Father Donovan frowned and thought for a long time, cold sweat oozing from his forehead. With an uncertain tone, similar to a student's lack of knowing how to answer the teacher's answer, he smiled bitterly: "No matter which one you choose, it seems that it will shake the country's capital, Donovan is stupid, I really don't know which one to choose." Perhaps, aristocrats should be chosen?"

He further explained: "The people are always ignorant, and trying to appease them by some means can always calm them down. And time is the best painkiller, no matter what kind of pain, in a few years, who will remember what happened in Shenghui City?"

The Patriarch of Lisbon nodded, "If you say a hundred out of one hundred, your answer can get seventy points." ”

He smiled and said, "Actually, the best answer is to choose neither." ”

"Neither of them?", Father Donovan was taken aback, and said with a little crying and laughing, "You gave you two choices, and I thought I had to choose one of them." ”

"That's because you are still a weak person, and the so-called necessity and necessity are all weak words. Because you are weak, you do not have the right to choose. ", said the Patriarch of Lisbon lightly.

He looked at the deep sky outside the window and sighed: "Because we are all caged birds that have been locked up, only a few can open their eyes and see the vast sky outside the cage. And only the luckiest and lucky ones, favored by the Father, can fly out of this cage and soar freely. ”

"A bird that flies out of the cage has the right to play chess. The bird, which is still trapped in the cage, can only become a controlled pawn, the pawn can move forward, it can move sideways, but no matter how it chooses, the final route has been determined, and it is no longer free. ”

"The chess player, on the other hand, has the right not to choose. ”

"Do you have the right not to choose?", Father Donovan chewed on this sentence, and couldn't help but be a little fascinated, "and only when you reach the status of Grievous the Great will you really have the right not to choose." It's just in his heart that he silently muttered: "I don't know when, I can have the right not to choose." ”

"At least in this Holy Radiance City, only he, and our Majesty, have the right not to choose. Even the two Majesties have all kinds of troubles that we cannot understand, and the only one who can really choose not is the omnipotent and supreme Father. ", lamented the Patriarch of Lisbon.

"It's just that, my lord, I still don't understand, why didn't Emperor Grievous choose?", Father Donovan scratched his head and said a little ashamedly, he really couldn't figure it out.

"It's simple. The Patriarch of Lisbon replied: "As I have just said, the Holy Church encourages the refugees to challenge the nobility, giving Grievous the Great a choice, and giving him an excuse, an excuse to weaken the nobility, and in this respect he is in fact in line with our aims. ”

"It was easy for him to find out that these refugees were backed by our Holy Religion. Correspondingly, with the prestige of the Holy Religion in the hearts of the refugees, it is only a matter of words to make the refugees no longer fight against the nobility. ”

"When we sent out the cathars to arrest the nobles on the grounds of the Holy Commandments and the protection of refugees. The Great Emperor could use those refugees and the Holy Religion as an excuse not to send the city guards, but to negotiate with the Holy Religion in a pretended way. And the final result of the negotiation must be: to ensure that those nobles will not be arrested and imprisoned for the rest of their lives. The property left by these nobles in the Holy Radiance City will be purged by the Holy Cult as compensation to the refugees. ”

"He has the advantage of killing two birds with one stone, firstly, it weakens the strength of the great nobles in the city, the source of money and officials, which are the two pillars of the nobles' control of this country, and the cleansing of the property of these nobles is equivalent to cutting off their arms, and their strength will definitely be greatly damaged. And those nobles can't blame him for his poor protection, because after all, those nobles caused this matter first, and Grievous the Great is wiping their butts, and these nobles also know in their hearts that the emperor can't really slaughter so many civilians for them. After causing such a catastrophe and causing a civil uprising, the most important thing is to give up some of the wealth outside of the body to save life and freedom. ”

"Second, it has deepened the hatred between the Holy Sect and the nobles, and if two tigers fight, one will be injured. Whether it is the Holy Sect or the nobility, which side is strong is not conducive to the rule of the Violet royal family. After cleaning the property of these nobles, they must be on the same page with the Holy Sect, and they completely tore their faces. And Grievous the Great can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, why not?"

Hearing this, Father Donovan couldn't help but ask, "In that case, why do we Holy Sect still do this? Isn't this making a wedding dress for the Violet royal family?"

The Patriarch of Lisbon shook his head, he stood up and walked to the window, his not tall body seemed to be trying to cover the sky outside the window, "Time will not wait for me." He sighed, "This is the core secret of the Holy Sect, and it is not something you can know yet, and it will be of great benefit to you in the future if you think more about what I said today when you go back." ”

"Yes, thank you for your advice. Father Donovan bowed his head deeply and walked out of the room gently.

After leaving the Basilica of the Holy Radiance, Father Donovan blessed some of the refugees left behind in the sanctuary as usual, and went to a church for a while, and everything was the same as usual.

He then casually walked into a small church by the side of the road, where the sanctuary was everywhere, and was doing a high lecture in a confessional room. After a while, from behind him, in another high solution room, suddenly came the voice of an old man.

It stands to reason that the confessional room of the church will always be very soundproofed, because no one wants to let other strangers know the content of their confession, but in this confession room, for some reason, the old man's voice came very clearly.

"Tell me, what did Lisbon say today?"

Father Donovan did not dare to slack off, and repeated all the words of the Patriarch of Lisbon in 1510. He also has an amazing memory, and he can repeat such a long conversation word for word.

After a while, the old man said, "Donovan, you are doing a good job. Lisbon promised you the position of cardinal, and he was too stingy. As long as you are faithful to us, the position of Privy Council is not a difficult task. ”

With that, no more voice came from the old man, and Father Donovan continued to pray silently with his eyes closed, as if he really wanted to convey his piety to the ethereal god.