TDD – Chapter 170

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Chapter 170 – A Leader With No Secretary

The soap-making workshops were about to bring good returns.

The peanut-processing workshops were also looking good. Among the newly purchased serfs, several cooks were arranged to study delicious peanut products. At present, peanut butter, peanut crisps, salted peanuts, and fried peanuts have been developed, and they are handed over to the Thorns Caravan for selling.

The response was good, and many aristocrats had tasted these delicious peanuts and said they would buy them in large quantities next time.

However, Flower Town peanut production was insufficient since there were not enough workers. The peanut processing workshop director, Lucas, had entrusted the Thorn Merchants Team to purchase peeled peanuts from the North Valley City.

“Well done.” Liszt left leaving behind only a few words of praise. The whole peanut-processing workshop was his idea, after all. These people were just laborers and not very creative.

He liked to use gold, silver and copper coins to encourage creativity, discovery rather than encourage serious work  – after all, serfs should be working hard in the first place.

Frank Distiller was assigned fruit wines, Aberdeen Pudding for rice wine and Huntela for beer, and now they’re all rushing to finish the job early to make money for the workshop. Currently, none of them in the workshop can successfully make white wine, or any wine in general.

Ordinary wine was no different from fruit wine.

But fine wines have high craftsmanship requirements and selective of the grapes to be used. Also there are different techniques for dry, semi-dry, sweet and semi-sweet wines.

Only Tulip Castle on Coral Island has mastered the technology of making sweet wine. La Crescent wine was well-known in the Grand Duchy.

The red wine that Liszt had in the cellar of the Lacy Mountain House in the Longtaro Castle is the best dry wine.

These techniques were secrets that were not spread around and only mastered by the nobles.

The same was true for liquors.

Compared to distilled liquor, the brewing process of white wine is much more complicated and monopolized by the higher nobles. Spirits like gin were not always available.

The Flower Town Brewery can only make some simple fermented wines.

After inspecting the workshop, Liszt began to think, “If I remember it correctly,more distillation is required of distilled alcohol than fermented alcohol……It’s like using alcohol and water at different gasification temperatures to purify alcohol, and one can get higher alcohol-level spirits by repeated distillation.”

Liszt actually doesn’t like drinking, so he did very little research on alcohol.

“I have read a lot of novels before, most of them make use of a bridge to distill spirits. It  looks like very simple but the instructions were fairly vague.”

“Perhaps, I can ask the brewery to study the technology of distilled alcohol, maybe I can make white wine and increase the specialty of FlowerTown.”

Rice wine is fermented with grains.

Liquor was also made from grains.

Liszt thought that if the rice wine was further distilled, would they get white wine?

He called out the three winemakers, “You are each assigned tasks and remember, that task is highly confidential.  Anyone who spreads the word, their whole family will be flogged!”

The three winemakers clenched their butts in response, “We swear to death to keep our mission a secret!”

“Very well, I have a recipe. Liquor is said to be obtained by distilling rice wine, heating it until it turns into steam, and then introducing the steam elsewhere to cool it into water. The water in the rice wine can be removed, and what’s left would be liquor. Do this several more times, and you’ll be close to making the first  Flower Town alcohol!”

The three winemakers did not fully comprehend.

However, they simply responded, “Master Lord, please rest assured that we will brew liquor as soon as possible.”

The task began.

Liszt felt that another specialty in Flower Town was waving at him. He even had a name for it already at that moment,  “It’s called Flower Brewing… , um.., grade. If you have a low-grade Flower Wine, it’s just five years old, or a high-grade one, it can be ten years old, twenty years old, or even a hundred-year cellar, or five hundred years old…..”

It suddenly occurred to Liszt that the Duchy of Sapphire only had a history of more than 150 years, and before that, he feared only monkeys had lived on the island.

“Five hundred years of aging must mean that it was brewed and founded on the day as the island . It is said that in the year of founding, a winemaker came to Coral Island and brewed a jar of wine … there was only one jar, but it was made every year since then. “

When he thought of selling alcohol, he immediately came up with many classic cases.

But he also found a risk: “Liquor is a lucrative industry, which is difficult to secure without a strong backing. For this, we must work with Tulip Castle.”

With the banner of Tulip Castle, business was easy to do. Leewilliam Tulip, the earl of the Grand Duke in the Sapphire Grand Duchy is definitely one of the high-level figures.

Also, he serves as the Grand Duke’s groom, therefore makes close contact with the Grand Duke every year.

If one would make use of Tulip banner, he must share the benefits to Tulip Castle. Liszt didn’t care — the more he would be integrated into this world, the more he would understand the importance of noble connections.

Levis, Lvera, and even Lytton, no matter how intriguing, are relatives. It is the existence of a family that can help in times of crisis.

The Little Viscount of Deepthroat Island was destroyed, and his brother, the Great Viscount, had been separated. He was still on the run, investigating and urging the Grand Duke to find the killer.

Liszt certainly hopes that the Tulip family will grow into a towering tree capable of shelter against the wind and rain.

The dragon horse was walking very smoothly and Liszt can hardly feel the ups and downs.

Liszt could think very clearly while on horseback. His thoughts were jumping around, and while thinking of other ways to gain profits,  he jumped to another thought: “Speaking of monkeys, maybe I can hype monkey wine?” It didn’t matter if monkey wine exists or not, it was just a gimmick.

Nobles like extravagance.

However, extravagance includes not only gold and silver, precious stones and horses, but also art and the pursuit of rare things. Monkey wine is obviously a rare thing.

“But there are too few nobles with rich heritages. They are all newcomers who are not rich in the third or fourth generation, like the Tulip family. They would prefer gems and gold coins. “

In any case, one can start a hype by selling fruit wine.

Liszt then inspected several other shops and workshops.

At present, there are only three shops in the commercial area, including bakery shops, grocery shops and barber shops, and only blacksmiths, leather shops, locksmiths and tailor shops in the workshop area, and the newly built brewing, soap-making and peanut-processing workshops.

A lot of built wooden houses were empty.

If it weren’t for a lot of serfs laying roads, building houses and growing grass, Flower Town would seem like a ghost village.

Four hundred seventy-six serfs settled in the town and were distributed to various fields, causing a few waves. More than a hundred of them were highly anticipated craftsmen.  But since they lacked the ability to independently support shops and workshops, they were temporarily forced to work on a farm and ignore their craft skills.

“In a short period of time, the business district can only be used as a trading market to receive occasional business teams.” “You have to develop the workshop area and become a manufacturing and processing center before you can drive the development of the business area,” Liszt said, looking at the empty house.

He began pointing fingers around the business district.

He was drawing lines with his hand and imagination about “How can we build here” and “How can we build there”, and turning around, only Thomas and some knights were following him.

He found it to be very indecent.

He suddenly slowed down in his moment of ambitions.

“Whenever there are leader inspections, at least two secretaries must follow me and keep a small notebook and jot down whatever I say. The lowest officials and the masses have to be gathered, in the least. ”

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