Twist the dried cotton wool into small strands of string, and then weave three strands of string into one strand, which is a suitable wick.

Pour the returned Xiaodie into olive oil, and then completely immerse the pure cotton wick in it. When the cotton thread wick absorbs enough oil, pull out one end of the cotton thread from Xiaodie, light it, and the first oil lamp will light up.

Olive oil burns brightly and without smoke, and has few disadvantages other than the higher cost.

It was still daytime at this time, and the light from the oil lamp was not obvious, but it was already very strange in the eyes of the maids.

At the same time, they were also thinking that this kind of thing called an oil lamp looks very simple, but no one has thought of doing it so far, but their highness the princess has made it, so it is really your highness who is smart.

"Why hasn't Tertis returned yet?"

After Ella confirmed that the oil lamp could burn normally, she extinguished the lamp, and then went on to fiddle with butter and sheep oil. These two oils were specially heated in the kitchen when they brought them back. Because of the hot weather, they have not solidified at this time., Ella took two wine glasses, and she asked the maid to help hold the cotton thread to keep the cotton thread vertical in the middle of the wine glasses, and poured butter and suet into them by herself.

After pouring, she put the wine glass into the ice basin to speed up the solidification.

When the fat in the wine glass solidifies, there are two simple grease candles.

It is said that ancient candles were mostly made of sheep oil.

Again, there are no other problems except the high cost.

"Not yet. She will go out of the palace to buy beeswax for you. I'm afraid it will take some time."

Ella was very surprised: "She went out by herself?"

The little maids nodded and replied: "Yes, Sister Tetis said that she was worried about leaving this matter to others, so she went by herself."

Beeswax in this period was only used as sweets and medicinal materials, that is, Ella would use it to make cosmetics, and these things were either to be eaten or put on the face, so of course one couldn’t be too careful.

Ella smiled when she heard this. Although Tetis was sent to her by Lucis and had her own thoughts, Tetis was really kind to her.

A little later, just before lunch, Tetis came back, and she brought back several jars of beeswax, which was more than the ten catties Ella asked for.

"I heard from beekeepers that many people will buy beeswax from them recently, and the price of beeswax has risen a bit, so I just bought all their beeswax back."

Originally, beeswax was a product that no one cared about, and there was a lot of beekeepers who couldn’t sell it. Before they bought it, only some priests and doctors would buy some medicines. After they started buying, people bought it one after another., but the quantity is relatively small. It is only recently that some people buy more, which makes beekeepers think about raising prices.

After discovering this, Tetis went to ask the merchants who bought other raw materials today, and found that not only beeswax, but also the raw materials that Ella asked them to buy recently were more or less bought, which led to the recent price of these things.Start floating.

Hearing this news, Tetis immediately realized that someone might want to decipher the formula of the cosmetics made by Ella from the things they bought.

So she not only bought all the beeswax from the beekeepers, but also discussed with the other party that their beeswax should also be sold to them first. Of course, the price she proposed was lower than the price for buying beeswax today, but it was also higher than the previous price.up.

At the same time, she also asked other merchants the same question.

"Businessmen are a bit hesitant, but I think sooner or later they will agree."

They are here for long-term business, or bulk purchases, even if the price is not as high as after the price increase in the future, the merchants can still make money. Of course, if they disagree, as Ella, some people are willing to cooperate with her, especially in theAfter Lu Xisi also joined in, even if it was a small amount of money, some people would be willing to take up this relationship.

"You did very well."

Although she was ready for someone to covet the formula, Ella did not expect that these people would start to act so soon. Fortunately, she was on guard against this from the beginning, and when purchasing raw materials, she also bought a lot of medicinal materials andOther things are mixed up, and currently there are only four maids who have mastered the formula. These people were sent by Lucis, and their loyalty can be guaranteed, and her performance in the past made her feel very relieved about them.

"Just a verbal agreement is not safe. If they agree later, you can ask a scribe who understands the law to help write the contract. Make sure there are no omissions."

Grassroots scribes sometimes help to write contracts, of course, for a fee.

Tetis nodded and said: "Mr. Kabbah has a lot of research in this area, I can ask him for help."

Ella has no objection, Kabbah is more trustworthy than others.

After saying this, Ella took a jar from the beeswax bought by Tetis and continued to make beeswax candles.

The bought beeswax is a light yellow solid that has been processed to remove impurities. You only need to crush the beeswax and heat it in a container until it melts. Then pour the melted beeswax into a mold with a wick made of cotton thread.The beeswax solidifies again, which is the so-called beeswax candle.

In fact, there is really no difficulty in making candles. The difficulty is to find cheap and easy-to-obtain wax. Just like Ella, she can't find other waxes except beeswax and grease.

The beeswax is placed in clay pots, and these pots can be directly used for heating. The brazier originally used for lighting in the dormitory was removed from the shelf and temporarily turned into a stove for heating the beeswax. As for the candle mold, EllaStill using the wine glass.

Although she doesn't drink, there are several sets of wine glasses in the storage room, some of which are gifts from the Kata mission, but more are gifts from Lucis.

These wine glasses are made of gold, silver, bronze, or even crystal, and many of them are inlaid with a large number of gemstones as decorations, which makes them extremely precious and not suitable for use as molds. The wine glasses she used as molds areThe maids did not know where to find it, dozens of bronze wine glasses of different shapes.

Thanks to the ice basin, the cooling time of the melted beeswax was accelerated a lot. When she carefully got out the solidified beeswax candles, the candles were in the shape of wine glasses, and some of them had patterns on the surface.

In the middle, Ella remembered that the essential oils she had made by soaking and drying plants in olive oil should be usable, but she had forgotten too many things, so she hurriedly got up to check the situation of those essential oils.

She soaked a total of 20 cans of essential oil at that time, except for one glass jar, the rest were packed in earthenware jars. She thought there would be many failed products, but the result was that the essential oil inside was not sealed properly except for one earthenware jar.Failed, other essential oils were successfully completed.

That's great news, with these essential oils, could fragrances and more skincare be far behind?

However, Ella didn’t have time to deal with these essential oils today. She chose four essential oils: lavender, rosemary, fenugreek, and peppermint.A scented wax.

This is only done in order not to waste materials. Aristocrats like to use aromatherapy, and the royal family is no exception. Incense is often burned in her bedroom. Aromatherapy candles are not very useful to her. Make a few to try the fragranceThat's fine, if you like it, you can do it later.

One afternoon, Ella and the maids used most of the beeswax to make hundreds of beeswax candles that are about 10 centimeters high as the thickness of a baby's forearm.

Some of the candles were damaged during demoulding, but it didn't affect the use. Ella picked out those with scratches on the corners. There were about 30 candles, and then asked the maids to choose two of them.

"Although it is a bit damaged, it does not affect the use. Such a piece should last for a long time."

Beeswax candles are highly luminous, smokeless, odorless and very durable. Such a beeswax candle can burn continuously for seven or eight hours without any problem. Nowadays, people go to bed very early and basically rest at sunset. A beeswax candle saves time and money.I'm afraid it will be fine for a month.

The maids don't care about such a small amount of damage, which can't be regarded as damage at all. Ella has always been very generous to them, and she has never been stingy with giving them good things. They are not greedy people, and they know that she is doing this out of sincerity.Yes, she is indeed a person who likes to share, not to buy people's hearts, so she is naturally grateful to Ella, and becomes more and more loyal to her.

They didn't choose, and each took two relatively damaged candles, and didn't touch the scented candles that were only slightly damaged.

The mold used for scented candles is different from other candles. It is a wine glass in the shape of a lotus flower. Ella also marked it, so you can identify which scented candles are scented candles at a glance.

Ella thought they would take those scented candles. After all, when she opened the jar of essential oils, everyone said they liked the scent inside, so she mixed a little in, but no one took it.

"Don't you want this kind? You can try one of your favorite flavors."

The maids smiled and shook their heads: "No, Your Highness, we can just use this, and we can also smell it when you use it."

Although the method of making essential oils is simple, the raw materials are not cheap. Many of them are spices, especially japonica, and the price is frighteningly expensive. Moreover, Ella has introduced the effects of essential oils, and they all know that these essential oils must beThe maids don't want to take advantage of the big price.

And the damage Ella mentioned was actually just scratches on the corners of the candle, the kind that wouldn't be noticeable unless you looked carefully. They knew that Ella wanted them to choose this, but they thought they couldn't.

As for beeswax candles, at the current price of beeswax, they could still afford it, so they didn't refuse.

Ella saw that they really didn't want it, so she had to give up.

She took a few scented candles out of the damaged ones for her own use, and took out the worst ones from the remaining damaged candles, and it was better to keep twelve.Yes, let the maid take it to Norris and distribute it to the guard team.

It's all people who serve her, and Ella doesn't favor one person over another.

Twenty candles were sent out at once, and only more than sixty of the remaining eighty candles were intact. Ella took out five beeswax candles, one lavender scented candle, one peppermint scented candle and oneA total of eight rosemary scented candles were put into a rattan box and handed to Tetis.

"Give these to Mr. Kabbah when you go to see him tomorrow, and just say it's my tuition."

Kaba helped her a lot, Ella always remembered.

The reason why she didn't take scented candles is because the price of this kind of fragrance is very expensive now. Based on her knowledge of Kabbah, the latter will definitely not accept it. Even now, she is not sure whether she will accept these candles.

But Ella believes in Tetis's eloquence, she will be able to persuade Kabbah to accept the tuition!

Tetis also agreed in the same way: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely let Mr. Kabbah accept it."

Then she said again: "Where is your Majesty, do you want me to deliver it now?"

She knew that since she had them, His Highness would definitely give them to His Majesty.

"No."

Ella took fifty of the finished candles—ten of which were scented candles—and packed them in another larger rattan box, not to mention, it still held some weight in her hand.

"I'll send it myself."

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Hearing that Ella was coming, Lucis was a little surprised.

After returning to the palace, Lucis will inevitably have a lot of government affairs to deal with. They haven't seen each other for several days, but Lucis has been paying attention to Ella's movements, knowing that she is either going to a ranch in the outskirts or going to a craftsman.Running in the area is no more leisurely than him.

He thought it would take at least a few more days before they had time to meet.

He was even more surprised that Ella came with a rattan box in her hand.

"For me?"

"Yeah, I made some candles, and I thought you could use them better, so I brought them here."

Ella asked Lucis to clear a space on his office desk to put the box down and open it to reveal the neatly stacked candles inside.

"Candle?"

Lucis took out one from the inside, and when the pale yellow cylinder got close, one could smell a faint fragrance of honey and pollen.

"Is this beeswax? To light it?"

There is no word for candle in Sathya. The candle that Ella said was spelled out by herself based on the Sathya language. According to Lucis, it probably means "torch made of beeswax".

"Well, light it up, it can replace the brazier lighting."

Lucis glanced at the attendant, who immediately picked up the flint from the side of the brazier and lit the kindling in the brazier first, and then took a little flame over.

Lucis held the candle close to the flame, and soon the candle was lit.

The lit beeswax candle has a faint honey fragrance, which is the smell of beeswax itself.

It was still dark at this time, and the attendant obediently drew the curtain of the balcony. The room became dark, and the small candlelight became brighter and brighter.

Although the candle light can only illuminate a small area, this does not prevent Lucis from knowing the benefits of this kind of thing.

The small size is convenient for storage and can be taken at any time, and the stability of the flame is higher than that of braziers and torches. Even if the brightness is not as good as the latter, just add a few more. They usually use brazier torches.

"Try this again."

Ella picked a peppermint scented candle and lit it on the candle.

The smell of mint is refreshing and refreshing. As soon as the candlelight is lit, Lucis, who asked about this smell, feels that his brain after a busy day seems to be refreshed. He likes this smell.

"You added mint to it?"

"It's peppermint essential oil."

Ella explained a sentence, and then asked: "How, this thing is better for lighting than torches and braziers?"

Lucis nodded. Compared with the brazier torches that were always wobbling and filled with a lot of black smoke, the candles could provide light without smoke, and smelled very fragrant. There were too many advantages.

"It's just that beeswax is a bit expensive. Although suet and tallow can also be used to make candles, they are also expensive. I'm afraid only rich people can afford them."

Lucis said: "Most civilians don't need this kind of thing either, most of them sleep at night."

Ella disagreed: "There will always be something that delays their night's rest. Even if they wake up at night, it is much more convenient to have candles, but if they can't afford candles, they can also use oil lamps. Oil lamps are cheaper than candles."too much."

"Oil lamp?"

It was then that Ella remembered that she hadn't shown Lucis the oil lamp.

"It is to pour fat into a shallow container like a saucer and put a wick in it. In fact, it is just an extra container like a candle. Oils that do not solidify like olive oil can be ignited in this way.Lighting, and it’s easy to hold in your hand when it’s in a container, even if you can’t afford good oil, you can buy some inferior oil and it will last you a long time.”

"Many people can't even afford the worst lard, and even if they can afford it, they are reluctant to use it for lighting."

At present, the oils sold in the market are mainly olive oil and animal fats such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Among them, butter and sheep oil are high-grade oils, while lard is not loved by rich people because of the peculiar smell of pork, and only ordinary people will buy it.of grease.

Isn't it your responsibility that they can't afford it?Ella complained secretly, but she didn't say it out. If she said this, Lucis would definitely be angry.

She just said: "As for palm oil, its price should be cheaper than animal oil."

Ella has never eaten palm oil. Huaxia does not produce this kind of oil very much and relies on imports, so relatively few people eat it. However, she still knows that palm oil is the largest production, consumption and international trade volume in the world.The largest vegetable oil variety, together with soybean oil and rapeseed oil, is called the world's three largest vegetable oils.

Palm oil is pressed from palm fruit, and its origin was in Africa. Sathia is full of palm trees that are rich in palm fruit. How could palm oil be missing?

Not to mention other things, with the output of palm fruit, the price of palm oil should not be too high.

But Ella thought about it, she didn't seem to have seen this oil in the kitchen, but the kitchen didn't have lard either, they only used the best olive oil and lard butter, if palm oil is cheap, the royal kitchenIt is also normal that there is no palm oil in it.

Instead, Lucis told her that there was no such vegetable oil as palm oil.

He looked at Ella amusedly, and joked, "This is the first time I've heard that palm fruit can produce oil. Have you been tricked by someone?"

"is it not OK?"

Ella was very surprised. In her memory, palm oil has been eaten for more than 5,000 years, but Sathya didn't have it.

But thinking that this is not the earth, it seems possible that palm fruit has not been found to be able to extract oil.

So she could only find an excuse and said: "I heard a foreign businessman say that their hometown uses palm fruit to extract oil, and the output is very high. I thought it was also in Sathya."

Lucis didn't ask where the businessman came from, but asked, "The yield is high? Is it higher than olive oil?"

Where does Ella know, and she hasn't learned about it, but since palm oil can become the world's most produced vegetable oil, it can't possibly be lower than olive oil.

So he said vaguely: "Palm trees bear more fruits than olive trees, and the yield should be higher than that of olive oil."

Ella heard from the maid that palm trees are very productive trees. The fruits of palm trees grow on large fruit clusters. It is said that a palm tree can grow sixty to seventy large fruit clusters in its lifetime, and a large fruit clusterThere can be at least two thousand palm fruits, and the fruits will ripen every day in three (four) seasons a year. If the weight of the fruit is converted into catties by one-time picking, it can be at least two hundred catties, and it can be done in a yearPicking twice, that is four hundred catties.

And the annual output of an olive tree is only a dozen catties at the lowest point, and no more than a hundred pounds at the highest point. Compared with the two, if the oil yield rate is similar, the output of palm oil can definitely crush olive oil.

Lu Xisi attached great importance to this matter, and immediately typeset said: "Then let's try it with palm fruit to see if it can extract oil."

Lucis doesn't have much to do with the lives of ordinary civilians, but he is still a competent king, and he is not slack about such major events that are beneficial to people's livelihood.

Palm trees are everywhere, and even every household will plant one or two trees to obtain the fruit as a food source. If palm fruit can really extract oil, it will definitely be a great thing for the country and the people.

In the words of the king, someone will always break his leg.

Although it was almost night now, for Lucis, as long as he wanted to, others had to do it.

It is not troublesome to extract oil from palm fruit. This fruit can be found everywhere and is the most commonly eaten fruit by the Sathiyas. Since they know how to extract olive oil, they will not be helpless with palm fruit.

As Lucis's order was issued, there were naturally artisans and slaves in charge of oil extraction who collected palm fruit overnight to try to extract palm oil.

The next day Ella was called by Lucis and saw a jar of palm oil in front of him.

"Sure enough, as you said, palm fruit can not only be used to extract oil, but the oil yield is no less than that of olives. With the output of palm fruit, the oil production will definitely not be less."

Lucis reported an oil yield, and Ayla converted it. It is about 2 taels of oil per catty of palm fruit. This oil yield is actually similar to that of olive oil, but olive oil is affected by the process during the pressing process.A catty of olives can only produce 1 tael and a half of oil, and only a few times a catty of olives can produce 2 taels of oil, so the output of palm oil is still higher.

And still the same sentence, the yield of palm fruit is high, and there are so many of this kind of fruit in Sathya that they cannot be sold at a price. Even the poorest poor can pick palm fruit in the wild to fill their stomachs!

It is conceivable that if this vegetable oil starts to be sold, the price will be very popular among common people.

At the gesture of Lucis, Ella scooped up a spoonful of palm oil with a spoon and poured it down again, looking at it carefully.

Freshly squeezed palm oil is orange-red because it is rich in carotene. If it is not sealed, the color of the oil will gradually fade after exposure to sunlight and air, and finally become the same light yellow as most oils.

She tasted a little of the oil, and the taste of palm oil was very special, with a slight sweetness, and at the same time, there was a faint fragrance. Ella thought about it carefully, and then determined that the fragrance was somewhat similar to the floral fragrance of violets.

She put down the spoon: "You can ask the chef to try cooking with this oil to see how it tastes."

For many people (such as Ella), it doesn't matter whether the oil is nutritious - as long as there are no harmful substances in the mouth - what matters is whether the dish is delicious or not.

Lucis smiled: "People have already tried it, and you can try Najido's craft later."

After the palm oil was fried, some slaves were the first to taste the taste and confirm that it was non-toxic before sending it to Lucis. After confirming that the palm fruit can really extract oil, Lucis thought the same as Ella and asked the kitchen to use this oil.The oil provided them with a breakfast.

That's why he called Ella here so early, so they could enjoy the meal together.

Najito is indeed the most powerful royal chef. Although it was the first time to use palm oil, he still cooked a delicious meal perfectly.

Palm oil has a milder flavor, making it great for frying and making pastry breads, but it's a bit underwhelming for stir-frying.

Of course, it is not fragrant enough for the aristocrats and rich people who often taste delicious food. If the common people can taste it, they will definitely not think it is a shortcoming. Their lives are really lacking in oil and water.

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Ella originally wanted to wait until the soybeans were planted to promote soybean oil, but she did not expect that soybeans were just seedlings in the field, so she inadvertently brought a brand new oil to Sathya with an astonishing yield.

After confirming that the palm fruit can indeed extract oil, and the taste is not bad, Lucis couldn't sit still. After breakfast with Ella, he summoned the ministers to announce the good news.

Ella wanted to leave after dinner, but Lucis stayed behind and went with him to the Pillar Hall.

Not only that, originally there was only one chair in the multi-pillared hall, which was the king's throne. Now there is another chair on the left hand side of the throne. The chair is a head shorter than the throne. Ella is sitting here with a calm face.In fact, she was embarrassed and let the ministers who came in look at her.

Especially when Lucis announced the emergence of palm oil and praised her credit, and then the ministers didn't know whether they were sincere or just echoing him and began to praise her, Ella wanted to find a crack in the ground.

She doesn't feel that she has any credit, and she doesn't feel that she is suitable to sit here.

But no one thinks that Ella is not suitable to appear on this kind of occasion, even if it is a court meeting.

In their view, Ella is His Majesty's fiancée, the future queen, and the queen has the right to govern the country with the king in Sathya.

Now there are no female ministers in the multi-pillared hall, not because women cannot be ministers, but because most of the female ministers work under the queen, they belong to the queen's team, and most of the workplaces are in the harem, where the post is vacant.Now, female ministers generally do not work with male ministers. Only when the queen is in power and the king is in court at the same time, they will come to the multi-pillared hall to participate in the court meeting.

However, the number of female ministers is relatively small, especially among the nobles, because female nobles care more about their own families.Those who focus on work are basically female priests who can't get married, so most of the female ministers are female priests.

However, the priests need to take turns in the temple, so they often need to take long-term vacations, which leads to the fact that many priests are responsible for the work of officials who need two or three people to take turns. This is the same regardless of men and women as long as they are priests.Yes, in the era when kingship and theocracy were equally important, the country allowed priests to spend one-third of the year in the temple to serve the gods.

After that, the ministers began to discuss the real business, who should be responsible for the production of palm oil, whether to plant palm trees in large quantities, where they should be planted, the amount of tax that this new oil should charge, and how to promote it.

Ella was a little absent-minded at the beginning, but she gradually became focused and listened to everyone's discussion. This was something she had never been in contact with, and the ministers who could stand in the multi-pillared hall at this time were the group with the most power in Sathya.People who can climb to the current position and have not been replaced by Lucis, the ability of these people is beyond doubt, and she can learn a lot from the discussions of the ministers.

After they finished discussing various matters related to palm oil, the next topic was brought up again. This time, it was the content that they cared more about, and it was also the most recent highlight.

Vizier Vizier is coming back.

The prime minister who was implicated by his wife has returned to the territory of Sathya. In one or two days, his ship will arrive in Boiman, and the ministers are discussing his handling.

Although the trial has been postponed repeatedly, everyone knows that Papera and her daughter Rebecca are doomed to escape. Even if they are members of the royal family, the crimes they committed will never be forgiven anyway.Like Percybson, not to mention that Lucis has no feelings for his concubine brothers and sisters.

But the trial of the prime minister has become a problem.

Visil is the elder of the two dynasties. He has been the prime minister since Lucis' elder brother was in power, and he also helped Lucis a lot during his tenure. In addition, the investigation showed that the prime minister was not involved in the conspiracy.For the sake of his loyalty for so many years, Lucis does not intend to hold him accountable too much.

But he couldn't keep the position of prime minister. No matter whether it was Lucis or other ministers, he would not agree that a man whose wife and daughter had assassinated the king continued to stay in this important position.

The result of Sathya’s regime is actually very special. On the one hand, because of the imperfect regime system, they do not have a very detailed division of labor, nor do they have formal and systematic titles. The titles of officials are related to their job content.The Minister of the Treasury is responsible for everything related to finance, including not limited to financial issues such as military expenditures, taxation, and national funds. The Minister of Finance is the Minister of Finance-but the Minister of Finance does not care about the royal money, it is another person appointed by the king-other than the Minister of Etiquette, Minister of Law, Minister of Artisans, etc., are all ministers who know what they are doing just by their names.

By the way, in Sathya, the translation of the general is actually the Minister of the Army. General Nekht, who was also present, explained it in Sathiya as "Minister of the Southern Army".

Under the ministers are the general managers, and under the general managers are the stewards, and after that are the most low-level officials, such as scribes and tax collectors.

And above all the officials is the prime minister, which shows how much power the prime minister has, which is only the existence of the king.

It is also the pinnacle of power that all officials yearn for.

Now that something happened to the prime minister, it is impossible for the ministers to have no idea about his position.

So some ministers are eager to convict Vizier, and it is best to let him accompany his wife and daughter. Of course, they dare not say so on the face of it.what.

"It has always been said that the prime minister and his wife have a very good relationship. I think the prime minister must know his wife very well." Now that he knows it, it is impossible not to know what Papera has done.

"Didn't the confession say that the man had planned this matter a long time ago, and he had acted several times before, and the prime minister didn't find out at all?" If he found out, he didn't report it. He wasn't the mastermind of the treason, he was also an accomplice, and he should be punished.Punishment, if I didn't find out, it was lax family management and foolishly being deceived by his wife, even worse than his daughter. Such a person is even less qualified to continue to be a prime minister.

Of course, not everyone thinks that the prime minister is not good. Some ministers who are friendly with Prime Minister Visil are still willing to speak for him. They confront each other sharply, but what they say sounds very kind, not like a quarrel at all..

This can't be helped, their language skills have already been tempered by His Majesty. In the early years, this minister would be dismissed because he was too noisy and gave him a headache. Although they knew that was an excuse, but they have experienced that period.Ministers have long learned how to speak in front of His Majesty.

Aila has not long learned Sathiya, and she thought she had fully mastered the language. Now, listening to the group of ministers clipping wooden warehouses and carrying sticks, but the surface is still in harmony, she realizes that she has not.Master the language.

She still has something to learn.

In the end, no one came to a conclusion, because Lucis, who could really decide the fate of the prime minister, did not say a word throughout the whole process. If he did not express his position, the debate among the ministers would be meaningless.

When the court meeting lasted for more than two days, after the end, Luxit deliberately invited everyone to have lunch. The oil used in the lunch dishes was naturally palm oil.

After tasting, the ministers had a better understanding of this new oil and were unanimously optimistic about its prospects.

Ella followed along for a lunch, then slipped away after the meal was over.

Back in the dormitory, the maid told her: "Hanet brought some farmers from Tanis early in the morning. Since you haven't come back, I arranged for them to have lunch first."

"Go and talk to Norris, after Harnett and the others finish their meal, ask him to send a guard to take them to Maidena Village to find them in the village."

Today she is a bit exhausted and needs a good rest.

It's a pity that Ella didn't have a rest time in the afternoon. When she woke up from a nap when she had slept for almost a day, the maid told her that a businessman asked to see her.

Tetis has a good memory, and she still remembers who the businessman who came to see today was: "It's one of the businessmen you saw last time, it seems to be Hood, the one you asked him to buy tea from Tibia Island.”

As soon as Tetis reminded her, Ella remembered and was also surprised: "He came back so soon?"

Although the calculation time is indeed enough for the ship to run a round trip, it will take some time to purchase.

It didn't take much time to actually buy it, and Hood didn't even buy it.

He just spent a little money and hired a few familiar locals to help him dig up enough tea trees. This kind of plant is really everywhere on the island and can’t be sold at any price. The locals don’t care, so HuAlthough De had to dig a lot of tea trees, it was done smoothly despite his spending money.

These shrub-shaped tea trees are only one meter high. They were transplanted into large flowerpots and loaded onto ships, and then transported to Boiman by sea and river.

The port was still some distance away from the palace. As soon as Hood arrived there, he hired someone to move these tea tree pots to the front of the palace. Then, with Ella's permission, he brought a few of them into the palace for Ella's inspection.

It can be seen that these tea trees are really not adapted to the climate of Sathya, and coupled with the bumps on the water, their leaves look a little wilted at this time.

"Please don't worry, Your Highness. The vitality of these trees is still very tenacious. They just don't adapt temporarily, and they will recover after a while."

Hood’s words are not nonsense. This is not the first time he has sold tea trees. Although tea trees are not suitable for the climate of Sathia, they were left unattended. In fact, there are gardeners in noble families.People who work with plants all year round know best how to care for plants that are not suitable for the local climate.

The tea trees from Tibia Island belong to the wild tea species with relatively tenacious vitality. If they are carefully maintained by special gardeners, they can still survive in Sathia, but they may not be as good as those in Tibia.He is so energetic on the island.

And the gardeners in the palace are outstanding. They can feed so many exotic flowers and plants from other countries, and they must be able to take good care of these tenacious tea trees.