Section 426 Crisis of Faith

"Mother, will he really let us go?" asked the Duchess when she returned.

"Yes, this man has always been very good at his word, and he said to send us away, then we will definitely be safe with your father!" said the duchess solemnly.

"Okay, I really didn't misunderstand him, he is indeed a hero," Ban Axe said enthusiastically: "It's a pity that he and I are enemies, otherwise I would really like to make friends with such a real and upright hero!"

"Where is his integrity?" said the Duchess, rolling her eyes, disdainfully.

"He doesn't take us hostage to coerce my father to surrender to him. Isn't it above board enough to let us go at the risk of a decisive battle with my father in the future?" said Plate Axe in a loud defense of me.

"He let us go, but what can we?" said the Duchess disdainfully. "Most of the family members of the officers of the Iron Wall Legion are here, can they fight with your father? Without the army, what can your father do on his own? You even naively think that the sinister military god is above board? The only pertinent thing Long Qingtian said to me today was that my education for you was too much of a failure!"

Out of the Duke's Palace, Poor Dao Xinzhong couldn't help but feel a little proud, and Duchess Ren seemed to have drunk my footwash water this time. Although she still made up her mind to perfunctory me at the beginning, but in the end she was forced to agree to persuade me to surrender, after all, she is a young lady from a large family, once she nods, she generally will not regret it. Otherwise. Hehe, her mother's relatives are still here.

Looking at this lady's shrewdness, you can see that her pillow wind is quite powerful, and I still have most of the senior officers of the Iron Wall Legion in my hands. In this way, it is estimated that there will be basically no problem with the Iron Wall Legion. Surrender is only a matter of time. When I returned to the palace where I was temporarily staying, I sent a letter of surrender from King Carter to the Commander of the Iron Wall, Sudala, and ordered it to be sent to the Duchess, asking her to forward it to the Captain of the Sudala Army, and all that was left was to wait for good news.

After the poor road solved the Iron Wall Army, he immediately began to observe the shipyard, this is a big deal, even if the Han has a coastline in the future, how can it be done without developing the navy. If there is a ready-made shipyard, how can it be left empty? I walked around the largest shipyards around King Carter's capital, and I was deeply impressed.

People here and that are advanced, I am envious for a while, there are prescribed procedures for building warships. Each process is checked by professional supervisors. If something goes wrong in the future, a light whip. Heavy the whole family was beheaded. So no one dares to be sloppy. The quality of the battleship is absolutely top-notch. The manufacturing process here is even more rigorous than my arsenal. And the means of management and manufacturing are also more professional.

After all, they have been developing for hundreds of years, and I have only been making a fuss for a few years, of course, there is no comparison, but. We are also better than them. They are all handmade here. Without the element of magic in it, the resulting battleship is nothing more than an ordinary battleship. There are no alchemists to put magic circles on it and so on.

And in my territory, many weapons and armor are blessed with magic arrays, if you combine the magic benefits in my territory with their artificial craftsmanship. Quack, build a magic warship, hehe, the future of the sea will not let me go sideways? Once you completely grasp the sea dominance, it is equivalent to monopolizing the foreign maritime trade, that is too 'wealth'.

After returning from the shipyard, Poor Dao was so excited that he hurriedly sent a letter to the territory. Ask the goblin master Goth and the dwarven master Chiva-Mowes to come along, and tell me a little bit about the scroll that I got from the goblin master Titi pressure card, and I think the two maniacs will want to fly over.

Then I remembered one more thing, this city can't always be called Carter King, right? Its previous name has not been used for hundreds of years, and there are not even ten people who know it, so I simply gave up. I personally inscribed the name of the city and ordered the stonemasons to engrave it on the four city gates.

In a few days, the great savior of Frenia that I had been waiting for for a long time finally arrived, and the poor road could finally say goodbye to the damn government affairs, and no longer have to look at the hypocritical smiling faces of those nobles every day, ah, a feeling of forty-nine years rose spontaneously, it was so cool. After meeting her, I threw a word to Frunia that everything was according to the rules of the original occupation zone, and I quickly fled to study the upgrade and improvement of the Roar of the Dragon.

A few days later, grandpa, father and the three princes of Meigeran also arrived, grandpa is here to play, he has to go back to the Han Wangdu to come to see, and the father is afraid that he will be stationed here all the year round, the third prince of Meigeran Carl is passing by, he and his troops are going to take a boat back from here.

There are reasons for arranging his itinerary in this way, one is to approach like this, and the other is also afraid that when he passes through the Iron Wall Pass, he will come into contact with the commander of the Iron Wall Legion, Sudala, who knows what this boy with a bad stomach can do? If he really pulls Sudala over, I can't cry.

The third prince, Karl, lived here for two days, and although Poor Dao hated him, he had to do his best to be a landlord. You can't ask your grandfather or father to accompany him, right? It's fun again, and I have to laugh and laugh with it, and I'm depressed. I'm almost a three-person escort.

The third prince Carl is still very satisfied with my hospitality, after all, we all know that now is a time of peace that is not suitable for turning faces, so on the surface, we always hook up and are not affectionate, but if there is a chance in the future, hehe, none of us will give up the opportunity and impulse to give each other a knife in the back.

The only thing that is unhappy about this kid is the three violet sisters beside me. One of them is obviously his nominal wife, but now it's good, all of them have become my people, looking at the three beauties like flowers and jade around me, his heart is naturally very unbalanced, if I didn't have a few more powerful antecedents, it is estimated that he would have opened his mouth to find me. Quack, I just deliberately used the three sisters to anger him!

After sending the third prince with a stomach full of vinegar, my grandfather also went back, but Minoa came at this time again, and after seeing him again, I was taken aback, he had changed too much. We hadn't seen each other for about a month, and he was like he was dozens of years older. The sunken eyes, the bloodshot eyes, and the wrinkles on the face were full of bewilderment, like a poor worm that had been battered, and I couldn't bear to see it.

"Sir Minoa, what's wrong with you?" asked Poor Dao in surprise, "I see that your spirit doesn't seem to be very good, do you want to take a break?"

"No, I'm fine. Minoa still said in a firm tone: "Although I have seen a little darkness and evil of the clergy, but this is definitely a small group of people, absolutely yes, I firmly believe that as long as they are eliminated, the Holy See will be bright after all, and God will be great after all!"

"Oh, so you already think that there are indeed some clergy who have done wrongful deeds that have lost their conscience?" asked cautiously, "Isn't it possible that I framed the Holy See?"

"Well, I'll admit that there are a few incidents that are true!" Minoa confessed in frustration, and then told me what he had investigated.

It turned out that he listened to me that time, and after temporarily putting aside the investigation of Cardinal Litika, he threw himself into the case of the other accusers. This time, he no longer listened to my arrangement, but chose from thousands of people himself, and finally chose one thing that he thought would be innocent as soon as he found out.

The complainant was a fifteen or sixteen child, and he sued the priest in the town because his family could not pay the holy war tax, so he shot his sister into the church, and did not come out for several months, and he also mentioned several times that he could go to the church and hear his sister's cry of pain, but when he wanted to save his sister, he was stopped by his parents, and his parents were afraid of the revenge of the people in the church.

In the small town, the people of the church are more terrible than the people in the government, and whoever they want to kill just say who is a pagan is doomed, then whoever is dead, and they are generally tied up and burned alive by the guardian warriors of the church, so ordinary people dare to be angry with them but dare not speak.

But this child cares about his sister very much. Although he knew that his strength was impossible to beat the samurai of the church, he still sneaked in several times to save people, of course, his end was miserable, he was beaten to death, and when he was almost out of breath, he was thrown out by the church people like a dead dog.

His parents were helpless in the face of the seriously injured child, and could only watch him die, but God forbid, his mother's cry attracted several people, who had already inquired about the family's affairs, so they took the initiative to come to the door.

They saved the dying child with a powder, and then persuaded the family to bring the child here, and the child remembered the words of those people and told the tall man in sackcloth everything. That would save your sister and your family.

These men were the night troops I sent out to gather evidence, and the medicine was, of course, gold sore medicine made by the druids. Although the shrewd Minoa heard the strange origin of those people, when she saw the child, she was covered with shocking scars, and she couldn't bear to sit idly by and ignore it anyway.

With Minoa's help, the injuries on the child's body were insignificant. It's good to almost blink an eye. The child thanked Minoa and was very envious of Minoa's spirit, and Minoa told the child that this was the ability given to him by the God of Light, and let the child thank God, but the child was stunned at that time, and then angrily asked Minoa to withdraw the spell. Because he would rather always remember the great harm God had done to him and his family than accept the hypocritical mercy of the God of Light.

If before, Minoa would have slapped him to death with a stick, but now, he has no choice but to say angrily, if the child tells the truth, he will clean the door for God with his own hands. If the child lies. He will also definitely defend the dignity of the God of Light. In fact, when he saw the injury and looked at the child's expression, he already believed it in his heart, and he was so unconfident in speaking.

Things turned out exactly as Minoa thought, and on a dark and windy night, he took his children and unexpectedly broke into the church in that remote town, and saw with his own eyes several young girls who were tortured and immature, as well as the priest and church guards who were wreaking havoc on them. It can really be said that he was caught in bed, and the evidence is ironclad, when Minoa saw those sleek big white pigs, he almost even had his lungs explode.

He was beaten half to death on the spot. If you don't kill them, Minoa still has a trace of luck in his heart, he is afraid that these people are impersonated by me, so after the beating, he began to check that the serious priests have certificates issued by the Holy See, which is the proof of their identity, Minoa looked at it, all of them were not fake, but he still didn't believe it, and checked the bodies of several people, the pure light magic in their bodies could not deceive people no matter what, and he finally believed it.

He then began to conduct a thorough search of the church, recovering a large number of belongings, accounts, and letters. It's all absolutely ironclad evidence, and the accounts clearly remember the amount of wealth they have amassed. The so-called holy war tax was actually just a kind of fundraising conducted by the Holy See, and since it was a fundraiser, it should naturally be given if you are willing, and even if you are unwilling.

But when they got here, it became a tax that had to be paid in a certain amount, which was higher than the tax levied by the king, and where could the people bear it, and they sold this and that, but in the end they couldn't pay it, so the people in the church occasionally used excuses to do evil everywhere. Minoa then called the people of the town to learn more about the matter.

When the people saw that he really dared to beat the pastor, and that there was a child on the side as an example, they immediately had the courage to tell all the good things that the church guys had done. The misery with which they were plagued by the guys in the church was so sad that the listeners were sad and the listeners wept. Minoa was so angry that she was about to cry, and after seeing this, she was trying to protect the Holy See, and she was completely speechless.

He was a hateful man and a devout believer. I couldn't see anyone ruining God's reputation, so in a fit of rage, he opened the killing ring, five priests, and a dozen or so guards all told him to kill, and then divided the church's finances, and promised on behalf of the Holy See that the holy war tax is a collection of donations, and it can not be paid, and whoever dares to come to collect it in the future will completely ruin God's reputation. You can kill as much as you want.

Minoa thought that he had done a good job this time, and he could finally get rid of a cancer in the Holy See, but unexpectedly, the development of the situation became more and more out of his control, and the problem came out that the seized letter and the child's sister were not found, and the letter said that the child's sister had been sent to a cathedral in the city two months ago, and the ambiguous tone in it showed that the people in this cathedral did not seem to be a thing.

Minoa promised to help people find her sister, but now she hasn't found it, of course it's not over. So he rushed to the church in the big city, saying that the big city actually only has a population of about 100,000, but the church here is no longer as good as the countryside, and there are dozens of priests in this church, and there are hundreds of guards in this church, which is guarded by my troops, and it is relatively inconvenient to enter and exit.

Poor Dao had already greeted the following in advance, so Minoa wanted to enter the church without anyone to stop him, and he was very cooperative to help him, with the cooperation of the troops, Minoa quickly controlled everyone inside, and then naturally there was a big search, and there were nearly 100 poor girls found, and there were beautiful boys wearing women's clothes inside, which made Minoa almost die of shame, where is this still a church? It is simply a brothel rabbit nest.

After a few days of interrogation and sorting, one after another big cases in the well fields surfaced, there is a way to warm up and think about lust, these pastors have nothing to do all day long, so they ponder two things, collecting wealth and fornication. There are all kinds of ways to collect money, and collecting jihadist taxes is just one. They also find ways to persecute small nobles or wealthy merchants, and directly embezzle other people's property in large quantities, and there are not a few unlucky people like Minoa's friend Rodak.

As for fornication, not to mention, bishops with status are comparing themselves to a few noble women. The higher the level, the more worthy of showing off. In addition to women and men, these boring guys are disgusting and messing with something. A village of dirty transactions came out of this, Minoa didn't know how he came over for a day, these dirty things completely subverted the image of the perfect Holy See in his mind, and under the huge blow of reality, he became much older.

He really wanted to end the matter, even if it wasn't too serious to rot a church, but he was saddened to find that he was only the tip of the iceberg. He felt like he was having a nightmare that he would never wake up from.

However, the upright personality. At the same time, he himself knew that if he gave up one day, it would mean that he had doubts about his faith, and his strong strength based on firm faith would be gone.

So, he began to run endlessly. He got clues from the church in this city, and then went to the church in the next city to investigate and confirm, he came every time with hope, but returned with disappointment, and in this way, in just over a month, he walked through the capitals of the thirteen provinces in the occupied area, killing hundreds of bishops. But the results of the investigation turned out that there was no place that was innocent.

Thirteen disappointments almost made him despair. But when all the evidence pointed to the cathedral of the Far Carter royal capital at the same time, he still came without hesitation. You know, the cathedral of the capital city of each country can be regarded as the face of the Holy See in this country. Once something shady is revealed, the consequences will be absolutely catastrophic.