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The three fast court sailing ships were the Exploration, Discovery, and Opportunity. All the experimental materials of the Guild of Magic were used to construct three binary core magic platforms, and a spare magic platform was placed on the flagship, the Exploration.
The sailing ceremony was grand and solemn.
The heavy snow was still swirling, and the Knight was covered in snow. Liszt personally handed the three flags embroidered with a dragon-shaped flame pattern to the captains of the three exploration ships — the leader of the exploration team and the captain of the Exploration, Yevich Peanut, and the other two Earth Knight captains trained by the territory.
When the dragon-shaped flame flag was raised high, the three exploration ships slowly sailed toward the sea.
This meant that the first step to establishing a country had been taken. All that was left was to find a suitable archipelago, move there, and develop. It was not until the three ships disappeared into the dark clouds that Liszt turned back.
The construction of the territory continued as usual.
The serfs of Iron Hoof City were transported in batches and quickly participated in the construction and development of the territory.
All the serfs were full of smiles, not because they found the living conditions of the territory good, but because they had become serfs of the Dragon Knight. How could the serfs of the future king be treated the same as ordinary serfs? Although they still needed to farm, the benefits were definitely better than ordinary serfs.
"Your Highness, the negotiating team has confirmed with the trade representatives of the three Marquises that half of the profits from future trade cooperation will be invested in serf trade. With the price of our serfs, the Marquises will definitely be willing to use serfs to pay for the benefits, thus saving gold coins. "
The three Marquises were the Marquis of Oxtail, the Marquis of Red Crab Island, and the Marquis of Golden Island, which were the partners that Liszt chose to cooperate with Glass, Paper, and Sea Salt.
The trade channels of these three Marquises were with the coastal Marquises of the Iron and Steel Ridge Kingdom.
In addition, Liszt also had his own trade channel, mainly with Marquis Nutao of the Eagle Kingdom to carry out smuggling trade on the sea.
Marquis Nutao had suffered heavy losses in two major battles and had to find ways to make up for the losses.
Sea salt was currently the largest smuggled trade. Marquis Nutao pretended to respond to the king's call and bought a large number of Eagle Kingdom's sailboats to harass the Sapphire fleet at sea in search of the Light Green Gem Dragon. Actually, under the cover of the Flame Captains' fleet, they had arrived at a designated third island to conduct a sea salt trade.
The method of trade was to exchange serfs for sea salt. One ship of sea salt for one ship of serfs. It was clear and concise.
A ship of sea salt sold on the mainland could be exchanged for about five or six ships of serfs, or even ten ships of serfs. It could be said that the sea salt trade was a profitable business for both Marquis Wildtao and Liszt. The cost of sunning the sea salt was almost zero, and it was just the labor cost.
Currently, the Flame Lord was frantically basking in the sea salt.
Of course, he had to monopolize the technology — no one would dare to take advantage of his technology. If he discovered that someone was also sunning sea salt, Liszt would not show any mercy.
The Dragon Knight was synonymous with monopoly!
After learning of Liszt's sea salt trade, even the Sapphire Family only came to ask if they could participate in the trade, rather than thinking of stealing the technology.
At present, the cooperation with the Sapphire Family was still under discussion. The main issue was the division of profits, which had reached an impasse. The Sapphire Family hoped to buy it out by paying a "patent fee" or "protection fee", while Liszt insisted on buying the technology and participating in the profit dividends.
Of course, whether it was the Sapphire Grand Duke or Liszt, neither would be too entangled. After all, the two were temporarily in an offensive and defensive alliance. It would not be difficult to reach a trade cooperation if they each took a step back.
"Isaiah, carefully discuss with the officials to find a balance between the territory's expenses and income, and then appropriately increase the proportion of serfs purchased. We have to hoard serfs for the future establishment of a country … When a new country is established, the serf trade will not necessarily go smoothly. "
Liszt knew very well that once he announced the establishment of a country, the mainland kingdom would never sit idly by.
They might not be able to launch a second War of the Dragon Slaying, but they would definitely curb the development. The most powerful means was to crack down on the serf trade. There was no way to ban the serf trade, but the price of serfs during the crackdown would definitely skyrocket, greatly delaying the development of the new country.
"Your Highness, please rest assured that we will find a balance as soon as possible and redesign the distribution plan with several trade channels."
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"Master, have you noticed that Jesse has been very happy these days?" Butler Carter said with a smile.
"What is Jesse happy about?" Liszt asked while playing with Ella, who was growing up. Jesse was the castle's main valet and an old man who had followed Liszt from the beginning.
"With the help of the Guild of Magic, Old Phil finally got his wife pregnant."
"Is that so? Congratulations." Liszt smiled. He was very familiar with Old Phil. He had collected a large amount of blood from this descendant of the Sun because of his bloodline.
After the Great Mages of the Guild of Magic knew Old Phil's identity, they formulated a "pig rearing plan" to let Old Phil desperately make little people, strive to cultivate a "new Son of the Sun" who could release Druid transformation magic, and verify magic such as bear transformation, leopard transformation, and so on.
Butler Carter was at a loss. "There is one thing that I don't know if I should report to you, Master."
"Go ahead."
"The mages of the Guild of Magic bought a lot of prostitutes from other places and forced Old Phil to have sex with them. I heard that Old Phil has lost a lot of weight …"
"Hmm?"
Liszt suddenly didn't know what to say. Should he say that Old Phil was lucky with women, or that the mages were absurd, or that the Guild of Magic was behaving improperly? He was stunned for a while before asking, "Was Old Phil forced? Was his wife also threatened by the mages?"
"This … It is said that the mages promised Old Phil's wife that they would groom her son to become a mage in the future, so the woman ignored Old Phil and even encouraged him to cooperate. As for Old Phil, he must have been half-hearted … Poor Jesse, he still doesn't know about Old Phil. "
"Alright, I got it." Liszt did not express his opinion.
He was prepared to mention this when he saw Crazy later. Although this matter did not violate the rules of the Guild of Magic, nor the territory's laws. He had even tacitly agreed to Lars and the other Great Mages regarding Old Phil's matter.
But it was ultimately not a good influence. This could already be considered a human experiment.
He had a plan in mind. "The next time a similar experimental project is established, it must be approved by me. I must not allow the mages to conduct random research, especially research that involves humans and dragons!"
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Old Phil's luck with women was not a big deal, and Liszt quickly put it to the back of his mind.
He carried Ella, who had grown up a lot, with one hand and walked upstairs to A Qi's laboratory, ready to let A Qi give Ella a full body examination.
He wanted to see Ella's health and collect some data on the evolution of the elves.
"Wow!"
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