At this time, due to the support of the northern princes of the Kingdom of England, Edward. Edmondson declared that the faction of the throne had been formed, and he was constantly raising troops and gathering troops to the south, and as the enemy of this faction, William was also stepping up his final preparations for the coming war, and the situation in the Kingdom of England was extremely tense for a while, and the war seemed to be on the verge of breaking out.

In order to prepare for the upcoming war, William mobilized the elite armies of the Second and Third Legions, Norman knights, the civilian army, and the aristocratic vassals such as dukes and earls, and they also continued to gather in Wessex and north to the battlefield in Oxfordshire under William's urging.

According to a rough estimate, the army gathered into the Kingdom of England exceeded 30,000 people, and may even reach 40,000 people, among which William's Guards Legion, Rodrigo's Second Legion, and Andrew's Third Legion were the mainstay, with a total of more than 25,000 men in three legions.

The remaining less elite Norman knights, levies, and nobles provided an army of more than 10,000 men, and these less effective armies could not only assist the main army on the battlefield, but also be responsible for guarding the castle.

In fact, as long as William was given enough time, William would be able to mobilize more militias, feudal knights, and noble levies, but the pressure on William from the constant gathering of troops by the princes of the north was too great, and he didn't do anything to recruit troops slowly and leisurely, in case the northern coalition suddenly went south, and our army was not prepared, it would be terrible.

In recent days, William has not dealt with the papal secretary and priest Hildebrand, who are stranded at the Winchester court in Wessexshire, perhaps because the war is approaching and William has no time to take care of him, or maybe William has not dealt with his sister Adelaide and Edward. The anger of Edmondson's divorce caused William to personally offend Prince Edward and the English nobles, and not only did he not summon Hildebrandant again, but he also failed to fulfill his previous promise to recruit mercenaries to send to Italy to support the Pope.

Hildebrand, who had been pleading to no avail at Winchester's court, did not linger any longer, and immediately packed his bags and sailed back to Rome.

Wilhelm's gesture was already a clear expression of his desire to renounce Pope Gregory VI and no longer support him.

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On the other side of the Europa continent, Rome, Italy, has always had warm and moderate temperatures, contrary to the cold North Sea climate.

The Vatican City of Rome, where an important council to decide the fate of Pope Gregory VI and two other opposing popes is about to take place, the Council of Sutri.

Only the uncrowned Holy Roman Emperor Henry III can decide who of the three popes, Gregory VI, Benedict IX, and Sylvester III, is the true master of the Vatican, and who will ultimately sit on the papal throne.

The fate of the three popes was controlled by a powerful secular monarch, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, and the prestige of the Holy See was greatly damaged and unable to govern itself, and there was only one reason for this, and that was the corruption of the popes.

The corruption of the pope lies in the fact that the power is great, and the responsibility is minimal, and the two sides are seriously unequal.

The Pope, as the supreme leader of Christianity on earth, should set an example for his followers. However, the papacy of the Middle Ages was notorious, and the church and the aristocracy colluded to limit the power of the king, seek the division of the country, and the people lived in misery.

From a managerial point of view, the papacy's recklessness was caused by a mismatch between responsibility, power, and profit.

We all know that the emperor of ancient China has more power than the pope, and enjoys more benefits, the so-called "the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister", the emperor's words are "Chrysostom and Yuyan", if others fool the emperor, it is the crime of deceiving the king, and they will be killed at every turn.

Although the power of the Chinese emperor is great, the emperor is the overall person in charge of the country after all, and it is his responsibility and obligation to govern the country well. If something goes wrong in the country, the emperor is always responsible, and the greater the so-called power, the greater the responsibility.

If you provoke the people to change and can't save the country, not only will you lose your life, but you will often be punished by the nine clans, and even the graves of the eight generations of ancestors may be dug up, so the emperor has the basic motive of sympathizing with the people's livelihood.

The reason why the punishment for the crime of bullying the emperor was set so severely was also to prevent officials from concealing and misreporting the following situation and misleading the emperor to make wrong judgments. To a certain extent, the position of the emperor can also be regarded as a match of responsibility, power and interest, many emperors are also diligent in governing the country, and the faint monarchs in history are often because of the poor transmission of information between the upper and lower levels, and the middle interest groups are hollowing out the emperor, deceiving the upper and lower to get power.

The emperor has great power and great responsibility, and modern politicians have little power, but they have almost no responsibility. The Pope is at the other extreme.

According to the Christian Church, all human beings are lost lambs, and the Pope is the shepherd who shepherds for God.

Since it is a lamb, it is natural to deal with it as much as you want, isn't this a bit of a "guard and self-theft", and the only thing that can restrain the pope is God's punishment.

But who has never been punished by a merciful God? Even if a natural disaster occurs, the pope, as the supreme leader of the religion, naturally knows that the so-called punishment does not exist at all, so the pope comes out to comfort the lambs and says that this is because the believers are not religious enough to anger God, and everyone quickly pays money to atone for their sins.

As a result, civilians who were already suffering from disasters had to be exploited again. The people were exploited too hard, and it was the lords and kings who needed to come out to clean up the mess, and they had nothing to do with the church.

In this way, the pope was given supreme power, but there was no corresponding responsibility to check it.

"Absolute power" does not necessarily lead to absolute corruption.

For example, we can think that we have absolute power to dispose of our bodies, but most of us will not dispose of them at will, such as indulgence, drug use, or intentional self-harm, because we need to be responsible for the results of these actions.

But if there is a way to indulge yourself and let others bear the consequences, it is estimated that few people can control it, right?

Therefore, "power without consequences" leads to absolute corruption, and the greater this power, the more corrupt it becomes. This is also the reason why the bureaucrats or eunuch groups of China's feudal dynasties are corrupt and have no bottom line.

It's your own, as long as you deceive and hide it, you basically don't need to bear the consequences, so don't you work hard? If you have fished enough, you will be relieved and enjoyed, no matter how much the flood is raging below!

The papacy of Rome has no responsibilities to do with the rights it enjoys, and because of its great power (the modern pope has little power, but is subject to the scrutiny of public opinion, and is usually more self-conscious), the pope quickly degenerates into a spokesman for sin.

Most of the popes of the past generations have regarded money as their fate and frantically amassed money, and some popes have become representatives of "very yellow and violent".

This is equivalent to God, the chairman, inviting the Pope, a professional manager, to be the CEO, and once the CEO position is appointed, it is valid for life, and the salary is paid as he pleases, but there is no performance appraisal or punishment for the Pope. It's not cool to die, it's important to make money quickly! In addition to making money, you also have to bully men and women, oh no, it's to save the lost lambs!