Chapter 116 Missionary Opportunity

With the arrival of spring, all the heroes of the Frost Moon Kingdom were gradually rewarded, and some nobles of the Third Prince's faction who were resisting stubbornly were also being steadily eliminated. The Frost Moon Kingdom gradually became stable.

Unfortunately, after experiencing the invasion and civil war of the Kingdom of Lensa, although the Frost Moon Kingdom's war experience soared, its national strength was still greatly damaged, so that it was unable to participate in the counterattack against the southern kingdoms represented by the Kingdom of Lensa.

Yes, although they have to farm since the beginning of spring, the sight of the Southern Kingdoms fighting to the point of a stalemate still makes the Northern United Countries itchy.

Especially after seeing the barbarians from the Ice Sea Kingdom sailing down the river in their longboats to rob the Southern Kingdom, all the countries in the Northern Alliance were tempted.

Although the Southern Kingdom did not directly participate when the Kingdom of Lensa provoked the war before, the Southern Kingdom naturally provided other assistance to enable the Kingdom of Lensa to be so powerful.

Later, I learned some of the details from the Northern Alliance's intelligence.

Moreover, the Northern Alliance and the Southern Kingdom have always disliked each other, but the Northern Alliance has always had to guard against the orcs and trolls in the north, and the Southern Kingdom has to worry about the murlocs and elves, so the two sides have never fought.

Now, I finally have the opportunity to vent my anger.

What started as a gold mine war soon turned into a war between two major alliances. Now, the third party, the Northern Union’s army is ready to move, and the Torch Church has also begun to mobilize troops from all over the continent.

It's about to turn into a four-way melee.

Now, even if you are not Rand, who knows the direction of the world situation, you can see that the gold mine war has the tendency to evolve into a world war.

The First Human World War.jpg In fact, the Shimotsuki Kingdom also wanted to send out troops for revenge, but officially it was unable to act, so it just acquiesced to the domestic nobles to act on their own. On the surface, the Shimotsuki Kingdom did not participate in this melee.

This was perfect for Rand, as he had just acquired a new territory and it was time to develop it.

His development speed is already very fast, and his sense of urgency about facing the future is not as strong as it was in the beginning. Now as long as he develops as usual, there will definitely be a place for his power in this continent in the future.

Generally speaking, unless you have made great contributions, even if you gain new territories, you will not be allowed to border them. Otherwise, if you connect them together, are you rebelling? The Crescent Territory and the Crescent Territory are connected together, which is a natural advantage.

Fenris has set out with a 200-man pioneer team to establish an outpost in the Crescent Territory and begin integrating resources.

Taner stayed in the Crescent Moon base and continued to train new and old soldiers.

The population of Crescent Territory is now around 4,000. Due to Rand's warmongering and his spending of money to hire adventurers, the number of combat soldiers will soon exceed 500.

Although there is not much reclaimed land in the Crescent Territory, it is still a considerable viscount territory with a population of about 7,000. After the integration is completed, the total population of the nest will reach about 11,000.

By then, the military strength of the hideout will not be underestimated.

In fact, the current combat effectiveness is very strong. At least the 200 people that Fenris brought out, if they were also fighting infantry, they would not be very afraid of fighting double the number of people.

Rand had just finished punishing Lysa.

In the whole den, the most difficult one to deal with is Lisa. Punishing her is the same as rewarding her.

Although she is obedient most of the time, she is also very smart and can exercise her subjective initiative.

But it cannot change her perverted nature.

And she seemed to like making up stories about Lord Rand. This was not the first time I heard her say that Rand was a pervert who liked to hang people on the cross and beat them.

But how to punish Lysa? That's too tricky!

Rand thought about how to punish Lysa all night, but he couldn't figure it out.

In the end, they could only arrange some things for her to do, so that she wouldn't be idle and talk nonsense in front of the two slave elves.

Of course, in the eyes of the two slave elves, Lysa was captured and tortured because she revealed the secrets of the hideout and suffered Rand's wrath.

Recently, adventurers in the tavern have been wondering why these two elves, who are usually quite calm and composed, have suddenly become a little timid.

Rand had been thinking hard all night, so neither he nor Olenna slept well.

The next day at work, both of them had dark circles under their eyes.

Many seeds have sprouted in the experimental field today, which means that the wind, snow and cold here will at least not freeze the seeds under the snow to death in winter.

Now, when spring comes, the snow water will automatically soak the land and become a source of irrigation water.

I just don’t know what the harvest will be like, but as long as the price doesn’t drop too much, it will be a victory.

Because of the three-crop rotation system, harvests can be made in multiple seasons and there is no fallow period.

Looking at the whole year, the harvest will shatter the current two-field rotation system.

And it seems that the feces of minotaurs and centaurs are similar to livestock feces, and the effect of fertilizer is quite good.

Coupled with the composting pits that have already been built, there is no shortage of fertilizer at present.

One thing that must be mentioned is that at that time, people were still quite ignorant about farming techniques, and many areas did not even know about fertilizers.

Therefore, the yield per mu is pitifully low.

In the hideout, even those wheat fields that still used the two-field rotation system had been processed using Rand's advanced farming technology, with the soil loosened and fertilizer applied. This also resulted in the per-acre yield of Crescent Moon Territory far exceeding that of other surrounding territories.

A higher yield per mu means that the same amount of land can support more people.

At least other baronies of similar size to Crescent Moon Barony are almost unable to support 4,000 people like Crescent Moon Barony.

The Crescent Territory also has a tourism economy brought by adventurers, as well as a large amount of wealthy economy and food, so it is able to open up a new territory, the New Moon Territory.

Perhaps in the eyes of those great nobles, Rand is now in a desperate situation and may even need to borrow money to take over the new territory with great difficulty. In fact, the economic situation of Crescent Territory is very healthy, and it can even keep a full-time army on hand.

But the primary task now is to preach.

Rand calculated the time and thought that the military training in the camp should have ended today, so he called Taner to the lord's hall. At this time, Lysa had been sent to scout nearby and was not present. The other high-level officials of the hideout, Elsa, Ellie, and Rand were all there.

Rand said in a serious tone, "The Torch Church has been shrinking its sphere of influence since the beginning of spring. Many church organizations that originally radiated the entire continent have begun to withdraw to their headquarters."

He took a document from Olenna, flipped through it, and continued, "If we only look at the Frost Moon Kingdom, almost half of the church's assets have been sold to local lords, and the church personnel stationed there have also begun to be transferred to the Torch Church headquarters."

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"This means that the Torch Church has made up its mind to participate in the upcoming war."

Rand glanced at everyone in the lord's hall.

"I don't know what the Torch Church's top leaders are thinking, but their goal now is definitely no longer to mediate the war and preserve and maintain human strength."

"The shrinking of the Torch Church will make our original Torch Church's skin no longer useful, but this will also be an opportunity."

"Opportunity?" Ellie took the opportunity to make a joke.

"Yes." Rand nodded: "We can preach now."

"Preaching?" Taner was obviously confused. "Even if the Torch Church doesn't do missionary work here, it doesn't mean we can preach, right? After all, we are really..."

Taner did not call the Feng Rang Sect a cult, but the meaning was clear: just because people can accept the Torch Church does not mean they can accept the Feng Rang Sect.

Although the teachings of the Fengrang Sect are not heretical, to the great nobles, they are more heretical than a cult and will definitely not be accepted.

"Ahem." Rand coughed lightly, then asked Taner, "Can you recite the teachings of the Torch Church?"

Taner nodded guiltily.

Rand said with satisfaction: "Before, we were a disguised Torch Cult force, so we can fully utilize the teachings of the Torch Church when we preach now."

"What?" Taner's eyes widened.

Rand smiled confidently, "We just need to mix a small amount of the Church of Abundance with a large amount of the Church of Torch."

In short, Rand had read a little about the teachings of the Torch Church. Many aspects of the teachings were good, but they were not down-to-earth and in line with the people.

The teachings of the Fengrang Church just make up for this, and it is well known that the current hideout has the background of the Torch Church.

Of course, when spreading the doctrine, the name of the Torch Church cannot be used.

However, since some of the Torch Church's teachings were used, the local nobles would understand what Rand was spreading as soon as they saw the teachings. As for the private goods mixed in it, it was completely understandable.

The unification of doctrine within the Torch Church has only occurred in the past decade or so.

Now that Rand has been brought out as a suspected illegitimate child, it is completely understandable that he might feel resentful or have other interpretations. Look, doesn't this missionary work use the name of the Torch Church?

Originally, the Torch Church and local nobles jointly governed the people on the land, but now that the Torch Church has withdrawn, there will naturally be a management gap.

At this time, Rand appeared, preached, formed a church and belief system, and helped them fill this gap. The local nobles should basically be happy to see it happen.

After listening to Rand's theory, Taner was silent.

He felt that his life was strange enough. Not to mention that he had just casually planned to join a cult, he actually met a wise leader like Rand who was in line with his beliefs.

Not to mention that he transformed from a paladin into a general experienced in battle.

That is, he is a half-insider of the Torchlight Church, spreading the teachings of the Torchlight Church in the Frostmoon Kingdom under the name of the Church of Plenty? Is this true? Seeing Taner lost in thought, and seeing Ellie and Olenna both showing shocked expressions, Rand felt a little guilty.

Do they all think that this is not feasible?

But why can't the orthodoxy of the Torch Church be included in the Feng Rang Sect? (End of this chapter)