Chapter 472: The Joint Council of Bishops

London, Whitehall House, inside the conference hall.

The huge curtains had been pulled up by the servants, and the thin sunlight was struggling to penetrate the brightly colored glass, bringing a little warmth to the gloomy room.

A long table is placed in the center, and the servants carefully arrange a platter of flowers and fruits, which is very pleasing to the eye against the crimson long table.

Hobbes, Archbishop of Edinburgh, was ushered to the conference room by the waiter, and as soon as he looked up, he saw such a bright scene, and a few pots of flowers had been carefully decorated in the room, which made the whole conference room have a touch of warmth.

Seeing this, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded again, and was led to a position before he sat down peacefully.

Then the Archbishop of Wales entered, a chubby old man who seemed very kind.

Hobbes nodded at him, as did the Archbishop of Wales, and the two smiled kindly.

After that, several people came in one after another, all of them were also wearing purple vestments, at the level of archbishop.

The Archbishop of York looked cold, with a look of ignorance.

He was the deputy to the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, who became the head of religion in England after the Archbishop of Canterbury was in charge of religious affairs in the United Kingdom.

Then there is the Archbishop of Dublin, from Ireland, who oversees the religious affairs of the island of Ireland, and his most conspicuous feature is that there is a black mole near his chin, which is extremely conspicuous.

The arrival of the Archbishop of Canterbury brought all the bishops to their feet and saluted, and as the substantive leader of the religion of the whole United Kingdom, he deserves to be done.

The Archbishop of Canterbury also bowed in a friendly manner, showing a hint of a smile, and then sat down on the right hand side of the throne, no longer with an expression on his face.

When everyone had arrived, the servants rushed in and placed a cup of green tea at their table.

If something is good, it will be effective.

His Majesty liked tea, and the nobles and officials liked it overnight, which abruptly made the already expensive tea even more unacceptable.

After seeing the strong demand for tea from the English, tea merchants flocked to the tea and made a lot of profits.

Although the tea changes three times a day, it just tickles the itch of nobles and officials.

The more expensive, the more sought after.

As a result, in less than a few years, the entire upper class of the United Kingdom began to drink tea, and gradually penetrated into the middle class.

Facing the tea on the table, several archbishops tasted it lightly, their eyes lit up, and then after tasting it again, they put it down, closed their eyes, and began to taste the wonders.

"Sure enough, the tea planted by the royal family of the Wang family is more delicious!"

Everyone sighed in unison and sighed with emotion.

As there are only a few hobbies left, His Majesty certainly cannot wipe them out.

After buying a few packets of Chinese tea seeds, I chose a few misty alpine and hilly areas and cultivated them carefully for several years.

Finally, three years ago, tea varieties suitable for the English region were cultivated, and then the cultivation area was slowly expanded.

By this year, the royal family's tea tree area has reached 2,000 acres, and 200,000 pounds of ordinary tea are harvested every year, of which only more than 5,000 pounds of high-grade tea are produced every year, and only about 50 pounds of excellent tea are produced.

Just after the spring of this year, the Royal Tea Garden officially launched the White Rose series of teas, which turned out to be very popular in the market.

Over the years, the tea drinking habit that has been cultivated is conservatively estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire United Kingdom.

And these people are either merchants or local gentlemen and aristocrats, even if the merchants send a lot, but the high price and small volume of goods make it impossible to meet the needs of many people.

The 200,000 pounds of tea pushed out by the royal family, at a price of ten pounds per pound, were sold out in less than a month.

Most of them were bought by the English, and the rest were bought by merchants and sold on the continent of Europa.

Tea alone brought the royal family two million pounds, which is the income of the royal family for three years in a normal year.

As a result, His Majesty became more enthusiastic about cultivating a nationwide tea-drinking movement and vigorously expanded tea plantations.

And the aristocracy saw that it was profitable, and began to enter the tea garden industry, and for a time, the tea industry became a hot money-making industry in the United Kingdom.

Ordinary tea was drunk by gentlemen and squires, and high-grade tea was the daily drink of noble officials.

And the best tea, except for the royal family and the nobles who were specifically rewarded, ordinary people really can't drink it.

Off topic.

After the archbishops took the throne, His Majesty the King came belatedly.

"Your Majesty—" Everyone stood up in unison and said respectfully.

Edward glanced at the five of them before nodding and sitting down.

"You should also have received the news that the Council of Trendo, under the auspices of Pius IV, has recently announced that all Protestantism is considered heretical, and that we, the Anglicans, are also part of the Protestant Church, do you have any suggestions?"

His Majesty looked at the United Kingdom's top religious leaders with a blank face and made an important announcement.

When the archbishops heard the news, their faces were not much surprised, and when they heard the words, they all showed a contemplative look.

"Your Majesty, and the other archbishops, I think it is necessary to react to such an act of the Church of Rome!"

Hobbes, the usually indecisive Archbishop of Edinburgh, was the first to speak, and he spoke with great vigour, much to the surprise of everyone, including His Majesty the King.

Then, when you think about his Catholic background and the situation in Scotland, it dawns on everyone.

Scotland was originally in the Catholic camp, and after being unable to submit to the Anglicans, it became the most anti-Roman region in the entire United Kingdom.

For example, after the traitors took refuge in the Japanese invaders, in order to gain trust, they intensified their cruelty to the Chinese people.

Feeling the collective gaze of everyone, Archbishop Hobbes sat down slowly, but his face remained resolute.

Afterwards, the whole room fell silent again, and everyone turned their attention to the seated Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew. Burke.

His Excellency the Archbishop, who was thin and thin, felt the gaze of everyone, and had no choice but to stand up and speak:

"Your Majesty, Bishop Hobbes's opinion is correct, and I support his proposal!"

As he spoke, he looked around and looked at the expressions on the faces of the people, bowed to His Majesty the King again, and continued with a blank face:

"I propose that we, the Anglicans, should unite with the Huguenots in France, the Calvinists in Switzerland, and the Lutherans in Germany to express our dissatisfaction and opposition to the views of the Roman Council."

At the end, he made a deafening sound:

"And, together we will kick the Pope out of the Church!"

Kicking out the papal membership means that Protestantism has truly parted ways with Catholicism from now on.

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I don't understand, why did Chapter 470 block a few short paragraphs, others are more straightforward than me, and it's still good, so someone must have reported it, alas!! Helpless.