The Defeated Dragon

gold.

Liszt doesn't have many of these things, and his current liquidity is only about a hundred gold coins. The territory does rely on the business of the flower caravan, making a lot of money, and the tax revenue is increasing day by day. But the expenditure of the territory is also increasing day by day.

Liszt's own food and drink expenses alone can't be covered by dozens of gold coins a month.

Those weird delicacies are worthless, and the cost of materials and labor are very cheap. The most valuable thing is monster meat. He has become a meat-eater who can't live without monster meat. If he can produce potions by himself without the territory, his personal consumption will be even more terrifying.

Territory construction is more expensive.

If Heima Island is developed, it will be a huge black hole, and it will be difficult to see any benefits for at least one or two years; the development of Huahua Town is basically on track, but there is definitely a lot of effort involved.

In the seemingly lively development of nearly nine months, Liszt took at least a thousand gold coins back and forth.

I can't imagine how many things could be done without the smoke task.

so.

This time, with a shortfall of 500 gold coins, Liszt still had to use the reward from the smoke mission. After thinking about it, I plan to go to the earl tomorrow and exchange my mithril for a batch of gold coins.

...

Dawn the next day.

The sun didn't get up in time, so it looked a little gloomy.

The count has already woken up and is studying hard at his desk in the study. He has been very busy these days and needs to sort out the distribution of the spoils.

Liszt, get up early. The count signaled Liszt to find a chair to sit on. Didn't Levi pull you to chat about the war story all night?

In fact, my brother's eloquence still needs to be practiced, and it is still far from the level of talking non-stop all day and night.

Well, he really doesn't have the talent of a diplomat. What do you want to drink, red wine, or coffee? Chatting with your son, without drinking something, always feels that the atmosphere will be rather stiff.

Between father and son, the heart-to-heart level between mother and daughter will never be reached.

Is there any milk? I don't want to drink alcohol or coffee early in the morning. Liszt can't do without milk, and the milk from his own dragon breed cows is temporarily unavailable.

Can only drink regular milk.

When the servant brought the freshly brewed milk, Liszt could clearly feel that the milk quality of the cows in Tulip Castle was far inferior to that of the cows in Huahua Town.

Those few cows in the dairy farm, even if they didn't become dragon cows, definitely experienced mutations.

I've been bathing with fresh flower soap for the past two days, and it's really very useful. This industry should bring you a lot of benefits, the earl said.

Two or three gold coins a day are similar to the seafood business at the beginning, but now the seafood business is about to stop, and the income is not as good as before. Due to the limited production of flowers and soap, it is temporarily unable to expand to the outer islands, resulting in my funds. tense state.

The development of Flower Town has surprised many people, including me, so don't put too much pressure on yourself.

pressure.

There is no pressure.

Liszt felt that there was really no pressure in his daily life, eating and drinking, practicing martial arts and writing, riding horses, walking dogs, teasing elves, and patrolling the territory. Occasionally have an inspiration, let the serfs realize it, or follow up with the smoke task.

In addition to being beautiful, it is still beautiful.

Of course, this kind of depraved life should be low-key. He said jokingly: There is still pressure. If I want to fulfill my wish of riding a dragon before the age of thirty, I need to work hard all the time.

Forehead.

The earl didn't get used to this kind of joke for a while: Don't be so ambitious.

Liszt nodded: Actually, I want to become a sky knight as soon as possible. I am very fascinated to hear my brother talk about the scene of you fighting with Earl Figo.

This idea is much more practical, and the earl easily accepted it: I hope that the four of you, brothers and sisters, can all aim at sky knights. Every generation of the Tulip family is pursuing progress. The enterprising spirit of knights will never stop. into motivation.

I understand. Now that I am an adult, I have understood everything that I was ignorant of before. Liszt said, and suddenly remembered something, By the way, Father, besides bringing a batch of special products from Flower Town and Food, and a gift specially prepared for you and brother.

Oh, what gift?

telescope.

Liszt took out a pair of exquisitely crafted binoculars from his pocket, handed them to the earl, and instructed the earl how to use them: This is a pair of stretchable monocular binoculars, you put this small eyepiece in front of your eyes , yes, that's it, and point the big objective lens out the window.

After the earl did so, he was taken aback for the first time: Oh, my God, the sea of ​​tulip flowers seems to have come before my eyes!

You can pull the telescope's objective barrel out, yes, for longer.

It's getting closer and closer, will they move? Is this magic? The count kept looking at things in the distance with a telescope, very excited, I saw Silva, he was holding a cigarette in his hand. Find a place to smoke handmade paper cigarettes, using fire grass, not fire folds.”

Holding the binoculars, the earl started peeping. Silva, the assistant housekeeper outside the castle, didn't know that his little act of smoking was caught by the earl.

The excited earl couldn't stop for a while.

Liszt is very satisfied with the effect brought by the telescope, but the incident of Silva smoking made him suddenly think whether he should invent matches?

The ignition tool in this world is the fire grass that can rub against life, and the fire fold that uses fire grass as a raw material is far less convenient than matches.

The lighter is more advanced and more convenient.

But Liszt didn't think he could invent a lighter, because the technical content was too high.

As for the match, there is no technical content, the only problem is that the match head uses phosphorus as the igniter. If he remembers correctly, the red phosphorus in the phosphorus is used, and the red phosphorus and the substance that can rub the red phosphorus to make a fire are applied to the match head and the matchbox respectively.

Friction when in use and separation when not in use are called safety matches.

Phosphorus... I still know a lot about phosphorus. Liszt thought silently.

First of all, rural farming cannot lack a kind of fertilizer called phosphate fertilizer; secondly, it is said that the discovery of phosphorus originated from alchemy, a guy who dreamed of alchemy accidentally extracted phosphorus from urine; thirdly, middle school geography I have learned in the textbook that there is a country called Nauru, where bird droppings accumulate to produce phosphate rock.

Finally, the legendary will-o'-the-wisp is said to be formed by burning phosphorus in human bones in the air.

So, if you want to get phosphorus, you have to deal with feces and urine? Liszt was very helpless, he didn't want to be a TFBOYS, It's better to find bird droppings, find an island with many seabirds, maybe there will be Phosphate rock... Even if you can’t get out phosphorus, it can be used as fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer.”

After he carefully recalled the memory about phosphorus twice, the earl put down the binoculars and exclaimed, Liszt, where did you get this kind of binoculars?