The elf worms hadn't been bred yet, so Liszt couldn't just wait here, and after arranging someone on duty, he returned to the castle. Huahua Town is in contact with the outside world, and there is only one road across Thorn Ridge, and few people come and go.
Only when the earl came to collect taxes, there would be a caravan with the knights.
Now Huahua Town has become Liszt's territory, and no one comes to collect taxes. I'm afraid the caravan is unwilling to come here. So no one would have the idea of playing the elf worm.
As for the residents of Huahua Town, no one dared to attack the elves.
The elf worm is the darling of nature, it will only conclude a master-slave contract with humans with magical powers—maybe monsters can do it too, but monsters don't have this idea.
Magic power refers to battle qi and magic, the performance is different and the essence is the same.
In Flower Town, people with magical powers, Liszt, Marcus, and Galtai, there are only three of them. Marcus and Galtai are famous on the coral island, even if they steal the elf worms, they won't be able to escape. On Coral Island, no one dared to touch the things of the Tulip family, and Liszt was a member of the Tulip family.
So there is no need to worry about the safety of the peanut elves.
He came to his study room, closed the door, concentrated for a moment, and waited for the smoke to appear. After repeated explorations, he had completely grasped the law of the smoke's appearance, and he only needed to calm down to see it.
as expected.
in a minute.
A distorted snake script appeared in front of my eyes.
"Complete the task and reward a peanut elf worm."
"As I thought, the Peanut Elf is the reward from the previous mission... This smoke mission that somehow appeared, it seems that the reward cannot be conjured out of thin air. The rewards are all things that exist in reality, or things that are about to happen... The sublimation of fighting spirit , probably because I have accumulated a lot of money, the peanut bug should have appeared."
However, without the smoke task, these rewards would probably be wasted.
He estimated that he still had to be an apprentice knight, and the peanut bug would die quietly.
At this time, new content has appeared in the distorted smoky serpentine.
"Mission: How can the lord of the territory not even know the number of people in the territory? Please complete a census of the territory to know the basic situation of the residents. Reward: A new variety of tulips."
"Census? Isn't this what I'm planning to do? It seems that the smog task is to update the content according to my actual situation... New species of tulips, what does this mean? Is it going to give me a potion?" Liszt guess.
The growth of the tulip family is because of tulips.
Tulips are more than just a flower, they are potions—herbs with magical powers. Potion is an important auxiliary material to assist in the cultivation of magic and battle qi. The potion in tulips, in Liszt's memory, the highest one can sell for a sky-high price of ten gold coins.
The new variety of tulips, if the magic potion comes out, will definitely be a big killer for revitalizing the economy.
Even if it is not a potion, contributing to Tulip Castle and assimilating the family's tulip elves will increase the evolution and development potential of the great elves.
"Then, the next step is to vigorously supervise the census! A small town with a population of at most one or two thousand, what's so troublesome, Gao Ertai really disappointed me, and I will personally supervise it if it doesn't work."
One or two thousand people, not much bigger than a school in Liszt's hometown. Liszt, who was the president of the student council, still has great confidence in his ability.
…
But for Gao Ertai, it was an extremely difficult task.
During the handover, he asked the former political officer, a knight sent by the Earl, who only did one thing in Huahua Town—collect taxes.
The knight doesn't care about other things. Even the knight himself has hardly been to Flower Town, so he asked one of his subordinate knights to manage it on his behalf.
The retinue knights here also only do one thing - collect taxes, and don't care about anything else.
Taxes in the town of flowers, including peanuts, milk, wheat, barley, oats, tomatoes, and tulips. The Earl of Coral Island collected taxes every three months, and took away most of the crops that Huahua Town did not produce. After the knights collected the tax, they no longer managed Flower Town.
In the backcountry, there is no such thing as the prosperity of Coral City.
Therefore, Gao Ertai sat in the dilapidated administrative office room of the small town, looked at his only four clerks and six patrol members, and felt that the census was an impossible task.
"Hasn't any of you ever read a book or read a word? In the whole town, there is not a single reader?"
A clerk said embarrassingly: "My lord, there is no school in the town, and we have never left the town..."
The patrol member with a red rosaceous nose said: "Maybe the old cobbler can read. He came from another island. I saw a book in his house. It's such a thick book. I even flipped through it. There are paintings of villains in it. But the old cobbler beat me up, he was blind, his leather shoes were tied very firmly, and he beat people hard."
A blind man, Gao Ertai ignored the old cobbler without even thinking about it.
Since there is no literate person, he can only say: "You should be able to count, you go to a village each, and count how many households and people there are in the village!"
This should be an easy task, but after a day passed, when the clerks and patrol members came back to report, Galtai wanted to go crazy.
He shouted loudly: "What, there are 18 households and 56 people in Huashengtun? Mr. Teacup, are you making me laugh!"
Mr. Teacup, whose full name is David Teacup, is a clerk, with a troubled expression on his face: "My lord, I don't have one. I have counted it several times. I don't know if it is right. The number is different every time."
There are 92 people in 23 households in Huashengtun. This is the number calculated by Gao Ertai himself when Liszt rescued the peanut field.
He really couldn't figure out why David Teacup could count 18 households with 56 people
Don't think about it.
The number of households in the other villages must be nonsense.
Thinking of this, Gao Ertai waved his hand weakly: "Okay, don't report, you can keep the numbers and play with yourself. Go and move my horse here. I'm going to the castle to see Baron Liszt."
Riding to the castle, Galtai complained to Liszt with an exaggerated face: "You don't even know that those clerks and patrols can't even count from one to ten! It is impossible to rely on them to complete the census , Liszt, I have already written a letter and just waiting to be mailed, maybe we can wait for them to arrive and then come to the census."
"When will we have to wait?"
"Don't worry, Liszt, we have enough time, don't we?"
"I can't wait." Liszt tapped his finger on the table, "Mr. Carter, who in the castle can read?"
Carter bowed slightly, and said, "Master, I can write and read, and Thomas can too. Well, Mrs. Motson should be able to do the same."
"Then, please ask Mrs. Mawson and Thomas to come over. Also, help me call Mr. Marcus and my four knights over. I remember they can write."
When everyone was here, Liszt announced in public: "Now, let's put aside what we are doing and help me complete the census of Huahua Town. The town, Xianggu Village, Peanut Village, Tomato Village, Damai Village, Mai Mai Village, Flower Farm, Dairy Farm, everyone is responsible for a village.”