Chapter 1345 Xiwan School, the Original Sleeper!

"Respected Songbird Priest, half of the 7,000 believers of the Yomei tribe are located in the core camp, Yomei Village, and the other half are scattered in the eight surrounding tribal villages. The most obvious difference in their wealth is where they live! A warm place to survive the winter is the most important property of every tribesman's family... According to the priest's apprentice's count, the proportion of houses in Yomei Village is 50% underground huts, 40% pointed roof huts, and less than 10% newly built wooden houses..."

"Each hut and hut is the residence of ordinary tribesmen, and probably houses four or five people. The wooden house is the residence of the chieftain of the Mountain Eagle, the elders of the clan, and the warriors of the clan, with a number of three or five people. The tribal villages in the periphery are all huts and thatched houses, with very few wooden houses..."

"Obviously, less than 10% of the tribal chieftains in the core camp account for the vast majority of the tribal output. Especially in the past three or four years, they have gained some wealth through the coal trade with the kingdom. The ordinary tribesmen have hardly changed, and even become more tired and poor because they are forced to mine coal! ..."

The sunrise in the mountains in the east and the sunset in the bay in the west. The Songbird Priest, with dozens of priests and apprentices, and a thousand warriors, has been in the Yomei tribe for half a month. In this half month, in addition to converting and spreading the belief in the main god, the most important task of the priests is to establish a new order of the main god. And the so-called order, in simple terms, is the distribution of benefits, that is, the gathering of people's hearts.

In order to achieve this, the inventory of land and property and the redistribution to the tribesmen of the tribe are naturally the top priority. In the ancient tribal system, land was the property of the entire tribe, and the entire tribe would cultivate and mine it, and there was no question of land ownership. The chiefs and elders controlled the most critical distribution rights of coal, grain, and fish, and the right to build and live in wooden houses, which truly symbolized the status of property.

With the coal trade with the kingdom in recent years, and the influx of a large number of copperware, pottery, cotton cloth, and gems, the relatively equal primitive tribal commune was rapidly disintegrating. The tribe had better bronze tools and a channel to trade coal in large quantities in exchange for property.

A large number of lower-level tribesmen were arranged to engage in heavy mining and logging work. The upper-level chiefs and elders began to build new spacious wooden houses, wear better cotton clothes, and use pottery flowing in from the south. They even smoked the "divine smoke for communicating with the gods", inlaid gems in the wooden house, and offered them to the skulls of their ancestors...

"The Lord God is a witness! In just a few years, the gap between the upper and lower levels of the Yomei tribe began to form rapidly... No wonder our missionary work at the grassroots level was so smooth!... Well, all these changes started with the goods brought by the kingdom's trade, especially luxury goods!..."

"It seems that trade is the first stepping stone, triggering drastic changes within the tribe. It's like an originally solid bird egg, which was hatched by the sudden influx of wealth, breaking the shell from the inside, allowing the Lord God's glory to illuminate it! Then, missionary work is the second spring rain, flowing into the hearts of the lower-level tribesmen. In this way, with the infiltration of faith, the hatched one may not be a "big mountain eagle", but may also be the Lord God's "big hummingbird"!... And if we wait for a generation, let the new tribal order stabilize, the production capacity increase, and the upper and lower levels are stable like the tribes on the plateau, it will not be so easy to start..."

The songbird priest picked up the charcoal pencil and drew symbols of trade and missionary work on the newly cut wooden board. Through several years of practice in the Yorem and Yomei tribes, and through studying at the Divine Power University, he gradually found several effective missionary strategies and even summarized some theories.

"The Lord God has witnessed! The strong fortresses in the mountains were all broken from the hearts of the people inside. The so-called change of people's hearts lies in the word "change"! The large amount of wealth flowing in through trade is a "change" that all the tribes cannot resist. With "change", there will be new conflicts between the tribes, and there will be a reef for the kingdom to intervene and gain a foothold... and with a reef to gain a foothold, when it is time to act, you must act decisively!"

"According to this idea, the same as the Yomei tribe that produces coal mines, there are also the Salt Lake Tribe located in the inland and producing a large amount of salt mines, and the Ipa Tribe that transfers lake salt! These two tribes belong to the Kumeya tribes, and there should have been conflicts in distribution within them, and also There are already priests in the early stage of preaching... but they are located on the edge of the west coast, which is under the jurisdiction of Chief Priest Miki. That guy who can only write poems, has only read the surface of the divine revelation, and talks about benevolence every day, definitely can't come up with thunderbolt preaching methods! ..."

"Well... I have to think of a way to see how to intervene. The Ipa tribe is located on the coast and is designated as part of the West Coast Parish. But the Salt Lake Tribe is inland and its ownership is still undecided... That large salt lake is a strategic location that no parish can give up! At least, the West Coast and West Bay Parish must share it! ..."

The chief priest of the song bird stood up with his hands behind his back and paced back and forth in the chief's wooden house. After a while, he squinted his eyes, lit a sacred cigarette, and looked at the honey eagle priest who was waiting with his hands and did not leave.

"Honey Hawk, do you have any ideas? Just say it..."

"Yes! Songbird High Priest. We have distributed the stubborn people's property to the devout believers, and let the lower-level tribesmen share some benefits. You said that faith is a real benefit, like flint coal, which can be seen, touched, and burned... The autumn harvest has been completed, and the tribe's biggest problem next is to survive the winter! To survive the winter, one needs coal, and the other is a solid house..."

"Therefore, I was thinking, can we mobilize the manpower of the tribe to build some warm new wooden houses before the winter snow comes? This is the most practical and important survival residence... These wooden houses can be allocated to the most devout believers, and also We can distribute some to ordinary tribal people, and wait until next year, we can build more, and even build those 'brick kilns', so that everyone can live in warm houses in a few years..."

“Well, building warm wooden houses for tribal people is a good starting point, but the method is not mature enough!…”

Upon hearing the Beehawk Priest's suggestion, the Songbird Priest raised his lips. He nodded first, confirming the original intention of the suggestion, then shook his head and smiled.

"Fengying, it's the end of October now, and in one or two months at most, how many wooden houses are you going to build, and how many can you build? How do you allocate so many wooden houses, and to whom? How big can the wooden houses be built before they can be allocated? Are the believers who are allocated wooden houses satisfied? Will the believers who are allocated wooden houses not be pious enough next year? What will the ordinary tribesmen think when they see this? So, Bee Eagle, you are disturbing people's hearts and causing the order that was originally restored to become chaotic again!"

"Ah! Priest Songbird, I never have such thoughts... I just, I just think, believers can't live in shacks all the time! People will freeze to death in winter, especially the poorest believers, who freeze to death every year batch…”

"Praise the Lord God! He brings light, and he will naturally bring warmth! Warm houses need to be built, but they cannot be built like this. After they are built, they cannot be divided, but must be shared by believers. They always remember the kindness of the Lord God!…”

The Songbird Priest smiled slightly and pointed to the north of the camp, a small slope with the wind and the river, which was also a good place for several clan elders to live. The sacred smoke in his hand floats a faint smoke, rising and changing in the sunlight, like a smoke mirror, reflecting the unpredictable human heart.

"Bee Eagle, you have to remember! The Lord God's favor cannot be a one-time, one-off transaction, but a long-term spring. Allocating wooden houses is not as good as renting them out. Renting out wooden houses is not as good as the charity of the temple, which can last for a long time. Leave behind the divine grace! ...Yomeibu has been renamed Firestone Town, and I have already chosen the location of the Firestone Town Temple, which is on the small slope leeward of the place!"

"Confiscate the wooden houses of the clan elders and use them as the initial sacrificial venue for the main god's temple. Then, recruit the tribesmen from the entire Huoshi Town to start building the side halls around the temple! At the beginning of the construction, the tribesmen must be told that these The side halls are not only built for the main god, but also for themselves. After the side halls are completed, the believers who participated in the construction can spend the winter in the side halls of the temple, and the temple will provide fuel... "

"Witness the Lord God! How many people can live in a wooden house, and how many tribesmen can survive the winter? To whom should it be allocated or not, and it is disturbing people's hearts. And a large side hall of the temple can accommodate dozens of people. Hundreds of tribesmen sleep, so that they can be grateful in the winter. A collective prayer ceremony can also be held in the temple, so that believers can be more pious and serve the main god better! "

"As the temple of the main god, we must treat all believers equally and provide the minimum survival guarantee for all believers. This includes fuel for winter and relief for spring famine... but there will never be enough people! As a priest in charge of a place, you must always remember The kindness of the Lord God is unconditional and requires believers to pay for it with piety and dedication. A once-in-a-lifetime great favor is like a dangerous flood, but long-term small favors are like a trickle, allowing faith to flow. Be firm and let piety be ingrained into your bones!…”

Having said this, the Songbird Priest paused and looked around with eagle-like eyes. All the priests were stunned and lowered their heads in awe. Only then did he conclude with a solemn expression, like a compassionate god.

"His Majesty once said in Divine Power University, 'It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish.' But this is what he said to the priests. It means that you must master the method of preaching, and control the hearts, power and wealth of yourselves. The way to distribute!…”

"As for you priests, I just want to say that for the believers under your rule, you must always remember, 'The human heart will not be satisfied, and those who are satisfied will desire more. And when the Lord God cannot give them, faith appears. The cracks may not even exist anymore’…”

"Therefore, for the believers under the rule, 'It is better to teach them how to fish than to give them fish to eat!', 'To give them fish to eat, it is better to hire them to dig coal, exchange the coal for a lot of fish, and then give some to them!' …”

"The key point here is that the priests must control trade, circulation and distribution, so as to guide the tribesmen to engage in different labors. No one can be self-sufficient! And the output of the tribes in Xiwan Diocese already has huge The difference... It doesn’t matter who is responsible for production, but who is responsible for exchange is the most important. Whoever controls exchange controls the power of distribution, and it will not be so obvious that people will hate it..."

"Remember, don't let believers leave you, let them always need priests and always need the Lord God! Self-sufficient believers are the worst and will never be pious for a long time!..."

The words of the Songbird Priest were so inspiring that everyone opened their eyes wide, as if they were enlightened. Many priests here have studied at Shenwei University. But no one has the talent of the Songbird Priest, who can "reversely refine" this set of economic laws and tips for controlling people's hearts from a set of His Majesty's divinely inspired scriptures!

"Lord God! Human hearts are never satisfied, and faith is the need of the human heart... It is better to give people fish to eat than to teach them to fish. It is better to let believers work, master exchange and distribution, and then give them fish... Self-sufficient believers will never be pious for a long time?..."

The bee eagle priest murmured to himself, as if a new beam of light illuminated his heart and guided him to a path he had never imagined. And he was not the only one who took this path, but also the priests of the entire West Bay Diocese.

They did not know where this road would go, and what kind of storm it would cause in the next era. But at present, this is the most effective missionary strategy and the most effective in controlling people's hearts. And their initial goal was just to establish the kingdom of God on earth...

"Songbird Priest! Songbird Priest! The feather clan has an envoy coming!..."

"Hmm?! God bless you, these cunning feather clans finally showed up!..."

Hearing the warrior's report, the Songbird Priest stood up suddenly, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and also hid the murderous intent of an eagle. He gave a few instructions, asked everyone to leave their busy work, and then sat on a wooden platform a little higher, leaning on the staff, waiting for the feather envoy to meet him.