Feeling that Sophia might be pregnant, Richard suddenly felt extremely happy and excited.
In his previous life, Richard had a daughter. When he first traveled through time, he missed his daughter all the time.
When I think about never seeing my daughter again, sometimes I even want to die.
I hope that after I die, I can go back in time.
Richard gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his heart. Time is the best medicine to heal pain.
After more than ten years since she came into this world, my daughter's appearance seems to have become blurred, and the unspeakable pain she felt back then seems to have become an unforgettable memory.
Life is still going on. Richard has gotten married in Dawn Continent, has a new family, and is about to usher in a new life.
Recalling the past events scene by scene, Richard suddenly remembered the faces of his family members. His nose suddenly felt sore and his eyes were filled with tears.
"Just be pregnant if you're pregnant. Why are you crying?"
"It's nothing, I'm just too excited. Since you feel tired, you should rest for a few days and put aside what you are doing. If you are really pregnant, you must not work too hard. This is your first time, so you have to pay attention to yourself.
Body."
Since May, Richard has been busy with the formation of the Warcraft cavalry. From the soldier barracks, the cavalry training ground, training equipment, living supplies, and even the construction of stables for the Warcraft horses, Richard needs to worry about everything.
In this busy schedule, three months passed and it entered mid-August.
This year's autumn harvest has begun again, but this time Richard doesn't need to keep an eye on it. The autumn harvest work is left to his cousin Tang En. Richard just needs to look at the statistics and check the granary to know how much food has been harvested this year.
Over the course of three months, Sophia gradually showed obvious signs of pregnancy. Her belly gradually became larger and her face became more rounded as the pregnancy progressed.
The two have been married for two years and now they finally have their own child.
After confirming her pregnancy, Sophia stopped her magic research and returned to Sophia Castle to raise her baby.
The higher-ups in the territory also attached great importance to this child. They all swore to Richard Sophia that they were willing to be loyal to this unborn child.
Although William has not publicly discussed it, he will hand over the territory to Richard for inheritance.
But looking at his training of Richard, it is obvious that he regards Richard as his successor.
Even in order to establish Richard's prestige, William rarely came to the territory.
Even though Richard is not the first heir to William's throne, Ron and Hayden are ahead of him in the succession order.
But the succession of noble titles does not only depend on the order of succession, but also on who is supported within the territory?
Without prestige in the territory and without enough supporters, it is basically impossible to inherit the territory even if the succession is higher.
Because there will be pressure from within the territory to ask you to give up your inheritance rights.
If they don't know how to promote, they will even use violent means, assassinations, and attacks to physically eliminate their opponents and support the people they support to rise to power.
Unless you have strong power and can suppress opposing voices.
For example, Ron, if he inherits the territory, Powell, Bernie and other Harland family members may not obey him.
When William was promoted to baronet, Richard, Powell, and Bernie all made great efforts.
The combined military exploits of the three men exceeded four great achievements. This barony was not just the territory of William alone.
They have worked hard throughout their lives to become hereditary nobles, and they all have a say in the choice of successors.
They do not want the foundation they have worked hard for all their lives to be handed over to a mediocre person.
What's even more troublesome is that the territory's military forces will not easily obey Ron's command.
Even the civil affairs, agriculture, and industry departments with the weakest influence will probably fool him.
It is impossible to inherit a complete territory by relying on one title alone.
If Richard inherits the territory, there will be no problem above.
His ability has already been confirmed by Bernie and Powell, and he built the army by himself. Whether in terms of ability or prestige, commanding the army is not a problem.
Moreover, Richard had deep relationships with some officers, and emotionally they were not willing for Ron to inherit the territory.
The industrial department was founded by Richard himself, and every key member was promoted by him. He also had a high degree of influence on the bureaucrats in charge of industry and agriculture.
Even if Ron is reluctant and has resentment in his heart, he must give up his inheritance rights in this situation.
Hayden has discussed with Richard that during the family meeting this Christmas, he will give up his inheritance rights and take the initiative to clarify this issue.
In August, the glass kiln was successfully put into operation, producing the first furnace of glass in the territory.
Unfortunately, there were still many bubbles in the glass and the color was not very pure. After processing by the glassmaker, this batch of glass was made into glass wine bottles and handed over to Mrs. Ola's tavern.
Firing glass is not easy. It requires six major processes: material selection, melting, mold preparation, pouring, cooling, and polishing.
Every craft has many details, and some even require the craftsman to have exquisite skills.
Fortunately, there were already experienced kiln-burning masters in the Harland territory. Even if they had never fired glass, they were already very sensitive to the temperature at the kiln mouth, so they fired the first glass.
Richard knew that the glass industry was a precursor to the chemical industry. Without the glass industry, it would be difficult to develop the chemical industry.
The glass craftsmen that Richard spent fifty gold coins were not of high quality and relied on their experience. But relying on these people, Harland Territory finally produced glass without making many detours.
Sometimes in industrial manufacturing, a small detail can be stuck for many years. Before purchasing these glass craftsmen, Harland Territory had been burning glass for several years without success. The glass craftsmen came to give advice, and Richard suddenly discovered that burning glass was not a problem at all.
Not difficult.
Through these people, Richard learned how to design a glass kiln, the formula of glass, how high the temperature is required, how to remove bubbles, how to bake colorless or various colors of glass, and how to blow finished products?
After several failures, the craftsmen of the glass kiln summed up their experience and found that the reason why the glass was impure was that the soda used in the past had too many impurities.
Richard sent people to purchase a batch of natural soda from Jonathan's territory, and then mixed the soda with limestone and river sand to calcine.
After the fired glass slurry is fully stirred to remove some bubbles, it is blown into containers of various shapes with a blowpipe.
After purchasing pure soda, the fired glass immediately improved a lot, barely meeting Richard's requirements.
Richard first asked the glassmaker to blow a batch of cups, test tubes, distilling bottles and other experimental vessels, and handed them over to Wendy and Adrian.
They all need to do experiments and use a lot of glassware every year.
Now that glass can be produced in the territory, Richard does not need to buy Viscount Luomen's glass products at high prices.
As for the large piece of transparent glass that Richard needed, the glass kiln directly cast a batch of copper molds. By using the pouring method, the large piece of transparent glass that Richard needed was successfully produced.
The glass kiln was successfully put into operation, and the territory's industry improved a bit.