Chapter 48: Divine Judgment (3)
Although it is not appropriate to describe the god of the future of Brittany, or even the future of Brittany, it is not appropriate to describe the "carnival", but the citizens of Nantes did welcome visitors from all over the world with a carnival attitude. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After all, each of them was a qualified farmer and merchant - they were peasants when there was no merchant ship, and they were merchants when there was a merchant ship.
And now, although it is not possible to deceive those merchant ships, shoddy, with **** whitewashed black bread to pass off as white bread, or sell local specialties at double or even triple the price - after all, they are all Brittany, not far away, and if you do too much, you may be hit by someone - but, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it is money!
As for the divine judgment that determines who is the devil in this battle......
Ha! The Lord and his old man will not deceive!
Now that they have chosen the Divine Judgment, the Lord is watching everything, and ordinary peasants like us just need to wait for the truth in the audience, and then happily burn the devil at the stake.
With such simple values, the peasants pioneered the dialectic of the relationship between faith and money in their lives.
And so a deformed prosperity grew like weeds in the city of Nantes.
Magnus, on the other hand, was pleased with the prosperity.
This couldn't help but make him unhappy.
- He always thought that the peasants were all pious, and the peasants proved this by their deeds, and they prayed to the Lord for the protection of the Lord when they planted the land, for the protection of the Lord when they ate, and even for the protection of the Lord when they had intercourse, preferring not to pay the taxes of the lords to the lords, but to the heavy tithes of the churches, so that in the end the nobles had to collect the taxes of the churches instead of the churches by force.
This made Magnus quite constrained.
Because he didn't know when his small action might break the peasant's taboo.
But now, the peasants themselves have proved by their deeds that faith is worthless in the face of money - no, maybe it will be worth a few more if it is sold.
It is no wonder that capitalism has swept away the remnants of feudal society since its birth, and in front of that glittering golden cutie, no faithfulness and piety are so worthless.
This means that Magnus can be as big as possible in the future.
As long as he can bring in enough profits, then he does not have to worry about a possible peasant rebellion under his command.
This discovery made him feel a lot more happy.
On the other hand, Kurt, who was sitting across from him, was not so comfortable in his heart.
The reason is simple, it is he who is about to be judged by God, not Magnus; He was the one who was about to be burned by the hot iron, not Magnus!
Moreover, there is a high probability that he will be burned directly at the stake!
Well, it seems that before the Divine Judgment, Magnus, who was quite complacent, had to spare a part of his mood to appease his new subordinates.
At least, one of the analyses that Kurt was right when he decided to come to Magnus was that Magnus was desperate for talent.
Even if Kurt's mind is not counted, his linguistic talent alone is enough for Magnus to reuse him.
- He speaks eight languages!
Even if there are only three that you are really proficient in, and the others are only able to listen and speak, this is a great achievement!
If Kurt's ambition is smaller, if Kurt's desire for revenge is not so strong, just by virtue of this talent, he can get an extremely good treatment if he casually votes under a big businessman.
After all, these great merchants, such as those in Venice, had their business all over the world, and especially when dealing with the vulgar and barbaric pagans, they needed the presence of someone who knew the language of the pagans.
And Magnus, since he is already planning to open his door to do business, then a smart person who is familiar with his Chinese language and has a certain mind is indispensable. In this respect, no matter what the final outcome is, it is impossible for him to abandon Kurt.
Without further ado, while Magnus was busy reassuring Kurt, Father Adolphus was preparing the iron for the Iron God's judgment.
Although it is suspected of cheating to let him, a man who is about to receive God's judgment in a waiting meeting, find the iron used in God's judgment on his own, but it is iron, and who can do anything with it?
So no one doubted it.
However, the mystery of the hot iron god judgment lies in this hot iron.
It's not such a small trick as painting the cold iron red, it's okay to deceive those farmers by such a means; But in the past, the priest's opponents, who were very suspicious, had to give it a try, and let the hot iron burn a large crack in the fur.
The iron that the priest was looking for was not problematic in terms of quality or interior, it was originally a genuine piece of iron, and the only thing that was problematic was the shape of the iron.
To be precise, the priest used a piece of iron in the shape of a plowshare.
Because the ploughshare is hollow, the hollow means that there is air, and the air circulation will take away the heat - in short, it will cool much faster than a solid piece of iron.
In addition, hot iron is not as hot as people think, and it takes a high temperature of 1200°C to melt iron into molten iron, but it is only 500°C at most to burn iron red.
Moreover, before the judgment of the hot iron god, the priest had to pray for the iron that carried out the will of the Lord, there was a solemn oath by the accuser and the accused, and finally, and finally - and if they did, the priest would thank them - to make contact with the hot iron in the fur to prove that the hot iron was worthy of its name.
After such a long period of delay, no matter how hot the iron was, it would be almost cold, and the priest only took three steps with it, and there were calluses on his hands, that is, the Lord really attached a will to this hot iron, and it could not burn the priest in the slightest.
This is already an old method of the priest, and he is very proficient in what he does.
Therefore, when the day of God's judgment came, the people who had been waiting for a long time gathered in several circles inside and outside, watching two pieces of iron, one large and one small, being brought up by the soldiers, and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
When the blacksmith lit the fire and burned the iron red, the exclamation became a gasp.
Incidentally, the larger one belonged to Father Adolphus, because he chose a hollow plough iron, which was larger to ensure the same quality.
But in the eyes of the people around them, they didn't know so much, and the larger pieces of iron burned even more terriblely, and the red ones were so red that the people thought that the priest was the weakling, and began to pity him.
"Such a big piece of iron, at least let him wear a pair of gloves!"
"Yes, the priest is such a good man, he also helped me confess, don't let him suffer so much."
Etcetera.
But the priest didn't understand, so he went up and began to recite the prayer.
Originally, the priest should have been asked to do the work, but since the priest was professional, Magnus would have saved him trouble.
After all, after the divine judgment, he still wanted to find a reason to copy the monastery - although the wealth accumulated in the monastery was not much compared to the entire Grand Duke, it was not without a small supplement.
Magnus, who was so poor that he was counting on the cash.