Chapter 484: Zyra’s Rage

The planning scheme for six new towns, after continuous revisions, was finally approved by Liszt. According to this scheme, the future administrative divisions of Black Horse Island have been clearly defined.

The southernmost is Port Town, adjacent to Black Horse Port, which will be upgraded to Port City in the future and serve as the central city of Black Horse Island. Liszt's new castle is located on the edge of this city. This city will concentrate most of the industry on the territory, becoming a modern-style industrial city.

The northwesternmost is New Port Town, adjacent to the undeveloped new port, which also has the potential to be upgraded to New Port City in the future. It will be the starting point for Liszt's exploration of Blue Wave Sea and Devil Sea.

The southwesternmost is Green Tea Town, located at the foot of Ice Grass Hill, with large areas of land planned for green tea plantations. The future development of the town will mainly focus on the green tea business.

The easternmost is Red River Town, located at the mouth of Red River, next to the red mangrove forest. The future development of the town will mainly focus on the green caterpillar-green-headed duck industry.

The valley between Sheep Grass Hill and Needle Grass Hill is Pasture Town, adjacent to Black Horse Ranch. The future development of the town will mainly focus on the livestock industry.

The valley between Alfalfa Hill and Ice Grass Hill is Thorn Town, where Thorn Garden will be relocated in the future. The town's future development will naturally focus on thorn cultivation.

The westernmost is Grain Town, located in the valley between Alfalfa Hill and Sheep Grass Hill, where large-scale grain fields are planned to be opened as the food base of Black Horse Island.

If Flower Town, which focuses on trade and has the potential to be upgraded to a trade city, is included, Liszt's territory planning will form a pattern of eight towns. The knights have not yet earned enough merit for enfeoffment, so everything in the territory is his industry. Even if some towns and villages are enfeoffed in the future, they will be enfeoffed to places that are completely undeveloped.

With the plan in place, the next step is to arrange how to build it.

Many idle serfs will be mobilized this winter to ensure sufficient food and warm clothing, so the winter will not delay too much of the project.

The territory officials have accumulated technical experience in winter construction and know how to reasonably arrange work and rest schedules.

Liszt is not stingy and immediately decided to plan several men's and women's bathhouses in Port Town and the new towns to be built in winter, using the magic power of the Fire Dragon to heat them, making it convenient for the serfs to drive away the cold after a day's work.

Thus, after the meeting ended in the evening, Liszt called out the smoke task and found that the task had already been completed.

"Task completed, reward: peas that produce root nodule bacteria."

Then, a new task was issued: "Task: With the successive arrivals of the red mangrove spirit bug and the corn spirit bug, the thorn fairy feels its position threatened and can only vent its anger through improper means like fists. Please guide it to vent its anger correctly. Reward: a spirit bug."

"Hmm, Jie La's anger venting..." Liszt raised his eyebrows, looking at the task reward and connecting it with the task content, vaguely having an idea. "Should I tell it to vent its anger on farming to earn my best favor? Or let it influence the thorns to breed new thorn bugs?"

It's hard to say whether spirit bugs can influence the birth of similar spirit bugs.

But based on his observations of the Tulip family, there is more or less such influence. Tulip Castle not only has one Tulip great spirit bug but also two Tulip spirit bugs (one given to Lvera) and eight Tulip bugs (two given to Lvera).

Additionally, one Tulip bug was given to Liszt.

In other words, the Tulip family has an abnormal number of Tulip spirit bugs, which is certainly related to the family's large-scale cultivation of tulips, but it may also be the result of mutual influence among great spirit bugs and spirit bugs.

"Regardless, I need to guide Jie La to channel its temper into farming, lest it cause trouble for Mickey. It would be best if it could really help breed a new Thorn Bug. With one more Thorn Bug, I can plant over a hundred more acres of fast-growing magic thorns."

Jie La plants eight hundred acres of fast-growing magic thorns, and the new Thorn Bug plants another hundred acres of fast-growing magic thorns.

Just relying on Thorn Potion would probably be enough for one-third of Liszt's potion needs. Adding Flame Potion, Ice Flame Potion, Black Potion, and Nightshade supplementary medicine would be enough to cover half of his needs.

He didn't stay on Black Horse Island for long.

The next day, after inspecting the crowded dormitories of the serfs, he took a boat and left Black Horse Island, returning to Flower Town. After eating, drinking, and practicing, he trained Blizzard Beast and then began to guide Jie La, establishing the correct moral, value, and spirit bug life views for it.

"Jie La, I know you don't like other spirit bugs, but you need to know that they are all my spirit bugs. You cannot harm any of them casually."

Jie La exclaimed, "Wah!"

Her demeanor showed she was intent on teaching Mickey and Nami a lesson.

Snap.

Liszt flicked her forehead.

"Wah!" Jie La scowled fiercely, trying to intimidate Liszt, but it was no use.

Snap!

Liszt flicked her again.

"Wah!"

Snap!

"Wah!"

Snap!

"Wah..." Jie La finally gave in, covering her head, too scared to make another sound.

Having subdued Jie La's temper, Liszt began to gently coax her, "Jie La, do you know how to make me like you? You must tend to your thorns properly. I need thorns, and you can cultivate them, then I will like you. If you can get Thorn Bugs to help you, I will like you even more."

"Wah?" Jie La was a little confused.

Liszt pulled out a thorn vine, smiled happily, then pointed at Jie La and the thorns. Jie La paused for a moment, cast a green light, causing the thorn vine to sprout new buds instantly.

Seeing this, Liszt gave her a quick kiss.

Jie La laughed, delighted by Liszt's kiss. So she happily used more magic, making the thorn vine sprout even more buds.

Basically.

Liszt had taught her that "thorns mean kisses," the next step was to guide her in cultivating an eight-hundred-acre thorn garden to vent her dissatisfaction. At this time, the cooperation of the corn spirit bug Mickey was needed, Liszt deliberately treated Mickey well to provoke Jie La's anger.

Then let Jie La plant thorns, thus treating her better.

This required a period of nurturing, Liszt only stayed in Tulip Town for a day, then had to interrupt the training to attend the celebration banquet of this year's pioneering order at Tulip Castle. The Count re-appointed several knight lords, and one knight lord was appointed as a new baron.

Then came the distribution of minerals, which were allocated to the lords only after being uniformly taxed by the Duke.

Although the amount of minerals plundered this time was not much, Liszt still received fifty thousand pounds of iron and some copper, tin, and aluminum metals based on his second only to the Count's military achievements. Metals can not only be used for making weapons and tools but are also very practical magic materials, never too much.

After a night of revelry, the first heavy snow of the year quietly arrived at night.

Early the next morning, Liszt stepped on the snow and returned to his territory. This time, he would stay in the territory for a long time without going out.

"Jie La, get ready to become a spirit bug again!"