He stepped forward, touched the hard, curved horns of the paladin, and said gently: "Thom, you have this heart, which proves your piety, even if you are also a believer of my Lord, but if you walk in the way that is beneficial to the glory and cause of our Lord, we should understand, this land is the sacred place promised by our Lord, and it is not for us to ask others to come, but for others to ask us to come, and you must remember this." ”

Thom nodded the huge bull's head fiercely, and said in a muffled voice, "Your Majesty, chiefs and elders, I do not agree with this if you want to move away from Cantaico City, including Kroon, I have passed on the glory of my lord to a hundred clansmen and their relatives, and these people will join me in asking you to allow us to join the kingdom." ”

"I accept your request," Shepard said with a smile back, "I already know your piety, Thom, the Knights of the Sword of Dawn have been waiting for its leader for a long time, and when I have made arrangements for you, you can go back and inform the others about this." ”

Thom and Kroon shouted in thanks, seeing that the two alien races were like this, but the three human emissaries next to them were very embarrassed, but Shepard would still ignore them, only waved their hands to let them go, and each of them went about their own business, and he led the guards straight out of the meeting room.

Back in the study, he asked the knights to retreat, and at this time there were no strangers nearby, and the four personal knights were relieved to stay outside the door.

Shepard walked to the balcony, but was not surprised to see a beautiful woman in a long aqua blue dress sitting on the soft floor of the hospitality, stretching out her slender fingers to pick up the fruit from the fruit bowl and put it in her mouth.

"Why does His Highness Meleth have time to come to me today?" Seeing the doppelganger of the god of marriage and family, who was both an ally and a subordinate, Shepard naturally didn't need to look away, and lay down on his chaise longue by himself, casually picking up the crystal glass with amber rum on the side.

Meleth's doppelganger sat up straight and saluted Shepard very formally: "Lord God, I have reached the weak level of divine power, and after separating this incarnation, the main body has been hidden in the kingdom. The kingdom she spoke of was not the kingdom of the dawn, but the kingdom of Ptolemaic who was still dedicated to her.

Shepard shook the crystal cup and said indifferently: "Well, when I saw your clone, I guessed this, and the day when I became a medium god power is not far away, once I am promoted, I will go to the outer plane to open up a kingdom belonging to our god system, and then the security of your body will be greatly improved." ”

Meleth said in a gentle and respectful manner, "Yes, I have come this time, and I would like to ask the Lord God to give me some knights to strengthen the guard force of my body. ”

As soon as Shepard's shaking of the cup stopped, his voice suddenly became cold: "What? Were there fools in Ptolemy's royal capital who did not know the power of the true God? ”

Meleth said softly, "No, just in case." ”

"Since you don't want the main body to be protected in the church city, it is also your choice, so let's do it, I will arrange for five knights of the flower crown and eight knights of cathar to go to the Ptolemaic royal capital, and these people will be in charge of your temple guards together with your [Spring Guard], and you will arrange it."

Meles thanked softly, and Shepard said helplessly: "You still have to pay attention, human beings will only fear and revere powerful forces, not good virtues, and the support of majesty and piety must be strength and power, otherwise it can only move a small number of people, but not the majority of people." ”

Meles knew that she was not as determined as her own main god, and her goals were clear, but she was influenced a lot by the priesthood, obviously she was a true god, but she was very weak in temperament, otherwise she would not be bullied by her subordinates.

Melles's personality is rare among humans, and he is really as gentle and kind as a spring, but it makes a flower like Shepard a little uncomfortable.

Turning his head to see Milles's figure that was neither fat nor thin, but very gentle and appropriate, Shepard coughed lightly in embarrassment, and when he saw that she had looked at her clear eyes, he turned his head back again, and said as usual: "The Church has compiled your authority over family and marriage, and when you send it to your church with an oracle, let them preach in Ptolemy by it, and my itinerant ministers will walk and monitor Ptolemy's territory, so that your men will not be slack." ”

Meles responded softly, and said in a cold voice: "Now many newborn births in the kingdom will have my priests to witness, and I have passed down an oracle to allow the delivery to be carried out in my temple to increase the survival rate of newborns. ”

"That's a good thing," Shepard took a sip of wine, "Your temple has the power of [Cleansing], but it is more suitable than my purification power, but the temple has a special status, it cannot be carried out in the main hall and the main hall, expand a side hall to do this, and there is the spring water of the [Holy Spring] you ordered to bathe the baby, I think that in the next few years, the newborns of the kingdom will survive a lot, this is your kindness, and we will all benefit from it." ”

Shepard's words were clear, and Meles was still a little puzzled, but she was smart, but her temperament was too soft, and she knew that the main god had some authority in the world, and there must be some abilities that she didn't understand, so she didn't ask any more questions.

After waiting for a while, a pair of softness suddenly placed on Shepard's shoulder, kneading his shoulders for him, such a massage method that came completely from mortals had no effect on the body of the true god, but one of the two was from a mortal, and the other was not far from the boundary between mortals, and they did not make a sound at this time, but a charming atmosphere followed, Shepard shook the wine glass in his hand without saying a word, as if he was afraid of ruining this rare moment of tranquility.

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"Your Majesty, all the examination papers have been sorted out, and the total number of people participating in the joint examination is two hundred and thirty-seven, according to your requirements, a total of sixty people will be admitted, the top ten will be directly classified into the auxiliary departments of the main temple, and the remaining fifty people will be divided into the five city halls depending on the situation."

Dressed in a cardinal's robe embroidered with gold and red silk, Haku gently placed the papers in his hand on his desk and whispered.

Shepard took the document and flipped through it, and said: "The results are not bad, it seems that the courses in the temples and sanctuaries this year are still attentive, and the cardinal hall issued a commendation order, and all the participants who are recommended to come up have good results, and the resident priests of the sanctuaries and temples in the recommended places will be given extra points in this year's evaluation, and the top ten recommended priests will be transferred to the main temple next year." ”

"Yes, I'll contact them to sign the order when I get back." Haku said respectfully.

Bringing another document on the desk and handing it to Haku, Shepard said lightly: "You also bring this order back, if there is no problem, the Cardinal Hall will issue an order to inform the city hall of Ilushir City to cooperate with this matter." ”

Haku answered, took the document over and took a cursory look, Shepard saw that he was looking through the document, so he continued: "According to the model of [Longall], establish a western trading point at the junction through the swamp that the elves helped us open, and if the name is concerned, let's call it [Sweetwater Town] first, as the official transit and entry and exit center for the task force's material convoy. ”

"If there are refugees in the Kingdom of Makere who have fled to the Kingdom through the passage, they will all be resettled on the spot, and only those who have reached the level of faith can enter the territory of the Kingdom, and the following orders will also be carried out in the Five Cities and subordinate villages: All those who fail to pass the faith test shall be moved to Sweetwater Town and resettled on the spot; Those who have reached the level of pan-believers but have not contributed to the kingdom should also be dealt with in this way, and this matter cannot be handled too impatiently, so let's start with Iruhir, after all, it is the closest. ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, I am afraid that this will make the hearts of believers fluctuate. Haku hesitated.

Shepard bowed his head and said, "Your concerns are very reasonable, so I have to start with Iruhir to see if it can be carried out smoothly, and besides, my request is to distinguish all the followers of my lord in the future, so that the benefits of devout faith in my lord are not only after death: all righteous believers shall pay only seventy percent of the kingdom's taxes; for pan-believers, pay normally; Pan-believers are not counted, plus fifty percent of the tax, as for slaves and hard laborers, naturally there is no such right. ”

"In the future, the villages will not be counted, and all the towns will be divided into three worlds, the first of which is naturally the inner city, where only the devout believers who have made contributions to our lord can dwell, and important departments such as the town hall are also placed here; On the second level is the outer city, where workshops, bazaars, nobles, and meritorious but ungodly believers, and devout freemen or burghers can dwell; The third layer is the settlements and suburbs that are not well located or are attached to the town. ”

He looked at Haku and said lightly: "My lord is the true god, mortals only have faith to have meaning to our lord, otherwise no matter how great the merit is, no matter how much wealth there is, but you don't know how to ask my lord for protection and rescue, after death, you will not be able to receive the glory of my lord, you need to remember this." ”

Haku said nervously: "Yes, Your Majesty, I understand. ”

Shepard smiled again: "To the west to the swamp line, to the east to Longor, to the north to the junction of the forest and the wilderness, to the south to the long river, the kingdom will be the core, this is the sacred place promised by my lord, according to the approximate results measured by the clerk and the knights, there are 300,000 square kilometers, the kingdom is organized to clean up the population, and there are divine guards and guardian knights to patrol everywhere, it takes two years, not only to eradicate the rebellion of the undead, but also to sweep away all the beasts and monsters, so that the kingdom is safe, in order to allow believers to recuperate. ”

"If this land is fully developed, it can accommodate at least five million people, although it may take hundreds or thousands of years to achieve, but this is the foundation of my lord's cause!"

The terrain is dominated by plains, the climate is suitable, the land is fertile, and there are no ants in the Old World, plus the kingdom plans all over the country with centralized rule, and it is not impossible to raise five million people on 300,000 square kilometers of land, and such a number still suppresses a lot of rough estimates, because once the population is too large, it will be difficult to manage, and if there are demons and devil's believers in it, it will be very troublesome.

Weak divine power requires 1,000 righteous believers, medium divine power requires 10,000 righteous believers, and strong divine power requires 100,000 righteous believers, but although the land of the Old World is vast, there are countless reasons why it is difficult for the total population to rise.

Even so, in the midst of natural and man-made disasters, [Tessel] can still have a population of one million after the civil war, and there are 300,000 people in the royal city of [Dalauma] alone, and the Church of the God of Justice is the strongest in this country, so Tesser is regarded as one of the most important foundations.

Even according to the very ineffective way of ruling the Old World, the flat continent of Draenor, which has no demons and devils' gaze, no strange ruins, no elves, dwarves, dwarfs, halflings, etc., and no goblins like cockroaches and rats, can support tens of millions of people to live here, which is a terrible number for any church.

In particular, Shepard clearly knew that although the Church of the Gods had sensed the importance of this continent, and the northern coastal area they occupied alone could divide many city-states and nobles, but their habitual thinking made them unable to think of the true value of the Draenor continent, most of them were still the same as in the past few thousand years, the priests only stared at the present, and the nobles only focused on money.

The Old World is terrible, dangerous creatures such as trolls, ogres, and dragons, and the human aristocracy is intriguing and does not treat the people as human beings, and centralized rule such as the Dawn Kingdom will be destroyed as soon as it appears in the Old World, because even the mountains within the Church of the Gods cannot tolerate such an efficient centralization.

Piety is relative, but selfishness is the same, Shepard always understood this, so after noticing the mistake of using the feudal system, he immediately corrected the mistake, and besides him, there is no second god who can rely on the system to view the data of his followers, and has the merits and demerits of the churches and pastors under his command, otherwise he will inevitably be deceived.

Haku was almost taken aback by Shepard's words, since he was born, tens of thousands of people were the largest number he had ever seen, even if he believed in the greatness of the gods, but because of the lack of imagination, he could not come up with the concept of 'greatness'.

Judging by his expression, Shepard knew that he still needed time to digest the matter, and waved his hand to let him stand down, and Haku respectfully exited the study.

When the door was closed, Shepard turned and walked to the wall behind his desk, where he saw a large scroll almost as high as the wall hanging on the wall, with traces of old and new depicting all the kingdom's known territories and territories, and as soon as new information was collated, a special artist would immediately add to the map.

Shepard raised his eyebrows slightly, seeing the imprint of Canteco City represented by the Makere Kingdom, and remembering the news delivered by Thom, some disdainful laughter sounded lowly: "There are wilderness in the north, swamps in the east, and the Long River and the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the south, if the Minotaur want to move, where can they move to?" ”