Anthony has been so anxious lately that he has lost a lot of hair and wants to just let go and die. Being an undead creature is much more comfortable than being the wretched pope.
Anthony has thousands of years of political experience, a large number of followers and subordinates, and countless people who believe in him, but he cannot solve the current problem - famine. There is a famine in the main plane.
"Actually, there is a famine in the main plane all the time, every year, a small one every year, a big one every five years, and plagues happen from time to time." Anthony said with a bitter face: "Some landowners and nobles collect taxes very harshly. There will also be small-scale riots.¡±
These things actually happened relatively rarely under Anthony's rule, but they were very common in the western parishes, so the population of the western parishes never increased.
There will be famines under Anthony's rule, but he will allocate, transfer, redeem, reduce taxes, borrow, installment, and even cheat to transfer the food of the landlords and nobles to the victims or bankrupt farmers in some methods that are not objectionable to everyone. in hand.
We can¡¯t afford to pay it back next year. We can pay it back in installments. We really can¡¯t afford it. We can reduce taxes, but we still can¡¯t afford it. Policies are tilted. As long as people are alive, there is always a way to survive.
"However, all movements are based on one foundation, and that is food.
"Now, even the landlords and nobles have no food left in their homes. Even if I ransack their homes, I won't be able to get much food, and" Anthony said with a wry smile.
¡°And there is a more troublesome thing that restricts him, preventing him from using some rough methods, such as plundering
The Eastern Dioceses became independent, they were now called the Holy Church, and he was the acting pope.
In order to win over the princes, nobles and landowners to follow him, Anthony secretly made a lot of compromises and concessions. Otherwise, even with the hidden lines he had laid out for thousands of years, those people would not have been able to take the risk and follow him into darkness.
??Essentially, what Anthony did is tantamount to rebellion. If he fails, he will probably be beheaded. Without huge benefits, who will follow him?
However, most of the things he transferred were the benefits of the theocracy and were just generosity. But similarly, he could not use too rough methods, otherwise the entire eastern diocese would be in chaos.
"As long as I dare to raid one house, the others will definitely rebel, and everyone will think: Did you, Anthony, burn the bridge and refuse to admit it?"
¡°Not only can¡¯t I ransack my home, but I also have to close my eyes when I see someone hoarding things, and pretend I don¡¯t see them. Do you think I¡¯m angry or not?¡±
Nigris nodded: "It's really irritating, especially when you said so much and the rightful owner didn't listen." After speaking, he pointed at Ange, who had pulled them into the consciousness space and then distracted himself from farming.
Anthony sighed: "I'm used to it. It's the same with you, the God of Knowledge. Lord Ange respects your opinion."
The flattery was just right, and Nigris' little tail was raised. But after it was done, it started to scratch its head: "But you want too much, one hundred thousand tons, two hundred million catties, save some food, how much is enough?" Millions of people ate it.¡±
"Yes, but the food gap is so big. This year there was first a drought, then a hurricane, and then an insect plague. All the grain fields in the Principality of Montenegro were destroyed, and all their victims came to our east. The harvests in previous years were good. There are more people giving birth to children, and the population in our east has been increasing year after year, so the burden is getting bigger and bigger." Anthony said distressedly.
In an era of inconvenient transportation and low productivity, population is sometimes not wealth but a burden.
To give an example, there is a disaster in a place with more than 5,000 victims. It is easy to transport food for disaster relief. Even if there is no road, food for 5,000 people can be transported through the wilderness.
¡°But if 50,000 people are affected by a disaster in this place, the difficulty of transporting food for disaster relief will not be ten times higher, but may be fifty times or a hundred times more difficult.
Because the wilderness cannot bear the transportation of so many materials, roads need to be built, and the people transporting materials need to eat and drink, and more than half of them will be consumed on the road. One or two materials that can be transported in are good.
Therefore, the management difficulty of a country with a population of one million and a country with a population of tens of millions is not ten times, but dozens or hundreds of times.
In an era of low productivity, too much population is often the beginning of the division of an empire. It is not until we enter an industrial society that the advantage of population can be transformed into productivity through education.
Anthony has now experienced the pain of too many people. For example, when he asked Ange for help, he asked for 100,000 tons. When he saved the Principality of Montenegro, he only asked for 1,000 tons.
But this is a rigid need. In other words, in his calculations, 100,000 tons is the minimum limit that can just get through this disaster year. If it works well, it may be able to bring down the price of food.: "Then I can only buy it with money, two hundred thousand magic crystals, how about it?"
"Pfft, it's not as good as a population of 100,000. Are you bargaining too hard?" Nigris said.
"Sir, this is just food after all, how much do you want to sell it for?" Anthony was also speechless.
That's right. Although food is very important, the price is not high. When Ice City bought food from the main plane, it only cost one magic crystal per ton. Anthony probably wanted to buy food from Falling Dragon Lake, not from another plane. , being able to produce two magic crystals is already very high, at least five times higher than the normal price of food.
??Things that do not involve gods and magic, can be mass-produced, and are needed by ordinary people, the unit price must not be expensive.
???????????? But Negris clearly looks down on this kind of small business and thinks it¡¯s not as good as a population of 100,000.
"Then how about one hundred thousand people plus two hundred thousand magic crystals? If you are not satisfied with this price, then you will kill me." Anthony thought casually.
"Bah!" Faced with Anthony's behavior of taking advantage and being obedient, Nigris could only protest: "I don't care, you can ask Ange, I don't know if he can provide 100,000 tons of grain."
Anthony turned to Ange and said, "Sir, I hope to use 100,000 people and 200,000 magic crystals to purchase 100,000 tons of food. Is that okay?"
Ange tilted his head, flew up directly, with a ring of scales appearing on his body, pointed at a piece of waterless magic rice in the waterway, and said: "Seven thousand tons."
He flew to another area, pointed at this area, and said: "Fifteen thousand tons."
??I pointed all the way and added more as I went, and soon it reached 75,000 tons.
Anthony was already stunned. How long has it been since Ange came to this plane? Why do you grow so much food? And it's still floating on the water? Isn't this amazing?
The figure of 75,000 tons has far exceeded his expectations. When Ange flew to an immature rice field, Anthony quickly said: "It's almost there, a little less is fine. A little less is fine." "
Ange ignored him and landed directly on a floating rubber board. He stepped hard on his footprints. The rice fields grew rapidly, blossomed, bore fruit, and matured.
As he did, after a few times, Ange pointed at the last piece of floating rubber and said: "One hundred thousand tons."
Anthony¡¯s anxiety turned into pain and happiness. The happiness was that the most troublesome problem was solved, but the pain was, how to move back so much food?
A few days later, a team of Paladins teleported to the Danhai plane and presented a document to the person in charge of Guangming Island, the slick priest.
"Transfer us away? Why should we be transferred away?" The priest couldn't believe it.
Although he was transferred to an alien plane with a lack of entertainment in the harsh mountains and rivers, he was also far away from the central government and power struggles. No one cared about him and he lived a very comfortable life. Why was he transferred away inexplicably?
"We don't know either, Priest, execute the order. This is an order personally issued by the Holy Church on behalf of Pope Anthony." The Paladin said with a straight face.
The priest quickly held the paladin¡¯s hand, and a little thought slipped into the paladin¡¯s sleeve.
The Paladin's expression softened a little, and he whispered: "A big shot has taken a liking to this plane. There's nothing promising about it. Please leave quickly. Sir, I will arrange a good job for you when you return."
A big shot? ! The priest immediately thought of the big man swaying in the airship with the young adventurer sitting on the sea four months ago. Could it be him?
In a plane where the Church of Light does not have the upper hand, it was easy to give up. The hundreds of people on the Guangming Sandbank quickly evacuated, leaving only the adventurers.
Immediately afterwards, two people wearing cloaks came here through the teleportation array. They did not take a boat, but ran directly to the sea. A horse appeared from under them, dragging a dead body all the way from the water to the distance. .
"Polk? Why are you here?" It was the two black warriors under Anthony.
"Your Majesty asked us to give you a gift. The plane certificate, in the name of the Holy Church, recognizes that this plane belongs to Lord Ange. As long as you don't want to be an enemy of the Holy Church, don't deny its ownership. But in order to avoid suspicion, Your Majesty registered it under the name of the mercenary king Caigu Gu."
Polk knelt down and raised the object in his hand above his head.
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