"How can we reform Christianity today?" This is a question that William has been thinking about for a long time, the Catholic Church is very dark now, the church holds the power to interpret the Bible, and the believers as Catholics are very strange that there is no Bible to read, and can only rely on the interpretation of priests and pastors to understand the Bible.

This also led to the fact that after the Holy See grasped the power of discourse and religion, the power in its hands was completely expanded, and finally the unrestricted power led to complete corruption.

The corruption of the Christian Church is not something that can be changed by a Cluni sect who tries to reform the church, even if they advocate penance and celibacy, but once they control the dominant power of the Catholic church, the rate of corruption is extremely fast, which is why after the Cluni faction came to power in history, there were many unscrupulous popes.

As for William's current use of power to bring the Catholic Church in his own country under his control, and to take over the Church's finances, monastic estates, and the right to appoint priesthoods, this method is in fact only a symptomatic rather than a cure.

William can be sure that once he dies as the founding king, his successor will definitely not be able to suppress the strength of the domestic church, and finally the church property in the hands of the royal family, the right to ornate priesthood and other things that William has seized through authority will gradually be lost, and perhaps the Catholic Church will return to the dark corruption of the Middle Ages in a hundred years.

How can we eradicate corruption in the church? Having a deep understanding of the church reform in later generations, he naturally had his own unique ideas.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, why not break the absolute authority of the church over religion? Why not let all Catholics have a Bible to read, instead of giving the Church exclusive authority to interpret the Bible?

For how to reform the church, William already has some ideas in mind, reform is nothing more than the redistribution of interests, especially for the **** country, including the interests of the regime and the economy, so the Reformation is a reinterpretation of the Bible, and seizing the right to interpret the Bible can take away the legal power, political power, and financial power from the church.

And the starting point of the Reformation was to make it possible for everyone to read the Bible and know the Bible, whether it could be a thousand Hamlets or a thousand Jesus.

Therefore, the printing and papermaking techniques that allowed later generations of Europeans to have a Bible in their hands were the greatest inventions in human history, and they were the levers and fulcrums that leveraged the ignorant plates of dark Europe.

It is indispensable to break through the religious darkness and ignorance of the Middle Ages, so that everyone can have the Bible, and only by allowing everyone to read the Bible at any time and have a regular dialogue with God, and no longer need cumbersome religious ceremonies, no longer need sacred religious places, and freedom can break the absolute authority of the Catholic Church.

In William's vision, after the Reformation, people only need to hold the Bible and pray to God in their hearts, and there is no need for a fixed occasion at all, and there is no need for a priest or priest to lead, that is, Zen Buddhism said that "there is a Buddha in the heart, and there is a Buddha everywhere".

Once the Reformation led by William was completed, the power to manage and control religious affairs would be completely ceded to the secular lords, namely William and the Normandy royal family, which would undoubtedly greatly increase the power in the hands of secular monarchs, for example, if the pope threatened to ask for the ecclesiastism of the monarchs of various Catholic countries, he could declare a conversion to Protestantism, so that he could ask the pope to interfere with secular power.

After the completion of the Reformation, with the establishment of the rule of respect over the power of the monarch, the emancipation of humanities and sciences, the rise of the burghers, the spread of the spirit of commerce, etc., will follow, that is, the Renaissance in later generations is actually the product of the Reformation, without the Reformation, even if Italy is given another two hundred years, the Renaissance will not be born.

William had a very complete blueprint for the Reformation, drawing on the Reformation of Martin Luther, William knew what he should do and how to do it in this Reformation.

But even so, such a major event could not be promoted by William alone, and he also needed the support of the nobles and clergy in the country, especially his cronies and friends, the new Pope John X, who had been put on the throne of St. Peter.

Fortunately, on the way back to Paris, John X accompanied him, which made it convenient for William to communicate with him about the reform of the Church.

"Your Majesty, you are really a well-deserved genius, I have thought about the reform strategy several times before, but I can't find a way, at most I advocate penance and other methods, I didn't expect your vision to be so far-reaching.

If you really reform the church in the way you say, it will definitely have the effect of pulling wages from the bottom of the kettle. After hearing William's blueprint for the Reformation, John X was astonished.

"Hamelin, you have praised it falsely, and there is a lot of credit for this, without your help, I would not have been able to achieve it by my own efforts." William modestly said, "Will you help me reform the church?" ”

"Your Majesty, have you really made up your mind? If you do this, you will be opposed by the conservatives within the Church, and not only the other countries will oppose you, but there will also be an undercurrent within the Kingdom, are you ready, Your Majesty! John X's face grimaced, and he reconfirmed.

"That's nature, my determination is as indestructible as a rock, no one can shake it, no matter how difficult it is, I will go all the way." William clenched his fists and looked at the other party solemnly and said.

"Since you have already made up your mind, your majesty, why should I spare my life? I have a little bit of power, please use it to your heart's content! John X nodded solemnly and spoke.

"Thank you!" William clasped the other man's hands tightly, and a thousand words only turned into these two words.

"Your Majesty, it's time to talk about your specific thoughts, how to realize that everyone has God in their hearts?" Although John X admired William's determination, he was skeptical of his absolute confidence, after all, the authority of the Church lasted for thousands of years, and the interests were intertwined.

William did not speak immediately, but took out three well-bound Bibles and placed them in front of him.

"This is the Bible written on paper? Isn't paper still expensive, and how can a Bible written on paper become more popular? John X opened a Bible, stroked the material of the pages with his hand, looked at William and asked in surprise.

"Don't worry, Hamelin, look at the other two Bibles and see what they have in common!" William shook his head slightly, raised his hand and said.