At the end of the negotiations, both sides breathed a sigh of relief, and Priests and the members of the delegation set sail out of Constantinople, and the day before, the mole had found Meknejelina and told her to go up to the peak and send an order to follow Claude to Ankara and hide and wait for new instructions.

This news made Meknejielina very dissatisfied, if she went to Ankara, how could she be willing, if she had worked so hard for so long to become the new mayor of Constantinople because of this incident? She immediately went to find Qin Dong, but Qin Dong was not in the manor, as for where she went? How could the guards sue her?

Without Qin Dong's support, Meknejielina knew very well what Shangfeng was waiting for her if she didn't execute, Shangfeng would definitely send the most elite assassin killer to kill her, no matter where she fled! She doesn't want to die yet, since this mayor can't do it, then follow Claude to Ankara, with the status of a count, as long as you have money, you can live comfortably in Ankara, Meknejielina took the pass pass given to her by the mole and went out of Constantinople and caught up with Claude and his party at the seaside pier.

Soon, the mole saw that Qin Dong reported to him the news that Meknezylina had left Constantinople with Claude, Qin Dong nodded after hearing it and said that he knew, and then Qin Dong began to order the guards to prepare for the departure back to Saidica, and then he sent people to find all the main military and political officials of Constantinople, and to make arrangements for some things before leaving.

"In two days, the king will leave for Saidika, but there are still many things to be resolved. The first problem is that the new mayor of Constantinople is now represented by Cao Guoshi, but Guoshi cannot always be here. He still has important things to do in Saidika, so now he must appoint a person to govern Constantinople in place of the national teacher, and in addition, the king has another requirement for municipal officials, no matter what nationality the officials are, but the officials and the generals of the army, officers and soldiers are not allowed to have faith, that is to say, they cannot be religious. All municipal officials, army generals, officers, and soldiers who are followers of a certain religion must be dismissed, and you can be an official or a soldier. You can be promoted to an officer or a general, but you can't believe in religion, no matter which religion you are, this is the bottom line! Among the officials were those who concealed that they were believers. Once discovered. Beheaded! ”

Charlie Cao is Taoist, for Qin Dong's words, he is not good to come forward to speak, so he closed his mouth tightly, Charlie Cao is an official, but he is different from this official, the position of the national teacher can only be responsible for the beliefs of the people, and he is specially responsible for the management of believers.

That's when an official spoke. "My lord, Xia Guan is an Orthodox believer. Many of the officials in Constantinople were believers, some in Orthodoxy and some in Christian Orthodoxy, and I am afraid that this decree of the king is a bit unfair! ”

After these words were spoken, the officials present all praised this person's courage in their hearts, but none of them helped, and the officials brought by Qin Dong knew his temper, so they would not touch that mold.

Qin Dong's face remained unchanged, and he turned his head to look at the official and said, "Oh? Why isn't it fair? Let's talk about it! ”

The official saluted and said: "The king, as far as the lower officials know, in the Xiongnu Empire, belief is free, this is a decree issued by the king himself, and the people have the right to freedom of belief, why can't the officials?" The lower officials think that this is unfair, God is the same for everyone, so everyone in the world has the right to believe in God and the right to become believers in God......".

"Enough!" Qin Dong didn't wait for the official to finish speaking and immediately interrupted, "Put away your set, don't spread your so-called divine doctrine in front of this king, the people can freely believe in religion, but neither the officials nor the army cannot, this is an iron law, if both the officials and the army can believe in religion, then the world will be in chaos and will lose reason." For example, if you are an official, but you are also a believer in the Orthodox Church, and the king asks you, if one day the Patriarch of Constantinople, Anatorius, asks you to assassinate the king, but at the same time the king orders you to take the guards to capture Anadolius and his priests because they are trying to incite the people to rebel and seize power, which side will you listen to? If the superior officials cannot command the subordinate officials who are believers, then is not the divine right above the monarchy? So what does the world need a state and a political regime for? It's all ruled by the Pope, and let the Pope pay you! ”

"This ......" the official was speechless, it was not that an official like him, who was a believer in a certain religion, had not thought about this question, but these people generally took the initiative to avoid thinking about it, because it really made them very difficult.

Looking at the reactions of the other officials, Qin Dong knocked on the table again and continued: "Those people of the Holy See, who are not engaged in production, occupy a large area of land, how did this land come from? Some of them were bought, some of them were donated by believers, where did they get the money to buy the land? It is also donated by believers, who live by renting large tracts of land and immovable property to the common people and collecting land rent, and in some places the churches also open many shops in the city, relying on officials among their believers to protect their industries, forming a monopoly industry, and seizing the market of other merchants, which is purely a tyrannical act! A church has a hundred and ten people who don't do any production, and they eat all day long and wait for death! Of course, this king is not saying that these people are useless, they can still play a role, at least they can let the confused people see the path of hope and find spiritual support. It is precisely because of their ability that some of them often use their identities to do things that violate the law and discipline, they can confuse officials, army generals, and even influence the emperor, and have an extraordinary influence on national affairs, which is terrible, and no sober-minded person in power will allow this kind of thing to happen. Therefore, this king has long stipulated that believers in various churches cannot be officials, cannot join the subordinates of the official government as officials, and cannot serve in the army, and now there are believers among the officials and in the army, if they want to continue to be officials or serve in the army or work for the government, they must declare in public to sever relations with various sects, and they cannot interact with various sects in private, church people violate the law, and the government must treat them with the common people, in the Xiongnu Empire, priests are not privileged! ”

During this period, Qin Dong was too aware of the danger of the church to secular power, especially in the Dark Ages after the Middle Ages, it was because of the overriding of divine power over the monarchy that caused the European Dark Ages in Europe for hundreds or even thousands of years, during which European civilization did not make the slightest progress, but regressed by hundreds of years.

This period began with the famous Charlemagne, who relied on the alliance with the Roman Church to annex all of his brother Carloman's territory with the support of the Pope, and then led the army to conquer the great territory with the support of the Pope. On December 25, 800 AD, while worshipping at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Charles was suddenly crowned by Pope Leo III and called "Emperor of the Romans". The Pope announced in a loud voice: "God crowns Emperor Charles!" This great Roman emperor, who brought peace to the world, lived forever and won forever. Then the Roman aristocracy began to chant the historic poem: "Augustus? Charlie! Wear the golden crown by God's command! God bless my Roman Emperor and grant him peace and victory! The church erupted in cheers and cheers for Charles to become the heir to the Western Roman Empire and the protector of Christendom. From then on, "King Charlemagne" became "Charlemagne", and "Man" means the Great.

If it weren't for the support of the pope, it would not be so easy for Cha Li to win many battles in the south and the north, and the pope crowned him, this move is a bit intriguing, which is equivalent to announcing to the world that only the emperor who is crowned by the pope is orthodox, and the emperors who are not crowned by the pope are not in good name, and it is from this time that the pope's influence on secular power begins to increase, because it can influence the choice of the emperor.

It is precisely because Qin Dong knows this that he restricts the various actions of the church to prevent the church from having too much influence on his territory, as long as there are people in the church who influence the selection of officials and the political situation, he is generally ruthless and exterminated.

After listening to Qin Dong's words, several former Eastern Empire officials present immediately said that after returning home, they would immediately gather their relatives, friends, and the clergy of the church he believed in, and would publicly announce their separation from the sect and no longer believe in any religion. In terms of power and faith, these official fans resolutely chose power and gave up their faith, but several other former Eastern Roman officials said that they could not give up their faith, so they could only resign to Qin Dong, and Qin Dong did not stay, it was going to rain, and his mother was going to marry, so let him go.

After taking the resignation officials to leave, Qin Dong said: "Okay, there are no outsiders here, now those who are left are their own people, about religious issues, after the king returns, he is also preparing to set up a new official office, which is dedicated to managing the affairs of various sects, and is temporarily named the Ministry of Religious Affairs Management, the highest level of this department is the same as that of the national teacher, and there can be no faith. Those who do not file within the time limit will be forcibly banned, all property and property will be confiscated, and believers will be dismissed, and if anyone establishes a new sect in the future, they must also go to the department for the record, otherwise it will not be approved, and those who establish a Protestant religion without the permission of the department will be forcibly banned! ”

Everyone looked at each other and understood why Qin Dong was so strict with the management of religion, but Qin Dong did not say that he would crack down on religion, but only strengthened the management, and from then on, people of various sects had no influence in politics. (To be continued......)