Chapter 22: The Flower ...... Spending money on missions?

At present, the Shuangxiu Church still adopts the traditional missionary method.

The advantage of sending Hughes to each village and every house to preach is that the missionaries can have full contact with the target and have the flexibility to develop strategies according to different goals.

The disadvantage is that it is too inefficient, and with the existing armed forces of the Shuangxiu Sect, it is not possible to have enough guards for each monk.

In this case, Li Yu planned to change his thinking, divide Luye into four parishes, and gather the villagers in the parish in one place every time he preached.

In this way, the Hughes of the Shuangxiu Church do not need to go deep into each village, and can preach together in groups of dozens of people, which greatly reduces the dangers they may encounter, and can also share a guard, reducing the security pressure of the Black Dog Guard.

"Well, your idea is good, but the question is how are you going to get people together?" Miss Rabbit questioned, "I may have given orders to the serfs to listen to your people to preach, but only to the granges owned by the family.

"And there is no such precedent on the continent of Bratis, or I count this matter in the conscription......" Although the Arias family is now wealthy, Yin Leiya is still a little distressed at the thought of wasting so much manpower in vain.

But then she saw Li Yu shake her head and said, "There is no need for this, the effect of using orders is not good, but it is easy to cause resistance from those leaders, and it will be more difficult to preach."

"And what are you going to do?"

"It's simple, make eggs."

"Eggs?"

"Eggs are just a kind of reference, and it doesn't have to really be an egg, you can also send bread, ale or direct money, you can help me write to Frodo, the vice president of the Golden Fleece Chamber of Commerce, and ask him what is unsalable in Black Rock City recently.

"If the price is attractive enough, Shuangxiu can consider purchasing a large number of people and giving them to the villagers who come to listen to the lecture as gifts."

The female lord was dumbfounded when she heard this, "Flower...... Spending money on missions? This, this is not appropriate. ”

In her impression, it seemed that no church had ever done such a thing, but there were quite a few who raised money through missions, and the Silvermoon Church often did this, saying that it could please Pisia.

Aristocratic families such as the Arias family would pay an extra amount of money to the church every year to sponsor various ceremonies and sacrifices as a way to show their reverence for the goddess.

It was the first time she had heard of the church paying its members.

Although it wasn't the female lord's own money that was spent, she still subconsciously felt that it was not good, this was too loser, who could afford to lose a sum of money every time she preached?

"Actually, it's not much." Li Yu said, "I have calculated, if one person has half a white bread, a hundred people is less than three golden lions, a thousand people are only thirty golden lions, ten thousand people are three hundred golden lions, and there are more than 20,000 people in Luye now." ”

"Six hundred gold coins a day, isn't that much?" It's not that I don't know, but Miss Rabbit was taken aback.

Because she has been cooperating in business, she is still relatively clear about Li Yu's family background.

The two of them sell pepper together, and they can only earn 300 gold coins after a hard circle, Li Yu gets 200, Miss Rabbit can't get 100, and this business is only once every 20 days, plus the money from selling "Dragon's Blood", it is basically all the income of the two in the early stage.

The money was spent cleanly before the battle with the black dragon, and the two of them really got rich by the wave of likes and coins of the major families after the dragon slaying, as well as the rewards of the Figuerola family.

Not only did they help the Arias family and the Shuangxiu Sect upgrade their weapons and equipment, but they also received a lot of money and a lot of supplies, and the Figuerola family alone gave 10,000 gold coins, which were divided equally with Li Yu.

So how much money Miss Rabbit has in her hands now, Li Yu should have as much money.

The girl calculated in her heart that if she converted those materials into money and used them for preaching, it seemed that she could only last for two or three months.

It's a terrible drain, and it's only in the greenfields.

With Yin Leiya's understanding of Li Yu, she believes that the latter will not be satisfied with such a corner of peace. But if you expand outward, the cost will be even more astronomical.

"It won't be that long." As if seeing through what she was thinking, Li Yu explained, "According to my estimates, as long as the missionary Hughes do not make any serious mistakes, and the number of sermons reaches twelve or thirteen, more than half of the believers should be converted."

"After that, the frequency of the mission can be slowed down a little bit, and it can be changed to the normal Friday service, and there is no additional cost."

"And what about the rest?" The girl asked again.

"Relying on the influence of the people around him, as long as there are enough believers in the Shuangxiu Sect around him, and they are doing better than him, he will slowly convert to Saturday."

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Since it was already planning to start a war with the Shuangxiu Sect, in addition to secretly sending black-armored cavalry to smear the reputation of the Shuangxiu Sect and intimidate the Hughes of the Shuangxiu Sect, the Silver Moon Church certainly had actions on the bright side.

After Gilles, dozens of priests rushed to the green fields, and a priest could be seen in almost every small village, which was unimaginable in the past.

The status of a priest in the Western Realm is not inferior to that of a nobleman, and many ordinary peasants have never had the opportunity to meet such a big man a few times in their lives, let alone think that one day such a big man will settle in their village.

Eating the same shabby food as theirs, and sleeping on the haystack where they had laid.

Every morning, when I saw them, I would even smile at them, call out each of them by name, tell them about the kindness and justice of the goddess, and take the trouble to answer their doubts.

All of a sudden, all the villagers were moved.

Especially the elderly believers couldn't help but cry. And the people who were originally a little wavering, with the help of these priests, quickly realized their mistakes, were ashamed of their wavering, and returned to the arms of the goddess again.

However, in just a few days, the Silver Moon Church swept away the previous decline, regained its foothold in the green field, and took advantage of the fact that the Hughes of the Shuangxiu Sect did not dare to go out now, and they also sounded the horn of counterattack.

Even a brave young priest who was not afraid of death went to the territory of the Shuangxiu Church to preach, although he had barely spoken a few words before he was tied up by the lizardmen, gagged and thrown out.

However, his heroic act inspired many people and boosted the morale of the Silvermoon Church.