The heavy snowfall quickly wrapped the Flower Town in silver clothes. Only the roads were clear.
Officials were organizing the serfs who had nothing to do, constantly clearing the snow on the roads, so that the roads of the whole town in all directions were unimpeded.
At the same time, part of the road was still under construction, using the rocks produced by the Blizzard Beast, constantly breaking them into stones and paving them on the road. The main road of Flower Town has been expanded to the width of four carriages side by side, and the roads between the villages are enough to accommodate two carriages side by side.
While other towns generally had muddy roads, the Flower Town had already modernized its transportation.
Because the Lord, Viscount Liszt, always remembers the slogan "If you want to be rich, build the road first". If the road is not clear, the development of Flower Town will always be limited.
Infrastructure construction certainly requires a lot of money, but it is definitely a great addition to economic development.
Liszt even has a plan to cooperate with Tulip Castle to build a gravel road from Flower Town to Coral City, further shortening the travel time between the two places. However, this road is costly, and the Count may not agree.
At least until Black Horse Island has not exploded into a huge economic volume, so that the trade between the two places continues to increase, this road will probably not be built.
People in this world do not have the concept of "infrastructure" in their minds.
Whether the serfs walked on the gravel road or on the mud road; whether they stepped on the green grass or on the dirty water of excrement and urine. For the nobles, what difference does it make?
Only Liszt will desperately build infrastructure.
On Black Horse Island, he has planned a number of future roads for four carriages side by side — four lanes for short.
There must be a four-lane road between every two towns. In the future, after Port Town and Newport Town are developed and upgraded into cities, a direct six-lane road will be built.
He believes that the future industry of Black Horse Island needs such a road to support it.
… …
On this day.
There was good news again.
The serf who found the pea cordyceps reported to the administrative office the magical changes that had taken place in his peas — the influence of the pea cordyceps could keep the peas growing in autumn and winter, but with the removal of the pea cordyceps, the remaining peas in his house could no longer thrive.
Now that the bean sprouts were dead, the serf was ready to pull out the bean sprouts and collect the mature peas as seeds — these peas were well developed and were excellent seeds.
However …
When he pulled out the root of the pea, he found that there was a tumor the size of a fingernail. The serf remembered that the sir lord, who had come to transplant the cordyceps, had mentioned that there were rhizobia in the roots of legumes that could increase production. So he excitedly reported his findings.
The officials from the administrative office had naturally heard Liszt's explanation of the benefits of rhizobia to the soil and plants.
Therefore, he immediately reported to the castle and reported to Liszt.
"A lot of tumors the size of fingernails?" Liszt immediately understood that this was the reward of the previous smoke mission, "Peas that produce Rhizobia."
He immediately led the retainer Knight to the serf's house and saw the peas.
The roots of the pea were very fluffy, and there were indeed a lot of nodules on it. Not only were there a lot of them, but they were also very big. Compared to the soybean roots that Liszt had seen on Earth, the nodules were much more abundant.
He immediately ordered the serf to pull out all the peas and found that there were more than twenty peas with abundant nodules on their roots. The rest of the peas were very ordinary.
"Collect all of these nodules and carefully preserve them. When you sow peas, soybeans, peanuts, and so on next spring, remember to plant them in the soil stirred by these nodules. In addition, buy all of these pea seeds and plant them near the pea cordyceps as the focus of next year's cultivation. "
"Yes, Sir." The official hurriedly recorded Liszt's instructions.
The new variety of peas was named by Liszt as "fungus peas," which meant that the peas could produce rhizobia.
He believed that with the continuous cultivation of fungus peas, the rhizobia that Liszt hoped for would be produced in large quantities, increasing the yield of all legumes and improving the fertility of the soil.
"There are now more and more new varieties of crops in the territory."
On the way back, he suddenly thought of the many new varieties of crops that had been born on this land in the past two years.
The first was Black Tulip, followed by Corn Grass, Smoke Grass (Smoke Grass probably couldn't be counted as it should also grow in other areas. After all, Liszt knew it from a Knight novel), Flame Mushroom, Ice Flame Mushroom, and then Fast-Growing Thorns.
Fast-Growing Thorns started the trend of crop mutation and formed Liszt's unique naming method.
All of a sudden, five new varieties were formed – Fast-Growing Thorns, Fast-Growing Poisonous Thorns, Fast-Growing Thorny Thorns, Fast-Growing Iron Thorns, and Fast-Growing Magic Thorns.
Rubber trees formed two new varieties – Rubber Fruit and Rubber Fan (a new cordyceps variety, currently unknown for what purpose).
Corn Grass formed three new varieties – Corn Corn, Oil Corn, and Corn Cob.
Now, peas formed a new variety – Fungus Peas.
In addition, there are also Black Nightshade's mutated auxiliary Black Nightshade. These new mutated varieties of crops are named with "nature" plus "original name" to form new names.
"It's really an interesting name, distinct, clear at a glance, concise and comprehensive." He was very satisfied with his naming ability.
… …
Fungus Peas were just a small episode.
The chaos caused by the arrival of a large number of new serfs in the territory quickly stabilized, and there was no need for Liszt to worry about it. He resumed his previous schedule and lived an ordinary but fulfilling life. Recently, his greatest pleasure was to train the thorn sprite, Ella, and make it an elf again.
Without the hint of the smoke mission, Liszt probably couldn't think of how to educate the elves.
He would only think that the elves were simple farming tools and would not want to carry out "ideological transformation". Now that he thought about it, sometimes spiritual power should not be underestimated. It can brainwash and educate humans and burst out great work productivity. Why not brainwash and educate the elves?
He has the experience of educating Blizzard Beasts.
Therefore, he enjoyed educating Ella and constantly guided it to vent its anger on planting thorns. After five days of training, Ella finally fully adapted to the new way of behavior. Whenever it didn't like other sprites or was angered.
It would run to the Garden of Thorns, consume magic power, and promote the growth of thorns.
"Good girl!" Liszt would give it a loving encouragement, rewarding it with a word of encouragement, a caress, or a little food.
Ella was very happy.
Then he called out the smoke mission.
"Mission completed. Reward: a Thorn Sprite Worm."
Not surprisingly, Liszt had been in the Garden of Thorns every day recently, and the reward of the smoke mission was indeed born in the Garden of Thorns. It was a fast-growing demon thorn that had undergone a transformation. A large tumor had grown out of its branch. Magic power gathered inside, apparently gestating a sprite worm.
"It looks like it has been gestating for many days. It doesn't look like it has just been gestating. It doesn't seem to be affected by Ella?" Liszt wondered.
Thorns are evergreen plants that grow slowly in winter.
Because the potion itself has magic power, Liszt did not notice the abnormality of this potion before. Now judging from the degree of magic convergence, it has been gestating for at least half a month.
Anyway.
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