After the end of the war in Europe, the empire on which the sun never sets was once pushed to the brink of disintegration.

If it weren't for the unimaginably "generous" conditions for peace talks put forward by the Germans at a critical moment, the empire on which the sun never sets at that time would have fallen sooner or later under the joint attack of China, the Soviet Union and Germany.

Although the British made a "clever move" after the war and united with Japan to carve up Dutch Indonesia, the national strength was never restored to the pre-war period. Later, the Americans' step-by-step behavior almost drove the British crazy, and it was not until the Battle of Guam and the Japanese annihilation of the Pacific Fleet that the British could be regarded as taking a breath.

After the war, Britain was caught in a wave of reflection from top to bottom.

"Why has the international status of the empire on which the sun never set since the First World War been declining day by day?"

In fact, the answer is not difficult to find, it is nothing more than that Britain's main population is too small, less than 50 million people, to support its so-called "sun never sets" global colonies.

For the UK, this is an almost unsolvable conundrum.

However, when Artoria came to England as an "emissary", the British government was delighted to find that they seemed to have found a good solution to the problem.

The first thing the British targeted was their "old neighbor" Ireland, but before that, they had to deal with the problem of Northern Ireland.

The Northern Ireland problem has always been a long-standing problem for the British, and it has not been well solved even in the 21st century.

The mainland of the United Kingdom is mainly composed of four parts: Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland. The Irish question has been tormenting England since the sixteenth century. And before 1922. The whole of Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.

One of the main contradictions between the two families has always been religious beliefs, with the British following a self-imposed Protestantism and the Irish following an old-fashioned Catholicism. Religious issues. The problems left over from history, the differences in the industrial and racial structures of the two places, and the accumulation of various factors, have caused the problem of social fragmentation to become more and more serious. Eventually, after the end of World War I, Ireland gained independence in 1922 as Britain's national power declined dramatically. And the 1937 constitution moved Ireland farther away from the UK. During the Great War in Europe, Ireland remained neutral. When the British were beaten by the German navy in the Atlantic, most of the Irish onlookers gloated. At that time, it was in the hearts and minds of the Irish people. At one point, they even fantasized about taking back Northern Ireland, which had been seized by the British, at the right time.

After the war, sectarian strife intensified in British Northern Ireland. The old Catholic Northern Avatars were secretly encouraged and supported by the Americans. There were many violent clashes and military attacks in Northern Ireland that added to the British blockage.

After the appearance of Artoria, her unique identity as a "divine envoy" suddenly made the British see the hope of solving the Northern Ireland problem, and some hot-headed people even gave birth to the illusion of pulling Ireland back to Britain and reuniting the two countries.

After the British government announced the existence of the "Divine Messenger", Artoria followed her temporary ship into Northern Ireland and began a large-scale "missionary" activity based on it.

Over the past few years. The British had been conducting secret investigations into the Sephirothians, and they knew a lot about their tricks. And this time, the British simply "copied" the Germans' practices.

In the eyes of the British government, the destruction of the Catholic faith is the first and crucial step towards a definitive solution to the Northern Ireland problem. In the ensuing "Holy Impact", Britain and Germany joined forces to expose the black material of Catholicism, and one of the reasons for this was the Northern Ireland issue. For the British government, as long as there is one religion in a country, Catholicism, a religion that has always been at odds with the British government, should have been resolved a long time ago. The appearance of the "divine messenger" Artoria just gave them the opportunity to solve this problem.

Even better, it's not just the British who are doing it now. From the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, the entire island of the world, and several countries with "divine envoys" have now begun a "fanatical" action to "purge heretics," and a "political atmosphere" of "one country, one religion" has been formed.

Throughout August and September, Artoria stayed in Northern Ireland, preaching here under the banner of "Advocate for Christ." Unable to find the "divine messenger" to support the weak resistance of the Catholics, there were also several fanatical Catholics who wanted to "assassinate the false gods", but before the operation began, Artoria discovered the anomaly and easily stopped it.

When Artoria left Northern Ireland in October, Catholics were in disarray throughout Northern Ireland. Some people have "lost their way" and adopted the Anglican Church, while many more have fallen into confusion. The current situation in Northern Ireland is mired in minor civil strife due to the massive "loss of faith" of Catholicism, but the British government is pleased to find that more and more former Catholics are joining the state religion in Northern Ireland. As long as this period of change is survived, with the collapse of the old Catholicism, a complete solution to the Northern Ireland problem is not far off.

The situation in Ireland today is similar to that in Italy. The traditional Catholic faith is crumbling, and the whole country is in turmoil from top to bottom. The upper classes were afraid that the British would take advantage of the opportunity to regain Ireland, while the middle and lower classes were in the midst of a collapse of their worldview.

For the British, the collapse of the Irish faith and confusion of thought was good news. However, the establishment of an Anglo-Irish alliance is a long-term undertaking that will not be rushed in the near future.

After October, Artoria sailed to Egypt and began to "preach" in the British colonies, according to the British government's installation.

After the end of the European War in 1940, there was instability and a growing tendency towards "independence" in the British colonies, and nationalism began to rise. The British government was already feeling the prospect of the collapse of the colonial system and was deeply concerned about it.

Religion is itself an excellent tool for spiritual infiltration and aggression against foreign countries, and if the inhabitants of each colony can be brainwashed into adherents of the Anglican Church, it will naturally be of great benefit to Britain to continue to maintain colonial rule here.

At the beginning of November, Artoria was aboard the destroyer Fairy in the Woods. Entered Egypt and began to preach. According to the thinking of the British elite, there was Artoria, who could perform miracles, to help. They can replicate their success in Northern Ireland.

Since November, Artollia has been running along the Suez Canal and the Nile River in Egypt, relying on the Fairy in the Forest, continuing to play the trick of "showing miracles" and dancing the great god in various populated areas. There are Germans in front of them, and the British, who copycat the Germans, are not bad at playing this set. In order to create a greater sensation and seduction. The British government specially organized a group of experts, including religious scientists, psychologists, magicians, and film directors, to stand behind Artoria and write a script for her. After realizing the great benefits of taking advantage of religious colonization. The British are crazier than anyone else in this matter.

In just one month, the British missionary population here has historically grown to more than 30,000 Arab believers, which was previously unimaginable.

There is a god to be the backer. Missionary efficiency is a hundred times higher than before. But the contradictions caused by it have also increased countless times compared to the past. The old faith is overthrown, and the new faith is re-established, and in the process it has been the shedding of countless bloods, without exception.

In the area of Egypt colonized by the British, the Egyptians were also wary of the sudden appearance of the oracle. Some "civilized" people in the upper echelons of Egypt smelled the danger early on. At the instigation of some well-intentioned people, religious conflicts began to erupt frequently on both sides of the Nile.

The oracles who were able to perform miracles terrified the old religious forces. The fanatics of Egypt's native religion shouted.

"That's not some oracle, it's a devil sent by the infidels!"

Everywhere Artoria went on a mission. Almost all of them led to bloodshed, gunshots and even explosions rang out in every mission field, and her November in Egypt could be described as a bloody November.

Despite the constant bloodshed, the British government persisted in its plan to spread religion through the oracles. The incessant bloodshed was something the British had anticipated, but they still insisted on doing it.

"Times are different, and there is no way back for the British Empire! The Americans to the west, the Germans to the east, the Soviets, and even the rising China in Asia, all have the qualifications to dismember the empire on which the sun never sets. ”

"The power of the empire on which the sun never sets is at sea, and judging from the current situation, in Asia, we are on land, and it is simply impossible to fight a long ground war with China or the Soviet Union. And these two countries, which were hostile to the British Empire, are now rising steadily step by step. What the British Empire has to do now is not to shrink up, because shrinking will only give our enemies more time and energy to prepare, and then launch a bigger offensive. Any conservative idea is to sit back and wait, and all we can do is to take the initiative! ”

The person who came up with the idea of taking the initiative was none other than Linhan's daughter Artoria.

In terms of personality, Artoria is not only different from Hannah's belligerent maniac, nor Li Huamei's "self-discipline", nor is she a secondary two like Katyusha, her character is more like a radical and unscrupulous "king" to achieve her goals.

One day in November, the destroyer USS Fairy in the Woods anchored in the harbor of Minya on the banks of the Nile. At the port, hundreds of British troops were on standby, and a large number of hidden snipers were deployed in the surrounding heights.

The ship spirits are all national, even if the Katyusha does not like the Soviet Union, she still has a strong urge to go back, and as the Soviets began to "worship" her, this worship also directly affected her inner thoughts. As a British ship spirit, Artoria really loves Britain herself. Even if she knew that the collapse of the empire on which the sun never set was inevitable, Artoria still wanted to save him, and still didn't want to see the comical scene of the former empire that the sun never set on in the twenty-first century when it was engaged in a ship parade.

Lin Han also did not want to see Britain collapse prematurely, for the sake of China, but also for his own interests, the more the world, the better. And now Hannah, she also continues Hitler's idea of "Anglo-German reconciliation", and has repeatedly handed olive branches to Britain and Artoria in this matter.

During their missionary work in Egypt, the British were clever in deliberately blurring the distinction between the two religions, trying to assimilate the Islan system into their own religious system.

The British saw it as a "pilot", and when the experiment was almost complete, it would be implemented in India, the jewel in the crown of the empire on which the sun never sets.

On the altar by the harbor, dozens of Arab girls and English girls were carrying out corresponding prayer ceremonies under the arrangement of the British side, and the audience was kneeling full of new believers who had been lured into the Church by Artoria's "miracles" in the past few days.

After the tedious ritual was completed, Artoria materialized on the altar out of thin air, and then she held a silver water bottle, followed by several clergy, walked past and knelt in front of the worshippers, and poured "holy water" on their heads one by one to bless them.

At this time, more than 2,000 new believers gathered under the altar, and they lined up in a phalanx of dozens of rows, kneeling under the altar with great devotion.

The missionary rites in Egypt were slightly different from those in England or Ireland and were "localized" at the suggestion of the "Egyptologists" and the "Egyptians".

After walking past hundreds of believers, Artoria, whose face was covered with a veil, suddenly stopped in the seventh column of the fourth row, then stared at the person in front of her and said coldly

"Blasphemer, you are not my believer!"

She then turned to the other digits on the side,

"Neither are you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the four locals who were kneeling in front of her with a sincere appearance suddenly took out sharp knives from their arms and shouted, "Ella, Hukba!" Then he stabbed Artoria with a knife.

These were locals who were terrified of the religious invasion of the British, and who saw Artoria as the embodiment of the devil, who had come to slaughter the gods.

However, none of the four people who pounced on him could really get close to Artoria. They were all within a foot of her, as if they had encountered an invisible wall, and the dagger in their hands could no longer pierce them, and then they were pushed by the invisible force and flew out violently. He fell heavily to the ground.

Nearby, other believers who had been prepared for a long time swarmed up and quickly restrained these people.

For an existence like the Ship Spirit that lives on faith, the criterion for judging friend or foe is simple: whether or not it can provide it with faith.

Therefore, when these Assassins were infiltrating the "worshippers", Artoria had already spotted them and arranged for men around them early.

An hour later, the four Assassins were nailed to the newly erected crosses around the altar, their feet piled with firewood, and soon the air in the harbor was filled with the stench of human barbecue as the men in religious uniforms threw torches onto the pile.

What the time-travelers bring to the times is not all progress, and sometimes it is also regression. (To be continued......)

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