"And he worked to eliminate illiteracy. His Lordship had the Holy Temple Research Institute compile the most basic literacy primers and distribute them for free to every village on the Continent. My father often says that even though he was a Mill Master, learning to read as a child was next to impossible. He had to go to the Lord's Secretary just to learn. Now, kids in the village can read and write simple passages by the time they're seven or eight."
Bobby's gaze drifted into the distance, as if lost in memory. "In those years, His Lordship also promoted new farming methods and improved farm tools, causing crop yields to multiply several times over. When I was little, the farmers where I lived often went hungry. But these past few years, every household's grain stores have been full at the end of every year."
"Best of all, he gave people from the lowest rungs of society a chance to change their fate and become great Priests."
