885 The truth is the same
The rise of the God of Wealth has indeed affected the interests of a small number of people.
But it made more people profit. The king saw that today's court meeting must be the opposition forces who wanted to find a reason to limit the God of Wealth. But the profit-making forces received the news for some reason and came to the court meeting to target the opposition.
After thinking it through, the king calmed down and looked down with his chin, with his lips and swords on both sides.
Three days later, the dispute at the meeting was delivered to Beta by intelligence.
After reading it, he put it aside and didn't care much.
Angel happened to help Beta sort out important documents and asked, "Don't you warn those who oppose us?"
"No need." Beta chuckled slightly: "We opened mountains and roads in Holevin, and now we are building water conservancy. Even if they couldn't understand our actions before, they should be able to actually feel the benefits of doing this. More convenient transportation brings a more prosperous business index and more taxes."
"There are many people who are willing to accept our love. Of course, we are not gold coins, and it is impossible for everyone to like us. Now many nobles support us in their hearts. In addition, those lords who own mines are now tied to our warships. Even if we do not take any action, they will be solved by the opposition nobles who want to prevent them from getting rich."
"And we, it seems, is losing money. But what we gain is the more commercial and prosperous Holeven country, with a better reputation among the general public. This is an excellent thing for the goddess Wojin."
Angel smiled and said, "In other words, we have made a lot of money, right?"
"So that's it." Beta smiled and said, "Although we didn't form cliques, there are many potential allies in Holevin. Win-win is the shortcut to doing things."
"By the way, let Katie come here."
Katy recently returned to Woking City to accept Beta's "supervision". This is Beta's newly promulgated regulations. Bishops of temples in various places are supervised by "doctrine instructors", and doctrine instructors have to write a monthly summary of the end-of-month atmosphere guidance to Woking City. In December every year, they have to return to Woking City for faith testing.
Although the regulations seem strict, Beta also increased the basic remuneration for all clergy personnel by nearly half.
Use this method to reduce the resistance of all clergy.
At the same time, pastor colleges in various places have also added more ideological and moral education courses.
In short, Beta tried every means to maintain the good atmosphere of the Divine Church and maintain the "purity" of the team.
In history, many forces have fallen apart not because of the attacks of foreign enemies, but because of the self-corrosion and self-destruction of internal personnel.
Using history as a mirror, you can know advance and retreat.
Katy soon came to Beta's study. She was wearing a light pink regular dress, which was a bit broad, but she could still see her figure undulating.
"In two days, you will continue to patrol all temples, but the focus has changed from supervising corruption to deterrence." Beta put a list in front of her: "Before the Grand Canal is completed, you will appear in the open, and dispatch personnel to inspect all temples and engineering sections involved in the construction of the Cross Canal. The Grand Canal of the Cross is of great significance to us and the Water God Cult, and there must be no mistakes. We must fundamentally reduce unnecessary faults and troubles."
Katy took the list and glanced at Meimucao: "My faith test has passed? You haven't 'supervised' me yet, right?"
"I don't need to supervise you. In fact, you will be watched by the goddess from time to time." Beta said with a smile: "But because of the regulations, you must come back and act like me. At least you can't give people the feeling of being an exception for senior staff, which will have a bad impact."
Katy shrugged her shoulders, seemingly a little disappointed.
She glanced at Beta deeply: "I'll set out tomorrow, but before that, can you invite me to drink some wine? As a friend, you have never had a banquet alone."
"Okay, no problem."
Beta agreed with a smile.
The next day, Katy left Woking City with her team, which was quite high-profile.
When temples in various places in the God of Wealth Cult, they felt a little cold sweating on their heads when they heard this news.
After the rectification campaign a few months ago, Katy found out a lot of corruption and executed a group of people, and a small group of people with hope of correction were thrown to the back of the cathedral for labor reform.
To a certain extent, Katy's current bad reputation is much bigger than Beta.
Now that I heard that Katy was patrolling again, all the gods and men were facing great enemies.
Beta had no choice but to send Kati out.
The monthly wages of more than 300,000 migrant workers and their food cost nearly 20,000 gold coins. In addition, the cost of construction materials, the purchase of tools, and the replacement of damaged tools, tens of thousands of gold coins are required. Now the monthly flower lock of the Wojin God Cult has reached an astonishing nearly 37,000 gold coins.
This number is almost the total tax on all territories of the most powerful country, Francis.
After estimating the monthly expenses of the Woking Temple, all the forces in Holewen were silent.
This is definitely a big deal that has never been done before.
On this day, Beta's study welcomed a little special guest.
Noya.
Noya and Reggif have been staying in Woking City or traveling around. They are actually ambassadors sent by Metal Dragon.
They usually don't want to meet Beta, but today, Noya's expression is very serious.
"Old Master Beta, we have also heard about the Grand Cross Canal Project you launched, and they are quite interested!"
Beta was a little confused, but did not speak, but chose to listen.
"All just causes should be taken seriously. Our metal dragons will also provide assistance to the just cause." Noya looked like a saint: "The senior management decided to send ten legendary red copper dragons who are good at earth magic to help. With their help, I believe that the completion time of the canal project can be reduced by more than half."
Beta's eyebrows slightly pressed down: "Sorry, I refuse."
Noya, who was full of confidence, was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in disbelief: "Why? Why should I refuse?"
"We humans can solve the problem of humans ourselves. Besides, no matter what dragon you send, it will cause great trouble to the migrant workers who work." Beta said lightly: "Not the people in any place can be used to the existence of giant dragons like Wojin City."
Noya said unhappily: "What we sent out is the legendary dragon, they can restrain their dragon power..."
Beta shook his head: "It's not a problem with Dragon Power. The most important thing is that we humans have grown up slowly through repeated work and construction. If the Dragon Clan helps the Cross Canal and they have not learned enough experience, then will the Dragon Clan have to help in all major projects in the future?"
Noya looked at Beta. Although she was not very smart, her unique keen intuition still made her feel that Beta was alert to them.
"You are worried that we will destroy this project. Don't worry, we are..."
Beta continued to shake his head: "Every race needs to grow. We don't want anything, we will rely on the dragon race in the future."
Noya fell silent.
In fact, there is another reason Beta didn't say it.
The more important purpose of this major project is to help the two goddesses Wojin and Akuya gain reputation.
If they can complete this Great Cross Canal, it will be a miracle in human history, which will inevitably cause an extraordinary sensation in the human world. The power of faith that Wokin and Aqua can obtain must be extremely huge.
But if the dragon clan is involved, then everyone will think so: it turns out that the dragon clan has helped, no wonder it can accomplish such a big thing.
In this way, the original miracle became a matter of course.
Then the effect of winning reputation will become extremely poor. By the way, even the power of faith may be divided by Bahamut.
Therefore, many good-willed actions may not lead to the best results.
Moreover, as the supreme leader of the Temple of Wealth, Beta has learned to guess others with the greatest malicious intention.
Seeing Beta's firm rejection, Noya thought for a while and asked, "Dragon Slaying Crossbow, you have spread it."
"Dragon Slaying Crossbow?" Beta was stunned for a moment and realized that it was the magic crossbow drawing he gave to other countries last time. He didn't expect that he would have such a title now: "Well, it was passed on by me, but that's not called the Dragon Slaying Crossbow."
"Why do you know why you want to publish drawings like this? How much trouble did this cause us?"
"It causes trouble to the metal dragon?" Beta's heart beats slightly: "Someone has used a bed crossbow to deal with your metal dragon?"
"Not yet, but I believe that there will be a day sooner or later!" Noya's eyes were filled with anger: "Why do you want to open up such a weapon? This is an extremely unfriendly signal to our metal dragon."
"This is for the Five Colored Dragon." Beta said lightly: "Not for dealing with allies."
Noya slapped the table heavily and said with dissatisfaction: "But it can also cause great harm to our metal dragon."
Beta sat upright and said seriously: "That's not what you said, Ms. Noya. The claws, sharp teeth, and even breathing of your dragon clan can kill humans at will. So as an ally, do I have to ask that your dragon clan can abandon their claws, sharp teeth and breathing of your breath in the future?"
Noya froze immediately, and after a while, he said, "Is this different?"
"The truth is the same, ma'am." Beta smiled and said, "Alliances refer to companions who have little difference in strength and are advancing and retreating together. Otherwise, they can only be vassals."
Chapter completed!