The dominance of the Church on the Main Road is deep-rooted, but there are always some powerful countries that want to rebel against the rule of the Church.

In fact, the military power of the Church was not very strong, and with the exception of some guards and the Knights Templar, there was no army directly under the control of the Church.

However, their financial resources and prestige among the lower nobles and residents are indeed not to be underestimated, and those low-level nobles have no knowledge, and all they see is limited to the palm-sized places around the territory, except for attending a few banquets, being crowned by them and wars, and literacy, which is almost no different from those old peasants in the countryside.

How can the petty nobles be expected to see the evils of the church and resist the church together?

For a long time, the occasional resistance to the church was made by the knowledgeable top nobles, while more of the nobles chose to cooperate with the church to the detriment of the interests of the lower nobles and serfs to consolidate their position.

This is not the case in the Kingdom of Tskema, otherwise, where did the church get so much land, and wasn't it all the nobles who died in order to get a good reputation, and their souls were able to ascend to heaven and give a part of the land to the church?

It has to be said that now the authority of the church has begun to shrink a little, and I think that the church had the right to issue indulgences in many countries.

But now, there are only a few countries that can get them to issue indulgences, and even those who want to issue indulgences in countries like the Kingdom of Tskema, which is not a top-level kingdom, have encountered such resistance, which shows that the authority of the church has been reduced.

The reason for this is the slow rise of the productive forces of various countries, which has given the nobles and the royal family the courage to dare to argue with the church.

The deeper reason was the obstruction of the Church in the Empire of Rodland, the Emperor of the Empire, known as the Emperor of the Blood, Grein. After defeating the other electors, Franz quickly purged all opposition forces in the country with brutal methods, and used strong military strength and brutal and bloody means to make the other four electors submit, turning the inheritance law of the empire into the hereditary family of Franz.

He is a very possessive and controlling person, and his methods are extremely bloody and cruel, otherwise he would not have won the title of Bloody Emperor.

In addition to the purge of the electors at home, he also attacked those nobles who were too powerful, causing them to suffer huge losses, and used strong means to force some of the minor nobles to give up their territories and join the imperial army to serve as officers, and those big nobles were also canceled from tax exemptions and legislative privileges, and all these rights were taken back from their hands.

Of course, this made the Rodlan Empire complain, but he had cultivated another interest group for so many years, and he used his own interest group to replace the noble forces that opposed him with a new nobleman.

In addition, the privileges of the Church in the Empire of Rodland were also abolished, first the tithes were abolished, and then all church property was forced to pay taxes according to the tax rate, the privileges of the monks were abolished, and a lot of church property was confiscated, which made the church very unhappy.

They also tried to incite a rebellion among the people of the empire, but the emperor quickly suppressed it, and issued a series of decrees to benefit the people, quickly gaining the support of the people.

In this way, almost all the people of the empire supported the rule of Emperor Greine.

And although the church is unwilling, it is only verbally condemning, after all, the integrated Rodland Empire is no longer the scattered sand it used to be, if the church does not mobilize more than three or four kingdoms of troops, it will not even be able to help the Rodland Empire.

In this way, the Church and the Empire came into conflict, and the prestige of the Church was greatly diminished, and many countries were not as obedient as they used to be.

And this time, it can be regarded as a reason, the Church can finally shake its prestige, and Pope Ubander II will take this opportunity to re-establish the prestige of the Church and let everyone see the appeal of the Church.

At this moment, William can be regarded as knowing why the Pope organized this holy war, it turns out that this is the reason.

Although William agreed, he did not intend to send troops immediately, after all, he wanted to leave a warm and sincere impression on the church, and if he hesitated, it would be discounted.

Anyway, if the church does not mobilize seven or eight kingdoms, William will never send troops, and when the time comes, he will say that it is still in preparation, and William will definitely not do anything about losing money.

It's not worth putting in an army that you have spent hundreds of thousands or even millions of silver coins on for the impression of a church.

Moreover, William is now quite prestigious among the vassals, and basically he has not let any of the vassals suffer, so basically as long as William decides something, there will be no vassals to oppose it.

This is also a characteristic of William's domain, there is no need to have a heated discussion whenever something is like other nobles, and even the feudal lord does not necessarily have the right to decide.

At night, William lay on the bed in the bedroom, and Wella sat gently next to William, with her hands on his temples, gently massaging.

She is also thirty-one years old this year, she is no longer the innocent girl she was at the beginning, she has a very good reputation in the territory, including some gynecological hospitals, all built in the name of Wella, although her appearance is not as beautiful as she was at the beginning, but she can't see her old age, and she looks younger than William.

"Are you going on another expedition?"

Wella's voice was gentle in William's ear, as he asked what was next.

She is thirty years old, she is no longer young, she only hopes that her beloved husband can be by her side, but she also knows that she can't hold back her ambitious husband.

"Yes, but maybe, if no one responds to this holy war, I won't participate!"

William closed his eyes in enjoyment and said in a lazy tone.

In this way, William intensified his training in the territory in the name of preparing for jihad, allowing the soldiers to undergo a period of more rigorous training.

During this time, many countries also responded to the call of the Church, and as soon as the Pope issued the Holy War Order, six countries corresponded, and seven or eight subsequent countries also joined the Holy War after a period of weighing, including the Rhodeland Empire.

Although Grenne was popular with the people, he still had to pay attention to public opinion in such matters, and it was impossible to completely ignore the orders of the church.

Even the Kyrnia Empire, which had little to do with the Church, was ready to call on the Church to help it fight.

After all, although the two religions belong to different schools, their origins are still the same sect, and they both believe in the Father and the Son, so they also responded to the call.