Father Mavie

Chapter 64 Next Step Strategic Policy

"Take the initiative to bear the house maintenance costs for believers?"

In the kitchen, Levin, who had worked so hard to froth the egg whites, got a moment of rest, and when Mavi poured the sugar and milk into the basin, he said, "Boss, this is indeed a church propagandist." Good idea, but does our church have such strong financial resources?"

The Church of Truth, which has been established for three years, only owns a church under their feet. Apart from that, they have no territory at all.

Land represents wealth and means of production. A church with a large amount of territory must have strong financial resources. In their eyes, the small cost of maintaining a house is not worth mentioning at all, but the Church of Truth is different.
"The church currently has 2300 pounds left."

Ma Wei handed Levin the steel basin filled with sugar and milk, and motioned him to continue stirring: "The money I accumulated on the privateer before, ignoring the food expenses of the cats, the Church of Truth not only reached the income Balanced expenses, there is still an income of 25 gold pounds a month."

"How much food do cats eat per day?"

"About eight gold pounds."

"so much?!"

Hearing this figure, Levin was taken aback. You must know that when the Sunshine Circus is full of customers every day, the income is only 10 gold pounds, and this does not include the cost of props, food, wages and other costs!
After mental calculation, Levine came up with a rough figure: "Doesn't the daily expenditure of 8 gold pounds mean that the church has a monthly net loss of 215 gold pounds?!"

"You haven't counted the church's daily expenses. Starting today, I will pay you 11 shillings and 6 pence a day, which is 17 pounds and 5 shillings a month. In other respects, I will also send food to the orphanage regularly. Adding up all kinds of expenses, the monthly expenditure of the church is at least 250 gold pounds."

".Am I getting too much salary?" Levin swallowed, "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's less."

"It's just a drop in the bucket. Even if you don't need a salary, the monthly expenditure of the church is still astronomical."

1859年的温莎王国，大部分中产阶级的年收入约在300—800金镑之间，而拥有土地的小乡绅、医生、律师和商人的年收入有1000—2000金镑。

The average working class earns only a pitiful 20-100 gold pounds a year.

In contrast, the Church of Truth, which needs 3000 gold pounds a year, seems to have surpassed the vast majority of the population.

In other words, Ma Wei was able to bring back 5 gold pounds from the privateer in just 5000 years, and his income level had already exceeded 90% of the people.

but.
The situation of the Truth Church is not optimistic.

With the arrival of the Cats and Cats Legion, the Church of Truth, whose expenditure has skyrocketed, is facing an unprecedented crisis.

If it weren't for Ma Wei's wealth in the past, he really couldn't support so many cats.

"This is not the way to go!"

Levin licked his somewhat dry lips, and suggested: "Why don't I go to the vaults of those nobles and see if they have anything they don't want?"

"No."

Ma Wei shook his head: "In the past, the nobles had no choice but because the Rosy Thief's whereabouts were erratic and he committed crimes on the fly. No one knew which city he was going to and which nobleman he was targeting."

"New Ross is a small city, incomparable to those big cities like Royal Capital, York, and Edinburgh. Committing crimes here for a long time will attract the attention of other interested people."

"Then how about I use disguise magic to change some gold bricks and sell them?" Levin asked again: "I'll change into someone else's appearance and go to a different city. That's okay!"

"The disguise magic can only last for three days, and it will be exposed in the blink of an eye." Ma Wei immediately denied: "This will only make us a windfall, how much can the amount be? Besides, the gold bricks purchased with a lot of money suddenly become It has become a pile of waste materials, those pawn shop bosses will definitely not be able to swallow this breath, they are all backed by nobles, if they come and go, the news will spread, let other big churches know, it will only be more detrimental to us."

"Tsk."

Levin slammed his mouth, and his arms stirred faster and faster: "Isn't this just sitting on the mountain and killing yourself!"

"There is still time. No matter how bad it is, the remaining funds can last for half a year. I have already started looking for ways to make money."

"What method? You don't raise one or two cats, but a city of stray cats, a legion!"

"Isn't it enough to let them be self-sufficient?"

While preparing soft bread dough, Ma Wei said: "A while ago, there was a plague in New Rose City. It was actually a curse, the source of which was unknown, but the residents in the city believed it was caused by rats, and now everyone Avoid rats, and everyone shouts and beats them."

"The news of the plague has spread to the city of New Ross in the past few days, and it has slowly spread to several surrounding cities. As a result."

"Isn't there a chance for cats to make money?"

"what do you mean"

Levin's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Let the cats catch mice?"

"In the name of the Church of Truth."

Ma Wei revealed his next plan: "Just getting Baron Bill's friendship is not enough. The Church of Truth needs to be favored by more nobles. Originally, as long as they can catch the Rosy Thief, the nobles will definitely celebrate and invite them to help them." Having solved my serious problem, I participated in various banquets, and through this, I can easily enter their field of vision and take the opportunity to promote the church, but unfortunately, the plan always fails to keep up with the changes."

Shrinking his neck, Levin suddenly fell silent, lowered his head, and obediently stirred the cream.

"But I don't regret my decision at all, Levine."

Seeing his guilty look, Ma Wei said sternly: "I lost a great opportunity to contact nobles, but got a powerful talent. Your arrival made me immediately change my original plan and research a new one. direction of development."

"Which direction, can you tell me?"

"of course."

Ma Wei stopped kneading the dough, dipped his fingers in some flour, and drew a cat's head on the brown-red table: "Next, there are two directions for the development of the Church of Truth."

"First of all, the cat and cat army. I plan to publish the news of the mouse hunting in the newspaper. For ordinary civilians, the church will clean up the rats in their homes free of charge. For the large manors of the gentry and nobles, we will charge a certain amount of compensation. While expanding prestige, gather funds and ease the pressure on the church."

"Secondly, those noble gentlemen, more or less, have their own land. The plague makes everyone fearful, and they are no exception. As long as we really get rid of the rat plague, they will definitely contact the Church of Truth. Isn't this in line with my previous development policy?"

(End of this chapter)