Zhou Xu was not surprised that the Faith Power had barely increased despite absorbing nearly a million goblins. In fact, he had expected it long ago.
He was considering another problem now.
The State Religion needed funding to preach throughout the various regions, build churches, and hold activities. In fact, it needed quite a lot of funding.
The results in the new district were clearly poor, and that was related to the goblins' innate nature. It was not something that could easily be changed.
After all, as the old saying went, rivers and mountains were easy to change, but one's nature was hard to alter.
Although the State Religion had also had the Propaganda Department promote the various benefits of believing in the Emperor,
the goblins simply did not believe it. They thought it was a scam.
If they wanted the goblins to believe that loyalty to and faith in the Emperor could keep them healthy and prolong their lives, they could only rely on time.
Even if the goblins realized this and then pretended to go to church activities, shouting, "Praise the Emperor!" at the tops of their voices, it would still be useless.
The effect of Zhou Xu's Evolutionary Leader struck directly at the heart. Pretended loyalty was completely useless.
Under this premise, it was also a passive effect. Even if Zhou Xu wanted to grant it, he had no way to do so.
Taking all these factors into account, Zhou Xu was considering whether to simply reduce the preaching budget here. Since the results were poor either way, cutting the preaching budget would at least save a sum of fiscal expenditure that could be used elsewhere.
Of course, that did not mean the State Religion would abandon the new district.
They would just reduce the scale, cut