Chapter 265: Spend Money to Preach?

Chapter 265 Spend... spend money to preach?

Shuangxiu Church currently adopts the traditional way of preaching.

Sending Xiushi to go deep into every village and every household to preach, the advantage of this is that the preacher can fully contact with the missionary object, formulate corresponding strategies according to different goals, and be flexible.

The disadvantage is that the efficiency is too low, and with the existing armed forces of Shuangxiu Church, it is impossible to equip each monk with enough guards.

In this case, Li Yu plans to change his mind and divide Green Field into four parishes, and gather the villagers in the parish in one place every time he preaches.

In this way, the Xiushi of Shuangxiu Church no longer need to go deep into every village, and can form a group of dozens of people to preach together, which greatly reduces the danger they may encounter, and they can also share a guard to reduce the security pressure of the Black Dog Guard.

"Well, your idea is good, but the question is how do you plan to gather people together?" Miss Rabbit asked, "I can give orders to those serfs to let them listen to your people preach, but it is limited to the farms owned by the family.

"And there is no precedent for this on the Bratis continent, or I count this as corvée..." Although the Arias family is now wealthy, Ilia still feels a little distressed when she thinks of wasting so much manpower in vain.

But then she saw Li Yu shaking his head and said, "Don't do this, the effect of using orders is not good, but it is easy to cause resistance from those subjects, which will make it more difficult to preach.

"So what are you going to do?"

"It's simple, give out eggs."

"Give out eggs?"

"Eggs are just a metaphor, and you don't have to give out eggs. You can also give out bread, beer, or just money. Please write a letter to Frodo, the vice president of the Golden Fleece Chamber of Commerce, and ask him what is unsalable in Blackrock City recently.

"If the price is attractive enough, Shuangxiu Church can consider purchasing in large quantities and give them as gifts to the villagers who come to listen to the lecture."

The female lord was dumbfounded when she heard this, "Spend... spend money to preach? This, this is not appropriate. "

In her impression, no church seemed to have done such a thing. There were many that raised funds through preaching. The Silver Moon Church often did this, saying that it could please Pisia.

And noble families like the Arias family would pay an extra sum of money to the church every year to sponsor various celebrations and sacrifices to show their respect for the goddess.

This was the first time she heard that the church paid believers.

Although it was not the female lord's own money, she still subconsciously felt that it was not okay. This was too wasteful. Who could bear to lose money every time she preached?

"It's not much, actually." Li Yu said, "I calculated that if each person had half a white bread, a hundred people would have less than three gold lions, a thousand people would have only thirty gold lions, and ten thousand people would have three hundred gold lions. Green Field now has a total of more than 20,000 people."

"Six hundred gold coins per day, isn't that a lot? "You don't know until you count it. Miss Rabbit was shocked when she counted it.

Because they have been doing business together, she is quite clear about Li Yu's family background.

The two of them sold pepper together. After a hard round, they could only earn 300 gold coins. Li Yu got 200 and Miss Rabbit got less than 100. Moreover, this business only happens once every 20 days. In addition to the money from selling "Dragon Blood", it is basically all the income of the two in the early stage.

This money was spent before the battle with the black dragon. The two really got rich by the wave of likes and coins from the major families after killing the dragon, as well as the rewards from the Figuerola family.

Not only did they help the Arias family and Shuangxiu The church upgraded its weapons and equipment, and they also received a lot of money and a large amount of supplies. The Figueroa family alone gave 10,000 gold coins, and Ilia shared all this money and gold coins with Li Yu.

So how much money Miss Rabbit has now, Li Yu should have as much money.

The girl calculated in her mind that if those supplies were converted into money and used to preach, it seemed that it could only last for two or three months.

This consumption is too terrible, and this is only in the Green Field.

Based on Ilia's understanding of Li Yu, she believes that the latter will not be satisfied with just living in a corner. But if it expands outward, the cost will be an astronomical figure.

"It won't take that long." As if seeing through her thoughts, Li Yu explained, "According to my estimation, as long as the missionary Hughes does not make any big mistakes, the number of sermons reaches twelve or thirteen times, more than half of the believers should be converted.

"After that, the frequency of preaching can be slowed down a bit, changed to a normal once a week on Friday, and there is no need to pay extra fees. "

"What about the rest of the people?" The girl asked again.

"Depend on the influence of people around him. As long as there are enough believers of Shuangxiu around him and they live better than him, he will slowly convert to Saturday."

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Since they have already planned to go to war with Shuangxiu, in addition to secretly sending black-armored cavalry to discredit Shuangxiu and intimidate Shuangxiu's followers, the Silver Moon Church will also take action in public.

After Gilles, dozens of priests went to Green Fields one after another. A priest can be seen in almost every small village, which was unimaginable in the past.

The status of priests in the Western Territory is not inferior to that of nobles. Many ordinary farmers have few opportunities to see such big figures in their lives, and they would never think that such big figures would settle in their villages one day.

Eating the same simple food as them, sleeping on the haystacks they had lain on.

Every morning when they saw them, they would even smile at them, call out each of their names, tell them in person about the goddess's kindness and justice, and patiently answer their doubts.

For a moment, all the villagers were moved.

Especially the older believers couldn't help crying. And those who were originally wavering quickly realized their mistakes with the help of these priests, felt ashamed of their previous hesitation, and returned to the embrace of the goddess again.

However, in just a few days, the Silver Moon Church swept away the previous decline and stabilized its position in the Green Field. And taking advantage of the fact that the resting members of the Double Rest Church were afraid to go out now, they also blew the horn of counterattack.

There were even brave young priests who ran to the territory of the Double Rest Church to preach. Although he had just spoken a few words, he was tied up, gagged, and thrown out by the lizardmen.

However, his heroic act inspired many people and boosted the morale of the Silver Moon Church.