The Barony of Harland now has two squadrons of soldiers.
These two squadrons are standing forces and require training for twelve months each year.
The first six months are recruit training, which mainly involves getting familiar with military regulations and conducting queue training.
This queue training is different from the military training in Richard's previous life, and is combined with the actual combat conditions in the Dawn Continent.
The main training is team training, team drawing tactics, and each training must be fully armed, wearing armor and holding swords.
The physical exertion is very high, and queue training is usually only done every other day.
In addition, the most important task of recruit training is to teach soldiers to understand flags, semaphores, and horns. Teach them to understand characters and become familiar with the practice of breathing techniques.
Of course, in the beginning, Richard focused on health regulations.
In order to make the soldiers have good hygiene habits, Richard personally inspected them and used whips to make the lazy slaves remember the hygiene regulations and not defecate in the open, which made the military camp smell bad.
After a period of continuous spot checks and punishments, the soldiers remembered the fear of whips and gradually developed good hygiene habits. The hygiene habits improved, and the military appearance and discipline, as well as the spirit and spirit, were obviously improved.
There is a slave merchant who serves as the captain of the transportation brigade, and the two squadrons are well equipped.
Although it is far from comparable to the main army, it is already relatively sophisticated among the aristocratic private armies.
The Stopa Baron has been operating for decades, and the family's private army only has two squadrons, and its combat effectiveness is average, no different from the soldiers of the Harland family.
In the past year, although Richard was busy every day, he still did not practice relaxation breathing or meditation.
Zero-ring magic: energy ray, treatment of minor injuries
One-ring magic: energy missiles, vine entanglement, treatment of minor injuries
Experience:6500
Over the past year, the breathing method experience has increased by approximately 10,000 points, and the meditation method experience has increased by approximately 2,800 points.
Although Richard meditates hard every day, his elemental intimacy is average and the effect of meditation is not very good.
Without killing experience, it would still take three years for Richard to be promoted to a second-level magician.
The archery skill has been increased by 2000 experience points. Last year, Richard trained archery every three days. He did not invest enough time and the experience gained was less.
For a whole year, the fighting skills of the Northern Army basically did not improve much.
It took half a month for Richard to conduct combat training once. This skill could increase his experience, and Richard was already very satisfied.
In terms of learning spells, Richard is very talented and has learned three one-ring spells.
My younger sister, Wendy, has a good talent for magic. She has become a high-level magic apprentice. She has also learned energy rays and two zero-level magics for treating minor injuries.
According to Richard's estimation, her mental power is close to eight, and she is not far away from becoming a first-level magician.
It is estimated that the breakthrough will occur within the next month or two.
Wendy devoted less time to magic than Richard.
In the past year, she has been in the library at home in Black River Fort almost every day.
With Baron Stopa's collection of books to read, Wendy was already immersed in a sea of knowledge.
In the field of magic, she is more talented than Richard.
After completing the spring plowing, Richard let the slaves rest for a day.
He was just about to go to Fort William to find his second uncle Powell when he saw a beautiful girl coming to Zhuanyao Village with a dozen cavalrymen and blocking Richard at the door.
In the past year, Powell mainly lived in Fort William, returning to Fort Black River once a month to spend six days with his wife and children.
Now that the Harland Territory has just been developed, the conditions are harsh, and the female family members all live in Black River Fort.
The female family members will not move to Fort William until the castle is completed and the interior decoration is completed. However, William is still serving in the Northern Army, so it is estimated that Mrs. Ola will not leave her husband and settle in the desolate old castle.
According to Richard's observation, Mrs. Ola held dozens of banquets last year and seemed to be addicted to aristocratic banquets.
The Harland family's territory is still in the development stage, and almost no outsiders have come in for a whole year.
Only when the territory develops to a large scale will caravans enter.
Seeing that the girl was dressed as an aristocrat, Richard was immediately curious.
Realizing that Richard's eyes were full of scrutiny, the girl said calmly and generously: "I am Baron Sophia of Wickburg."
When he heard this name, even though Richard was in a relatively deep city, his expression changed.
After getting the magic book from Vicksburg, Richard was very concerned about the situation of the Sufferer.
In the past year, William sent some people to quietly inquire about the Stopa family.
Richard is naturally very aware of the changes in the Stopa Barony Territory.
The orc invasion war two years ago brought serious disaster to the Stopa family.
Not only did the baron die in the battle, but his wife, palace maid, three sons, and one daughter also died at the hands of the orcs.
After the fall of Vicksburg, there were only six Stoppa family heirs left.
Sophia Stopa came in third.
Ahead of her in the line of succession are the second and third sons of Baron Stopa.
He is also the biological brother of Baron Sophia.
The two sons of the baron both developed in the hinterland of Grant Kingdom, one served as a judge in the suburb of Nolan, and the other served as auditor in a southern county.
The two men's work was very honorable, and they also received a lot of gold coins from Baron Stopa.
Baron Stopa's son grew up in northern Xinjiang, experienced many wars, and was very satisfied with the peaceful and prosperous life in the south.
Sophia's two brothers are average in talent and not very brave in character.
Not only did they fail to awaken the knight bloodline, but they reluctantly relied on the power of potions to become professionals, and their level was only first level. Neither of them could endure the hardship of subsequent training as professionals.
Of course Baron Sophia's two brothers wanted to become a hereditary baron, but they were very afraid of the risks.
Seeing that his brave and powerful father, Stoppa Ram, was attacked by orcs and his entire family was destroyed.
The two of them knew that they could not defend their territory on their own and face the endless troubles on the border.
They don't have much ambition and are relatively smart. They are all over thirty years old and have a clear understanding of their abilities.
Besides, the Barony of Stopa is still in a mess now, and the situation is only better than that of the Barony of Hallant.
The people in the territory were annexed by Baron Harden. Baron Harden was a powerful silver knight. No matter who inherited the territory, it would be difficult to get the people back from Baron Harden.
Recruiting citizens, purchasing slaves, operating the territory, and building an army all require money, and it's a lot of money.
At least tens of thousands of gold coins must be invested to restore the Barony of Stopa to its full strength.
Although Sophia's two brothers have rich family assets, some of them only have small amounts of money. They have saved up to one or two thousand gold coins at most. This amount of money is certainly a huge amount of money for ordinary people.
It takes hundreds of years of work to save this amount of money.
But for a barony, this amount of money is insignificant. One or two hundred strong slaves cost more than 2,000 gold coins.
After careful consideration, the two were unwilling to inherit the territory and gave up their inheritance rights.
But no one inherited the territory, and the two were unwilling to do so.
In addition to his three adult children, Baron Stopa also has a fifth son who survives, but this child is not yet a professional and has no inheritance rights.
The other three family members with inheritance rights are the Baron's two younger brothers and an uncle.
The financial resources of these three people are not as good as those of the two sons of the baron. Although their professional levels are higher and their abilities are average, they cannot afford the responsibility of defending the territory.
He reluctantly inherited the territory and lived as a baron for two or three years.
When the orcs come next time, Vicksburg will still be lost, and then only your family will be harmed.
If all family members renounce their inheritance rights, the Stopa family will lose their nobility status.
The laws of the Grant Kingdom stipulate that without noble status, one cannot be appointed to important positions such as judges and auditors.
After several generations of hard work, the Stopa family finally climbed up and became a noble hereditary noble.
When this generation is expelled, the efforts of several generations will be ruined.
In desperation, the members of the Baron Stopa family can only place their hopes on the most talented Sophia Stopa.
Although the baron's beloved daughter was unwilling to inherit the title, she went to Markholm Kingdom five years ago to pursue the truth of magic.
In order to let their sister come back to inherit the family territory, the two sons of Baron Stopa went to the Kingdom of Markholm together, and saw their sister pleading hard.
He even threatened to commit suicide to get Sophia to come back and inherit the title.