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Some readers like my article, which is a good thing, but if you don't tell you, it's a little inauthentic, and what makes me cry and laugh is that I don't think the sentence is clear, and I don't know if it's smooth after the change, and the meaning can be completely opposite to the author's.

The phrase "Joseph, the former Bishop of Tournest, was very opposed, but the clanging of gold coins was louder", originally meant that Joseph, who was also present at the synod as a bishop, objected to Shepp's substitution of the power of money, but "used here as a twist, it is used to express the defeat of the high clergy against the power of money." This event is archetypal in the history of the European medieval church and was one of the author's motivations for writing this article. After being changed to "The original opposition to Bishop Joseph of Tournest was very loud, but the clanging of gold coins was even louder", it seems that the church cleared the portal......

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The burden that fell on the young bishop was not very light, although there were few books in the library and there were not many clergy, but he had to do the sacraments every day, recite scriptures and pray for the happiness of the people of the diocese, deal with the daily affairs of the city, prepare sermons, prepare religious councils, and so on.

These affairs, in the cathedral of Tournest, are not as easy to escape as in the country in Brad's domain.

The young bishop was born and raised in Tournest, and was much more familiar with the city than Brad's territory, and he had served the old bishop for a while, so he was familiar with the daily affairs of the bishop, and his studies in the monastery gave him a theological foundation, and those under him could not find fault with them.

Since they could not find fault with them, the new bishop gradually sent them out.

When the young bishop was low, those priests and laymen who were higher than him were defenseless against him, and many of the evils had been seen by him, and he knew how they passed the credit and deceived the superiors and subordinates, and also knew how they did evil in the local area, and even more knew how many of them were in the old bishop, and miraculously maintained their pious faith under the old bishop - as a person who had completely sold his soul to the devil, he naturally avoided the most dear people far away, And he tried to send them all to the monasteries everywhere, away from the world.

The vacant seats they had left behind were replaced by students trained by the devil.

The rest of them, with the help of the devil, arranged a new place for them one by one, and as for whether the new arrangement for them was proper or not, it will take time to prove.

After the run-in period of being a bishop was over, Shepp gathered the presidents and masters of the guilds in the city together and held a meeting.

He spoke at the conference: "Ladies and gentlemen, if a man is beaten by a robber, and is wounded, stripped of his clothes, and thrown on the side of the road, and then a man comes to him, regardless of him, and goes his own way, and keeps the rites and burns incense, what good is it to the Lord such a believer? If a Pharisee comes, and anoints his wounds, and gives him clothes, he is a Pharisee, and he should 'love him as himself,' and this city is ours. If you let the ruins stay there and say, 'This is not my home, I don't care,' and it becomes a den of robbers and jackals, and people will say, "I'm on the wrong path, this is not the trading city of Turnest, I'm coming to the robbers' lair, and I'm going to go with the goods and money that I'm going to trade before they fall into the hands of the robbers!" Let's trade in other cities! Isn't that really worrying......"

Then he told them to gather the disciples after the service and begin to clear the ruins.

On that day, the young bishop, who had finished the ceremony, shortened the ceremony and brought the worshippers to the ruins and told them to stand in groups of ten and prepare for work.

The students he brought out of Brad's territory were responsible for registering names, assigning tasks, and handing out tools such as catalpa and carts.

They had already cleared the ruins in advance, marked squares with lime, and each group received the task by drawing lots, and did things separately. The young bishop also announced that the group that was given priority would receive a sacrament for free, as well as an additional reward for food and drink.

Seeing such a distribution, those people stood with the strong men, and scrambled to give priority to the lot, so that they could do things first, and the old and weak were pushed aside.

The bishop saw such a move and did not say anything.

When the strong men in front of him had almost finished their lots, he saw a procession of only eight men, including young men in their early tens, women, and hunchbacks, and no one would stand in their ranks to make up the number of ten, so he took off his splendid robes, took a handful of iron catalpa from the man who distributed the tools, and stood with them.

This move caused everyone in the vicinity to make an uproar, and it didn't take long for it to spread throughout the audience.

Some people tried to take a catalpa for the bishop, but the bishop sternly told them to go back to their own ranks and not to delay their work.

Then he drew lots, which showed that the bishop's place was right in the center of the ruins.

So he led the procession to the place, and all the people on the way were astonished to see the bishop, dressed in linen and carrying an iron catalpa on his back, so surprised that they could not believe their eyes.

On this day, the bishop held not his staff of the shepherds, decorated with precious walrus ivory carvings, but an unadorned iron rod of no different workmanship, which attracted more attention than the staff.

He dug with the others, cleared the bricks and scorched wood, and when he was tired, he took a break and received the same diet as the others.

In the evening, the bishop's place was the first to be cleared.

All were astonished by this result, the bishop's procession consisted of only nine men, including young men in their early teens, women, and hunchbacks, and the contingent of ten strong men had not surpassed their achievement!

In broad daylight, every move was seen by everyone, and the bishop's team was one less person, old and young, to have such an achievement......

It's not what God blesses!

That night, many people swore to their families and friends that they had seen angels coming down from heaven to help the bishop shovel the earth.

On the second day, many donations were sent to the church, and the guild masters and helpers who had previously said that they were sick went to the bishop to confess.

Next time it's time to clean up......

There are a lot of people who can't wait for next time!

Those who had done bad things in the past, and had something in their hearts that could not sleep at night, since they had lost sleep, simply did not sleep, and ran to the ruins to shovel dirt and carry wood, and after such a hard work, they naturally felt sweet, but they thought it was the power of repentance, and redoubled their work.

The removal of the ruins in Tournest was completed ahead of schedule with the help of such a large number of volunteers.

Then the bishop laid the foundation stone on the cleared ruins, and built a large market, and then a large storehouse, and a circle of shops for the public use of the city, which used to cost a lot of money for labor alone, but now many people have heard rumors not only in the city, but also in the countryside to come to volunteer.