After delivering a billion gold coins to the royal family, Randolph also took out the previous pope from the dungeon, and even the former pope didn't expect that he could come out as the pope again, he didn't want to stay here, he just wanted to leave here and find a place where no one knew him to spend his old age in secret.

When he came out, he thanked Randolph more than once.

So, the next day, in the largest square in the royal capital, the beheading purge held by the church officially began.

The former Pope was gagged with a rag, and knelt in the most conspicuous position at the front with a panicked face, Randolph spent hundreds of millions more than to buy back the other party and let him enjoy.

Along with the previous pope, there were many cardinals who had their heads cut off, and those were specially selected by Randolph to have the most impact, the most impressive, of the negative news, and the effect was never the best.

After killing these people, Randolph said that as the new pope who came down from the church, he would definitely investigate these things clearly.

At the same time, the former pope and those bishops and priests who broke the precepts were stripped from the church, which roughly means that those things that had nothing to do with the church were blamed on the pope, so it led to the corruption of the clergy. Their evil is their business, and it has nothing to do with the church, and you can still believe in the church forever.

And now, as the new pope who has come down from the church country, he will take care of the church here that has deviated from the right track, and his decision to kill those people this time is his own determination to do things.

After this set of operations, sure enough, the church's reputation has rebounded a little, and the pressure of public opinion on the church in society has also weakened a lot. Some believers who previously said they had "lost their fans" also returned to the embrace of the Church of Light. It was very difficult for them to lose their faith during the time, and they even found a reason to excuse the church, and Randolph gave them the reason that it was so good that they could finally return to the embrace of the Lord.

Later, Randolph strictly carried out his plan, fabricated some more negative news about the church and spread it, and then after public opinion reached its peak again, he came up with key evidence that it was all rumors, and many other news were also rumors.

After this wave of operation, public opinion in society was divided into two waves, and one wave firmly felt that even if those few were rumors, the church was not a good person. The other wave believes that the Church has actually been framed, and that everything but the bad Pope is good, but this wave is still a little smaller.

Later, Randolph himself took out some of the scum in the church, made another wave of self-denunciations, and then beheaded those people as well. At the same time, in the major newspapers, pay for editors to write content that is beneficial to the church. After this time, the two sides were evenly matched, and some people began to openly support Randolph, the new pope, thinking that he could make the church better.

Randolph then proceeded to pay for schools and hospitals in the same way that Claire had given him, which won some favor for the church at the bottom.

In the end, some well-known bishops were erected, and Randolph also deliberately selected some bishops and priests who had no "previous convictions" to be promoted. Then they falsify or let them make up some deeds that are beneficial to the Church, and then they hype it up, and change the direction of public opinion to that there are good clergy in the kingdom too! The church is still worthy of faith.

At the same time, spending money to "amplify" the voices that support the church, creating the illusion that most people support the church. So slowly, some voices against the church in the society became quieter and quieter, because they felt that they had become a minority, and they were also "smart", so they no longer continued to talk against the church.

As a result, the church has changed back to the previous church, even if it has such a bad black history and is essentially unchanged, but some things, as long as someone is willing to believe, will become "facts." ”

……

"Welcome to the territory of the Duchy of Tulip." The border guard at the border gate showed a mouthful of white teeth and smiled.

"Tulip Principality?" The person in charge of the caravan who came in was a little confused, "What tulip principality?" Isn't this the county of Carlyle? ”

"That's right, this is the county of Carlyle, and it's also the territory of the Duchy of Tulip." The border guard explained.

"Huh?" The merchant was even more confused, "No, I was still a county of Carlyle when I came yesterday, and today I have become a tulip principality?" ”

"Yes, that's right." The border guard patiently explained: "The Duchy of Tulip is composed of the counties of Griffin, Carlyle, Green, Vian, Avon, and Harvey. ”

"The system in the principality is the same, and it will be more convenient and convenient for you to do business and trade in the future."

Although he was still confused, the person in charge of the caravan still responded: "How much is the entry fee?" Or the same five gold coins as before? ”

"No, if you have these goods, just give four gold coins."

"Uh-huh!!" The merchant's face showed joy, which was a real benefit.

……

The news of the establishment of the Tulip Principality soon spread among the various nobles within the kingdom, and they were all stunned when they received the news.

I thought that Claire was only using his own earldom to come to the principality in the city, but I didn't expect him to silently annex the five territories around him!

This directly accounted for one-half of the southern part of the kingdom, forming an absolute economic monopoly in the south, and if you want to do business in the south in the future, you have to go through him, otherwise there are so many checkpoints stuck, and you and others can't do anything at all.

But there are still many nobles who can't figure it out, how can Claire get all five territories so quickly, but he must not be aware of it.

In fact, when the church was in a uproar before, Claire was not idle, and after hearing about Erin and they stopped, Claire stopped sending people to target the church and began to get busy with her own affairs. And the affairs of the church also gave him some cover, and all the people's attention was there, and some of the things he did could be manipulated, and the speed was also accelerated a lot.

Austin unsurprisingly became the new Earl of Carlyle, legally inherited all the assets of the previous Earl of Carlyle, and with his own covert help, he quickly took control of the entire Carlyle County.

So there were still two people left to solve, and Earl Green was the most knowledgeable, and after noticing the changes in the surrounding territories, he took the initiative to become Claire's vassal territory before he came to the door.

And the other Viscount Harvey of Lianli City, Claire took a little trouble to send someone to put a dagger to his neck, and he was more than happy to become Claire's vassal.

After all the preparations were made, Claire wrote a letter to Erin about her intention to establish a principality, although she knew that the other party would definitely give her permission to reply, but Claire still wrote a letter and handed it over in order to respect Erin as a queen.

After getting the reply, the result was the same as she thought, and Claire immediately annexed all the territories and became her vassals, and the process went smoothly without encountering any other obstacles. The port city that Count Vian asked for him also supported a puppet lord on Count Evan's side, and the minerals from Ogon City to Nafu City will be provided exclusively for Nafu City.