Among the aristocracy were various artists, families, and scientists.

They have received a rigorous education since childhood, and have been detached from the needs of manual labor and food and clothing, and have more opportunities and interests to engage in various mental activities than civilians.

But if you equate high artistic activity with material pursuits, then it is indeed vulgar in the eyes of some who stand at the top of the pyramid.

Apparently Sean is also quite a cheesy person, and he finds a writer to ghostwrite, just to bring the goods. Sean's confession is hopeless and vulgar in Elizabeth's eyes.

However, Sean still sympathized with the princess who was still too naïve, because at the royal banquet just now, he learned that Carlos II was facilitating her marriage to the young son of Duke Darnell.

It's a marriage of politics and money.

On February 8, 1834, Europa's Fifth Reich convened a meeting of dignitaries at the Grand Theater of the Holy City.

The 321 delegates were among the most powerful people in the empire, who controlled the country through their family children, including those they supported, and in essence, they ruled the country together with the royal family.

Carlos II personally attended and delivered a speech, emphasizing the legitimacy and authority of his rule, calling on all his subjects to overcome the difficulties and take decisive measures to defeat the foreign invasion and restore peace and contentment.

He said: In the face of domestic and foreign difficulties, it is necessary and important to rectify the financial order, and he believes that this is the only way to restore glory.

Incidentally, he also threatens all the delegates that if the empire collapses, they will have no good fruit to eat, because their enemies are foreign and even fish demons, bloodthirsty and blood warriors, and barbarians, and these opponents will not share power with them.

Carlos II, after making a fiery proclamation, left the scene, and the meeting was presided over by Duke Herman.

The first item of the meeting was for the first time that the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Cabinet, would report to the public on the actual state of the country's finances.

In the past, the state of finances was a "state secret", and ministers would never tell the public how big the financial hole was, let alone where the money went.

Everyone knew that the country's finances had long been bankrupt, but after Prime Minister Karon's report, the scene was silent for a while.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

By the end of 1833, the state owed the Church and the bank a total of 120,000,000,000 loans, which were the result of a donation of 50,000,000 by the Church and an unexpected overpayment of 10,000,000 taxes by Genoa, and the interest alone was a heavy burden.

In addition, the war continued, and at least 20 million worth of supplies were to be provided to the northern front every month, and the navy needed to spend at least 8 million gold louis per month, which was only due to the additional expenses of the war, and the daily military expenses were not counted.

State borrowing and war spending alone crushed the finances.

All in all, if you don't find a way to increase taxes, the country will collapse immediately. Carlos II seemed to be in ruin, and he simply told his subjects the truth, putting everyone at risk.

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were immediately and mercilessly attacked by the delegates at the meeting, especially those from the far north, whose hometowns were facing major tests and could fall into the hands of rivals at any time. As a result, they believe that the Cabinet is run by a group of incompetent people, and that the Cabinet is to blame for the mess.

There were even people who circulated documents that were very unfavorable to the ministers, and almost all of these robed nobles (high-ranking civil officials) made their fortunes because of their positions.

There was condemnation inside the venue, and there were also people who cared about the meeting outside the venue.

At first reporters from the various newspapers in the holy cities and Gyeonggi, then scholars who were concerned about current affairs, then businessmen and industry were concerned about their own interests, and finally ordinary citizens and craftsmen gathered here, because they heard rumors that the empire would impose war taxes on those who had no savings, which undoubtedly made their already struggling lives worse.

The police brandished whips and tried to disperse the crowd, but the crowd gathered more and more.

In the crowd, several gunshots suddenly rang out at the same time, and some people fell in pain in a pool of blood.

The bloodshed happened unexpectedly, which caused a mess. People thought it was the police who opened fire, pushed each other, trampled on each other, and caused more casualties.

Although Carlos II was not present, he kept a close eye on the meeting itself, and when he heard an accident outside the venue, he immediately sent the royal guard to maintain order and ordered the Quds Police Department to find out the truth.

Yet none of the police fired a shot. Public opinion pointed the finger at the police, on the grounds that based on their poor law enforcement record in the past, the police must have fired the shots.

In an attempt to quell public outrage, the chief of the Quds Police Department was dismissed.

The dignitaries are still bickering, and they find that simply getting the Prime Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer to resign will not solve anything, and instead there will be a heated debate over the scope and details of the levy. They were divided, and the contradictions between the big nobles and the small nobles, between the aristocracy and the financial capital, industrial and commercial capital, were exposed one by one.

At this time, the church came to the fore.

The Pope of God, Rodriguez, personally brought nearly 1,000 priests to the Holy City Theater for a religious ceremony, because he learned that the aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie wanted to follow the example of the Cult of God and confiscate the property of the Church of God in the name of the state—if not all of them, but also impose heavy taxes.

It doesn't matter if you have leprosy on your head, as long as it grows on someone else's head. That's what a significant part of the delegates thought.

At this time, a series of scandals within the church seemed to be scheduled, filling the most important pages of some of the most important newspapers supported by the royal family and the cabinet.

Of particular note is the fact that for the first time in the past five years, a large number of cases of unidentified disappearances of children in Al-Quds and Gyeonggi have been made public.

This news was previously circulated only on a small scale, but now that its truth has been made public, the public is extremely shocked and terrified.

The horror and evil of the bloodthirsty have long been exaggerated by religion and officials for thousands of years, and have become the source of the greatest fear of the people.

It has risen to the level of an instinctive resistance of civilization and soul among the people.

However, the role played by the Church of God in the case of missing children has greatly diminished the sacred status of the Religion in the hearts of the people for a while.

Rodriguez was disgraced because he had already paid a great deal of money for it in the second half of last year in exchange for the emperor and the secret police to keep it a secret.

Apparently it was the emperor's instigation that made this secret widely known, and it was almost like using the Cult of God as a cash chest. This time, I'm afraid I'm going to have my eyes on the church's cash drawer again.

It was at this time that Carlos II met publicly with His Majesty the Pope of the Orthothetic Church, His Majesty Eusef Lombardi, and praised Lombardi as a man of great learning and noble sentiments, praised the noble deeds of the Eutheistic priests who made the Gospel known as their home and lived in the Gospel, and called on people of all religions to learn from the Eutheistic Church.

Carlos II's tactics were so clever that Pope Rodriguez had to bow his head. The Pope sent his assistant to visit Duke Hermann, who was presiding over the Council of Dignitaries, to find some kind of compromise.

The church's compromise, or temporary bowing, was not enough to keep the meeting going.

The church is the primary political power in society, and in the eyes of some it is the most disgusting one. The church trusts in tradition, that is, is based on hierarchy, and liberals despise this tradition and want to break it.

The Church has never been politically neutral, as it has professedly professed. On the contrary, the Church is involved in political power, and this engagement is itself far removed from the mission and nature of the Church, which condemns sin, turns its head and makes the sin of political power more sacral, and uses its own sacred cloak as a cover for sin.

Since the wars of religion, non-religious tendencies have gradually become mainstream, although in some places religion still has a group of fanatics.

When Carlos II secretly led the people to hate the Church, the passion of the people was ignited, especially when the 300-year-old Cathedral of the Holy City was set on fire by the enraged populace after some dangerous elements were mixed in.

Standing on the golden roof of the Royal Palace, Carlos II could see the ruins of the church, which is said to weigh a ton of gold melted down by fire alone to decorate it.

He realized that he seemed to be doing something wrong.

The people can only be enslaved, not instigated. This incited power made him feel an inexplicable fear.

Colonel Joseph Frank was on his side. Obviously, including the shooting that took place outside the venue on the first day of the dignitary meeting, there must have been a secret conspiracy of traitors.

As the chief of the secret police, Colonel Frank was trained by the emperor for a full hour. He had to promise that he would get the traitors out of hiding and hang them in public.

When he left the palace, Colonel Frank realized that his back was soaked, and when the cold wind blew, he couldn't help but shiver.

"Stop!" Frank commanded. He saw Sean strolling down the street with a few men.

"Sean!" Frank shouted.

Sean was stunned when he heard the voice, so he had to walk to the Frankish carriage: "Hello, Colonel!"

"Congratulations, Lord Earl. Frank said with a smile as he tried to make himself more relatable.

"No, no, you can just call me Sean. "Sean didn't dare to put on a show in front of the colonel.

"What did you think of my proposal last time?" asked Frank.

"Well...... Sean was visibly stunned.

He remembers, of course, that when he was at Fort Partenham, Colonel Frank invited him to join the "Honorary Officers' Corps" in person. Out of an abundance of caution, Sean did not answer directly at the time. Once again, Franck brought up the old story, obviously with a somewhat different attitude than the last time.

even made Sean feel that if his answer was not satisfactory to him, he might be able to get into his little black book.