The Great Temple Festival is one of the most important religious activities in the belief of the world gods of Pleuz.

Only the main god can enjoy the Great Temple Festival, and the Great Temple Festival is actually divided into two kinds, the one that protects the country is called the National Festival, and the other eight main gods are called the Great Temple Festival.

Of course, the Great Temple Festival is held in the temple, but it is not just a temple that can hold a large temple festival, it must be a large temple recognized by the Imperial Ministry of Divine Affairs to have this qualification.

According to the law of the Ministry of Divine Affairs, in addition to the protector god, the other main gods can have no more than five large temples, and the total of the eight main gods is forty large temples. Think about the empire of sixty Sakai, vertical and horizontal nearly 800,000 椝 (the empire's standard area unit, vertical and horizontal land for one tree, equivalent to less than 49 hectares), share these forty large temples, on average a Sakai is less than a large temple, so every time the big temple festival, there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of people around the vicinity come to participate in the sacrifice, it is definitely the most lively time of the year in the local area.

How is it possible for a large temple to accommodate so many believers to participate in the sacrifice? Of course not, so the festival period of the big temple festival is as long as one month, and as long as you have been to the temple during this period, you will be considered to have participated in the big temple festival.

The nineteenth day of the month of the god of death is the day when the festival period of the temple of the god of death begins.

Although every day for the next month is a sacrifice period, but anyone thinks that the people who participate in the sacrifice on the first day will be more or less pious, so the believers who come on the first day must be the most, most of the people who want to participate in the temple festival on the first day even go to the two houses near the big temple on the eighteenth or even the seventeenth. Before the festival, the temple is cleansed for one to three days, and any non-clergy stepping into the temple grounds during the cleansing period is tantamount to blasphemy.

There are many particularities in the temple festival, and each main god has his own particularity, like the god of death temple festival, believers are not allowed to eat the day before entering the temple, but they do not need to be cleaned on the day of the festival, they only need to soak their hands and feet in the Yisile River not far north of the temple, and they can wait to enter the temple. Although more than 100,000 people gather around the temple before the festival, there are no vendors here to do business, because before the festival begins, these people barely eat or drink, either chanting or sleeping to reduce physical exertion.

On the eighteenth day of the month of the god of death, the fourth middle school of the earth.

Grand Priest Pivontu had just had breakfast in advance, double serving.

Today is one of the busiest days of the whole festival, with a separate proclamation in the morning, followed by morning prayers, and then the celebrant for nearly three times, which is past lunchtime, and in the afternoon it is time to pamper blessings, and then it is time for free inspection. By the way, today, it should be said that there is an additional job tomorrow, which is to supervise the bidding for a piece of land in Ha and Siyuan.

The proctor is the exclusive authority of the temple, that is, the priest asks the deity to witness the announcement of a certain outcome or the signing of a contract. Such announcements or contracts are not only equally sanctioned by the laws of the Empire, but are also so powerful that mortals cannot change them at will. Of course, such a bullish thing is not something that can be done casually, and only the big temple has this qualification to be a supervisor, of course, it has to be a paid service, and it is difficult to say about the pricing.

The high priest didn't know why he had to be asked to supervise the bidding for a piece of land, which was rare, but he didn't bother to find out, he just went to the auction anyway, and warned everyone to obey the results of the gods' testimony. With his status, no matter what the outcome is, it will never affect him, so why should he worry about this.

There were quite a few people who got up early like the Great Priest, and they must have included the various families who were waiting for the supervision of the certificate this afternoon.

The Esle River Lodge is one of the best hotels near the Temple of the Dead God, where several members of the Gaodan Nambaf family rested last night.

The room was booked early, but they came very late, and Feng Yi arrived at the store, so they didn't sleep well at all. But they were all up now, and the people were busy preparing breakfast, while Gulu, Li Duma, and Ganyafu drank together a refreshing and anti-fatigue grass juice, which tasted terrible but did work well.

"Have you brought the deed order?" asked Li Duma.

Juru patted his left chest and signaled, of course he would not forget to collect this thing.

What is written on the deed is the bid for buying land, not only the price of gold and silver, but also other conditions - the rules of land trading, generally the deed quotation, the public price, the highest price wins, this time is no exception. But as with many bids in this and other worlds, the so-called high bidder is nothing more than empty words, and the real winning bid is decided before the bidding is opened.

"The total land price is 100,000 polin silver, pay 50,000 yuan first, and pay off the rest within two years. "This is the winning bid price reported by the henchmen of the Circle Order Sect last night.

The price of wasteland in the empire is generally calculated based on the tax value or annual output value of the same area of agricultural land, for example, the tax value of one land for 20 years, or the annual output value of five years, depending on the different Sakai and the suitable crops of the land, this figure can be very flexible, and the wasteland in places like Shan Zanman Sakai can buy this land after about a year and a half of output value. Of course, whether you buy or not, you have to pay taxes every year, the difference is that there are tax reductions and exemptions for private land and public land, and the advantage of buying land is to take a long-term view.

So what is the concept of the land price of 100,000 polin silver? The land here is fertile, the climate is relatively warm, and the yellow flutes are planted three times a year, and one Na Yi land produces 70 thorium (the weight unit of the central and southern empire, one thorium is equivalent to the weight of 5,000 yellow flutes), even if the seeds are not considered, all of them are exchanged for money, according to the normal grain prices in recent years, the annual output value is about 18 polin silver. Even at the price of the land in five years, the 100,000 polin silver is enough to buy more than 1,100 taels of land, but now this piece is actually less than 1 na.

However, this real estate is not Huang Di, and the market price of the current dug up is probably more than 100,000 Polin silver.

It seems that the selling price is too low, and this is a blatant sale of state-owned resources? It is not appropriate to say this, and the account is not calculated in this way -- it is true that the price of such high-priced goods is very valuable, but the market for such high-priced goods is small, and if so many people are thrown into the market at once, the price will definitely dive, so it is impossible for anyone with a little brain to do this, which is why the 100,000 polin silver should be paid in installments. No, on the one hand, there are taxes on the output, and on the other hand, there are pre-production and various development and maintenance costs, and the winning family cannot eat alone, so this transaction is definitely a big profit, but this money is really not for everyone to earn.

With the winning bid price reported by the order, the land should be stable, so the three of them are also in the mood to discuss other things.

"That proud mage, he actually disappeared like this, could it be that he was assassinated?" asked Guru as he drank the grass juice.

"Unlikely, I've met a lot of mages, including those from the Legal Management Department, but none of them give me the feeling of absolute confidence like him. "The dry tooth man refines the earth-based spells, but he has a talent that few people know about - Xiangren, who can sense the inner emotions hidden by other people below their expressions, so although he is not as good as another spell consultant in terms of actual combat effectiveness, but when he goes out to run errands, Guru often takes him with him.

"I also think that the mage is definitely not someone who will give up easily, and his disappearance should be a different way to find the person who assassinated him. This is Li Duma's point of view.

Probably thinking that winning the bid was in sight, no one agreed with him, and Gu Lu didn't mind, and smiled: "I also hope that he will take revenge on the person who tried to assassinate him, and it is impossible to affect our winning bid anyway." I wish I could have received two pieces of good news in one day today. ”

The land of the Great Temple of the Dead God belongs to the temple property and is located between the three walls, so there is also the best hotel in the other side of the temple, and A, B and C live here.

Their expressions seemed to be relaxed, but unlike Gülu, A, B, and C didn't seem to be very talkative, just quietly enjoying the hearty breakfast on the table.

White cheese from Galusakai White Casters, the famous strawpot fruit wine of Château Dottertu, freshly roasted chicken, duck, pancakes, Mori bread, fami, and fresh fish soup, topped with seven or eight spices from all over the empire. Even the aristocracy could hardly have such a breakfast outside of their mansion.

Cutting a cross in the hot bread, elegantly stuffing a piece of sliced white cheese into the mouth, and quietly waiting for the white cheese to become soft under the heat of the bread and then absorbed by the greedy bread fiber, this is the most correct way to enjoy this white cheese with Sen-style bread.

A ate very slowly, and it took three times as long as an ordinary person to make the bread completely disappear from the plate, and after drinking the remaining half of the cup of straw pot fruit wine, and then wiping the crumbs of wine from his mouth with a silk napkin, he began to speak.

"When will that gentleman arrive?"

As soon as he spoke, the other two stopped eating.

C said, "When we parted last night, he said that he would come here to see us before lunch today. ”

"Will he come with us to the temple?"

"He's not sure yet, but he said he'll be there even if he's not with us. ”

A nodded slightly, and drank the new cup of straw pot fruit wine that the servant had added.

Unlike those families who enjoyed breakfast comfortably, Kimpfunk was much more uncomfortable.

When he got up in the morning, there was no sumptuous breakfast waiting for him, no servant prepared for him to refresh and fight fatigue, and he had slept very badly the previous night.

This is really strange, a one-time collection of 10,000 polin silver, plus the annual output of three points of dividends in the future, even if it is an imperial official, there are not many chances to get this kind of benefit, let alone that he is a decree.

In fact, the period from the time when Pi Jun was discovered until last night was definitely the most refreshing and pleasant day since he entered his career, with all kinds of aristocratic masters who are usually not easy to see vying for goodwill, all kinds of rare or expensive gifts and gadgets, and a bunch of benefits waiting for him to nod and accept. It literally made him laugh every night in his dreams.

However, two unexpected visitors last night completely broke all this.

He was distressed and apprehensive, but he couldn't talk to anyone, at least not until the afternoon bid opened.