TDD -Chapter 174

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Chapter 174 – Opportunities in the Eyes of the Earth Knight

The importance of a sprite goes without saying. Even the Tulips considered the harvest of a new sprite as a festival worth celebrating.

Liszt quickly assembled officials like Gort after the birth of the Thorn Sprite.

They had their meeting in the castle.

“Whoo-hoo!”

“Whoo-hoo!”

“Whoo-hoo!”

The thorn sprite flying around in the living room undoubtedly attracted everyone’s attention. It was bold and was not afraid of people. The little guy was pretty fierce.

Thomas, who was serving tea, blocked the sprite, and the little guy immediately jabbed his teeth at Thomas, waving his palms, as if ready to shoot straight past him.

It was giving Thomas a big mouth.

Despite the fact that Thomas avoided the sprite, the sprite still held his head up and his chest forward and was shouting at him.

It was as if it was saying, “I am the master, and this is my territory!  Open your dog’s eyes, despicable slave!”

In fact, Liszt can feel it, and the thorn sprite was indeed dissatisfied with Thomas. Because of its bond with Liszt, it immediately regarded the castle as its own home. Except for Liszt, everyone else was an unwanted presence.

These ‘unwanted’ people in the living room praised the thorn sprite without realizing it.

“Its beauty is like the stars in the sky. I can’t think of a better word than this to describe it!” Gort danced. “The advent of it just proves what I said before that Flower Town is not only a place blessed with the glory of the knights, it is also the birthplace of knight’s glory! “

“It is not only an ordinary sprite, but also a sprite that brings endless wealth. Under its care, it will be a tree full of gold coins for us.”

Marcus has always been competitive with words,  “The thorn sprite will show our path for glory!”

The praises were endless.

The thorn sprite , however, does deserve such praise-it can grow a potion, a kind of wood, and its strategic value is almost as important as that of the food crop sprite.

Liszt waved his hand.

The thorn sprite flying all over suddenly obediently fell on Liszt’s shoulder and yawned, “Wow.” It was probably tired of playing.

Liszt glanced at his gaudy followers and slowly said, “There is a lot of time for praise in the future. What I want to know now is how we should hold a celebration.”

“Sir, please give me the task of presiding over the celebration. I am the best at this.” Gort said indifferently.

“So tell me, how do you plan to celebrate?”

“Every time Tulip Castle gets a sprite, you invite the following nobles to a feast ;  you as the Flower Town baron, the blood of the Tulip Family, you can invite the nobles of the North Valley City to come to the feast. Meanwhile, relatives in Tulip Castle, as well as the Baroness of Falcontown, should also be invited. “

Gort first determined who should be invited.

Then he said: “In order to celebrate the thorn sprite, all the civilians in the territory should be involved. I think it should be a holiday … Well, it’s fine, it should not be a holiday. The autumn harvest is keeping everyone busy, and all the projects are short of manpower. Letting the lazy serfs go on vacation is simply unforgivable. “

The civilian holidays just pass by so fast.

Even while celebrating, they still work.

Blair heard this and added,  “Perhaps we should give each serf a copper coin to show the Lord’s concern.”

“Do you really need to treat serfs this way?” Gort disagreed. He has always looked down on the civilian class.

Liszt gave the final word, “It is decided that each serf would be given a copper coin, and the free people would take a day off. As for everyone who works on the day of celebration, they will be paid double.”

“Double the wages, alas, that’s a good idea,” Gort nodded quickly and praised.

“Thank you for your generosity!” Karl, Romm, and others quickly expressed their gratitude. They liked the lords they followed for they were generous lords.

Liszt was satisfied with his subordinates’ response so he let out a slight smile.

Throwing money was not an act of generosity, in a deeper meaning, the act of distributing money is done to stimulate the circulation of goods in Flower Town.

After all, he has the soul of a modern man in the 21st century and has learned more or less the theories of economics.

After all, one can feel inflation every day from the rising prices, devaluing yuan, and increasing wages. As a result, people find themselves getting farther and farther from affording a house. It is also from these intuitive feelings that one would slowly understand and care about the country’s economic policies, and know what stimulates consumption.

The purpose of stimulating consumption is not for consuming products alone, but to stimulate demand as well. Once there is demand, it can promote the development of various industries.

As it is said, money can only produce actual value when it is in circulation.

If Liszt would follow other lords and hoard all gold coins in his own warehouse, then the territory would stay in its original farming stage where the people cannot eat and go hungry. People would not talk about buying items or wanting to start a small business or do some sideline business and the like.

When one has money in hand, there will be a desire to consume, and one’s territory land will thrive.

The original farming phase will shift to handicraft and the production industry which will bring a steady stream of wealth — but it will bring a negative effect as well, their Lord’s desire for wealth would grow.

But Liszt was not that stupid.

Liszt  believes that as long as he holds firmly on to the Knight’s system and regularly collects first-born fat pigs as tax, the land cannot rise to any waves – after all, a world ruled by personal power and wealth only thrives under the protection of power.

“Adviser Gort, please continue.”

“As you wish, my lord.” “The last and most important point of the celebration, you should announce your acceptance of new followers!”

Lister raised his eyebrows and chewed, “Recruit followers?”

“Yes, everyone knows the importance of the sprites to the nobility and with a sprite, you will go further and gain more glory. It is a good time to recruit followers now. There are always people like me, Marcus, Blair, Isaiah who are willing to follow in your footsteps! “

He just gained a sprite, why so much celebration?

On one hand, of course, it is a festivity, on the other hand, it is showing off; showing off the power of the lord and attracting the knights. In this world, nobles and free peoples have cultivated a lot of earth knights, but only a small part can get lands and titles, and the rest were tirelessly looking for opportunities to become nobles.

“I have a thorn sprite, and this is the opportunity for these earth knights.” Liszt instantly realized that the birth of his thorn sprite would be his voice to certainly rise to higher levels.

A huge leap from being a  baron in the countryside to becoming the future Viscount!

A Baron who has his own land and city will become an upper class member of the aristocracy.

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