Even various religious orders once served as foundational production units, becoming the backbone of productivity in the Dark Millennium Era.
Everyone here participates in labor together, shares risks, and shares benefits.
It is said that the upper ranks of the Church prohibited clergy from marrying, not for the sake of purity of faith, but simply to prevent property distribution due to marriage.
It was thanks to celibacy that the wealth accumulated by the Church could be concentrated rather than dispersed, passed down from generation to generation without vanishing.
Squeak! Squeak!...
In the courtyard, there are dozens of women, each with a spinning machine in front of them, turning processed flax fibers into strands of yarn.
Although they've lived here for more than a year and their spinning skills are quite adept, they are limited by outdated tools, capable of spinning only one thread at a time.
There's still a significant distance before the spinning machine reform.
