Chapter 376: Money and the Source of War
The hurricane of the Reformation swept over the land in an instant, and the Holy See didn't even have time to react effectively, and this huge organization was now corrupted by money and full of holes, like a crumbling building, which would collapse if anyone pushed it.
The words of the Bible penetrate deep into everyone's heart, and Father Martin Luther successfully sowed the seeds of hope in his own way, with the help of Eugen.
The Holy See is over, the Pope is over, the authority of the past will no longer exist, and this is a painful blow to all those in power in the Church.
In this case, the Pope and the big people of the Holy See urgently needed an outlet to vent their anger and deter the congregation who were about to move, so they set their sights on Eugen.
To be precise, it is the junction of the Eugen and Wittelsbach families.
At the moment, the war between these two huge powers can be said to be imminent, and the Holy See sees this opportunity, they want to take revenge, and in the eyes of the Pope, Eugen is no longer a servant of that loyal God, but a shameful traitor, a Judas.
They had helped Eugen so much, but now Eugen had actually hit them back and dealt them a fatal blow in their most vulnerable place.
The Pope himself is a believer in God, a devout servant of God, and a willingness to help those whom God favors.
But this does not mean that he does not have his own selfish desires, in fact, in the papal wealth system, the most benefited is the pope, in this position, he is the emperor of the whole Christianity, with supreme authority and huge interests.
And now, because of Eugen, all of this is about to disappear.
How could the Pope not be angry, not to mention, there were cardinals in Count Mead's family at the side, and under a variety of factors, the Pope finally did not hesitate and launched the Church War against Eugen.
At the first time, Cardinal Mordesal, who used to be close to Eugen, was controlled, he was a student of the Pope, but at this moment the Pope was already carried away by anger, and he did not listen to Cardinal Mordessal's words at all.
Cardinal Mordesal wanted to persuade the Pope to resolve the issue with Eugen in a more amicable way, so that at least the damage could be minimized.
He was completely thinking about the Holy See and the Pope, because he had been in contact with Eugen, so Modesal knew very well how terrible Eugen was, and it was absolutely unwise to be an enemy of such a person.
What's more, Eugen now has the support of the royal family, and is the son-in-law of Princess Maria, the future prince appointed by Charles VI, such a figure should not be too stiff with him no matter what.
But the Pope did not want to listen to Mordessal's opinion at all, and he even had Mordesar tied up and imprisoned in the dungeons of the Holy See.
In this way, seeing that even his own pro-student, the next Pope Mordesal, was imprisoned, the other cardinals naturally did not dare to have any objections, so the huge machine of the church was completely mobilized, and the forces of Eugen began to accumulate strength, ready to deliver a fatal blow.
It has to be said that being able to entrench on the European continent for thousands of years, the power of the Holy See naturally has its own uniqueness.
Over the years, although the strength of the Church has been weakened, they are still able to raise nearly 50,000 Church troops to wage war at this moment.
Although these troops have not undergone any formal training, their combat effectiveness is quite not weak, after all, they are all some crazy people who have been brainwashed by faith.
Soldiers like this are extremely terrible when they go to the battlefield, and many well-trained troops are reluctant to fight against the church army, because they are afraid of that kind of deadly way of fighting.
The 50,000 Church troops, plus 40,000 Wittelsbach troops, nearly 100,000 troops, began to invade Eugen's territory from the west, and a great war was imminent.
For their part, the church directly declared that Eugen was a heretic, and that they were coming to cleanse the city of Leber, bring the glory of the Lord here, and erase the sinister world from it.
The Wittelsbach family was in the interest of maintaining business order, believing that Eugen's actions were disrupting the domestic market, teaching everyone a painful lesson, and possibly even causing famine, so they launched such a war to stop Eugen.
The reasons for both sides are such high-sounding, and in the end, the essence is really the same, but it's just about money.
The Wittelsbach family is for the commercial interests of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Holy See is for the interests of the Church, and Eugen has moved these two cakes, and they will solve it through war.
At the end of the day, it's just a matter of who has the bigger fist.
Of course, Eugen can't back down, and he can't back down, and now the city of Lebber has reached a critical period of development, like standing on the edge of a cliff, either jumping out and soaring into the air, or falling to the ground and shattering into powder.
At this life-and-death juncture, even rabbits know how to resist, not to mention that Eugen is still a dragon.
His Lebor City, his Dragon City, is no longer the fledgling little cub he was at the beginning.
At present, the city of Lebber is strongly industrialized, and its strength is incomparable.
The current city of Lybor is like an angry dragon with teeth and claws, spewing terrifying flames from its mouth, and rumbling thunder when its eyes are stared.
And most importantly, his enemies, it is not at all clear how powerful Eugen is now, they are too underestimated.
However, this cannot be blamed on the Duke of Lorraine and His Excellency the Pope, in fact, in this battle, everyone was optimistic about the city of Leber.
In any case, the time of the establishment of Lybor City is too short, and Eugen has only been the lord of Liber City for only a year.
In just one year, no matter how strong the lord is, how much can a city change?
Therefore, if this is a gambling battle, I am afraid that everyone will bet their chips on the side of the Wittelsbach family and the Holy See, this time, the odds between the two sides are very different, the Wittelsbach family and the Holy See are less than 0.1, and the odds of Lebor City are more than 100.
Not only passers-by who don't know why, but also Charles VI, a supporter of Eugen, are also very unoptimistic about Eugen.
Before the outbreak of the war, Charles VI declared it in the name of the emperor, demanding that the war be stopped immediately.
It is a pity that the Habsburgs are now weak, and Vienna has just tried its best to survive the big war and has not yet taken a breather, so this kind of deterrence of the imperial family only has some symbolic meaning, but not much substantive significance.
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