Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 546: Chapter 18: Mole Knight and the Divine Debate

During the expansion of the Dawn Goddess, besides directly purchasing slaves, the church would also spend a lot of money to recruit cultivators directly from other territories and cities’ orders.

This led to the appearance of different orders under the Dawn Goddess Church.

Vandar introduced in detail, ”Currently, after a period of recovery and rest in our territory, the Dawn Church has expanded in scale, and now there are a total of 36 Druids and nuns.”

”These nuns currently belong to four different orders, which are the [Green Watcher Order], [Order of the Tree of Life], [Order of the Ring of Reproduction], and [Order of the Wrath of Nature].”

”What abilities do these orders have?” Su Li asked with interest, his memory was quite good, as he remembered Vandar belonged to the [Green Watcher Order], with abilities to create [Vitality Potion], [Purification Potion], [Healing Potion], and [Blood of the Earth].

Vandar immediately replied, ”The Order of the Ring of Reproduction is the Dawn Goddess Order that creates [Love Potion] for our territory, believing that Reya’s blessing can bring humanity the divine grace of many children and prosperity. They mostly preside over weddings and fertility ceremonies, help infertile couples, and use small tricks to increase the birth rate of the territory. This order currently has 4 apprentice nuns, 2 official nuns, and is led by Elite Level Nun Frasach. Besides treating civilians, they also tame animals, clean stone circles for Reya worship, and promote animal reproduction.”

Sister Frasach? She’s quite a figure, the future Love Potion of the territory depends on her.

Moreover, the territory cannot always rely on external immigration; it must have its own internal drive. Unknowingly, a year has passed, and actually, Su Li will soon witness new-borns of the territory becoming adults.

To shape a territory, it takes at least two generations of effort. Therefore, the territory needs to raise its birth rate.

”The Order of the Tree of Life is mainly led by Sister Isabella, with 2 Elite Nuns, 1 Druid, 3 official nuns, and 4 apprentice nuns. They are mainly responsible for cultivating the territory’s extraordinary plants, such as the Holy Purple Vine Fantasy Garden, maintaining the Extraordinary Ears, and promoting economic crops like spices, herbs, and Purple Crystal Grapes.”

Hearing this, Su Li’s eyes suddenly brightened.

If the Order of the Tree of Life is responsible for so many tasks, then the scale of their order is indeed too small; more manpower must be added!

At least the scale must be multiplied by 2 to 3 times! Actually, they originally had this capacity, but after a war with the Green Dragon, the Dawn Church lost many nuns, so this scale has not recovered.

Of course, Su Li’s emphasis on them is extremely necessary; it can be said that this order determines at least half, or even nearly two-thirds, of the territorial agricultural tax revenue!

The Holy Purple Vine Tree, Star Dew Sweet Orange, and Moon Crown Tree Flower are the three extraordinary spiritual plants of the territory. Although they have not fully matured, their valuation at the current stage is no less than 20,000 Golden Crowns!

Even for these 20,000 Golden Crowns, forming an order of 30 to 50 nuns specifically to cultivate and care for these three spirit plants is not excessive.

Besides these three spiritual plants, they also have to be responsible for three other directions, over a hundred pings of Extraordinary Ears, the expanded Purple Crystal Vineyard, and the even larger-scale Vanilla.

By any means of calculation, their manpower is stretched thin. No wonder the territory needs to attract investment from merchants; if the territory had more funds, recruiting more extraordinary nuns would significantly enhance the development level of the territory.

While Su Li was still calculating, Vandar continued, ”The Order of the Wrath of Nature is mainly led by Edmond. They are responsible for maintaining Reya’s seals. They believe that all priestesses and devout followers of this goddess are sacred and inviolable. The happiness and well-being of families, children, crops, and livestock are the most important things, as is the sanctity of life and love. So, they will maintain the holiness and authority of the church, punishing those who are disrespectful to the divine spirits and ungrateful people. However, this order is quite small, with only three members.”

”Our order currently has more than 1,300 registered followers, most of whom are peasants working the land, including farmers, herbalists, midwives, food merchants, lovers, Tree Hedge Wizards—they all hope to receive blessings of fertility, life, and from the Dawn Goddess.”

”And the goddess is extremely generous, as the followers hang flowers, fruits, and ears of wheat on the wooden statue of the goddess, the goddess bestows abundant divine grace.”

”The farming business in our territory is flourishing, and under Reya’s blessing, the scale of the Vanilla has been expanded to 40 acres! Moreover, under the careful guidance of the nuns, the Water of the Life Spring can irrigate all the vanilla fields, raising the per-acre yield of vanilla pods to 3 pounds!”

pounds per acre?

An exclamation of surprise erupted in the conference hall, with everyone showing joyful smiles.

This is precious spice! Usually, it needs to be shipped from the distant East, where sea routes are known as both the Silk Road and the Spice Road.

Within the Empire, territories capable of growing spices are one in a hundred, even one in a thousand! These spice planting lands are all blessed with special springs and rivers flowing through them.

The territory was also able to cultivate this expensive spice under Hot Spring Village, using Life Spring Water for irrigation.