Noble Emblem

The rise of the Wealth Cult has indeed affected the interests of a small group of people.

But it allowed more people to benefit. The king could see that in today's court meeting, the opposition forces must be looking for a reason to restrict the Wealth God Sect. But the profit-making forces somehow received the news and came to the court meeting to target the opposition.

After thinking about it, the king calmed down, held his chin and looked down at the exchange of words between the two sides.

Three days later, the dispute at the court meeting was sent to Beta in the form of intelligence.

After reading it, he put it aside without paying much attention.

Angel happened to be helping Beta sort out important documents. Seeing this, she asked, "Aren't you going to warn those who oppose us?"

"No need." Beta said with a slight smile: "We have built mountains and roads across the country in Holaiwen, and now we are building water conservancy projects. Even if they couldn't understand our actions before, they should be able to actually feel the benefits of doing this now. More convenient transportation will bring more prosperous business index and more tax revenue.”

"There are many people in the whole country who are willing to acknowledge our love. Of course, we are not gold coins, so it is impossible for everyone to like us. Now many nobles support us in their hearts. In addition, those lords who own mines have now been kidnapped. On our warships, even if we don't take any action, they will be eliminated by the opposition nobles who want to prevent them from making a fortune."

"And we seem to be losing money. But what we gain is a more commercial and prosperous Hollevin Kingdom, and a better reputation among the general public. This is an excellent thing for the goddess Watkin."

Angel smiled and said: "In other words, we made a lot of money, right?"

"You can say that." Beta said with a smile: "Although we don't form cliques, there are many potential allies in Huolewen. A win-win situation is the shortcut to doing things."

"By the way, let Katie come over."

Katie recently returned to Waking City to accept Beta's 'supervision'. This is a new rule issued by Beta. The bishops of temples in various places are supervised by 'doctrine instructors', and the doctrinal instructors have to write a month-end moral guidance summary to Watkins City every month. In December every year, they have to return to Watkins City to undergo a faith test. .

Although the regulations appear to be relatively strict, Beta also increased the basic remuneration of all clergy by nearly half.

Use this method to reduce the resistance of all clergy.

At the same time, pastoral colleges in various places have also added more ideological and moral education courses.

In short, Beta tried every means to maintain the good atmosphere of the divine religion and maintain the 'purity' of the team.

In history, how many forces have fallen apart not because of attacks from external enemies, but because of the self-corrosion and self-degeneration of internal personnel.

Using history as a mirror, we can know how to advance and retreat.

Katie quickly came to Beta's study. She was wearing a set of light pink uniforms. The clothes were a bit loose, but her figure curves could still be seen.

"In two days, you will continue to inspect all the temples, but the focus will change from supervising corruption to deterring corruption." Beta placed a list in front of her: "Before the construction of the Grand Cross Canal is completed, you took the initiative to appear in the open. , allocate manpower to inspect all the temples and project sections involved in the construction of the Cross Canal. The Grand Cross Canal is of extremely important significance to us and to the Water God Sect, and we must not fundamentally reduce unnecessary mistakes and troubles. "

Katie took the list and glanced at it with beautiful eyes: "Did I pass the faith test? You haven't 'supervised' me yet, have you?"

"You don't need my supervision. In fact, you will be watched by the goddess from time to time." Beta said with a smile: "But because of the regulations, you have to come back and show off with me. At least you can't give people the feeling that senior officials are exceptions. This It will have a bad impact.”

Katie shrugged, seeming a little disappointed.

She took a deep look at Beta: "I'll leave tomorrow, but before that, can you treat me to a drink? As a friend, you have never entertained me alone."

"sure no problem."

Beta agreed with a smile.

On the second day, Katie left Waking City with her team in a very high-profile manner.

Temples in various places in the Wealth God Sect felt a little cold sweat on their heads when they heard the news.

After the rectification movement a few months ago, Katy found out a lot of big corruption, executed a group of them, and a small group of others who showed hope of correction, and threw them all into labor camps behind the cathedral.

To a certain extent, Katie's current reputation is much greater than Beta's.

Now that I heard that Kati was conducting inspections again, all the personnel of God felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

It was Beta's last resort to send Katie out.

The monthly salary of more than 300,000 migrant workers and their food cost nearly 20,000 gold coins. Adding the cost of construction materials, purchasing tools, and replacing damaged tools, the cost is tens of thousands of gold coins. The Wojin Divine Sect's monthly flower locks now reach an astonishing nearly 37,000 gold coins.

This figure is almost the total tax revenue of all the territories of France, the most powerful country, in two years.

After estimating the monthly expenses of Watkin Temple, all the forces in Hollevin fell silent.

This is definitely an unprecedented feat.

On this day, Beta's study welcomed a somewhat special guest.

Noah.

Noah and Regev have been staying in Waking City or playing in the surrounding areas. They are actually ambassadors sent by Metal Dragon to foreign countries.

They usually don't want to meet Beta, but today, Noah's expression was serious.

"Your Excellency Beta, our Metal Dragon executives have also heard about the Grand Cross Canal project you initiated, and they are quite interested!"

Beta was a little confused, but did not speak and chose to listen.

"All just causes should be taken seriously. We metal dragons will also assist just causes." Noah said with a saintly expression: "The senior management decided to send ten legendary copper dragons who are good at earth magic. Come and help, with their help, I believe the completion time of the canal project can be shortened by more than half.”

Beta's eyebrows lowered slightly: "Sorry, forgive me for refusing."

Noah, who was full of confidence, was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in disbelief: "Why? Why refuse?"

"We humans can solve human affairs ourselves. Besides, no matter what kind of dragon you send, it will cause great trouble to the migrant workers." Beta said calmly: "Not all people can be like this. Like Waking City, we are used to the existence of dragons.”

Noah said unhappily: "What we sent are legendary dragons. They can restrain their dragon power..."

Beta shook his head: "It's not Long Wei's problem. The most important thing is that we humans grow up slowly through work and construction. If there is help from the Dragon Clan this time on the Cross Canal, they haven't learned enough. Experience, then in the future, will the Dragon Clan be required to help with all major projects?”

Noah looked at Beta. Although she was not very smart, the sharp intuition unique to the platinum dragon still made her feel that Beta was wary of them.

"You are worried that we will destroy this project. Don't worry, we are..."

Beta continued to shake his head: "Every race needs to grow. We don't want to rely on the dragon race in the future."

Noah fell silent.

In fact, there is another reason that Beta did not say.

In fact, the more important purpose of this big project is to help the two goddesses Waking and Aqua gain reputation.

If they can complete this Grand Cross Canal, it will be a miracle in human history and will definitely cause an extraordinary sensation in the human world. The power of faith that Waking and Aqua can acquire must be extremely huge.

But if the Dragon Clan had a hand in it, then everyone would think so: It turned out that the Dragon Clan was asked to help, no wonder it could accomplish such a big thing.

In this way, what was originally a miracle becomes a matter of course.

Then the effect of building reputation will become extremely poor. By the way, even the power of faith may be divided by a large part by Bahamut.

Therefore, many well-intentioned actions may not necessarily bring the best results.

Moreover, Beta is now the supreme leader of the Temple of Wealth, and he has learned to make the most malicious assumptions about others.

Seeing Beta's firm refusal, Noah thought for a while and asked: "Dragon-slaying crossbow, was it you who passed it on?"

"Dragon-slaying crossbow?" Beta was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was the drawing of the magic bed crossbow he gave to other countries last time. He didn't expect that it would have such a title now: "Well, I passed it on, but that's not It’s called the Dragon-Slaying Crossbow.”

"Why would you release a drawing like this, you know? How much does it bother us?"

"Causing trouble to the metal dragon?" Beta's heart skipped a beat: "Did someone use a bed crossbow to deal with your metal dragon?"

"Not yet, but I believe there will be one day sooner or later!" There was some anger in Noah's eyes: "Why do you want to open such a weapon? This is an extremely unfriendly signal to us metal dragons ”

"This is for five-color dragons." Beta said calmly: "It is not used to deal with allies."

Noah slammed the table hard and said rather dissatisfied: "But it can also cause a lot of damage to our metal dragons."

Beta sat upright and said seriously: "You can't say that, Ms. Noah. Your dragon clan's claws, sharp teeth, and even breath can kill humans at will. So as an ally, do I have to ask, Can you dragons give up your claws, teeth and breath in the future?"

Noah froze immediately and said after a while: "Is this different?"

"The principles are the same, madam." Beta said with a smile: "Allies refer to companions who have similar strength and advance and retreat together. Otherwise, they can only be vassals."