Chapter 64: Charity (II)
First of all, the Sephiroth Church, under the cover of missionary work, under the banner of "mutual help among the people", organized these scattered peasants into mutual aid groups. In the process of "repossessing" the auctioned land with guns by American peasants, the Sephirothians only gave a gentle push, and they did not go directly to the field, but only helped organize and increase the "collusion" and "contact" between American peasants, and provided vehicles and intelligence and "construction" when peasants in one area were armed to "help" in another area, so that this instinctive "peasant (crab) movement" could become an active, purposeful, and organized "mutual aid."
In order to better "arm" the peasants in the United States, Lin Han even bought thousands of "scrapped" Spring rifles from the arsenal of the United States through bribery, and distributed them to the peasants who were so poor that they could not even afford guns after going bankrupt.
Lin Han knew very well that this practice of the Sephiroth Sect was actually playing with fire, which was very dangerous, and once it got big and out of control, it would attract the attention of the US government. So in the process, both men imposed severe restrictions on the movement of their subordinates in the United States.
Their commands to the believers who carry out such orders are:
"Remember, you're the ones who gave the Americans lighters and arson guides, wake them up, and we'll have to work hard to clear the connection to what happens next."
In order to "wash up", the igniter and the preacher are two groups. The former is when American peasants get together and complain disgruntled about bankruptcy, come up with an idea as a "passerby" or "observer" and then disappear immediately.
The missionaries in the Sephiroth Church, on the other hand, gathered these people who "had ideas after listening to their ideas" after the fact, took the opportunity of preaching, and then watched them "associate" and "wave again", only to "pluck" them at critical times.
What desperate people want to do, many times, as long as someone gently "pulls" it at a critical moment, they will naturally grasp the only straw.
When these bankrupt American farmers forced the auction house and the judge to auction the land at the lowest price, and then ransom it at a low price
After returning, the Sephiroth missionaries would later borrow a sum of money from the peasants who had redeemed their land at low or even no interest rates as capital for the restoration of production.
The terms of the loan were so lenient that the peasants who borrowed the money did not even have to pay back directly, but only repaid the money at a discount with the grain produced in the fields. There was only one condition for obtaining a loan: to join the Sephiroth Sect.
Lin Han sent people to the United States to preach, of course, not to be philanthropists and saviors. He invested so much money and energy in the bankrupt farmers of the United States in order to maximize his followers and influence at the lowest cost.
In 193o, Saphiroslav missionaries to the United States initially lent out a low-interest loan of more than $5 million to establish more than 200 "church" farms linked to the Sephiroth Sect.
When the grain harvest was abundant, Sephiroth organized his followers to carry out "voluntary labor" to help these "church" farms harvest, reducing labor costs.
The grain collected offset the loan, and those believers who joined the religion for the loan were satisfied, as was Lin Han himself. Because the grain at that time could not be sold at a good price in the United States, a little loan could get more grain, and the labor cost of harvesting was also saved, and the taxes and fees that needed to be paid for selling it were also saved. All of this food was then turned into missionary relief food, which was sent to the city and distributed free of charge to the hungry poor in the city.
For the poor people in the city who came to receive the bread, the Charity Workers of the Sephiroth Sect had only one request: to receive the sacrament bread and to eat the bread, and to reverently recite to the twin angel statue: Thank you to the merciful Gabriel. Lord Sephiroth.
Although the US Government is wary of the Sephiroth Cult, a cult "imported" from Germany, what they do is almost entirely an admirable "charity" cause, and there is nothing they can do about it, either legally or morally. Those poor and homeless who had access to free communion naturally joined the Saphiroth Cult. Moreover, this practice itself is a good thing to help local governments in the United States reduce social contradictions, so how can they oppose it?
However, from an economic point of view, this kind of practice of using charity to produce and sell itself, and almost completely detaching itself from the commodity economy, does not do any good, and even has disadvantages, to eliminate the economic crisis. This is also the reason why the capitalists would rather pour out the milk and burn the grain than take it out for charity, and the reason is very simple: if it is used for charity, everyone will wait for the food to be eaten, and the goods will be even more unsellable.
Lin Han himself hoped that the economic crisis in the United States would continue like this forever, and that he would continue to engage in this kind of "religious charity" that violated the laws of the market economy.
Unlike Germany, which needed to import grain, the United States was a large grain-producing country, with a much larger population base than Germany, and by June 1932, Lin Han had invested more than $10 million and recruited more than 6 million believers, even more than the number of believers in Germany itself.
As for the more than 10 million dollars invested, the Sephiroth Church has already recovered and even made a profit in the process of missionary and "charitable donations." More than 6 million believers, on average, donate an average of $1 per person to the church, that's $6 million, and even more if you include the donations of non-believers. Taking advantage of the economic crisis to proselytize and engage in charity in the United States, the "invasion" of the Sephiroth Church, although disgusted and disliked by the Christian churches in the United States, had an excellent reputation among the people and public opinion, and the charitable fundraising organized by the organization always received a large number of donations from parishioners and outsiders. If you include the labor costs of those that have been "saved" and the believers voluntarily perform free voluntary labor, it is simply a lot of money.
"Charity is not about burning money, but about making money!"
Lin Han, who came from later generations, understood this truth very well. In order to plan for the long term, Lin Han only asked for capital preservation in the process, and he used the excess "charity profits" in charity with a conscience, and not a single dollar of charity was embezzled.
Compared with the so-called private charity funds in later generations that took advantage of the catastrophe to take hundreds of millions of private donations, but only used up a few percent of the donations in a few years, Lin Han felt that he was really charitable in the United States, and his character was really good, and when he looked in the mirror, he felt that the golden ring on his head was radiating holy light.
He began to think about whether to add the word "holy" in front of his name, called holy. Sephiroth. However, considering that he is now a "god", adding the word "holy" to his name seems to be a treatment that only believers can enjoy, and in the end he has to give up regretfully.
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