Chapter 328: The Pope's Price (2)

The deference and obsession of a Japanese girl have a melting-inducing heat. [Full text reading]

The girls of the orange G group gathered around Chen Yi, like a triple hot làng, jī fiercely invaded Chen Yi. Only this time, Liu Xinyu will not let him act rashly.

She sat in her place reservedly, looking at a French novel, about Maupassant or Flaubert, and Chen Yi could only remember these two names.

When Liu Xinyu occasionally looked at the girls with sharp eyes, even the elite royal sister Rina Fujie didn't dare to move.

They seem to be more limited by beautiful women than by men. When their proud physical advantage was defeated, it was difficult for them to find something to deal with Liu Xinyu for a while.

Chen Yi pretended not to see this little fight, he was not in a hurry, since he couldn't eat on the plane, he would wait until he got to the hotel.

After a 13-hour flight, the group of 6 arrived in Rome and continued their stay at the Hotel Queen's in Bologna.

The city of Rome in October is full of sensual thorns, or rather, the city of Rome at any time of the year, which has a strong attraction for strangers. It is a city that has flourished to this day. Its greatest glory was undoubtedly the era of the Roman Empire, when "all roads led to Rome". It was once the center of the world where Christians were brutally persecuted, and later it became a golden center for the development of Christianity......

Today, Rome is still enjoying the happiness and regret of Mussolini's signing of the "Lateran Treaty" and the gift of the Papal States.

In Chen Yi's eyes, Catholicism may have a conscience and morality, but the institutions and elites of Catholicism were corrupted and degenerated into political creatures hundreds of years ago, and like the leaders of state-owned enterprises and charities, all their actions are to earn more capital for themselves, so that they have the opportunity and qualifications to corrupt more resources...... The only difference is that corruption in state-owned enterprises and charities is not a matter of business, while corruption at the top of the Vatican helps make the trip a success.

Hou Wei, a student of the 5th batch, breathed in the dirty air in the lobby of the Queen Hotel in Bologna with an expression of enjoyment, and said movingly: "I really want to stay in this kind of place with fresh air for the rest of my life." ”

He was at the level 6 stage of physical arts, and after Xie Wuyang and others, Chen Yixin's disciple who reached level 6 was only weak in the later exercises, so he was brought to Rome to be responsible for the safety and chores during the stay.

Chen Yi listened to his words and scolded with a smile: "If you like it, you can be stationed in Mexico City in the future." Let's go through the formalities. ”

Hou Wei hurriedly responded and took out his documents to the Italian at the front desk.

Chen Yi held his chin and began to fantasize about when he would sneak into the room of the orange G group, Liu Xinyu interrupted Hou Wei's poor English and said, "Just open three rooms." ”

"Three?"

No matter how they were allocated, three rooms didn't seem quite suitable.

Liu Xinyu smiled and explained: "Open a big suite for Orange G, Hou Wei, you open a single room, and Chen Yi and I live in the same room." ”

Hou Wei was envious of the curator in his heart, and couldn't help but reply: "Yes, master." ”

Misaki Maeda translated to Ayaka Ono and Rina Fujie, and then the three of them bowed at the same time, as if acknowledging Liu Xinyu's status at the moment, as if the peacocks were visiting the Peacock Queen.

In a situation where physical appearance and intimacy are not comparable, their submission seems to be a matter of course.

In addition to feeling that he should surrender to himself, Chen Yi was not dissatisfied with Liu Xinyu's room policy. After a hard day's journey, it seems more rational to choose one beautiful super beauty than to choose three beautiful women. It's still the previous theory, the food stored in the refrigerator won't run, what's the hurry.

In fact, Liu Xinyu was even crazier than she imagined, she made Chen Yi happy all night, and also made him work hard all night. The planned meeting with Steinecker the next morning was cancelled, and Hou Wei was left to pick up the people and then have lunch in the restaurant.

Needless to say, unless Chen Yi used the power of his fighting spirit, he wouldn't even want to sneak into any woman's room tonight.

Liu Xinyu was so tired that she almost collapsed - to be precise, she fell asleep in a half-dizzy, but she slept very peacefully.

At this meeting, Steinecker's simple and expensive ornaments increased. Needless to say, the former handsome guy of the Order has become a real handsome priest of the Order......

"What is life like in Central Asia?" Chen Yi asked.

"Except that I am not used to dressing, eating, and communicating in a language, it's okay." Steinecker smiled wryly, for the Eurocentric Catholic Church, missionary work in Central Asia was an absolute chore – even 100 years ago, the idealists among the losers in the struggle for power rarely chose Central Asia as the end of their lives.

Steinecker was even more reluctant.

He wanted to return to the Vatican, but that would be difficult without the help of powerful people and the infusion of large sums of money.

In particular, the financial difficulties were particularly evident after the loss of the former star status of the church. He made a special trip from Central Asia to return to the Vatican, and there was no lack of gratitude for Chen Yi's millions of dollars in funding. Steinecker didn't think it would cost so much money just to organize a manual search for history books.

However, this also made him understand Chen Yi's thoughts, and casually politely said a few words, and after the main course was served, Steinecker asked in a low voice: "Who do you want to preside over the ceremony?" ”

"The Pope, of course." Chen Yi said without hesitation: "The ceremony is presided over by the Pope, only at the last step, I will silently recite the words of faith, and the Pope will approve, and then the ceremony will end." ”

Unimpressed, Steinecker cut his food as usual and asked, "What's your budget?" ”

"$100 million."

Steinecker's hand shook and he almost cut himself.

His eyes widened and he said angrily, "You're too good at money." ”

Chen Yibian flattened his mouth and asked, "Then how much do you say?" ”

"10 million should be enough." Steinecker said angrily. Historically, the pope not only held wedding ceremonies for princesses and princes, coronation ceremonies for emperors, mass and other important religious ceremonies, but modern popes also came out every week to meet with the people. It is not difficult to understand that if an individual's bid "proves" that he or she has the worth of a prince or princess, then it is okay to perform a ceremony in secret.

Chen Yi hesitated and said: "I hope that the ritual of the retro Middle Ages, most importantly, needs more than 100,000 believers, so is it enough?" ”

This was a request outside of the ritual that Steinecker had consulted. In the records of the Western Continent, it is absolutely impossible for any temple with less than 100,000 followers to produce Divine Knights, even 100,000 is also a very risky number. In times of war where there was a great need for magic knights, large temple ceremonies to mobilize millions of followers also took place several times, and the transportation conditions and communication capabilities of the continent to the west were almost a cross-regional mobilization of dozens of city-states.

"100,000 faithful easy, but in the Vatican?" Steinecker put down his knife and fork, sipped his red wine, and said, "Maybe the ceremony will be in Rome?" Visitors to the Vatican can have so much, but the faithful ......"

"I can wait here for a while. How much budget do you need? ”

"30 million. If it doesn't go through the Pope, maybe it's cheaper. ”

"Oh?"

"You know the Cardinals, right?" Steinecker lowered his voice.

Chen Yi nodded. When he was consulting the information, he saw that the central ruling body of the Holy See is the College of Cardinals, which is divided into three classes, cardinals, cardinals and cardinals, among which cardinals are the head of the three estates and the smallest number of cardinals, and are responsible for assisting and electing the pope and handling major affairs of the Holy See. In terms of the political structure as understood by the Chinese, the pope is like a secretary, a cardinal is equal to a deputy secretary, a cardinal is equal to a standing priest, and a cardinal deacon is an ordinary standing committee. Together, they form the upper authorities of the Holy See and are in charge of the lower ones. It is also through the College of Cardinals that the Pope carries out his will.

Steinecker looked left and right carefully, and said: "The Pope is old, and the current head of the Cardinal Order, De'an, collects money very well, I try to find him and ask him to ask the Pope to move." ”

"Isn't that asking for two dollars?"

Steinecker looked at him like an idiot: "Aren't you a **** Chinese?" Is there a ceremony in which the College of Cardinals participates, and the cardinals are not given money? ”

"Okay." Chen Yi shrugged his shoulders and said, "$30 million...... Be sure to do good deeds, and when you're done, yours will be counted as 3 million. ”

He originally wanted to say that half of the savings would be given to Steinecker, but he was afraid that saving money would ruin the ceremony.

Even in the Western Continent, the rituals of the temple are very harsh, whether they can be replicated on the earth, Chen Yi really has no bottom in his heart.

Steinecker smiled comfortingly: "The Holy See can't do anything else, the ceremony will definitely not have problems, even if it is a ceremony a hundred years ago, as long as there is a written record, they will do it well." ”

Chen Yi had to believe it.

Steinecker finally asked, "Are you going to be Catholic?" ”

Chen Yi laughed twice and said, "My dad is a party member. ”

Steinecker left without saying a word.

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The power of money is endless. $10 million could feed half of Pyongyang's people and make the cardinals ecstatic. Corruption also has a cost, and if 10 million dollars had been credited every year, the cardinal would have gone to Thailand to enjoy life.

Steinecker spent a total of $23 million, 10 million to the cardinals, 10 million to the Pope, 2 million to other cardinals, and finally 1 million to the Church.

Cardinal Dean, who has silver hair and looks like an Italian football coach, warmly received Chen Yi, a believer from China, and comforted him: "Don't worry, we will satisfy your respect for Jesus Christ with pure medieval religious ceremonies." ”

This sentence itself is meaningless, but it is meaningful to both parties, Chen Yi once again respectfully sent 1 million US dollars, and said with a smile: "In China, this is called a red envelope, which has the meaning of festivity, please accept it." ”

Dean took it with a faint smile and put it on the table.

It was only after Chen Yi left that Bishop Dean opened the red cover and saw the $1 million bearer bond folded inside. The bishop was in a hurry—how could he fold it, and what could he do if the nòng was broken

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