In the streets and alleys, the processions of nearby shrines continue to appear, some boast of how effective their worship of fox fairies is, some boast of their own worship of the Buddha of Heaven, and even some shrines directly worship comic characters, but there are still many believers.

This is really a picture of all beings.

In any case, after some hard publicity, Li Dawan's Poseidon Church finally had dozens of believers and hundreds of underage believers.

Not to mention the Poseidon churches in various places in Hichimaru, thanks to the efforts of the priests, the number of believers is increasing.

Cheng Kong can also feel the increasing number of believers.

At this time, Cheng Kong was sitting on the sea of the palace, the waves around him rose and fell, and small hurricanes hit the sea, causing huge waves to rise one after another, and thunder flashed, but this was Cheng Kong consuming divine power to conduct an in-depth analysis of the rules related to his divinity.

Probably barely enough, Cheng Kong counted the faith connections connected to him, from the initial more than two hundred to as many as five thousand, although these new faith connections are as thin as a hair, and they look like they may break at any time, but the power of faith provided to Cheng Kong every day is not less.

It is enough for Chengkong to analyze the rules twice a day.

When the waves subsided and the hurricane clouds and thunder dissipated, Cheng Kong slowly opened his eyes, and at this time, a flash of lightning flashed in Cheng Kong's eyes from time to time, or rolled up a wave, and after a long time, the abnormality in Cheng Kong's eyes slowly receded.

Cheng Kong got up at this time, and then turned into a streamer and flew towards the palace gate.

Outside the palace, the streamer fell on the surface of the nearby sea through the air hood passage. Cheng Kong stretched out his hand and lightly touched the surface of the sea, and then a piece of golden light dispersed, forming a huge light mirror on the sea surface.

However, what is shown in the light mirror is the bottom of the sea at a depth of thousands of meters.

It's not the same as what most people imagine from the bottom of the sea. The view of the seabed on the light mirror is a faint red.

Low, circular hot spring vents are densely packed on the seabed, and countless underwater creatures thrive in this seabed hotbed.

The warmth of the hot springs is brought by the hot springs, and the underwater creatures survive by the sulfur spewed out by the hot springs instead of oxygen, creating a small biosphere around the hot springs.

Under Cheng Kong's gaze, a yellow mist suddenly emerged from a circular hot spring vent, and as this yellow mist spread, a black and gray substance with a hint of red appeared at the hot spring vent. and causes the seawater on it to tumble and form bubbles.

Obviously, the black-gray mass was magma, which solidified into black-gray volcanic rock after the magma cooled down with water. The red color on it is due to the increasing pressure below, pushing the magma out of the hot spring mouth and the uncondensed magma.

Soon, the magma gushing out of the hot spring vent continued to increase, and a series of dense bubbles rose towards the surface of the sea.

A few minutes. The bottom of the sea is like boiling water. The magma continued to gush out, and finally the crust around the hot spring could not withstand the tremendous force of the magma, and a slight crack appeared.

After more than ten minutes of brewing, a stream of magma erupted, and in the blink of an eye, it condensed in the seawater, forming a towering stone pillar.

But as the magma continued to erupt, the stone pillar was broken and collapsed, and another stone pillar stood up.

The ocean floor began to rise with it. But this is only a prelude to a volcanic eruption.

Finally, the earth's crust cracked open. Countless magma surged out, piled up at the bottom of the sea, and quickly spread towards the surface.

When it was three or four hundred meters above the sea, the erupting volcano was weak, and the icy sea water continued to take away the heat of the magma, causing it to solidify rapidly, so that a still steaming reef formed below the surface of the sea.

At this moment, the golden light mirror immediately shattered and dissipated on the surface of the sea, and Cheng Kong's face turned white for a while before regaining his ruddy color, but his brows were furrowed.

Compared to the rest of the divinities, this earth divinity is the weakest link in Cheng Kong's own divinity, and Cheng Kong has spent all the divine power accumulated in these days, and he can only induce a small volcanic reef in the weak place of the crust at the bottom of the sea.

If it is in a thick crust on the bottom of the sea, I am afraid that at most it will only allow a little magma to flow out, just like squeezing toothpaste.

Such a result is not what Cheng Kong wants, but Cheng Kong can only reluctantly accept this.

After returning to Achilles, Cheng Kong happened to meet the completion of the second crash course in Japanese and the start of the third crash course in Japanese.

However, in terms of the composition of the staff, there is a difference between the second and third sessions.

The second crash course in Japanese was 100 percent born by big liars, and the third crash course in Japanese was selected by Butler James through the Achilles Security Company's offices in various countries.

These new pastors from all over the world were completely attracted by the high salaries.

Compared with the current recessionary economies, the salary offered on Achilles Island is enough to make these young people who have just graduated from college impulsive.

Well, this practice is also Steward James's attempt to avoid a single tendency among the pastors in the Poseidon Church, although in this way, the pursuit of those priests becomes money, but for Cheng Kong, as long as the number of believers can be developed, it does not matter whether the priest is pious to himself or not.

What's more, Cheng Kong has enough self-confidence, once he ignites the divine fire, this situation will also change.

Cheng Kong did not go to meet the new pastors who graduated, after all, it was necessary for Cheng Kong to maintain proper mystery.

If it is too familiar, then it loses its sense of reverence and cannot give birth to faith.

Next, Cheng Kong just called Butler James over and asked a few words carefully.

This group of rookie priests is also preparing to be sent to Himaru Country.

Today, in the country of Himaru, the Poseidon Church has opened 90 churches, and there are still about 190 churches that are not used, but the buildings on them have been renovated, and they can be opened as soon as the pastor arrives.

"Li Dawan and the others have been going to Nichimaru for two months, and I'll give you a list. The pastor on the list will be promoted to the presiding pastor of the new church. ”

Cheng Kong didn't need James's butler to say how many believers were preached in the church, as long as Cheng Kong had a slight thought, he could know.

Cheng Kong's eyes closed. A trace of divine power immediately spread out along the line of faith, and after a while, the information that Cheng Kong needed was fed back.

Which pastor is working hard, which pastor is lazy, which pastor is pious, and even which pastor has fled, all appear in Cheng Kong's mind.

For Cheng Kong. As long as the other party has prayed to him, even if the faith connection is broken, he can find the whereabouts of the other party for a period of time.

Of course. If the time drags on for too long, more than three or four months, Cheng Kong will not be able to do it.

After all, Cheng Kong hasn't even ignited the divine fire now, whether it is the power of faith transforming divine power. Or in terms of using divine powers. It's all quite difficult.

After a while, Cheng Kong's face became a little pale, and the divine power accumulated in the past few hours was consumed again.

However, after such an investigation, Cheng Kong sorted out a list, grabbed a blank piece of paper casually, and shook it lightly, dense words appeared on it, and it was full of the names of the priests who went to the Himaru country. At the end, of course, there are a couple of crossed red names.

These red names are the pastors who rebelled and fled from the Poseidon Church. Even three of them turned the Poseidon Church in charge of their own into a place to hide filth and dirt, and used the water and fire ring passed down by Cheng Kong to do evil, collect a group of rampant people, and extort money from the surrounding residents, which can be described as all evil.

Not to mention the children's night crying, at least it is also the rank of the street tiger, how could Cheng Kong let them go by such a guy who corrupted the Poseidon Church.

If it weren't for Cheng Kong's unwillingness to waste divine power, he would really have the idea of slowly torturing them after extracting their souls.

Butler James took the list, and when he saw that Cheng Kong's face was not very good-looking, he didn't dare to say much, so he immediately retreated and turned to leave.

The puppet is angry, the blood is splashed, the emperor is angry, the blood is flowing like a river, the gods are angry, and the mountains are falling and the ground is cracking.

To be honest, after this incident appeared, Cheng Kong was quite angry, but it was not to the extent of a landslide.

But in this case, it is difficult to say what will happen to those pastors.

Hishimaru Osaka, Rikuta-cho, landed in the Poseidon Church in the East 1st Ward, and the strong heavy metal music continued to roar, and all kinds of chattering sounds were constantly heard inside.

The three priests stationed in this Poseidon church were holding several aid girls in their arms at this time, drinking red wine, and their hands kept stroking the woman in their arms.

The prayer hall of the church, which was once solemn and sacred, has been transformed into a bar, where Crazy Boys, and Crazy Boys, who wear all kinds of strange costumes, have earrings on their noses and ears, and so on.

The place where the statue of Cheng Kong was erected has been converted into a bar, and a bartender is performing his bartending skills to several sisters, constantly attracting a burst of applause.

As for the dark place in the corner of the church, there was a group of guys who were about to get drunk and groped up and down with the woman in their arms.

The entire Poseidon Church can be said to have become a big den, with a miasma of black smoke and unbearable things abounding.

However, these guys didn't notice that the door of the Poseidon Church quietly opened, and a fiery aura spread in.

A pair of fiery eyes looked at the scene in the church, and couldn't help but be angry.

This time, the one who was sent by Steward James to deal with the defected priest was a hero that Cheng Kong had personally led.

Li Feijun!

This person was originally a game studio owner, and after he didn't know how Lu Dao entered the Hero World Realm, when he was in Demon Fang City, Cheng Kong took the time to bring them, so that they had a place in the Hero World Realm.

The current Li Feijun is not the little fire thrower he was at the beginning.

Although its evolution direction is not too good, it has now evolved into a berserk fire demon.

Berserk Fire Demon, a level 5 class, ranged class, can throw hundreds of powerful fireballs in an instant, attacking enemies within a kilometer.

Although the Berserk Fire Demon is very weak in hand-to-hand combat, with this berserk fireball alone, after opening up the distance, it is no problem to kill the fifth-level evolutionary class and seriously injure the sixth-level class.

After having such strength, Li Feijun is extremely loyal to Cheng Kong, and now he is also one of Cheng Kong's believers. Although the faith is not religious, it is much more religious than other heroes.

Therefore, after receiving the instructions of James's housekeeper, Li Feijun immediately set off overnight. Rushed to Hichimaru.

According to the address, he found this church and pushed open the door, Li Feijun almost burst his chest.

Although his faith is not religious, he is extremely loyal to Cheng Kong, so after seeing this scene, Li Feijun couldn't control his emotions, and a smell of burnt paste came from his body.

In an instant. The white suit on Li Feijun's body became scorched, and it burned in a moment, and Li Feijun's body was immediately raised. The muscles get stronger like a blow.

"Die! Blasphemer! ”

As a beastly roar sounded, Li Feijun's right hand, which had turned into sharp claws, waved towards the church.

Whirring, more than a dozen head-sized fireballs appeared in the air, and immediately flew towards all parts of the church.

This sudden scene caused the church to fall into fornication. The drunken crowd woke up. They let out a shrill scream to escape.

But at this time, it was too late, the fireball thrown by Li Feijun was by no means comparable to the fire throwing monster, and it exploded on its own when it flew close, forming a ball of fire that spread in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, the church turned into a sea of fire.

But there is something strange about this sea of fire, that is, even if it falls on the paper, it will not cause it to burn. It doesn't seem to exist in this worldly realm, but only those who are in lustful and happy are bursting into the sky.

A few seconds later. The flames were extinguished, but the crowd inside the church was like dry ice that gradually dissipated into the air as the flames went out.

By the time Li Feijun turned to leave, the entire church had been completely renovated, and no one remained, and it only needed a little rest to reopen.

With Li Feijun's move, the few defecting priests were found and burned into nothingness one by one, and in less than three days, Li Feijun's task was completed.

Compared with these defecting pastors, Li Dawan and other serious missionary pastors are extremely happy.

After only two months of preaching, Li Dawan was officially promoted to the presiding pastor of his church, and it was also reported that after all the 270 churches in the country of Himaru were opened, three presiding priests would be selected from among the current presiding pastors in each region to be responsible for managing the entire diocese of Himaru.

Of course, there will not be only three presiding priests in the entire Nichimaru Grand Diocese, but the first three bishops will definitely be promoted more smoothly in the future.

When Li Dawan was studying in the crash course in Japanese, he had a detailed study and understanding of the organizational structure of the Poseidon Church.

He knew that once he was promoted to the chief pastor, then he could be called a big man below the three and above the ten thousand.

That's where the emerging church comes in.

As long as you make achievements, you can easily be promoted due to the vacancy of the top position.

If it were an old church, even if it was ten times as hard, it would be very difficult to move the position.

To be honest, in the Poseidon Church, as long as you are promoted to the head pastor, you can also be called a big person.

At present, each of the 270 churches has to manage 90 churches, which is not a small number.

Of course, if the number of churches continues to increase in the future, then the number of presiding ministers will also increase accordingly.

In addition to Li Dawan, who was so happy that he even woke up laughing from sleeping, the other two pastors who lived in the same church with Li Dawan were also happy.

Because of their missionary success, the two pastors were also promoted to presiding pastors, but the presiding pastor had to go to the new church to take up his post.

But even so, it's enough to make people happy.

It can be said that the first batch of new pastors who went to the country of Himaru, after two months of training, most of them adapted to this missionary career, so nearly 200 people were promoted to become the first batch of presiding pastors of churches in various places.

Most of the pastors would go to the new church to take up their posts and use their experience to teach the second group of new pastors who came to Hichimaru.

Although these pastors may not be qualified clergy after two months of training, they are at least much better than the second batch.

Cheng Kong didn't have a good way to train these priests now, so he had to do this.

In this way, at least the organizational structure of the church can be spread out quickly.

As for some of the guys inside, they can only blame themselves for not working hard.

Just as the 90 or so pastors in the first batch were not promoted, they will be redistributed along with the second group of pastors. Compete together.

Of course, if they don't work harder, it is quite possible to continue with the third batch. The fourth group of pastors competed together.

Well, of course, as long as they don't defect and start a church, even if they are lazy, they may have a chance to be promoted.

After all, the Poseidon Church was founded, and there was a shortage of clergy, so it was not until all the Himaru countries were developed. The African countries around Achilles Island and even the territory of Laos and the United States need to be filled by a large number of clergy.

No, although the earth is not as vast as the Heroic World Realm, the population density is much higher than that of the Heroic World Realm. The number of pastors needed for such a large number of people to proselytize can range from five or six hundred thousand to millions, or millions.

Well. At this time, Cheng Kong had already regarded the entire earth as his faith grazing ground.

Although there are many legends of gods on the earth. Allusion, but Cheng Kong has also sensed it, although there are remnants of divine power fluctuations in some places, there have been no miracles on the entire earth for thousands of years.

In Cheng Kong's view, the gods on the earth are afraid that something has changed, so they will not appear in the world.

As long as you ignite the divine fire yourself, are you still afraid that those old and decaying churches that have no miracles will not succeed?

As time went by, Cheng Kong spent most of his time in the Island Turtle Palace concentrating on analyzing the rules. Complete the divinity, and go out once in a while. It is to deal with some big things that Lao Ma and others can't call the shots.

As for Achilles, negotiations with the United States are still ongoing.

No, at the beginning, the vice president, who was acting as president, had three points of backbone, and only agreed to a small half of the many requests made by Achilles, which were all inadequate conditions.

However, Cheng Kong's most important right to free and legal missionary rights and a ransom of 5 billion US dollars were vetoed by the vice president.

To tell the truth, the ransom of five billion US dollars was denied, and Cheng Kong didn't care at all, after all, the five aircraft carriers alone exceeded the five billion US dollars.

Even if the United States is unwilling to redeem the aircraft carrier formation, then Achilles Island will be sold directly, and I am afraid that there are people who are willing to pay for an aircraft carrier of two billion dollars.

It is important to know that these five aircraft carriers are the world's first-class scientific and technological level in every aspect, and if any country can buy one for scientific and technological research and analysis in all aspects, it will be very helpful for the overall scientific and technological improvement of its own country.

Of course, Cheng Kong also knew that if the ransom was demanded according to the value of the entire aircraft carrier formation, I am afraid that Lao Mei would rather fight another battle than pay this money.

The cost of an aircraft carrier formation is $10 billion, to say the least, while the total cost of the five-aircraft carrier formation of the United States is not less than $50 or 60 billion.

Even if it is discounted by half, Lao Mei will not pay this money.

There is too much money, and whoever agrees to this condition may not be able to explain it in the future.

Cheng Kong asked for 5 billion US dollars, which was originally used to build and renovate churches in the United States.

And this number is not too big compared to the value of the aircraft carrier formation, I originally thought that the other party would nod.

Who wanted to know but was denied, even the right to free and legal preaching was denied.

Of course, His Excellency the Vice President has prepared a separate negotiation clause in which a lot of things have been omitted.

The United States paid $200 million to ransom the aircraft carrier group and all the captured personnel, but the right to freely and legally proselytize did not appear at all.

Of course, this may be one of the negotiation tactics prepared by His Excellency the Vice President.

But this will infuriate Steward James, who is directing the negotiation process behind the scenes.

In Steward James's view, Mr. Cheng's right to free and lawful proselytizing is something that cannot be modified in all the terms.

Even if the United States does not compensate the United States, as long as the right to free and lawful proselytizing is guaranteed, then it is not impossible to return the aircraft carrier formation to the United States.

After all, for Achilles, these aircraft carrier formations are basically not much of a threat anymore.

Subsequently, under the instructions of Steward James, the negotiators on Achilles Island immediately protested to the US side in righteous words, saying that they had received an order to put the negotiations on hold indefinitely.

With Achilles Island really withdrawing from the negotiations, after driving the US negotiating team out of Achilles Island directly, it made the vice president who tried to play some tricks to get away with the old people in a hurry.

Play off the line!

I thought I could use my strength to blackmail the other party, so that I would pay less, so as to gain the support of the people.

But now, the negotiations have been put on hold, and although he does not have to worry about the mistreatment of the captives on Achilles, the impeachment case of parliament has already entered the process. It won't be long before the impeachment bill is voted on.

Of course, there is no need to say much about this impeachment vote. His Excellency the President, who had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, stepped down properly.

But the problem is that when the president steps down, then a general election will be held immediately, and if he can't achieve results on this matter, I'm afraid that he won't have much advantage in the next general election.

The vice president, who was in a hurry, even called the presidential hotline with China when official channels could not communicate, asking China to intervene and coordinate.

Well. This makes the hearts of the Chinese high-level people very happy, how many years, Lao Mei, a bully rampant in the world. Finally bowed his head once.

Of course, China's top brass agreed to the coordination, but they did not work very hard.

It is important to know that Achilles is now an ally of China. Not to mention the misunderstanding that too much effort to coordinate this matter will cause Achilles Island.

If Lao Mei is allowed to reach an agreement with Achilles so quickly. It is unfavorable to the Chinese side.

In this regard, only Cui Jianguo contacted Steward James with the intention of the Chinese side, and after Steward James said that he would not discuss this matter in a short period of time, Cui Jianguo was not discouraged at all, and turned around and left, for him, how to achieve a greater advantage in the war with the indigenous kingdom, this is what he should fight for.

Steward James after reporting to Cheng Kong. Cheng Kong also agreed.

After all, now the Poseidon Church hasn't even taken down the Hichimaru Kingdom, let alone Lao Mei.

"Hmm. It's okay, it's good to delay them for a while. ”

After Cheng Kong said this, Steward James immediately let go of his heart that was hanging in the air.

After all, although this matter is said to be for the sake of the master, in this way, the negotiation matter does not know when the matter will be over, and James is not quite sure of Cheng Kong's thoughts, so he was quite anxious before.

Shortly after the negotiations were put on hold on Achilles, the U.S. Congress unanimously passed the impeachment of the incumbent president, making His Excellency the President, who was still lying in the hospital intensive care unit, the fourth president in U.S. history to be impeached, and the second to be successfully impeached.

This is really history-making, and it is quite difficult to successfully impeach a sitting president in the United States.

Impeachment needs to be passed by the lower parliament and then passed by a two-thirds vote of the upper parliament before it can take effect.

That's not to mention the number of members of parliament who support the president's party in the upper parliament.

It can be seen from this that His Excellency the President is indeed very unpopular.

The successful impeachment of His Excellency the President has triggered a cascading effect.

His Excellency the Vice President, who had not been able to negotiate well, was also re-elected to the presidency because of the fall of His Excellency the President.

But the problem was that after Achilles put the talks on hold and news broke that His Excellency the Vice President had put obstacles in the way, a lawmaker filed an impeachment motion against the Vice President.

Of course, in order to prevent the successive presidential successions from leading to an early election and increasing domestic instability, the upper and lower parliaments jointly rejected the impeachment motion.

However, the condition for the rejection of this impeachment motion is that His Excellency the Vice President, who has already succeeded in taking office, must restart the negotiation process in the shortest possible time. After all, those congressmen want to take advantage of this opportunity to expand their influence more than His Excellency the Vice President, who has already taken office.

In this way, the former vice president, the current president, was like a duck that had been caught up on the shelf, and in just one month, more than a dozen envoys were sent to Achilles.

In the end, the negotiations started again, but this time Achilles was not in a hurry at all, and each clause had to be negotiated for more than half a month, almost not rushing the old problem of His Excellency the president.

In short, the negotiations were under the control of James's butler, little by little, and this time Achilles Island could be called a lion's mouth, demanding 20 billion in ransom alone.

Of course, asking for a price to pay back on the spot is a necessary process for doing business or negotiating.

His Excellency the President now feels the taste of both ice and fire, and if he does not agree to delay the negotiations too long, he estimates that he will be impeached again, and if he agrees to this huge sum, he will also be impeached.

It's not easy to master.

Negotiations proceeded slowly, and the captives held on Achilles Island became a tool for the new pastors of the Poseidon Church.

By this time, Achilles Island had already sent five groups of priests to the Himaru country, totaling more than 1,300 people. Among them, about half of them are scammers or language enthusiasts from China, about 600 people, and more than 400 university graduates from European countries. More than 300 others are residents of Achilles.

After the TV station was launched, Butler James set up large outdoor TV screens in crowded places to broadcast live programs.

Although there is only one channel in this TV station, there is a lot of content in it.

In addition to vigorously proclaiming that Cheng Kong is the reincarnation of the sea god, he also listed many great deeds of Cheng Kong, of course, many of the deeds were fabricated out of thin air.

Anyway, no one will be more serious, and even if someone is more serious. These great deeds all happened in the world of heroes, and there is no way to find evidence that they do not exist.

Of course, in addition to preaching the greatness of Cheng Kong. There's also some propaganda about Poseidon Church, well, plus some fun quizes related to Poseidon Church, if you get it right. Then you will get a certain reward.

Under the constant sneaking of TV shows. The religious atmosphere on Achilles Island has finally changed a bit.

Some of the heroic relatives who couldn't find their place on the island and felt that they didn't have much value saw an opportunity here.

Since the fourth batch of crash courses in Japanese were officially renamed Poseidon Church Priest Training Courses, more than 100 Achilles residents have signed up to participate.

Although many of them are elderly, ranging in age from 50 to 70, they still agreed to their application after the special approval process.

Not to mention, most of these local residents are elderly, and they are not as good as young people in terms of memory and physical strength. But the level of hard work they worked in their studies was enough to put the first three batches of rookie pastors to shame.

Therefore, when this group of new priests went to the country of Himaru, Steward James deliberately arranged for the older of them to go to areas with better environments.

Not to mention. After this group of new pastors arrived in the country of Himaru, the most effective missionary was these priests at the level of uncles, and their achievements in the two or three months of missionary work in the country of Nichimaru even surpassed those of the first three batches.

Well, the reasons for this are more complicated, but they are related to some social customs in the country of Himaru.

As we all know, the country of Himaru is a relatively peculiar country, advocating Confucianism while forming its own unique bushido spirit, and in modern times trying to break away from Asia and Europe, vigorously promote Western-style culture, plus after being emasculated by the old United States, it is the birth of some cultural industries famous in the world, such as AV, comics, cartoons, mystery novels and so on.

Under such influence, while the Himaru society appeared to be more impetuous, it also followed some basic social norms similar to those of Huaxia.

The key points here are seniority, following the rules and even worshipping the wisdom of the elderly.

When these basic social norms are applied to the faith, then these old pastors are more popular.

This is just like when people in the world look at Chinese medicine, they will choose an old doctor, and they feel that they are experienced and skilled when they are older.

And for those believers, the priest is equivalent to the status of a spiritual teacher.

If the pastor is too young, I am afraid that believers will naturally develop a sense of distrust.

Older pastors don't have to talk much, but they can create a sense of trust and dependence in believers, which makes it easier to carry out missionary activities.

Besides, the current Himaru country has made great strides into the stage of aging society, and the age structure in various places is rapidly aging, which also makes the believers more old.

Older pastors and these believers are also more likely to communicate and have common topics.

If a pastor in his twenties were to communicate with these believers, I am afraid that the effect would be much worse.

It is precisely because of the missionary effect of the elder pastors that when the fifth batch of pastors was recruited, the James housekeeper also increased the recruitment of the elderly.

Of course, after the training of these five batches of priests, Achilles Island will no longer import priests from Asahi Maru Province.

The total number of pastors in the five groups has exceeded 1,800, and they are scattered among the 270 churches in the Hichimaru country, with an average of more than six pastors in each church, and even eight pastors in some larger churches.

As a result, the number of priests in the church is a little denser, and some of the churches in the church were originally converted from small shrines dedicated to mountain spirits and monsters, and the houses of small shrines like this one can provide for a maximum of three or four people, and six priests live in them. I'm afraid it will look crowded.

However, this was only a temporary overcrowding, and with ample funds from the war reparations in India, more churches were being built. These more than 1,800 pastors may not be enough if they really want to disperse them.

One of the most critical problems is that the population of Himaru is really quite large, and there are 130 million people piled up in the larger territory.

Cheng Kong also calculated specifically for this that if he wanted to control the religious beliefs of the entire Himaru Country in his hands, and each priest was responsible for the mission and management of 10,000 believers, then the entire Hichimaru Country would need 13,000 priests.

Of course. In practice, this is not how it is calculated.

For example, if a child under the age of 15 needs to be removed, the child under the age of 15 has an undetermined mind. Even if a faith connection is established with Cheng Kong, it is extremely unstable, and the power of faith provided is very small.

Therefore, they are not counted as true believers.

In this way, at least 13 percent is removed. Then remove some people who can't believe in Poseidon for professional reasons or other reasons. Then the number of believers that the Poseidon Sect needs to educate will drop below 100 million.

Of course, if a pastor were to be in charge of the mission of 10,000 believers, I am afraid that the pastor would be exhausted to death.

Therefore, it is more appropriate to have less than 5,000, but in this way, the number of priests needed in the entire Himaru country will rise to more than 20,000.

This is a huge number for the Poseidon Church, which has only been established for less than a year, and it is important to know that even if some high-performing priests are transferred back from the Hichimaru country, they will be used to expand the scale of training new pastors. The training course for pastors has been expanded each time, but now. The number of new pastors trained in each batch has only grown to more than 600.

No, the current space on Achilles Island is not abundant.

When Cheng Kong knew the news, he had to sigh and instructed Steward James to increase his investment in Agadas Island and develop the purchased land as quickly as possible.

By this time, Cheng Kong had already come up with the idea of creating a school for professional priests.

As the number of pastors grew, so did the inferior effects of some crash courses.

The so-called crash course naturally compresses the teaching time, replaces quality with quantity, and gives birth to a large number of pastors in a short period of time.

Of course, the quality of such a priest can be imagined.

There are a lot of guys who embezzle donations from believers, but as long as they don't betray the church, Cheng Kong is not very good at punishing these guys too harshly.

In addition, the most critical problem is their lack of missionary experience.

You must know that in the country of Nichimaru, religion can be called an industrialized structure.

To be precise, for the time being, the religion of the Hishimaru Kingdom can be called divided into two worlds, with Buddhism and Shinto each accounting for more than 40 percent, and the remaining less than 10 percent in the middle is shared by shrines dedicated to various mountain spirits and strange monsters.

According to incomplete statistics, there are thousands of kinds of deities, mountain spirits, and earth spirits enshrined in this 10% of the shrines alone, but even so, the incense at these shrines is still abundant.

It is conceivable from this that the priests and monks who have been cultivated in such a religious atmosphere have a wealth of missionary experience that is by no means comparable to the newcomers of the Poseidon Church.

During this period of time, the best performers were the more than 10 pastors headed by Li Dawan, who increased the number of believers by about 200 per person on average every month for most of the year, and was able to increase the number of believers by seven or eight per day.

But that's just the best results, and as for other pastors, on average, it's good to be able to recruit thirty or forty people a month.

The worst-performing pastor is a bit of a blood vomit, recruiting a dozen or so people a month, and even losing believers, which is a negative number.

In fact, don't look at the fact that these groups of pastors are in full swing when they arrive in Himaru Country, but in fact, on average, each of them has recruited more than ten believers to join the church.

The total number of followers of the entire Poseidon Church is only more than 25,000 people.

Although compared to the original Achilles Island believers, it can be regarded as a relatively outstanding achievement.

But if you count the money invested in the country of Himaru, even Steward James will blush. (To be continued......)

PS: I would like to introduce you to a good book: Being a god stick in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty.

If you had a jade pendant that could freely travel through the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, what would you do?

As an otaku who loves Taoism, Wen Fei naturally chose to be a god stick.

Use the glass demon mirror to catch the demon, use the antibiotic elixir to cure the disease, and casually resell some ancient things back to modern times to get rich?

Learn Neidan with Chen Nimaru and discuss Lei Fa with Wang Wenqing. Came to Tokyo City with Lin Lingsu and fooled Song Huizong! Lying under the bed with Zhou Bangyan, he listened to Master Li sing that and knife Wu Yan, pointing to the new orange.

Or is it collusion with Cai Jing's thesis to control the government? Talk about martial arts with that Tong Guan, and subdue Yan Yun? and Uncle Zhang attacked the heroes of Liangshan at night and conquered Song Jiang Fangla. Jing Kang shame, is it still there? Courtiers hate, what's more? Don't wait for Yue Pengju to drive through Helan Mountain!