When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 610: The Dynamics of the Castle of Jeanne

The cold autumn rain beat heavily on the roof, dripped along the eaves of the chapel, and splashed ripples on the base.

And in this vast forest and wind and rain, Ansel could still hear bursts of vague "squeaking" sounds.

That was the sound of a hand-cranked spinning wheel, or rather the sound of dozens of spinning wheels shrouded in the autumn rain and mist.

Amid the neat squeaking sounds, Ansel had a relaxed and satisfied smile on his face as he read the new briefing and sharpened his quill.

For writers of this era, sharpening quill pens is a step that no one can avoid.

According to the Monk's Manual edited by Horn and Catherine, the first thing a new assistant monk has to do in the first year is to sharpen feather pens and bind yearbooks.

The so-called yearbook is the paper-based office work required by Horn. After the end of each year, the department or order will copy and bind the report of the year. This is the yearbook.

By reading, binding, and copying the yearbook, one can gradually understand the department's style, authority, and mission.

The next thing to learn is how to execute it.

Even Ansel, who was a member of the third-term child army, had to sharpen feather pens for half a year in the Hundred Households District of Langsander County before he began to officially participate in the work.

On his desk, in addition to the new issue of the briefing, there was also the latest Joan of Arc paper.

The paper contains a two-dimensional table with the list of the Scythe Brotherhood.

According to the briefing, the first batch of Joan of Arc paper was put on the market in mid-August, priced at 8 dinars per piece.

This price and quality quickly became popular in Longsand County, and the churches and monasteries "voluntarily" contributed a large number of letterpresses, causing the price of books to plummet.

Ansel is currently considering whether to ask his superiors for a literacy reader so that Bryson can teach some students in the winter.

This literacy reader was also recently published. It is a general reading book compiled by Zhenli Ting and printed by Crab Patty Press.

It is said that there is one in each hundred-household district. His Majesty the Holy Grandson forced all major monasteries to send out monks to take these literacy textbooks to the countryside to promote illiteracy.

You are not required to be able to write, just be able to read and master addition and subtraction below twenty.

In this way, even the public bookkeepers could understand the announcements and would not be afraid of being deceived by merchants or tax collectors using numerical tricks.

As for the cities, various middle schools and primary schools were established one after another, and the teachers were low-level monks from monasteries and laid-off priests.

The priests who were laid off by the Order of Efficient Exorcists at least had a job and did not become "knowledgeable social idlers."

The Salvation Army has even set up a 4-year high school affiliated with St. Angelo College, called "Zhongsi High School," which teaches children from kindergarten at the age of 16 to high school graduation at the age of .

At the age of 16, he just reached the minimum age for the Salvation Army to recruit war brothers, and then he joined the army directly.

However, in Ansel's opinion, although he came from the Boys' Brigade and was basically in the same system as the Savior Army, he still felt that something was wrong.

Because these military academies offer tuition waivers to the children of war monks, and they do so on an application basis.

There are seven or eight primary and secondary schools in Jeanne d'Arc, Saint-Étienne, and Rapid City, but compulsory education is not implemented.

Most of the people who actually came to school were the children of ordinary citizens, the children of war monks, and the villagers who made a fortune in the war.

In this case, this 12-year military high school is likely to be filled with children of war monks.

If this continues, being a soldier or an officer will become a semi-hereditary profession.

However, this is a question that His Majesty the Saint Sun should consider, not Ansel.

The only thing he considered was the number and membership of the Scythe Brotherhood.

A month ago, he and Bryson came to Adrian Manor, and there was no one willing to talk to them, let alone the Brotherhood.

As of seven days ago, his Scythe Brotherhood still had 22 members.

By six days ago, when the wool processing was announced, only 15 households had arrived at the village church.

Four days ago, only 13 households actually came to pay for spinning yarn.

That is to say, nine households were instigated by Henderson's men, and the other two households just took advantage of half a pound of wool.

However, these 13 families spent 50 pounds of wool and spun 45 bundles of yarn, with a total profit of 27 dinars, an average of about 2 dinars per household. Although Horn easily made tens of thousands of gold pounds, a mountain villager only earned 1-2 gold pounds a year.

In other words, on average each person only earns 10-12 dinars per month.

2 dinars is equivalent to one sixth of a month's income and is generated in 3 days.

If it was for a month, that would be 20 dinars, a huge sum of money that could suffocate all the villagers.

This is not ordinary money, this is life-saving money. Even the richest farmers cannot guarantee that they will not starve to death every year.

So Brother Ansel's Golden Fleece became the hottest topic in Adrian Manor.

The intensity of the movement can be seen from the number of plates, tables, chairs and benches that were broken by a village head.

Even Knight Adrian came directly to ask if he could invest in the company, and privately asked Ansel where he got the wool at a low price.

By yesterday, when the second wool salary was distributed, there were 21 households on the Scythe Brotherhood’s list, and 42 dinars in salary were distributed.

When the silver coins fell into the pockets of the brotherhood members, the remaining villagers finally could not sit still anymore.

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In the past few days, the number of members who have come to consult and apply to join the fraternity has skyrocketed.

From yesterday afternoon to tonight, a total of one and a half days, more than 30 villagers registered with the Sickle Brotherhood.

There are still 5 households that have come to consult, but they have not made up their minds to join yet.

Bryson even specially came up with an invitation system, which means you can’t just join if you want to, but you have to be invited by a member of the club to join.

He said it could prevent Henderson from planting spies, but Ansel thought it was unnecessary.

But in order to avoid discouraging the lazy priest's enthusiasm for work, he agreed to his plan.

Next, as long as this wool operation system can continue to operate, all the public farmers in Adrian Manor will join in.

With its number exceeding two-thirds of the entire manor, the Scythe Brotherhood actually formed a hundred-household district.

Since the mountain knights themselves have no management authority, the biggest resistance comes from the armed farmers such as the village head.

Based on the research during this period, Ansel has been able to determine the operating core of this manor.

In an entire mountain manor, there are three parties: knights, armed farmers, and public farmers.

As long as any two parties unite, they can suppress and isolate the third party. Adrian Manor was where the armed peasants led the public book peasants to isolate the knight himself.

That is to say, although he enjoys the most benefits, he does not have the actual power to manage the manor, which is already autonomy in a certain sense.

From another perspective, as long as Ansel can cut off the alliance between the armed farmers and the public farmers, he will be able to completely control the entire manor.

Unless the village head Henderson can offer greater benefits to bribe the villagers, it is only a matter of time before the internal split occurs.

But when Ansel was about to write "The reform of permanent leasehold and 100-household districts is expected to be completed in early October" on the report, he became distracted again.

It was not until the ink in the pen fell onto the paper that he hurriedly wiped the ink spots off the paper with his handkerchief.

Bryson had just received a family who came to inquire about wool when he saw Ansel in a daze. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you thinking about?"

Putting down the quill, Ansel sighed, "I received an order from the higher order to increase my wool quota by 1 load."

"Isn't this good? There are too many people in Adrian Manor, and the original wool is a little insufficient."

Ansel frowned and shook his head: "With the ability of the smugglers in Shattered Stone, it would be good if they could transport 1500 dan of wool a month.

The wool quota for each region is limited. I added a load for no reason, which means that one region does not need wool this month. "

"What do you mean?" Bryson was suddenly surprised.

"Although the briefing did not mention it, I suspect that the chaos in the neighboring Coslan Manor, or in other words, the chaos in Mason Parish, has spread."

(End of this chapter)