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Chapter 112: The Burned Earl Witch (24)

Fortunately, there is no Internet nowadays, so it is not easy for people to communicate across borders. At most, the nobles in the royal capital communicate with each other, and the nobles in other cities communicate with each other. They discuss with each other whether they should give back what they have obtained.

Many nobles have quite different attitudes in this regard.

Especially the great nobles and the small nobles.

Those who take more and those who take less.

The benefits left behind after the demise of the Holy See of Light could definitely not be divided equally. Some people would get more and some would get less, including the nobles who were closer to the local Holy See and those who had relatively high power and status.

Naturally, it can occupy certain advantages.

So in the end, they naturally swallowed up the vast majority of the Vatican's assets and land. Other nobles who were slow to react and of lower status could only eat the leftovers, and some did not even get the leftovers.

Therefore, when faced with the aggressive demands of the Elemental Church and its demand that they give up all the inheritance of the Church of Light, those nobles who had already made little profit were naturally unwilling to cause trouble and were happy to spit out what they had just eaten. It didn't matter, the loss was not big.

Those who didn't even get a few melons or dates were even happier. After all, they were already a little depressed and dissatisfied that they came late and didn't get anything good. Now everyone has to return the legacy of the Holy See of Light, and no one has gained anything.

I feel like my mood has improved a lot.

Only those nobles who had actually taken over many of the inheritances of the Holy See of Light and even became rich because of it were filled with resentment at this time, and some even wanted to join forces to resist.

But no one wanted to be the first to stand out. Even if they didn't know the idiom "killing the chicken to scare the monkey", they knew that the first one to resist at this time would definitely not have a good ending, and the Church of Elements would certainly not let them off lightly.

So discuss and discuss.

Actually, there was no result.

Therefore, in the end, those nobles who were unwilling in their hearts actually decided to wait a little, hoping that someone would come forward and let them see what the result would be, because they felt that among so many nobles, there must be stupid ones, and some who were extremely greedy, and would never spit out what they had in their stomachs.

At that time, based on the specific situation, you can consider whether to vomit or not, and how much to vomit for the witch.

As for the witches sent by Ding Shui, first of all, it is definitely impossible for them to go to remote areas and take over the churches and church assets that originally belonged to the earldom or barony. Not to mention that there are not many valuable assets in those places, the key point is that Ding Shui does not have that many people.

Therefore, those places can only slow down temporarily.

Prioritize going to the churches in the major royal capitals, taking over and transforming the original churches of light into elemental churches.

By the way, ask the local nobles for the inheritance of the Holy See of Light.

This is the core task assigned by Ding Shui. It is also the first step for their Elemental Church to formally develop and expand. It is also a task specifically designed to test them.

Ding Shui has already given specific instructions on what to do, and there is also a strong deterrent of force. If the problem still cannot be solved, then I really don’t have much ability, and I can arrange some retirement and leisure or miscellaneous work in the future.

There is no need to enter the core of the Elemental Church.

As the witches arrived, they quickly began to take action. Some went directly to the king and asked him to ask the nobles to cooperate. Some looked for the officials who were responsible for confiscating the local Church of Light and asked them to take back the relevant evidence and verify the assets of the Church of Light.

Others are not in a hurry and start with free medical consultations.

Treat the people of the entire capital.

As for the results, the most successful approach at the moment is to simply provide free medical services. After all, free medical services have not yet affected the actual interests of other people. Those nobles naturally cannot object rashly and can only continue to wait and see future developments.

Others who were relatively impatient encountered a lot of obstacles, both overtly and covertly. They either refused to cooperate or pretended to cooperate but actually did not cooperate at all.

This is what is meant by lip service in the traditional sense.

They just bet that the witch would be difficult to rob.

Some who were overly cautious naturally became extremely impatient and helpless. However, some were decisive and immediately used the soul magic taught to them by Professor Ding Shui to review the memories of all the relevant people, accurately determine who had taken the items, and then go directly to the door to claim them.

So, Harley went to find Prince Riens, who had taken away the most gold, silver and jewelry from the Cathedral of Light in the royal capital.

And directly told him what he had taken away at that time: "The Pope should have told you that we elemental witches are not only good at playing with the power of elements, but also souls.

These are the data I found by reviewing the memories of the participants. What? Prince Riens, do you want to refute it? "

There was no doubt that the prince looked very unhappy, but he was obviously unwilling to let him spit out all the things, so he still insisted: "Those are my spoils of war, you have no right to take them away by force."

"So if you don't accept the toast, you have to drink the penalty drink?"

Harry continued to ask.

"I don't understand toasts or fines. I only drink wine. You, the Elemental Church, can't rely on your own strength to do whatever you want. Private property is sacred..."

Not understanding what was said did not affect Rians' firm attitude.

"Alas, as expected, sometimes you really can't be too merciful. Some people are really pushing things too far, and they're shameless. In that case, I can only follow the instructions of His Holiness the Pope and take it myself. I hope you still remember His Holiness the Pope's orders and instructions.

Those who embezzled and refused to return the inheritance of the Holy See of Light.

All of his family's assets will be confiscated!"

After saying the last words, Harry immediately flew out of the Prince's Castle and turned the entire Prince's Castle into ruins with the Five Elements Magic. As for the people inside, of course they were all crushed to death, and it was a natural disaster and punishment from heaven.

After doing all this, Harry did not forget to float directly in the sky and said loudly using the sound transmission technique:
"Prince Riens disobeyed the edict and has now been punished by heaven. All his assets will be confiscated by the Elemental Church, his princely title will be abolished, his descendants will not be allowed to inherit, and he will be demoted to an ordinary civilian. His original fiefdom will be nationalized again.

King Haven must not disobey, execute it immediately!
Bring their assets to the Elemental Church!"

With that, Harley flew back. She had chosen to cooperate with the king. She would personally kill any disobedient individuals, and the king would handle the aftermath. The profits would be split equally between the two, while all actual gold, silver, jewelry, farms, and other assets would belong to the Elemental Church.

A series of rights such as fiefdom, right to collect taxes, etc.

It was returned to the king's hands, which was equivalent to increasing the king's direct jurisdiction and direct tax collection area.

It is a mutual benefit and win-win situation.

Of course, the win-win situation here only refers to the king and Harry and the Elemental Church. For those great nobles, it is obviously not a win-win situation.

Along with Prince Riens's family, everyone in the castle was annihilated. Those not in the castle were stripped of their inheritance rights, titles, and other privileges in the name of the Elemental Pope, reduced to commoners. Some timid nobles were so frightened that they ran to the Elemental Church overnight to return the inheritance they had embezzled from the Church of Light.

Some people really couldn't remember how much they had embezzled, or some had already been spent, so they hurried to take out as much as possible from their own assets.

Anyway, you can only bring more, not less.

Explain the situation, apologize, etc.

I hope to get forgiveness from the Elemental Church. It’s not that they don’t want to return it, but I just can’t remember clearly.

They are willing to compensate more, so don't take your anger out on them.

There are indeed people in this world who are willing to sacrifice their lives for money, but at the very least, they want all their wealth.

Just asking for a portion.

It was even part of what they had stolen.

There are undoubtedly very few people who don't care about their lives.

We are not stupid. If we hand it over, there will be only a slight loss at most, which is not serious damage. It's more of a heartache and a waste of time.

If you don’t pay, not only will you lose your life, but you will also lose your money.

Even the ancestral title and fiefdom were gone.

It is obvious which loss is greater.

Even though they knew that the king might have reached some agreement with others in private, otherwise he would not be so eager to help, they had no way to stop the king from helping.

After all, the king could easily claim that he was forced by the Elemental Church and that he might lose his life if he didn't help.

How can we stop this? There is no way!
So most people can only accept it with a pinch of their nose.

And in comparison, Harley's actions were only average, a simple, conventional "kill the chicken to scare the monkey" approach. There were many who were more ruthless than her, such as Lilith, who had recently suffered a breakup.

At first, she acted very cowardly, honestly visiting according to the rules, explaining the situation, and asking for the inheritance of the Holy See of Light, but was sent away. She then visited many princes and dukes in succession. This made many people think that she was weak and could be bullied, and there was no need to return the inheritance of the Holy See.

Afterwards, some nobles even closed the door and sent the guests away.

She wasn't even allowed in the door.

A month later, she executed all the nobles who refused, confiscating their property and wiping out their families, all in the name of disobeying the Pope's decree. While this was suspected to be a sting operation, it certainly frightened the remaining nobles to death, and she was even dubbed the Bloody Witch.

Ding Shui taught them more than one method.

Not to mention thirty-six strategies, there are even three hundred strategies.

It’s just that which method to choose to solve the problem, whether it is a gentle solution or a tough solution, depends on their own choice. Ding Shui did not interfere too much in this regard. As long as they can successfully achieve their goals and complete the task, it’s fine.

With the recovery of the assets of the Holy See of Light in the royal capital completed.

Those that have completed their mission will continue to sink.

At the same time, other plans were also gradually being implemented. For example, the reclaimed land was carefully sorted out, the serfs responsible for cultivating the land were taught more advanced agricultural knowledge, their share of the land was increased, and agricultural output was thereby increased.

Another example is sending food to disaster areas for disaster relief.

They had been short on food before, but after plundering the nobles and successfully receiving a portion of the Holy See's legacy, they had enough food. If a disaster radiated the entire Western Continent, they might be powerless at the moment, but they could still provide disaster relief in smaller areas.

Everything is developing in an orderly manner.

The only drawback is the lack of staff.

Taking into account the fact that witches needed to consume large amounts of food and meat to improve themselves, and the fact that agriculture was not yet developed, Ding Shui did not continue to train witches without limit. After transforming a total of one thousand witches, Ding Shui stopped.

Although they are called witches here, there are actually men as well.

Probably less than a hundred.

Even the butler Hansen is included.

After all, sometimes, there are some things that are really not convenient to let witches do. It is undoubtedly necessary to get some wizards to assist as a supplement!
A thousand witches might be enough to intimidate them, but they still lack the manpower to do the work. Therefore, Ding Shui's main focus will be on education and initiation. He will have the witches from the various cathedrals be responsible for recruiting them, while also conducting a simple educational classification in advance to determine their strengths. Ding Shui will then provide initiation and education.

There is no way, without initiation the speed will be too slow.

Ding Shui really couldn't stand this efficiency.

Think about it, the level of civilization in this world is still at the stage of using parchment, and parchment is so expensive. To put it bluntly, the overall level of development may be even lower than that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Eastern Continent.

There were essentially two groups of people who could read: the original Church of Light and the aristocracy, both of whom had very limited literacy. For example, many of the original Church of Light only knew the Holy Book of Light and nothing else. The aristocracy was similar; highly literate individuals were extremely rare, and many of the knights of aristocratic origin were illiterate.

The clergy of the Holy See of Light.

It was basically wiped out some time ago.

Nowadays, the only people in the entire Western Continent who are literate and have some culture are the nobles and the declining nobles.

At the same time, their cultural level and knowledge level are not high.

Asking them to do some simple arithmetic may not be a problem, but asking them to teach agricultural knowledge or industrial knowledge is simply making things difficult for them. They don’t understand it, and no one here understands it.

Even if they understand, they are unlikely to teach.

It is even more impossible to teach ordinary civilians or even serfs according to Ding Shui's requirements. They will feel it is a humiliation.

Some would rather die than go.

It is also unrealistic to let Ding Shui teach himself, or to let the witches who are already busy and have been indoctrinated by Ding Shui teach, as they are already too busy to handle everything.

Where is the time for education? !

So after weighing the pros and cons and thinking it over again and again, Ding Shui could only decide to force things to happen. He would first use knowledge indoctrination to create a group of people who knew the facts but not the reasons behind them. Some of them would be responsible for doing the work, while others would be responsible for building the Element Church School and teaching and educating people.

To do something that was originally done by forcing things.

Implement it gradually and stabilize the foundation.

Even so, the whole process lasted more than a year. It was not until more than a year later that the Elemental Church founded by Ding Shui basically took over more than 90% of the heritage of the Church of Light. At the same time, it had enough manpower to carry out agricultural reforms, all of whom were knowledgeable after being initiated.

But in less than half a year, Ding Shui had to suspend the agricultural reform because the gap between the professionals who had been initiated and normal professionals was too great.

Even if a normal agricultural expert cannot be fully aware of all branches of agriculture, he or she will at least be good at some of them. When a problem that does not appear in the books arises, he or she can analyze and study it, and then find a solution, or flexibly apply the knowledge learned.

Try every possible way to solve the problem.

But the agricultural experts who have been indoctrinated are obviously powerless to do anything about this. Whenever a situation arises that is inconsistent with the knowledge in books, they are immediately helpless.

Don't know what to do at all.

Those who study medicine, or even those who have not studied medicine, but know a little bit about it, know that it is very rare for a doctor to encounter a person whose illness is exactly the same as the standard case in the textbook. Most people's illnesses are far more complicated and troublesome than those cases in the textbook. Therefore, students of medicine must learn the principles, various effects and influences, in order to solve various cases that do not quite meet the standards.

Rote memorization and optical standardization teach medical treatment.

That's not even a good doctor.

If he were more confident, he would be a complete quack.

Even though farming is not as complicated as studying medicine, there are still many problems to be encountered. It is also impossible for all problems to be accurately written in books.

When faced with standardization issues, the experts trained by Ding Shui can handle them, but once non-standardization issues arise, or problems that they have never seen before, they are really powerless.

The timid and unsure can only report it and ask for help.

It's even worse for the bold ones.

The probability of failure is far greater than success.

Under such circumstances, many of the originally planned agricultural reforms will certainly not be able to continue, otherwise there will likely be chaos. Although even if there is chaos, the yield per mu should not be lower than their original yield per mu.

That means the yield per mu is 80 kilograms.

Dante Shui certainly still wanted to make things perfect and leave no regrets, so he quickly stopped the reform.

Of course, reform must continue.

It’s just that this time we are a little more restrained. We don’t require to complete everything in one go. We will first make some standardized small-scale reforms that are less likely to make mistakes and cause problems.

Even if the effect may not be particularly good.

However, it is not a problem to increase the wheat yield from 80 kilograms per mu to 400 kilograms per mu. It will be more troublesome to increase this yield further, and we can only do it step by step.

Priority should be given to training and using talents.

Without talent, many things cannot be done.

The disadvantages of forcing things to grow too fast are indeed quite large.

However, even so, an output of 400 kilograms per mu is basically a dimensionality reduction attack. The very simple and crude pseudo-industrialization in all aspects is enough to defeat the major noble kings.

It didn't take long for the entire Elemental Church to get back on track. The annual income was not only enough to maintain large-scale charitable activities, but also had a lot of surplus. Most of that surplus was invested by Ding Shui in education. As for encouraging research and invention, there was no rush for the time being.

Even literacy has not been achieved yet.

Where are the talented people to do research?

Around the same time, because the rules initially formulated by Ding Shui were not strict, problems of varying sizes arose within the Church of Elements less than two years after its establishment, which was quite heartbreaking.