Riding and Slashing

Chapter 62 Praying is Useful
October, the second day of the night of the full moon.

This is a traditional festival in Pendor Continent - Goddess Blessing Day, also known as Winter's Feast.

People in Pendor think this day is the beginning of winter.

When winter comes, people will pray for the blessings of the goddess so that they can survive the cold winter smoothly and welcome the warmth of spring in the new year.

Cold winter, on this continent, often means disaster and death.

In the past thousands of years, every winter, the mountain people and savages of the Misty Mountains will be mobilized. In winter, the entire north of the continent will be covered with ice and snow, and the cold air from the north will meet the ocean monsoon from the west. Can cause a large-scale ice storm.

The mountain people of the Misty Mountain Tribe who lived in the ice and snow all year round would not be affected by this severe cold environment, but the soldiers in the central mainland were different.

The combination of bitter cold wind and ice and snow will make most soldiers in the kingdom unable to use their hands and feet. Whether they are men or horses, their combat effectiveness will be much lower than usual in this environment, and the effects of scouts and watchtowers will also be greater. discount.

All advantages and disadvantages come from horizontal comparison.

In other seasons, the tribes of the Misty Mountains with poor equipment and poor tactics are far from being a match for the warriors of the kingdom or the Jatu cavalry.

But in such a winter, they will become extremely terrifying enemies, even more terrifying than the Jatu people in a sense-the Jatu grassland is just one place, and their routes and goals are traceable, anyway Either Changhe Town or Lion Lake City, or Xiaolu City in the Northern Kingdom of Raven Crow.

But the Misty Mountains half surrounded the northern part of the entire continent from north to east - no one knew where they would descend from, no one knew where they would attack...

The only thing we know is that they go down the mountain to rob every year, because the mountain people in Misty Mountain also need to store food for the winter.

And similarly, if the Jatu people are harassed by the Misty Mountain people, then they will find a way to plunder the kingdom, and they also need food...

The pirates in the west also have to store food for the winter—the coast in the northwest of the mainland may be frozen, and they will also face no income for several months.

Therefore, the winter in Pendor is often a time of constant wars.

It's not about hatred, it's about survival.

Therefore, when winter comes, people will pray for the blessing of the goddess so that they can survive the cold winter smoothly and welcome the warmth of spring in the new year.

In fact, due to the geographical location of Maixiangling, the village did not feel the cold winter, but everyone gathered in the small square that had just been leveled in the center of the village.

Because Li Ang erected a statue of Eunomia, the goddess of order, in the center of the village, and led the villagers to pray for good luck.

This is just a wooden statue one person tall, rough and simple, but it still looks quite charming, the carpenter in charge of carving obviously put a lot of effort into it.

Moreover, this Eunomia has a sun and moon pendant on his chest, not a lion's head.

Perhaps for modern people, it feels like a waste of resources to spend manpower to make sculptures of gods in the early stages of territorial development.

But in this era, such a major event related to the beliefs and customs of the people cannot be sloppy.

The major events of the country are only the sacrifice and the Rong.

This 'sacrifice' refers to controlling people's hearts through this seemingly useless ritual.

Except for Anson, Sarah, and Mettenheim, all the people in the territory are believers in the goddess of order.

The ceremony was short but formal. Facing the gods, the lord showed a different respect than before.

It's a fucking time, it's a joke to pretend to be an atheist, even if you don't believe in it, you have to respect the customs anyway.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but when he saluted the goddess as a knight, Li Ang felt that the wooden statue seemed to smile.

But when you look closely, nothing has changed.

Probably dazzled...

Just after Li Ang finished the blessing ceremony, he heard the sound of good luck coming.

"My lord! My lord! Sarah and Miss Leslie are back!"

Ansen, who believes in the Creator God, did not participate in this event. He ran back from the west village entrance with excitement on his face.

"They brought back a caravan and many merchants, my lord! Countless merchants!"

Li Ang grinned again and saluted the goddess sincerely.

It seems that building a statue really works - the lord actually got rich that day!
……

During the period when the territory was booming, Sarah took Klose and the others to several places.

Ermenide, Long River Town, Kewen, Selen Meath...

They are all relatively large aristocratic territories in the eastern region. Only Trubrun she did not go to, because that place is relatively close to the Dengjil Mountains, and it would be troublesome if people insisted on field inspections...

Everywhere she went, Sarah would go to the local nobles to promote this good project——

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune, a gold mine that has never been mined!"

"Think about it, this means a mint! Mint gold coins yourself! As long as there is enough funds to start the project, the profit..."

The nobles were almost drooling up to their necks, but they quickly woke up——

"If you have such a good thing, you can do it yourself, why do you have to ask others to invest?"

Sarah would explain with a charming smile——

"Think about it, if you discovered the gold mine, would you dare to take it all by yourself? What would you do if you were robbed by robbers or 'other troops'?"

"My lord is not a fool, let more lords invest and participate, and everyone will protect their own property together... What do you think?"

So the nobles 'fully' understood the intention of this joint-stock company. After all, the entire kingdom is like a joint-stock company, and people who want to monopolize the benefits from ancient times to the present will definitely be besieged. This is common sense.

But there are also nobles who still have such doubts——

"This Mondesney AG project sounds good, but we've never heard of that wheat scented collar...... it can't be fake, can it?"

So Sarah will take out Lord Godric's subscription book——

"Come on, everyone, if your eyes are still good, you should be able to recognize whose seal this is?"

"Master Godric, a contemporary famous general who has lived in White Hart Castle for a long time, is the executive director of our company! Do you think Lord Godric is a fool?"

"If you still have any worries, you can go to Lord Godric and ask him clearly, he is in Changhe Town now!"

Relying on this set of rhetoric, Sarah persuaded the surrounding nobles to willingly invest in the subscription shares.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some nobles were so fascinated by Sarah's appearance that they gave the money in exchange for a piece of parchment called 'stock'.

In fact, some were still worried and insisted on going to Changhe Town in person—but in the end they were all satisfied and handed over the Dinar to Godric.

By the way, he was scolded by Godric: "You don't even recognize Lao Tzu's seal? Do you look down on me? I won't make you rich next time!"

In this way, the executives of Mondesny successfully completed their listing process-Sarah's persuasion is quite reliable.

(End of this chapter)