I watched quietly for a moment.
Liszt left Granney's studio without saying a word—he simply couldn't understand what Granney was doing.
"Take good care of your teacher, and be especially careful with those bottles and jars boiling on the stove. Make sure they don't explode. Personal safety is far more important than work," he specifically instructed Charlie before leaving.
I'm really scared; Granney might suddenly cause an explosion.
In the accidents investigated by magicians, nine out of ten involve explosions—explosive forms, including but not limited to various forms of violent magic that could go out of control.
Why are there so few magicians in this world?
One reason is that magicians pass on their knowledge in secrecy and don't take on many apprentices. Another reason is that they die from various magical experiments and explorations. No matter how much a knight tries to use his aura, he might only kill or maim himself, but if a magician has an explosion, both teacher and apprentice could die.
The magician was blown up; it's no pity.
His Sea-Settling Divine Pearl was destroyed, which was a huge loss.
This Sea-Settling Divine Pearl will be assigned to the Flower Flower, just in time for its first voyage to explore Black Horse Island.
He also had another Black Pearl the size of a basketball and a Black Pearl the size of a washbasin, which he reserved for future new ships.
Especially Black Pearl the size of a washbasin.
When he goes to sea in the future, this huge Black Pearl will be his standard accessory.
A regular small Black Pearl can disperse wind within a five-meter radius; the Sea-Settling Divine Pearl, according to Granney's prediction, can disperse wind within a one-hundred-and-fifty-meter radius.
Even though the wind has dispersed, the waves will continue to surge, and the ship will still be in danger, just much smaller.
Black Pearl the size of a washbasin, crafted into Sea-Settling Divine Pearl," might be able to disperse the wind within a 300-meter radius. In this way, even if the waves are huge, without the wind to help them rise, the impact will be greatly reduced, and the threat to ships will be significantly decreased.
Leave Granney's studio.
Liszt rode his horse to the town's workshop district to inspect the three newly built workshops.
Inside a soap-making workshop.
While producing soap, soap maker Bunir also mentored several apprentices—an apprenticeship system enforced by Liszt to prevent serfs from keeping their skills secret, and a reward from the castle for each qualified apprentice trained. With this system in place, artisans and workers became noticeably more serious about mentoring their apprentices.
He had previously acquired the blacksmith shop of an old blacksmith in the small town.
They gave the old blacksmith a few gold coins that he couldn't earn in his entire life, hoping he could train a group of qualified blacksmith apprentices. In the end, after several thousand kilograms of iron were cast, not a single apprentice learned the blacksmith's skills.
This infuriated Liszt.
Blacksmiths are free men; essentially, all they need to do is pay taxes, and their personal freedom is not subject to the lord's control. Yet, Liszt still found an opportunity to give him a severe beating. The delicious taste of whipped meat is still vivid in his memory. Now, the old blacksmith obediently trains his apprentices, wishing he could impart all his knowledge.
so.
Carrots are necessary, but so are sticks.
A carrot and stick approach is the best way to effectively implement a lord's will.
"Soap production is stable, but the production volume is limited by the availability of pig pancreas and the waste in the experimental formula process," Bunir reported to Liszt, who was visiting the site.
"Hmm, let's continue our research. The comfort level of modern soap is almost approaching that of traditional bar soap."
Soap is made from the pods of the soapberry tree and mixed with fresh flowers. Its cleaning effect is average, but its production cost is very expensive, especially on Coral Island where soapberry trees are scarce. Only nobles can afford soap.
Soap (pancreas) is made by mixing wood ash and pig pancreas; pancreas from other animals may also be effective. It is relatively inexpensive to produce and has excellent cleaning properties.
However, it seems that the soap developed by Bunir still needs to be improved.
Therefore, the soap workshop is currently operating at a loss, with its production capacity only supplied to the castle and some officials and their families.
At this moment, Bunir suddenly said, "My lord, when I was researching soap recipes, I had an idea. I wondered if mixing soap and regular soap would create a better soap. So I tried it and found that the soap sculpts very quickly and is very smooth to use, but I don't know if this is the kind of soap you want."
Soap made from a blend of bar soap and regular soap?
Liszt thought the idea was quite ingenious, "Really? Show me the mixed soap you've prepared, and bring me a basin of water."
"Yes, my lord." Bunir quickly dispatched an apprentice to bring out a tray of pale pink mixed soaps. The soaps were shaped into flat ovals, three in total, and looked somewhat rough.
Another apprentice came over carrying a basin of water.
Liszt dampened his hands with water, then applied the mixed soap and rubbed it in, immediately producing a large amount of lather. The mixed soap in his hands felt very smooth, and its cleaning power seemed very good, especially after washing, his hands felt very clean, and there was a light, pleasant fragrance.
Although this wasn't the kind of soap he'd ever seen before, its effects were close to those of the Safeguard soap he remembered.
"What are its production costs, and what is the ratio of bar soap to regular soap?" Liszt asked.
"One bar of soap can be mixed with three bars of soap to make four blended soaps. However, I think it would be more economical to grind the pods of the soapberry tree directly into soap powder. That way, the cost of one blended soap could be reduced to about forty Copper Coin."
"The cost of this soap is one silver coin, right?"
"It costs more than a silver coin; the soap powder I bought was too expensive."
The cheapest soap costs two silver coins each, which is two hundred Copper Coin. Soap powder alone costs one silver coin, bringing the total cost to at least one hundred and ten Copper Coin. If the cost of blended soap could be reduced to forty Copper Coin, it could be sold for two silver coins, thus crushing the market for soap.
Even without using soap powder.
Even if you buy bar soap directly and make it into blended soap, increasing the cost to one silver coin, you can still make a profit.
" Bunir, you did a good job. The mixed soap works better than I expected. You can continue to research the soap slowly. The workshop will start making the mixed soap immediately... We need to come up with a good name. Do you have any suggestions?" Liszt was very confident in the mixed soap. The feel of it when washing and its cleaning effect were a level above that of regular soap.
If even someone as discerning as him thinks it's good, other nobles will surely applaud it. Nobles are very willing to spend money on items that improve their quality of life.
"My lord, it was under your guidance that I was able to develop this blended soap; you should be the one to give it a name," Bunir said respectfully.
As people get older, their speech gradually becomes more artful.
Liszt was pleased with Bunir's reaction. "Then let's call it Flower Soap. I'll designate it as a specialty of Flower Town. Bunir, and your apprentices, you must keep the recipe for Flower Soap a strict secret."
"Please rest assured, my lord!"
"Do your job well. I reward any invention that brings profit. Although the soap wasn't developed, the Flower Soap is barely acceptable. Bunir, you are rewarded with ten silver coins, and your apprentices, each twenty Copper Coin."
"Thank you, my lord!"
Bunir, along with his apprentice, expressed his gratitude with great satisfaction.
Liszt was equally pleased. He dared not say that Flower Soap would bring in the same amount of revenue as the seafood business, but he was quite confident that it could crush the current soap market and even be exported to distant islands.
Most importantly, the transformation of Flower Town from agriculture to processing industry is beginning to show results.