From Village Chief to Emperor of the Strongest Empire - Chapter 40

Collecting the power of faith was not a simple thing.

“How does faith come into being, and how can I control this power?”

Su Chen thought carefully in his heart.

Faith was something that people were willing to devote their whole lives to. This thing could be spiritual or material.

God gives people life, guides them to live, and loves them.

As a Lord, how to make his people believe in him as they believe in god is a problem.

People were complicated. Just by letting them eat, wear warm clothes, and have a house to live in, his people may have faith and gratitude in him. As for faith, it will gradually fade after they eat and wear warm clothes.

People feared the gods not only because they could perform miracles to benefit humans and anger the gods, but also because the gods would punish them.

If they brainwashed the people and controlled the economy of the town in their own hands, the people’s lives would depend on the rewards of the lords and survival through prayers. This did not meet Su Chen’s requirements for rapid development.

He could also perform a “Miracle” to replace the gods that had not appeared for a long time.

Taking over the faith of the people and guiding the confused people to live a meaningful life was the way to go in Su Chen’s heart.

This was also a step in the “God plan”. Only by making people believe that he was a real God would he be able to collect the faith, and the collected faith would help him become a real god!

The way the “Miracle” could be borrowed from a series of rewards brought by the system, such as the reward of doubling the output of the system’s agriculture.

Agriculture was the basic industry of this world. Currently, the development of agriculture was lacking and the technology was very crude. It was only a matter of simple planting of various crops and how the harvest was determined by the weather and natural disasters.

Starting from this point, it should be relatively simple.

As for the specific operation method, Su Chen still had to slowly plan it in the future.

Su Chen temporarily put down the idea of testing the power of faith in his heart and continued to look at the following rewards.

[ Omniscient map ] had been upgraded to level 2, and there was not much introduction.

Su Chen sank his consciousness into the system space and entered the omniscient map.

The omniscient map made of paper looked like it was in tatters, and there was no difference in appearance from before.

However, some data that had not been seen before appeared on the map.

[ Ferol City, Xilin ]

[ Clear, southeast wind level 2, precipitation 0]

[ Population: 502 civilians, 375 serfs ]

[ Gold coins… ]

[ Wood: … ]

[ Stone materials… ]

The basic situation of the town was all digitized!

Su Chen zoomed in and saw the militia patrolling the wall. At the same time, message boxes appeared on the militia.

Su Chen casually opened one and looked at it.

[ Max, militia, male, no combat class level, combat strength 72, loyalty 91… ]

Just as Su Chen was concentrating on looking at the message, the militia had already walked into a house. Su Chen was surprised to feel that under his concentrated state, he could actually see the silhouette of a glowing person in the building.

“I must have activated the clairvoyance cheat.”

Su Chen experimented for a while and temporarily confirmed the upgraded ability of the omniscient map.

The information displayed on the map was more comprehensive. It could display information such as geographical information and combat strength.

Under his concentrated state, he could see the silhouette of a person through the building.

Su Chen’s thoughts were running wild. His relaxed state made him feel sleepy.

“Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore.”

Su Chen came out of the study, went upstairs to the bathroom, took a shower, and then turned back to the bedroom.

“Evelyn, I’m here!”

..

Early the next morning.

The people of Lake Town heard the news that their mayor had wiped out the forest wolves and the level 3 alpha.

The logging team could set off to work again.

The work of the town’s public toilets, schools, renovations, water trucks, and so on was about to start.

Early in the morning, the logging team that was originally resting began to prepare to set off again. Next to them were Ian’s well-prepared knights and militia.

Today, they were going to gravel ridge to retrieve all the forest wolf corpses from last night.

These magical beast corpses could also be sold for a good price. These were all Su Chen’s spoils of war.

They were still waiting for their Lord Mayor because the Lord Mayor had already told them that he would go with them today.

However, Su Chen was not going to collect the wolf’s corpse. He was going to collect the silver bell flower and put it into his spiritual field.

Maggie shouted loudly at the place where the logging team was preparing, “The logging team is recruiting temporary members! Prepare your own tools, pay is 30 copper coins a day!”

The small town woke up in the morning with Maggie’s roar. When the townsfolk who had been idle at home heard that they had jobs to do, they soon surrounded a group of people to sign up.

In the morning, more than 30 temporary lumberjacks were recruited.

The small town began to regain its vitality.

With jobs, there would be wages. With wages, they would be able to eat and wear well.

The small town’s medical center also began to receive patients. Under the effect of the healing technique, the pain of ordinary people recovered very quickly.

As a result, the beds originally prepared by the medical center were temporarily unoccupied.

Some external injuries would also stop bleeding instantly after being washed by the fountain of life. They would recover completely in a day or two.

The simplified version of the public toilet in the town had already been built. According to the instructions of the mayor, the feces on the streets had been cleaned up. Each family even went to the riverside to fetch water, flushing the streets near their homes a few times.

The whole town had changed.

Maggie had just finished recruiting the temporary logging team when she saw Su Chen riding a horse leisurely from the direction of the castle.

“Is everything ready? It’s time for us to set off, guys!”