Flower Town

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Flower Town (鲜花镇)
Location	Northeastern Coral Island, adjacent to the undeveloped Thorn Ridge wilderness 5
Affiliation	Tulip Family; originally governed as Baron Liszt Tulip's fief 1 394
Occupation/Role	Agricultural settlement, processing center, and the starting fief of Liszt's rise 169 394
Status	Later treated as leased land after Black Horse Island became Liszt's territory; Liszt eventually no longer considered it “his” Flower Town 417 1089
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Background / History

Flower Town originated from a wild flower field discovered on Coral Island. Two vigorous new tulip varieties prompted William Tulip to establish Flower Farm and settle workers there. As the farm's population grew, Flower Town was founded approximately seventeen years before Liszt's arrival. Poor transport later caused the Tulip Family to relocate the valuable tulips to Coral City, leaving the farm and town in decline. 14 100

Liszt Tulip was enfeoffed as Baron of Flower Town on March 9 and arrived the following day with only four Elf Bugs. The settlement was isolated, poorly administered, and heavily taxed by Coral Island's previous officials. 1 12 133

Under Liszt, the town underwent repeated censuses, road-building, sanitation, agricultural, logging, and construction campaigns. Its economy expanded from subsistence farming into fisheries, trade, magical-herb cultivation, soapmaking, brewing, ironwood processing, and other workshops. 77 148 169 293 917

After Liszt gained Black Horse Island, Flower Town's magical plants, Elf Bug Grass, workshops, and craftsmen were scheduled for gradual transfer to Port Town. It nevertheless remained important to Liszt as the site where his enterprise began and where the Invisible Dragon had once appeared. 417 419 394

Territory and Settlements

Flower Town's precise borders were originally undefined; its territory was broadly described as land northeast of Thorn Ridge. Thorn Ridge itself was unclaimed wilderness and became both a barrier to trade and a major area for reclamation. 5 59

Surveyed feature	Extent / details
Flower Town proper	Roughly 15,000 mu, including farmland, beaches, buildings, streams, ponds, and roads 148
Surveyed arable land	Approximately 5,165 mu 148
Coastal beach	Approximately 8,100 mu 148
Built area	Approximately 775 mu 148
Thorn Ridge	Roughly 13,000 mu of wilderness and later-development land 148
Liszt's calculated territory total	Approximately 33,000 mu after including Thorn Ridge and low-tide beach 148

Early settlements included the town itself, Peanut, Mushroom, Tomato, Barley, Wheat, and Oyster Hamlets, Flower Farm, Dairy Farm, and the castle area. 12 20 148

Flower Farm

Flower Farm predates Flower Town and was founded around the cultivation of newly discovered tulips. At its height, tulips covered approximately 200 mu; later, much of its land was converted to wheat and other crops. 14 100

Its most valuable later crop was the Black Tulip, a magical herb cultivated as a potion resource. The farm also retained red Sundance Tulips and yellow William I Tulips, though these ordinary varieties declined after most serfs were transferred to Black Horse Island. 148 579

Population

Period	Population record	Notes
Initial census	584 households; 1,973 residents	51 households and 153 people were free citizens; the remainder were serfs. 13
Including castle residents	1,990 people	Included Liszt, ten servants, four squire knights, Gortai, and Marcus. 13
After major resettlement	More than 3,500 people	Liszt stated that roughly half had been purchased as serfs. 220
Later spring plowing period	More than 3,000 residents remaining in Flower Town	This excluded 1,500 people working on Black Horse Island. 322

Most early residents worked in agriculture, cultivating barley, wheat, oats, tomatoes, mushrooms, peanuts, and tulips, or raising livestock. Only seven percent of the population worked in handicrafts during the first census. 13

Governance

Flower Town's administration was initially sparse and ineffective, consisting of four clerks and six patrolmen who lacked literacy and even basic population records. Liszt personally directed the first census after Gortai's staff failed to count the hamlets accurately. 12

Gortai Mast was later appointed advisor, the office leading territorial officials under the Sapphire Grand Duchy's system. 134

Office	Officeholder	Responsibilities
Advisor and Foreign Affairs Officer	Gortai Mast	Overall affairs and foreign relations 162
Government and Legal Affairs Officer	Isaiah Moss	Administration and legal affairs 162
Government Affairs Assistant	Oden Insole	Government support duties 162
Finance Officer	Blair Nail	Financial affairs 162
Finance Officer Assistant	Gray Sickle	Financial support duties 162
Defense Officer	Karl Hammer	Patrol squad affairs 162
Bug Affairs Officer	Rom Barrel	Bug Protection Team affairs 162
Maritime Affairs Officer	Kosto Hoofprint	Navigation affairs 162

The Apple Table Meeting also created the internally designated Flower Town Knight Academy, with instructors receiving two Copper Coins per day. 162

Economy and Resources

Agriculture and Magical Resources

Flower Town's early economy depended on low-yield farming and taxation of crops such as peanuts, milk, wheat, barley, oats, tomatoes, and tulips. Its barren soil, shortage of labor, and isolation limited production. 12 20 35

Liszt used Elf Bugs and Sprites to improve crops, develop magical herbs, and support specialized industries. By the time of the resource census, the town possessed dedicated fields for peanuts, wheat, tomatoes, millet, alfalfa, Dragon Sunflowers, tulips, mushrooms, thorns, and Fragrant Coconut Trees. 148

Resource	Recorded details
Peanuts	100 mu of fields and a Peanut Elf Bug 148
Mushrooms	80 mu of mushroom sheds and 30 mu of mixed mushroom/Flame Mushroom greenhouses 148
Wheat	500 mu of fields and a Wheat Elf Bug 148
Flower Farm	200 mu of tulip fields, including Sundance, William I, and Black Tulips 148
Dairy Farm	Alfalfa pasture, dairy cows, a Thorn Forest, and coastal land 148
Castle grounds	Alfalfa pasture, Dragon Sunflower fields, horses, and reclaimable wasteland 148

Processing Industries

Industry / product	Significance
Flower Soap	Developed from a mixed soap formula and marketed as a Flower Town specialty; later became a pillar industry with a net profit of five Gold Coins per day. 169 293
Flower Brew	Distilled baijiu produced by the brewery workshop, graded by purity and protected as a trade secret. 275
Peanut processing	Produced peanut butter and peanut snacks as profitable workshop goods. 170
Ironwood products	Fast-Growing Iron Thorns supplied a woodworking industry producing furniture, clothes hangers, rocking chairs, and drawer cabinets. 294 306
Seafood trade	One of the earliest major commercial ventures following the opening of the Thorn Ridge road and caravan routes. 77 191
Potion cultivation	Black Tulips, Magic Thorns, Flame Mushrooms, and Dragon Sunflowers provided magical-herb resources. 353

Flower Town's industries later faced relocation to Black Horse Island. The planned transfers included the brewery, soap workshop, magic workshop, crystal workshop, bone craftsman's shop, medicinal plants, and Elf Bug Grass. 419

Infrastructure and Civic Development

• Thorn Ridge road — Timber cutting and road widening reconnected Flower Town to Coral Island's trade network and enabled merchant caravans to enter the territory. 68 77
• Caravans — The Flower Caravan and Thorn Caravan were established for trade and transport. 106
• Port facilities — Flower Town developed docks and operated the Flower, its first seagoing vessel; it later acquired a second vessel, Thorn. 133 335
• Urban planning — Liszt ordered roads, districts, planned residential areas, workshop districts, commercial districts, drainage, curbs, green belts, and latrines. 78 154
• Sanitation — Residents were prohibited from relieving themselves in public; toilets were constructed for town use. 154
• Bathhouses — Two public bathhouses became a recognizable feature of Flower Town and attracted visitors from North Valley City. 219 264
• Housing and labor — Serfs were equipped with tools, offered paid work, and given access to food, clothing, housing, and agricultural support. 148 218 322

Military Role

Flower Town formed its own knight squad as Liszt's military strength expanded. By the squad's formal formation, it consisted of twelve Earth Knights. 339

The town's armed resources included refined steel knight equipment, thorn-ironwood arrows, thorn poison, and Liszt's intermediate Magic Beast, Dousen. 356

Flower Town's reputation rose sharply after Liszt's slaying of the Six-Headed King Sea Serpent, though the news initially remained mostly within the town. 328

Legacy

Flower Town was the foundation of Liszt's early power, wealth, and magical resources. He regarded it as the place where his enterprise began and retained it out of attachment even when seeking larger fiefs. 394

Its repeated mass campaigns in logging, cleaning, road-building, and spring plowing trained officials and commoners in large-scale organization; this experience later supported the development of Black Horse Island and the Flame Archipelago. 917

By the later era, young knights traveled to Flower Town to visit the place associated with Liszt's rise, even after he himself no longer felt attached to it. 1089