Episode 43 12. Stalling #2(4)
When Rockefeller showed a faint smile, the priest naturally laughed along, and the two looked at each other for a moment with such a good expression on their faces.
said the priest.
“But I have one question. Do you have any reason to do it with us? If it was just a stand-up, wouldn’t there be many people who would work with us even if we didn’t have to? It would be okay if I did it with the lord, or I could have done it with other people.”
I was able to legally avoid the tax problem levied on the estate, and it was good for my brother Leo, but the answer to this was actually set aside.
‘I’d like to be honest too, but this is better than saying that.’
“This is my heart and consideration to repay the grace of John and the church. No one can do this good thing together. Rather than doing it alone, wouldn’t it be better to do it together if it’s good for both the church and my family?”
Perhaps it was a good answer, the priest smiled very satisfied.
“Great. When you grow up, you will be a wonderful person like your grandfather.”
“Thank you for your words.”
Still, there was one thing I needed to make sure of.
Profit sharing for work.
This part was brought up first by the Priest, without Rockefeller bringing it up.
“by the way. How do you plan to share the profits from that work? You won’t donate everything to the church just like Josuni, who worked in Banco.”
Rockefeller responded as if waiting.
“I would like to share all the profits except for the initial funds in half.”
It was a business with nothing to lose from the church’s point of view.
There was no money in the beginning, and just doing it together was taking half of the profits.
The priest responded with a satisfied smile.
“John told us to share even a slice of bread like a knife. I see. It would be better to share the profits from that work in half. That would be fair.”
“It’s my heart that I want to take care of you more.”
Rockefeller’s smile widened.
“I believe the relationship between this place and my family will not end here. I hope that this event will lead to a better relationship.”
The priest began to shake his head with a satisfied face.
“I think the same. If there is something better than the one suggested today, please come and meet me anytime. The door of the church is always open for you.”
“Thank you for saying that.”
After several business conversations with the priest, Rockefeller was able to return to Leo, who had been waiting for him in the chapel with a gloomy expression on his face.
“Rockefeller… … .”
The voice calling out to Rockefeller had no strength.
Maybe he didn’t have high expectations.
Priest Lucian, who guided Rockefeller back to the chapel, also did not look good.
I couldn’t hear what the two of them were talking about.
But they were both surprised to hear what Rockefeller said next.
“The talk is over. Leo can live here with the other priests from now on.”
Leo, startled by those words, stared at Rockefeller, and Lucian Priest also had an expression that he did not understand.
“What do you mean? Did the priest suddenly change his mind?”
“Yeah, we talked to each other well. The priest said there would be no problem in accepting Leo as a new priest.”
“how?”
The priest Lucian knew was not a person who could easily bend and change his will.
Because he was a very knowledgeable person.
“I do not know. I made a good business offer, and in return for it, he must have been a little more considerate of my younger brother. I saw it that way.”
“What was your suggestion?”
“I would like to share the detailed story with the priest. It’s just like business.”
“Business? Jangsa… … . Yes, I will ask Priest Peter about this separately.”
Next, Rockefeller, who faced Priest Lucian with a friendly expression, continued.
“Father Lucian. I’ve heard a lot about Leo. Please take good care of my brother in the future.”
The story of the Lucian priest was well known from Leo at every dinner.
At Rockefeller’s words, Priest Lucian rubbed his eyes and then bowed his head slightly like a church member.
“Yes, I will guide Leo well so that he can become a good member of the church.”
“If you ever need help, you can always come to Carter Banco. I am always there.”
“I will take note.”
* * *
Andrew and Joshua, having almost completely wiped out the barley and hops, the raw materials for beer, from the market, began to visit barley peasants in search of more barley and hops.
“Hey man, do you have any barley or hops here? We are going to buy it.”
“The church members came and went in the morning, but are you guys now?”
“Ah, the church men have already come and gone?”
“Yeah, it’s already been wiped out. I bought them all.”
“Oh yeah? Hey Joshua. You’ve already been robbed here.”
“okay? Andrew, then let’s go somewhere else. The priests wouldn’t have robbed them all.”
“Okay.”
As the two children who came out of nowhere and talked to each other humbly left, the peasant looked at the two brothers leaving with a slightly crumpled expression.
‘No, why are you looking for his barley? To make some beer?’
Beer in a time like this?
My head was tilted.
I would have understood better if I had stockpiled the ingredients.
If you need to evacuate in case of an emergency due to a major war that has occurred near the territory, the food you have purchased in advance will be of some help.
‘The barley can eat anything.’
In that sense, are you buying barley like that?
So why hops?
‘Looking at such a purchase, the beer must be right… … I don’t know why.’
The peasant farmer in Yeong-ji, who was only looking ahead, could not understand the will of the two brothers and church members.
Andrew and Joshua traveled all over the estate to find the peasants who grew barley and hops, and until the sun went down, they bought everything they had and then put them all in a warehouse managed by the church.
Rockefeller provided all the funds for this, and the beer and its ingredients were bought at random by the priests of the church or two of Rockefeller’s brothers.
After a few days, everything related to beer in the Montefeltro estate had dried up.
If there was, church members and children of the Los Medici family had no choice but to drink Sagani seeds unconditionally.
a few days later.
The lord, who heard the story of the situation, came up late and hurriedly went to the church that sold beer and asked the reason, but he could not hear any answer from the priests who dismissed it as God’s will.
“No, why beer?”
On the way back to his manor after meeting the priest, the lord Chester showed an expression that he did not understand the English language, and the Overseer Chiron Mark, who was an assistant next to the lord, did not differ much from that of the lord.
“What do you have left?”
“I do not know. I don’t know why, but it’s true that beer has become more precious over the past few days. He said that it was quite fun to drink a beer at a pub after work, but the seeds were so dry that the fun disappeared altogether. I didn’t even know that the church would buy so much beer. If you do, you will sweep away all the ingredients.”
“Will you not go to the next estate and do that again?”
“What if you plan on doing it? But why?”
“If there is, I will. We can’t even guess why, so we’re just sitting around like this.”
It was not good for the lord to monopolize a specific product.
The most important thing for a lord is the stability of the territory.
Since it was a detrimental to the stability, there was no choice but to reject it, but the problem was that the power that was leading the work was a church that even the lord himself had no control over.
“Even if you keep asking, the snarky priest doesn’t say anything at all. What the hell are you up to?”
The Overseer, who was following the lord, had the same question.
“If you look at it like that, I think there is something we don’t know. The priest over there is a very bright person, so he’s never going to do anything wrong.”
“I don’t know. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know why.”
Then, with a long sigh, the lord remembered the priest who had visited him before and asked for help.
Why is money so revealing about the subject of a church member who worships God?
If you are a church member, you will live poorly like a member of the church. What is the donation?
I still have a lot of money to spend here and there because of the war that took place near the estate, so why bother?
‘I don’t want to go and do business with him anymore because I’m a person who used to beg him to donate money whenever I had time.’
“Didn’t you run a separate business? secretly from me.”
The Overseer recalled what he had reported to his subordinates and answered them.
“I heard that the church is starting to grow barley and hops from now on.”
“No, you bought it like that, and then you cultivate it again? What kind of beer did that god fascinate you with? It’s usually wine.”
“I don’t know either. I don’t know if it’s even a winery while working on a vineyard. Why do you have to drink beer… … .”
“Are you sure you don’t even want to build a brewery?”
“By the way, I heard about the brewery. It’s not very big, but it seems like they want to spend some money and run a brewery together.”
“What? No, it’s not enough to grow barley and hops. Now to the brewery? What the hell are you up to? Are you planning to make a bunch of beer and sell it?”
“I don’t know that either.”
“by the way. It would take quite a bit of money to build a brewery, but what the hell do you mean? It’s such a snot, but there’s no way a church could have such an emergency fund.”
“I do not know. It’s usually not money, but I’m going to borrow it from Banco… … .”
Loan-related behavior was the most hated thing in the denomination.
Because it had to do with interest, the blasphemy.
“If you think about interest, I don’t think I would have borrowed money from Banco.”
“Then what is it that money fell from the sky? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have built a brewery for free.”
“Not that.”
Overseer Chiron Mark just shook his head with a look of incredulity.
“I do not know. Well, the investigation will continue, but it seems clear that the church is trying to monopolize beer.”
“Do you monopolize beer because there is nothing in the world to do?”
The lord thought for a moment about the monastery in the neighboring estate.
In parishes on the outskirts of the Empire that are struggling financially with small donations and donations from church members, they were running small businesses as self-help measures.
So, there was nothing awkward about starting a business on its own in a church that was in a difficult situation, but it was hard to understand right away that the business was not a winery business, but a beer-related business.
“I would rather have made wine. Wine is already being made in many places.”
That moment.
There was an idea running through the Overseer’s mind.
“Perhaps… … Couldn’t it be because wine didn’t win, so we switched to beer?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Wine, doesn’t it come from somewhere else anyway? The monastery in the neighboring estate has a large vineyard. And I know that the winery attached to it is quite large.”
“therefore?”
“Wine, you can buy it from the neighboring estate, so why not change the sport and go for beer? If it were to produce wine for nothing, it would be new blood compared to the monastery next door, and I would have thought that we should try to compete with beer.”
“Hmm… … .”
It wasn’t a very good answer.
Overseer’s words did not appear to be entirely wrong.
If you started a small business to find a way to make a living in a church that comes to you every day and asks for donations, it was enough for the basic common sense to understand that the business had to be competitive to some extent.
“It’s a church job, so I can’t go and stop it.”
Even a lord like the sky could not dare to act in the realm of God.
The lord, who knew well that they could not easily stop whatever they did, wrinkled his expression.
‘You look like you have opened your eyes and cut your nose.’
Time is ticking my Lord, time is ticking.