Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

"Your Highness Noah, a bishop of the Glorious Order protested to us, saying that the governor of the Voyager Harbor you appointed treated their believers harshly."

"Oh!"

Noah responded indifferently.

The Word Spirit Emperor can allow him to descend to any faith node at will, so the golden dragon statues in cities and towns with large populations can accommodate Noah's consciousness.

But the role of the Word Spirit Emperor is not limited to this. Noah recently discovered that those dragon fairies who have been influenced by his life breath and have evolved many times in succession and whose life forms have completely changed are walking faith nodes for him.

Every dragon fairy can carry his consciousness, especially those dragon fairies who have fanatical worship of him. In the faith vision he sees when he opens the Word Spirit, each one is like a little sun.

The dragon fairy who was sent to the Eastern Coast as the governor is also outstanding in his fanaticism for his faith among more than a hundred dragon fairies.

Therefore, Noah could ignore the distance and descend upon her, but every time Noah descended, he was very cautious. He was still exploring the use of this word spirit.

However, even if it was only used to check the news, this word spirit could be called a divine skill. Noah knew everything about the harbor city thousands of miles away, especially the series of measures taken by the governor against the glorious believers.

At first glance, the devout believers with the same faith were very terrifying, and the number was still increasing. The most reasonable solution seemed to be to divide and rule, that is, to accept all these believers and then migrate them to different places.

As long as the number of believers gathered in one place was small enough, then as mortals, no matter how devout their faith was, their only use was to provide power to the gods they believed in. Apart from that, they were useless and could not stir up any storms.

Divide and rule. In addition to intervening through administrative means and dispersing these glorious believers geographically, they could also alienate them from the economic and material aspects.

Differential treatment is always the most effective means of differentiation. People are not worried about the lack of people, but about the inequality.

When the devout believers found that the rewards for their daily prayers to the gods were not as good as those of the peasants, would they not be shaken at all?

They could firmly declare their faith in the gods, and their minds could imagine the glory they would enjoy after ascending to the kingdom of God after death, but their stomachs that were not filled or choked by the pancakes would not be polite.

Of course, this was not the case under normal circumstances. Believers with devout beliefs could get a quota of supplies from the local church. Basically, if one person believed in religion, the whole family would not have to worry about food and drink - believers were at least devout believers, and ordinary shallow believers could forget about it.

But the problem was that these believers were refugees, and it was good enough to have something to eat when they were escaping. How could they be picky? The harbor city where they landed was a sentry post that had just been built not long ago, and it did not have the basic functions of a city.

Under such circumstances, it is not an exaggeration to say that being able to eat big cakes is a gift from the gods. After all, a cake has to travel thousands of kilometers, and the transportation cost is there.

First, ensure the survival of the believers, and then gradually improve their living conditions. Normally, this is no problem, but there is a goblin governor who can play cards out of the ordinary, and a group of profit-seeking businessmen.

As a result, a group of glorious believers who sell their labor every day and even reduce their prayer time to make money appeared in the Harbor City. Their lives are better than those of the devout believers who pray devoutly every day.

This situation is impossible in areas where the church's power is stable. Only in special areas like the Harbor City where even the most basic food supply cannot be guaranteed, such a wonder will appear.

However, the most interesting thing is that the greedy and anxious believer was whipped three times by the goblin in charge of law enforcement in the street because he committed theft, leaving him half dead, and the remaining twelve whips will continue after his injury heals.

Although some believers in the area protested, the governor arrested all the protesters for disturbing local public order.

Finally, a holy warrior could not stand it anymore and bailed him out. As for the believer who stole the fish cakes, they were unwilling to care.

After all, the believer who was beaten was guilty of theft, which conflicted with the holy warriors' belief in fighting evil and maintaining order.

Although only a few fish cakes were stolen, it was a crime, and the last one was a robbery of a more serious nature.

However, the holy warriors did not have no opinions at all, because although the local governor was acting in accordance with the law, her law was only effective when punishing thieves. As for the local labor workers, the treatment they received was clearly illegal, but the governor did not intervene.

"All this is for the development and future of the Harbor City. If we forcefully raise the income of these workers to the same standard as inland territories, then which merchants will come here to build factories and provide jobs? How will the economy here develop? Who will work hard to transport food?"

Faced with the questioning of the Holy Knight, the local governor argued.

The merchants who hired the glorious believers did exploit and oppress them, but it is also undeniable that the materials they brought also greatly improved the situation of these refugees.

So that they don’t have to live in a tent made of rags, but they can live in a spacious and bright wooden house and drink hot meat porridge.

But it was precisely because of this that the Glorious Order also came to Noah.

Because the Glorious Order that took root in Noah's territory has become accustomed to the living atmosphere of the people in Noah's territory, and when they sent people to Harbor City to take a look at the living environment of the compatriots from the other side, no one could stand it.

Although slavery is not practiced in Harbor City, the life of the Glory believers is miserable than that of slaves. Not only after hard work, the rewards they receive are only the necessary supplies to maintain their daily lives, but also because their working environment is not guaranteed.

Whether it's illness or injury, those despicable businessmen don't care. It's all handled by these poor glorious believers.

Because in the eyes of these businessmen, Radiant Believers are inexhaustible. After the first large ship full of refugees arrived at the shore, there was a steady stream of refugees landing ashore, and refugee ships could be seen at sea every now and then.

I don’t know what happened on the other side, but it was able to force a true God believer to flee across the sea.

"The Archbishop of the Glorious Order, Hercules hopes to be summoned by you to talk to you about the life and work conditions of Glorious believers in Harbor City."

"You still need to discuss such a small issue? No see."

Noah refused without even thinking about it.

Although the arrival of the Shining Believers did not cause any kind of damage to Noah and the territories under his jurisdiction, it actually caused some businessmen to enter a carnival and brought high taxes to Noah in disguise.

However, the God's intention to target has been clearly revealed, but this kind of targeting will be carried out gradually every hundred years, and the God does not intend to see results in the short term.

The immortality of the gods is used here. The immortal gods can use hundreds or thousands of years as units to design a majestic conspiracy to suppress a certain force.

Noah, who was promoted to become the Ancestral Dragon, was also exposed to the edge of immortality. He had the opportunity to establish himself in the realm of immortality, and he was also interested in competing with the gods in this regard.

The worst case is flipping the table. Anyway, it can be said that Noah has almost no dependence on faith. After all, the Emperor of Words cannot affect himself, and the dependence of gods on faith cannot be said to be completely impossible to break away from, but it is definitely impossible or Missing.

"So how do you plan to solve the issue of labor treatment in Harbor City? Many paladins have expressed some bad opinions and views on this,"

Lutitia reminded Noah,

"There are already paladins who have taken the initiative to request to go to Harbor City to set up a court and establish a labor and social security center."

"This is indeed a problem. Those guys look too ugly. I will issue a statement and make adjustments in the decree."

Noah pondered for a moment and then came up with a solution.

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Soon after, the administrative announcement issued in the name of Shenglong spread throughout all areas of Shenglong Territory, especially among businessmen, causing great repercussions.

Because Noah has set up Harbor City and its surrounding three hundred miles as a special economic zone, the local governor has limited legislative power and can appropriate the code and laws according to local conditions.

The labor wages within the special economic zone do not need to be the same as those in the Shenglong Territory, and the reason given is also very legitimate, that is, the development of the Shenglong Territory to this day has taken a hundred years of accumulation.

Harbor City, on the other hand, is so poor that even the basic arable land for food supply has not been cultivated, and it does not have the production base to support high-welfare work.

Therefore, the Governor is allowed to formulate appropriate labor security measures according to local conditions and in conjunction with local development conditions.

In other words, under this administrative decree, the behavior of only distributing food to workers without paying them in Harbor City is legitimate and legal, not illegal.

However, at the end of this administrative decree, Noah also made a supplementary explanation. It was a development plan that planned to increase the labor salary income of local workers to half of the current average salary in the Shenglong Territory within ten years. Keep in line during the year.

It was this development plan that calmed the restlessness of many paladins in Noah's territory.

More importantly, after the issuance of this executive order, Noah issued another executive order.

A customs department was set up in the Harbor City to strictly control the exchange of goods and people between the harbor and the inland Holy Dragon territory. It also set many requirements for the Shining believers who wanted to go inland.

The first is to be in good health and have no serious contagious diseases. The second is to have no criminal record in Harbor City and to have a good reputation. The last and most important thing is to obtain recommendation letters from the Governor's Palace and the factory where you work.

The purpose of setting these requirements is clear at a glance, that is, the Holy Dragon Leader only accepts those glorious believers who have maintained a positive attitude at work for a long time.

As for those believers who pray devoutly every day and do not participate in production, they cannot even pass the Customs Department.

As for whether the establishment of so many requirements will cause resentment and protests, of course it will, but there are indeed many glorious believers who meet the requirements and want to live in the Holy Dragon territory.

Harbor City has not set up information barriers. The situation in the Holy Dragon Territory will naturally spread among the group of Glory believers as one businessman after another comes to set up factories.

After the establishment of the special economic zone, the believers who participated in the work were no longer satisfied with the daily necessities issued by the factory. They also wanted to obtain the currency issued by the Holy Dragon, and then use the currency to buy the goods they wanted.

After understanding the value of currency, as a basic desire of living things, they would want to get more coins.

So, after learning that in the Holy Dragon Territory, the same job position is not only easier, but also has shorter working hours, and the work remuneration is at least thirty times, which is ridiculously exaggerated or even nearly a hundred times.

As long as there are still some believers with worldly desires, no one can sit still. They will find ways to spend all their family's meager property, even if they have to borrow money from merchants, to go to the Holy Dragon Territory.

In a short time, a huge wave of immigrants appeared. Although there are devout believers who are content with poverty and are extremely indignant and criticize these compatriots who pursue money, this has no effect on the growing scale of the immigration wave.

So much so that the newly established Customs Department, after seeing the increasingly terrifying immigration wave, had to urgently establish new regulations, set daily immigration quotas, and strictly control the recommendation quotas of special economic zones and factories, requiring them not to make recommendations at will.

"The pursuit of fame and fortune is the nature of intelligent creatures!"

After witnessing a series of changes in the Far Sailing Port, Noah couldn't help but laugh triumphantly in his palace.

He did not rudely interfere with the resettlement of these glorious believers with administrative orders, but attracted the glorious believers who yearned for a better life to self-differentiate through the ugly nature of merchants and the living environment of the Holy Dragon Territory that was far superior to that of feudal nobles.

However, it is also undeniable that those who can withstand the temptation of material things and still stick to their beliefs are the believers that the gods really need.

This series of changes can also be regarded as a disguised purification of believers for the Lord of Glory, but Noah is not worried about it. After all, how long can mortals live?

One generation is a devout believer, but can their children and grandchildren still maintain their piety to the Lord of Glory like them? Especially in a deliberately designed environment like a special economic zone.

Compared to the glory of the gods that may not be enjoyed after death after a lifetime of pious worship, the material enjoyment that can be obtained through hard work during life seems to be more practical.

It is obvious how to choose.