Chapter 32: The Knight, the Queen and the Pope (Part II)

“…… I understand that it is also a great honor for me to be the guide of the holy angels in the mortal world, Dear Mr. Knight. It is the duty of any Christian to obey God's will and save the world from the plague. ”

Queen Giovanna also had a solemn face, and said solemnly, "...... I'm willing to do whatever it takes to save this dying world."

In general, the meeting between the knights and the queen in the holy city of Avignon ended up being a happy one—Giovanna, the queen in exile in the most depressed state, received an unprecedented good news and a group of the strongest foreign aid (Angels of God) in history, and the battle for restoration was undoubtedly won, and there was no suspense. The group of traversers represented by the Levi Knights, or the "Doraemon bandits" who came to medieval Europe to pretend to be tricks and scrape the ground, found an excellent guide who could lead them into Italy to make money

Of course, the Queen of Naples did have a bad record in the history of medieval Europe, married four husbands in her life, caused a lot of scandals, and finally died tragically at the hands of the Hungarians, and was compared to the medieval Cleopatra Cleopatra, who was on par with the Queen of England "Bloody Mary". But in most cases, it is not because of her bad nature, but because her level of playing with power is too stinky, and she is impatient and reckless, so that she has played and messed up on "international issues" again and again, so that she has made such a big defeat that cannot be cleaned up, and even her own life has been put into it.

On the contrary, in terms of her own heart, the queen's character is not too bad, and her internal affairs are not bad, and she is known as a fair and honest ruler, even if she bears the notoriety of killing her husband, she also has a lot of fans in the country, so at least there should be no trouble in the short term.

Of course, for the traversers who don't plan to stay in this world for long and have crushing strength, it doesn't matter what the character of the Queen of Naples is - even the kind of best villains who are born to be rebellious, the machine has a way to turn them into good students in minutes.

What is really important is that the queen has been immersed in the high-level elite circles of many Italian city-states and kingdoms since she was a child, and she knows the rich family background and ruling power structure of the Italian states, and can provide the "Doraemon bandits" with information about the "fat sheep".

- Even if she herself has limited experience at this age, among her court ministers, she can always find a few qualified advisers who are knowledgeable and competent to help refine the plan of the looting of the cat, specifically how many "fundraising targets" can be apportioned from each city...... No way, for the Europeans of the Renaissance, the 1.5 million gold coins (1.5 billion yen conversion) that the machine qì cat needed to raise was really an extremely appalling astronomical amount. Although the city-states of Italy are famous for their wealth, how much money can be squeezed out of each place and each person in power, Wang Qiu and the others of later generations are also innumerable in their hearts: if they apportioned the amount of money they demanded, and the other party cried poor in every way, who knows whether these guys are desperate for money or death, or they are too shy to come out? Now that there is the Kingdom of Naples, a ghost who knows the roots, he will not worry about squeezing the pockets of the Italians

Finally, whatever the actual situation may be, de jure the Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence, Giovanna I, was the lord to whom he owed allegiance to the knight of Levy, whose fief was located in the Count of Provence. He led the army to support the monarch's return to the throne, according to the consistent thinking of this era, it is also a matter of course, even the most xenophobic people can not raise objections, let alone be regarded as a foreign invasion.

Belch? The crime of murdering her husband? Alas, since the mercenary Pope has not hesitated to gamble on the credibility of the Holy See and publicly declared her innocence, then she is legally innocent, and even if there is more human and material evidence, it is in vain, and an attempt to overturn the case is heresy

After the preliminary deal was basically finalized, Levi touched his head and was about to get on his horse and leave, but suddenly he thought of something, so he stepped back from the side of the saddle, then took out a rather beautiful booklet, reached out and stuffed it into the hand of the queen with a puzzled face, "...... Well, I seem to have forgotten what I said just now, Your Highness, the reason why God sent angels down to earth is not only to solve the plague and save struggling sentient beings in sickness, but also to correct the errors in the world and guide people to make up for their sins... This is a brochure scattered by the angels, so you may wish to read it when Your Highness has time. ”

Queen Giovanna took the brochure made of high-grade coated paper and was immediately struck by the silky smooth texture. And the colorful poster of the "Golden Angel" on the cover wearing a beach swimsuit also made the eyes of the queen, who was accustomed to seeing dull and abstract medieval religious paintings.

Flipping back, at the top of the first page is a cute photo of a little black cat holding a toy mouse, and below is a rather terrifying Latin text:

“…… The all-knowing Lord has told the world that cats are friends of mankind and sacred animals, and you should love them as much as you love me. But for a long time, the world has always been prejudiced against cats, and even falsified the will of the Lord, killing cats indiscriminately under the banner of the Lord, and finally led to a monstrous disaster - the so-called Black Death, which was brought by filthy rats. This is God's sin of punishing the world for years of disobedience to the Holy Decree and indiscriminate killing of innocent cats; It is also the harshest revenge of millions of dead cat souls over the years against the 'stupid humans' who persecuted them......

In the upper left of the second page, a well-built man bathes in a tub, next to which a cherub scatters flower petals; In the upper right, a dirty, greasy-headed hermit shouts at the gates of heaven, but the angels push him out with iron forks. Here's the same caption in Latin:

“…… The Lord warns the world that diligent bathing is good for physical health and spiritual purity, and that a filthy body will only be closer to hell than to heaven. Those fools who take pride in not bathing for a long time are by no means worthy saints, but only prove his laziness, stupidity and blasphemy......"

“…… Wow," the queen couldn't help but whistle flirtatiously, "...... In this way, our world is really full of mistakes......"

“…… That's why God sent down angels to guide humanity back to the right path and to correct these wrongs. Knight Levi replied with a smile, "...... And those who are the first to correct these mistakes will surely bask in the glory of the Lord more and enjoy the grace of the Lord......"

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Since the Holy See and the municipality of Avignon had completely collapsed at this time, the citizens who remained in the city, on the one hand, were shocked by the miracle of the angel's descent, and on the other hand, most of them did not know where the pope and the cardinals had gone, so it was not until the afternoon of the second day after the "angel's descent" that Clement VI, who had been huddled in the middle of two flames all day, welcomed the first group of messengers in the country castle where he had refuge.

-- It's funny to think that a century before the Black Death, Christian missionaries went to the steppe to meet the Mongol khans, and the Mongols made them walk through two campfires, saying that it was to ward off evil spirits, and the missionaries were so angry that they beat their chests and feet, thinking that they had suffered a great insult. At this point, the Pope himself sat in the middle of two campfires all day and was smoked, and the others wanted to learn the same and did not have so much firewood......

Then, by the time the pope sent several successive emissaries into the city to investigate, and finally confirmed that the miracle was true, and the angels who had treated the plague for the citizens were in the Papal Palace, it was already the afternoon of the third day. So, when Clement VI returned to the city of Avignon on the fourth day in a luxurious carriage. His lavish Papal Palace, which had long since been moved to four walls, as well as the monasteries and churches of Avignon, where a great deal of wealth had amassed from the faithful, had also been unceremoniously looted.

- Due to the Black Death, several monasteries in the city of Avignon have already died without a single person left, and naturally it is impossible to prevent a robber cat named Doraemon from breaking into the door and robbing the house; Even the monasteries, where the monks were not yet dead, watched so many angels forcibly enter, with the "Holy Light" and "Stigmata" (plague vaccine) to cure the plague on one side, and the lightning and fireballs to punish heresy on the other...... They were all so frightened that they had to let it be looted. As for the very few miserly clergy who were completely blocked by gold and silver, and would rather die than resist the authority of God and resist the expropriation of goods by the "angels", they were declared heretics and degenerate by the eternal "great, bright, and correct" paladin Levi, who was burned at the stake, or before the judgment could be made, they were already smashed into slag by impatient angels.

In short, almost all the riches that the Catholic Church has seized in the past forty years since its migration to the city of Avignon, except for the properties that cannot be moved, have been looted by the "Doraemon bandits" in the name of God. At the end of the day, the "angels" also warned the nuns and priests who were in mourning to be content with poverty, and not to dwell on worldly money, so that these misers were so angry that they almost fell on the spot.

What made the traditional conservative clergy almost faint was that in the square in front of the Papal Palace, a huge statue of a beckoning cat was even erected very abruptly - except that the gold judgment in the cat's paw (Japanese gold coin from the Edo period) was changed to a medieval Venice ducat, and there was an additional cross around the cat's neck...... A golden angel with a large bust is organizing the citizens of Avignon to worship this cat statue; Another strange blue "celestial creature" with angel wings and a chubby appearance was preaching to the citizens.

It's just that the content of this guy's sermon is novel and unique enough to ⊥ any self-proclaimed orthodox church person to hear it:

“…… At the beginning of the world, there were rats in the barns and fields of man, and God said that there should be cats, so there were cats in the world that suffered from rats...... And God said, "Love the cat as you love me." The first people did follow God's instructions to treat cats as if they were important members of their own family, thus freeing their houses from rat infestation. However, as time went on, more and more fools completely forgot God's instructions, and instead of loving cats anymore, they were polluted by rotten heretical thoughts, treating cats as monsters, and even cruelly slaughtering these lovely little creatures, not knowing that their hearts were more filthy than any cat......"

“…… Seeing that mortals were increasingly stray from the right path and were caught up in a terrible rat plague without knowing it, our Lord was so anxious that he repeatedly sent prophets down to earth in order to bring mankind back to the right path. But instead of following the prophets' advice, the foolish people burned them as sorcerers...... You smugly think that this is a sign of piety that will please my Lord, but you do not know that it will only burn more and more in my Lord's breast."

“…… Now my lord has no patience...... Thank you, my Lord, that Jesus Christ was crucified for our sins and as a manifestation of our Lord's love...... According to the Law, almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness of sins."

“…… In the distant past, God Almighty destroyed mankind once with a great flood to punish the grave sins of the ancients. To this day, my lord does not mind using the hand of the great plague to once again destroy the world as you once knew it, so as to cleanse you of your sins......"

“…… How wicked, ye unclean heretics, not only have you forgotten the teachings of the Lord, and have blasphemed His laws, and have ceased to love the cats that have helped you to catch rats, but how wicked it is that you should have the audacity to frame these holy creatures as monsters, and to torture and kill them by the most cruel means and without any reason."

“…… To punish you, sinners who do not fear fear, and to teach you the majesty of the Lord, the Merciful Lord has lowered His power and begun to reap the lives of those who have strayed from the right path, all as punishment for your years of sin of killing yourselves and killing cats

The plague that is now breaking out, actually called the plague, was brought by rats from the steppes on the northern shore of the Black Sea. If you hadn't gone against the grain and killed the cats, then these holy beings would have been able to destroy the plague-spreading rats and keep the shadow of death out of your homes. But now it is too late, and if you do not repent, your city will become a place of eternal death, just as God destroyed Miè Sodom and Gomorrah, and no one will be able to live in a cursed city, and your soul will go to hell, haunted by the souls of millions of cats, and suffer eternal and eternal torment......"

This is such a sermon that subverts the teachings, but the believers in the square are fascinated by it, holding up exquisite plastic cat statues of different colors one by one, and their mouths are full of repentance. A considerable number of them, especially those who were saved from the brink of death, have completely fallen into an unspeakable madness, and actually rushed to prostrate in front of the angels, and bowed down with great enthusiasm.

-- Seeing such an apostate and pagan style of idolatry appear in front of the gates of the Holy See in a grand manner, a certain member of the Inquisition next to the Pope was furious for a while, and he felt an urge to roast the angel alive...... Of course, after the impulse, he also knew very well that if he jumped out and sang the opposite tune at this time, then he could only be burned at the stake in the end......

But he couldn't help but complain to the pope, "...... God, can we only condone these heresies in the Holy City? ”

Pope Clement VI, however, looked at him with a strange and playful gaze, "...... Heterodox? Who do you say is a heretic? ”

Then, in the midst of the fellow's astonished and broken gaze, the Pope calmly took out a metal zuò cat badge from his bosom, solemnly placed it on his chest, and then opened a beautiful brochure with a depraved cover and appalling contents, and read it with relish......

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