Chapter 138: Dark Horse Ind Fief Strategy
After realizing the meaning behind the treasure, Liszt suppressed his excitement and asked tly: Captain Kosto, can you read this nautical chart?
Sir Lord, this nautical chart is amon nautical chart, it''s notplicated at all. The rat shouldn''t have been proficient in sailing. Thus, I can clearly understand the route depicted on the nautical chart. Said Kosto confidently. The distorted-looking nautical chart with strange symbols didn''t pose a problem to him.
Then, how far away from the Coral Ind is this horse ind located?
ording to the nautical chart, the ind is about 130 kilometers to the north of the Coral Ind. With a speed of 5 knots, it would take the Flower about 14 hours to reach the ind under the condition that it doesn''t meet any sea currents or storms. Kosto used his fingers to count before replying.
Liszt wasn''t bad at math. ording to Kosto''s introduction, a rough a.s.sessment showed that 1 knot was equivalent to less than 2 kilometers per hour. Therefore, the Flower''s speed was roughly 9 kilometers per hour.
Riding a bicycle would be faster than that.
He hazily recalled that it its narrowest, the Taiwan Strait seemed to only have a width of 135 kilometers. In other words, the distance between the Coral Ind and the horse ind was about the same as the width of the Taiwan Strait.
Captain Kosto, when can the Flower go out to the sea and sail to the horse ind?
Sir Lord, if it''s simply going out to the sea, then the apprentice sailors are already up to the task. After all, the distance isn''t to great and it still belongs to the scope of offsh.o.r.e sailing. However, the apprentice sailors have too little experience. Once they meet a storm, they won''t be able to cope with the situation, greatly increasing the odds of an ident urring.
How long will it take you to train them in order to be able to go out to the sea?
Sir Lord, if you give me full reign over 30 apprentice sailors, then after a month of persistent training, I can take the Flower out to the sea and go to the horse ind!
Liszt made a decision in an instant: I will have Adviser Gort fully cooperate with you. A monthter, set out to the horse ind The ind should be given a name, let''s call it Dark Horse Ind.
Kosto said excitedly: I''m willing to serve Sir Lord!
Make a copy of the nautical chart and then wipe off the image from of the wall.
After this order was carried out, the Flower sailed back.
Nighttime.
At the castle''s banquet, it was amon practice to summarize the day''s work. Liszt wasn''t a petty lord, he didn''t mind his subordinates eating in the castle. This was also a way to rope people in.
Sir, if the clues left behind by the rat are true, then we must take control of the Dark Horse Ind as soon as possible in order to prevent other forces from upying it. Next, we have to obtain enough aplishments as soon as possible in order for Sir to be conferred the Dark Horse Ind. As a resource, warhorses are more important than any other resource! Said Marcus gravely.
In view of the fairlyrge number of uninhabited inds in the Sapphire Grand Duchy, a lord with aplishments could appoint an uninhabited ind as their fief.
Before being conferred to others, all the uninhabited inds of the Azure Waves Sea theoretically belonged to the Grand Duke Sapphire. Of course, these inds could be run in secret, which was an unspoken rule. However, once the grand duke chooses to confer an uninhabited ind to some lord, any operation ran by others on said ind would have to be terminated right away.
However, secretly run uninhabited ind were still quite rare.
Firstly, aristocrats didn''tck arablend, what theircked was sprites and metals. Secondly, it''s very difficult to guaranty that the news of uninhabited inds being secretly run wouldn''t leak. Once an uninhabited ind was ran to a certain extent, the grand duke would inevitably get a wind of it and forcibly confer the ind to a third party. In theory, everything on the ind would be transferred to another lord.
Therefore, secretly running an uninhabited ind wasn''t worth the ha.s.sle.
Take the Tulip Family for example, it had been in charge of the Coral Ind for 20 years, yet it still hadn''t even reimed one third of thend.
Prior to Liszt''s arrival, the Flower Town also had arge part of it''snd not being cultivated. And even as of now, a great deal ofnd was still not being cultivated, let alone the to be developed Thorns Ridge.
There can''t be any leaks. Anyone privy to this information must be seriously warned. Otherwise, the Dark Horse Ind will inevitably be seized by another lord. Said Gort gravely as well.
He and Marcus were quite clear about the importance of warhorses to the aristocracy. Warhorses with exceptional bloodlines like ckdragon, in particr, yed a vital supporting role on the battlefield.
It could be said that during a charge on the battlefield, an elite Earth Knight riding an ordinary horse might not necessarily be able to beat an ordinary Earth Knight riding ckdragon.
Only those sitting here as well as Kosto, Rhm, and my gentleman''s valet Thomas are privy to this information. Liszt continued readily, When theyplete their training, the sailors and their families will migrate to the Dark Horse Ind Of course, before anything else, we have to make sure of the Dark Horse Ind''s environment.
Gort said optimistically: As an ind capable of bringing up such majestic horses like ckdragon, the Dark Horse Ind is bound to be a green, t ind. I think that its surface is should to be veryrge, perhaps it could even hold a count.
Liszt cut a piece of magic beast meat, swallowed it, and then said: No matter how big it is, it''s destined to be mine Adviser Gort, regarding the training of sailors, you have to actively cooperate with Kosto.Amodate him as much as possible.
Understood!
The Dark Horse Ind''s strategy started to be secretly nned.
The logging team''s work was still in full swing, with hundreds of people chopping down trees in groups. As they were limited by tools, the efficiency of a single person wasn''t high, yet the overall progress was still fast.
One third of the trees in the northern part of the Thorns Ridge were chopped down in just 5 days.
Arge tract of thorns woods in the surroundings of the future dock were cleared, with only a few wild fruit trees being left behind.
It would take over half a month toplete the new smoke mission, there was no use rushing it. Since Gort became an adviser, his enthusiasm for work and his initiative had been off the charts, leaving Liszt oftentimes idle. Thus, the taming of Blessedcurls became his current research topic.
Blessedcurls'' feathers gradually turned tough and it''s magic power gradually became abundant. If it wasn''t for the chain tied to its leg, it might have already learnt how to fly by now.
Old Grandet, the Coral Ind is so big, yet you can''t even find a single eagle tamer?
Sir Lord, I''ve already instructed the Flower Caravan''s people to ask around in each city and even in towns. There are indeed no eagle-taming craftsmen. Replied Old Grandet, the captain of the Flower Caravan, who came to the castle to give a report.
Continue to ask around.
Yes, Sir Lord.
After sending Old Grandet away, Liszt ma.s.saged his forehead. Although Blessedcurls'' tweet'', tweet'' calls were beyond annoying, but it was a magic beast he had raised from little, after all. It would be a pity to have to kill it for its meat.
However, he wasn''t distressed over Blessedcurls for too long.
The servingman tasked with looking after the ck nightshade came back to report good news: Master, the ck nightshade sprite worm was born!
Liszt hurried towards the ck nightshade field, where he saw the ck and shiny nightshade sprite worm, which looked like a ck gem.
After simply tempting it with jade powder, the ck nightshade sprite worm bit his finger, sessfully forming the contract.
His ninth sprite worm had finally settled in the castle.
However, the good news didn''t stop at this. Just when he returned to the castle, a knight arrived from the Coral City to deliver an important piece of information the Coral Ind''s caravan returned. Levis'' household teacher Frank asked him to go to the Coral City to receive the 500 ves.