Chapter 69: Acquaintances

"No, no, no, don't keep holding onto old-fashioned ideas; buying and selling serfs cannot possibly make efficiency higher," Magistrate Yuerhan said. "The Royal Capital doesn't even do that anymore; they advocate for using workers there. The machines developed by the Wisdom Church can replace a large number of serfs. There's no need to buy too many; having just a few is enough to handle the harvesting work. The rest of the people can all become workers in factories."

Yuerhan was a Magistrate who had seen the world; he had come here mainly to gild his resume, and he might not even need a year before he had to return to the Royal Capital to take up his post.

Therefore, his relationship with Governor Jones was quite good.

"The Wisdom Church has already made things like this?" Governor Jones pondered. "I will inquire with them more about it. If there really are such useful things, it could indeed free up more labor, and things would be much easier in the factories."

"I suggest you act early. You must know that these machines are in short supply. Of course, it would be even better if you could cooperate with the Wisdom Church. I've heard that for the Governor of Tana City, if one does well, serving for ten or eight years in a row is no problem." Yuerhan raised his wine glass. "I will wish you success in advance."

"To success!" Governor Jones said with satisfaction; he knew that relying only on cooperation with the Wealth Church would not work.

In Tana City, the voices expressing opinions against the Wealth Church were growing louder and louder.

On one hand, it was their control over the wealth of the entire Tana City; on the other, they turned a blind eye to the various problems appearing within Tana City.

With so many serfs dying on his own Nongzhuang, wasn't the biggest problem that the Wealth Church couldn't resolve so many organizational issues?

The Wealth Church should be made to give him an explanation.

Thinking of this, Governor Jones glanced at Feng Bu'er of the Wealth Church to the side.

The other party was discussing issues with people from the War Church and had not noticed this side.

Meanwhile, the teachers from the Wisdom Church were chatting with the children in his family.

Saina was a studious child; she had once studied in a school of the Wisdom Church, and she currently had no clear religious belief.

The family of Governor Jones were all, on the surface, Believers of the Wealth Church.

But in reality, everyone knew that most of the faith in Tana City was just for the Wealth Church; these nobles did not want to be constrained by the church, so they would profess the Wealth Church.

Only in this way could they earn more money.

In fact, most nobles who professed the Wealth Church had no true religious faith; this was something the Wealth Church knew perfectly well.

In the conversation on the other side, Feng Bu'er was occupying the dominant position.

"Are you sure? A new batch of Xiahui serfs?" Liande looked at Feng Bu'er. "If it is really like this, we can indeed purchase some, but I think those free Xiahui People are better."

Liande was somewhat hesitant; although buying Xiahui serfs was a good method, not all Xiahui People were as fierce as those he recruited directly.

At the very least, fierce Xiahui People could not be captured and turned into serfs.

It was not that he didn't have Xiahui soldiers, but those soldiers were not all easy to use.

So he still had to hesitate; after all, purchasing soldiers was something the War Church had not thought of before.

"I know your concerns, but think about it, the number of people you've recruited recently has been getting smaller and smaller, right? Tana City is just like this now; because of the things that happened a while ago, the population has decreased, and none of us wanted that." Feng Bu'er was exercising his ability; if one looked closely, one would discover a faint, dim golden light on his body.

This was the movement caused when launching a lobby.

Liande was indeed tempted; he nodded. "That's true, at least it can supplement a portion of the troops. Then send two thousand people over first; we will see the training results before deciding."

Two thousand people!

Feng Bu'er said with a ruddy complexion: "No problem."

Recently, the Wealth Church had earned quite a bit of money by selling serfs.

It wasn't that doing other business wasn't profitable enough, it was just that this matter counted as the easiest and simplest.

Having resolved this problem, Feng Bu'er looked at the other nobles in the venue, trying to find which other noble had not yet ordered serfs and living supplies from him.

One must know that life in the Royal Capital was the life these small-city nobles yearned for.

He seemed to have completely forgotten what he was supposed to do.

After a period of training, Zhuguli and the other players were already able to independently engage in patrol work.

Today, Zhuguli's patrol range was in the noble district; it was said that Governor Jones was going to hold a wine party event, so the security level had been raised.

Otherwise, a patrol member like Zhuguli would not be able to get too close to the noble district.

"I really didn't expect that this world would actually have cameras; I thought they didn't know how to use electricity yet." Looking at the photo in his hand, Yaohuanghuang felt that this world was too abnormal.

"This is because we are not in the Royal Capital, but in a small border city," Zhuguli replied. "It is said that the Royal Capital is already very developed; not only are there cameras, but there are also silent films. Not only that, the Wisdom Church has many small inventions, and even bicycles have prototypes on the market."

"You say, if we go to the Royal Capital and invent something casually, could we earn a lot of money?" Shurima Great Deer's eyes lit up. "Perhaps we could promote the rise of the Third Industrial Revolution!"

"That's true, but this world still has to be dominated by Transcendental Power," Zhuguli said in agreement. "The level of productivity is still too low; look at how simple the lifestyle of those workers is—they are still dumping night soil buckets, and the vast majority of the utensils they use are still handmade."

"You don't need to observe so carefully," Shurima Great Deer said speechlessly.

At this moment, a carriage slowly drove over; at this time, the fact that there was still a luxury carriage outside made several players take a few extra looks.

Because today's situation was special, most carriages were at Governor Jones's wine party.

Being able to see a lone luxury carriage on the road outside was simply a miracle.

And on this carriage, there was no familiar emblem.

Hmm, it looked like it was very likely a carriage from another place, or a carriage rental?

Once he thought of this, Zhuguli put away the photo in his hand, reached out his hand, and stopped this carriage.

He didn't need to say much; the coachman would explain it himself.

And so, a person whom Zhuguli had looked at in photos for several days appeared on the carriage.

Sarana Brown.

This lady's bounty was also famously high at the Wealth Church, but Zhuguli did not intend to startle the snake.

"We are going to the Governor's banquet; sorry, we are a bit late, it shouldn't be too late." Saying this, Sarana took out an invitation.

Going directly to the Governor's place?

(End of this chapter)