"Your Excellency, there is your reply from the Imperial Capital. ”

Inside the camp, Jelf handed an unopened letter in his hand to Rod's desk, and said respectfully.

"Oh, so fast?"

Rod was slightly stunned, and said with a smile while opening the letter,

"Those imperial officials only sent the song to the imperial capital the day before yesterday, but I didn't expect that there would be a reply in just two days, and this time the efficiency is quite high. ”

With that, Rhodes had already opened the letter and went through its contents.

"The national policy is to be named the "Water Classic"? And it is necessary to gather all the water conservancy experts in the empire to annotate the "Water Classic" and compile a special book of "Water Classics Commentary"?"

But soon, looking at the content of the court discussion mentioned in the letter in his hand, Rod was a little embarrassed.

He really didn't expect that the water control method he accidentally summed up was given as a national policy by Wen Sa, you said that the positioning of the national policy is okay, and it is also called "Water Classic", you say that the name is "Water Classic", even if you have to make a special annotation for it, make a "Water Scripture Note".

Unexpectedly, he passively pirated the achievements of the two bigwigs, Sang Qin and Li Daoyuan, which is really embarrassing.

However, the embarrassment was temporary, and Rhodes quickly pulled his thoughts back and continued to browse the contents of the court mentioned in the letter.

I have to say that the result of this court meeting was still very satisfactory to Rhodes, and the series of proposals he mentioned were adopted, and no one even raised a trace of doubt, which is not only good for the empire, but also for Taoism.

"Jelf, how is our operation progressing in the five central provinces?"

Putting down the letter in his hand, Rod looked at Gerf on the side and asked.

"Report to His Holiness the Pope, with a priest and two priests as a team, a total of 2,000 teams have been sent to various gathering points of the victims in the five central provinces, as well as to search for the victims in the five provinces. ”

Jeff had come to report the information, and the letter about the contents of the court had just arrived, and without the slightest hesitation, he got up and said respectfully to Rod,

"After this period of development, the situation of the victims has been stabilized, there has been no death for some time, and many of the victims who had gone astray in the past have also taken refuge in the glory of the Dao Ancestor. ”

"Yes, that's good. ”

Hearing this, Rod bowed slightly, and his heart was very satisfied.

Although the number of believers in Taoism swelled dramatically after it became the state religion of the empire, it can be said that it was almost a monopoly, but there were still sects in many provinces that continued to grow, and it was difficult and slow to expand their adherents.

This was the case with the sects in the five central provinces, and although the strong ascension of Taoism led to a significant decline in their sects, it did not reach the point of beating them to death with a stick.

Coupled with the fact that Rhodes had just become pope at the time, he chose a soft strategy for the sake of the stability of the religious community, so these sects survived, and they had a base of old believers, and they continued to develop.

Rhodes hadn't planned to attack these sects before, but this time the flood gave him a chance.

Obviously, these sects in the five central provinces did not anticipate the outbreak of the floods, so after the floods broke out, the extent of their damage was also extremely large, and the damage to people was also very large, and actions such as assistance to the ordinary people were not carried out in time.

Naturally, Rhodes did not miss this opportunity, and he sent thousands of "rescue teams" in the name of rescue to spread the teachings along with the rescue.

After experiencing the despair of the flood, the people received the rescue and favor of Taoism, which was naturally more effective and efficient than ordinary missionary work.

No, Rod could see that the number of his followers and the power of faith were rising during this time, and he was in a good mood.

Especially the power of faith, the power of faith spent on exchanging various props and buildings some time ago can be said to be quite huge, and it has spent most of his savings for several years.

This time, most of the disaster of the flood was solved without using any props or anything like that, and finally the power of faith, which had been unable to make ends meet, had a slight surplus.

It seems that a lot of the time you have to rely on wisdom to solve problems......

Rod sighed in his heart.

"Your Excellency, there is one thing I feel compelled to report to you. ”

It's just that before Rod was happy for long, Gerf's face on the side changed slightly, and he was silent for a moment, and then said slowly,

"News came from the Church members this morning, and they seem to have found some strange traces. ”

"Strange traces?"

Hearing this, Rod pulled his thoughts back, frowned slightly, and asked with some doubts.

"Well, our rescue cultists have found some huge craters at the mouth of several execution levees in the Pericius River, which seem to be the footprints of some kind of monster. ”

Jelf bowed slightly, and said in a deep voice.

"Monster footprints?"

Rod's eyes changed slightly,

"Is the message accurate?"

"Yes. ”

Jelf took out a few letters from his bosom, and then said,

"Originally, I thought it might be a mistake or something, but more than one team has fed back this message to me, and so far a total of five squads have fed back the news to me, and not only that, but they have found these strange traces in different places. ”

After a pause, Jelf looked up at Rhodes and said,

"Your Holiness the Pope, I think this time the flood may not be as simple as we thought. ”

"Jelf, you mean ......"

Hearing this, Rod thought for a moment, and then said slowly,

"Isn't this flood a natural disaster of heaven and earth, but a catastrophe caused by monsters?"

"His Holiness the Pope. ”

Jelf nodded,

"If this flood is really caused by a monster, then the problem we should solve now should be to destroy this monster, otherwise it is very likely to cause trouble again. ”

Rhodes bowed slightly, he hadn't thought deeply about the fact that the monster caused the flood, because after seeing the river embankment and a series of water control methods in the Oude continent, he was not the slightest surprise about the outbreak of this flood, after all, it was strange that this kind of clumsy water control method could not go wrong.

In addition, after he came to the five central provinces, there were no monsters in the territory, so this point has been ignored by him.

Now reminded by Jelf, Rhodes also found that something was wrong with this flood, although the empire's water control method was clumsy, but this time it was the Pericius River that had been stable that broke out, which was originally a problem.

Not only that, according to Rhodes, severe flooding usually occurs in rivers, coastal areas and low-lying areas, and the five central provinces that have experienced floods this time do not meet these conditions, but it is another problem that such large-scale floods have occurred.

It seems that we need to find out the culprit of this flood......

ps: In order to make up for the break the day before yesterday, the head of the trail added a chapter a little today, big guys, you're welcome, you're welcome

It would be better if you could unceremoniously come to give some tips, monthly passes, and recommendations, and it doesn't matter if you don't have it, hahahaha.