Chapter 48

A cavalry costs 70 jinnars a year, including at least 10 jinnars for maintaining horses, at least 10 jinnars for weapons and armor, and the salary of soldiers. In the kingdom of Florence, the salary of cavalry is one jinnar a month and twelve jinnars a year. In addition, a cavalry should be equipped with at least two auxiliary soldiers, Although the cost of these auxiliary soldiers is not as high as that of cavalry, it is not a small number in a year.

This does not include the value of horses and the discount rate of horses. A qualified war horse needs at least 30 jinnars. Cavalry battle horses are often damaged, which is another big expense.

Moreover, as a territory to be developed, the materials in the early stage have to be transported from China, which leads to the cost of a cavalry far exceeding 70 jinnars, and sometimes even doubling. Therefore, the basic cost of maintaining a knight order of 1000 people in the territory to be developed needs 100000 jinnars.

This is just the expenditure of the army. The cost of building territory, recruiting leaders or buying slaves is no lower than this. Therefore, although it seems to be a very glorious thing to explore territory, it will be found that it is difficult to move without strong financial support.

The income of an earl's territory plus other income is about 100000 jinnars a year. Several development nobles can take out this money. Even if they can take out so much money, they must gain from investment. How much do you gain from developing the territory? The biggest harvest is land. If it's just farming, the fund can't be recovered for at least 20 years.

Of course, the cost of developing some territories is not too high, but most of those territories are close to human cities. There are not many wilderness tribes around, and their strength is weak. Only a small army can protect the territory, and the transportation distance of various materials is also close.

The amount of Kinnard spent is not large, but these places have been occupied for a long time. Not everyone can take these development territories. Just as sulena's development order clearly stipulates that he must be 300 miles away from Blackstone city before he can establish a territory. Otherwise, the kingdom of Florence has the right to recover the territory.

Those nearest development orders only need to be 50 miles away from Blackstone city. Of course, such development orders are also limited, and the territory is only 10 miles around.

Although there are many advantages in developing a territory close to the city, the territory is very small, and more importantly, there are basically few mineral resources. After all, close to the city, valuable minerals have basically been found.

Although sulun's territory is far away, there is no area requirement. In theory, as long as you are strong enough, you can always expand outward, but the actual situation is that most of you are reluctant to hold the territory, and expanding outward is a dream.

So has anyone succeeded? This is for sure. When some lucky people who have gone through shit luck find gold, silver and other precious minerals when they explore their territory, a large number of nobles or businessmen will immediately come to help him build his territory and provide materials for the mining right of gold and other precious minerals.

Some with the aura of the protagonist found the associated mine of secret silver in the silver mine, which was supported by a large number of wizards. The mineral of secret silver mine is a very important magic metal with rare output. It is a very precious metal in the era of elves in the second era. Many powerful magic equipment made by elves use secret silver.

The distribution of Mithril is completely irregular, and the reserves of Mithril mines found at present are very small. The vast majority of Mithril mines are associated with silver mines. If ounces of Mithril can be produced every year, then this mine can be called rich mine, but there are too few such mines.

Many mines producing Mithril produce only three to five ounces a year.

If secret silver is found in sulun's territory, within three days, a group of wizards will come to support him in developing the territory, asking for materials, jinnar and jinnar, and even the wizards will help themselves.

It's just that secret silver is completely available and can't be asked for. Su Lun doesn't think he has such good luck.

Now, the territory must find a profit point as soon as possible, whether it is gold, silver, or even copper and iron ore, or find other resources in the territory, and then rely on these resources to attract businessmen to trade. With businessmen, sulun can obtain various materials, collect taxes, and the territory will have income, and then slowly develop the territory with the help of these resources.

In addition to solving the external hidden dangers, Su Lun took several barbarian warriors to look for minerals in the territory. His goal was iron ore. when fighting these jackals, goblins, dog headed men and trolls, Su Lun found that these wild tribes had a small amount of iron.

Moreover, those ironware are of poor workmanship, poor quality, and even slag that has not been taken out. Even the craftsmanship of blacksmith apprentices is better than this, but they are indeed ironware. Not long ago, Suellen had interrogated the prisoners and got the approximate location of the iron mine. Then he took some barbarian warriors and prepared to look for minerals.

Speaking of it, Su Lun's barbarian guards have now all advanced into barbarian warriors, and a small half have become barbarian axe warriors. Any one can abuse the knight level.

According to the information explained by the Jackal captives, the iron mine is located in the northeast of the territory, about 50 miles away from the camp. Sulun's speed was very fast. It took them two hours to approach the target area.

Contrary to Su Lun's expectation, the location of the iron mine was easy to find. After a few rounds of inspection here, several people found the iron mine. The iron mine was located on a hill with few bare vegetation. From a distance, there was nothing else. After approaching, they found that there were many traces of excavation on the other side of the hillside.

When they came here, they also found some dog headed people gathered here and found a mine with miners. Su Lun naturally laughed at this good thing.

Su Lun picked up a stone from the ground and started with a slightly heavy, reddish brown appearance. No accident, it was an iron ore. moreover, from the appearance, the taste of this iron ore was not low.

"Unexpectedly, this is actually an open-pit mine!" looking at the mine in front of him, Su Lun was very excited. You know, the mine is very different from the mine. Although some minerals are rich in reserves, they are very difficult to mine, and even can't be mined. Others are buried in mountains or underground, and need to dig holes for mining.

The simplest is the open-pit in front of you. You don't need to dig a hole, just mining directly.