"God! Judge Almighty, you have authority over peace and justice, and we pray to you with devout prayer to bless this piece of hot iron which is used to judge doubtful cases, and if this man is not guilty, he will hold this hot iron in his hand without being burned; If he is guilty, then please reveal the truth to us with the highest authority of justice, so as to show that evil prevails over good, and that truth is always false. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

This is the prayer of a monk in the Middle Ages during a hot iron referee.

The hot iron referee is a kind of medieval European divine referee.

In fact, Father Adolphus was quite smart.

The current situation is not about which of the two of them is right and who is wrong, but which of them is considered right and which is wrong by the people; And in general, the populace always tends to sympathize with the weak, that is, to sympathize with the monks.

It's as if an official has a conflict with a civilian, and the people are always on the side of the civilian.

Because they are of the same class.

The priest did not know what class was, what it meant that the ass was the brain, but he had been the archbishop of an entire country - as evidenced by his purple robes - and his politics were qualified.

So he proposed divine judgment.

In front of all, in front of the nobles, knights, merchants, and peasants, prove by God's will who is the real devil!

Or to be considered a devil.

And this happened to coincide with Magnus's plan.

Public opinion, if there is a word for public opinion in this era, if you want to reverse public opinion, you must come up with vigorous, eye-catching, and irrefutable evidence.

God's judgment is the irrefutable proof that God is omnipotent, so how can God's judgment be wrong?

If God is wrong, it must be evidence that we have not discovered, hidden things that we have not discovered, in short, God is far beyond human imagination, it is just that we do not understand what God has done, not God's fault.

This is how religious fanatics numb their minds, and in the Middle Ages, religious fanaticism was everywhere.

So, another problem arises.

If, I mean, if the priest had gotten away and the divine judge had decided that Kurt was right, wouldn't he be asking for his own suffering?

-- Rest assured, this is absolutely unlikely.

It is not known when the law of divine judgment originated, but it was first written in the sixth century A.D. in the Frankish legal code, which was already specifically defined in the code of divine judgment. For example, before the divine judgment, the plaintiff and the defendant should pray and take an oath in honor of God.

Not just in Francia, but in Germania, Britain, Catalonia...... In fact, at that time, the divine judgment was not only used to judge demons, murder, arson, theft, witchcraft, forgery, and all other evil acts, but the people preferred the divine judgment to the law.

The reason why the divine cut can be popular naturally has its factual basis.

At that time, in the Middle Ages, there were a large number of places inhabited by human beings, such as the holy city of Rome, or the immortal city of Constantine, which was the only miracle, the place of God's favor, while in other places, most people were still clustered in villages.

This means that the villagers know the rest of the villagers, including their deeds and reputations.

When the villagers are intolerable, or want to persecute them, when they want to make someone disappear from the world, God's judgment is a perfect excuse.

Because the divine judgment is essentially a human judgment, there is a huge room for manipulation.

For example, when the defendant held the hot iron, he was not immediately sentenced, but bandaged his hand and waited for three days before being examined. Nor is it done in public, but in the church, by the clergy.

After that, the clergy decided whether the majority of the people wanted the person to die or let the person live, according to the local people's opinions, and easily won the hearts of the people and proclaimed the majesty of the Lord.

This is how the influence of Christianity has expanded in some places.

Then, there's the way to cheat.

As it is said in the political book, the law is only a tool for the ruling class to rule, and although the law of divine judgment is called divine judgment, it is still the law of the world after all, and there are many ways to crack it.

-- known only to the top officials of the Holy See.

Moreover, even this 'knowing' is a thing of the past, and given the way word of mouth spread in the Middle Ages and the pathetic path of transmission, once the person in the know suddenly dies, the secret becomes a secret forever.

But Father Adolphus knew how to cheat.

This is not surprising, for the priest was also a high-ranking clergyman, who had once ruled an entire country, and it was not difficult to dig out the lost secrets from the moldy parchment scrolls hidden in the great monastery. In fact, in his past of evil, he has repeatedly used the Divine Judgment to fight his opponents, and in doing so, he has gained fame and praise.

What's more, the priest used peace of mind this time.

"May the Lord forgive us our sins, and may the Lord bless you and me, Amen."

In the cage, Kurt's face is calm, and he brings to life the role of a pedantic, but pious monk.

Although he was already panicking in his heart.

Kurt had always been an unbeliever in such a thing as God - if there really was a God, or if God was as upright and merciful as the church advertised, how could he be indifferent to the bullying of his people?

Since God did not appear when his uncle took away his countdom, then either God is not omnipotent, or God does not exist at all.

Therefore he was not afraid of divine judgment.

However, the priest's actions disrupted his plans.

Originally, he did use a priest in his plan, but on another occasion, in a public trial, the priest forced the prototype with a cross - he was the devil!

If the priest is unwilling to cooperate, Magnus himself will do the same.

As for the details of becoming a devil, this is completely unconcerned, through the tunnels, thick smoke and props, these small means of 'rats' are enough to deceive the ignorant peasants.

But God judges, what the hell is this!

Kurt was not afraid of divine judgment, but the initiative of divine judgment was all in the hands of Father Adolphus, and for a pretentious and intelligent man, there was nothing more sad than the sudden loss of initiative when he was in control of the overall situation.

And he can't manipulate the final outcome.

Because he didn't know what kind of divine judgment the priest wanted.

There are several kinds of divine judgments alone, such as hot iron divine judgments, hot plow divine judgments, hot water divine judgments, and cold water divine judgments; The most common word used by the Franks was the Divine Judgment of Hot Water, which is found in written law, but Kurt had learned from Magnus that the priest was from Aragon, in the Iribian Peninsula, and that he really knew nothing about this distant land.

This means that he will be led by the nose by the priest.

This is not a pleasant thing to do, because Kurt cannot guarantee that Magnus will save the 'devil' when the result of God's judgment comes out and the people's anger erupts like a volcano to demand that the 'devil' be hanged on the spot.

No, Magnus would probably send him to hell with a rather happy ride.

After all, the conspiracy is known to the fewer people the better.

Father Adolphus, without his knowledge, almost pushed Kurt into a desperate situation with a single sentence!

But regardless of what the parties and the plotters of the two conspiracies thought, the news of the divine judgment swept through the entire Duchy of Brittany like a typhoon, and all the people of the entire dukedom, regardless of status, nobles, commoners, and even robbers hidden in the mountains, mustered up their spirits, stretched their necks, and prepared for this 'carnival' of the century.