cast all those copper ingots into copper coins, with a total value of about 27,000 gold coins. Calculating each person's name, the newly added copper coins are only seven. The money problem can still be solved in a short time, but it can only be solved a little urgently."

In a short period of time, the amount of copper coined in the market can be increased. "The output of controlled dry copper mines is mostly increased by the output of copper mines. The casting of copper coins is not easy, but you must consider the economic situation of the territory. If too few coins are minted, it will This leads to the depreciation of copper coins and the emergence of inflation problems. The emergence of this problem is not a bad thing for a territory or a country. How many copper coins are minted every year is a scientific issue that requires many calculations. You are in Stanik The mint of the small principality is just a low-level craftsman who is proficient in craft manufacturing issues. The issue of how many copper coins need to be minted under the economy requires the earl to ask scholars who are proficient in economics. The mint only has no execution capabilities, and decision-making issues require decision-making by the lower levels of the territory."

After listening to Harland's answer, Richard knew that people have no boundaries and can only make ends meet. The amount of money supply in Richard's later generations was like a primary school asking how to release money appropriately. It is a small test for the ability of economic officials. "If you have taken the issues he mentioned into consideration, the central bank will be established in a while, and the mint will be assigned to the jurisdiction of the central bank. We will be responsible for decision-making issues."

Although it has developed for more than ten years, Cartman Territory still faces the challenge of Richard establishing education. It has been more than ten years since the establishment of education in Cartman Territory. The number of students graduated from Cartman Territory University is less than 1,000, and the number of students currently studying is close to 7,000.

A small number of college students who knew how to read and were proficient in arithmetic entered various walks of life, and the quality of managers at the lower levels of the territory was greatly improved.

Although a lot of basic talents have been trained and have been barely adequate in recent years, low-end talents are still in short supply.

Cartman's territory can only graduate dozens of middle school students every year, and they are spread among various small departments. It is basically enough.