Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 72: Green Watcher Order and Potion
The effect of blood sacrifice is so strong that 10 acres of land can support 60 armed servants and meet their food consumption for a year. Su Li certainly hopes to expand the scale of blood sacrifice as much as possible.

In this way, in addition to maintaining his army, he could also store grain and train his soldiers, saving a batch of food for his external conquests.

Seeing Su Li's strong desire, Fandral Oak pondered for a moment and said, "If the Lord insists on multiple sacrifices, there are solutions. The simplest way is to recruit more Fathers of Grain, Polevik. The Dawn Goddess encourages these natural spirits to serve humanity, so she promised each of them the ability to offer sacrifices."

Su Li nodded. In that case, his plan to collect blood could still be used.

This way, he could prepare more corpses and blood of the bandits next time, and let the next Polevik hold a larger-scale blood sacrifice, striving to make the effect of the blood sacrifice affect more than 50 acres.

However, there was no news about the next Polevik yet. Su Li looked at Fandral with concern and asked, "Apart from this method, are there other ways to make the same Polevik perform more blood sacrifices?"

Fandral Oak nodded and said solemnly, "There is a way, but it's much more difficult than the last one. If you can preside over a sacrifice in the territory, please the Dawn Goddess, and let her bestow divine grace upon the territory, then all Poleviks will be able to perform blood sacrifices again this year."

"To please the gods?" Su Li had some knowledge of this aspect before. It was a tradition among the nobles. It was told to him by his father, Earl Bauhinia Suna.

There are many ways to please the gods. The most direct ones are the straightforward gods such as the Goddess of the Fiery Sun, the God of White Wolf, and the God of War. There are no fancy conditions. As long as the believers can chop people on the battlefield, chopping them until the sky and the earth are dark and the sun and the moon are eclipsed, making the opponents terrified and collapsed, and win an unparalleled and wonderful victory, or a popular and legendary epic victory, the gods will bestow their grace and blessings.

Such a powerful knight and military commander is likely to obtain a glorious relic.

Another more direct way is to offer sacrifices. For example, the Light Scale Fish can be offered to the gods, which would please most gods. However, it is unlikely to please the Goddess of Dawn with only two fish.

However, this issue is not urgent. Even if he immediately starts collecting flesh and blood and corpses to perform a second blood sacrifice, it is meaningless because he has already missed the time for this round of spring plowing.

There were still several months until the next summer planting, a time he could carefully prepare. The light-scaled fish could also reproduce in the reservoir, so perhaps during the summer or autumn planting season, a second blood sacrifice could be held.

Su Li then said to Fandral, "I've made note of this matter of pleasing the gods, and I'll think about it seriously later. After all, there are many knights in the territory who are fanatical believers in the Sun Goddess. If we want to offer sacrifices, we may need to hold a palace cabinet meeting before we can make a decision."

Fandral nodded slightly, knowing that such a major sacrificial event couldn't be decided with a single word. However, his fervor for the Goddess of Dawn compelled him to emphasize, "My Lord, I must say one final word. Right now, our territory is in dire need of a large amount of food. We can obtain gold and knights through various means, and at the very least, we can trade with Maraisburg. However, there's no way to continuously transport hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food."

"Without food, we can't increase our population, expand our army, or develop our territory. The sacred object of the Dawn Goddess can greatly alleviate this predicament and increase our food output. I hope you will consider the suggestions of our Dawn Church."

"Yes, I will." In front of Vandal, Su Li had to agree. As for what the knights would say, they would discuss it later.

Then Su Li asked, "My Minister of Agriculture, I heard that the size of the farmland in the territory has increased to over 2500 acres. Do you estimate whether we can have a good harvest and how much grain we can harvest?"

Fandral immediately assured him, "Our priests and nuns of the Church of Dawn have been working tirelessly to guide the serfs in their farmland. Furthermore, water conservancy and irrigation tools have improved, so this summer we will surely have a good harvest. We can harvest at least 300,000 kilograms of grain, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of various vegetables. My Lord, I believe we can now begin preparing windmills, waterwheels, mills, and other equipment for making flour. We can also expand the threshing floor and granary."

Hearing Fandral's assurance, Su Li couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth. 30 kilograms of grain are enough to feed 1000 ordinary people for three months. Coupled with the occasional harvests from fishing and hunting, and the continuous harvest of vegetables, it is conservatively estimated that this wave of harvest can support 1000 people for half a year, and smoothly transition to the next harvest. At the same time, a batch of food can be saved to launch a military conquest.

After this calculation, Su Li felt that his war against the forest bandits was more feasible.

Bringing them under his command and expanding the territory would provide him with sufficient food reserves. Therefore, expanding the territory could be put on the agenda.

While Su Li was thinking, Fandral, the Minister of Agriculture, continued to make a suggestion, saying, "My Lord, I think the crop variety in our current territory is still too monotonous. For example, carrots and cabbages have too close a ripening period. From the perspective of stability, we should expand the crop variety. Let there be seasonal fruits and vegetables that mature all year round."

"I suggest planting a vineyard or orchard in the north of our territory, near the Green Leaf Land. Besides increasing our food supply, we can also brew wine, cider, and beer. The dwarves in the northern mountains are in great demand for all of these fine wines. If we can trade their wine for a large quantity of metal products and crafts, and then use the Brienne River's shipping to sell these goods to Maleburg, we will reap a great deal of wealth."

"Plant seeds?" Su Li nodded and said, "I'll pay attention to this."

This made contact with the furniture dealers' caravans all the more necessary. They frequently ventured into the forest and must have harvested numerous rare plants and seeds. They might use the plants for potions, but they probably wouldn't be too interested in the seeds.

It depends on whether you can find a batch of valuable seeds from their collection.

Then Su Li asked the question that concerned him the most: "My dear religious advisor, what potions can you make as a druid?"

Fandral took a careful inventory and said, "Druids, like knights, are extraordinary professions. Their abilities depend on the deity they worship and the order they belong to. I belong to the Green Watchers of the Cult of the Dawn Goddess. Due to the abilities of our order, I can create Vitality Potion, Purification Potion, Healing Potion, and the powerful Earthblood. This powerful Earthblood potion allows soldiers to continuously absorb energy from the earth beneath their feet to heal themselves as long as they stand on the natural soil."

So each church has different orders? Su Li asked curiously, "Then do you know which order Knight Orstein belongs to?"

Fandral nodded and said, "Of course. Our military commander comes from a very famous church, the Order of Righteous Wrath, led by Her Majesty the Sun Goddess Violet. Their deeds are recorded in the religious book 'Violet, the Goddess of War.' I think we can establish a good relationship with them. If a knightly order of this order could be stationed in our territory, it would be of great benefit to us."

The Knights Templar have many branches and subordinate brotherhoods. They will train in various places, help the lords wage wars, fight against evil monsters, and use this to promote their faith and recruit prospective members from various territories.

So, if a territory thrived, offering a manor or a small territory as a donation to the Knights, the Order might station a fraternity of several dozen men there. This was a knightly order of elite rank, with the Knight Commander likely at the Champion level. Add in one or two squadrons of armed retainers, and you had a formidable force.

They are not subordinate to their lords, nor do they receive their orders or salaries. However, they will aid their lords in great wars. Of course, these do not include unjust wars. For example, civil wars between humans or attacks on other pioneering territories, the proud Knights will not accept conscription. (There are exceptions, however, where relations are particularly close. Some Knights have close ties with territories and will participate in their various wars. However, such cases are extremely rare.)
If he could establish a relationship with the Flame Sun Knights, it would indeed be the fastest way for Su Li to improve his military strength at the moment.

Fandral didn't get too involved in military matters. He quickly changed the subject back to potion production. "Our territory needs a lot of things to make potions. First, we need a monastery or druid treehouse to produce potions. Then, we need bottles to hold the potions."

What Fandral said was certainly true, but he also had his own selfish motives. A monastery wasn't necessary for potion production; it could be done in an alchemy workshop or a potion workshop. He was urging Su Li to build a dedicated monastery for the Church of Dawn.

There was no way around it. He was also serving as the Minister of Religious Advisor, and he definitely wanted to take advantage of the situation to develop the Church of Dawn.

Su Li thought carefully and decided to take care of his enthusiasm, so he said to Fandral, "Potion production can be put on the agenda. Logically, this furniture dealer's team will definitely bring a batch of potion bottles, so we can buy a few for storage. Now the only thing missing is a monastery. I allow you to build a Dawn Church Monastery in the residential area south of the city."

"South of the city?" Fandral paused. While it wasn't the core area of ​​the castle, it was still acceptable to him. The Church of Dawn was generally respected most in the countryside, and its prosperity and influence around the city came primarily from its productive orchards and dairy farms.

His goal accomplished, he was in a good mood, and he said with a smile, "My Lord, I will start preparing immediately. As soon as the herbs are collected, I will start making the potion with all my strength."

(End of this chapter)