Once power is decentralized, it is difficult to centralize it.
This is true of the Kingdom of Mattia, which is governed by lords and governors, and it is also true of various regions where small and medium-sized nobles are entrenched.
But Port Burnie, a city taken over by the Life Church, is an exception.
When Governor Bell came to power, if he wanted to launch a large-scale war, he really needed the support of the local nobles.
Only when the interests are highly consistent, Governor Bell can mobilize a combined militia group of about 4,000 people to the maximum extent.
But when the Life Church was in power, there was no need for any negotiation to dispatch four thousand people to fight, and the Life Church's battle group had the ability to be immune to the royal power.
Even if Zhou Weide asks his subordinates to capture the king, they will carry out the task unswervingly.
All this stems from the cross-border soldiers in the dream city. In order to explore other worlds and obtain a land where civilization can continue, they dare to challenge any traditional authority.
The Dream City has a population of nearly five million, which gives them a very high ability to transform into soldiers.
The only factor limiting their scale now is the population base of Burnie Port.
In order to bring more elite soldiers, Zhou Weide not only launched a new round of personality replacement rituals, but also targeted gang members who were undergoing labor reform.
This is a good group of reserve soldiers. There are about two thousand of them, and most of them are strong young people.
Zhou Weide doesn't have that much patience for these villains.
He asked the Knights to announce the missionary plan and required the villains to believe in the Lord of Life as soon as possible, otherwise their sentences and workload would be doubled.
Then, he gathered the local city guards and reorganized a hundred-man teaching team.
The instruction team received an order to teach the villains to the best of their ability without endangering lives or causing disability.
This kind of order gave the teaching team the right to independent interrogation. In order to show their value to the new lord, they conducted painful teachings in shifts day and night.
Under their coercion, the gang members quickly realized their mistakes. They devoutly repented of their mistakes and hypnotized themselves into believing in the Lord of Life.
When the first batch of gang members who developed faith suddenly became the new managers, the remaining gangsters were eager to eat the teachings of life and integrate their pious beliefs into their bones.
Beliefs born from fear and sustained by privilege cannot be sustained for a long time.
But the villains are accustomed to the fear management and temptation of privileges by the powerful. This state of fear reminds them of the years when they fought in the neighborhood.
They began to regard the Life Church as their new leader and the instructors as their minor leaders. In the familiar gang society, they quickly offered their loyalty to the new leader.
When most gang members have faith, the villains without faith are even worse. They receive one-to-one or even many-to-one special care.
It turns out that villains are better suited to teach villains.
Under the careful teachings of the evil converts, their former leaders all came to a realization and cried bitterly to express their desire to change their past.
When Zhou Weide came to check the situation of faith again, the teaching field, which was like a poisonous vessel, could no longer accommodate other sounds. Apart from faith, there was only wailing.
This unharmonious scene could not affect Zhou Weide. The villains were much more cruel than this when they oppressed the local residents.
At least they are still alive and not disabled, but many residents have their fingers cut off, their legs broken, and many of them lose their lives.
"Get ready, the church is going to hold an induction ceremony for qualified candidates. From now on, qualified candidates will join the territorial corps and become professional soldiers."
The sudden good news inspired everyone converts, they know that a fighting group like them will never be abandoned at any time.
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But they don’t know that the only thing the Life Church does not intend to abandon is their bodies. Their sinful personalities have no unity value.
With the launch of the large-scale life replacement ceremony, batches of villains have been transformed into elite warriors. Modern soldiers from the dream city are rapidly expanding the size of the battle group.
After more than a dozen large-scale replacement ceremonies, Zhou Weide obtained more than 1,800 elite soldiers.
To these soldiers he gave new City Guard numbers.
Firstly, it is used to distinguish the voluntary replacement of residents from the forced replacement of villains. Secondly, it is used to prevent the church from being overly knightly and causing the church knights to lose their corresponding honor.
In his plan, the forced replacements are members of the Guard, and the voluntary replacements enjoy the honor of knights, ensuring that local residents see the value of their own dedication.
As for the teaching team, which is destined to be notorious, it is also necessary to exist. They are mainly responsible for some unreasonable tasks and cruel interrogations.
Considering the difficult life of many residents with physical disabilities, Zhou Weide accepted disabled people in this life exchange.
They will serve as the carrier of the city's civil servants, using their bodies with low combat effectiveness to expand the city's management units.
Therefore, this life exchange attracted a large number of local residents to participate, including about 720 healthy life knights and about 650 disabled people.
The dedication of these people has greatly increased the administrative capacity of Burnie Port, allowing Life Church to achieve a high degree of control over the city.
Of course, the biggest change in this large-scale replacement is the strength of the Life Church.
The original two Knights of Life have a total of 300 people, plus the newly arrived 720 Honorary Knights, 1,000More than 800 Advent Guardsmen.
Now the elite fighting group under the Life Church has expanded to more than 2,800 people.
This means that while Zhou Weide left more than 800 people to guard Burni Port, he could still send an elite battle group of 2,000 people to advance into the kingdom's capital.
After all the elite soldiers are armed, the Life Church is only one step away from intervening in the Crown War.
In order to gain a greater legal advantage, he also asked the Life Knights to increase the strength of the imprisoned local nobles.
The methods of the Life Knights are not as bold as the teaching team, but the results achieved are better than those of the teaching team.
There are still dozens of diehards in the hands of the teaching team, but the local nobles in the hands of the Life Knights have unusually unified in handing over their faith.
At this point, a battle group under the banner of the Church of Life, the Lords of Burniport, and the Kingdom’s nobles has been reorganized and has begun recovery and adaptability training.
In order to take care of the trust and dedication of Life Believers, Zhou Weide specifically contacted Dream City to recruit a vocational college.
In the future, believers who are not troubled by soul hyphae will become scholars in schools under the leadership of urban teachers and enjoy the treatment of modern college students.
As for the personalities of local nobles and gang members, they are not treated so well.
Zhou Weide settled them in the mountain forest territory of Dreamland Temple, granted them militia status, and allowed them to build a city in the mountain forest.
Such hard treatment makes many gang members think they have been cheated.
But they did not dare to mess around at all, because the red giant in the Dream Temple was obviously much more dangerous than the teaching team in Burni Port.
"Bishop, we also want to fight for the church, please give us a chance to fight."
"Let's finish the labor camp first, and wait until you are under the gaze of the giant god. After you strengthen your faith and reinvent yourself, I will consider letting you enter the spiritual battlefield."