The rise of the Wealth Religion has indeed affected the interests of a small number of people.
But it allowed more people to benefit. The king could see that today's court meeting must be because the opposition forces wanted to find a reason to restrict the Wealth Cult. But the profit-making forces received the news somehow, and also came to the court meeting to target the opposition.
After he figured it out, the king calmed down and looked down with his chin in his hand.
Three days later, the dispute at the court meeting was sent to Beta's hands in the form of intelligence.
After reading it, he put it aside, not paying much attention to it.
Angel happened to be helping Beta sort out the important paperwork, and upon seeing this, he asked, "Don't you warn those who oppose us?"
"No need." Beta said with a slight smile: "We built mountains and roads across Hollevin, and now we are building water conservancy. Even if they couldn't understand our actions before, they should be able to actually feel the benefits of doing this now Yes. More convenient transportation will bring more prosperous business index, which means more tax revenue.”
"There are many people in Huo Levin who are willing to accept our love. Of course, we are not gold coins, and 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 tied up. On our warships, even if we do nothing, they will be dealt with by the opposition nobles who want to prevent them from getting rich."
"As for us, it seems that we are losing money. But what we gain is a more commercial and prosperous Holevin Kingdom, and a better reputation among the general public. This is an excellent thing for Goddess Wojin."
Angel smiled and said, "In other words, we made a lot of money, right?"
"It can be said that." Beta said with a smile: "Although we have not formed a clique, there are many potential allies in Hollevin. A win-win situation is the shortcut to do things."
"By the way, let Katie come over."
Katie recently returned to Woking City to accept Beta's 'supervision'. This is a new rule promulgated by Beta. The bishops of temples in various places accept the supervision of "doctrine instructors", and the doctrinal instructors have to write a month-end ethos guidance summary to Woking City every month. Every December, they have to go back to Woking City to accept the faith test .
Although the regulations appear to be relatively strict, Beta has also increased the basic remuneration of all priests by nearly half.
In this way, reduce the resistance of all clergy.
At the same time, pastor colleges around the world 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 the 'purity' of the team.
In history, how many forces fell apart not because of the blows of foreign enemies, but because of the self-corrosion and self-degeneration of internal personnel.
Taking history as a mirror, we can know advance and retreat.
Katie soon came to Beta's study. She was wearing a pale pink uniform, which was a bit baggy, but her curves could still be seen.
"In two days, you will continue to inspect all the temples, but the focus has changed from monitoring corruption to deterrence." Beta put a list in front of her: "Before the construction of the Grand Canal of the Cross, you took the initiative to appear in the open , Allocate manpower to inspect all the temples and engineering sections involved in the construction of the Cross Canal. The Cross Grand Canal is extremely important to us and to the Water God Sect, and there must be no mistakes. We must fundamentally reduce unnecessary mistakes and troubles."
Katie took the list and glanced at it hastily: "My faith test passed? 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 prescribed relationship, you have to come back and pretend to be with me, at least you can't give people the feeling that high-level personnel are exceptions. It will have a bad effect."
Katie shrugged, seeming a little disappointed.
She took a deep look at Beta: "I'm leaving tomorrow, but before that, can you buy me some wine, as a friend, you have never entertained me alone."
"sure no problem."
Beta smiled and agreed.
On the second day, Katie left Woking with his team, quite high-profile.
The temples of the God of Wealth Sect all over the world felt cold sweat on their heads when they heard the news.
After the rectification movement a few months ago, Katie found out a lot of big corruption, executed a batch, and a small group who had hope of correction, and threw them all behind the cathedral for reform through labor.
To some extent, Katie's current reputation is much greater than that of Beta.
Now I heard that Katie is conducting inspections again, and all the gods and personnel are on the verge of a formidable enemy.
Beta had no choice but to send Katie out.
The monthly wages of more than 300,000 migrant workers, as well as their food, cost nearly 20,000 gold coins, plus the cost of construction materials, the purchase of tools, and the cost of replacing damaged tools, another tens of thousands of gold coins. Now the monthly flower locks of the Wojin God Church have reached an astonishing nearly 37,000 gold coins.
This figure is almost the total tax revenue of all the territories of the most powerful country, France, in two years.
After estimating the monthly expenses of the Temple of Woking, all forces in Hollevin fell silent.
This is definitely an unprecedented masterpiece.
On this day, a somewhat special guest ushered in Beta's study.
Noah.
Noah and Regif have been staying in Woking City, or playing around, and they are actually ambassadors sent by Metal Dragon.
They usually don't want to meet Beta, but today, Noah's expression is very 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 puzzled, but she didn't speak, but chose to listen.
"All righteous causes should be taken seriously. We metal dragons will also assist righteous causes." Noah had a saintly expression: "The high-level decision sent ten legendary red copper dragons who are good at earth magic Come here to help, with their help, I believe that the completion time of the canal project can be shortened by more than half."
Beta lowered her eyebrows slightly: "Sorry, I'm sorry to refuse."
Noah, who was full of confidence, froze for a moment, then yelled in disbelief: "Why? Why did you refuse?"
"We humans can solve human affairs by ourselves. Besides, no matter what kind of dragon you send, it will cause great trouble to those migrant workers." Beta said lightly: "It's not like the people in any place can be like Like Woking City, get used to the existence of dragons."
Noah said unhappily: "We sent legendary dragons, they can restrain their dragon power..."
Beta shook his head: "It's not Longwei's problem. The most important thing is that we human beings have grown up slowly through work and construction. If the Cross Canal has the help of the Dragon Clan this time, they haven't learned enough. Experience, then in the future, will all the big projects need to be helped by the Dragon Clan?"
Noah looked at Beta. Although she was not very smart, she still felt Beta's guard against them with the unique keen intuition of the Platinum Dragon.
"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 up. We don't want to do anything. We will rely on the dragon race in the future."
Noah fell silent.
In fact, there is another reason Beta did not say.
In fact, the more important purpose of this big project is to help the two goddesses, Wojin and Akuya, earn their reputation.
If they can complete the Grand Cross Canal this time, it will be a miracle in human history, and it will definitely cause an extraordinary sensation in the human world. The power of faith that Wojin and Akuya can obtain must also be extremely huge.
But if the dragon clan had a hand in it, then everyone would think so: So the dragon clan was allowed to help, no wonder such a big event can be done.
In this way, the original miracle became a matter of course.
Then the effect of gaining reputation will become extremely poor, and by the way, even the power of faith may be divided by a considerable 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 guess others with the greatest malice.
Seeing Beta's firm refusal, Noah thought for a while and asked, "Dragon Slaying Crossbow, you passed it on, right?"
"Dragon-slaying crossbow?" Beta was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was the blueprint of the magic bed crossbow he gave to other countries last time. He didn't expect to have such a title now: "Well, I passed it on, but that's not the case. It's called the Dragon Slayer Crossbow."
"Why do you publish such drawings, you know? How much does this bother us?"
"Cause trouble for the metal dragon?" Beta's heart skipped a beat: "Someone used a bed crossbow to deal with your metal dragon?"
"Not yet, but I believe that sooner or later there will be such a day!" There was some anger in Noah's eyes: "Why did you open such a weapon? This is an extremely unfriendly signal to us metal dragons .”
"This is for the five-color dragon." Beta said lightly: "It's not for dealing with allies."
Noah patted the table again, and said rather dissatisfied: "But it can also cause a lot of damage to our metal dragon."
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, In the future, you dragons can abandon your claws, sharp teeth and breath?"
Noah froze immediately, and it took a while before she said, "Is this different?"
"The truth is the same, ma'am." Beta smiled and said: "Allies refer to companions who are not much different in strength and advance and retreat together. Otherwise, they can only be vassals."