TDD – Chapter 171

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Chapter 171 – Growth of Ambition

“Secretary…”

Liszt was feeling lost having no secretary  around.

The noble class has always been painted as without shame or impetuous since they have secretaries who ‘do all these’ and ‘do all that’.

But in truth, Liszt even doesn’t have his own secretary. The social system strictly imposed monogamy with complete adherence when nobles were fooling around having lovers and illegitimate children.

This was not an official system.

It was the custom of society.

In order to ensure the continuation of the monogamy system, the female nobles can only have one maid, and the male aristocracy can only have a male servant, thus preventing the destruction of the monogamy system in the name of an assistant.

He explored the formation of this ethos, and eventually speculated that it was probably due to the matriarchal system of the Moon Empire.

This long-lost empire was like the ancient Roman Empire of Europe. Although the Roman Empire was destroyed by the barbarians, its cultural system has already deeply affected the entire continent. The same was true of the Moon Empire, the strongest empire of its time, whose cultural influence still remained.

In most countries, languages ​​have more or less absorbed the Moon Language.

Most customs originated from the Moon Empire including the rank of knights, the relationship between lords and vassals, and even the matriarchal system has also been preserved. In many countries, women once served as leaders. The Grand Sapphire Duchy has not yet had a queen, but it has adopted monogamy.

“Moon Empire … What happened to you..”

As the town’s leader, Liszt has plenty of leisure time. He liked to read knight novels and countless times has he heard about the Moon Empire — knights have always found remains of the Moon Empire somewhere, and when they acquire the said treasures, they are often met with immediate disapproval.

However, there was no recorded history to read.

Much of the  information that was known about the Moon Empire was just spread by word-of-mouth.

This kind of information spread has a high percentage of distortion and so the Moon Empire was reduced to being a legendary kingdom which was undeniably beautiful and prosperous. It was now in the same level as the ancient Greeks in the European population, the ancient kings of Confucius, all kinds of beautification, all kinds of subsidies, all of it replaced what was actually real, and became the official history of the people.

“It’s annoying not having history books… I’m afraid to read more knight novels and be the messenger of inaccurate readings.” Liszt shook his head.

No more thinking about these mess.

Liszt studies history not just to satisfy his curiosity, but because he also wanted to learn the history of power and strategies and the situation of the world. But all he has is nonsense stories.

He returned to being upset about not having a secretary .

He felt that he had to speed up the training of the female knights as his close guards, otherwise he would lose the atmosphere and passion to give speeches and give directions.

After inspecting the town’s buildings, Liszt  returned to the castle.

He went directly to the study, took out a thick paper and a quill pen, and organized his ideas on how to revive Flower Town.

“If we are to turn Flower Town into an economy dominated by the processing of agricultural products, then the current structure of the town will have to be remapped and the trade routes will have to be revised. The conditions for land transport are far less favorable than sea transport, and shipping directly from the sea to Coral City is more efficient.”

He first drew a rough map of Coral Island.

He remembered a map of Coral Island was hung in the study of the Count in Tulip Castle. The whole island had a distorted “8” shape.

Flower Town was in the northeast corner of the island. The narrow part in the middle of the “8” was a deep water port. Coral City was built next to the deep water port.

From Flower Town to Coral City, it was impossible to take a straight line due to the terrain. Instead of going through the middle, one must pass through North Valley City and Claytiles Town in a zigzag route, which is a total waste of time.

“Flower Town has a remote location, therefore the dock must be quickly constructed to open up the sea. As a supplement to land operations, checkpoints can be built at the entrance of Thorns Ridge. In this way, the main areas of Flowers Town can be divided into three: the dock, the town, and Thorns Ridge. It will undertake trade and processing tasks respectively. “

He wrote several snake texts in the town’s workshop area.

These were the workshops he planned to built—sugar workshops, spice workshops, textile workshops, leather workshops, paper workshops, tofu workshops, tulip flower workshops as well as shoe shops and bone craft shops.

He also wrote what workshops were to be built in the docks –  brick factory, cement factory, pottery kiln factory, salt farm, glass workshop and so on.

Near the Thorn Ridge, what he planned were wood workshops, slaughterhouses, horse markets and so on.

Some of these workshops didn’t have artisans to support it yet and some requires some technology that has yet to be developed. But in Liszt’s vision, these should all worked out.

Moments later.

He lost interest in writing again.

“Kosto has reported that the Flower is ready to go out to sea. We’re just waiting for Glanny to complete the Calm Pearl then the exploration of Black Horse Island can begin. “

Once Black Horse Island is taken over, his future strategy will focus on Black Horse Island.

The importance of Flower Town will surely decline. If he successfully turns Black Horse Island into his own fiefdom, he will surely hand over Flower Town to somebody else. He will take root in a new territory just as the Tulips gave up their original land and moved to Coral Island.

“When I obtain the financial and material resources to solve the technical problems of paper making, cement, tofu, glass and others, I’m afraid I’ll be the Black Horse Baron by then.”

The thorn sprite will be born anytime soon. Once a nobleman acquires his own sprite,it’ll be easy to generate a steady stream of financial resources. It would not be difficult to arm a knight squad.

It won’t be difficult anymore to fight on the battlefield and build a successful kingdom.

It would be better to save a sprite than to study technology.

The Grass Family and the Gravel Family all obtained their ranks due to their respective elves. As the son of the Count, as long as he succeeded, the Count would have no reason not to name his son the Viscount. At that time, Black Horse Island could be classified as its own fiefdom – nobles could take credit for the desert island.

In the event that one makes a great contribution in the battlefield, it will be impossible for the Grand Duke not to see it.

It was favorable to be a direct minister of the Grand Duke since it is more prominent than a  being a marquis’ or an earl’s minister. One would also be more eligible for promotion in the future since the rulers would always prefer to promote new nobles to counterbalance the old nobles.

“But once I become a minister, I would be independent from the Tulips.Will I be Liszt Thorn, the Prince of Black Horse Island?”

Of course, this possibility is relatively small. He was just a baron and the Grand Duke would not be impressed with his credits. Moreover, he is originally a vassal of the count, and the Grand Duke usually would not cross the border and win over another’s vassals. Furthermore,  the Earl and the Grand Duke has a quite good relationship, therefore one will not do anything to even slightly offend the other.

“Anyway, I’m going to make a decision on Black Horse Island, and the Dragon Horse Herd will not be touched by anyone!” 

If you want Black Horse Island, you have to win it.

Liszt laid down the quill pen, looked up outside the window. He could see in the distance on the horse farm a few horses leisurely eating grass,  “Those who go to war will die … … At that point, I’ll see if I can find the same job as Levis, act as a liaison, do logistics, develop some fighting skills. “

He paused.

Liszt spoke to himself again in a calm voice, “But the Knights must be trained as soon as possible, and my own qi has to be accelerated, and Tremblingwood’s training has to be strengthened as well!” 

Once a person has ambition, many of his ideas change unconsciously.

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