Work Prophet
Chapter 300 - 58: Nationwide Upgrade

Chapter 300: Chapter 58: Nationwide Upgrade

After establishing the department, it was time to assign staff to the respective departments. Thereafter, whenever needed, personnel could be directly enlisted from the departments to form teams for completing tasks.

For instance, in the cultivation of dogfish, Li Yu had reassigned four craftsmen from the Truth Bureau who had prior experience in fishing, each responsible for a fish pond.

However, merely having people work was not enough; it was also essential to motivate the workers.

Previously, when the Double Rest Sect only had lizard people followers, Li Yu did not need to worry much about this issue.

The lizard people, accustomed to tribal communal living, huddled together in extremely harsh environments. They didn’t harbor many ulterior motives; slackers would be expelled by the tribe, and in the Gai Gu Swamp, expulsion meant death, so every individual cherished their reputation within the tribe.

Moreover, Li Yu had elevated his reputation to a level of worship among them, so they would work hard even without compensation.

But now, the number of followers of the Double Rest Sect had surpassed ten thousand, including local farmers, wanderers, small traders, and mercenaries. Clearly, these people would first consider their own interests.

This was not necessarily a bad thing; self-interest is human nature. Li Yu’s call to everyone to establish the Land God Kingdom was also to ensure a better life for everyone.

However, this required a system of rewards and penalties to ensure that everyone was striving to work.

For a typical Church, motivation primarily came from promotions.

For example, the position of Priest, once desperately sought but unattainable for a teacher of the Universal Language, and there are actually different ranks among Priests, which one could climb hierarchically, all the way up to the position of High Priest.

While this certainly might corrupt some with power, it indeed provides a pathway for lower-tier individuals to ascend and consequently motivates them to work.

However, the current organizational structure of the Double Rest Sect was relatively flat; simplifying middle management meant there were not many positions for the lower ranks to ascend to.

Li Yu thought about it and decided that if there were no positions to climb, everyone might as well level up together.

In another universe, there were many who were addicted to leveling up, showing that leveling truly is a joyous activity.

Therefore, Li Yu decided to introduce Divine Points as a substitute for experience points.

By completing tasks, one could earn Divine Points, and accumulating these points would allow leveling up. Starting from lv0, as long as one desired, they could keep leveling up until death.

Of course, just leveling up was not sufficient. Players enjoyed leveling up because of the rewards that came with it, not just the act of leveling up itself.

So, after setting up the experience points, it was time to set up the rewards.

Li Yu’s initial idea was to treat Divine Points as a kind of currency circulating within the Double Rest Sect. Workers, precisely, members of the sect could use Divine Points to exchange for various materials.

The reason to distribute Divine Points instead of using the common currency of the Bratis Continent directly was that creating your own currency had many benefits.

Firstly, it could alleviate economic pressure. Assuming the purchasing power of 1 Divine Point was equivalent to 1 gold Koen, issuing 1000 gold Koens required the Double Rest Sect to actually have that much money. However, changing to 1000 Divine Points meant that people wouldn’t spend all at once; some might even save a portion.

In reality, Li Yu then wouldn’t need to issue 1000 gold Koens or resources of equivalent value. Before the sect’s businesses developed, it could save some money for other purposes.

Having freed himself from the constraints of rare metals, Li Yu had unleashed a series of financial instruments that could be used to regulate the economy on a macro level.

Additionally, this move could further boost the loyalty of the members within the sect. Once someone betrayed the Double Rest Sect, they would lose all their accumulated Divine Country points, and the hard-earned levels would disappear as well.

Besides these, Li Yu planned to set up a series of upgrade rewards.

In these upgrade rewards, he could include some rare items that couldn’t even be exchanged for Divine Country points, such as "Tom and Jerry" movie tickets, plastic combs, empty plastic bottles, and of course, some cool but useless titles...

In short, he aimed to ignite everyone’s enthusiasm for leveling up.

For this purpose, Li Yu specifically had Wang Guowei find a game designer for him, spending a meal plus ten thousand yuan to persuade the designer to smooth out the upgrade curve and design the rewards for each level.

The game designer called himself Hai Mao and was in his early thirties. Wang Guowei addressed him as Brother Dog.

Brother Dog wore a red t-shirt with three large black characters printed on the front—"Underground People".

If I saw it correctly, it should be the one worn by the male protagonist Rentai Sukuhai in "Hanasaku Iroha". He wore a baseball cap over his head and beneath it were clearly visible dark circles, looking utterly drained and listless, as if bewitched by a demoness.

The meeting was scheduled on a sunny Sunday afternoon, and Brother Dog showed a noticeable photophobia, clearly a seasoned gamer.

Once he took off his cap, revealing his receding hairline, he looked even more experienced.

During the meet, he reached out with his right hand, adorned with Buddhist beads, to shake hands with Li Yu, then sat opposite him.

Brother Dog was from Hunan and had loved spicy food since childhood, but after entering the industry for six years, he switched to Cantonese cuisine because he was always feeling heaty.

Actually, in terms of work intensity, designers generally don’t have it as high as programmers do.

A lot of Brother Dog’s stress was self-imposed.

In his words, he had been very unlucky over the years. Despite being capable, whether it was system, level, or numerical design, he could handle it all, multifaceted and diligent. Yet, the projects he took on always failed, his overtime didn’t earn him extra money.

What’s most crucial was that he had wasted his talents till past his thirties. With his capabilities, he should have been a chief designer long ago, but without any standout projects, he was still working for others.

And working for others meant he couldn’t lead projects on his own, resulting in projects turning sour inadvertently, plunging Brother Dog into a vicious cycle of misery.

After a few cups of cola, the trio had warmed up quite a bit, and Brother Dog couldn’t help but complain.

"In this field, skills and experience are worthless, it’s all about the resume. If you’ve been on a blockbuster project, you immediately become a chief designer. Otherwise, you end up like me, always struggling, finding it harder to turn things around. Ah... it’s all fate. If only I knew back in school, instead of studying so much, I should have spent more time praying at temples to the Buddha."

"Hey, Brother Dog, with your level, it’s only a matter of time before you shine. Just relax," Wang Guowei advised, "Look, that guy named Hai Mao made it, you, Hai Gou, will definitely make it too."

At these words, Brother Dog’s eyes bulged, and he slammed his cola down on the table, angrily saying, "You shouldn’t have brought that up. Just the other day, I consulted an old Taoist priest, and he told me my fortune might have been drained by Hai Mao! Both our names contain ’Hai’, and our fates are intertwined. Since the sea keeps flowing, my fortune flowed over to him."