Chapter 108: Reviewing Content

"It's like this: the commoners can only spend Tana now and cannot exchange it for other currencies at all, let alone the fact that most commoners don't have enough money to exchange for Side, because there simply isn't enough to make an exchange. It is precisely because of this that the price of grain in the city has been rising, and most commoners choose to hand over the money they have to the churches." Andrew frowned as he looked at the document in his hand; the handwriting on it was truly a bit ugly, though fortunately, it was still legible.

He needed to carefully decipher it and then rewrite a copy to submit to the Lord of Calamity; after all, he did not want the Lord of Calamity to think he was not working properly.

But he also could not refuse to answer the Believers' questions, so he appeared extremely busy.

Do most commoners choose to donate the money they have to the church? Luolita was a bit confused, "But if they donate to the church, they will have even less money to buy food."

"Besides us, there are many churches that provide a bite to eat for their Believers. The Sun Church does this very well; recently, they have been distributing a fruit called Sun Fruit to the commoners. It is said that eating one can guarantee you don't need to eat anything else for the whole day, so the number of followers of the Sun God Cult is growing larger and larger."

Feng Buxi did mention this on the forum, but the players didn't feel it was that exaggerated.

So it turns out that when grain prices rise, it is not just the nobles who benefit; those churches benefit along with them.

No wonder the Wisdom Church wants to open schools and distribute grain in the Factory District; it turns out the main purpose is to proselytize.

However, while these Zheng Shen Churches can do this, the Calamity Church cannot; after all, this is not an officially recognized church.

"Then wouldn't it be very difficult for us to develop our Believers?" Luolita continued to express her doubts.

"It doesn't matter. The God of Calamity does not require us to develop Believers, and if there are too many Believers, we might be found by the Zheng Shen Churches. We do not have the ability to oppose the Zheng Shen Churches, at least not yet. No Zheng Shen Church will allow us to exist. Just look at those witches and you will know; the Zheng Shen Churches will unite to deal with them." Andrew looked at Luolita kindly, "What we must do is strengthen ourselves. Only when we have strength can we take care of more followers. Not developing Believers is sometimes a form of protection."

After leaving Andrew's office, Luolita said to You'eryuan, "I think you should stop going to the commoner districts to hand out Charms. Bishop Andrew is right; if we are discovered by the Zheng Shen Churches, it won't do us any good."

"Hmm, I plan to hire those few people to work in our shop when the time comes. With us keeping an eye on them, they shouldn't leak our information." When the Wealth Church was managing the Factory District, there was no need for the players to be so cautious, but now that the Wisdom Church is managing the Factory District and keeping an eye on this place all day, it is better for them to be careful in their actions.

Everyone knows that this game uses real-time AI calculations, so players must act in accordance with the logic of the world's development.

If they go too much against logic, causing the churches to discover the Lord of Calamity hidden in the Sewers, then this game would need to be recalculated and re-debugged until it reaches a state where players can enter and play, and it's hard to say how much time that would take.

No player wants to ruin the game; at least, players willing to spend time entering the game to play would not do so.

Ye Laoshi also arrived at Andrew's office. Seeing a few players leave, he then entered to ask if he also needed to write an application.

Andrew waved his hand and said to Ye Laoshi, "Help me review the content written by these people. To be honest, I didn't expect so many new Believers to be willing to try their hand at business."

"Then I will help transcribe them. I haven't done business before either, and to be honest, I'm not sure if these plans can be carried out." Ye Laoshi picked up a stack of applications and glanced at them, "This..."

There were actually players planning to open a chess and card room, without even thinking about how many people in Tana City would know how to play, or how many even knew what chess and cards were...

Even more speechless was that someone wanted to open a bowling alley.

With 500 Tana, let alone a bowling alley, you couldn't even open a ping-pong hall, let alone a bowling alley.

There were also players wanting to open a gambling den, which was even more outrageous. Tana City has clearly stated that gambling dens are illegal; only those in the Bar Street with backgrounds and connections would open gambling dens. Even if the players had Saina as a backer, doing this kind of business didn't seem reliable no matter how you looked at it.

Some players were actually quite reliable. One was willing to open a herbal medicine shop because this player was from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Not only could they sell herbs, but they could also sell some pills and plasters. The other party stated frankly that they didn't know if the people here were the same as those in their understanding, but if they were, they were even willing to treat these people for free, as they could accumulate quite a bit of experience.

There were also players who wanted to open a detective agency, wanting to solve some melodramatic cases here.

And there was that little girl famous on the forum for her drawing, who wanted to open a studio, saying she would paint portraits for the nobles or something.

In short, a considerable portion of the requests were very reasonable, so Ye Laoshi followed his own ideas, transcribed them, and filtered out the reliable ones.

The applications placed in front of Chen Zhi were all submitted by Andrew after being filtered.

At the first glance at these documents, Chen Zhi was suddenly a bit moved, feeling that his little players were truly too sensible.

However, upon seeing the second page, Chen Zhi knew that these had all been transcribed and filtered by Andrew, and his mood suddenly became a bit less pleasant.

As expected, Andrew had seen the silly side of the players, and he didn't know if he could handle it.

"These are all okay. Are there enough shops?" Chen Zhi asked calmly.

"We even have a surplus of shops. I think we can wait for those filtered-out contents to be revised, and perhaps we can open more shops then," Andrew said respectfully, "However, after we finish purchasing those Tikuangshi, there might not be that much money left."

The newly purchased Nongzhuang and wineries have not yet started to generate profit. The money invested by the players is indeed quite a lot, especially the pension after Feng Buxi's death and the pensions issued to those players who died in battle, but this money is not that inexhaustible.

After lending some more to the new players, the rest can only depend on the players stepping up.

As expected, money is not that easy to earn, but Chen Zhi is not worried.

Microtransactions or whatever, aren't there plenty of those in other games? Just learn from them. For a game, isn't it easy to recover the gold coins in the players' hands?

(End of chapter)