Chapter 277

At the end of the trip to the artificial lake, the Lord held a banquet to entertain the distinguished guests. The venue of the banquet was located at Nicole's Golden Oak manor.

This 640 Mu resort manor is a gift from Victor to Nicole. The style of the manor is similar to the modern garden. There is luxury hidden in elegance. The European classical villa is beautiful and comfortable, with deep courtyard and picturesque scenery.

Unfortunately, this is not a good time for leisure.

Early the next morning, the vassal lords of the York family hurried on their way. They had to go back to preside over the wind season tour. Scholars from the silver white tower followed master Edwin back to the former Heibao Town, now Jinshui city. The reconstruction of the man horse hills is in full swing, and the York family is short of manpower. Edwin will not easily let go of the helpers sent to the door. Bishop Perot also left. He needed to personally inspect the educational administration work in Renma hill and find out the leaks and fill the vacancies before he could reassign his staff, write a detailed report and ask the holy see for assistance.

Bishop Perot has seen the situation of the Baron of Phoenix. His next stop is the Viscount Randall.

That afternoon, Perot and his Paladin arrived in Pinghu Town. Father Miller and several church attendants who received the news had already been waiting at the gate of the town.

According to the aristocratic etiquette, the Lord should personally receive the bishop of the church. However, Sylvia and Victor had important discussions, and Perot took the lead. Moreover, the Lord never cared about the academic affairs. They couldn't tell how many free people there were in the territory, and they didn't know what the Church cared about. Whether there was a lord or not did not affect Perot's work. He declined Victor's kindness and did not inform the three wives of the Randall family.

"Praise my Lord. Lord Perot, you are here." Father Miller saluted with a smile.

Perot could not help sighing when he saw Miller's old face and white hair.

Devout believers who understand the magic of light by themselves are called divine dependents, which means those who are favored by the Lord of light. It is a major event for the parish to have religious dependents. The church will convene the people of the parish to hold a grand Thanksgiving ceremony, and let the religious dependents demonstrate their divinity on site, so as to stimulate the pious heart of believers. Then, the dependants will be brought to the Holy See, trained in the monastery and become a real priest.

However, most of the dependent priests are not popular with the church, which is a headache to be exact.

Guanghui church takes saving the people as its own responsibility. It can inherit for thousands of years and affect all aspects of human society. It not only depends on divinity and belief, but also has a pragmatic style.

A qualified priest should not only have a firm belief in redeeming the people, but also have smooth means of doing things. He can not only strive for the interests of the church, but also understand the art of compromise. If every clergyman rushes ahead, retreats, is not afraid of sacrifice and is willing to contribute, the glorious church is either poor or dead. What else can we talk about saving the people?

Pious faith and pragmatic spirit are the root of the survival and growth of the church. Priests who have received theological education still need time and wisdom to unify these two understandings, not to mention the simple, dull and ignorant dependents, who can't even collect the eleventh tax.

Overdraft of life and abuse of divinity are common problems of divine dependents, and it is difficult for the church to explain to them why they can't use divinity to treat the people, why they sit by and watch the Lord disperse the free people's camp, and why they acquiesce in the criminal's atonement prayer

If, in the process of accepting the transformation, the religious dependents have cognitive conflicts and shake their beliefs, so as to lose their religious dependents, it will have a very bad impact and even shake the people's beliefs. Therefore, the church often sends the dependent pastor to Kaitlin as the resident priest. Anyway, Kaitlin has no tax, and divinity can strengthen people's faith and courage.

The priest of the divine family is also known as the civilian priest. Most of the civilian priests do not live long. Miller's aging appearance is obviously the result of abuse of magic.

"All glory to my Lord!"

After Perot saluted back, he said, "Miller, I don't want to disturb the people. Let's go to the church and change into ordinary clothes, and then visit Randall's educational administration."

"Yes, my Lord."

Miller arranged for his attendants to lead the way, and boarded the Bishop's carriage. The coachman shook the reins, took the horse, opened his hooves, and dragged the carriage forward slowly.

The streets of Pinghu Town are wide and clean. Through the windows, you can see tall and straight landscape trees and neat green brick buildings. Perot had learned about the changes in Pinghu Town in Miller's report, but he was surprised to see the appearance of the town with his own eyes.

Four years ago, it was just an open space, but now it has become a beautiful town that can accommodate more than 8000 people. The landscape of the town even surpasses most towns, and its construction is not over.

Randall's collar is a real development collar. Viscount Randall's territory has been developed for only four years, and he has experienced the baptism of ant tide on the way. In fact, he has rebuilt the territory for less than three years.

For ordinary development lords, it is good to build a castle, three villages, reclaim 40000 mu of cultivated land and accommodate 4000 refugees in three years. Randall now has a small town, seven villages, a castle, 140000 mu of cultivated land and five stream reservoirs, absorbing more than 10000 refugees. Its rapid development is unimaginable.

However, the reconstruction speed of the whole man horse hill was very amazing. Bishop Perot didn't care so much about Pinghu Town. He asked Miller, "there seems to be no one in the town?"

Miller looked at the open street and said with a smile, "it's the gathering season. The villagers are out gathering."

Perot nodded and asked, "how many people are there in Randall's collar?"

"More than 13900 people..." Miller thought for a moment and explained somewhat nervously: "now dozens of free people enter Randall to make a living every day, and many newborns are born in the territory..."

"Newborn?!" Perot's eyes brightened and hurriedly asked, "how many newborns are there in your parish?"

"There are 532 newborns in these two months, and at least 723 newborns will be born in the next two months." Miller immediately gave the specific figures.

Bishop Perot said in surprise, "so much! Praise our Lord."

The church encourages childbirth, and the number of newborns alive is an important indicator to assess the work of priests. However, most of the migrant houses have no fixed place and live a difficult life. They would rather use herbal contraception than have children. The church can do nothing about it. Randall had more than 1000 newborns, which was indeed an unexpected surprise, and Bishop Perot was worried later.

It is the priest's duty to baptize the newborn and provide medical assistance. Miller took office alone, without attendants and support. He and more than 20 newly recruited church attendants alone could not take care of so many pregnant women and newborns anyway.

Population growth is certainly a good thing, but if too many babies die, it will damage the reputation of the church. Perot hesitated for a moment and asked, "how many children have died? Is there enough relief? Can you and your attendants be busy?"

Miller shook his head. When perroton was nervous, he heard, "there is no shortage of relief materials... Four newborns died and 16 pregnant women miscarried..."

"My lord bless." Perot breathed a sigh of relief and doubts grew.

It is very rare for refugees to get together and have children, and such a phenomenon is unique. Moreover, even priests stationed in prosperous cities and towns can't take care of so many pregnant women and newborns. Miller not only did it, but also did a good job. This seems a little strange.

"How can Randall collar have so many pregnant women and newborns? How do you take care of so many people's health?" Asked bishop Perot suspiciously.

Miller smiled into a chrysanthemum and said: "Inspired by our Lord, viscount Randall supports my educational work very much. He donated a large amount of materials and money to the church to encourage people to have children. We distribute 1 silver sol, 6 fish, 10 pounds of pork, 2 ground lizards and 5 pounds of lard to pregnant women every month. Before the baby reaches the age of one week, he can receive 1 ground lizard egg, half liter of milk or half liter of goat's milk every day."

"Viscount Randall donated the herbs of the territory to the church free of charge. He also funded and hired more than 100 women to form a medical team to help me make medicine and take care of patients, mothers and infants."

Bishop Perot remained silent. The church and the Lords and nobles did not have essential contradictions, but shared common interests. For thousands of years, the two sides have been mutually beneficial and relied on each other, and a fairly stable cooperative relationship has been formed. The church needs the strength of knights to open up territory and protect the people. The Lords need the church to appease the people, manage the refugees, and provide medical assistance and military support. The problem of refugees is twofold However, the church had to make concessions, not because of the pressure of the Lord, but because human territory was shrinking.

The huge surplus population not only makes the territory overburdened, but also makes it difficult for the church to move forward. The Lord insists on the most simple truth. Only by controlling the population of the territory can he sell high-priced food to other families. Therefore, the Lord does not allow the free people to steal the territory's natural resources. The import of food leads to the rise of the territory's food price. When the free people's employees see no profit, naturally someone will leave the territory This is the origin of the refugees. When the number of refugees decreases, the Lord can sell surplus food to other families and make a profit.

If the Lords want to make money in the food trade, how can they encourage free people to have children?

Randall's achievements are remarkable, but it is a pioneering leader after all. The materials donated by Viscount Randall to the church according to the number of pregnant women and newborns are not a small amount. It is reasonable for him to use this money to hire more young and strong labor.

Thinking of Randall leading the construction of houses into the house and protecting the property of free people, bishop Perot was puzzled by the Viscount's behavior of helping the priest to relieve the people. He almost suspected that Victor was a devout believer of the Lord of glory.

Seeing Miller's white hair, Perot's heart moved. He seemed to have found the reason.

No matter what the means of the church, the purpose of saving the people has never changed. Since the glorious calendar, millions of priests have died. The sacrifice and dedication of priests represent the glorious side of human nature. Not only civilians but also nobles have been moved.

Perot has his own experience. Twenty seven years ago, hogus, the king of jackals in the dusk forest, launched a wave of animals in advance to attack the northern territory of the kingdom of SUS. Perot led 30 paladins to rescue a precarious town. Together with the soldiers of the town, they faced ten times the number of jackals and stayed in the town for 17 days. During the battle, Perot left all his magic to the soldiers and paladins . whenever the divine power was exhausted and the holy power was exhausted, he waved a hammer to fight side by side with the soldiers and cut 13 jackals. When the Knights of the kingdom of SUS led their troops to clear the siege, there were no paladins left, and the young priest was seriously injured. Perot will not forget the solemn etiquette and reverent eyes of the Knights of SUS.

Knights and nobles pursue the power of the elemental sea. They can't be devout believers, but this doesn't mean that knights and nobles don't recognize the doctrine of the glorious code. In fact, many ordinary nobles are believers of the Lord of glory, among which the most influential one is Alya, the founder of the white tower. Otherwise, the church could not form a white tower camp with the southern aristocrats.

The church and the nobility have long been in a situation where you have me and I have you. The noble blood flows from the contemporary Pope Clement.

There is also a famous figure in history who has a very close relationship with the church. He is sword Saint delavin. One of delavin's wives was the deputy head of the order of shining knights. The Lords claimed that delavin had occupied the female Paladin, and the church firmly opposed this fallacy. They claimed that delavin was inspired by the Lord and fell in love with the female Paladin, and their marriage was blessed by the Lord of glory. This is evidenced by the fact that delavin worked with the shining knights to kill the ogre king.

In short, the relationship between ordinary nobles and the church will be closer, and Viscount Randall is not an ordinary nobleman, but he is not a knight nobleman! Like delavin, he doesn't need to face the influence of the element sea!

Victor did not receive Knight education. His confidants were civilians, and Miller's selflessness infected him. Only in this way can we explain the Randall family's support for Miller.

At the thought of this, Perot's mood was a little complicated. He had planned to replace Randall's stationed priest, but now he didn't plan to do so.

The carriage stopped in the square area. Perot and his entourage went into the church and changed into the farmer's clothes. Miller asked, "Lord Perot, would you like to visit there first?"

Perot pondered for a moment and said, "captive wild boar is an important part of the new farming and animal husbandry system. Let's go to the wild boar farm."