Working Prophet.

Chapter 68 The First Believer

Ever since they met on the stairs that day, Ona seemed to have reached a tacit understanding with Li Yu, and never came to trouble Li Yu again, and even nodded when she saw it from a distance.

Her change of attitude was also noticed by others in the castle, especially the maids, servants and guards, most of whom had served the Arias family for a long time.

Although Ilea has become the new owner of the green field, they all know that the old man hiding behind the scenes is still in control of the entire family.

Seeing that she showed kindness to Li Yu, they naturally became more respectful to this strange foreigner who came with Ilea.

Especially as the things that happened in Yanxue City gradually spread back to the green field, all kinds of rumors about Li Yu suddenly increased.

Many people are extremely curious about his magical methods and the Saturday behind them, but no one wants to know more about it yet.

Li Yu has been in the green field for a while, and he has roughly figured out the situation here.

I have to say that the Silver Moon Church is doing very well in this land. Believers spread all over the western region, from the nobles and lords to the common people, and they generally believe in the goddess of Silver Moon, Picia.

For nobles, the Silvermoon Church adopts the strategy of starting from the baby, and will take the initiative to send teachers like Anton to the castles and mansions of the nobles in the western region to teach the children and children of those nobles to read, and such professors are usually Free of charge, only the lord is responsible for board and lodging, so few nobles would refuse.

And in the process of learning the common language, the teachers from the church would instill in their students the worship of Pithia, and train them to become believers of the Silver Moon Goddess.

Once one of them becomes a lord, they will certainly continue to promote their belief in the Silver Moon Goddess in their own territory in the future.

As for those young people who were defeated in the battle for heirs, or who knew early on that they had no hope of competing for the position of lord, Silvermoon Church also opened its doors to welcome them, allowing them to go to the temple to continue their studies.

The best among them have the opportunity to become priests and enter the high-level church. The status of priests on the continent of Bratis is also very noble, and they are very popular with the common people. At the same time, they will also become the link between the Silver Moon Church and the major families. , linking the two parties closely together.

As for the civilians, the Silver Moon Church has not been left behind, and will regularly hold various sacrificial activities in various places, organizing villagers and citizens to sacrifice grains, melons, fruits, and livestock to the goddess in exchange for the goddess' protection and blessing.

In addition, some kind-hearted priests will provide medical treatment and deliver babies for free to the common people. When the harvest is not good in a disaster year, the church will also distribute food for disaster relief.

Although there are also scandals where priests defile young girls or teenagers in the name of blessings, and some merchants will pay money to hang their chambers of commerce under the name of Silvermoon Church in order to avoid high territorial taxes... But in general, Silvermoon The Moon Church has a good reputation among nobles and commoners alike.

Moreover, the worship of the goddess Pithea has a history of more than 2000 years in the western region. On average, two out of every three people are followers of Picia.

Considering that there are still some unbelievers and barbarians, this popularity rate can be said to be amazing.

The people living in this land have been accustomed to living under the protection of Pixia for generations, and it is difficult for outsiders to break this inertia.

Some time ago, Li Yu tried to perform some magic spells intentionally or unintentionally in front of the four children and the little maid, and he was amazed, but the faith count displayed on the watch was still zero.

The children have already firmly believed in Li Yu's identity as a prophet, but it is obviously difficult for them to abandon Picia and go to Saturday.

Li Yu is also psychologically prepared for this. His opponent is a local religion with a long history, a huge organizational system, and allies everywhere.

And as an outsider, it is not easy for him to replace him alone.

Although Li Yu believes that through long-term relationship and subtle influence, the people around him will eventually become Saturday believers, but the efficiency is too low.

But Li Yu thought for a while, and soon understood where the problem was.

Compared with Picia, Saturday is still a bit too advanced. The teachings he initially compiled may be able to quickly absorb a large number of believers in modern times, and he might be able to win several office buildings at a time.

However, in this era similar to the Middle Ages, productivity was terribly low, and the sowing-to-harvesting ratio of farmers was only a pitiful 1:4, which meant that if one catty of seeds were planted, only four catties of grain could be harvested.

In such a harsh environment, the only wish of most civilians is to be able to fill their stomachs and not go hungry, so they don't care if they have vacations.

Take the four little ones around Li Yu as an example. The reason why they are willing to be Li Yu's assistants is to cover two meals and the extra joy of one silver coin per month. As for the two-day holiday, it is completely is incidental.

Even after returning home, they will not use those two days to rest, but continue to help their parents with farm work.

As for those aristocrats, as supporters, they wished that the people in the territory could live 24 hours a day and grow directly in the farmland, and there was no reason to support the weekend system.

After realizing the problem, Li Yu didn't have any intention of giving up Saturday.

Some things are not engraved in the bones from the beginning, and will need to be exchanged for blood and life in the future, and they are not firm at all.

Because human greed is endless, in this case, it is better to put a shackle made of faith around the neck early.

Isn't it just productivity? What Li Yu doesn't lack most is a method to improve productivity.

When he gets the land from Ilea, he will start to increase the yield of the field, and use practical actions to prove the benefits of believing in Saturday to the people around him.

He didn't believe that the believers of the Silver Moon Goddess would remain indifferent in front of real money.

But in order to do this, besides land, he also needs manpower.

Li Yu also took time to take a look at Dias's territory these days. Miss Rabbit is not lying, the land there is very fertile and the environment is not bad.

Standing on the hillside, you can still see the slender strips of fields that have been reclaimed under your feet, one after another, densely packed, but unfortunately they are all abandoned.

There are only a few families left in the entire territory, not even a village.

The old housekeeper, Fausto, has promised to help Li Yu recruit some free people to farm. However, the western region has been relatively peaceful in the past two years, with no major disasters and good harvests, so not many farmers left their homes to rent out land.

Even if Li Yu is willing to give a very low tax rate, the more so the farmers worry about the trap.

However, on the third day after the monitoring was installed, the Fifty Fathoms in Li Yu's hand had not moved, and the column of belief finally changed from zero to one.

(End of this chapter)