"Your Highness the Pope, I have some different views on this matter."

The old man sitting on the papal throne set his eyes on Ruhl when he heard this.

Ruhl has always been a very low-key person, and he does not take a stand and attitude a lot of the time, so it is a bit strange to have a situation today.

It's not the same as he usually does.

However, the Pope thinks that it is okay to let Ruhl speak his mind, after all, he can't always let this bishop, who has no power, not express his opinion all the time.

"Tell me about it."

The Pope gestured.

Ruhl slowly spoke his point to the Pope.

"Your Highness, the situation on the side of the coalition of vassal states is very bad right now. The soldiers at the grassroots level have already been worried because they are owed military salaries. If this problem is not solved, then if Portugal and France attack at this time, I think the alliance of the vassal states will not be able to resist it at all. Because at that time, there were no soldiers willing to give their lives. ”

Ruhl has a deep knowledge and understanding of the situation he is facing.

This is more clear than most of the Church Twelve.

"And because of the war, the domestic economy of the vassal states that supported us has completely collapsed. They are no longer able to provide themselves with supplies and finances, and it is very obvious that they need strong support from us here for whatever they want. ”

Ruhl said, thinking.

He had to speak out about the seriousness of the matter, and at the same time not make the aging Pope angry.

It's a really nerve-wracking thing.

Ruhl sighed inwardly.

The great power of the church has fallen into the hands of such people.

Could it be that the church has begun to decline now?

Ruhl didn't know why, but suddenly such a thought popped into his mind.

He himself was taken aback by the unprovoked thought.

Call!

No, no matter how poor the church is, it can't be what you imagined.

It must be that I am too careful.

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Ruhl immediately comforted himself.

Yes, with the current strength of the church, it is true that the thing he feared is unlikely to happen.

However, Ruhl forgot one point, that is, after the opening of the Age of Discovery, people's minds began to slowly emancipate, and with the advent of the Renaissance, the decline of the church was inevitable.

Their tricks and propaganda to fool the people will no longer have a market.

But how could Ruhl and the rest of the church see the future?

So, of course, they don't know about that.

However, if the problems in front of them are not solved, they will definitely be in trouble.

Ruhl still knows this.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have changed his previous low-key profile and would have put forward his own views and opinions to the Pope, wouldn't he?

After all, if the church goes downhill, he, as a member of the church, will definitely be implicated.

In other words, as a vested interest now, his interests will definitely suffer a great loss.

This is something he does not want and does not want to happen.

So, based on this, he had to convince the pope to do so.

This is also to ensure their own interests.

"Now there are rumors that we are going to continue to loot wealth from civilians to pay for the cost of war. This rumor is very marketable, and it has made those soldiers demoralized and unwilling to fight, and they all want to go home. ”

When Ruhl said this, the Pope couldn't sit still.

He changed his half-asleep and indifferent appearance, and his expression became serious.

Although the Pope is old, his brain is beginning to run out. But that's not to say that he doesn't know some of the crises that may arise behind the events that Ruhl is telling.

On the contrary, when Ruhl said this, the Pope had already thought about how much trouble it would cause if he did not solve the problem.

Strange to say, if Ruhr hadn't said it, the pope wouldn't have bothered about it at all. Because apart from Ruhl, the other cardinals would tell him every day that the war was going very well, and that there was nothing to worry about.

As a result, the Pope began to think the same way.

However, now that Ruhl has told the actual situation, he can't help but take it seriously.

"What you say is true? Why don't other people talk to me about this like you say? ", the Pope asked in a very serious tone, looking at Ruhl seriously.

Ruhl smiled bitterly, and secretly thought in his heart: Those guys are all masters of sycophancy, and they report good news and not bad news, of course they will pick what you like. If you talk to you every day about those unhappy things, if you get angry, isn't it unpleasant for yourself? (To be continued......)