The soap workshop was about to bring in good profits.
The peanut processing workshop was also about to bring in good profits. Among the newly purchased serfs, several cooks were arranged to study delicious peanuts. At present, they had already developed peanut butter, peanut crisp, salt and pepper peanuts, and fried peanuts. A small batch was handed over to the Thorns Caravan for sale.
The response was very good. Many aristocrats who tasted the delicious peanuts expressed that they would buy them in large quantities next time.
The Flower Town's peanut production was insufficient, and there was also a shortage of workers. The head of the peanut processing workshop, the cook Lucas, had already entrusted the Thorns Caravan to purchase peeled peanuts from the North Valley City.
"Well done." Liszt only gave a verbal praise and then left. The peanut processing workshop was his idea. These people were just executors and had no creativity.
He liked to use gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins to encourage creativity, discovery, and role models, rather than encouraging hard work – because the serfs were supposed to work hard in the first place.
The last stop was the distillery.
Franck Distillers brewed fruit wine, Berding brewed rice wine, and Huntela brewed beer. They were all making the best use of their time to brew wine as soon as possible to earn income for the distillery. However, no one in the distillery knew how to brew liquor, and similarly, no one knew how to brew wine.
There was no difference between ordinary wine and fruit wine.
However, fine wine required high craftsmanship, and the selection of grapes was very meticulous. Dry, semi-dry, sweet, and semi-sweet varieties of wine had different techniques.
On the Coral Island, only Tulip Castle had mastered the technique of brewing sweet wine. Crescent wine, sweet and cold, was famous in the grand duchy.
The red wine from the Razi Manor cellar that Liszt had drunk in the Longtaro Castle was the best among dry wines.
These techniques were all secret techniques that were exclusively mastered by the greater aristocrats.
The same was true for liquor.
As a distilled liquor, the brewing process of liquor was more complicated and was monopolized by the greater aristocrats. Liquor such as gin might not even be available in ordinary times.
Therefore, the Flower Town's distillery could only brew some simple fermented liquor.
After inspecting the distillery, Liszt began to ponder: "If I remember correctly, distilled liquor has an additional process compared to fermented liquor … It seems that alcohol and water have different vaporization temperatures to purify alcohol. Repeated distillation can produce high spirits."
Because he didn't like to drink, he didn't know much about wine.
He had read a lot of novels in the past, and most of them mentioned distilled spirits. It looked quite simple, so he had a vague impression of it.
"Perhaps, I can let the winery study distillation technology. Maybe we can brew liquor and increase the specialty of Flower Town."
Rice wine is made from fermented grains.
Liquor was essentially brewed from grains.
Liszt thought that if he further distilled the rice wine, would he be able to obtain white wine?
So he called the three brewers over. "I'll give you a mission. Remember, this mission is highly confidential. If anyone leaks it, their entire family will be whipped to death!"
The three brewers tensed up and replied, "We swear to keep the mission a secret!"
"Very well, I got a formula. It is said that liquor is obtained through the distillation of rice wine. By heating the rice wine, turning it into steam, and then introducing the steam into other places to cool it down and turn it into water, the water in the rice wine can be removed. In the end, what is left is liquor … You should explore a few more times and strive to brew Flower Town's liquor!"
The three winemakers were confused by his words.
But he still simply replied, "Please rest assured, Sir Lord. We will brew the liquor as soon as possible."
The task was assigned.
Liszt felt that another specialty of Flower Town was waving to him. He even thought of a name at this moment. "It's called flower wine. Well, it's graded. Flower wine with low degrees can be called five years of aging. Flower wine with high degrees can be called ten years of aging, twenty years of aging, and even a hundred years of aging, or five hundred years of aging … "
Suddenly, it occurred to him that the Grand Duchy of Sapphire only had a history of more than one hundred and fifty years. Before that, there were only monkeys on the island.
"Forget about 500 years of aging. Let's just say that in the year of the founding of the country, a winemaker came to Coral Island and personally brewed a jar of wine … There's only one jar, but we can make one jar every year. Just like an 82 year old Lafite, no matter how many years we drink it, we can never finish it."
Thinking of liquor sales, many classic cases immediately popped up in his mind.
But he also discovered the risks. "Liquor is a profiteering industry. Without a strong backing, it is difficult to guarantee. I must cooperate with Tulip Castle."
With the banner of Tulip Castle, business would be good. As an Earl of the Grand Duke, Lee William Tulip was definitely one of the top figures in the Grand Duchy of Sapphire.
Moreover, he also served as the Grand Duke's groom and would have close contact with the Grand Duke every year.
If he wanted to pull the banner, he must share the profits with Tulip Castle. Liszt didn't mind. The more he integrated into the world, the more he knew the importance of aristocratic connections.
Levis, Lvera, and even Lytton, no matter how scheming they were, they were still relatives. They were people who could help in times of crisis.
The Viscount of the Small Kerchief Island was destroyed. The Viscount of the Big Kerchief Island, which had been separated, was still running around, investigating and urging the Grand Duke to find the murderer.
Liszt certainly hoped that the Tulip family could grow and become a towering tree that could shelter them from the wind and rain.
Blackdragon walked steadily, with almost no rise and fall.
Liszt was able to think very well on horseback. His thoughts jumped around and then he thought of the distribution of profits. Then he thought of another idea, "Speaking of monkeys, maybe I can promote the monkey wine?" The existence of the monkey wine was not important. What was important was the gimmick.
Aristocrats liked to be extravagant.
Extravagance did not only include wearing gold and silver, gems, and famous horses, but also included the arts and the pursuit of rare things. Monkey wine was obviously a rare thing.
"However, aristocrats with deep foundations are too few. They are all nouveau riche who have been rich for three or four generations. Including the Tulip family, they have only made their fortune in recent generations. They might not necessarily have much interest in things like monkey wine. They should be more interested in gems and gold coins. "
In any case, when selling the fruit wine, he could first hype it up.
… …
Subsequently, Liszt inspected several other shops and workshops.
At present, in the Flower Town, there were only three shops in the commercial district: a bakery, a grocery store, and a barber shop. In the workshop district, there were only a blacksmith shop, a leathersmith shop, a locksmith shop, and a tailor shop, as well as the newly built wine-making workshop, soap workshop, and peanut processing workshop.
Many of the wooden houses that had been built were empty.
If it were not for the many serfs paving roads, building houses, and planting grass, the Flower Town would look like a ghost village.
476 serfs joined and were assigned to the various settlements to farm. They did not cause much of a stir. Most of the more than 100 craftsmen who had high hopes were workers who did not have the ability to support a shop or workshop independently. For the time being, they could only follow along in farming and waste their skills.
"In the short term, the commercial district can only be used as a trading market to receive occasional caravans." He looked at the empty houses and sighed with emotion, "First, the workshop area has to be vigorously developed into a production and processing center. Only then can the development of the commercial district be driven."
Liszt pointed to the commercial district.
He wanted to gesture 'how to build here' and 'how to build here', but when he turned his head, he saw only the servingman Thomas and a few retainer Knight following behind him.
They were all vulgar people.
For a moment, his ambition to achieve great things was stifled.
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