A cavalry costs seventy ginals a year, of which at least ten ginals are required to maintain a horse, at least ten ginals are required to weapon armor, and the salary of soldiers. The monthly salary of cavalry in the Kingdom of Florence is one ginals a year, and there are twelve ginals a year. In addition to these, a cavalry must 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 amount in a year.

This is not the value of the horse, and the loss rate of the horse. A qualified war horse costs at least thirty kinners. Cavalry war horses are often damaged, which is another big expense.

Moreover, as a pioneer territory, the early materials must be transported from the country, which caused the cost of a cavalry far exceeding seventy jinars, and sometimes even doubled. Therefore, the basic cost of maintaining a knight order of one thousand people in the pioneer territory is 100,000 jinars.

This is just the expenditure of the army. The cost of building territory, recruiting orders or purchasing slaves is no less than this. Therefore, although it seems to be a very honorable thing to expand the territory, you will find that without strong financial support, it is simply impossible to move forward.

The income of an earl's territory plus other income is only about 100,000 jinars per year. How many pioneers can take out this money? Even if they can take out so much money, investment must be rewarded. How much is the harvest of pioneering territory? The biggest harvest is land. If you only cultivate, the funds will not be recovered within at least twenty years.

Of course, there are some areas that do not cost too much to explore. However, most of those areas are close to human cities, with not many wilderness tribes around them, and their strength is also weak. You only need to maintain a not-so-large army to protect the territory, and the transportation distance of various materials is also close.

The amount of Jinnar spent was not large, but these places had been occupied long ago, and not everyone could take these pioneering territories. Just as Sulun's pioneering order clearly stipulated that he had to go three hundred miles away from Blackstone to establish a territory. Otherwise, the Kingdom of Florence had the right to take back the territory.

Those nearest development orders only need to be fifty miles away from Blackstone City. Of course, this kind of development order is also limited, and the territory is only ten miles apart.

Although there are many benefits to developing territories that are close to each other, the territory is very small, and more importantly, there are basically few mineral resources. After all, valuable minerals that are close to the city have basically been discovered.

Although Sulun's territory is far away, it does not require area requirements. Theoretically, as long as the strength is strong enough, you can always expand outward. However, the actual situation is that most people are reluctant to defend their territory, and expanding outward is even more unimaginable.

So is anyone successful? This is certain. Some lucky people who have lost their luck in opening their territory and discover valuable minerals such as gold and silver mines. A large number of nobles or merchants will immediately come to fund him, help him build his territory and provide supplies, in order to exploit the right to mine precious minerals such as gold and mines.

Some mitrils have also been found in silver mines with the halo of the protagonist, thus gaining support from a large number of wizards. The mitril mineral is a very important magic metal with a rare output. It was a very precious metal in the era of the Second Era. Many powerful magic equipment made by elves use Mitsun.

There is no rule in the distribution of minerals such as mitril silver, and the reserves of the mitril silver mines are currently very small. Most mitril silver mines are associated mines. If the annual production of ounces of mitril silver is 100% per year, then this mine can be called a rich mine, but there are too few such mines.

Many mines that produce mitral only produce three to five ounces a year.

If Misin was found in Sulun's territory, within three days, a group of wizards would come to support him in opening the territory, asking for supplies, Jinnar, and even the wizard would help him personally.

It’s just that Mitsun is completely undesirable, and 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 or iron ore, or other resources can be found in the territory, and then rely on these resources to attract merchants to trade. With merchants, Sulun can obtain various materials, collect taxes, and the territory will also have income, and then use these resources to slowly develop the territory.

In addition to solving external hidden dangers, Sulun led several barbarian warriors to search for minerals in the territory. His target was iron ore. When he was fighting with these werewolves, goblins, kowtowers and trolls, Sulun discovered that these wilderness tribes had a small amount of iron tools.

Moreover, those iron tools were roughly crafted and of poor texture, and even had slag that had not been taken out. Even the blacksmith's apprentice's skills were better than this, but theirs were indeed iron tools. Not long ago, Sulun had interrogated the prisoners and obtained the approximate location of the iron ore. Then he took a few barbarian warriors to look for minerals.

Speaking of which, Sulun's barbarian guards have now all advanced to barbarian warriors, and a half have even become barbarian giant axe warriors. Any one of them can completely abuse the knight level.

According to the information explained by the werewolves, the iron ore was located northeast of the territory, about fifty miles away from the camp. Sulun and his men were very fast. It took two hours to approach the target area.

To Sulun's expectation, the location of the iron ore was easy to find. A few people just patrolled here for a few rounds and found the iron ore. The iron ore was located on a small hill. The bare vegetation on the mountain was sparse. From a distance, there was nothing else. After getting close, they found that there were many traces of excavation on the other side of the hillside.

When they came here, they also found some kobolds gathered here and found a mine, which even had a gift from miners. Su Lun naturally accepted this kind of good thing.

Su Lun picked up a stone from the ground and started it slightly dark. Its reddish brown appearance was just a piece of iron ore. In terms of quality, the taste of this piece of iron ore is not low.

"I didn't expect that this was actually an open-pit mine!" Looking at the mine in front of me, Su Lun was very excited. You should know that the mines are very different from mines. Some minerals have abundant reserves, but their mining is very difficult and cannot even be mined. Some are buried in mountains or underground, and mine caves need to be dug for mining.
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