Chapter 71, Temple Priests
The deal between White Rat and Rat Zhan was conveyed in the mouth of the rat priest who was running back and forth. Rat Zhan did not immediately return to the barren mountains, but hesitantly wandered in the lush forest.
It is true that he is smart and sure that the white rat will not kill him directly, but the rat Zhan's careful choice proves that this is not absolute.
He was still afraid of his old boss, that crazy and scary old white rat.
It was not until the rat priests who were running back and forth kept passing on the news that it was confirmed that the two parties had reached a deal.
Faced with such a generous offer, even if Shu Zhan felt that something was a little wrong, after thinking about it, it seemed that there was no harm to him at all, so he was naturally accepted.
And during the back-and-forth negotiation process, Shu Zhan gradually felt relieved and became bolder.
Finally, the rat expeditionary force, which had been wandering in the forest for several days, returned to their base camp.
This difficult expedition came to an end.
Moreover, the return of the expeditionary force did not even cause huge fluctuations among the rat people. At this point in time, all qualified rat people have set their goals on a more important matter.
The temple priesthood that is about to be established.
As the rules were constantly revealed by the White Rat, all the rat priests who felt they were qualified rushed back from all directions and crowded towards the temple dedicated to the gods.
Because not long after, after being handed over the artifact in his hand by Shu Zhan, the favored one by the gods, Bai Shu will officially start to select the members of the temple priest group.
Even Rat Zhan simply stayed in the fortress at the entrance of the desolate mountain range for a few days.
After thoroughly understanding what the White Rat was up to recently, he left the army in his hands without hesitation and hurriedly embarked on the journey with the newly appointed rat warlords.
Running along the tunnel dug out of the mountain range towards the underground city deep in the barren mountain range where the Rat Man Temple is located.
Rat Zhan now wants to see White Rat. He wants to confirm the promise conveyed by the priest. It is urgent and important!
After the defeat of the lizardmen in the first divine war, as large areas of the forest were occupied by the ratmen, the number of the ratmen also expanded rapidly.
From the rich supply of resources in the forest, the rat people have almost overflowing resources.
A large number of young rat men were born, and they were quickly filled into the ranks of slave rats and rat warriors. Of course, most of the young rat men were actually filled into the ranks of slave rats.
The rat priests were also born from rat warriors and slave rats.
In a very short period of time, Du Yuan's rat tribe expanded like a balloon.
brought many problems.
Just like the rat army, even Good Eyes has made certain changes to the spear rat model.
But it didn't actually bring about much change.
It's just that he used to follow the Spear Rat as the team leader, and now he is followed by the Skaven Warlord.
Only the name has been changed, but the resource allocation model has not changed.
In the past, the rat army had a small number of people, so it was easy for the squad leader to be killed in Wuyangyang's charge.
Even if most of the blood mushrooms sent over were still eaten by the spear rats, the dead team captains would always be selected.
No matter how many blood mushrooms there are, they will leak from the spear rats into the rat army, and all the rat warriors can see them.
But now that the size of the rat army has expanded dramatically, the rat warlords have gradually stopped setting foot on the battlefield, but all the blood mushrooms are still eaten by good eyes and warlords.
Even if there are more and more blood mushrooms sent by the priests, the rat warlords will still be used to leaking some blood mushrooms.
But most of the rat warriors never saw blood mushrooms again.
This resulted in the increasingly large rat-man army becoming increasingly less effective in the hands of Good Eyes.
This problem was not solved until the white rat became suspicious and dissatisfied with the good eyes, and then after the rat war airborne, and when the rat war attacked the rat warlord.
The problems that arise in the Skaven Army are only a microcosm of the problems in the entire Skaven Kingdom.
Yes, the current number and scale of the Skaven are enough to be considered a kingdom.
The rapidly expanding scale has almost overwhelmed some of the structures from the previous Skaven tribe period.
In addition to the rat army, which had become increasingly low in combat effectiveness, there were also the rat priests who had a terrifying surplus, were numerous and had nothing to do.
Compared to the group of cheap guys like the rat warriors who just add more after they die, the rat priests are mainly responsible for the management and maintenance of all parts of the rat kingdom.
For example, most of the rat priests born from slave rats will eventually become the commanders of slave rats, and appear in the development and construction of underground cities, the excavation of mountain tunnels, the maintenance of mushroom cultivation rooms, and the supervision of the breeding of young rat men. Even sending the young ratman to the battlefield.
All in all, you will find an embarrassing problem.
Yes, almost all internal affairs are maintained by rat priests who were born from slave rats.
So what about those priests who were born from rat warriors, or simply those guys who admired the greatness of the gods when they were young rat men and transformed into rat warrior priests?
Those guys, those guys are enjoying themselves.
As a group of excellent rat priests with no flaws and no big claws on their hands, they naturally discriminate against their colleagues who were born from slave rats.
So naturally all those complicated matters were left to those colleagues they felt were despicable.
But more than 80% of the resources flowing to the rat priests went into the hands of these guys, because a series of the most critical matters such as the management of the blood lake, the maintenance of the temple, and sacrifices were firmly held by them. master.
If you are a priest who has been awakened since you were a young ratman, then even if you do nothing, you will still get a lot of resources.
Blood mushrooms will be delivered to your door.
The awakened rat priests among the rat warriors are all inferior.
The only hard requirement of this group of guys is to remain loyal to Du Yuan, but obviously, doing nothing and gradually dragging down logistics with the accumulation of numbers have made many things a mess.
Du Yuan has been having a huge headache just sorting out the rat people's logistics recently. The power of faith they contribute is not much more than that of the big-claw priests who do the dirty work.
It can be said that except for the still-expanding population of the rapidly expanding Ratman Empire, everything else is in chaos.
The reason why it still maintains its current stability and does not collapse suddenly is because the group of discriminated Big Claw priests are still maintaining it.
Second, and most importantly, the existence of white rats.