The missionary Wright’s short and clear answer left Gawain stunned for a long time. He had already prepared a lot of reasonable and polite remarks to deal with the missionary’s chattering, including but not limited to "territory" "There is no money to maintain the church", "There is no money to support the priests in the territory", "You can buy the bricks and tiles of the church yourself" and so on, but they did not expect that this missionary who was suspected of being a gladiator turned pastor would be like this Forget it...forget it like this...
Could this big brother be an undercover agent of the Shadow Church who infiltrated the Holy Light Church?
"You just let it go?" Even Amber couldn't help but say, "Don't you plan to persuade me anymore?"
"The way of the Holy Light tells me, if If I do good deeds, then the Holy Light will naturally shine on people's hearts. If I don't do good deeds, then even if I speak out, it won't work." The big man drew the emblem of the Holy Light Church on his chest with his hand, his face clearly full of stubble and But his muscles just put on a holy look, "So it doesn't matter if you are not interested. It won't be too late to come to me when you are interested."
"He is really an interesting guy," Hetty said in disbelief. The ground shook his head, "You are from the central region, right? How could the church in the Holy Spirit Plains send you to the extreme south to preach? And they just gave you a document... where are your entourage and bodyguards?"
Today is no longer the age when civilization first emerged and various sects were struggling in the wilderness. Even the traveling missionaries no longer walk alone like ascetics, especially the missionaries who set out from the fertile Holy Spirit Plains. Soldiers basically move around the world with a considerable number of followers and guards. Therefore, such a team is also called a "mobile church", which means that a church has all the armed personnel, servants, and priests, but this Mr. Wright, however, walked here from the Holy Spirit Plains with a tattered document in his pocket. Not to mention his entourage, he earned his own travel expenses and food.
This trance gives people a sense of traveling through time and space, as if the missionary has come out of the barbaric era in the history books.
After hearing this question, Wright just smiled casually: "I set off alone. The bishop gave me a document and asked me to come to the south to preach, so I came. As for followers and guards... How can I, a small low-level priest, get followers and guards, and I don’t need them?"
As he spoke, he showed off his muscles: "There are many saints. The knight can't beat me, and many of my followers can't work as well as me, so what do I want them to do?"
Then he looked up and saw that a new batch of bricks had been delivered to the construction site? , so he stood up and patted the dirt on his pants: "It seems that there is work to do again. Do you still have any problems? If there is no problem, I will go and help unload these bricks first."
< p>Gawain looked strange: "...Please do so."Wright waved his hand: "Then I'll go. Oh, by the way, don't forget to help me transfer the documents to your lord. , I need permission from the lordOnly those who can build churches and preach publicly. ”
Gawain was a little dumbfounded: “Don’t worry, I will definitely pass it on.” "
Wright nodded, turned and walked towards the construction site, but turned around again after just two steps away: "By the way, there is something I forgot to ask. ”
Even Hetty couldn’t laugh or cry: “Just ask me what’s going on.” "
"Where to eat after work? "
Hetty sighed: "...just follow the workers. Everyone who works will have food and care. "
After the missionary walked away completely, Amber whispered softly: "I thought the people from the Holy Light Church would definitely find trouble when they saw me, but why did they end up being so stupid... wack. "
"Stop being paranoid, people don't know who you are and why they are causing trouble for you," Hetty glanced at Amber, then looked at Gawain, "Ancestor, you have to allow this... Do 'missionaries' preach in the territory? "
"Observe for two days first," Gao Wen said calmly, "Send a clerk to register his basic information, and then arrange a residence for him according to the standards of skilled immigrants - arrange it in near the administrative area, and pay more attention to his actions. If there is nothing wrong with this man... he is allowed to preach and operate within Cecil's laws. ”
Gawain himself is alienated from belief in the gods, but he does not intend to prevent people from carrying out religious activities in the territory - because religious activities are an "established fact" in this world, and so are divine arts. As part of the local productivity, 10% of the people in the territory themselves have beliefs, either in the gods of fertility and the god of holy light, or in the fields of craftsman, commerce, knowledge, warriors, etc. Most of them They are shallow believers, and a small number are devout believers. In this context, it is neither necessary nor meaningful to prevent a missionary from the Holy Light Church from operating in the territory, and it will also make people suspicious.
And as long as this strange and upright missionary has no doubts or stains in his background, then his arrival is actually a good thing - Gawain still remembers what Veronica mentioned last time, and he believes that The Holy Princess is definitely not just a casual mention. She will come to him again sooner or later, but if a small church recognized by the Holy Light Church is established in the territory before that, then he will have sufficient reasons to decline the invitation from the royal capital. The church has infiltrated.
A regional church established by a wandering missionary with the funding of a local lord is much easier to control than a church directly commanded by the royal court.
Thinking about this. After all, Gawain returned to his tent.
Looking at the tent he had lived in for several months, he felt a little emotional.
It was indeed time to leave. He moved out of here and moved into a brick house.
At least the new house he designed has formal study rooms, bedrooms, warehouses and various laboratories, whether for living or conducting magic. The research will be much more convenient than here
But I just don’t know why.Amber was also very interested in Gawain moving into the new house as soon as possible. Last time Gawain asked her curiously, the latter said a bunch of weird things, such as "It's been a long time since I climbed through the window to enter the house", "You don't even have a tent in your tent". There is no door that can be pried", "What kind of noble house is it without a basement and a treasure house"... It's really strange.
Gawain had to knock Amber's head around to correct her habit of speaking strange words, but it seemed to have no effect.
Several reports on the population and the expansion of new residential areas in the territory were placed on the table. Gawain sat down at the desk and began his daily work.
Relying on the inherent appeal of ancient heroes and the factual authority of Gawain to protect the people of the territory, the measures he promulgated were implemented quickly on this land, even planning town roads and building houses. In the past, measures such as building sewers and banning public urination in the streets were difficult to advance and difficult to explain to the residents in the current era. They have also been well implemented. It seems that people do not really care about the purpose of these measures (even Gao Wen People have been sent to constantly preach the significance of each policy), but as long as the lord says it, it must be right.
But Gao Wen knows that the execution efficiency brought about by this kind of blind trust cannot be relied on for a long time. It will inevitably be continuously worn out in the process of promulgating systems and laws one after another. To maintain There are only two ways to achieve this kind of execution rate.
First, try to make as many new systems and laws produce visible benefits as possible. At the very least, let the people believe that the improvement in life is promoted by those systems and laws, so that they will Be willing to follow new laws.
Second, promote education so that the people know how to think and discern, so that they can truly understand what the lord is saying, and on this premise, still support the laws and rules in the territory.
Article 2 will not only maintain the current execution rate, but will also greatly improve the efficiency of every work in the territory.
But... where to find teachers? Especially in the Gawain Project, where extraordinary knowledge education is required for all the people, such teachers are even more difficult to find.
Ordinary people who can read and count may be hired with money, but those who are truly knowledgeable and can provide higher-end education are difficult to find. They are unlikely to be willing to face a group of noisy "low-class people" "Poor people" can't bear to explain what runes and calculations are, even if they give money.
Perhaps you should ask Jenny. She might know some extraordinary professionals who are extremely poor in the upper class... In the spirit of change when you are poor, it should be easier for those mages who are about to starve to death. Let's bribe...
At the same time, in the open sea far away on the east side of the continent, the storm was gradually dissipating.
The violent and turbulent water element returned to the atmosphere and ocean. Before, almost all the energy accumulated in the atmosphere was splashed on the islands and reefs, blasting the entire islands and reefs into pieces. But now the remaining The energy is stabilizing along with the water element and gradually returning to the embrace of nature.
The blood of the cultists stained the sea surface red, and the smell of blood attracted predators in the ocean. However, those predators only patrolled fearfully on the periphery of the waters, not daring to approach this area that still emanated danger. A place of breath.
The Sons of the Storm failed to withstand the real storm after all. They managed to withstand the natural disasters caused by the Kraken army for a long time, but in the end they had to give up this "miracle". field".
At the cost of nearly one-third of the believers' lives, they forced their way out of the turbulent ocean and fled this place.
Now this island is back in the hands of the Kraken again.
There are still many huge and terrifying ferocious beasts patrolling on the sea. The bodies floating on the water, covered with carapace and bone spurs, and filled with magical light are daunting, but soon, these One by one, the giant beasts sank into the water. After a while, some female figures emerged from the sea.
They have beautiful faces, elegant and well-proportioned bodies, and eyes that are as intelligent and agile as humans, but their cheeks and arms are faintly covered with tiny scales. These scales are not scary, but instead give people an unusual and enchanting beauty. In the process of churning the sea water, the structure of the lower body of these women will rise out of the water from time to time - but it is a long tail like a sea snake. Or a fish-like tail.
Some even have tentacles with suction cups like octopuses.
These intelligent creatures in the water looked at the islands and reefs left behind by the cultists after they evacuated, but they had no interest in the so-called sacred vessels and altars that the cultists guarded desperately.
A sea monster with long sky-blue hair looked at the direction of the island, while another sea monster floated up from the water and swam towards the leader with long sky-blue hair: "Those with sick minds The humans ran away, General Vanessa."
The siren known as General Vanessa frowned: "What an inexplicable creature. I clearly remember them hundreds of years ago. They're not that crazy, why can't they even communicate now..."
"Probably because they can't live in the sea, and their brains are damaged from living on land all day long. "
"Forget it, it's not important," General Siren shook his head, "Now that all the sick humans have run away, we can continue working."
" Then..." The young Siren soldier had an eager expression on his face, "Shall we go down and continue digging for squid?"
The Siren General smiled and nodded vigorously: "Yes, let's continue digging for squid."< /p>
“Keep digging for squids!” “Digging for squids!” “Big squids!”
The sirens cheered loudly, and then rolled up the waves one by one, shaking them like sea snakes , sea fish, and octopus rush to the bottom of the sea with their tails to continue the work they have planned to do in this sea area -
Go to the deep sea, go to the sea bed, and continue to dig for that unknown reason. die inBelow, the body fragments have covered the entire seabed, and there are endless "big squids" that can't be dug out...