Chapter 500: Without Spending a Single Soldier! Taking the Hunhe Principality!

"The nobles refuse to cooperate; what are we to do?"

Within the Hunhe Principality, at the headquarters of one of the churches, several high-level church officials gathered to discuss matters.

"We will buy it at a high price."

A young bishop suddenly spoke up.

The other bishops looked at this young bishop one after another.

Encouraged, the young bishop continued:

"We will buy it at a price of 10 silver coins per jin. Regardless of whether the sorghum on the nobles' land has matured or what the yield is, we will buy it based on a yield of eight hundred jin per mu. After we buy it, these nobles should be willing to plant grain."

"This is a good method, but our gold coins will be consumed quite a bit."

Immediately, another bishop clapped and praised.

"Good, then let's do it!"

The Archbishop finally made the decision.

Soon, within the region of this church, a large number of church personnel began to buy the nobles' sorghum.

Of course, it wasn't really buying.

Rather, as long as the nobles were willing to plant grain, they would be given gold coins directly based on a yield of eight hundred jin per mu. As for the sorghum that was close to maturity, it was dragged away by the church people and could even be sold to the Xiling Kingdom. The immature ones were directly pulled out to plant grain.

With the church people appealing to their sense of reason and emotion, and crucially, bringing out shiny gold coins, the nobles in this church's region finally harvested the sorghum as quickly as possible and then planted grain.

To say that some of these nobles hadn't sensed the crisis would be impossible, but these nobles felt that their stored grain was still quite substantial. Furthermore, if a War of Faith really broke out, it wouldn't cost them their lives; it would just be changing to another church, and their lives might even be better.

That was why these nobles didn't cooperate.

Hmm, Mengying's original plan actually had one greatest benefit, which even she herself hadn't realized.

That was the situation in the Xiling Kingdom, which had been transmitted over through the nobles of the Xiling Kingdom, making the nobles and commoners of the Hunhe Principality envious.

Under this envy, the nobles and commoners of the Hunhe Principality actually hoped in their hearts to be like the Xiling Kingdom and become a kingdom of the Lord of Flame.

You must know, the Xiling Kingdom was not originally a kingdom of the Lord of Flame.

But after becoming a kingdom of the Lord of Flame, the situation in the entire Xiling Kingdom had improved countless times over.

It was impossible for the people of the Hunhe Principality not to be envious.

Especially the commoners, who were incredibly envious of those ten mu of land, and there were God Bean seeds to be collected, and they only had to pay one-tenth in taxes. If such a good thing fell to them, they would laugh in their dreams.

And this point was something Mengying hadn't anticipated when she originally launched the economic war against the Hunhe Principality; it could be considered an unexpected harvest.

After the people of this church did this, the people of the other four churches also followed suit one after another.

Although it consumed quite a few gold coins, it finally allowed more than half of the land in the entire Hunhe Principality to be planted with grain.

"Send out mages with all our might to accelerate growth. This way, in at most one month, grain can be harvested on a large scale."

The five major churches all issued orders.

Normal growth acceleration would still take into account the natural growth laws of grain. Usually, even with growth acceleration, grain would take two to three months to mature.

It might even take longer, after all, there aren't that many mages, and mages also need to rest, which will sacrifice some timeliness.

But now, they could only adopt more intense growth acceleration methods.

Just as the high-level officials of the five major churches were rejoicing that grain had been replanted in the land, bad news came.

The Xiling Kingdom's great army had moved!

An army of over fifty thousand marched majestically to the border between the Xiling Kingdom and the Hunhe Principality, ready to attack the Hunhe Principality at any time.

Now, the five major churches of the Hunhe Principality were all anxious.

These five major churches could no longer care about the growth acceleration, and one after another, they recalled the mages sent out for growth acceleration, and then issued a conscription order through the greatest nobles in their respective regions.

Yes, when these five major churches encountered external enemies, they were quite united and twisted into one rope.

A large number of troops were armed, and a large number of mages were conscripted.

As for the grain in the fields, who cared about them?

Without the mages' growth acceleration, this grain wouldn't mature for several months.

These five major churches, each church conscripted about 150,000 troops, and the church controlling the royal family conscripted 200,000.

They had actually formed a great army of over 800,000 people.

But a new problem immediately emerged: after the army was assembled, the daily consumption of an 800,000-strong army was not small. The nobles also had to supply grain for the troops they conscripted. Their stored grain had already been consumed quite a bit, and now they had to supply the army, so they secretly groaned for a while.

Immediately following this, an even more terrifying thing happened.

The commoners of the Hunhe Principality began to suffer from a large-scale grain shortage.

These commoners didn't have much stored grain. In the past, they basically bought grain from the nobles. In the last few months, these commoners had also earned quite a bit of money, but after Princess Luoying reduced the supply of God Beans a month ago, the stored grain in the hands of these commoners simply didn't last long.

Now, they had money in their hands, but in a situation where the whole country was short of grain, these commoners simply couldn't buy grain.

How could the nobles sell it!

Their own grain was indeed plentiful, but the problem was that once the war arrived, the grain they had newly planted would take several months to harvest, and their grain still had to supply the troops they had conscripted. How could they be willing to sell their own grain?

These commoners couldn't buy grain, and even their survival became a problem, so they could only gather in groups to find the church.

How could the church's reserves satisfy these commoners? And the church also had to store some grain for the army! ===== CHAPTER 501 =====