Chapter 499

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

The piety of believers is an important task second only to the number of believers; in any temple on the West Continent, if a little priest could develop 100,000 devout believers within 20 years, he would surely be promoted to High Priest and grow rich.

But on Earth, Quan Cong merely earned a smile from Chen Yi.

Economically speaking, Chen Yi's smile was comparable to an ancient beauty.

Quan Cong, unaware of the world's direction, seemed like a bitter youth who gave up millions in patent fees just to keep his Researcher Title, perhaps inwardly mocking as he explained to Chen Yi: "According to the materials provided by Mr. Yin Sen Guan, the scope of faith and worship is very broad. Besides the Dragon Temple worshiping the Divine Dragon, some small temples also worship thunderstorms, or plants, or pure strength... To maintain a unified faith for tens of thousands of years, the temples here mainly adopt an exclusive faith collection method, which is to constantly educate believers so they believe they need the faith they require; we don't need to take that old path."

"Oh?"

"Actually, you think, is faith in food a kind of faith? Is faith in money a kind of faith? Is faith in morality also one?" Quan Cong said as seriously as possible: "Given the current environment, we don't need to educate believers on what to believe; we just need to gather people with the same faith, bring them together, hold a targeted ceremony, and naturally we will obtain believers of high piety. There is only one key point: to make a pre-judgment of the believers' piety. Taking food as an example, both a food lover with a pious will of 1 point and one with 10 points might attend a targeted ceremony, but if it's to improve a Knight's high-level Divine Art, then we must try to choose believers with high pious will, while removing those who have previously attended ceremonies and released their faith..."

Chen Yi secretly nodded.

Quan Cong's method was indeed sufficiently free. Compared to this, the number of believers obtained this way definitely could not compare to temples where everyone is a believer; overall, it lost those without firm faith or with few beliefs. But Earth's population is so vast that Chen Yi could never use it all up; what was there to fear from losing some? Moreover, this method had the least impact on Earthlings; they didn't need to spend large amounts of time listening to lectures, nor spend large amounts of funds and time training believers.

And on the West Continent, for some newly occupied areas, this method seemed to have good results as well.

After confirming its effectiveness, Chen Yi demanded: "This conclusion, from now on you can only tell me; no matter who asks, you are not allowed to spread it, understand?"

"Certainly." Quan Cong thought to himself, even if I published a paper, no one would publish it for me anyway.

"Well done." Chen Yi naturally patted Quan Cong's shoulder and left the office with an air of being the boss.

The female receptionist clasped her hands over her heart, gazing at the handsome Knight as he left, muttering under her breath: "He understood what I meant, right? I wish he were French; Italian isn't bad either..."

"Anyway, he's European," a colleague teased softly, her eyes also staring straight ahead, a bit regretful that she wasn't bold enough.

Quan Cong comfortably narrowed his eyes, like a house dog. The materials were collected by the whole company and would be introduced to Chen Yi at the consulting company's meeting; he had first brought them to the Boss, and now, snatching credit and receiving praise, he felt as delighted as if he had eaten a Ginseng Fruit.

On the West River Association's internal network, a pinned order task immediately appeared: exhibition services and large-scale market research.

It was precisely what Chen Yi had released.

Providing 10 Single Divine Art Knight positions to the Water Dragon Temple and Fire Dragon Temple was simple; the Chen Group and others had mature experience systems and could easily complete it at the upcoming "Southeast Asia Buddhist Conference." But to improve the strength of the Divine Art Knights under their banner, high-level Divine Art Knights had to appear.

For example, his Exemption Divine Art; every time it increased by one level, it could passively exempt magic one level higher. Previously, it passively exempted fourth-level magic; now, having reached second-level Divine Art, it could exempt fifth-level magic.

But besides Chen Yi himself, many Knights who had been rapidly trained in the later stages encountered the problem of being stuck at first-level Divine Art and unable to improve; the current solution depended on whether Quan Cong's research was thorough.

This kind of pre-judgment on a scale of several hundred thousand people was equivalent to a market survey and market analysis of several hundred thousand people; it was no longer something the Chen Group could handle part-time.

As soon as Chen Yi's order appeared on the internal network, it attracted great attention.

At least over a hundred Managers stared at it, calculating how many shares they could take.

What they valued most were mostly exhibition services; for a three-day gathering of several hundred thousand people, besides the venue, there were also opportunities for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and service performances.

And this was completing Chen Yi's task!

As affiliated enterprises, their positions and the amount of orders completed, especially the amount of Chen Yi's orders, were closely related.

The current West River Association had already expanded to the extent of 76 first-tier affiliated enterprises, hundreds of second-tier affiliated enterprises, and nearly ten thousand third-tier affiliated enterprises.

Those able to remain among first-tier affiliated enterprises were all large and super-large group companies. The previous small and medium-sized companies either underwent violent expansion to become large group companies, living prosperously, or were eliminated in the constant task orders.

To this day, whenever the West River Association casually released a clothing procurement order, it was counted in tens of millions—through the intermediary of the West River Water Fortress, hundreds of millions of people on the West Continent were eagerly waiting for cheap and comfortable otherworldly clothing, like Chinese products being dumped in Africa.

But for those enterprises with slow development and low company efficiency, orders costing over a hundred million at every turn were often extremely difficult to complete; constantly lowered prices and rising costs easily led to order defaults, or they dared not take orders; if there was no improvement within a month or two, they would inevitably slide from the West River Association's first-tier affiliated enterprises, then fall out of second and third tiers...

Although there was no clear hierarchy division, most enterprises understood that Chen Yi's Wushu Hall Archives Research Room was silently researching a points system; even before the stage was announced, it had already caused some ranking changes among affiliated enterprises. Under this tense competitive mechanism, completing Chen Yi's orders became a very important yardstick for each enterprise.

After long and arduous hours of judgment and discussion, the first enterprise participated in the bidding, followed by a swarm of sign-ups.

When Chen Yi came to look after dinner, the number of signing enterprises had already reached 537, and he spat a mouthful of water onto the monitor.

"Over 10 million in total; is it necessary to have so many bidders?"

Chen Rongxi glanced boredly and said: "Isn't it good to have more enterprises? Shouldn't it lower costs?"

"It's just disturbing the market; how could I let... flower enterprises, shoe factories do exhibition and market research."

"But you didn't restrict the enterprises."

Chen Yi glared at his little sister and said viciously: "Go play with your programming."

Chen Rongxi usually went against her family's nature; toward Chen Yi's current attitude, she immediately put on a round face with dimples, using six round faces toward Chen Yi, and said with a smile: "Pure programming is so boring; let me play too."

"Then make something."

"Can't think of anything now."

Chen Yi ignored her, silently filtering on the computer page.

This was one of the few tasks he had to personally handle; many hidden conditions were understood only by Chen Yi, such as trust and future development issues.

Chen Rongxi watched for a while, becoming increasingly bored, and suddenly blurted out: "The West River Association's website is good for picking up leaks."

"It's not an e-commerce website facing the public; as long as the functions are usable, it's fine."

"Usable?"

Chen Yi was stunned for a moment, shook his head and laughed: "Don't tell me you want to make one? I can tell you, several companies want to snatch my business."

"Give me a few Intelligence Scrolls, and I'll make you a good one."

Chen Yi was stunned; this was the first time someone had actively asked him for Intelligence Scrolls.

However, Intelligence Scrolls were a good thing!

Human intelligence is limited; a born idiot can never become a genius scientist no matter how hard they try, but Intelligence Scrolls give people a second chance. If freedom is taken as a noble goal, then in terms of freedom in career choice and life choice, Intelligence Scrolls are an unparalleled blessing.

Chen Yi grabbed seven or eight scrolls at once, thought about it, then stuffed four back and exchanged them for third-tier Spirit Recovery Potions, saying: "You must note, use one scroll and drink one potion, and then it's best to rest a bit; don't use scrolls continuously, the burden on the brain is great."

"Understood." Chen Rongxi hugged the scrolls and ran off.

Chen Yi threw out a wand as thick as a chopstick, accurately tossing it into Chen Rongxi's arms, saying: "This thing has the effect of concentrating the spirit; just keep it on your person."

If it were in the Saint Qiao Kingdom, a few scrolls and a wand, plus a few potions, could impoverish a small Noble family. But on Earth, Chen Yi's wealth and generosity were completely transparent.

The expo bid ultimately went to a small enterprise under the Jiangning Venture Capital Center, Jingzhong Development Co., Ltd. This is a second-tier affiliated enterprise, with a scale of fewer than a thousand people, yet it has undertaken quite a few projects of this kind and enjoys a good reputation in the industry.

Among the West River Association's initial affiliated enterprises, half were of this scale; after a dozen or so months, each had swollen several times over. Growing larger did multiply their ability to fulfill orders, but internal management costs also increased considerably. Chen Yi tends toward creative enterprises with scale; lecturing a bunch of old geezers on Divine Art Knights would likely leave both sides depressed.

A light click on the internal website, and the initial selection of the order was finished.

The comments below instantly scrolled out a string of text; looking carefully, they were all bigwigs from various companies complaining about the hasty bidding.

Chen Yi left a line: "Wait and see first," and the comments below instantly stopped.

The backend "whoosh" scrolled out the entire draft — precisely the initial plan Jingzhong Development had prepared in half a day — "Sweetest Food Festival": within the scope of Southeast All Provinces, seek out the men and women who love sweet food the most; those "Sweetest" who pass three assessments will participate in a three-day consecutive tasting sacrificial ceremony.

Needless to say, as long as they can pass the assessments and are willing to travel for the three days of tasting, they are definitely Sweet Food Believer faithful, at least members of Devoutness Level 5 or above.

In this way, casually mixing in twenty or thirty percent fanatical believers, the Divine Art Knights re-participating in the sacrificial ceremony can, under the blessing of "Sweet Food," possess the power to advance to Level 2 Divine Technique or Level 3 Divine Technique.

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