Chapter 31, Part 1 "You are the noblest people."

After Leo and Pereira proved their identity as "Sons of the Sun", the top leaders of the Church of the Sun had to shut up no matter how dissatisfied they were.

There is no way, the gods in this world really exist.

The family that once loudly called itself the Guardians of the Sun still calls itself the Guardians of the Sun family.

The gods did not stipulate that there can only be one guardian family.

Although the God's favored one is among the halflings this year, maybe next year he will be in our family.

They sent their elders and young men to establish friendly relations with the Sunflower Family and to find out how they could gain the favor of the gods.

Xia Xifeng believed that after they inquired, they would find nothing.

The God of Two Suns likes the Sunflower Family because they have similar personalities to them: they shine quietly and don't like to show off.

There hasn't been a single person favored by the Sun God in the family for at least a thousand years, yet they still have the audacity to call themselves the Sun Guardian Family. Even if Shuangri gives them some consideration because of their ancestors or their power attributes, it is impossible for them to have a person favored by the God.

Divine favor means that the gods favor you and you are loved by the gods.

Look at Leo and Pereira's bald little heads.

The gods would even joke with their lesser gods’ favored ones, which shows that they have never been superior to the lesser gods’ favored ones.

Leo and Pereira did not treat the gods with reverence and fear.

Not to mention Leo, the outspoken man who was often burned bald, Pereira treated the sun as if it were his parents or siblings. Although he respected it, this respect was mixed with affection, which was really not the way a believer should treat a god.

That’s probably why there are so few people favored by God in the church.

However, although other Sun Guardian Families are not highly regarded by Shuangri, they are able to receive Shuangri's blessings, and they generally conform to the beliefs of "Sun" and are not bad people.

Xia Xifeng welcomed their arrival.

He would be even more welcome if they could purchase real estate and land in the Knight's Territory and invest in workshops and shops.

This old-fashioned god guards the family, but they are very rich.

"You are also an old family protected by gods, why don't you look like a wealthy family at all?" Xia Xifeng asked Leo and Pereira.

Perilla looked at Xia Xifeng sadly and didn't want to speak.

Ever since his hair was burned, he has been depressed and resentful, often crying in front of the mirror and not wanting to say anything unless it is necessary.

Leo is still the same. Maybe he has gotten used to it.

"Stupid! How can you show off your wealth?" Leo waved his hand, making Xia Xifeng half-kneel down. He leaned close to Xia Xifeng's ear and whispered, "How can gold, silver, and treasures be considered wealth? Our secret place is filled with weapons blessed by the gods. Even newborn babies have one!"

Xia Xifeng was surprised at first, but then he remembered that although the current Sunflower Family looked like an ordinary peasant village, the members of the Sunflower Family after the apocalypse...ah, it was true that everyone was armed to the teeth with divine weapons.

The half-orc old man from the Sunflower Family, to whom he often went to complete the "Military Supplies Preparation" task, indeed even had artifacts like his dentures.

"No wonder the evil god wants to deal with you first." Xia Xifeng said.

Leo was stunned for a moment, then he put his hands on his hips and said angrily, "They're just jealous of us and the sun having such a good life!"

Xia Xifeng said: "Indeed."

It is impossible for a group of outer gods whose hometowns are about to rot to say that they are not jealous of the gods in the dream world.

“All things grow with the help of the sun.” This maxim also applies to the dream world.

Although the profession that is best at communicating with animals and plants is the Druid, and the god directly related to agriculture and animal husbandry is the God of Harvest, the Church of the Sun also has extensive research in agriculture.

The Sun God and the Harvest God have a good relationship.

Upon learning of the appearance of the Sun God's Favored One, the Harvest Church also informed Amuruo that it would plan to build a church in this newly built pioneer knight territory.

The first batch of clergy and construction materials have arrived.

When they learned about Xia Xifeng's ability in farming, they suspected that Xia Xifeng was the one favored by the God of Harvest - the halflings had suspected the same before.

Harvest Church prayed to the gods, and although the gods’ response was vague, the content of the response was very clear - no.

However, although Xia Xifeng was not his favored one, the God of Harvest gave another response that was vague in content but very clear in emotion.

The God of Harvest loves Xia Xifeng very much and hopes that his church can help Xia Xifeng.

The high-ranking members of the Harvest Church who were able to receive divine responses were truly devoted to agriculture, so that ordinary people could also have enough to eat and fulfill their lifelong dreams.

When they learned that the God of Harvest had recognized Xia Xifeng, the senior clergy immediately held a meeting and found several other favored ones and guardian families of the God of Harvest. They unanimously decided to give Xia Xifeng the status of "Honorary Bishop" so that Xia Xifeng could participate in the internal assessment of the Harvest Church.

If Xia Xifeng can research high-yield technology, the bishop's rank can be raised to the same level as a real clergyman, and he can go to the church in exchange for many benefits.

The Harvest Church showed its full sincerity, which made Leo extremely angry.

Although he had never cared about the Sun Church and the Silver Moon Church before, Xia Xifeng was his friend. If he wanted to win over Xia Xifeng to become the "Honorary Bishop", should the Sun Church and the Silver Moon Church take action first?

Leo quickly went to poke Shuangri.

Shuangri didn't know how he got permission from God, and his connection with Leo and Pereira was unprecedentedly strengthened.

Even without formal celebrations, they can communicate with the gods through prayer.

In response to this, Shuangri said that they were too lazy to care about the Sun Church, and if Leo had such a desire, he could work hard to become the archbishop.

Ah, a pair of lazy suns.

Leo asked Xia Xifeng: "Do you want to be the honorary bishop of the Sun Church? If you do, I will seize the Sun Church!"

Xia Xifeng slapped Leo on the head: "Shut up! Work hard and don't be lazy!"

Halflings engaging in a power struggle? Are you kidding me?

Leo had no choice but to give up.

Xia Xifeng and the Harvest Church are indeed very compatible.

But this wasn't due to Xia Xifeng's personality. Even Qin Lang, who seemed indifferent to things outside of combat, had a good rapport with the Harvest Church. Even when Xia Xifeng was busy, he and the Harvest Church could chat harmoniously.

Increasing farmland production is a traditional pursuit engraved in Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang's hometown. In their eyes, caring about the common people's farmland production is a matter of course.

Halflings enjoy farming, but they rarely think about making other people's land more productive.

Leo and Pereira, who was wearing a hat, took turns accompanying Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang walking in the fields, listening to their conversations with the people of the Harvest Church, and patiently explaining the more obscure words of the church members to the farmers in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.

Their thinking also gradually changed.

Xia Xifeng once complained that the production levels in this world were very fragmented.

The same is true for agricultural production.

The lords only cared about collecting taxes and paid little attention to the common people's food production, because the food produced by the common people's small fields was not enough to fill their stomachs.

The lord's manor and the "public fields" in the city are all served by spells and potions, and magical agricultural machinery can basically make field operations fully automated.

This level of agricultural production is higher than the productivity of the highly mechanized large farms in Xia Xifeng's hometown.

Xia Xifeng's farming skills can shorten the harvest time from half a year to just one month.

Many druids can do something similar.

Although it consumes soil fertility, the medicine is much better than the chemical fertilizers in Xia Xifeng's hometown.

"Magic" is such a convenient energy source.

But the farming skills of the common people in this world may not be as good as those in the late feudal era of Xia Xifeng's hometown, and are probably similar to those in the Middle Ages in the West.

Their staple food was black bread, boiled beans and potatoes. Even iron tools were rare in farmland, and the development of animal power was not perfect.

It is very difficult for farmers with low productivity to feed several mouths in their family. Even if they have accumulated farming experience, they do not have the energy to summarize and generalize it into "knowledge".

In Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang's hometown, the whole society cares about the fields.

In the feudal era, there were many "farming and reading families" where scholars would go to the fields themselves; some great sages and good officials would often walk in the fields; and the imperial court would often issue orders to reward the people who invented new agricultural tools and new farming methods.

Even when technology had not yet developed to the point of mechanization, the people had developed farming techniques to the limit of current productivity.

This world is different.

People with wisdom and power are already accustomed to using the magic network, which makes them consider first when solving problems how to allow civilians to use magic energy, rather than directly abandoning magic energy.

"Building more magic web stabilizers, or installing smaller ones on magical farm tools, is indeed the ultimate solution. However, given the immature technology and insufficient funding, farmers must first be able to use other tools," Xia Xifeng said to the priests of the Harvest Church. "We can also simplify some aspects of farmers' production, such as seed breeding and building sturdier farm tools."

Although magical agricultural tools are not yet widely available, some aspects of agricultural production can be carried out in the city.

The workshop uses magic to breed seeds, and farmers only need to buy seeds; the workshop uses magic to mass-produce stronger metal farm tools, and farmers only need to buy tools; the workshop uses magic to create agricultural chemicals that only need to be sown, and farmers only need to buy the chemicals.

When the farmers do not have enough money or dare not trust these unused things, the lord can first provide subsidies.

As long as farmers have a good harvest and have extra money, they will take the initiative to buy these production tools.

Ordinary people are not stupid at all. Anyone who can support a family has enough survival wisdom.

"The Harvest Church is definitely good at reducing the cost of agricultural production materials and promoting them to farmers." Xia Xifeng praised the Harvest Church. "I can only worry about whether the common people in the Knight Territory have enough to eat, but the Harvest Church cares about whether the common people of the entire world have enough to eat. You are the noblest people."

Although he was flattering her, Xia Xifeng was sincere.

All those who strive to ensure that “ordinary people can also have enough to eat” are the noblest people.

The priests of the Harvest Church were moved to tears by Xia Xifeng.

Because the fields of the "city people" do not need the management of the Harvest Church, with the blessing of the power of the magic network, if there is no external interference, there is almost no possibility of a complete failure of the harvest, so they have no demands on the Harvest Church and naturally do not value it much.

They don't have much respect for the Harvest Church because it has been wandering around the fields of ordinary people for thousands of years without making any achievements.

This is not to say that they don’t know that the ideals of Harvest Church are lofty, but no matter how lofty the ideals are, without any substantial achievements, they are just laughable empty talk.

This was the first time that the priests of the Harvest Church met a noble lord who recognized their ideals and found a feasible path for them.

There are actually noble lords who care about the common people who can't even use the magic network!

"One day, I will make the entire territory use the magic network energy!" Xia Xifeng looked at the magic network as if he was looking at an electric grid.

Access, electricity and communication, the "three links" are the foundation of territory construction!

I can't control the whole world, but can't I control my own territory?

"Right, Qin Lang?" Xia Xifeng clenched his fists, his fighting spirit high.

"Yeah." Qin Lang buried his head in writing the plan, listing a long list of expenses, signaling Xia Xifeng not to just hold his head high and "get excited", but also to look down at the reality.

Xia Xifeng lowered his head and covered his eyes with his hands.

Infrastructure construction is too expensive. The money he borrowed from Amuruo and Suer is not enough.

"Think about what products to develop to make money." Qin Lang said, "We should form a caravan."

"Alas." Xia Xifeng wilted.

So poor!