Chapter 97: God’s Difference
There were both good news and bad news at this Narukami Festival. The good news was that the Banquet of the Seven Gods had just passed, so those guys in the Dark Sea were all very quiet and no god dared to show up.
The bad news is that there is not enough funding this year.
Uh~During the Banquet of the Seven Gods, Inazuma purchased a large amount of supplies and military supplies from other countries, and allocated billions of Mora to the scholars' affairs a few months ago.
As a result, the shogunate's finances, which were not very wealthy to begin with, were naturally made worse, resulting in a shortage of funds this year.
"So many of this year's festival costumes may not be up to standard? That won't do..." Ren Lian Lingyi felt helpless as he looked at the officials in charge of the costumes for the Naruto Grand Festival.
"I wonder if it's okay to use costumes from previous years." Ren Lian Lingyi asked carefully.
"No, how can such a grand festival be treated so carelessly?" The official refused bluntly. Even Ren Lian Lingyi brought up Inazuma and Ming Shen, but failed to make this guy change his mind.
And this guy looked like he would kill himself if he put on a festival costume.
"How big is the gap this year?" Ren Lian Lingyi was at a loss.
Fortunately , the gap is not big, and it is only on the clothing side.
"The gap is 300 million Mora, but we also know that the shogunate is short of funds now, so we don't want labor costs, so there is still a shortage of 230 million Mora." said the official.
"We didn't quote a random price. The ingredients used in the Narukami Festival are top-notch, and the quantity used is very large. These all require a large amount of Mora."
Ren Lian Lingyi clenched his teeth and pondered for a while. This was really a lot. The shogunate's annual Mora income was only a few hundred billion Mora. It was a bit difficult to ask the shogunate to come up with so much Mora at once. The main reason was that they spent a lot. In fact, the shogunate had no shortage of other resources.
Ren Lian Lingyi counted his assets and asked, "Is time tight?"
"It's quite tight. Although we have enough craftsmen, it still takes a month to prepare," said the official.
"Let's do it on credit first. I'll go and solve the funding problem." Ren Lian Lingyi said and went home.
He hasn't done much of his job recently. Like Kitsusaigumi, he has been forced to do various odd jobs. If Kichiyo hadn't just returned and wasn't aware of the situation in the country, he probably wouldn't be able to rest in peace.
Even in the semi-vacation state, Chiyoko Kiyoshi also has the part-time task of appeasing Ying Xiangshan and the monsters in various places.
Not to mention the three magistrates, they are even busier recently. Among them, Renlian Lingyi's old friend, Tenryo Magistrate and Sha Magistrate, the two old family heads have recently submitted retirement applications to Ming Shen because of too much work and lack of energy.
Ming Shen naturally did not let them go, and told them to retire after they finished their work.
Ren Lian Lingyi said that he was going to solve the funding problem, so he really was going to solve the funding problem.
He planned to withdraw a sum of funds from his own shrine.
As the manager of Renlian Island, which is one of the richest places in Inazuma, Renlian Lingyi has made a lot of money in the past few decades. Let me put it this way, the largest land on the island belongs to the shrine, the most powerful farmer belongs to the shrine, and the largest restaurant is also secretly controlled by the shrine.
The most powerful local families are loyal supporters of the shrine.
Although it is impossible to take out hundreds of billions of Mora from decades of accumulation, the shrine still has tens of billions of Mora.
After a remote discussion with Ren Lian Xingzi at the signal tower, Ren Lian Lingyi decided to donate it to the shogunate, but this had to be done through public accounts, so Ren Lian Lingyi asked Ren Lian Xingzi to come early to the Narukami Festival and escort these Moras over.
Then he passed the Narujin Taisha Shrine, became a shrine magistrate, and finally entered the shogunate.
Ren Lian Lingyi also believed that no one would dare to touch the money at this critical juncture. There are still relatively few stupid people in this world. Not to mention that Ming Shen had just finished a severe crackdown and the self-correction and self-examination among the Three Magistrates had not yet passed, just the purpose of this batch of Mora, anyone with a little knowledge would not dare to touch it.
The fact was just as Ren Lian Lingyi had expected, the money easily solved the problem of not having enough Mora.
By the way, there were still several million Moras left, which were finally used by Ren Lian Lingyi to entertain the scholars from Xumi. These scholars had already completed the preliminary preparations, but were finally stopped by the people from the shogunate, who told them to first participate in the Narukami Festival and feel the festive atmosphere of Inazuma before continuing their work.
Otherwise, both the local guides in Inazuma and the samurai who guard them will be unhappy.
The scholars who were afraid of the pirates and monsters all over Inazuma naturally did not dare to say anything. The ship transporting them encountered three pirate attacks on the way. It was really bad luck for them as they happened to encounter the pirate refresh period.
In this atmosphere, Inazuma successfully welcomed the Narukami Festival for the 1,400th time in recorded history.
It was a rare occasion that Narukami Raiden personally participated in the entire Narukami Festival. Since the big boss personally participated, the other guys naturally couldn't escape either. Lord Kitsunesai personally served as the attendant shrine maiden, and Kidichiyo followed closely behind as the attendant general.
Behind these two big men was the attendant recorder Ren Lingyi who recorded Ming Shen's every word and action. However, this beast who didn't need a pen to write was even in the mood to etch a few pictures with lightning to record this lively scene.
Then came the other attendants. Anko Hattori also appeared as an attendant shrine maiden behind Kitsusai-guni. Behind the attendant shrine maidens were a group of samurai generals. Behind the samurai generals were the Okuji-shu, all of whom had God's Eyes with thunder attribute. The sense of oppression given by the appearance of these Okuji-shu together was very strong. Behind the Okuji-shu were ordinary hatamoto samurai of the Tenryo Bugyo, many of whom also had God's Eyes.
Among the Inazuma high-ranking officials this time, except for the three magistrates who did not have to attend the Naruto Festival, only Lord Kage, who was a hidden warrior, did not participate in this event.
Now she is still working, hiding in the dark, and will eliminate all things and people that may threaten the Narukami Festival.
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In Inazuma Castle, several scholars were followed by several warriors. They were the leaders of the Sumeru scholars this time, namely Sumeru scholar Bayi, Sumeru scholar Dainong and Andre, an international student from Mond.
"Is this the legendary General Thunder? He is indeed very different from my god, the Great Compassionate Tree King. He is really... too majestic."
"I thought all gods were as gentle and kind as our Great Kind Tree King."
"These people are very serious. They look a bit scary."
"I really envy those of you who can see your own gods..."
"Don't be too pessimistic, my friend Mond. I heard from the Great Sage that we met the Wind God Barbatos at the last Seven Gods Banquet, didn't we?"
"After the banquet, the Grand Master could no longer find him."
"Haha, you are worthy of being the God of Mondstadt. Ah, sorry... My condolences, Andre."
