Igniting the fire dragon bone seemed to be a huge project. Liszt even wondered if all the fire dragon magic on Black Horse Island could be collected to complete the ignition.
"I hope that with the help of the smoke mission, it will be possible to ignite it!"
But the mining of the fire dragon magic has to be postponed. At this stage, he does not have enough serfs to arrange production. When the construction of Black Horse Island begins, there will definitely be a huge labor shortage.
After taking one last look at the fire dragon bone, Liszt returned to Port Town.
Because he needed to attend the ceremony the day after tomorrow, he did not have time to stay on Black Horse Island. He had to return to Flower Town tomorrow. At night in Port Town, a brief meeting was held.
"Measuring the island is just measuring the periphery of the island, but the court messengers and the Tulip Castle messengers will definitely land on Black Horse Island and stay in Port Town for a few days. So confidentiality must be done well. Advisor Gort, how did you arrange it? "Liszt asked.
"My Lord, there are four places worth paying attention to on Black Horse Island. One is the black blood horses on the grassland, which must be strictly guarded to prevent being discovered."
Gort reported, "The second is the bones of the Bone Yard. No matter what kind of creature it is, it will eventually attract attention if it is discovered. The third is the Fire Dragon Brick Factory. The slates, culverts, and pottery formulas must be strictly guarded. The last is the rubber garden. Rubber is too important."
Liszt looked at Carl Hammerstein.
Carl immediately stood up and reported, "At present, the patrols have completed their training and completed the patrol layout of Port Town and Black Horse Harbor. When the messengers are stationed on Black Horse Island, I will send patrols to monitor them all day to prevent them from leaving Port Town and Black Horse Harbor. "
"Very well, that's what we need to do. Black Horse Island is my territory. They can measure the area, but they can't step an inch inside!"
Gort asked, "My Lord, what if they want to hunt here or see the scenery?"
"Tell them that if they want to hunt, go to Coral Island. There is no prey and no scenery on Black Horse Island." Liszt thought for a moment and said, "You can give some gold coins to the court messengers in private and ask them to calculate the area of Black Horse Island as small as possible when they measure the island."
On paper, the size of the island was linked to the number of battle merits. The size of the island naturally meant that more battle merits were needed, while a smaller island would have fewer battle merits.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether Black Horse Island is big or small, it is Liszt's fief.
Therefore, he hoped that the calculation could be smaller — for example, a one-million-yuan house could be reduced to 800,000 yuan with the size contract. The house would still be the same, and the owner would still be paid the same amount of money. However, the taxes would be much lower.
After the issue of confidentiality was settled.
Liszt asked again: "Apart from the wheat sprite sprite worm that I just contracted, are there no other sprite worms?" After he returned to the Flower Town, he immediately contracted the plump wheat sprite worm and then placed the barley sprite worm in the barley settlement.
The nineteen sprite worms had settled down comfortably.
According to the frequency of sprite worms rewarded before the smoke mission, at least one or two sprite worms could have been bred during this month of expedition.
Gort spread his hands: "Sir, the glory of the Knight has infinitely favored Flower Town and Black Horse Island. We found that the number of sprite worms far exceeds that of any place on Coral Island … In more than a month, there have been no signs of new sprite worms being bred."
… …
The next morning, the east was just beginning to turn white.
Liszt took the rubber worm triplets to the rubber garden to release the power of the three phases to restore the rubber trees that had a lot of rubber cut off.
After releasing the power of the three phases several times, the rubber worms did not show any obvious growth weakness. On the contrary, every time they recovered from fatigue, they seemed more energetic — this seemed to prove that the release of the unique magic of the sprites would not affect their growth and evolution.
Later.
Before the sun rose.
Aboard the Flower, he set off for Mangrove Island.
He was going to the mangrove forest to investigate the caterpillars and mallards. The ship quickly sailed to the edge of Mangrove Island. The summer heat was the peak season for plants, and the mangrove forest was denser than before. Many seabirds could be seen flying around Mangrove Island or nesting in the canopy of the mangrove forest.
"Put down the boat!" Captain Kosto shouted.
The sailors immediately put down the sampans and hung down the ropes so that they could slide along the ropes to the sampans. These sampans were small wooden boats made of rubber bonded with thorny ironwood. They were very strong and could be used for fishing offshore. It was a product that Liszt was going to promote.
The first step to facing the sea was to conquer the coastal waters and develop the fishery.
Combined with keel fixing technology and the unborn schooner technology, sooner or later he would build an ocean-going fishery fleet that could catch whales and even sea monsters.
At this time.
He slid along the rope to the sampans and quickly rowed to the mangrove forest, alarming a large group of seabirds.
Liszt was always paying attention to the depths of the mangrove forest, and soon he saw the caterpillar rewarded by the smoke mission. It was a fat, cyan worm the length of a finger and covered with curly hair. At a glance, he could see that the cyan hair was a bit similar to animal fur.
"Put on gloves, catch this caterpillar, and feel its hair." Liszt ordered the sailor who was rowing the boat.
The sailor immediately stretched out his arm and caught the caterpillar on a mangrove branch. "Sir Lord, it feels very soft, green hair. It feels very comfortable." He simply took off his gloves and touched it with his skin. After touching it, he said that it was comfortable. It was soft like the fur of a kitten or puppy.
Liszt nodded and then ordered, "Collect a batch of caterpillars and go back to study their nutritional value and the value of the green hair."
Then he continued to row into the depths of the mangrove forest.
The mangrove forest had a well-developed root system with intertwined roots. Fortunately, there were still some waterways left. Leaning down on the sampans, they could barely pass through.
After several twists and turns, when the sun rose in the east, Liszt finally set foot on the ground of Mangrove Island.
The ground was soft silt, obviously often washed by the waves. Many newly grown mangrove seedlings could be seen — not only mangroves, but also many other species. Although they belonged to different families, they all grew together in similar conditions, forming this mangrove forest.
"These trees are really strange. Not only are their roots strange, but their flowers are even stranger." Markus broke off a branch and handed it to Liszt. "Sir, please look. Its flowers look like this, like a stick."
Liszt took the branch and quickly remembered some knowledge about mangroves. "This is not its flower, but its seedling. The seed has grown into a seedling. Once it falls, it will immediately grow into a new mangrove."
"Seedling? A seedling growing on a tree? "Markus was a little incredulous.
"Mangroves live by the sea. If the seed does not germinate on the tree, it will soon be washed away by the waves. However, after it grows on the tree, as long as it touches the mud, it will quickly take root and prevent it from being washed away by the waves … This may be the reason why the mangrove forest can continue to reproduce."
A brief explanation.
Liszt threw away the branch. He mainly came to pick up duck eggs and see the mallard ducks.
He also wanted to find the mangrove sprite's worm stalk. Maybe he could see Nami. Now that he was confirmed as the Viscount of Black Horse Island, if he announced the appearance of a sprite, there would be another wave of flattery like "Knight's glory" — although Nami felt useless now.
Just then.
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