Chapter 83: The Calendar

A few days later, a notice was posted on a bulletin board outside the main shrine, and the probationary priest read it aloud to the onlookers.

"Thank you for the grace of the gods, the light always shelters the devout believers! Pope's decree: The Son is about to be born, and when the Son comes, the year of birth will be set as the first year of the Bright Calendar! The previous chaotic and strange calendar will be abandoned, and the calendar compiled by the Church will prevail, and the year will be divided into four seasons, and a new church festival will be added to include farming, fishing and hunting, schooling, training, prayer, festivals, etc., ......"

The probationary pastor's voice was loud and clear, but most of the onlookers were dazed, not knowing what he meant, and the probationary pastor was not surprised, but patiently explained: "This is just a general idea for you to know, and there will naturally be pastors in the follow-up church to guide you on what to do." ”

As soon as he said this, a few of the lords, who looked like farmers and craftsmen, relaxed, turned around and went on with their own business, shouting as they went: "Let's go, and the priests will naturally teach us how to do it, and we will not understand it, so we might as well go to work!" ”

Seeing that the crowd of onlookers had dispersed, the probationary priest also breathed a sigh of relief, and next to him, holding a weapon next to the bulletin board, was a capable temple guard, who smiled and said to the priest: "Nervous? After a few more visits, they got used to it, but in fact most of these believers were like this, and no one cared about what was written in the bulletin, as long as the priests told them what they could and could not do, and only the officials and nobles would study it carefully. ”

The probationary pastor smiled bitterly: "I know, but since His Majesty wants us to read it to the believers, it is natural that we must do it well." ”

Hearing the name of the Pope, the guards also immediately looked respectful: "Yes, since His Majesty has a life, we naturally have to go all out, if there is no Crown to bring the glory of the God of Light, how can we have a peaceful life now." ”

Although there is basically peace in the territory of Orton now, there are occasional things like beasts hurting people, but compared to when the undead were raging, the gap is also huge, so the probationary priest also sighed: "Yes, I still remember when I was a child, I was scared by my parents that if I ran around, I would be captured by the undead, and now at least wherever my lord's glory shines, I haven't seen the undead for a few years, right?" ”

The guards smiled: "Not only did I see it, many little cubs don't believe what adults scare them for, but I have a relative who works in the caravan, and I heard that they are going north to trade with the tribes in those wilderness, as long as they go out of the border of Yanan Town in the north, there will be many undead in the wild, especially in the wilderness, although the large group of undead can't see it, but the small group is simply not too many!" ”

The two of them are talking about the changes in Orton's territory over the past few years, and such discussions or feelings actually happen everywhere in the church every day, and the influence and dominance of the church are imperceptibly growing steadily......

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The eastern forest of the Ordon Realm, the border between the Kingdom of Sylvan and the Lordon Realm.

The towering giant tree fell suddenly, and more than a dozen lumberjacks who had been prepared on the side rushed over with logging axes, cleaning the branches and leaves on the giant tree with all hands and feet, and then cutting the giant tree into the right size and transporting it to the lumber yard for processing.

Since some elves taught some forging knowledge to the church's exclusive blacksmiths, the entire church has made great progress in casting technology, not only some people have figured out the casting process of bronze, but the original original forging technology has been completely abandoned, and even can make poor steel weapons, or rough but durable iron armor.

Although they are still in the embarrassing position of not being worthy of the elves' shoes, progress is still happening slowly, at least allowing the lumberjacks to use the logging axes that are several times sharper and stronger than before, and several times more efficient than before to compete for living space in the forest.

The felled trees were pulled away and transported to a flat land, only to see a deep pit dug regularly on the ground, only to wait for the log to be pulled over, then cut out a sharp end at one end, and hit it vertically into the pit, beating it tightly, so that with the passage of time, a tight and solid wooden wall gradually took shape.

Interestingly, in this busy construction site, in addition to humans, there are also elves.

The agile elves are also busy in a corner of the construction site, surrounded by a fence erected by human craftsmen, who build houses with the cooperation of human craftsmen.

The work has been going on for some time, and the site has taken on a slight scale, and the erected doorposts still hang plaques written in lingua franca and elf-language - "Longor".

This is the first trade point and exchange point established by the church and the three elves after consultation, as the first step of the attempt, the church of the four elves and the church of light will be contacted here, all personnel who go to each other's territory, whether they are clergy or technicians, must be reviewed by both sides, and other ordinary people or elves are not allowed to go to each other's territory without permission.

This kind of control of population movement is very new to the elves, but Shepard is not surprised, because this is the rule he set, knowing that human nature is complex and changeable, the traverser has always distinguished the essential difference between the same race and the elves who are born with a bias towards order, such a creative and complex race, must have a strong system to regulate and guide all aspects of things, in order to avoid civilization from going down the wrong path.

In addition, the control of the floating population is also in line with the ongoing household registration program of the church, although the project is huge, but it is beneficial for the church to control the population and inventory the territory.

The Church Guardians and Knights Cathar were stationed nearby with the Elven Forest Guards, the leader of the Elven team that first came into contact with the Church, while the leader of the human side was Artha who returned to the Church City to report on his duties.

"Teacher, those elves look so powerful......" Freman of Grass Carp Village looked at the busy elves with admiration, he was recommended to the Knight of Arsa by Priest Bandorf, after a few simple tests, the knight was very surprised to find that Freman was also very good at swordsmanship, so he took him with him as an apprentice, and recommended him to the Knights in the future.

Arsa's face moved, and his face was expressionless: "Don't envy them, train hard, you can do it in the future." ”

"Oh......" Apparently not very concerned about his teacher's perfunctory behavior, Freeman replied casually, still staring at the elves.

"Ahem! Freeman! See the group moving logs over there? You go move with them! It's training for you! Arsa's face was expressionless, and he uttered something that made Freman's mouth bitter.

Helplessly, the teacher could not disobey, and Freeman could only reluctantly withdraw his gaze from the elf, and honestly walked to the pile of logs with his waist thick......