The priest is a papier, and his duties include organizing prayers for the faithful, providing medical care, providing relief to the people, assisting the lord in destroying monsters, pacifying the hired laborers, supervising the behavior of nobles and vassals, and organizing the evacuation of the people in the event of a disaster.

There is a saying among the lords and nobles: My territory can be without a steward, and it must not be without a priest!

There is no such thing as a free lunch. The priest also had a job of collecting the tithe.

The Radiant Code clearly stipulates that the eleventh tax has the highest priority and is sacrosanct. The priest was unrelenting in collecting the taxes, and not a single copper sol was missing. The lord may be able to fool the king's tax collector, but he can't hide it from the priest. In fact, most lords themselves don't know how much income their territory makes, but the priest knows very well how much grain has been harvested, how much minerals have been mined, and how much profit has been made from trade this year. Of course, with the guarantee of the Radiant Code, the priest will definitely not overreport, and the lord will even ask the priest to verify the income of the territory to verify whether anyone is corrupt.

At first, the lords were also very distressed, but gradually when they found that the income from the territory was decreasing, the priest also jumped up and down in a hurry. In order to increase taxes, the resident priest will spare no effort to help the lord generate income, such as the green sand candle of the Barony of Schultz, which is a typical example of the priest helping the lord generate income. In the event of an epidemic in the livestock of the territory, the priests will use the resources of the Church to provide corresponding solutions, and they will also provide the smelting technology of minerals, the cultivation and extraction methods of oil wood, etc., some of which are invented by the Church, and some of which are plagiarized from other lords.

The new agriculture and animal husbandry have achieved remarkable results. The church has mastered the planting method of ploughing and deep ploughing, but the wild boar captive technology is not yet ready to be promoted. Determined to be part of the transformation of the Centaur Hills, Pelo must first assess the output of the Centaur Hills Diocese in the coming years and predict the revenue of the tithes before the Church can provide financial support according to his report. The greater the potential for the Centaur Hill to pay the tithe, the greater the support of the church. Pig farming is an important source of income for the hills, and Perot certainly has to examine the breeding of wild boars in detail.

When he arrived at the farm, Miller refused to be accompanied by the steward, and took Perot and others around the pig barn.

This wild boar farm is far from Pinghu Town, built on the east bank of the Yinyue River, covering an area of more than 300 acres. To-day the wind blew to the west, standing outside the farm, not feeling anything, and going inside, no matter how could he avoid the stinking smell, Bishop Perro did not care at all about the stinking pig dung, which were the treasures of the farmer, and he looked at the wild boars in the house with interest.

The pig houses built of green bricks are closely connected, each about 20 square meters in size, and 5 fat and round wild boars are crowded in it, lying on their stomachs or lying down, looking very lazy. It is only when the farmer's cart passes by that they get up and arch to the trough and wait for the feed to fall from the sky. The wild boar buried itself in the trough and feasted, and the three farmers entered the house and began to sweep the pig manure.

Bishop Perro asked with some concern: "The wild boars have a fierce temperament, will it be dangerous for them to enter? These green brick pigstys probably can't stop the wild boars from colliding, right? Why don't you use iron oak fences?"

"There were injuries in the beginning, and now there are very few accidents like this. Miller nodded and explained, "These wild boars are all second-generation captive pigs, and after castration, there is not much wildness left. They are accustomed to life in captivity and do not easily attack the breeder or destroy the barn. Eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat, full of lazy pigs. ”

"The main purpose of building a pig barn with green bricks is to prevent fire, and although the iron oak fence is strong, if there is a fire, the whole farm will suffer. Moreover, iron oak rots, and worms attract wild boars to gnaw on the fence. ”

Pei Luo's face was a little strange, and he shook his head and said, "If the other nobles knew that Randall had built a pigsty with green bricks, I don't know what they would think?"

"Don't worry about this, Randall Collar produces different specifications and styles of green bricks, which are divided into bricks for nobles, bricks for vassals, bricks for lords and low-grade bricks. The low-grade bricks are used exclusively for the construction of animal pens and stables, and these are low-grade bricks. Miller laughed.

Pei Luo was stunned for a moment and sighed: "The Wimbledon family is worthy of being a business aristocracy. Such an ingenious method, Viscount Randall can also think of it. ”

After a pause, he asked, "How many pigs are there in this farm? How many pigs does Randall have in the collar?"

"There are more than 6,000 pigs here. There are four farms of this size, plus wild boars raised by families of hired workers...... Randall has more than 30,000 pigs. Miller replied.

"How can there be so many? It can't be more than 20,000 wild boars led by Randall, right?"

"Female wild boars give birth to two litters a year, each litter of about a dozen, male wild boars have the habit of eating litters, so there will be no more than 20,000 wild boars living in the wild. Now, wild boars are kept in separate captivities, and most of the piglets survive. "The Randall family is ready to scale up to 60,000 pigs within three years," Miller said. ”

"Domestic pigs?"

"Hmm. Miller nodded and said, "Your Excellency, you see that these wild boars have lost their wildness, and Viscount Randall thinks that they can no longer be called wild boars, but should be called domestic boars." Master Edwin also believes that wild boars are being domesticated, just as wolves are domesticated into hounds, and wild boars will change. These domestic pigs will breed for a few more generations, and they will have obvious differences from ordinary wild boars, such as reduced mane, vestigial fangs, lazy food, especially fast growth, and more likely to get sick. ”

"It really should be called a domestic pig. ”

Perot, who was a scholar himself, agreed with Edwin's view, but he had another issue in mind.

"The amount of domestic pigs that eat is not small, can Randall raise 60,000 pigs?"

"The big pigs eat amazingly, and the small pigs don't eat as much as the big pigs. These pigs grow to about 300 pounds in 10 months, and they are slaughtered every 10 months without letting them grow too big, so that 60,000 pigs can be raised. ”

Miller secretly sighed that his power was like the abyss, and he was not much better than the first pope, but no magic could turn food into food, let alone raise 60,000 pigs, but Victor solved this problem lightly. And Randall's achievements have made Miller feel like a mountain to look up to Victor's wisdom.

In fact, Victor can expand the scale of pig breeding to 300,000 or even 500,000 heads, but it is no joke that pigs hurt farmers. Randall's natural resources can raise up to 200,000 pigs, and if this number is exceeded, it will be necessary to produce additional pig feed, which will increase the cost of pig breeding, and then consider the consumption capacity of the common people for pork, the whole people and horses can not blindly expand the scale of pig breeding, otherwise it will lose money.

Victor pursues the maximization of profits, and he does not raise pigs so that the homeless hired workers have cheap meat to eat, let alone donate to the church stupidly. Victor wants to plunder the wealth of other families through the pork trade and ensure the operation of the alchemy tower.

Victor told the Duke of York that the purpose of raising pigs was to make money, and that it was better for the vagrants to have no meat than for them to eat for free.

The Duke praised this view, and the vassal lords of the House of York also believed in Victor's abilities, and the enthusiasm for pig breeding in the Centaur Hills fell.

However, the number of pigs in Randall's territory surprised Bishop Perro, and he began to calculate Randall's pork production.

The weight of these domestic pigs is not as large as that of the large wild boar, which weighs more than 400 pounds, but they are slaughtered once every 10 months! 16 months a year, 32 months in two years, if calculated according to the current 30,000 domestic pigs, Randall will slaughter 90,000 pigs in two years, no less than 45,000 per year! The average weight of domestic pigs is 300 pounds, and after deducting the inedible part, each domestic pig can provide 240 pounds of meat. The Randall family produces at least 10 million pounds of pork a year.

The Randall family will definitely pay 1 million pounds of pork next year! How much pork will the whole Centaur Hill have to pay?

Bishop Perro was shocked by his conclusion, and his eyes burned when he looked at the fat pig.

After visiting each pig barn and asking many questions, Bishop Perot reluctantly left the pig farm.

In the windy season, the autumn is high and cool, and the fields are sunny and pleasant. Without the smell of pig dung, Bishop Perot couldn't help but take a deep breath. At this moment, a motorized carriage came at a gallop, and the smoke and dust that swept up Bishop Perro, who was standing on the side of the road. The disgraced Father Miller pointed to the convoy and jumped to his feet and cursed, but Perot grabbed his arm and stammered, "What ......is in the carriage?" It's a thorn ...... Randall wants to plant kidney beans, right?"

"These bastards, it's too unreasonable!" Miller dusted the bishop diligently, muttering: "I don't know the saplings in the carriage, I heard that the Duke of Wellington gave the crops to Viscount Randall, and the convoy has been carrying them every day, and it has been half a month. These coachmen are not afraid to break their horses' legs!"

"That's right! they're worried about the death of the saplings!" Pyro was overjoyed, and he couldn't wait to laugh three times to express his feelings at the moment.

Food scarcity was an important factor in the infighting among the lords. The total amount of arable land in the southern kingdoms was more than twice that of the Sassan Empire, and the grain production was only 70% of that of the Sassan Empire. This was not because the land in the south was not fertile enough, but because the Sassan Empire could grow high-yielding green barley.

The green wheat in the north matures every six months, and as long as the fields are left for two months, they can ensure two crops a year, and there is a yield of 600 pounds per mu. In the south, the yield of spelt wheat per mu is not more than 450 pounds, and it has to be cultivated in rotation for a year, which means that only 50 million mu of 100 million mu of arable land is planted with wheat every year. The worst of all is the 12-month growing cycle of southern wheat.

Even if the yield is low, it is just a rotation of farming, and the whole 8 or 9 months of green and yellow are not harvested, so what do the people eat? Therefore, the people are very dependent on the natural resources of the territory.

In general, a village controls 300 square kilometers of land. In a rich territory, there are thousands of registered villagers, while in a barren territory, there may be only 4 or 500 villagers. These villagers often clashed violently with displaced people in order to protect the natural resources of their territories. In order to gain more territories, wars also broke out between lieges, which have now evolved into kingdom-to-kingdom wars.

The church and the lords had been trying to solve the problem of green crops, such as rye, soldier beans, kidney beans, etc., but the results were not satisfactory until the Wellington family cultivated the spiny kidney bean.

Although the water content of the prickly kidney bean is large, its yield is surprisingly high, reaching an astonishing 3,000 pounds per mu, and the picking period of 5 consecutive months perfectly solves the problem of green and yellow. However, the near-zero economic benefits made the lords shy away from this high-yielding crop.

The Kingdom of El is the largest cultivation of prickly kidney beans, and as more and more freedmen flock to the Kingdom of Eyre, they stop planting them. The Church even issued an edict forbidding freedmen to enter the kingdom of El for a living, for a well-sounding and impeccable reason.

The church tried to convince the lords to grow the prickly kidney beans, but no one bought them, and they gradually realized that no one would grow them unless all the lords planted the prickly kidney beans. If the church has the ability to do this, then it is better to let the lords sit down and talk about peaceful reunification.

In any case, Bishop Perro was overjoyed by Randall's willingness to plant prickly kidney beans, which meant more people and more believers.

"How many acres of prickly kidney beans does Viscount Randall plan to grow?" asked Pelo.

"This ...... I don't know. Miller explained with some embarrassment: "These prickly kidney beans are all planted on the hills, and it is difficult to count how many acres there are now. ”

"Planted on the hills?" Perro thought for a moment and asked, "Is the arable land saved...... Then the wild resources on the hills are gone, and there is no opposition from the villagers?"

"No one objected!" Miller laughed, "The huge brick kilns consume a lot of firewood every day, and many hills are cut down into bald hills. Viscount Randall openly stated that he wanted to use this species on the bald hills as a wild resource for the villagers to use at will. ”

"Lord Randall is a merciful and generous lord!"

"......" Bishop Pero was silent, and his face turned cloudy.

Almsgiving to the public has always been an important means for the church to harvest faith, and half a piece of moldy black bread and a thin bowl of wheat porridge may make a devout believer. Large-scale almsgiving is particularly effective, but the church's financial resources cannot often organize large-scale almsgiving. Bishop Seon uses the thorny kidney beans of the lords of the central and southern regions to organize a large-scale relief every year, which is praised by the church every year. Now, it's finally his turn, and Viscount Randall actually gave the prickly kidney beans to the villagers!

Although most of the villagers in Randall's territory are homeless hired laborers, Perot is absolutely confident that they will feed the pigs with prickly kidney beans!

No matter how much a pig eats a prickly kidney bean, can it provide faith?

Miller's look of admiration showed that Viscount Randall's behavior could not be faulted in the slightest, but Bishop Pero was as uncomfortable as choking on a fly.

Thinking about it, this might be Sylvia's tactic, and Perot was even more depressed. At this time, a church attendant came running out of breath and shouted, "Master Miller, the praying people have arrived, and we are waiting for you to go back and preside over the service." ”

"My lord, this afternoon's service is about to begin, will you preside over it yourself?" asked Miller, bowing down.

"Tell me, Miller, what is the service?" asked Bishop Perro, in a snarled voice.

The Church has strict rules for prayer ceremonies, divided into morning prayer and evening prayer, during the day the believer has to work, those scattered prayers are completed by the believer himself, only when the donation is made, the priest will come forward to receive the generous believer. Miller has come up with an inexplicable worship service that has touched the bottom of the church.

Seeing the bishop's solemn expression, Miller hurriedly explained: "My lord, the service is evening prayer, and the number of people is a bit large......

"Vespers are vespers, why are they called services? Also, it's not time for vespers!" asked Perro, whose face was a little pale, coldly.

"My lord, that's right. Miller said: "Viscount Randall had a rule very early on that people should have a day off when they worked. To support my mission, he set a 12-day rest day as Sunday, three Sundays a month. On Sundays, the people of Randall's domain, including vassals and nobles, had to go to church for morning and evening prayers. If someone is unable to come due to work, Viscount Randall will donate 1 silver sol to each of them. Belch...... The aristocrat is a kinsol. ”

Pero was moved. Prayer in the church is a means of extracting the power of the priesthood, which involves the source of the power of the clergy. Organizing morning and evening prayers is the most important thing for the church.

The Peak Knight connects to the Elemental Sea to gain supernatural power, while the Clergy connects to the Sacred Power Pool in the Underworld and extracts divine magic from the Holy Power Pool. The Holy Power Pool is a gift from the Lord of Light to the clergy, and the priest organizes the believers to pray, and transmits the power of faith to the Lord of Light through the church, and the Lord of Light transforms faith into holy power and injects it into the Holy Power Pool.

Beginner clergy do not need to be connected to the Holy Power Pool to cast up to two levels of Beginner Divine Magic, but Intermediate Priests must be connected to the Holy Power Pool in order to perform Divine Magic above level 3. The promotion of clergy is also closely related to the Holy Power Pool.

The second-level priest gradually realized the true meaning of the doctrine by presiding over the teaching affairs, and with unshakable faith and his own merits, he could go to the Holy See, connect the holy power pool through the promotion ceremony, and obtain the permission to perform the third-level divine arts. Since the divine arts in the holy power pool are arranged, and the divine arts above the third level have the least burden on the priest's body, the lifespan of high-level clergy is much longer than that of low-level clergy.

Paladins are also promoted in this way, with the exception of paladins, but any mid-level cleric must use the holy power in the holy power pool, and the holy power pool also has a limit. Therefore, the greater the number of believers, the more faith is offered, the more power the Holy Power Pool will be, and the more clerics will be.

However, the Lord of Radiance only transforms the faith transmitted from the church into holy power, and those believers who are far away from the church cannot increase the power of the holy power pool even if they pray sincerely. The church did not have so many priests assigned to every village, but those villagers prayed every day, so the church had to use the white crystal to collect the escaping holy power, and then let the high-ranking clergy burn the magic in the white crystal and turn it into a magic crystal. However, burning the Divine Crystal will shorten the lifespan of the High Priest, and the White Crystal will shatter if used twice. In desperation, the church asked the pastor to gather as many believers as possible to pray in the church, and in those particularly remote villages, the pastor could only run once every ten days and half a month, mainly to appease the believers, and by the way, use white crystals to collect holy power.

Although the Sunday prayer proposed by Viscount Randall cannot completely restore the loss of the dispersion of faith, it will greatly improve the efficiency of the collection of holy power, and will produce more devout believers, and it will directly affect the holy power pool! If the Sunday service can be promoted, it will definitely be a grand event for the church!

Pei Luo forcibly calmed his excitement and asked in a trembling voice: "Randall led the farthest village to Pinghu Town for a day's journey, how did those villagers rush to Pinghu Town to attend the service?"

Randall has a public carriage that connects each village, and villagers can take a public carriage to Pinghu Town. On Sundays, the number of public carriages will also be increased to ensure that every villager can reach the church in time. Miller replied.

Bishop Pero exclaimed, "Praise be to my lord, Viscount Randall is a genius favored by my lord!"

"Lord Randall will bask in the glory of my Lord!" said Miller, his eyebrows lowered, and he prayed softly.

The mid-level clergy must keep the secret of the Holy Power Pool, all the low-level priests do not know about the existence of the Holy Power Pool, and the civilian priests are always low-cost priests, but how can this be concealed from Miller? Miller has already told Victor the truth about the Holy Power Pool, and this is the Sunday. As for the precepts of the Radiant Codex, what can he do? Miller only had to ascend and shout, and the Pope would have to bow down at his feet, but he had a great plan and had no time to live with the Church.

Peer's eyes lit up, his imagination was shining, and Miller was smug, neither of them knew what Victor's actions had changed and what kind of impact they would have.

Censuses of displaced populations, encouragement of childbirth, medical teams, and public carriages are all aimed at strengthening the central government's control over the local governments. Blank slates are the easiest to receive centralized education, and as long as Victor improves the education system, these children will grow up to be the most loyal children of the Randall family. And faith has always been accompanied by centralized rule, throughout the dynasties of the earth, and Sunday can paralyze the church and give the Randall family time to grow.

It was in this way that Victor pried open the first brick of the altar of theocracy.

If you want to believe, I will give you faith, and who is the lord of kingship or divine power, will see you in twenty years.