The planning of Fort William was mainly based on Richard's opinions and was approved by family members. The construction process was mainly supervised by his second uncle Powell.
After the city wall was completed, construction of the Baron's Palace began.
It will take about three years for the city defense fortifications in the three eastern and western cities to be completed.
After receiving the books from Richard, Sophia didn't care much at first.
After teaching breathing techniques to several literate slave soldiers, Sophia appointed these literate soldiers as officers.
She has no military knowledge. Although she wants to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, she has nowhere to start.
In the end, only an uncle from the Stopa family could be found and appointed as commander.
Then hand the craft book to the steward responsible for managing production and start learning magic yourself.
If you want to gain a foothold in Northern Xinjiang, strength is fundamental.
After leaving the magical kingdom of Markholm, it was already difficult for Sophia to communicate with others in terms of magic academics.
But she was born in the Baron Stoppa family, and her father and brother had instilled aristocratic education in her since childhood.
Without the protection of the Stopa family, she would not have been able to live well and learn magic without any worries.
Now the Stopa family needs her strength, and her brothers are crying and begging.
Sophia had no choice but to leave Markholm, sold her unique magic knowledge, and returned to Vicksburg with more than 20,000 gold coins to build her territory from scratch.
Suddenly one day, Sophia picked up the advanced algebra reading book written by Richard.
Sophia was shocked when she saw it. She had never seen the content inside, and the knowledge points were very in-depth.
After reading only two or three pages, Sophia clarified a knowledge point and many doubts about magic were instantly solved.
In just two months, she improved three new magic patterns, which is equivalent to creating a new spell.
When creating new magic, the magic factor will give feedback.
During this period, a new magic was successfully created. The effect of Sophia's meditation was particularly good, and she successfully advanced to a five-ring magician.
After studying magic in Markholm for five years, Sophia only improved one level.
The learning of magic becomes more and more difficult as it progresses, especially the accumulation of knowledge and innovation, which are a great test of a magician's talent.
Learning any knowledge costs a lot of money, especially the magic knowledge unique to some powerful magicians. The price is even greater, and it requires precious materials and knowledge of the same level to be exchanged.
In Markholm for five years, Sophia participated in seven adventures and found more than a dozen kinds of magic materials before exchanging them for three more precious pieces of magic knowledge.
These three kinds of precious magic knowledge are far inferior to the advanced algebra sent by Richard.
While Richard was busy on the dam, Sophia came to Harland's territory in person and asked him about advanced algebra questions.
At the same time, he helped Richard answer some questions about learning magic, and also asked Richard to copy many spells he knew.
As the two communicated, they both felt that they had gained a lot. After a while, Richard asked his sister Wendy to join the exchange.
Wendy advanced to become a first-level magician in April and quickly learned the petrification technique.
Petrification is a piece of magic that Sophia asked Richard to copy. This magic is generally powerful in war. To turn living creatures into stone requires very strong mental strength.
Sophia has personally calculated that even a fourth-ring magician who devotes all his mental power can only turn an ordinary person into stone.
If the natural magic resistance is strong, a sixth-level magician may not be able to kill his opponent with petrification.
However, petrification technology is particularly suitable for building various buildings.
This spell can easily turn sand and soil into stone.
In key load-bearing areas, petrification can be used to integrate the stones in the building. Especially when building support columns, having a magician help can save a lot of effort.
Richard sent Wendy to Fort William and asked her to help build various buildings. The addition of Wendy, a magician, accelerated the construction of the castle.
Sophia lived in the Harland Territory for four months. In July, she had mastered advanced algebra before reluctantly returning to Vicksburg.
Richard and his sister Wendy copied sixteen spells from Sophia.
Counting the thirteen spells that have been mastered, the Harland family has accumulated nearly thirty kinds of magic in the collection.
Although most of them are low-level magics below the third ring, they are already very good among wild magicians.
Many nobles do not have a magician heritage, even the powerful Baron Harden family is no exception.
It was also a coincidence that Sophia obtained the magic book. Not every baron has the opportunity to collect magic books.
Seeing how effective the petrification technique was, Richard mastered this technique after two months of study.
With the help of their brothers and sisters, the main project of the Baron Castle was completed before winter, and all that was left was decoration.
This year, the Haaland territory still had a bumper harvest, harvesting 1,800 tons of grain.
The yield per acre of land is slightly higher than last year.
However, the most fertile and easily developed land has basically been reclaimed. The remaining paddy fields need to be erected with waterwheels and canals to complete irrigation.
The water wheel needs to be built before October, otherwise it will be delayed until next year due to heavy snowfall.
In the spring of next year, farmland will not be irrigated, and the reclaimed farmland will also delay farming time and affect agricultural production.
Of the 1,800 tons of grain, 800 tons were left as rations for the slaves, 200 tons were stored in Fort William, and the remaining 800 tons were ready to be sold to Heihe Fort.
Richard did not want to sell grain, but now the territory was short of gold coins. He could only rely on debt to survive, which was not an option. Food was already the most suitable wealth for the Harland Territory to be liquidated.
But if you want to transport the grain, you still need to build nearly 50 kilometers of roads.
Roads need to be built and waterwheels need to be built.
The climate in northern Xinjiang is cold, and the slaves do not have enough clothing to keep out the cold, so they can only work for about a month.
In one month, even if all the slaves were allowed to build roads, it would be difficult to build 50 kilometers of roads.
So Richard planned to store the grain for a year, put it in the warehouse of Fort William, and take the slaves to build a waterwheel.
The second year after acquiring the fiefdom, the Haaland family still had no income. Some still had a steady stream of expenses.
Fortunately, the investment this year is much less than last year.
We are already self-sufficient in food, and we can produce bricks, wood, lime, and cement ourselves. We can occasionally hunt some prey in the forest.
The main items purchased were cloth, salt, metal tools, needles, thread, and some medicines to treat diseases.
This year's expenses totaled about 4,000 gold coins, mostly on cloth and salt.
The Harland family invested 12,000 gold coins in the first year and 4,000 gold coins in the second year.
With only input and no output, the Haaland family's funds have become somewhat unbearable.
There is not much liquidity left, and a lot of debt has been incurred.
In the past two years, slaves have given birth to more than 500 people, a baby boom has occurred in the territory, and women's labor efficiency has been affected.
If there are any big projects next year, more slaves will need to be purchased to increase the population.
In order to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, Richard built a glass kiln and planned to make some money by selling glass products.
Geda Province already has good glass-burning technology. The glass produced by Viscount Roman's family monopolizes the province's glass market and earns a lot of gold coins every year.
But without a qualified glassmaker at hand, Richard underestimated the difficulty of making glass.
Although burning glass is simple, burning glass that is transparent and free of impurities is not easy, and requires a lot of process technology to be summarized.
The glass kiln built by Richard is almost based on experience from scratch. How long will it take to produce qualified glass?