"The rent-free land provided by the church implements the principle of 'guaranteed production to households', and displaced people can cultivate their own land after registration."

"The Perot Fund will provide tenants with difficult family circumstances with a 'green seed loan', which is interest-free."

"The church has no supervisors, all the original managers are dismissed, and the tenant's small plot of land is planted or bad, and the church does not interfere."

"The tenant is only required to pay to the church one-tenth of the output of the land—that is, tithes, and is not subject to any other form of taxation or servitude."

"To put it simply, tenants only need to pay tithes, and the rest is all their own!" Finally, Bishop Claude concluded in a language that even illiterate people could understand.

The venue immediately blew upside down. Opponents were furious, believing that this policy was more horrific than Frank's reforms, and would greatly reduce the church's revenues.

Gregory's face was blank, and Archbishop Claude sneered and countered with one sentence:

"There are two paths in front of you, either with the Patriarch or with the reformers, please take care of yourself!"

The venue immediately fell into a deathly silence.

Claude knows human nature: if you want to tear down a window and your direct suggestion is likely to be rejected, it is better to say that you want to demolish the whole room, and then take a step back and say that at least one window is demolished, then the opposition will be much smaller.

If Gregory's suggestion is not accepted, the church will have to continue to endure Frank's radical reforms, and what will be the ultimate consequences? No one wants to try.

After a heated debate, a consensus was reached at the end of the meeting, and Gregory's initiative was made public in the form of a church pardon.

It is not difficult for those who are interested to see that the policy pursued by Gregory is precisely the proposal that Roland proposed to Frank in the first place. Frank didn't take Roland's advice and insisted on making a mess of the Assanian Empire, and now Gregory wants to carry out Roland's original proposal, what will be the result?

Judging from the repercussions of the canonical edict, it is clear that Gregory's "reforms" were more popular with the lower classes than Frank's, and for those who were bankrupt, it seemed more attractive to stay in their homeland and cultivate the rent-free land provided by the Church than to leave their homes and seek a living in the Far East.

From the day Gregory announced the rent-free decree, the tide of exile began to diverge, and more and more refugees chose to take refuge in the church, to get a small piece of land to stand on, and to earn food with their own hands.

As time went on, the laborers of the state-owned farms also fled and went to the church instead, freeing themselves from whips and sticks and renting a small plot of land as they wished.

Frank expressed his indignation at this phenomenon and openly criticized Gregory's move as a vicious competition with the state-owned farms and as a sabotage of his reform plans.

Gregory no longer resigned to this, and responded equally publicly:

"I have only those poor landless peasants in my eyes, and I can't help but try to help them, as for the reforms of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... I am becoming more and more confused, is the purpose of reform to create disaster? ”

Of course, Frank's purpose in implementing reforms was not to create disaster, but Gregory's purpose in helping the displaced people was to win the hearts and minds of the people and accumulate strength.

What do you want to do to win people's hearts and accumulate strength?

One day during vespers, Grigory confided his true thoughts to the most trusted person around him, Archbishop Claude:

"The sun shines on the earth from morning till night, and how has it ever divided borders? How did he ever favor one over the other for different peoples? Isn't all all nations and nations equal in enjoying free sunshine? The followers of Perot should be like the sun, with love and selflessness in their hearts. ”

"The only thing people are obliged to pay in the whole world is the tithing given to God, and any other taxes and servitude imposed on the people of the church through the violent apparatus of the state are illegal tyranny!"

"If one day the world is united, and everyone takes refuge in the Church and bathes in the sun equally, then there will be no more countries, nations and wars, and all people will love each other under the same inspiration of faith, and achieve the kingdom of God on earth that Pelo believers dream of."

"So, what reason does our church have to refuse to shelter the poor landless peasants? If those in power oppose it, let the tyrant and his bureaucracy die! ”

……

As early as June 1, 1622, Roland presided over the establishment of the first comprehensive institution of higher learning in the Far East, "Colasburg University", and at the same time founded the "Colas Laboratory" named after him, focusing on funding the basic research of the four emerging disciplines of "magic crystal alchemy", "star alchemy", "magic engineering" and "magic construction", and positioned these four disciplines as the cornerstone of the future industrial upgrading of the Far East.

As we all know, research in basic disciplines is expensive and does not see benefits in a short period of time. Roland has been mentally prepared for this, and has continuously increased its investment in R&D funds in the past three years, but has never urged the four major research groups to produce results as soon as possible.

Fast forward three years, and his investment and patience have not wavered in the slightest, and the results of scientific research have come sooner than expected.

The first surprise came from the Military Technical Research Institute. As early as the founding of the Far East, Roland gave Jack and Kafta a task to build a high-quality and inexpensive magic guide firearm suitable for actual combat.

Guns and artillery weapons are not uncommon in today's Vares world, not to mention the magic crystal cannons commonly installed in various countries, and the role of guns in the military arena has also attracted more and more attention.

Varess' mainstream firearms are almost indistinguishable from cannons in construction, except for their smaller size. The magic crystal coil is used as the acceleration loop, and the discharge device is used to excite the projectile, which is similar to the "electromagnetic cannon" on the earth. This kind of firearm is typical of the "dragoon spear" installed by the Asshan Empire and the Canaan Air Force, and the "magic rifle" of Fizhen is also similar, except that the size is shorter and smaller, and the advantages are powerful, long range, and high accuracy, and there is only one main disadvantage - the cost is too high, and leaving a stable supply of magic crystals is scrap metal.

Mainstream firearms need to use expensive magic crystals in the manufacturing process, which is not all, and every projectile fired will also wear out magic crystals, once the magic crystals are exhausted, it is like an electrical appliance without batteries, and it will immediately be dumb.

It is precisely because this kind of firearm relies too much on magic crystals that it burns money when used, and although the manufacturing technology has been relatively mature, few countries have installed it on a large scale as a standard weapon. The Far East is a country with poor magic crystal resources, and industrial development needs to consume a large number of magic crystals, and the share of magic crystals occupied by the defense department is already pitiful, and it is necessary to give priority to the supply of artillery units, so it is impossible to equip a large number of magic crystal rifles.

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