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Chapter 315 - 73: Completing Tasks to Level Up

Chapter 315: Chapter 73: Completing Tasks to Level Up

The fastest way to level up was, of course, to complete missions.

Especially the novice missions, the first one Li Yu released was about correctly using new agricultural tools.

This mission was not complex, as long as someone had been paying attention to the sermons by the Sabbaths during this period, they should have learned the bulk of it. Even if there was someone extremely foolish, they could still ask their fellow villagers for advice.

Thus, this was a task almost everyone could easily complete.

Later, Li Yu pulled a batch of Sabbaths and craftsmen from the Preaching Institute and the Truth Bureau to form an examiners’ team, specifically responsible for assessing the mission’s completion in the four religious districts.

Only those recognized by them as having completed the mission could earn Divine Country points.

Since it was an easy task, the reward of Divine Country points wasn’t much—just 1 point.

But 1 Divine Country point could still be exchanged for 3 pounds of dogfish meat, enough for a family of four to have a meat dish.

In fact, some people exchanged their Divine Country points for dogfish meat on the spot after receiving them.

The store owners from the Wealth Association, who were in charge of operating the Divine Kingdom Store, were also straightforward, verifying the exchanger’s identity, taking their thumb impression for confirmation, and then immediately handing out the dogfish meat.

Since Green Field’s dogfish aquaculture had just started, this batch of dogfish meat Li Yu provided was purchased from outside, totaling five thousand pounds.

Currently, there are about twelve thousand Double Rest Sect followers in Green Field. If all these people took up and completed the novice mission, then Li Yu would have to give out ten thousand Divine Country points.

If these ten thousand points were all exchanged for dogfish, that would amount to thirty thousand pounds.

This would likely require nearly a thousand Gold Coins, an amount Li Yu could afford, but it indeed wasn’t easy to procure so much dogfish at once.

Fortunately, five days later he received the sales data from the Divine Country Store and found that not all of the five thousand pounds of dogfish had been sold; nine hundred pounds were still left. After accounting for occasional losses, as of now, a total of 1,329 people had used their 1 Divine Country point.

This wasn’t to say that dogfish weren’t popular, as Li Yu carefully reviewed the sales records and noticed that sales peaked in the first two days, but there was a significant decrease on the third day, and even more so on the fourth and fifth days.

Li Yu then visited two or three villages and confirmed his suspicions.

Those who hadn’t bought dogfish didn’t dislike it, but rather, they realized the value of Divine Country points. Those who had exchanged their points for dogfish had proven to others that Divine Country points had purchasing power and that any item listed in the Divine Kingdom store could be acquired with them.

Therefore, more and more people became hoarders, deciding to save that 1 Divine Country point and wait to buy something more valuable in the future.

Apart from the enticing red brick houses featured prominently on the promotional posters, the new-style agricultural tools introduced by the Double Rest Sect finally began to gain popularity.

Through the novice mission, the local civilians in Green Field seriously learned and used the Kyak plow and seed carts.

Afterward, they were amazed to discover that these two new tools were indeed much more efficient than using heavy plows and sowing seeds by hand, and the results were also better.

These farmers weren’t foolish; they had resisted the new tools before only because they were accustomed to their existing farming methods and unconsciously opposed unknown entities.

However, upon realizing the practicality of the new tools, they immediately became huge fans.

After all, no one would refuse the opportunity to cultivate more land and harvest more crops in the future.

On the other side, Li Yu also successfully disseminated new agricultural tools in this way, resulting in joy for both sides.

Having succeeded in the first task for beginners and sensing the strong desire of the devotees of the Double Rest Sect to earn Divine Country points, Li Yu struck while the iron was hot and issued several new tasks a few days later.

However, these tasks were not as simple as before, with most of them involving recruitment.

Now that the number of devotees in the Double Rest Sect had surpassed ten thousand, Li Yu had effectively experienced a population boom in traditional strategy games, and the next step was inevitably to make good use of this population, deploying them in various places to accelerate construction.

For example, expanding the brick kilns, building new public facilities, recruiting more carpenters, blacksmith apprentices... Additionally, it was essential to start focusing on education.

As the scale of the organization expanded, the demand for talent at the Double Rest Sect was growing daily.

Especially since Li Yu had introduced this upgrade system, whether it was the issuance of tasks, the assessment of results, the operation of the Divine Kingdom Store, the most important thing was the counting of Divine Country points, and the review afterward, all required a large number of specialists to be responsible.

These specialists had to be literate and capable of simple arithmetic.

For now, these positions were temporarily handled by the survivors of the Weiting family, but this meant that their primary jobs on missionary work were bound to be affected.

Therefore, Li Yu had to start training talents in this area.

He wasn’t going to implement a nine-year compulsory education or literacy classes for everyone.

These were impractical in the Bratis Continent, as the former took too long to cultivate, and most jobs did not require a junior high school level of education.

As for the latter, the costs were also too high at the moment.

The Double Rest Sect itself already mandated a two-day weekend for everyone. Besides that, there was half a day every week for studying doctrine. If they had to take out more time for learning, even just one day, the remaining three and a half days of work might not be sufficient.

Unless Li Yu also adopted night schools like other transmigrators or simply allocated the study time to Saturday and Sunday, but that would go against the precepts of the Double Rest Sect and could even undermine its foundation severely.

Pursuing efficiency alone might be a shortcut to victory, but the world it created would only make a few happy.

In the end, Li Yu decided to compress the learning time and quickly train a batch of people through one to two years of specialized training who could recognize and write common words and use basic arithmetic to meet the operational needs of the upgrading system.

Adjustments would be made as needed afterward.

For this purpose, Li Yu specially constructed a school in the territory of the Double Rest Sect and issued a task to recruit a group of devotees willing to learn throughout the territory.

Every applicant selected would receive twenty Divine Country points one-time, and during the year of study, the Double Rest Sect would provide meals and accommodation, and upon passing the graduation exam, they would also be guaranteed job placement.

Setting aside the twenty Divine Country points, the offer of meals and accommodation alone was very attractive to many families, as raising children is a costly affair in any era.

Li Yu’s requirement for age was quite flexible, allowing children as young as ten to enroll, resulting in generally very young applicants.

Almost uniformly elementary school students, almost none over fourteen years old.

The villagers played a good game of calculation; the older ones could work in the fields as labor, and it might not be worth sending them, so they brought younger children who ate more than they could work.

Clearly, they wanted to exploit the free meals provided by the Double Rest Sect to support their children.