Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Recently, the number of believers of the Church of the God of War in Anjou has increased.

In fact, not only the Church of the God of War, but also the activities of believers of cult groups active in Anjou are becoming more and more rampant.

There are many workers who worked in factories and had debts that they could not pay off for the rest of their lives because of machine damage caused by improper operation, or who were caught in machines and lost a finger or even an entire arm. In the end, they chose to turn to religion.

Even if you do not cause damage to the machine and are lucky enough to remain healthy, it does not mean that you can live a stable life in the factory. The high-pressure environment and high expenses mean that the workers working in the workshop cannot even afford the products they produce. This almost endless labor has caused many workers to develop bad habits such as alcoholism and gambling.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Although Anjou's wealth had greatly increased, the public security at the grassroots level was not effectively controlled, not to mention that the great nobles and factory owners were almost in cahoots with each other. It was already a conscience not to withhold wages, not to mention protecting the workers below.

In this case, instead of saving money and waiting to be blackmailed by security guards and other people, it is better to spend the money directly, which can at least bring temporary happiness.

It is not only the workers who suffer, but also the lower-class people in many other occupations, and workers are even the ones with relatively higher wages among those at the bottom.

While doing business with the factory owners in Anjou, Herbert recorded the current situation of the Anjou workers in his diary.

The previous trade with Caron was very successful. Although the artillery purchased by Caron jammed at the critical moment, it actually did not have much impact on the entire Avars' capture of the Castilian delegation. Moreover, Herbert said at the beginning that he could only get obsolete and inferior products, so it was normal for the artillery to jam.

So Caron didn't care about it. On the contrary, because Herbert's arms smuggling allowed Caron to make a lot of money, Herbert has now become Caron's guest of honor.

Herbert did not like dealing with Calonne, but instead visited and inspected many factories in the capital of Anjou under the pretext of opening a factory in Anjou.

In Herbert's impression, the factories in the northern part of Capet were clean and tidy, and were always brightly lit during working hours, while the factories in Anjou basically kept the lights on if they could see, and might not turn on the lights if they couldn't see.

After investigation, Herbert found that because of the obelisk in Capet, the magic lighting was almost free. In comparison, the lighting costs in Anjou were much higher. But Herbert felt that even if the lighting prices in Anjou were similar to those in Capet, those factory owners would choose to turn off the lights to save a little money.

Herbert actually didn't have any special feelings towards these factory owners who squeezed manpower to the limit. After all, Herbert was born into an old noble family in the North. Everything these factory owners did was at least for profit. The former nobles even tortured people to death just for their own selfish desires and for momentary pleasure.

"These workers would even work several jobs to make a living. In addition to working long hours and multiple jobs, their children would also have to supplement the family income by working as child laborers in factories or cleaning chimneys for nobles."

Herbert wrote down everything he saw and heard in his diary.

"Some lucky children will be recruited to study in military schools. I heard that there are subsidies for recruiting a healthy child to a military school, but the actual subsidies received by the parents of those children are only one tenth of the advertised amount."

"Against this backdrop, more and more people have joined the War God Church and started to believe in the War God. They believe that the War God will protect the weak, and this is indeed the case. As long as you join the War God Church, at least those hooligans won't bother you."

Having written here, Herbert stopped writing. The following content could not be written in the diary, and Herbert could only keep it in his heart.

There seems to be a subtle change in the recent teachings of the Church of the God of War. Some believers suddenly began to claim that the God of War will come to the world and give his believers real power and protect them from being bullied.

The common people didn't know, but Herbert, who had received aristocratic education and was familiar with religion, knew clearly that no god would come directly to the world. God's affairs on earth were generally handled by agents such as saints and the pope. The so-called personal descent was generally only used by evil gods.

And now, this statement has openly appeared in the Church of the God of War.

The lower classes of Anjou were surging, and a trace of uneasiness occupied Herbert's heart. He would return to his hometown after completing this mission, and in the future he would obediently follow the arrangements of the head of the family, and rely on the merits he earned this time to find an easier clerical job.

"My lord, the itinerary has been arranged."

Hearing the guard's voice, Herbert stopped thinking and put on his coat.

"I know, I'll be right there."

Next up was Herbert’s final action in Anjou, a launch and auction of new Anjou products.

The auction site was decorated in an extremely luxurious and magnificent manner, so magnificent that even Herbert felt a little dazzled. Because Herbert had been hanging out in factories in Anjou before, it was hard to imagine that this auction with a light show and those dim factories were products of the same era.

After greeting the nobles of Anjou and telling them how the Governor had "persecuted" his family, Herbert took his seat.

To Herbert, this so-called new product launch conference was actually quite uninteresting, perhaps even less interesting than the new technologies introduced in the newspapers of the Capetian capital.

This is indeed the case. Those so-called new products are almost all things that Capet had invented long ago, or some toys that are meant to attract attention.

Some of the gadgets that were specially made for the enjoyment of the nobles were quite interesting, but it was obvious that those gadgets had no research value and could not be brought back to Capet. Herbert cooperated by calling out the price twice and then yawned out of boredom.

"Ladies and gentlemen, next is one of the highlights of this new product launch! The product created by the great high-level professionals and Lord Cassius using the technology of the old empire!"

On the stage, the host's voice was loud and clear, the stage lights were flashing, and finally the focus was on the cages that appeared at some unknown time.

“Tick, tick, tick! This is the culmination of Anjou’s technology, a human communication device!”

In several iron cages, there are several girls who are scantily clad, each with their own unique and sexy features.

Herbert continued to yawn. This kind of thing had been played out by the nobles in the old aristocratic era. It was really boring. But what the host said next almost made Herbert jump up from his seat.

"These girls have been specially transformed by you adults. As long as you press certain parts of these girls, you can have real-time conversations with your noble friends in the capital."