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The effect of the blood sacrifice was so strong that 10 acres of land could support 60 armed attendants, meeting their food consumption for a year. Naturally, Su Li hoped to expand the scale of the blood sacrifice as much as possible.

This way, while raising soldiers, he could also accumulate grain and train his troops, saving a batch of food for him to launch conquests abroad.

Seeing Su Li's strong desire, Vandal Oak pondered for a moment and said, "If the lord is determined to perform multiple sacrifices, it is not impossible. The simplest way is to recruit more Grain Father Boleviks. The Goddess of the Dawn encourages these natural spirits to serve humanity, so she promises each of them the ability to sacrifice."

Su Li nodded, so his plan to collect blood could still be used.

This way, he could prepare more corpses and blood of bandits next time, and let the next Bolevik hold a larger blood sacrifice, striving to make the effect of the blood sacrifice affect more than 50 acres.

However, there was still no sign of the next Bolevik. Su Li continued to look at Vandal with concern and asked, "Besides this method, are there any other ways to allow the same Bolevik to hold more blood sacrifices?"

Vandal Oak nodded solemnly and said, "There is still one way, but this one is much more difficult than the previous one. If you can preside over a sacrifice in the territory and please the Goddess of the Dawn, so that the Goddess of the Dawn will bestow divine grace upon the territory, then all the Boleviks can perform blood sacrifices again this year."

"Pleasing the gods?" Su Li had learned about this aspect before, which belonged to the inheritance between nobles. His father, the Count of Thorns, Sunar, had told him about it.

There are many ways to please the gods. The most direct ones are the gods of the blazing sun, the white wolf, and war. There are no fancy conditions. As long as the believers can chop people on the battlefield, chop until the world is dark and the sun and moon are discolored, making the opponents fear and collapse, and win an unparalleled and wonderful victory, or a popular and legendary epic victory, then the gods will bestow divine grace and give blessings.

In this way, a powerful knight and military commander is likely to obtain a sacred relic of honor.

Another relatively direct way is sacrifice. For example, lightscale fish can be sacrificed to the gods to please most gods. However, if there are only two, it may not be possible to please the Goddess of the Dawn.

However, this problem is not urgent. Even if he immediately starts collecting flesh and blood corpses for a second blood sacrifice, it would be meaningless, because the time for this round of spring plowing has already been missed.

There are still a few months before the next summer planting. During this time, he can prepare carefully. Lightscale fish can also breed in the reservoir. Perhaps the second blood sacrifice can be held during the summer or autumn planting.

Then Su Li said to Vandal, "I have noted the matter of pleasing the gods, and I will think about it carefully later. After all, there are still many knights in the territory who fanatically believe in the Goddess of the Blazing Sun. If we want to sacrifice, we may have to hold a court cabinet meeting to decide."

Vandal nodded slightly, also knowing that such major sacrifices cannot be decided in a single sentence. However, his fanaticism for the Goddess of the Dawn made him have to emphasize, saying, "Lord, I have to say one last thing, what our territory needs most right now is a large amount of food. We can obtain gold coins and knights through various means. At worst, we can trade with Maleburg. However, hundreds of thousands of catties of grain cannot be continuously transported here."

"Without food, we cannot increase the number of residents, expand the army, and develop the territory. The sacred objects of the Goddess of the Dawn can greatly alleviate this dilemma and increase our food production. I hope you can consider the suggestions of our Dawn Church more."

"Yes, I will." Of course, Su Li had to agree in front of Vandal. As for what the knights would say, he would discuss it later.

Then Su Li asked, "My Minister of Agriculture, I heard that the scale of farmland in the territory has increased to more than 2,500 acres. Do you think we can have a good harvest, how much grain will we harvest?"

Vandal immediately assured, "Our priests and nuns of the Dawn Church have been taking care of the farmland early and late to guide the serfs. In addition, water conservancy and irrigation tools have been developed. We will definitely have a good harvest this summer. At least 300,000 catties of grain can be harvested, and hundreds of thousands of catties of various vegetables will be harvested one after another. I think, Lord, you can now start preparing windmills, waterwheels, mills, and other equipment for making flour. And expand the threshing ground and granary."

Hearing Vandal's guarantee, Su Li couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. 300,000 catties of grain is enough for 1,000 ordinary people to eat for three months. In addition, with the irregular good harvests from fishing and hunting, and the continuous harvest of vegetables, it is conservatively estimated that this wave of harvest can support 1,000 people for half a year, smoothly transitioning to the next harvest, and at the same time, save a batch of grain to launch a military conquest.

With such a calculation, Su Li felt that his war against the forest bandits was even more feasible.

Incorporating them into his command and expanding the scale of the territory was sufficient in terms of food reserves.

So expanding the scale of the territory can be put on the agenda.

While Su Li was thinking, Vandal, as the Minister of Agriculture, continued to put forward a suggestion, saying, "Lord, I think the types of crops in our current territory are still too monotonous. Like carrots and cabbages, their maturity periods are too dense. From a stable point of view, we should expand the types of crops. Let seasonal fruits and vegetables ripen all year round."

"I suggest planting a vineyard or orchard in the north of the territory, near Greenleaf Land. In addition to increasing food, we can also brew wine, fruit wine, and beer. The dwarves in the northern mountains have a strong demand for all these wines. If we can exchange a large number of metal products and crafts from them with wine, and then go downstream, using the shipping of the Brienne River to sell these goods to Maleburg, we will reap a lot of wealth."

"Plant seeds?" Su Li nodded and said, "I will pay attention to this."

Speaking of which, it is more necessary to contact the caravan of the furniture merchant. They often enter and exit the forest, and they must have harvested a lot of precious plants and seeds. They may use the plants to make potions, but they probably don't care much about the seeds.

It depends on whether he can find a batch of valuable seeds from their collection.

Then Su Li asked the question he was most concerned about: "My religious advisor, what kind of potions can you make as a druid?"

Vandal carefully counted and said, "Druids, like knights, are extraordinary professions. What abilities they can have depends on the gods they believe in and the order they belong to. I belong to the [Green Watcher Order] of the Dawn Church. According to the abilities of our order, I can make [Vitality Potion], [Purification Potion], [Healing Potion], and the powerful [Earth Blood]. This powerful [Earth Blood] potion allows soldiers to continuously absorb energy from the earth under their feet to heal themselves during the potion's duration, as long as they stand on natural soil."

So each church has different orders? Su Li asked curiously, "Do you know which order Orstein Knight belongs to?"

Vandal nodded and said, "Of course, our military commander's church is very famous. It is the famous Wrath Order of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun, Violet. The deeds of their order are included in the religious book "The Goddess of War Violet". I think we can have a good relationship with them. If a knight order of this order can be stationed in our territory, it will be of great benefit to us."

Knight orders have many sub-groups and subordinate brotherhoods. They will practice everywhere, help lords wage wars, fight against evil monsters, and promote their faith, recruiting reserve members from various territories.

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Therefore, if a territory develops well and can donate a manor or a small territory to the knight order as the knight order's property, then the knight order may send a brotherhood of dozens of people to be stationed here. This is a knight order with all members at least at the elite level, and the knight commander is likely to be at the champion level, plus one or two squadrons of armed attendants, which is a team with excellent combat power.

They do not belong to the lord, are not subject to the lord's command and dispatch, and do not need the lord to provide food and wages, but they will help the lord carry out some great wars. Of course, those unjust wars are not within this category. For example, internal wars between humans, attacking other pioneering territories, the proud knight order will not accept conscription. (But there are exceptions for particularly good relationships. Some knight orders have close ties with the territory and will participate in various battles in the territory. However, this situation is very rare.)

If he can get in touch with the Flame Sun Knight Order, it is indeed the fastest way for Su Li to improve his military strength at the moment.

Vandal did not participate too much in military matters, and he quickly switched the topic back to potion production: "Our territory needs a lot of things to make potions. The first is a monastery or druid tree house for producing potions, and then we also lack bottles for holding potions."

What Vandal said was of course true, but he also had his own selfish motives. It is not necessary to build a monastery to produce potions. It is also possible to use alchemy workshops and potion workshops. He is urging Su Li to build an exclusive monastery for the Dawn Church.

There is no way, he also serves as the Minister of Religious Affairs, and he certainly wants to take the opportunity to develop the Dawn Church.

Su Li carefully thought about it and felt that he should take care of his enthusiasm, so he said to Vandal, "Potion production can already be put on the agenda. According to reasoning, this team of furniture merchants will definitely bring a batch of potion bottles, we can buy a batch for storage. Now we only lack a monastery, I allow you to build a Dawn Church monastery in the residential area south of the city."

"South of the city?" Vandal pondered slightly. Although it was not the core area of the castle, it was acceptable to him. The Dawn Church is generally most respected in rural areas, and around cities, its prosperity and influence also mainly comes from productive orchards and dairy farms.

His goal was achieved, and he was in a happy mood, so he said with a smile, "Lord, I will start preparing immediately. As long as the herbs are collected, I will do my best to start making potions."