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In Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, although the Black Wizard Alliance was jointly suppressed by the White Wizard Alliance, in fact, their strength was not really lost, these bastards became more and more morale on the contrary, and they organized a powerful puppet fortress.

Inside the puppet keep, all of them are die-hard supporters of the Black Wizards Alliance.

Tang Zhaozong personally went to see this puppet fort, and the spare puppets in it were numb one by one, as if they no longer cared about their future fate.

Inside the puppet keep, all are male black-clad wizards.

Tang Zhaozong was a little strange, and he asked the male black-clothed wizard who accompanied him, "What about those witches?" ”

The black-clothed wizard who accompanied him said, "Those hooves are not strong enough, and they only accompany the periphery to fight the white-clothed wizards. ”

When Francis reached the age of twenty-one, the dean suggested that a new position be created for him: assistant vice president. But the suggestion provoked a crisis. Francis begged forgiveness for not being able to take on this responsibility and, while in office, asked to leave the convent. He wanted to be appointed as a priest to serve God in the outer world.

Philip was shocked and frightened. He had never imagined that one of them would leave the convent, and now he felt as embarrassed as he had heard that he was the crown prince. However, after much effort, Francis actually left the convent and entered the worldly world, and soon became the personal priest of the Earl of Gloucester.

Until then, Philip had seen a simple vision, even if he occasionally thought about his future: he was going to become a monk, living a simple and obedient life, and in old age, perhaps an abbot, trying to live up to the example Peter had set for him. Now he didn't know if God intended a different fate for him. He remembered the wise man's proverb: God expects His servants to expand His Kingdom, not just to maintain the status quo. He was honestly afraid to share this thought with Dean Peter, knowing full well that he was risking being reprimanded for his forgetfulness of pride.

To his surprise, the dean said, "I've been wondering how long it will take you to figure this out." Of course, you're destined to do something else. Born in the vision of a monastery, orphaned at the age of six, raised by a monk, and enlisted as a minister at the age of twenty-one—God would not have been so concerned about his upbringing for a man who was prepared to spend his life in a small monastery on top of a bleak mountain in the middle of nowhere. Heaven and earth are too small for you here. You're getting out of here. ”

Philip was almost overwhelmed after hearing this, but before leaving the abbot, a question suddenly occurred to him and blurted out, "If this abbey is so inconsequential, why did God put you here?" ”

Dean Peter smiled slightly. "Probably to take care of you."

Later that year, the Abbot went to Canterbury to visit the Archbishop, and when he returned, he said to Philip: "I have transferred you to Kingbridge Abbey as Vice-Chancellor." ”

Philip was stunned. One of the largest and most important monasteries in the country, the Monastery of Wangqiao is a convent attached to a cathedral, the first of which is an archbishop. Theoretically, the archbishop is the abbot of the monastery, but in practice the monastery is governed by his deputy.

"Vice Dean James is an old friend," Dean Peter told Philip, "and in recent years he has become very aggrieved, and I don't know how. In any case, Wang Qiao needs young blood. In particular, there was some contradiction between James and one of his affiliated abbeys, which was in a small place in the forest, and he urgently needed a completely reliable person to take over the annex and lead it back to the sacred path. ”

"So I'm going to be the abbot of the attached monastery?" Philip said in surprise.

The dean nodded. "If we think right, God has a lot of things for you to do, and we can expect Him to help you with any problems you may have with this attached monastery."

"What if we're wrong?"

"You can always come back here and be my secretary. We're not wrong, though, my child; You'll see. ”

He said goodbye with tears in his eyes. He had spent seventeen years here, and the monks were members of his family, who were now more real to him than his parents, who had been savagely robbed of their lives. He might never see these monks again, and he was very sad.

Wang Qiao frightened him at first. The monastery, enclosed by a wall, is larger than many villages; The cathedral is a large, dark cavern; The vice-president's residence was a small palace. But as soon as he got accustomed to the grandeur of the place, he saw the signs of demeanour that Dean Peter had noticed in his old friend, Vice Dean James. It was clear at a glance that the church was in need of major repairs. Prayers are spoken in a hurry; The rule of silence is often broken; And there were so many servants that there were more than monks. Philip quickly passed the shock phase and became angry. He really wanted to choke Vice Dean James by the neck, shook him and said, "How dare you do this? How dare you pray hastily to God? How dare you acquiesce to the friar's dice and let the monk have a dog? How dare you live in a palace surrounded by servants and let the church for God collapse? Of course, he didn't say a word of that. He had a brief but formal meeting with Vice President James, a tall, thin, hunched man, as if the world's troubles weighed heavily on his round shoulders. He then spoke with Remigius, assistant to the deputy dean. At the beginning of the conversation, Philip hinted that he thought that the deputy dean might have wanted to make a change a long time ago, and hoped that his deputy would be fully supportive; But Remigius didn't take Philip seriously, as if he wanted to say what kind of person do you think you are? That changed the subject.

Remigius said that the convent of St. John in the woods, which had been built more than three years ago, had land and property, and should have been self-sufficient by now, but in fact it still had to rely on the main convent to provide everything. There are other problems: a sub-priest who happened to spend the night there criticized the manner of the liturgy; Passers-by asserted that they had been plundered by monks in that area; There are also rumors of wrongdoing...... The fact that Remigius was unable or unwilling to lay out the specifics is another illustration of how lazy the entire management system is. Philip left trembling with rage. Monasteries are supposed to glorify God, and if they can't, they're nothing. The King's Bridge Monastery is simply worse than nothing. It blasphemed God with its laziness. But Philip couldn't do anything about it. All he could hope for was to reform one of the annexed monasteries of Wangqiao.

(End of chapter)

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