When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#614 - News about Chateau Jeanne d'Arc

The cold autumn rain beat randomly on the roof, dripping along the eaves of the small church, splashing circles of ripples on the platform.

And in this vast, windy and rainy mountain forest, Ansel could still hear a faint "squeak" sound.

It was the sound of a hand-cranked spinning wheel turning, or rather, the sound of dozens of spinning wheels turning when shrouded in the autumn rain and mist.

Amidst this neat squeaking sound, Ansel wore a leisurely and satisfied smile on his face, reading the newly arrived briefing while sharpening his quill.

For the literary workers of this era, sharpening quills was an unavoidable part of their job.

According to the "Monk's Handbook" edited by Horn and Catherine, the first thing new assistant monks had to do in their first year was to sharpen quills and bind annals.

The so-called annals are Horn's requirement for paperless office work. At the end of each year, the department or monastery must transcribe and bind the year's reports. This is the annals.

By reading, binding, and transcribing the annals, one can gradually understand the style, authority, and tasks of the department.

What needs to be learned next is how to execute things.

Even Ansel, as a member of the Childer Army's third batch, first sharpened quills for half a year in Langsand County's hundred-household district before officially participating in work.

On his desk, in addition to the latest issue of the briefing, there was also the latest Joan of Arc paper(贞德纸: Joan of Arc paper, a type of paper).

The paper recorded the list of the Scythe Brotherhood in a two-dimensional table.

According to the briefing, the first batch of Joan of Arc paper was launched on the market in mid-August for 90 dinars per knife(每刀: per ream).

This price and quality quickly swept Langsand County, and the church and monasteries "voluntarily" contributed a large number of relief printing plates, causing book prices to plummet.

Ansel is currently considering whether to apply to his superiors for a literacy primer so that Bryson can take some students in the winter.

This literacy primer was also recently published, a general knowledge primer compiled by the Court of Truth and printed by Krabby Patty Publishing House(蟹黄堡出版社: Krabby Patty Publishing House, a fictional publishing house).

It is said that there is one for each hundred-household district, and His Holy Grace forcibly forced the major monasteries to send monks to the countryside with these literacy textbooks to eliminate illiteracy.

It is not required to be able to write, as long as they can read and master addition and subtraction below twenty.

In this way, even public farmers can understand the announcements and not be deceived by merchants or tax officials with numerical tricks.

As for the cities, various middle and primary schools have been established one after another, and these teachers are made up of low-level monks and laid-off priests from monasteries.

The priests who were laid off by the Efficiency Exorcism Monastery at least had a job and would not become "knowledgeable social idlers."

The Salvation Army has even created a heaven-defying twelve-year system of St. Daniel's College Affiliated Middle School "Loyal Successor Middle School", going all the way from the age of 4 kindergarten to 16-year-old middle school graduation.

At the age of 16, they just reached the minimum age for the Salvation Army to recruit war monks, and then directly joined the army.

However, in Ansel's view, although he was born in the Childer Army and is basically a system with the Salvation Army, he still feels that it is inappropriate.

Because these military schools have tuition reductions for children of war monks, and they are based on an application system.

Joan of Arc Castle, Holy Armaments Court, and Rapid Current City have created seven or eight primary and secondary schools, but they have not implemented compulsory education.

Most of the people who actually come to school are children of petty citizens, children of war monks, and villagers who have made a fortune in the war.

In this way, this 12-year military middle school is likely to be full of children of war monks.

If this continues, soldiers, or rather, officers, may become a semi-hereditary profession.

But this is a problem that His Holy Grace should consider, not Ansel.

The only thing he considers is the members and number of the Scythe Brotherhood.

A month ago, when he and Bryson came to Adrian Manor, let alone the Brotherhood, there was no one willing to talk to them.

Until seven days ago, his Scythe Brotherhood had 22 member households.

Then, six days ago, when the wool processing was announced, only 15 households arrived at the village church.

Four days ago, only 13 households actually came to pay the spun thread.

That is to say, 9 households were turned against by Henderson's people, and 2 households just took advantage of half a pound of wool.

However, these 13 households spent 50 pounds of wool and spun 45 bundles of yarn, with a total profit of 27 dinars, averaging about 2 dinars per household.

Don't look at Horn's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of gold pounds at every turn, but the income of a mountain man for a whole year is only 1-2 gold pounds.

In other words, on average, each person only has an income of 10-12 dinars per month.

2 dinars is equivalent to one-sixth of a month's income, and it was created in 3 days.

If it is a month, it is 20 dinars, which is a huge sum that can suffocate all the villagers.

This is not ordinary money, this is life-saving money. Even the richest public farmers dare not say that they can avoid starving to death every year.

So Friar Ansel's golden fleece became the hottest topic in Adrian Manor.

The heat can be seen from the number of plates and tables and chairs smashed by a certain village chief.

Even Knight Adrian came directly to the door to ask if he could participate in a share, and privately asked Ansel where he got the low-priced wool.

By the second distribution of wool wages yesterday, there were already 21 households on the list of the Scythe Brotherhood, and 42 dinars of wages were distributed.

When the white silver coins fell into the pockets of the Brotherhood members, the remaining villagers finally couldn't sit still.

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In the past few days, the number of members who have consulted and applied to join the Brotherhood has increased exponentially.

From yesterday afternoon to tonight, a total of one and a half days, more than 30 households of villagers have registered in the Scythe Brotherhood.

There are currently 5 households who have come to inquire, but have not yet made up their minds to join.

Bryson also specially created an invitation system, that is, you can't just join if you want to join, but you must be invited by a member of the association.

He said it was to prevent Henderson from planting spies, but Ansel didn't think it was necessary.

But in order to avoid undermining the work enthusiasm of this tired priest, he agreed to his plan.

Next, as long as this set of wool operation system can continue to roll, the public farmers of the entire Adrian Manor will join in.

When the number exceeds two-thirds of the entire manor, the Scythe Brotherhood will form a substantial hundred-household district.

In the case that the mountain knight himself has no management authority, the biggest resistance is only the village chief and other armed farmers.

According to the research during this period, Ansel has been able to determine the operating core of this manor.

In the entire mountain manor, it is divided into three parties: knight, armed farmers, and public farmers.

As long as any two parties unite, they can suppress and isolate the third party. Adrian Manor is the armed farmers pulling the public farmers to isolate the knight himself.

That is to say, although he enjoys the most benefits, he does not have the actual power to manage the manor. This is already autonomy in a certain sense.

From another perspective, as long as the alliance between the armed farmers and the public farmers can be cut off, Ansel can completely control the entire manor.

Unless the village chief Henderson can come up with greater benefits to buy off the villagers, the internal split is only a matter of time.

But when Ansel was about to write "It is estimated that the perpetual lease and hundred-household district reform will be completed in early October" on the report, the whole person was distracted again.

It was not until the ink in the pen tube fell on the paper that he hurriedly wiped the ink spots on the paper with a handkerchief.

Bryson had just received a family who came to inquire about wool, and saw Ansel in a daze, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you thinking about?"

Putting down the quill, Ansel sighed: "I received an order from the superior monastery, which increased my wool quota by 1 dan, a unit of dry measure equal to 100 liters."

"Isn't that a good thing? It just so happens that there are too many people in Adrian Manor, and the original wool is a bit insufficient."

Ansel frowned and shook his head: "With the ability of the Shiyuan smugglers, it is good to be able to transport 1,500 dan, a unit of dry measure equal to 100 liters of wool a month.

The wool quota for each area is limited. If I add a dan, a unit of dry measure equal to 100 liters for no reason, it means that an area does not need wool temporarily this month."

"What do you mean?" Bryson was suddenly shocked.

"Although the briefing did not say, I suspect that the chaos in the neighboring Kesilan manor, or rather, the Meisen small parish, has spread."