Chapter 278

The priest is the shepherd. His duties include organizing believers to pray, providing medical security, relieving the people, assisting the Lord to eliminate monsters, appeasing hired workers to work hard, supervising the behavior of nobles and vassals, and organizing people to evacuate in case of disaster.

There is a saying among the Lords and nobles: my territory can have no housekeeper, not a priest!

There is no free lunch. Another job of the priest is to collect eleven taxes.

The Korn ferry code clearly stipulates that the eleventh tax has the highest priority and is inviolable. The priest has no mercy in collecting taxes, not a copper sol. The Lord may fool the king's tax official, but he can't hide it from the priest. In fact, most lords themselves don't know how much income the territory has, but the priest knows very well how much grain he has harvested this year, how many minerals he has mined, and how much trade profits he has. Of course, with the guarantee of the glorious code, the priest will certainly not report more. The Lord will even ask the priest to verify the territory income to verify whether there is corruption.

At the beginning, the lords were also distressed. Gradually, when they found that the territory's income decreased, the priest jumped up and down anxiously. In order to increase taxes, the stationed priests will spare no effort to help the Lord generate income. For example, the green sand candle led by Baron Schultz is a typical example of priests helping the Lord generate income. If there is an epidemic in livestock in the territory, priests will use the resources of the church to provide corresponding solutions. They also provide mineral smelting technology, oil wood planting and extraction methods, etc. some of these technologies are invented by the church, and some plagiarize other lords.

The new agriculture and animal husbandry has achieved remarkable results. The church has mastered the planting methods of moldboard plow and deep tillage, but the wild boar captive breeding technology does not have the conditions for popularization. Perot is determined to participate in the grand construction of Renma hill. He must first evaluate the output of Renma Hill parish in the next few years and predict the income of the eleventh tax, so that the church can provide financial support according to his report. The greater the potential of people to pay the eleventh tax, the greater the support of the church. Pig farming is an important source of income in the man horse hills. Of course, Perot should investigate the breeding of wild boars in detail.

At the farm, Miller declined to be accompanied by the steward and took Perot and others around the pig house.

This wild boar farm is far from Pinghu Town and is built on the East Bank of Yinyue River, covering an area of more than 300 mu. Today, the wind blows to the West. Standing outside the breeding yard, he doesn't feel anything. When he goes inside, he can't avoid the smell of the stink. Bishop Perot doesn't care about the stinking pig manure. These things are the treasure of the farmer. He looks at the wild pigs in his house with great interest.

The pig houses built of green bricks are closely connected. Each room is about 20 square meters in size. Five fat and round wild boars crowded inside, lying or lying down, looking very lazy. Only when the farmer's cart passed by, they would get up, arch to the trough and wait for the feed from the sky. The wild boar buried himself in the trough and ate a lot. Three farmers went into the house and began to clean the pig manure.

Bishop Perot asked with some concern, "wild boars are fierce. Is it dangerous for them to enter? I'm afraid these green brick pigsty can't resist the collision of wild boars? Why don't you use an iron oak fence?"

"At the beginning, someone was injured. Now such accidents rarely happen." Miller nodded and explained, "these wild boars are the second generation of captive pigs. After castration, they don't have much wild. They are used to captive life. They don't easily attack the breeder or destroy the pigsty. They eat, sleep and eat every day. They are full of lazy pigs."

"The main purpose of building pig houses with green bricks is to prevent fire. Although the iron oak fence is strong, once it catches fire, the whole farm will suffer. Moreover, the iron oak will rot and the breeding worms will attract wild boars to eat the fence."

Perot's face was a little strange. He shook his head and said, "what would other nobles think if they knew Randall led to build a pigsty with green bricks?"

"There's no need to worry about this. Randall leads the production of green bricks of different specifications and styles, which are divided into noble bricks, vassal bricks, civilian bricks and low-grade bricks. Low-grade bricks are specially used to build stables and stables. These are low-grade bricks." Miller smiled.

Perot was stunned and sighed, "the Wimbledon family is worthy of being a commercial aristocrat. Viscount Randall can think of such a clever method."

After a pause, he asked, "how many pigs are there in this farm? How many pigs are there in Randall?"

"There are more than 6000 pigs here. There are four farms of this scale, plus wild boars raised by hired families... Randall collar has almost more than 30000 pigs." Miller replied.

"How can there be so many? It's impossible to catch more than 20000 wild boars led by Randall?" Despite his psychological preparation, Perot was startled.

"Female wild boars have two births a year, each with more than ten. Male wild boars have the habit of eating young, so there will not be more than 20000 wild boars living in the wild. Now, wild boars are kept separately, and most of their young can survive." "The Randall family is going to expand the breeding scale of domestic pigs to 60000 within three years," Miller said

"Domestic pig?"

"Yes." Miller nodded: "Sir, you see, these wild boars have lost their wild nature. Viscount Randall thinks that they can no longer be called wild boars, but domestic boars. Master Edwin also thinks that wild boars are being domesticated, just as wolves are domesticated into hounds, wild boars will change. If these domestic boars are bred for several generations, they will be significantly different from ordinary wild boars, such as reduced manes and degenerated tusks, It's delicious and lazy. It grows very fast, and it's easier to get sick. "

"It should really be called domestic pig."

Perot himself is also a scholar. He agrees with Edwin's point of view, but he considers another problem.

"Domestic pigs eat a lot. Can Randall raise 60000 pigs?"

"The food consumption of big pigs is amazing, and the food consumption of small pigs is far less than that of big pigs. These domestic pigs can grow to about 300 pounds in 10 months. They are slaughtered every 10 months, so they won't grow too big, so they can raise 60000 pigs."

Miller secretly lamented that his power was as deep as the sea, which was no less than that of the first Pope, but no magic could change food and raise 60000 pigs. Victor solved this problem lightly. The achievements of Randall's leadership made Miller feel proud of Victor's wisdom.

In fact, Victor can expand the breeding scale of pigs to 300000 or even 500000, but it's no joke that pigs hurt farmers. Randall's natural resources can breed up to 200000 pigs. If this number is exceeded, additional pig feed will be produced, which will increase the breeding cost of pigs. Considering the consumption capacity of civilians for pork, the whole human horse hill cannot blindly expand the scale of pig breeding, otherwise it will lose money.

Victor's pursuit is to maximize benefits. He doesn't raise pigs to make migrant workers have cheap meat to eat, let alone donate to the church foolishly. Victor wants to plunder the wealth of other families through the pork trade and ensure the operation of the alchemy tower.

Victor told the Duke of York: raising pigs is to make money. It's better for refugees to hire workers without meat than to let them eat meat for nothing.

The Duke greatly appreciated this view, and the vassal Lord of the York family also believed in Victor's ability, so the enthusiasm for raising pigs in the man horse hills decreased.

However, bishop Perot was surprised by the number of pigs Randall received. He began to calculate Randall's pork output.

These domestic pigs don't weigh as much as more than 400 pounds of wild boars, but they are slaughtered once every 10 months! 16 months a year and 32 months in two years. According to the current 30000 domestic pigs, Randall will slaughter 90000 pigs in two years, no less than 45000 pigs a year! The average weight of domestic pigs is 300 pounds. Deducting the inedible part, each domestic pig can provide 240 pounds of meat. The Randall family produces at least 10 million pounds of pork a year.

The Randall family's 11 tax next year must be 1 million pounds of pork! How much pork does the whole human horse hill have to pay?

Bishop Perot was shocked by his conclusion, and his eyes looked more hot at the fat pig.

After visiting each pig house and asking many questions, bishop Perot reluctantly left the pig farm.

In the windy season, autumn is clear and crisp, and the fields are sunny and warm. Without the peculiar smell of pig dung, bishop Perot couldn't help taking a deep breath. At this time, a team of carriages sped up, and the smoke and dust drowned bishop Perot standing by the side of the road. The disheartened priest Miller pointed to the motorcade and jumped to scold, but Perot grabbed his arm and stammered, "is there... Thorn... Thorn kidney tree on the carriage?! Randall wants to plant thorn kidney beans!? right?"

"These bastards, what a shame!" Miller politely dusted the bishop and muttered, "I don't know the saplings on the carriage. It is said that the crops given to Viscount Randall by the Duke of Wellington have been transported by motorcade every day for half a month. These Coachmans run fiercely and are not afraid to break their horse legs!"

"That's right! They're worried about the withering of thorn kidney seedlings!" Perot was ecstatic and wanted to laugh three times to express his mood at the moment.

The lack of food is an important factor leading to the internal struggle of the Lord. The total amount of cultivated land in the southern Kingdoms is more than twice that of the Sassanian Empire, and the grain output is only 70% of that of the Sassanian empire. This is not because the land in the south is not fertile enough, but that the Sassanian empire can grow high-yield green wheat.

The green wheat in the North ripens once every six months. As long as the land is tilled and fertilized for two months, it can ensure two crops a year, with a yield of 600 pounds per mu. In the south, spelt's wheat yield is no more than 450 pounds per mu, and it has to be cultivated in rotation for one year, that is, only 50 million mu of 100 million mu of cultivated land is growing wheat every year. The most deadly is the 12-month growth cycle of Southern wheat.

Even if the output is low, it's OK to rotate farming. What do you want to eat after 8 or 9 months of neglect? Therefore, the neighbors are very dependent on the natural resources of the territory.

Generally, a village controls 300 square kilometers of land. There are thousands of registered villagers in fertile territory, while there may be only 400 or 500 villagers in barren territory. In order to protect the natural resources of the territory, these villagers often have fierce conflicts with refugees. In order to obtain more territory, there will be war between lords, which has now evolved into a kingdom to kingdom war.

The church and the LORD have been trying to solve the problem of shortage. They cultivated many crops, such as rye, lentils, kidney beans, etc., but the effect was not ideal until the Wellington family cultivated thorn kidney beans.

Although the water content of thorn kidney bean is large, its yield is surprisingly high, reaching an amazing 3000 pounds per mu, and the picking period for five consecutive months has perfectly solved the problem of shortage of green and yellow. However, the almost zero economic benefit made the Lords avoid this high-yield crop.

Al kingdom is the largest planting place of prickly kidney beans. With more and more free people pouring into Al Kingdom, they don't plant any more. The Church even issued an edict to prohibit free people from entering the kingdom of Al to make a living. Of course, the reason is high sounding and impeccable.

The Church tried to persuade the Lord to plant thorn kidney beans, but no one bought it. They gradually realized that no one would plant thorn kidney beans unless all the Lords planted thorn kidney beans. If the church has this ability, it might as well let the Lords sit down and talk about peaceful reunification.

In any case, Randall's willingness to plant thorn kidney beans delighted bishop Perot, which meant more population and more believers.

"How many acres of prickly kidney beans does Viscount Randall intend to plant?" Perot asked happily.

"Well... I don't know." Miller explained with some embarrassment: "these prickly kidney beans are planted on hills. It is difficult to count how many Mu there are now."

"Planted on hills?" Perot thought for a moment and asked, "cultivated land is saved... The wild resources on the hills are not needed? Is there no objection from the villagers?"

"No one objected!" Miller smiled: "the huge brick kiln consumes a lot of firewood every day, and many hills have been cut into bare mountains. Viscount Randall publicly said that he would plant this crop on those bare mountains as a wild resource for the villagers to use at will."

"Lord Randall is a kind and generous Lord!"

"..." bishop Perot was silent, and his face turned sunny and cloudy.

Relief has always been an important means for the church to harvest faith. Half a moldy black bread and a bowl of thin porridge may be able to create a devout believer. The effect of large-scale relief is particularly good, but the church can not often organize large-scale relief with its financial resources. Bishop Thain organizes large-scale relief every year with the thorn kidney beans of the Lord of the South and central China, which is praised by the church every year. Now, it's my turn. Viscount Randall gave the prickly kidney bean white to the villagers!

Although most of the villagers led by Randall are migrant workers, Perot absolutely believes that they will feed pigs with thorn kidney beans!

Can pigs eat more thorn kidney beans provide faith?

Miller's expression of admiration fully showed that Viscount Randall's behavior could not find any fault, but bishop Perot was as uncomfortable as choking on a fly.

On second thought, this might be Sylvia's means, and Perot was even more depressed. At this time, a church attendant came panting and shouted, "master Miller, the praying people are here, waiting for you to go back to worship."

"Your Excellency, the service will begin this afternoon. Would you like to preside over it yourself?" Miller bowed.

"Miller, tell me what week is?" Asked bishop Perot, with both voice and color.

The church has strict regulations on prayer ceremony, which is divided into morning prayer and evening prayer. Believers have to work during the day. Those scattered prayers are completed by believers themselves. Only when they donate money, the priest will come forward to receive generous believers. Miller's inexplicable worship has touched the bottom line of the church.

Miller saw the Bishop's dignified expression and quickly explained: "Sir, worship is evening prayer. There are a lot of people..."

"Evening prayer is just evening prayer. Why is it called worship? Also, it's not time for evening prayer!" Perot asked coldly, his face a little pale.

"Yes, sir." Miller said: "Viscount Randall had a rule long ago that people should rest for a period of time. In order to support me in preaching, he set the 12 day rest day as Sunday, three Sundays a month. On Sunday, people led by Randall, including vassals and nobles, must go to the church for morning and evening prayers. If someone can't come because of work, Randall can't come Viscount del will donate a silver sol to each of them. Er... The noble is a gold sol. "

Perot was moved. The prayer held in the church is a means to extract the holy power and involves the source of the power of the clergy. For the church, organizing morning and evening prayers is the most important thing.

The peak Knight connects the element sea to obtain extraordinary power, and the priest should connect the holy power pool in the dark and extract divine magic from the holy power pool. The holy power pool is a gift from the Lord of glory to the priest. The priest organizes believers to pray and transmits the power of faith to the Lord of glory through the church. The Lord of glory converts faith into holy power and injects it into the holy power pool.

The first level clergy can cast the first level divine arts within two levels without connecting to the holy power pool, but the middle level clergy must connect to the holy power pool to cast the divine arts above three levels. The promotion of clergy is also closely related to the holy power pool.

Second level priests gradually realize the true meaning of the doctrine by presiding over the academic affairs. With unshakable faith and their own achievements, they can go to the Holy See and connect with the holy power pool through the promotion ceremony to obtain the authority to perform the third level divination. Because the divination in the holy power pool is arranged well, and the divination above the third level has the least burden on the priest's body, the life expectancy of high-level priests is lower than that of priests Clergy are much longer.

Paladins are promoted in this way, except paladins, but any middle-level clergy must use the holy power in the holy power pool, and the holy power pool also has limits. Therefore, the more believers, the more beliefs they provide, the more abundant the power of the holy power pool and the more clergy.

However, the Lord of glory only converts the faith transmitted from the church into holy power. Those believers who are far away from the church can not increase the power of the holy power pool even if they pray devoutly. The church did not have so many priests assigned to each village, but those villagers prayed every day. The church had to use white crystal to collect the scattered holy power, and then let high-level clergy burn divination in white crystal and turn it into divination crystal. However, burning divine crystal will shorten the life of high-level priests, and the white crystal will break after being used twice. In desperation, the church asked the pastor to gather as many believers as possible to pray in the church. In those particularly remote villages, the pastor can only go once every ten days and a half months, mainly to appease the believers and collect holy power with white crystal.

Although the Sunday proposed by Viscount Randall can not completely recover the loss of faith dissipation, it greatly improves the collection efficiency of holy power, will produce more devout believers, and directly affects the holy power pool! If Sunday can be promoted, it will be a great event for the church!

Perot forcibly calmed his excitement and asked in a trembling voice, "the farthest village led by Randall is a day's journey from Pinghu Town. How do those villagers get to Pinghu Town to attend worship?"

"Randall has a public carriage to connect every village. Villagers can take a public carriage to Pinghu Town. On Sunday, the number of public carriages will also increase to ensure that every villager can get to the church in time." Miller replied.

Bishop Perot exclaimed, "praise my Lord. Viscount Randall is a genius favored by my Lord!"

"Lord Randall will bathe in the glory of our Lord!" Miller lowered his eyebrows and prayed softly.

The middle-level clergy must keep the secret of holy power pool. All low-level priests do not know the existence of holy power pool, and civilian priests are always low-cost priests, but how can this hide from Miller? Miller had told victor the truth about the holy pool long before Sunday. As for the precepts of the glorious code, what can he do? As long as Miller shouted, the pope had to kneel at his feet, but he had a great plan and didn't have time to play with the church.

Perot's eyes were shining, and Miller's small complacency made them wonder what Victor's actions had changed and what impact they would have.

The census of the displaced population, the encouragement of childbirth, medical teams and public carriages are all to strengthen the central government's control over local areas. White paper children are most likely to receive centralized education. As long as victor improves the education system, these children will become the most loyal people of the Randall family when they grow up. Faith has always been accompanied by centralized rule throughout all dynasties of China. Sunday can paralyze the church and give the Randall family time to grow.

It was in this way that Victor pried open the first brick of the theocratic altar.

If you want to believe, I will give you faith. Who will rise or fall between kingship and divine power? I'll see you in twenty years.