Today, Desmond can be said to be a thriving scene, farmers live and work in peace, people are actively working, and all people's faces are full of smiles, as if a better tomorrow is ahead. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, I must point out that this prosperity is in fact a sham.

Looking beyond the superficial craze and the essence, we can see that much of Desmond's prosperity today depends on the 'sacraments', where farmers receive free lunches and wages through 'sacraments', artisans receive large orders for clay pots through 'sacraments', even women can begin to look for work by 'doing sacraments', and human dung left over after 'sacraments' can be poured into the fields to increase the farmers' harvest......

But how long can this so-called 'sacrament' be done?

The 'sacraments' now refer to nothing more than digging toilets or being a man, or you can also add dung pickers, and so on.

But we were surprised to find that the free lunch and bread of the peasants were provided by the Count of Xiao Tang, the free lunch and bread of the men were also provided by the Count of Xiao Tang, and the free lunch and bread of the women were also provided by the Count of Xiao Tang. Once one day, the little Count Tang no longer provides free lunch and bread, I am afraid that no one will be willing to do the 'sacrament' anymore, and then the whole 'sacrament' will collapse!

But Count Xiao Tang has obviously decided not to be a virgin anymore, is it that Count Xiao Tang's bread is endless?

Obviously, the answer is not like this.

Human beings are very lowly creatures, and now that we have free lunch and bread for the sacraments, what will we do if we don't have free lunch and bread for the sacraments in the future? Free things are always good, and once the peasants have tasted the sweetness, they are no longer able to be driven by whips and hunger. The largest and only landlord in the whole of Desmond was the Earl of Little Tang, who firmly grasped the initiative of the whole 'sacrament' in his own hands by supplying the lowest-end goods, grain, free of charge, such a method as a very loss-making method.

Besides, this can't be said to be too much of a loss, if there is more bread, Count Tang can charge an extra mill tax, and if you use firewood for cooking, Count Tang can collect firewood tax, and in the future, if there are more rabbits, Count Tang can also collect poll tax......

So what is the use of the initiative to 'do the sacraments'?

This brings us to the second aspect, which is what Count Don Jr. has been cultivating: the motivation to 'do the sacraments'.

Farmers can get a free lunch and bread by doing the sacraments, which is already a great benefit, and the human dung left behind by the sacraments can also increase the yield of the fields, God! It's a great thing I never thought of!

'Sacrament' = 'Great Good Deeds'

Therefore, through such a fixed equation, Count Tang can initially establish a kind of 'sacrament' in the minds of the crowd! There is absolutely nothing wrong with 'doing the sacraments'! And the peasants have this impression, and subconsciously think that 'doing the sacraments' will definitely be beneficial to them, so there is no need for the overseers to monitor and remind, and the peasants who have spontaneity can actively 'do the sacraments' themselves.

And the third point, which is more difficult for Count Xiao Tang to say, is that Count Xiao Tang is actually wary of Priest Philip.

Although this priest has always been very obedient and cooperative, and his favorability towards Count Tang Jr. has been soaring and is about to break through the sky, Count Don Jr. has not forgotten how he killed and burned all the priest's monastery and robbed it all, and Count Don Jr. does not believe that a person can die to another person so quickly, and the knight of Alcobar also taught Count Don Jr. a truth: a high degree of favorability is not necessarily good.

Moreover, the 'god-making' operation against Priest Philip was so successful that it made Count Don feel jealous and even frightened!

In the original plan, Priest Philip only needed to play a role, a narrator at the beginning, as long as he could lead to the following, he could finish it, but Priest Philip did so well that he even blocked the halo of the protagonist - now the peasants in the towns only know that there is a saint named Philip, but they don't know that their parents are called Donchester? McCafaye is up!

The merit is higher than the shock of the Lord, and if this continues, whose credit is this credit? Whose sacrament is it? Besides, it's hard to hear, who is this Desmond?!

Therefore, Count Don must and can only hold the power of life and death of food tightly in his hands, as long as he holds the ownership of this grain tightly in his hands, as long as all the 'sacrament' food in this Earldom of Desmond has to be provided by him, then he is not afraid of Philip Priest rebellion, even if Philip Priest himself does not have such a mind, Count Don must do this, not only for his own good, but also for Philip Priest's good.

Therefore, in the whole process of 'doing the sacrament', Count Don played an extremely important role, he was not only the giver of the 'sacrament', but also the acceptor of the 'sacrament', and at the same time the sole sponsor of the 'sacrament'. He plays two roles at the same time: both the majestic and the hard-working.

Do you have a sense of déjà vu when you see this situation?

That's right! Isn't this the way the Central Committee has worked for so many years?

By investing in infrastructure construction, domestic demand will be stimulated, jobs will be provided, social stability will be increased, and economic development and consumption growth will be stimulated. But the good thing is that the construction of infrastructure needs money, where does the local government get so much money to invest? It doesn't matter, you can borrow from the central government, and the central government will definitely borrow, but for this loan you may have to add a little extra condition, such as losing a little bit of autonomy......

These are all my brain holes, but you must not think that the place is the same heart as the central government, as the saying goes, there are thousands of people, and there are thousands of hearts. Together with the twins of the same father and mother, the same gene, they still have different minds to each other, how can you expect to have a fundamentally conflicting interests in the place and the central heart? If the central government eats more, the local government will eat less, and if the local government eats more, the central government will eat less. No matter which dynasty in the world, even if it is in ****, since the beginning of the great unification of the imperial power, the struggle between the local and the central government can be written hundreds of thousands of songs and tears that are thrilling step by step.

On the one hand, he has to work hard to develop infrastructure, provide more jobs, and make ordinary farmers more attentive to the central government; On the other hand, he has to limit the power and prestige of his subordinates, so that they can eat a little and not starve to death, but never have enough to eat, so that his subordinates can salivate and hunt everywhere, and do their best to promote the development of infrastructure.

But in the end, whether it is the central or local government, the focus of their dispute is only between the annual tax payment, and the attitude of ordinary people towards them is the common interest of both parties, so we can see that the real infrastructure has improved; The same is true for the county of Desmond under the reign of Count Don Jr.

The knights, of course, complained that the Count of Don had restricted their rights and freedoms, but on the other hand, thanks to the rapid development of Desmond, the villages under the rule of these knights were more prosperous, so that they could pay more taxes to the knights for their enjoyment; And the knights received more taxes, and they became more attentive to their small fiefdom, and they were able to build more facilities in the village to facilitate people's lives; In this way, a virtuous circle was formed, and with each turn of such a circle, the better the life of the knights and peasants, and the higher their loyalty to the Count of Little Tang.

As for Priest Philip, to be honest, Count Don Jr. really couldn't figure out what this priest was thinking! He was neither an official vassal nor sworn allegiance to Count Don, so he could be said to be an outsider, not the kind of central and local between Count Don and the knights, but the difference between one central and the other. However, this priest is still indispensable to Count Tang at present, which is equivalent to the important weapon of the country in the hands of others, so it is no wonder that Count Tang loves and hates this Philip priest......

Ps: To be honest, the content of this chapter is really not easy to play, because it involves the status of Count Xiao Tang, the control and balance of his subordinates, it is not very easy to write, I think this chapter is actually not very good, and this kind of content will be as little as possible in the future.

PPs: Despite this, I still asked for votes, first of all, I would like to thank my friends who contributed to my collections, recommendations and clicks yesterday, thank you for giving me the motivation to continue, then, let the tickets and collections come more violently!