Black Iron Crown

Yes, population can also be purchased in the system, but the price is much more expensive.

Buying a person from a slave trader is only one silver coin or five coppers, which is quite cheap.

But in the system, it takes five silver coins to exchange for one population.

However, such a price has its way. The things produced by the system have always been of very high quality assurance. The people who exchange them are not only guaranteed to be over 1.75 meters tall, but also have a strong physique...it is a good thing for genetic improvement.

He wanted to exchange some of these people for a long time, but in the past, he was afraid to spend freely because of poverty. Now it is different. He is about to get 6,000 gold coins, and he can earn more than 150 gold coins every month. .

Currently, Reiner's biggest expense is the army, followed by Logan's spy organization, the third is the official group, and the fourth is the male and female servants of the castle.

In terms of the army, Sergeant Merland is paid one silver coin per month, and now 320 people are 32 gold coins, plus the Winter Crossbowmen, senior cavalry archers, golden lion guards, and scarlet griffin knights And retinues, all these add up to thirty-seven gold coins per month.

Ordinary soldiers are paid five coppers per month. After recruiting new recruits, there are now about 1,400 people, which is seventy gold coins. About one hundred and twenty gold coins.

Including the espionage organization, salaries of officials, salaries of male and female servants, and food for male and female servants, the monthly expenditure is about 170 gold coins, and the finances are slightly in deficit, but it is not a big problem.

What's more, the previous war caused the business of Mecaron City to shrink, and now it is slowly recovering. Reiner estimates that the business tax of Mecaron City will increase from 47 gold coins last month to 60 gold coins this month. .

At that time, the fiscal deficit will be completely resolved.

In addition, this year Leiner plans to reclaim arable land on a large scale, so the agricultural income should also increase a lot, and more taxes will be collected by then.

With such confidence, Reiner dares to splurge now. The infrastructure syndrome in the bones of the Chinese people even made him think about whether to buy another castle upgrade card to upgrade the city of Mecaron.

After chatting with Sir Horn for a while, Reiner went back to the room to get ready to rest, lingered with the two little maids for a while, and then fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Reiner called Sir Cord into his study in a refreshed manner, accompanied by someone who was currently in charge of the territory's finances,

Aizexi hasn't made any mistakes yet.

June 2nd, Twenty-Three Years of the Empire.

Spring has completely descended on the land in the northern border, and the snow that has covered it for six months has finally completely subsided.

More than 200 blacksmiths worked overtime for a month, and made 500 iron plows and 4,000 iron hoes that can be used by humans and animals.

Although it is a drop in the bucket compared to the 170,000 people in the entire territory, it will undoubtedly play a huge role.

What's more, all the farm horses in the second month of the racecourse have been produced, a total of 160 strong farm horses.

And for the efficiency of reclamation, Leiner plans to include the hundred horses in the reclamation, and there are some horses and cattle in the northern border, so Leiner is still very confident about this year's reclamation.

The snow has completely melted soon, and it is not possible to sow directly. It will not be possible to sow various crops until mid-June.

So Leiner planned to take advantage of these ten days to reclaim the cultivated land.

Now the amount of arable land in Leiner's own territory in the entire northern border is about 1.1 million mu. Although the yield per mu varies, the average yield per mu is about 250 kilograms.

Because of the rotation, the arable land that can be cultivated every year is 550,000 mu. On average, each person can harvest 800 yuan of grain every year, and then pay 40% to Rainer. Each of them can have 500 kilograms Food around.

This is enough for them to eat, not to mention that they have other benefits, such as the alfalfa planted on the land in rotation, although they still have to pay 40% to Reiner, but in fact people can eat alfalfa, and there is Relatively nutritious.

It is also quite good food for horses and cows, and they can even have a little savings every year.

This is all because the residents of the northern border are serfs in name, but in fact they are self-cultivating farmers who pay more taxes, but because of the war, they have been exploited and their families are left with nothing.

Leiner hopes to increase the arable land and food production in the northern border, so that more food can be produced to attract hungry residents from other regions to the northern border, not to mention that the food is also a savings in the hands of the residents.

And now that the empire is beating people to death, food will inevitably become a currency that is harder than gold, and Leiner has more interests to conspire in doing so.

After Leiner's order was issued, the villages around Mecaron City were the first to be executed. They got a lot of cattle and horses, which were leased to them by Leiner at the cost of paying 10% more tax next year.

Fifty per cent of the tax may seem extortionate, but he has abolished other taxes, even the poll tax.

So in fact, the remaining food is enough for them to live on, not to mention that after reclamation, the area of ​​cultivated land will increase, and there will inevitably be more hands. At that time, they may have more income than in previous years.

Because of the shortage of horses, cattle, and iron farm tools, Leiner has not been able to radiate some other remote areas for the time being, so he can only reclaim the cultivated land near Mecaron to a limited extent.

But even so, Rainer decided to let those residents carry out reclamation. Although manpower is not as good as horsepower, the speed of reclamation is still considerable. There were no such farm horses in Fort Moreland before, and they could only rely on a small amount of cattle. Reclaimed a large tract of arable land?

Kong Wu's powerful plow horses, like giant beasts, had already been harnessed to the plow, and they had already started plowing under the drive of the residents.

Although tired, the residents still had excited smiles on their faces.

They are not fools, and they know that the earl is doing this for their own benefit.

In the past, it was very difficult to reclaim a little cultivated land without livestock. It was quite troublesome and difficult to convert the hard soil full of weeds and sand and gravel into fertile farmland that could be cultivated by manpower alone. strenuous work.

However, now, with the help of these plow horses that are as strong as wild animals, those difficult-to-reclaim wild lands are easily turned over and reclaimed like a sponge.

Of course, even though there were plow horses, there were still many idle people. Some of them held the steel farm tools rented from Leiner, and some of them held the old wooden farm tools, and they also started to turn the field.

Whether it is men, women, or children, they have all done their part to reclaim the land. They sweat and toil on this land that will soon be full of hope.

The whole northern territory has been completely revived. Residents who have reclaimed farmland on a large scale can be seen everywhere in the fields, enduring exhaustion and working for a better life in the future.