Liszt did not refute the count's claim that the reason for his success was due to his and Melissa's noble bloodline.
He had to give the other party some face.
He changed the subject and said, "Father, what do you think about the sale of rubber?"
"I tested the rubber you provided yesterday. It is indeed an extraordinary item. It is more impressive and more versatile than glutinous rice juice." The Count pondered a little, then said, "Tulip Castle gained a lot of supplies in the Battle of Iron Hoof Island. It is not highly dependent on gold coins. I can buy a batch of rubber to relieve your pressure."
"Rubber is a specialty of Black Horse Island. The output is not high, and cutting rubber causes great damage to the rubber tree, so the price will not be cheap."
"Is it more expensive than glutinous rice?"
Glutinous rice is a kind of grain that can be eaten, but glutinous rice juice is more useful for watering the castle. The Marquis of Leather Island, Ramirez White Glutinous Rice, relied on glutinous rice to build his family.
"I think it must be more expensive than glutinous rice, because rubber can also be used to build a city. The quality of the city is no worse than glutinous rice juice. In terms of speed, hardness, adhesion, etc., it is slightly better than glutinous rice juice. But rubber can not only be used to build a city, but it can also be used to bond any object, build a ship, repair armor, everything can be used! "
Liszt would not have taken out such a treasure if he was not really short of money.
The Count looked at Liszt and asked puzzledly, "How many good things are hidden on your Black Horse Island?"
"Well, there are indeed some specialties." Liszt responded faintly, "The most important thing is that the development work is done well. Take the rubber of the rubber tree, for example. Most people may only think of it as the sap that flows out of the tree and will not explore its use."
In fact, he was very proud because there were too many specialties in the territory.
In terms of crops — rubber with limitless possibilities, thorns with ironwood quality, fragrant coconuts that could be drunk directly, green tea trees that had yet to be planted on a large scale, smoke grass that could attract invisible dragons, as well as corn grass that could become corn cobs.
In terms of potions, there was the Black Tulip, the symbol of the territory's flag, the Flame Mushroom and Ice Flame Mushroom that were grown from the mushrooms, the fast-growing Thorns Potion, and the Black Nightshade that had just started to be cultivated on a large scale.
In terms of breeding, the caterpillar and the mallard duck will become a major specialty. The black pearl giant clam is also a good specialty. Needless to say, the black blood horse is a precious specialty. The dragon cow is also a precious specialty. If the fertility problem can be solved, the Blizzard Beast should be regarded as a specialty.
In terms of industry, the products of the Fire Dragon Brick Factory are specialties, such as slate, culverts, bricks, and other fired products under development, such as ceramics, glass, cement, lime, etc.; distilled liquor, flower brew, bath products, flower soap, and the future white paper, etc.
In terms of delicacies, there was no need to mention them. The Flower Town had always been known as the source of Coral Island's delicacies. Countless delicacies began to spread from here.
Other people yearned for a special product, but Liszt was distressed by the fact that he had too many special products. He couldn't develop them all, so he simply ignored many of them.
So for now, Flower Town and Black Horse Island have so many special products, but he was still too poor to buy books.
"If you want to find good things, you first need the good things to actually exist …" The Count took a deep breath and suppressed his jealousy of his son. "How many sprites do you have now?"
"Well, this." Liszt pondered how to answer.
The Count was dissatisfied. "Do you still need to hide it from me?"
"I have 24 sprite worms … and two sprites."
"Two sprites?"
"One is Ella, you have seen her, and the other is a useless mangrove sprite." He said modestly. Nami was not useless now. Raising mallard ducks was inseparable from Nami's ability.
The Count froze for a moment.
Then he sighed. "I remember when I was enfeoffed, I only gave you four sprite worms. Later, because you found the Black Tulip, I rewarded you with a sprite worm. That is to say, you found nineteen sprite worms yourself? There are also two sprites? "
"The origin of sprite worms is rather complicated. Grandmother gave me two sprite worms in a potted plant. I contracted a barley worm outside the nameless castle of Mane City. Father, you still remember the Six-headed Sea Serpent King, right? According to the records in a magic book, I watered four snake blood fruit worms with its blood."
Liszt calculated. "Apart from these, there are not many sprite worms born in the territory, only 13 … and Ella evolved from a thorn worm that you gave her."
That is to say.
The number of sprites bred by Flower Town and Black Horse Island itself is 13 sprite worms and 1 sprite.
"Do you think 13 is too little? Since I took over Coral Island, a total of more than 200 sprite worms have been born in 20 years of cultivation. More than a dozen sprite worms are born in a year! " The Count tried to calm his emotions. "The point is, I have never found a wild sprite."
Liszt wanted to say something to ease the atmosphere.
But he was directly interrupted by the Count. "I used to think that 'Knight's glory favors' was just an inspirational slogan. Now I believe that there is indeed a Knight's glory, and it obviously favors you … You go back, don't let down the Knight's glory. I look forward to your future!"
He quickly sent Liszt away and did not even intend to discuss the pricing of the rubber.
When the door was closed.
The study fell into silence.
The Count leaned his body completely against the back of the chair, his eyes gradually cast to an unknown place in space and time, and whispered, "Melissa, your most worried son has grown to a full-fledged wing and can fly at any time … It's just that this kid has too many ideas. Marquis Merlin wrote to me that he was promoted to an elite Earth Knight last year …"
The voice fell into an ethereal state.
After a while, he raised his voice a little. "From an ordinary Earth Knight to an elite Earth Knight, it only took half a year … His territory has several kinds of potions, and he also takes in a wizard who specializes in making potions … Our son, I am afraid, will perform better than I did when I was young!"
… …
"In fact, I should have kept a low profile and not provoked the Count."
Riding on the back of the chocobo Loki, Liszt shook his head and sighed as he recalled the scene of the Count on the verge of a crisis: "Forget it, tomorrow I will have Gort come over and have a good discussion with Levis and Franck, and strive to negotiate a suitable price to ease the territory's finances."
The powerful properties of the rubber were obvious to all, he was not afraid of not being able to sell it.
After returning to the territory, before he was ready to inspect the corn fields, he received a report from the administrative office. The serf Old Bohr discovered that there was a very strange corn grass in his corn field, with huge flower spikes growing out of the top of its head.
Isaiah further explained: "Sir, we have no way to determine whether this corn grass is breeding corn grass worms or not. They look a bit abnormal, but there are too many of them, no less than twenty corn grass, all of which have huge flower spikes … It is unlikely that more than twenty sprite worms are being bred at the same time."
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