"Take the initiative to pay for the maintenance of the believer's house?"

In the kitchen, Levin, who had managed to froth the egg whites with great effort, got a moment to rest, and said as Ma Wei poured the sugar and milk into the basin: "Boss, this is indeed a good way to promote the church, but does our church have such strong financial resources?" ”

The Church of Truth, which had been established for three years, owned only a church under their feet, and other than that, there was no territory at all.

Land represents wealth, it is the means of production, and the Church with a large amount of territory must have abundant financial resources, and in their eyes, the little cost of repairing the house is not worth mentioning, but the Church of Truth is different...

"The church currently has £2,300 left."

Ma Wei handed the steel basin with sugar and milk to Levin, and motioned for him to continue stirring: "All this money I have accumulated in the privateer before, and if I ignore the food expenses of the cats, the Church of Truth will not only break even, but also have an income of 25 gold pounds a month. ”

"How much food do cats eat each day?"

"Almost eight gold pounds."

"So much?!"

Hearing this figure, Levine was taken aback, you must know that when the Sunshine Circus is full every day, the income is only 10 gold pounds, and this is not counting the cost of prop loss, food, wages and other costs!

After some mental arithmetic, Levin came up with a rough figure: "Doesn't the expenditure of 8 gold pounds a day mean that the church has a net loss of 215 gold pounds per month?!" ”

"You have not counted the daily expenses of the church, from this day onwards, I will pay you a salary of 11 shillings and 6 pence a day, which is 17 pounds and 5 shillings a month, and in other respects, I will regularly deliver food to the orphanage, and all these expenses add up, and the monthly expenses of the church will be more than 250 gold pounds, to say the least."

“.... Am I getting too much salary? Levine swallowed: "Actually, it's okay to have less. ”

"It's just a drop in the bucket, even if you don't want a salary, the church's monthly expenses are still astronomical."

In the Kingdom of Windsor in 1859, the majority of the middle class earned between 300 and 800 gold pounds a year, while the land-owning small squires, doctors, lawyers, and merchants earned 1,000 to 2,000 gold pounds a year.

The average working class earns a measly 20-100 gold pounds a year.

By contrast, the Church of Truth, which spends 3,000 gold pounds a year, seems to have surpassed the vast majority of the population at a level of consumption.

In other words, it only took five years for Mavi to bring back 5,000 gold pounds from a privateer, and his income level had already surpassed that of more than 90% of the people.

But....

The situation at the Church of Truth is not optimistic.

With the arrival of the Cat Legion, the Church of Truth, whose spending has skyrocketed, is facing an unprecedented crisis.

If it weren't for Ma Wei's previous wealth, he really wouldn't be able to feed so many cats.

"It's not a way to go on like this!"

Levin licked his somewhat dry lips and proposed, "Or... I go to the coffers of those nobles and see if they have anything they don't want? ”

"Nope."

Ma Wei shook his head: "In the past, those nobles couldn't do anything about you, because the Rose Monster Thief's whereabouts were erratic and mobile, and no one knew which city he was going to and which nobleman he was targeting. ”

"New Ross City is a small city, incomparable with the big cities of the royal capital, York, and Edinburgh.

"Then what if I use the disguise magic to turn some gold bricks and sell them?" Levin asked, "It's okay for me to become someone else's appearance and go to a different city!" ”

"The disguise magic only lasts for three days, and it will be exposed in the blink of an eye." Ma Wei immediately denied: "This can only make us make a windfall, how big can it be?" Besides, the gold bricks purchased with a lot of money suddenly became a pile of waste materials, and the bosses of those pawn shops must not be able to swallow this breath, they are all backed by nobles behind them, and the news spreads to other big churches, which will only be more detrimental to us. ”

"Tsk."

Levine smashed his mouth, and his arm stirred faster and faster: "Isn't this sitting on the empty mountain and killing yourself!" ”

"There is still time, no matter how bad it is, the remaining funds can last for half a year, and I have begun to look for ways to make money."

"What method? You're not raising one or two cats, you're raising a city's stray cats, an army! ”

"Wouldn't it be okay to let them be self-sufficient?"

While preparing the fluffy bread crust, Mavi said: "A while ago, there was a plague in New Ross.... In fact, it is a curse, the origin of which is unknown, but the residents of the city believe that it was caused by rats, which has led to everyone now avoiding rats and shouting and beating them. ”

"The news of the plague has spread out of New Ross City in the past few days, and it is slowly developing towards several surrounding cities, so that..."

"Isn't the opportunity for cats to make money?"

"What do you mean..."

Levin's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to ask, "Let the cats catch mice?" ”

"In the name of the Church of Truth."

Ma Wei said his next step: "It's not enough to get the friendship of Baron Bill, the Church of Truth needs to be favored by more nobles, originally, as long as I can catch the Rose Monster Thief, the nobles will definitely celebrate and invite me, who has solved their troubles, to participate in various banquets, so that I can easily enter their field of vision and take the opportunity to promote the church, but unfortunately.... Alas, plans never keep up with changes. ”

Shrinking his neck, Levine suddenly fell silent, lowered his head, and obediently stirred the cream.

"But I don't regret my decision at all, Levine."

Seeing that he was a little weak-hearted, Ma Wei said: "I lost a great opportunity to contact the nobles, but I got a strong talent, and your arrival made me immediately change my original plan and study a new direction of development." ”

"What direction, can you tell me about it?"

"Of course."

Ma Wei stopped kneading the dough, dipped his fingers in some flour, and drew a cat's head on the brown-red tabletop: "Next, there are two directions for the development of the Church of Truth. ”

"First of all, the cat legion, I plan to publish the news of rat hunting in the newspaper, for ordinary civilians, the church will clean up the rat infestation for their homes free of charge, and for those gentry and nobles' large estates, we will collect a certain amount of remuneration, and at the same time expand their prestige, gather funds to ease the pressure on the church."

"Secondly, those aristocratic lords, more or less, have their own land, the plague makes everyone fearful, and they are no exception, as long as we really get rid of the rat infestation, then they will definitely take the initiative to contact the Church of Truth, isn't this in line with my previous development policy?"