Section 184: Counter-spraying
The knights and nobles around him temporarily stopped their steps to leave and looked towards Norman.
The frustrated and desperate Church mages and Holy Cult soldiers also turned their eyes to this divine envoy with hope in their eyes.
Norman combed through what Lancelot said, and while adjusting his emotional state, he said: "You just said that if you take away the wealth of the Father's Cult, you can build a military force much stronger than the Holy See to defend against the dragons, but who knows if this force will be more corrupt and degenerate than the Father's Religion!?"
"What you mentioned is just a hypothesis, and what we have seen is that it is precisely because of the existence of the Father's Cult that the dragons have not left the northern realm for more than a thousand years!"
In the opposing camp, the brown-haired young man grinned after hearing this, and fought back: "Time will tell!"
Norman immediately said in the air: "But we don't have time, when the Father God Sect sees that the kingdom does not welcome them, the Holy See is angry, and maybe it will immediately let the dragons go south! When the dragons return, the war of more than a thousand years ago will resume, and the kingdom will fall into flames!"
"Don't say anything that the Holy See won't do, if it's true, as you said, they are already on the opposite side of the kingdom, they are a bunch of greedy devils, then what else won't they do?!"
The brown-haired young man was speechless for a moment.
Although he said that the church was useless and incomplete, he subconsciously regarded the Father's Church as a strong fortress of the kingdom and believed in the moral level of the Holy See, so he didn't think about what Norman said at all.
Even after Norman brought it up, he believed that it would not happen, but he could not say it, and if he said so, it would be a paradox to what he had said before, and he overthrew himself.
Norman is the spear of the son, the shield of the attacker.
The brown-haired youth's smiling eyes gradually leveled and looked solemnly ahead.
And Norman was still talking.
"Moreover, the reason why you oppose the Father's Cult is just an excuse in my opinion, and the reason why you really oppose the Father's Religion is because the Father's Religion is too powerful and has threatened the imperial power!"
None of the nobles present spoke, they actually knew that what Norman said was right, and the fundamental reason why these people besieged the Holy Maiden and resisted the Father's Cult was indeed because the Father's Cult had threatened the alternation of imperial power, and the Father's greed was just a nice word.
But what is the point of this oracle saying?
Norman then told them what the point was.
"Gentlemen, have you ever wondered what the consequences of eradicating the Church of the Fathers will be, that is, the imperial power is unprecedentedly strong, and no one can restrain it, but there is no end to human greed, and when the time comes, the new king will demand more power, because he will find that he still has a lot of power to take back, and some potential power that can threaten his rule. ”
"That's right, that's you, noble gentlemen!"
"If I were the new king, I would not allow the second Father God Cult to appear when I finally expelled the Father God Cult and the imperial power was unprecedentedly strong, and the Grand Dukes in your territory could become the existence of the second Father God Sect, and the autonomy you have is too great, so the next target for me is you!"
At this time, the brown-haired young man felt that he had finally caught Norman's loophole, and hurriedly said: "The situation you said is impossible to achieve, as long as it is a king with a normal mind, he will never attack the Grand Dukes, isn't he afraid of causing the Grand Dukes to counterattack? Maintaining the current situation is the most likely result!"
Norman shook his head and said, "If I were the new king, I would make you laugh and voluntarily weaken your own power, which is very easy to do, I only need to issue a decree." ”
"This new decree will provide that all the children of the Grand Duke shall have the right to divide the land, and I am sure that most people will happily accept this decree and that it will not be difficult to implement. ”
Herbert was thrilled when he heard this: Indeed, Norman was right.
Now the aristocratic feudal system of the United Kingdom of Augustus stipulated that only the successor to the title could inherit the land, so the brothers would fight for the inheritance, and if such a decree was issued, he would probably be the first to support it.
Although the territory is small after the division of land, it is better than having nothing and being an empty earl.
There were also many people present, and the brown-haired young man knew that what Norman said was right, so he didn't interject at this moment to refute it, and continued to listen to Norman.
"And once this decree is implemented, there will be more and more lords, and the land you own will become smaller and smaller, and in the end, there will be no more powerful nobles like the current Grand Duke Francis, all the nobles will have become barons even if they have different titles!"
"When the time comes, each lord will usher in the officials sent by the royal family to carry out unified management, coordinate the interests and daily administration of the nobles in the territory, they are the real grand dukes of each domain, but all their power comes from the royal family, and the big nobles will no longer exist!"
"The royal family will become the sole ruler of this kingdom, and the nobles will have no right to speak, and when the time comes, if the royal family is willing, they will even be able to make you nobles and knights all become commoners! It will be a dark age for the nobility, is this really what you want?"
The audience was silent, and there was not a single noise to be heard except for the neighing of horses, and everyone was shocked that Norman had lightly dismantled the aristocratic system that had been entrenched for thousands of years, and even more shocked by the dark future that Norman depicted.
Norman was still saying: "So the kingdom can't do without the Fathers, the Fathers don't want to see an unprecedentedly powerful royal family that can wipe out the church, so they will do their best to ensure the power of the nobles, they are your real allies!"
Norman is openly slandering the royal family from beginning to end, and the brown-haired young man who represents the royal family can accuse him of alarmism and rebellion, but the brown-haired young man is now a "bandit", and as a bandit, he has no position to accuse the other party of rebellion, because he is "rebelling" himself.
The brown-haired young man knew that he couldn't wait any longer, he reluctantly accepted the fact that he couldn't say anything about this divine envoy, and he knew that he couldn't let this person talk anymore, otherwise, let alone persuade the other party's nobles to go back, and he would even plot against his own soldiers and let his subordinates have civil strife before they could fight!
"All-out attack!"
The brown-haired young man made a quick decision, and without waiting for the surrender of the nobles inside, he immediately gave the order to attack.
It was the most incompetent order he had in the first place, but now he had to do it.
With the help of amplification, the voice of the brown-haired youth spread, and the "Durham Free Army" that formed the encirclement subconsciously launched an attack immediately, and the five-short figure next to the brown-haired young man pouted his lips and muttered in a low voice: "I haven't said this for a long time......