As the day of delivery drew nearer, Nicole Bolan looked very tired. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The pain in labor and the discomfort in her stomach from time to time in recent days made her give up handling the affairs herself, leaving almost everything to Prince Hogg.

But the closer the day of childbirth gets, the more restless the local nobles who hold military power become.

It seems that many people are waiting for the queen who has just ascended the throne to die in childbirth.

There is even some good deeds that inquire about Hogg's attitude more than this.

Once Nicole died in childbirth, Hogg became a popular candidate for the next king for a royal family without a reasonable succession to the throne.

And now the Holy See's dominance in the north has regained its power in the north because of the return of the first pope.

Everyone will wonder if the Beran Dynasty, which was supported by the Holy See, will be erased by the Holy See after this, and directly ******** the north, but although Mien has never considered the secularization of the church, he will not consider it******** because the consequences brought by **** are often disasters that cannot be concealed!

Beyond the material level, too much centralized power can turn the entire Holy See into an incomparably bloated behemoth that breeds sin!

Not even Meen has the power to hold on to such a loose beast!

Unlike the profit-seeking nature that cannot be changed by capital itself, the extreme pursuit of personal power will only blind one's own eyes, and Mien has always grasped the scale very well in this matter.

Sometimes, there is some friction between royal power and divine power, which will have another benefit for the progress of civilization.

Seeing Nicole sitting on a chair basking in the sun, Mien smiled slightly, "Your Majesty looks tired. ”

Nicole nodded to Minne, smiling as well, "Your Excellency, please forgive me for not being able to get up and salute. ”

Mien and Samier sat in the chairs opposite Nicole, but Hilda had nowhere to sit in the parlor with only three chairs.

Nicole's face remained unchanged and she looked at Samier and smiled, "Knight Captain Maidste." ”

Then she moved her gaze to Hilda, the half-breed dwarf she had met once, without any embarrassment, as if she had seen an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time, "If I'm not mistaken, your Excellency should be the patriarch of the dwarven clan, Hilda Goldhammer." ”

Although Nicole I did not say anything, the palace butler standing behind him had already instructed the attendants to prepare a new chair for Hilda.

Although it was not yet to the point where the enemy was blushing when they met, Hilda sneered, "Your Majesty's memory is not bad. ”

Sitting on the chair he had just brought, the half-breed ranger was not polite at all.

The atmosphere was a little awkward at this time.

Nicole, who was already pregnant, had a very unstable temper, so if it weren't for Mine still sitting here, I'm afraid that the head of the dynasty would have a seizure on the spot!

Seeing this situation, Mien spoke, "Hilda is now the honorary archbishop of the Holy See, the punisher, it may be that there have been some unpleasant things between us before, Your Majesty don't care. ”

Nicole looked at Hilda with an unkind face, "It seems that these barbarians from Essinze still have a lot of etiquette to learn, and the status of the honorary archbishop can't hide rudeness and rudeness." ”

At this point, it is clear that there is nothing left to talk about between the two sides.

After a brief conversation and a discussion of the approximate time of the meeting, Ni could leave the meeting room after confessing her guilt on the grounds that she was not feeling well.

The master was gone, and the Mien and the others naturally had no reason to stay, and left the palace with some embarrassment.

Perhaps taking Hilda to the palace itself was a not-so-right decision.

Of course, these things are just a small episode for Meen.

In the future, I will need to find some time to find someone to teach Hilda some basic etiquette of the human world in detail.

Since the Half-Blood Ranger started working for the Holy See directly on his own, it is not entirely beneficial to have more skills.

...

Ride back to Lidney Cathedral, where Theodore and Frankie, who know that Meen is coming, are waiting in their study early.

Those who are familiar with Minne's habits know that the adult has always liked to work in places like this, and of course, there is no shortage of warm black tea.

The two of them stood in front of the desk with their heads bowed, and Mien took out a few pages from the thick papers on the table at random, frowning slightly, "Are there more than 10,000 clergy in the entire Holy See now?"

Wouldn't that be too much?

Although there is now a parish tax as a guarantee of income for the Holy See, it is simply not possible to feed so many people with a tax rate of five percent.

Unlike in other places, all clergy who serve the Light in the Holy See receive a small allowance.

The junior clergy will receive a food allowance of twelve silver coins per year.

And an archbishop like Theodore has an annual allowance of up to eight hundred gold coins!

But excluding the northwest, the parish taxes and donations of the entire north, plus the money earned to treat the wounds of the faithful and adventurers, are only worth 40,000 gold coins a year.

Although among the 1,000 guardian knights, a small number of noble children are equipped with their own equipment and war horses, but the remaining weapons and equipment maintenance, the cost of war horses.

Add to that the daily maintenance of churches, and the construction of new churches in various places, which is a huge financial deficit!

Even if Mien is sitting on a property of millions of gold coins, in the face of such a bottomless pit of the Holy See that eats money, he will be able to squander this money in less than ten years!

It's just that the Holy See can still run on these deficits for five years, and Theodore and these guys must have their own ways of making money.

Without breaking the point, Meen put the incomparably lengthy financial statements and personnel list back on the table.

"Isn't there a way to reduce the number of people?"

Frankie bowed his head and said, "We've thought about this before, but you also know that there are more than 2,000 new churches built in various places, regardless of the size of the church, excluding the ones that have not yet been built, and at least each church will have a bishop to be responsible for the ministry and three priests to be responsible for daily maintenance. ”

"In addition to the presence of a black bishop, ten priests are the minimum standard for maintaining daily operations in regional churches..."

"El Cathedral, Conwy Cathedral, Lidney Cathedral, and St. Lotta's Cathedral, these places also need to be equipped with twenty priests and three black bishops..."

After a slight pause, "There are now more than two hundred priests working there in the Holy City, and these are not counting the Baptist missionaries. ”

If you want to maintain such a behemoth as the Holy See, it is certainly not enough to simply shout slogans and praise the Holy Light.

Mien leaned back in his chair, his brow furrowed slightly, saying that he was a clergyman, but they were not like local officials who had to deal with all kinds of government affairs, except for preaching and praying every day, cleaning, and treating the wounded, it was not much use to keep so many people.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Cut the number of priests in the local minor churches to two, cut the regional churches by half, and the rest remain unchanged for the time being." ”