Lord Harland.

Lord Harland Text Volume Chapter 179: Fruit Wine Business After the army reorganization was completed, Richard came to He'an Primary School. After a year of study, the older children had mastered the basic arithmetic of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Thousands of words written.

These fifteen or sixteen-year-old children who are about to grow up will graduate next spring.

Compared with the playful children of eight or nine years old, these older children have experienced hardships and know the value of knowledge. It is not easy for their families to send them to study, so they study very hard, and basically finish the three-year basic studies in one year.

After mastering the basic knowledge, Li Cha arranged the thirteen graduates in the army headquarters. This group of people was the first batch of staff officers trained by Li Cha.

Those who are strong and able to practice breathing techniques all begin to practice breathing techniques and train them as military staff officers.Those with poor talent can also be the most basic logistics personnel because they have a superficial knowledge of mathematics.

When he has free time, Li Cha will also teach them drawing knowledge, and arrange some drawing tasks for them, requiring them to mark contour lines.

After this group of people is trained, Li Cha will be able to perfect the establishment of the staff system, set up logistics, combat and other subjects, and form a complete and efficient command organization.

The three children with magical talents, Bonova, Connie, and Alizee, also knew the words on the meditation method, completed the preliminary meditation practice, and became the lowest magic apprentice.

These three children are not very talented in magic, unless they have made significant contributions to magic research, otherwise Richard will not invest magic resources in them.

The three children are learning knowledge at the Riverside Primary School while doing internships at the Territorial Hospital.

After they learn the spell to treat minor injuries, they can sign a contract with the territorial hospital and become official staff of the hospital.

Annie's magic talent is good. She has been promoted to a medium magic apprentice in one year, and has learned two zero-ring magics, which can help Sophia do some simple magic experiments.

Time entered October, and the first snow fell in Harland's territory.

Every year when it snows, Richard is extremely busy. He is afraid that if something is missing at work, the new slaves will freeze to death.

The slaves captured this year were basically settled by Richard on both sides of the Harland Valley.

The orcs built a military depot at the northern entrance of Harland Valley, and there are ready-made buildings.The coalition forces of nobles in Gerda Province have also been stationed here for several months, strengthening the fortifications.

The city walls in the military station are relatively simple to build, with thick timbers coated with mud on the outside and rammed earth walls on the inside. There were trenches outside the city wall, and a moat was dug to introduce water.

The Sanchakou where the military station is located is a strategic point.

Allocating this place to Richard actually increased the burden on the Harland family.

After the army was reorganized, Richard sent the Third Infantry Brigade to station here. Six thousand indentured slaves were responsible for reclaiming farmland suitable for farming in the valley.

On the hillsides on both sides of the Harland Valley, there are a large number of wild orchards.

Because this place is the main point for the orcs to garrison troops, it has not been developed.

Now this territory is divided into the Harland family, and Richard built a castle at the entrance of the valley and stationed troops.

The large wild fruit trees on both sides have development value.

The picked fruits can not only be sold for money, but also can be made into candied fruit with brown sugar.

In addition, Richard also requested to build a winery in the valley to use the fruit resources on the mountain to brew fruit wine and enrich the Harland family's wine varieties.

The brewing of fruit wine is not very complicated. The winery has trained seven or eight qualified winemakers in the past few years. After exploring for a while, they have developed kinds of fruit wine recipes.

Because the packaging of the fruit wine is more sophisticated, the glass bottle produced in the territory is used.

The fruit wine produced in Harland's territory is five times more expensive than white wine, and one silver coin can buy four bottles of fruit wine.

The fruit wine is not sold in retail stores, but comes with an exquisite portable wooden box when you purchase it. The packaging is higher-end than the wines on the market.

The taste of fruit wine is sweet, the alcohol content is not high, and the cost is actually slightly higher than that of liquor.

This wine is mainly aimed at the middle and high-end market.

Noble ladies and ladies often hold banquets. If the fruit wine from the Harland territory can be used as wine for the nobles' banquets, it is estimated that they can make a lot of money.

If the market cannot be opened up among the nobles, even if the price is reduced to sell, relying on the current consumption level of the Harland Territory, it is estimated that it will not make money.

Li Cha sent the brewed fruit wine to Heihe Fort.

Mrs. Olla likes to hold various banquets in recent years and spends a lot of money every year.

The biggest expense of holding a banquet is the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Liquor is too strong for ladies to drink.Mrs. Ola spends hundreds of gold coins buying red wine from the south every year.

Using the fruit wine produced in the territory can save a lot of money.

Although Mrs. Ola thinks that red wine is more upscale when used for banquets, and drinking red wine will give you the feeling of nobility.

But Li Cha's request was difficult for her to refuse, and the packaging of the fruit wine was good, so she used it a few times at the banquet, and she did not expect to receive unanimous praise from the noble lady.

Because the price of fruit wine is only half that of high-end red wine, the nobles in Heihe County are also willing to save some.

As the sales of fruit wine are getting better and better, in the northern region, southern red wine has been completely squeezed out of the market.

After all, the three earls of the southeast are too far away from the northern border, so they don't have much influence in the north.It can't compete with the Harland family rooted in northern Xinjiang.

Forced to have no choice but to give up the northern Xinjiang market, the main force will be developed to the king's capital.

Li Cha also approached the wine merchants in the capital, but he couldn't break into the market in the capital.The third earl is almost blatant, using violent means to monopolize the market.

The red wine business can bring tens of thousands of gold coins to the third earl every year. If anyone dares to cut off their source of income, they will dare to kill or exterminate the family.

Nowadays, the Harland family's wine has monopolized the market in the three provinces of northern Xinjiang. Richard only gets half of the revenue from the wine sales in the territories of Duke Jonathan and Duke Edward, and the rest is dedicated to the two dukes.

Despite the war this year, the wine business has grown slightly, and the net profit has reached 13,000 gold coins.

However, because the market in other regions cannot be opened, the profits of the wine business are about to be saturated.

Li Cha estimated that adding another two to three thousand gold coins would almost reach the peak.

Li Cha stepped on the snow and came to Harland Valley for inspection, and found that most of the new slaves who joined the territory this year lived in simple wooden houses.

Because the brick kiln factory is already kilometers away from the Harland Valley, there is no water transportation for such a long distance, and it is impossible to transport many bricks.

What little it was pulled by horse-drawn carriages was used to build the garrison and fort.

Without bricks, only wooden houses can be built.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of wood resources nearby, so many people did not freeze to death.

Because this group of slaves was in the first year of developing the territory, the conditions were not very good, and the old and weak still couldn't make it through. Li Cha also saw a few frozen children being eaten by wild wolves on the side of the road. Very poor.