The banquet is over.
Liszt got down to business: "I'm going to build a new village on the east coast to house some serfs as fishermen who catch the sea."
Growers are very busy during the planting season, but when the crops are planted, they will become very idle again.
Liszt thinks this is an unreasonable allocation of human resources. It is better to free up some growers to develop offshore fisheries full-time, no, seaside fisheries.
Now there are no boats, so I can't even go fishing offshore.
"It's so delicious, it should be fished more, but Liszt, the population of the town is too small, we don't even have two thousand people. The agricultural production of each village is inseparable from the labor of serfs."
"I will think of a way." Liszt didn't say much.
In fact, he had already negotiated with Levi's to buy serfs from Levi's with a share of the black tulips as a reward-the earl's fleet went out to sea for trade, and he could load a lot of serfs when he returned. These serfs may come from war-torn islands or the mainland.
Gao Ertai seemed to understand: "Since you said so, I will start planning the new village immediately."
"Lord Baron, what's the name of Xintun?" Isaiah asked.
"Let's call it... Oyster Village."
For the Oyster Village, Liszt placed great expectations. He hoped that after the completion of this village, a group of serfs would be transformed into fishermen, and they would continuously salvage seafood, provide food for Huahua Town, and provide a material basis for future construction—every winter. In Huahua Town, the citizens will hide at home and sleep to reduce food consumption.
With food, the cold of winter is nothing at all.
A lot of construction can start in winter.
In the evening, Galtai came to the castle again: "Liszt, the corngrass has been found! The patrol team finally did something serious. They found a group of pastures similar to corngrass on the edge of Thorn Ridge in the southwest corner of the town." .”
"Take me to see."
Before dark, Liszt saw a large piece of corngrass mixed with other weeds. Compared with the three wild corn plants in Maitun, these corngrasses were much smaller, probably due to malnutrition.
Liszt turned around, a little disappointed.
This is probably the origin of the corngrass, but there is no sign of elf worms breeding—without elf worms, the development of corngrass is difficult to grow.
Moreover, it is impossible to gradually improve the variety with the help of elf worms, and move closer to corn cobs.
"In terms of care, the seeds must be collected carefully. Go back to the fields reclaimed in the town, choose a suitable place, and plant a batch to provide new varieties of pasture for horse farms and dairy farms."
…
At night, after taking a bath, Liszt was reading in the study.
The smoky snake in front of my eyes condensed: "Complete the task, and reward the new information of the invisible dragon."
After a while, the smoke distorted, and a new mission was released: "Mission: Fishing has been put on the lord's agenda, and a group of serfs are about to be driven into the sea by you. Driving the people is a necessary skill for the lord, but sustainable development is more important, please help the fishermen Update equipment. Reward: a large field of smoked grass."
"A big piece of smoky grass, what is that, tobacco?"
The task of updating the equipment for the fishermen is very simple. Even if the smog task is not released, he will do it. There is no tool to catch the sea, so the fishermen can't use their hands.
The rocks after low tide are very sharp, and if you are not careful, you will cut your fingers.
The task reward was no longer information about the invisible dragon, which made Liszt somewhat relieved, and began to look forward to what the smoked grass was.
Smoking is popular among nobles, and the Tulip family grows a lot of tobacco, and there is also a tobacco elf.
"So, tobacco grass should not be tobacco. Among the seeds traded from Tulip Fort, there are tobacco seeds. I can plant them anytime I want."
Liszt stopped worrying about it, and sooner or later he would know what tobacco grass is.
He waved his hand to disperse the smoke snake, and continued to read. The count kept his word and gave Liszt a carriage of books when he returned.
Right now he is reading an autobiographical novel called The Travels of Griff, the Land Ranger.
From the first-person point of view, the book introduces the experience of a land knight named Griff traveling in the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf. The story is very interesting, although many of the contents, in Liszt's view, are just pure obscenity-such as having an affair with the Countess, elope with the Marquis, and chatting and laughing with the Duke Maple Leaf.
This is not the treatment that a descendant of a down-and-out aristocrat who is not even a knight can enjoy.
However, the author of the book must be a person with rich experience. He introduced a lot of customs and customs that are different from Coral Island, as well as the corrupt life of some nobles, and many hearsay stories.
Interesting.
Liszt likes this kind of novels that can read stories and gain knowledge.
"Um?"
While he was watching, the story suddenly came to a chapter of the dragon slaying battle, saying that Griff traveled to a small town that was being invaded by invisible creatures. The lord of the town has fled, and the citizens are powerless to resist. At this time, Griff decides to save the suffering people.
After observing, he concluded that it was an invisible dragon—the book did not describe how to observe and draw conclusions.
"The invisible dragon is a magical dragon hidden in another world. Only the most courageous and upright knight can see him. I am not brave enough. If I want to see it, I must muster my courage! I You have to find it, face it, find out its weakness!"
Griff succeeded in dying, and came to the invisible dragon, and was beaten to vomit blood by the invisible dragon, but because of this, it saw the invisible dragon.
"Ah, what a beautiful dragon that is. It's like a mass of flowing crystal, colorless, and completely transparent. I spit out a mouthful of blood, and the blood went through its body. Yes, I touched it. I can't get to it. I'm very upset because I may never be able to ride it."
Liszt admired Griff's nerves very much. He was almost killed by the invisible dragon, but he still regretted not being able to ride the dragon.
Fortunately, Griff still has self-knowledge.
"I know it's going to kill me, I can't see its eyes, I can only see the fuzzy water, but I know it's going to kill me, I feel its mood. I have forgotten life and death, just want to be in the end At this moment, take two more puffs of cigarettes, oh, sorry, I have no tobacco leaves, so I just randomly grabbed a handful of grass around me, chewed it, and resisted my craving for cigarettes.”
Seeing this, Liszt frowned.
Read on.
"Later I found out that the grass I caught was called smoked grass, which is a kind of grass that is very similar to tobacco, but it has a unique taste, just like my pair of socks that have not been washed for 16 or 26 days. I almost threw up, yes, at that moment I successfully quit smoking, I swear I will never smoke again!"
"I have been a smoker for seventeen years. When I was a kid my father liked to smoke his own rolls. He would ask me, Hi Griff, do you smoke..."
A large part of the following is the story of recalling his father teaching him to smoke.
Liszt's scalp exploded when he saw it: "It's nonsense, I want to see how you slay the dragon!"