Of all the royal capital cathedrals, the Kegaston Cathedral in the royal city of Neville is the shortest and the most expensive. It is made entirely of precious white glazed rock, and the tall bell tower is made of even rarer yellow glazed rock. Dusk falls, twilight envelops the sky of Neville King City, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the Kegston Cathedral is full of brilliance and beauty, and the 7-ton purple gold bell swings left and right, and the melodious bell rings throughout the city of Kegston.

The style of Keghston Cathedral is the same as that of the Neville aristocracy – extravagant, extravagant, extravagant.

The mountains and ravines of Neville are rich in all kinds of ores, timber, animal skins, and rare spices and herbs, but to say that the lords of Neville are rich and oily is definitely a rumor. In fact, the minor lords of Neville were generally poor. However, when the knights and nobles of the entire kingdom were concentrated in the city of Kgston, the comparison of wealth became the norm, and naturally created the most luxurious royal city in the human kingdom.

Fildra Rex stood in the palatial church reception room, her long blonde hair standing on end, looking full of energy and joy. His laughter is hearty and infectious.

"Your Majesty, the tenant system and the Mutual Aid Society are a wonderful design, and with this achievement you will leave your mark on the history of the Church and the kingdoms. I see that even the nobles of Arya will be impressed by your wisdom. ”

Dressed in a white robe, Clement sat on a chair, looked at the king of Neville with warm eyes, and said with a bow, "You are right, the man who started the tenant system has no wisdom and vision inferior to that of Priest Arya. But that's not me. ”

"I know, I know. ”

A smile appeared on Rex's face, "The tenant system was pioneered by Queen Rose's lover, and you just set up a new missionary system based on the tenant system. If Friedes and Tamor want to make a fuss about tenants and mutual aid associations, they must first ask the Queen of the Rose if she agrees. ”

Clement claimed that Viscount Randall had set up a tenant system and mutual aid society, which King Rex did not believe.

The tenant system and the mutual aid association are cleverly designed, rigorous and complete, and at the same time include both administrative and educational affairs, which are perfectly connected with the vassal system. After careful study, the scholars of the Neville royal family unanimously agreed that this new system was built on the basis of new agriculture and animal husbandry, and was an extension and change of the vassal system, which had incomparable guiding significance for the era of great development. Its historical status must be above that of vassalage.

At the end of the Silver Age, the city-state to which the noble girl Arya belonged was attacked by orcs. Lost contact with her family members as a young child, she followed the tide of refugees and migrated south, wandering and suffering all the way, and became an aristocratic priest at the age of 29. After the war in the north subsided, the noble priests lost their real power and were all transferred by the Holy See to the kingdom of El to specialize in the training of priests and holy warriors. The 42-year-old Aya, who was well-read at the Ivory Fort, studied history and doctrine, and spent 22 years in the field before proposing the vassal system.

At that time, the noble daughter of Arya was 64 years old.

How old is Viscount Randall?A 24-year-old young viscount, who has been a lord for 6 years, can surpass the founder of the Silver Tower, the founder of the Bronze Age? He has not even received a scholarly education from the Silver Tower.

Perhaps, Viscount Randall inadvertently discovered the advantages of intensive cultivation and pioneered new agriculture, animal husbandry and water conservancy projects, but inventing agriculture, animal husbandry and water conservancy technology and building a political system are completely different things. Moreover, the lord does not know the affairs of the church, only the resident priest worries about the lord, and there is no lord who will do everything possible to redeem the homeless people for the priest.

Is the eleventh tax paid for nothing?

Governance and missionary work are different fields, and even if Viscount Randall had this leisurely nature, he did not have the ability to design a mutual aid society.

Randall's mutual aid societies and mutual aid vouchers may have been just after-dinner conversations among the aristocracy, but they have caused an uproar within the church. Rex and Clement, who had always been close to the Pope's pastor in the Kingdom of Neville, understood the importance of the Mutual Aid system to the Church.

The poor are more religious in the Lord of Light than the rich, the old more than the young, the sick more devout than the healthy, the displaced than the lords, and the vassals more devout than the vassals. The poor and weak groups of displaced people have always been the main recipients of the Church's alms, but they are not the main providers of the power of faith.

The church circles that collect the power of faith are fixed, and the groups of displaced people are running from place to place, and most of the power of faith generated by their prayers is in vain. It's like Neville plans to absorb millions of displaced people from the Sus Kingdom and the Sassanian Empire, and organize 400,000 young people to build large-scale water conservancy projects. The hired laborers quarried stones in the barren mountains and fields, built roads, dug earth and canals, and camped for rest, and there were no churches around, so they could only pray spontaneously. Although Clement mobilized some priests to follow the ranks of hired laborers, organize prayers for worshippers, and collect holy power with white crystals, the work was limited by both the number of priests and the number of white crystals. Compared to the power of faith wasted by the spontaneous prayers of the hired workers, the role of the white crystal can only be said to be better than nothing. And compared to the displaced population of the entire human kingdom, Neville's 400,000 hired workers are only the tip of the iceberg.

For the church, of course, the more devout believers the better, but a stable community of believers is more important, which is the fundamental reason why the resident pastor favors the regular people.

The Church has always encouraged the settlement of displaced people and called on the lords to accept them as much as possible. The contradiction in reality is that when the displaced people gather there, the local food prices will gradually rise, the cost of relief for the church will increase exponentially, the people in the register will complain, and the conflict between the two sides will become more and more intense.

The tenant system, which evolved from the new agrarian system, was able to fundamentally solve the problem of settlement of displaced people, but the lords were not enthusiastic about it, preferring to allocate the newly developed land to the registered people. In addition, the relief pressure brought by the tenant community also made the church feel overwhelmed.

Randall's mutual aid associations and mutual aid vouchers perfectly solved the problem of relief tenants.

Clergy are not allowed to engage in secular business activities in any form. The tithes collected by the Church were to support the Templars, the Knights of Radiance, the Cardinals of the Holy See, and missionary priests everywhere, and there was only a limit to what could be used for the relief of believers. On the one hand, the resident priest asked the lords, nobles and wealthy believers to donate food and money, and on the other hand, he taught the homeless believers to redeem themselves in order to relieve the pressure of relief in the church.

By issuing mutual aid coupons to all classes, raising funds, hiring caregivers, helping the disabled and infirm tenant families, and collecting some money and goods from their families, the Mutual Aid Association maintains the stable and orderly development of the tenant community. The church and the lord did not spend a single copper plate, and the relief of the tenants was completed. The most important thing is that the church can organize the most devout groups of the elderly, the weak and the disabled, to pray every day and collect holy power all the time.

Isn't this the ideal system of salvation that missionary pastors are pursuing?

The adjectives such as ingenious and brilliant pale in the face of both tenants and mutual aid, and should be prefixed with "greatness"! Who but Clement, who has the ability, who has the position, to create such a great missionary system?

The problem is that Clement threw out the mutual aid system at the wrong time.

In the face of such great achievements, not to mention the three patriarchs of Friedus, Tamor and Clement, even the elders of the monastics, large and small, had to stand up and get a piece of the pie, and through long discussions, criticisms, suggestions, accusations, revisions, revisions, and revisions, they had to sign their names under the documents of the canon of mutual aid.

Patriarch Friedus, who is attached to the Knights of Radiance and never holds the position of Pope, has always acted as a balancer, choosing allies between the other two patriarchs, and not allowing either to grow for long. The Clement line produced two popes in a row, and the next pope was a priest from the Tamor line, which met the needs of the Radiant Knight. Therefore, the members of the two factions of the Cardinal joined forces to squeeze Clement out of the pioneering sequence, and put him in charge of the work of migrating the displaced people and pacifying the faithful.

Now, Clement only has three parishes in his hands, the Diocese of Wharton Prairie has no lord, and its political power is negligible; the Centaur Hill Diocese, Sylvia has a high reputation, but the Yorkist family is not strong enough, and there is a Gambis Kingdom on its head, which can barely be regarded as a principality; the Diocese of Neville is the only kingdom parish, with 5 golden knights and dozens of high-ranking knights, but Neville is underpopulated and relies on imports for food. If this problem is not solved, Neville simply does not have the ability to compete with the Sassan Empire for the right to open up the northern wilderness.

The priests of Clement's line seem to have no hope of establishing merit in the pioneering. If the kingdoms made progress in expanding their territories, they began to introduce a tenant system. At this time, Clement proposed a system of mutual aid to solve the problem of tenant relief, and the pastors of his line would gain great prestige and meritorious service.

Clement's current mutual aid system is equivalent to showing his hole cards in advance, and his situation has become very passive. Friedes and Tamor have to take some credit if they don't have credit, otherwise Tamor won't have a chance at all.

The three patriarchs chose to hold a secret meeting at Coghstone Cathedral in the Kingdom of Neville in order to squeeze out the small schools of the presbytery and then divide the cake of the mutual aid system.

Rex speculated that both the tenant system and the mutual aid system were actually invented by Clement, and that he was named after Viscount Randall, mainly to borrow power from the Divine Knights. And the Randall family is actually a buffer for the three patriarchs to wrestle with each other.

This was a common political tactic used by lords and archbishops.

As for why Clement chose to launch the Mutual Aid Society and Mutual Aid Vouchers at an inopportune time, King Neville was also puzzled.

Could it be that Clement saw that Grand Master Testiel was going to take Neville as a victim, and he had to intervene in advance to help me out of the siege......? Our Neville Kingdom is the biggest hole card under the crown!

Rex touched his beloved beard with a smile on his face, showing closeness and gratitude just right

"Fildra...... You're laughing so fakely. ”

Tuernans clasped his hands on his chest and looked at King Neville with a blank expression, his shiny head reflecting the light of the golden candlestick, which stood out in the reception room.

Gee, how could I make friends with this curious idiot? I'd rather deal with the Ogre Overseer than explain a dumb riddle to him...... I am the king of Neville, and not your teacher...... That's really silly...... Rex lamented in his heart, changed his serious expression, spread his hands and said, "I have no money...... Uh, well, Neville's water project has drained my pockets. ”

Turnans looked at the four huge elemental crystal rings on His Majesty Rex's right hand, sneered and shook his head, "Didn't Neville take out 20 million gold soles to build a water conservancy project? ”

"Fake. ”

Rex put his right hand behind his back, shrugged his shoulders and said, "If I don't say that, how can I cheat all the gold coins in the lord's hand? The lords below who benefit from the water conservancy project, why should I, the king, pay for it? In fact, the fund for the water conservancy project is only 4.8 million gold soles. ”

"This budget would have been more than enough...... According to the original plan, we dug a gap in the Mist Mountains to the east, used the Carchimosen Grand Canyon as a natural channel, brought water from Lake Ball in the Dusk Forest, built a dam, impounded the water into a lake, and built an aqueduct to irrigate 180 million acres of mountainous land in the south-central kingdom, forming pastures, arable land, and terraces. ”

"Who knows, the craftsmen dug a piece of the core of the earth at a key location in the Grand Canyon of Akimosen......"

Rex waved his left hand, walked back and forth in the room, stopped, and said irritably: "That thing is the embodiment of the earth element, connected to the earth, it can't be knocked or moved......! Now the whole project has to be revised!"

Turnans suddenly realized, touched the reflective head and said, "The project has been reworked, so you bumped into that legendary gnoll, Wind Fang?"

Rex said with a calm face, "Wind Fang has disappeared from the Dusk Forest for eight years, and we all thought it was a threat to Hogus's position and was killed by the King of the Gnolls of the Dusk Forest. Unexpectedly, it actually led more than 300 of its own clan to the periphery of the Mist Mountain Range. That day, Windfang went out hunting, and my soldiers exterminated the gnolls as if they were ordinary little tribesmen. When the wind fangs returned, they went crazy and attacked humans everywhere...... That damn beast is too cunning, and the two highnesses of Farul and Andalusia personally led the team to round it up, and after a month, they haven't even touched a wolf hair!"

"Now, the hired workers are afraid to work, and the whole project is stalled...... I'm all up to you!" Rex patted his friend on the shoulder.

Turnans frowned and asked, "It's a lone wolf now?"

"Hmm. Otherwise, I wouldn't need to ask you to do it. ”

"Tsk...... It's a bit tricky. ”

The First Paladin smacked his lips, shook his head, and said, "That beast is faster than me...... The point is that the Misty Mountain is so big that it won't be easy for me to run into it, let alone ambush it...... I tried my best, and there was no guarantee that I would catch it. ”

"Three months. ”

Rex grabbed Tournans's shoulder with his left hand, stretched out three fingers with his right hand, and said with a glare: "I will personally bring 200 sword mantis knights to cooperate with you, and guarantee to kill that beast for three months." ”

Tournans looked at the elemental crystal ring on King Neville's finger and grinned, "You are short of money......"

"This thing can be exchanged for food, and the food will always run out, and the hired workers will have to continue to eat the food after they have eaten the food. ”

Rex shook his head and smiled bitterly: "According to the requirements of His Majesty the Pope, Neville will build a water conservancy project in the kingdom within 20 years to accept millions of displaced people...... We have now recruited 170,000 young and strong workers, including 450,000 displaced people with their families. Where is there enough food for Neville, and we have to buy barley and meat. The grain shipped from the Sassan Empire by the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce and the Southwind Chamber of Commerce is selling for more and more prices. The 170,000 migrant workers receive two free meals a day, but they have families to support. The price of food is high, and they are clamoring for a wage increase. The wage of 6 copper soles per day rose to 18 copper soles. I have to pay 2,300 gold soles a day, 1.2 million gold soles a year. If this continues, the budget for the water conservancy project will be used up in less than four years......"

"I wrote a letter to Emperor Fret of Sassani, and I asked him why the barley in the Sassan Empire is more expensive than before when it can't be sold?"

"How did he answer you?" asked the First Paladin, transformed into a curious baby, his eyes lit up.

"Frerett wrote back that the sassan barley had been sold to the Three Kingdoms, but now it was only sold to Neville, and I had taken a big advantage, and of course the price would increase!"

"Well, that makes sense......," Tournans nodded deeply, and then asked with great interest, "how did you answer him?"

"Answer?" Rex waved his hand violently, "I directly doubled the price of iron and fine iron!"

"Well, that's it!" Tournans smiled and patted King Neville on the shoulder.

Rex said expressionlessly, "He also tripled the price of food. ”

Tournans: "......"

"My father once said that a seller of iron is no more than a seller of grain. Rex shook his head, frowned, and said, "I'm wondering...... The Yorks are so poor, how can they build water projects and get richer and richer?"

"I know that. Turnans crossed his arms, held his chin, and said in a deep voice: "The York family has Sylvia, and Neville doesn't even have a female golden knight." ”

"The Spirit Knight and the Female Golden Knight can't turn food into food. Rex shook his head and smiled.

Turnans glanced at Rex with disdain and said lightly, "Silvia has Victor. ”

Rex was stunned, turned his head, and asked in a deep voice, "Is the tenant system and the mutual aid society really the masterpiece of Viscount Randall?"

"It's true. "Victor Randall pioneered the new farming and pastoral schemes, explicitly proposed tenant systems and mutual aid associations, and he was also proficient in hydraulic engineering and architectural design. If you can bring him over and help, I'm sure many complex problems will be simpler. ”

Rex's eyes instantly became deep, he thought for a long time, raised his head, and said with a burning gaze: "The mutual aid system can only be designed by His Majesty!"

Clement smiled bitterly and said helplessly, "Now...... I could only have designed it. ”

Rex nodded thoughtfully and said, "Whether I can bring Viscount Randall over or not, I will implement the tenant system and mutual aid associations...... I want it now!"

"The priest would cooperate with the lords of Neville in promoting tenants and mutual aid societies. Clement nodded, and said, "The Rex family has been guarding the El Sect for thousands of years, and no one can force you to do anything. You have a choice. ”

"Hmm. Tournans coughed dryly, looked at Rex, and said, "Explain to me what you talked about with the teacher...... I will tell you that Grand Master Testil has arrived, and has arrived at the gate of the church. ”

Outside the church, the disturbance of the Void Wind Elemental was fleeting, undetectable but sharp.

Rex smiled playfully, "I feel it...... Since the Grand Master of the Knights of Radiance has come to see me under the guise of his identity, then I will listen to what he has to say. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, four great knights in Mithril armor and swords pushed the door open, bowed to the Pope and Turnans, and looked at the king.

Rex waved his hand and ordered, "It's okay, that Highness is Grand Master Testiel, you go out first." ”

The four silver knights bowed slightly and left the room without saying a word. Not long after, three men dressed in the robes of senior priests entered the reception room and at the same time owed a body to the Pope, who was sitting in a chair.

The man at the head unbuckled his hood and turned to Rex. He has jet-black hair, his facial features are delicate like sculptures, and under his slender and straight eyebrows are a pair of ice-blue eyes, like two frozen and frozen storms, his thin lips are upturned, and he laughs softly:

"Your Majesty Rex, I heard you're in trouble...... How about I'll help you deal with that gold-tier gnoll?"