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The miracles of the temple will be praised throughout Daxia and even the wider area for a long time.

Not only the Xia Jing Holy Church, but also the holy churches everywhere are taking this opportunity to expand aggressively. Recruiting believers is only one aspect of it. Purchasing various properties, reaching deals with various parties, and obtaining profits for the Holy Religion are all part of it.

The development of any religious affairs cannot be separated from the support of massive funds.

Cheng Jinzhou is planning to spend a long time collecting the components of a new body for Yisu. Although he is still not sure whether he is really willing to create a body for him.

Cheng Jinzhou would definitely not feel safe if a fugitive from the Star Alliance and a former Star Alliance customer service agent were allowed to roam around his territory.

However, the Star Alliance is a problem that bothers him more. Ever since Foye accepted the customer service job, the Star Alliance has become even more difficult to deal with. He also needs to improve his strength and needs the help of the former customer service.

In fact, Mr. Fo's only active contact with the current customer service is to make a request to Cheng Jinzhou and forcibly assign books to him. According to Ys's explanation: "No matter how much you buy, it's useless. They will ask for a 30% increase every time."

Because customer service also has performance pressure.

Cheng Jinzhou can understand, but he doesn't like to be the one who is being pressured, especially when Fo Ye's performance period seems to be very irregular, and the books allocated are extremely meaningless. The expenditure of hundreds of thousands of stars makes him feel very meaningless, even if For this reason, dozens of Star Alliance contribution points have been increased.

Fortunately, he can still deflect the pressure.

The warehouse managers of the church are the ultimate bearers of the current pressure. They not only have to endure Father Li Zhong's complaints, but also have to deal with Cheng Jinzhou's demands, and their lives are very difficult. The priest was unwilling to personally stop Cheng Jinzhou, and the supplies in the warehouse were quickly purchased by him. The other star warlocks even criticized the administrator, but no one criticized the "Morning Sacrifice".

Whether it is the world of Star Warlocks or the survival philosophy of feudal society, the privileged class is allowed to occupy the most resources, even in the most unreasonable way.

In return, Yisu provided Cheng Jinzhou with more realistic technology.

For example, Mr. Yisu needs pure ferrous iron. Although he can separate it for a while with his middle school chemistry knowledge, the ferrous iron can be easily oxidized into trivalent iron. How to produce it under the limited conditions of feudal society? To get the required reagents, the former customer service can teach Cheng Jinzhou a lot of knowledge. After all, the things in the independent trading platform are not cheap. A unit of the product costs 10 stars, which is equivalent to several taels of silver. It is acceptable for daily use. , if it is mass production, the first person who will lose is himself.

The peasant class who do not have enough to eat and clothing to wear will not buy good and cheap things. The first thing they need is low price and sufficient quantity. There is no need to worry about the tenants who are downgraded to another level. Their property does not allow them to buy anything casually.

Standing in the specially made laboratory, Cheng Jinzhou was having a lot of fun.

The experimental table made of logs, the hard platform made of pure granite, and the continuous supply of distilled water made it seem like we were in some kind of high-security national middle school laboratory.

Two star warlock apprentices helped Cheng Jinzhou, and the star warlock Cao Feng was also visiting the laboratory. He is now focused on pursuing progress in astrology, and doesn't care at all about issues such as the church and the association.

In other words, even if he does not pursue the advancement of astrology, he does not care about the relationship between the Templar and the Astromancer Association.

He will stay in the outer peninsula. Apart from the good treatment in Warlock Liu Kuangxing's Star Tower, it is largely due to coincidence.

In fact, there are far fewer astromancers in the temple and the association who have a sense of identity than imagined. They are either busy with their own affairs, or they are scientists who lack sympathy, just like all scientists.

Warlock Cao Fengxing looked at Cheng Jinzhou busy with chemical problems and shook his head regretfully: "Are you really going to waste your time on the transformation of objects?"

Astromancers' views on chemistry are still scattered, and there is no unified understanding of chemistry. Changing the form of matter through reagents, etc. is called the transformation of objects.

While Cheng Jinzhou was doing it, he replied: "What's wrong?"

"The transformation of objects cannot solve the world's problems. It is just a matter of one object, which is too simple." Warlock Cao Fengxing used a very fashionable point of view. Most warlocks are not optimistic about chemistry and never regard it as a formal way.

Cheng Jinzhou laughed and said, "I will only spend a short time on this."

"You are wasting your talent. You should spend your time on more important things. It will take longer to get more accurate answers." Cao Feng's reasons are very good. He has warned Jinzhou more than once that he should cherish it. talent.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't know how to answer. His talent could only be described as average. He was able to successfully cheat and become a doctor. He passed the national examination after all. His intelligence level was not low, but it was far from the level of a scientific genius.

Of course, in Daxia, he has the ideas cultivated by later generations, and now he has the teachings of Ys, coupled with the ability to consult books at any time, he is much better than the normal astromancer, but how not to waste his talent, or he Cheng Jinzhou himself is not sure whether he really has talent.

At this moment, a knock on the door by a star warlock freed Cheng Jinzhou.

Classmate Xiao Cheng immediately shouted: "Come in."

"Master Priest, your second uncle Cheng Yunxiang is here." The apprentice's status in the temple sometimes has more to do with his profession, but usually he has religious leanings and his attitude towards Cheng Jinzhou is very respectful.

"Let him come in." Cheng Jinzhou said, and the apprentices began to enter.

Cheng Yunxiang walked in with square steps and a smile.

He is also in charge, and he has already stepped into the ranks of senior officials. Now that his official career is going smoothly, his face is getting redder and brighter. When he saw Cheng Jinzhou, he laughed loudly and said, "My good nephew, Lord Sacrifice."

His voice has a strong sense of frustration, which not only highlights the family affection, but also contains many greetings based on class status, which is very skillful.

Cao Feng glanced at him and turned to the room inside without any interest. He is a standard technical person and never asks about personnel matters, etc. Although he has his own way of dealing with people, he is actually not annoying.

As expected, Cheng Yunxiang laughed twice, bowed his head and said, "Master Star Warlock, please help yourself."

Then, he said in an exaggerated and showy voice: "Jinzhou, do you know how many people have come to see my second uncle recently?"

"Oh?" Cheng Jinzhou not only has the Holy Church to report information, but also has Shen Cong in the capital, so the information is not blocked.

"I collected 50,000 taels of silver alone, and brought a total of more than a dozen sentences. Do you want to listen?" Cheng Yunxiang is a smart man. His house is open to the public, and all the clever servants in the capital know it. How to hide Cheng Jinzhou. But he would not give up such a good opportunity, so he told Cheng Jinzhou everything without hiding anything about the money.

At his current position, hiding thousands of taels of silver is of no use, but gaining connections is crucial. It was also a matter of using money. Cheng Yunxiang could more or less choose who could get it and who couldn't. In this way, he took the money with his left hand and handed it to Cheng Jinzhou with his right hand to gain some favors by the way. A very simple win-win approach.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't think that deeply, but he was a little stunned when he heard the number: "50,000 taels of silver? You didn't promise anything, did you?"

He himself misappropriated public funds, cheated and embezzled a lot of things, and he wouldn't say anything about it if he just "returned" in an awe-inspiring manner. However, fifty thousand taels of silver was also very unexpected. The so-called three-year Qing Zhifu, one hundred thousand snowflake silver, received fifty thousand taels of silver in such a short period of time, is really surprising.

Cheng Yunxiang is a snob in the officialdom. He doesn't like poor relatives, but he has no jealousy towards wealthy family members. He is completely different from the so-called small farmer spirit. He smiled and took out a small box from his sleeve and said: "I didn't give a definite answer. The 50,000 taels of silver are all here, of which 20,000 taels are purely gifts. Some of them are for your father. The third brother returned it again. They gave it to me, so I accepted it. There were still thirty thousand taels left. For any money that I wanted to send a message, I would give away 500 taels in total, and there were many of one or two thousand, so I accepted them all. . I have returned all those who want to meet, and I have written the names, numbers and words on a piece of paper for you. Those who want to meet are on another piece of paper. "

He took out a piece of jute paper, which was densely written in small regular script. The accounts were clear, not only the names of the people, but also the human relationships behind them. It seems clear.

Cheng Jinzhou looked at it and nodded in his mind. His cheap second uncle didn't have a very good character, but his ability as an official was top-notch. He was a standard Chinese official.

Just looking at this form, it is not something ordinary people can do. In comparison, my cheap dad is too literate, and giving gifts without accepting them will not work in future generations, let alone in a feudal society.

Cheng Yunxiang added: "Did you know Grand Duke Heyi? He sent me 10,000 taels of silver and wanted to meet you. I refused, so he sent another 5,000 taels of silver, saying that he wanted to apologize to you."

"Apologize?"

"It's said that the fourth commander under him was jealous of others. When he went to spread salt on other people's fields, he accidentally sprinkled it on your field..."

"I know about this." Cheng Jinzhou immediately interrupted him and said: "Hundreds of acres of my land have been watered thoroughly. Not only is the food in it gone, but the land will not be usable for many years. 5,000 taels of silver will Want to let it go? Don’t even think about it.”

"5,000 taels of silver is just to spread the word." Cheng Yunxiang smiled and said in a long voice: "I heard that the entire battalion of the Fourth Commander was locked up in the basement of the church. This kind of thing cannot be spread. It sounds good, so let’s just forget about it, right?”

Real rice is a very valuable thing. Cheng Jinzhou had long known that Wu Shuangsheng and others were imprisoned, but he was too busy with ceremonies and the like to take care of it.

After thinking for a moment, Cheng Jinzhou shook his head and said: "That's all for other people. Please return the compensation from Grand Duke Heyi."

Cheng Yunxiang immediately understood that Cheng Jinzhou was expressing dissatisfaction in disguise. But he still said tactfully: "After all, the Grand Duke of Heyi is one of the most noble nobles in the capital and a close confidant of the emperor. From my perspective, the number cannot be too high."

He felt that the loss of hundreds of acres of paddy fields was nothing, and in his heart he regarded the Grand Duke of Heyi as a high-level person. On the contrary, Grand Duke Heyi himself felt that he had offended the Dawn Priest and the Star Warlock, and wanted to make amends neatly.

If the loss was not real rice, Cheng Jinzhou's thoughts might be more like Cheng Yunxiang's. Now he simply shook his head and said: "There is no need to talk about tens of thousands of taels of silver."

Cheng Yunxiang suddenly smiled bitterly, feeling that asking for compensation of hundreds of thousands taels of silver seemed a bit excessive. But he didn't know that the price offered by the Grand Duke of Italy was higher than this.

After thinking for a while, Cheng Yunxiang suddenly said: "The Grand Duke Heyi has a huge influence in the court. Why don't we let him help us with the quota for the provincial examination?"

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