If I let you farm, will you become the emperor of the empire?

"Are you really like this?" Roman questioned.

"Nobles cannot defame the reputation of the monastery!" The abbot was a little angry.

Roman rebuked mercilessly: "What reputation do you have? How much land does the monastery have? Can the nuns take care of it? How many hired farmers are there in the monastery? They are dependent on the monastery. If you are not responsible for their lives, who will be responsible? You should be like this! Instead of secretly rejoicing as if you have done a great thing."

Mapel opened her mouth: "The land was given to us by the king. We bought it with money. It belongs to the Church and the gods..."

"Stupid! Where does the money of the Church come from! The tithe also belongs to the gods, but have the gods ever seen any gold? The Church uses the name of the gods to make money and raise the army. When it sees that faith cannot influence others, it uses force to influence them. How are you different from unbelievers like me!"

He scolded Mapel.

No matter how well-educated the nun is, she can't hold it anymore.

Her face was extremely ugly, but she couldn't raise her spirit.

If it were other nobles, they would see that Roman had dug up all their foundations.

They would not be willing to reason and would get angry on the spot.

Am I a noble lord just to reason with the lowly people?

Of course, such people usually don't appear in front of Roman. They are either still in prison waiting for ransom or have been hanged.

Roman planned the whereabouts of these nuns.

He said to Mapel: "I will remove the status of all of you as nuns."

Mapel said angrily: "You are not qualified to do this, His Holiness the Pope will not agree to this."

"Fool! Don't question my decision! You are captives, my slaves, and it is reasonable for me to arrange you! Because I am the King of the Valley!"

"We have dedicated our lives to the gods!"

"You are wasting resources. I will marry the nuns to my soldiers. If a nun disagrees, then you kill her to prove her faith and loyalty! Believe me! I will throw her body into the river to feed the fish!"

He warned Mapel that he didn't care what the nuns thought.

These nuns are a group of extremely high-quality human resources, which are of great use to the current Origin City. The same goes for those priests, all of whom have to work for him.

Life is like rape. It's not that you can't resist, but resistance is equal to seeking death!

It's better to eliminate unstable factors directly. Roman did not ask for ransom for priests and nuns. From the beginning, he didn't intend to let these people with low military power but valuable go.

There are nuns and priests who devote themselves to their faith, but not all of them are.

Roman does not believe in humans or human nature.

The choir can trigger miracles, and he knows that power.

Garin also mentioned to him that the nuns' prayers and chants can communicate with the will of the underworld.

But the effect is too shallow. If it is counted according to the wizard's spell, it belongs to a kind of group spiritual resonance spell.

In comparison, the choir is the ultimate embodiment of the choir.

Those who can enter the choir are pure and pious women.

Moreover, the choir can really communicate the power of the gods.

Those nameless and faceless ancient gods were long before the birth of human history.

Roman believes that the history of this world is a mess and has never been sorted out. Each tribe has its own legends of its ancestors.

There is no fixed number of years of inheritance, and most mythological systems are absurd and bizarre and cannot be self-consistent.

The oldest Sinnoh people considered themselves to be the people of God. They said that the Cang Yue people were demon barbarians, the Wan Dong people were unlucky barbarians, the Plateau people were also barbarians, the Arctic people were even wilder barbarians, and the Forest people were uncivilized barbarians.

The Black Iron Land and the Free Cities were never scolded, at most they were called robbers and thieves.

The Church is the state religion of Sinnoh, and the Sinnoh people also believe in those ancient gods, although they never care about the life and death of humans.

Roman only regards those gods as the embodiment of the concept of nature.

This world is too vast, and humans at that time were too ignorant, so it was very easy to develop nature worship, which was the prototype of the birth of religion. In this world with magic, it is natural to have some natural magic.

Having said that, Roman felt that the truth might not be as he thought.

But why should he care so much?

He was in his youth and had a vision far beyond this era. Why should he look back?

Do whatever you want to do. Even if you fail, you must become the most famous loser in history!

He still remembers a sentence from his previous life, which roughly means -

When you look back on the past, don't regret it! You must do something big!

So no matter what the facts are, it can't affect his development.

Whoever dares to stand in front of him, he will give him two punches!

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Everything starts with farming.

Roman wasted so much time because of the war.

Now it's finally back on track.

Roman's swamp reclamation plan is also about to start.

The swamp environment is harsh, and it is full of mud after the snow melts. The internal ecological chain is complex and complete, and it is extremely difficult to develop.

Digging pits, digging ditches, diverting canals, and draining water requires manpower.

Isn't this a coincidence!

Fortunately, a large number of laborers were captured this time, whether they are believers or mercenaries.

All rush over to dig pits for me!

Roman has already made a plan map. He wants to dig ten ponds in various places and introduce shallow swamp water into them.

Each pond is about thirty meters in diameter and more than one meter deep.

If it is replaced by a modern excavator, it will only take a few days, but if it is replaced by pure manpower...

A pond cannot be cleaned without hundreds of people.

In addition, it is necessary to dredge the river, plow the silt, improve the soil, and build a waterwheel.

Roman's transformation of the swamp is a long-term plan.

It would be good if a few hundred acres of swamp land can be reclaimed in the short term.

I hope to plant a crop of rice in the summer to see how the yield is.

Because of the vigorous monarch, the mobilization ability of Origin City is very strong.

Basically, Mor just notified it in the morning, and before noon, each settlement had gathered two or three thousand laborers.

The big kitchen received advance notice, and the daily three meals can be delivered in time.

The other part of the farmers began to harvest vegetables.

The vegetables planted last year can be harvested.

A total of more than 7,000 acres of land.

For the vacant land, Roman plans to select hundreds of acres of land to plant cotton, sugarcane, and sugar beets.

He attaches great importance to these three crops and must cultivate them.

Just when Roman was getting busier and busier

Gale and the Church finally replied.

Gale suffered the most in the rebellion, but the Church also suffered a lot.

The thirty Knights of Judgment were also the backbone of the Knights of Judgment.

They were supposed to escort the believers, so there shouldn't be any problems. But who would have thought that they would capsize in the gutter.

There was no way, just admit defeat.

The content of their reply was also very simple, the ransom was acceptable.

But Roman's price was too high.

Two hundred thousand gold coins, no one could accept it.

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