Working Prophet

Ever since they met on the stairs that day, Ona seemed to have reached a tacit understanding with Li Yu, and never came to trouble Li Yu again, and even nodded when she saw her from a distance.

Her change of attitude was also noticed by others in the castle, especially the maids, servants and guards, most of whom had served the Arias family for a long time.

Although Ilea has become the new owner of Green Field, they all know that it is still the old man hiding behind the scenes who controls the entire family.

Seeing her show her kindness to Li Yu, they naturally became more respectful to this strange foreigner who came with Ilea.

Especially as what happened in Yanxue City gradually spread back to Luye, there were suddenly more rumors about Li Yu.

Many people are extremely curious about his magical methods and the Saturday behind them, but no one wants to know more about them yet.

Li Yu had been in Luye for a while and had a rough idea of ​​the situation here.

I have to say that the Silver Moon Church is doing very well in this land. Believers spread all over the western region, from the nobles and lords to the common people, and they generally believe in the goddess of Silver Moon, Picia.

For nobles, the Silvermoon Church adopts the strategy of starting from the baby, and will take the initiative to send teachers like Anton to the castles and mansions of the nobles in the western region to teach the children and children of those nobles to read, and such professors are usually It is free of charge and only requires the lord to be responsible for food and lodging, so few nobles will refuse.

And in the process of learning the common language, the teachers from the church would instill in their students the worship of Pithia, and train them to become believers of the Silver Moon Goddess.

Once one of them becomes a lord, he will definitely continue to promote the belief in the Silver Moon Goddess in his own territory in the future.

As for those young people who were defeated in the battle for heirs, or who knew early on that they had no hope of competing for the position of lord, Silvermoon Church also opened its doors to welcome them, allowing them to go to the temple to continue their studies.

The best of them have the opportunity to become priests and enter the high-level church. The status of priests on the continent of Bratis is also very noble, and they are very popular with the common people. At the same time, they will also become the link between the Silver Moon Church and the major families. , linking the two parties closely together.

As for the civilians, the Silver Moon Church has not been left behind, and will regularly hold various sacrificial activities in various places, organizing villagers and citizens to sacrifice grains, melons, fruits, and livestock to the goddess in exchange for the goddess' protection and blessing.

In addition, some kind-hearted priests will provide free medical treatment and midwifery for the common people. In disaster years, when the harvest is poor, the church will also distribute food for disaster relief.

Although there are also scandals where priests defile young girls or teenagers in the name of blessings, and some merchants will pay money to hang their chambers of commerce under the name of Silvermoon Church in order to avoid high territorial taxes... But in general, Silvermoon The Church of the Moon has a good reputation among both nobles and common people.

Moreover, the worship of the goddess Pisiya has a history of more than two thousand years in the Western Region. On average, two out of every three people are followers of Pisiya.

Considering that there are still some unbelievers and barbarians, this popularity rate can be said to be very amazing.

The people living on this land have been accustomed to living under the protection of Pisiya for generations, and it is difficult for outsiders to break this inertia.

Some time ago, Li Yu tried to perform some magic spells intentionally or unintentionally in front of the four children and the little maid, and he was amazed, but the faith count displayed on the watch was still zero.

The children are already convinced of Li Yu's identity as a prophet, but it is obviously still difficult for them to abandon Pisiya and go to Saturday.

Li Yu is also psychologically prepared for this. His opponent is a local religion with a long history, a huge organizational system, and allies everywhere.

As an outsider, it is not easy for him to replace him alone.

Although Li Yu believes that through long-term relationship and subtle influence, the people around him will eventually become Saturday believers, but the efficiency is too low.

Li Yu thought for a moment and quickly understood what the problem was.

Compared with Picia, Saturday is still a bit too advanced. His preliminary teachings may be able to quickly absorb a large number of believers in modern times, and he might be able to win several office buildings at a time.

However, in this era similar to the Middle Ages, productivity was terribly low, and the sowing-to-harvesting ratio of farmers was only a pitiful 1:4, which meant that if one catty of seeds were planted, only four catties of grain could be harvested.

In such a harsh environment, the only wish of most civilians is to fill their stomachs without going hungry. They don't care whether they have a vacation.

Take the four little ones around Li Yu as an example. The reason why they are willing to be Li Yu's assistants is to cover two meals and the extra joy of one silver coin per month. As for the two-day holiday, it is completely is incidental.

Even after returning home, they would not use those two days to rest, but would continue to help their parents with farm work.

As for those nobles, as the supported ones, they wished that the people in the territory could live around the clock and grow directly in the farmland, let alone support the weekend system.

After realizing the problem, Li Yu had no idea of ​​giving up Saturday.

Some things are not engraved in the bones from the beginning, and they will need to be exchanged for blood and life in the future, and they are not firm at all.

Because human greed is endless, in this case, it is better to put a shackle made of faith around the neck early.

Isn't it just productivity? What Li Yu doesn't lack most is a method to improve productivity.

When he gets the land from Ilea, he will start to increase the yield of the field, and use practical actions to prove the benefits of believing in Saturday to the people around him.

He didn't believe that the believers of the Silver Moon Goddess would remain indifferent in front of real money.

But in order to do this, besides land, he also needs manpower.

Li Yu also took time to take a look at Dias's territory these days. Miss Rabbit is not lying, the land there is very fertile and the environment is not bad.

Standing on the hillside, you can still see the slender strips of fields that have been reclaimed under your feet, one after another, densely packed, but unfortunately they are all abandoned.

There are only a few families left in the entire territory, not even a village.

The old housekeeper Fausto has promised to help Li Yu recruit some free people to farm. However, the western region has been relatively peaceful in the past two years, with no major disasters and good harvests, so not many farmers left their homes to rent out land.

Even if Li Yu is willing to give a very low tax rate, the more so the farmers worry about the trap.

However, on the third day after the monitoring was installed, the Fifty Fathoms in Li Yu's hand had not moved, and the column of belief finally changed from zero to one.