Chapter 287: Protestantism (2)
Qi Meng sent two warriors from the Chamber of Commerce to investigate, and got the news that the Principality of Darden allowed the legitimacy of Protestantism, and the local Church of Light was gradually being neglected and alienated, although the Church of Light was powerful and deep-rooted, but the Principality of Darden was attached to the Pirosa Empire after all, and the Church of Light had no ability to interfere in internal affairs, and when the Grand Duke decided to support Protestantism, the Church of Light had to begin to withdraw some clergy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
It was a strange thing for Zimmon to find this Protestantism interesting, and it was a strange thing that no church without gods could be believed in by so many people, and after learning about its founder, this church aroused his great interest.
The head of the church turned out to be the great poet Gore.
According to the warriors who had gone to investigate, they had only heard Gore explain the mysteries of faith and the gods to the followers on their first day of contact with Protestantism.
This great poet, whom Qi Meng once hated, actually knew a lot of things, but his generous spread of the mysteries of the gods and beliefs made the mysterious veil of the religion of the gods gradually peeled away, which not only hurt the believers' illusions, prayers, and expectations of the omniscient and all-powerful gods, but also interpreted the greatness of the gods as an exchange of faith and divine power.
In this way, the offended church is not only the Church of Light, almost all religions on the mainland, even the religion that believes in the dark gods, still image the gods as the representative of the supremacy of love, and this description and interpretation of Protestantism has put people and gods on an equal footing.
And gods and men are clearly not equal.
However, this church still attracted a large number of young and talented people, and in just a few years, it had become the first church in the Duchy of Darden, and of course, they were also subjected to terrible reprisals, and almost everywhere the church was located, fanatical pagans must have attacked the Protestants.
Zimon didn't quite believe that a person who could only recite poetry could grow a new church in a few years, could it be supported by some great nobleman? The Grand Duke of Darden would not be this character, at least before he decided to support Protestantism, Protestantism had been around for more than a year, and it had grown rapidly, and the support of the Grand Duke was more like a helpless compromise with Protestantism.
The thugs sent a few warriors to investigate, and the only answer they got was the great poet Gore, and Zimon still didn't want to believe that a poet who was no one better in the field of hymns would suddenly give up his devout praise of the gods and embark on a pagan path.
But the fact is that Gore relied on his prestige in the poetry world and won the support of several nobles, starting from a single person to preach, gradually accepting believers until the current Protestantism was officially established.
The Protestant Church has just over 100,000 official adherents, but the Protestant Holy Crusade has as many as 50,000!
The reason is that most of their followers are young people, and they are full of enthusiasm and do not have much fear of death and war.
Compared with the high threshold of the Knight of Light, the Holy Cross Army does not have such a rule as being above the fifth level of vindictiveness, as long as you are willing to join the Holy Cross, even if you are close to eighty years old, you can become a member of the Holy Cross.
When others laugh at the ignorance of Protestantism, most of them ignore that the main body of Protestant believers is still some young people, and their fighting spirit and magic will have a lot of room for improvement even if they start from scratch.
When the Holy Cross Army grew from 3,000 warriors to 50,000 warriors, there were already 30,000 warriors, and even the famous Shadow Sword Saint also went to the Holy Cross Army to serve as a regimental commander of the Holy Cross Army and an instructor of sword skills.
Zimmon was so intrigued about this Protestantism that he couldn't help it, and decided to see for himself the peculiarities of this church.
The Duchy of Darden and Bhakda are separated by two countries, one is the Norman kingdom and the other is Biruchko, and Zimon intends to go to Biruchko to see the current situation of Biruchko after the bandit Brownie took power.
As for the various reasons, the frank elf made it clear this time, that is, to keep an eye on him, so as not to be a cunning demon, and when he came back from a trip, he would bring two beauties back.
This kind of thing has happened too much to Zimon, and Abel and Skuna are all lessons from the past.
When Zimon and Ogurita teleported to Biruchko's palace, the haggard Brownie raised his tired eyes, was stunned, and said, "It's you, I've opened the door to Biruchko's economy and let the Helen Chamber of Commerce come in, what are you doing here?"
Forty-year-old Brownie looked like he was fifty years old, with a gray beard, wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his eyes, which had shone with a cunning light, were cloudy and gray.
The letters piled up on the thief's table were still thick in a stack, and Qi Meng felt a little touched in his heart, and said: "Brownie, Lao Tzu sees that you are really hard here, and now the Helen Chamber of Commerce is lacking a role like you, it is better to go with Lao Tzu, anyway, Luo Ao has also thought about being a king." ā
"Abandonment?" The thief sneered, glanced at all the furnishings in the study, and said: "Look at everything around, I abandoned the position and these are all gone away from me, whether it is praise, power, or this beautiful and rare gem, now I don't enjoy enough, why give up." ā
"If you insist on staying here, sooner or later these things will consume all your vitality. Zimmon glanced at the letter on the table.
Brownie shook his head and laughed twice, and said, "Roo, a cunning guy, has broken away from Biruchko and officially given up his position as a ****." ā
At this time, a young boy of eight or nine years old pushed the door in from outside the study and ran to Brownie's side, and the thief picked him up, put him on his lap, and said with doting eyes: "I originally planned to give the throne to Luo O, but he doesn't seem to have any interest in the throne, and those 'loyal' ministers forced me to make him **** on the first day of the child's birth, and now that I leave this position, it is time for him to come." ā
"Me and him don't come and go as freely as you, your abilities are very strong, I'm just a seventh-level martial artist, when those strong and 'loyal' ministers under me want me to stay, what should I give up?"
"Now that I say you're out of place, there's no one here who can keep you and him in front of me and Ogurita. Qi Meng said lightly.
The thief shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Morha, go and greet the guests." ā
The young boy immediately left the thief's lap, walked to Zimon with unsteady steps, and bowed to Qimon and Ogulita with humility, and his humble appearance did not even look like a prince.
"I am the eldest son of King Bronny, Moorha, this gentleman, this beautiful young lady, please accept my sincere greetings. When the five or six-year-old boy saluted, no matter the tone of his movements, or even his immature but already elegant smile, he perfectly matched the status of a prince.
However, appearing at this age is always creepy.
"Alright, Moorha, you get out. The bandit said softly.
"Yes, father. Don Quixote went out, stood on tiptoe, and closed the door.
Qi Meng stared at the small figure hidden by the door, and before he knew it, he had put his brows together.
"I'm not going to leave here now, just go, if there's anything else, I think I can help you until it doesn't hurt Biruchko's interests. ā
Qi Meng was silent for a moment, sighed, and said, "It seems that it was wrong to let you take over this position in the first place. ā
With that, he and Ogulita disappeared in front of Brownie.
Brownie's tired eyes slowly fell back to the bookcase.
After the 10,000,000,000 gold coins, the ideal of slipping away has lost its most important core, and even if he leaves the palace with Morha, he will eventually return to this place, and the 'loyal' ministers who are good at educating great politicians have already instilled many things in him.
Biruchko is ushering in his own big change, based on the prosperity of corruption, but in terms of economy and military power, the bandit wants to make Morha a little better off in the future, there are many things to do, no longer the past is only the country continues to be rich, he continues to be corrupt.
No matter which country, once the wind of corruption prevails, all development is a building on a quagmire, and soon the whole building will sink, and the thieves can no longer hold the great idea of 'no matter whether they live or die in other countries, as long as they are rich for a while, corrupt for a while, and then slip away, leaving this mess who loves to take it'.
Rectifying Biruchko's internal affairs and punishing those who were excessively corrupt became the bandits' current task.
However, in the final analysis, the king is only a representative of a group, and when there is a conflict of interest between the king himself and the group, if the conflict cannot be reconciled, the king will also lose his authority.
Brownie was shrewd, and knew that he wanted to unite the majority of the group, first to make his position on the same end as them, and then to unite them to clean up the other small parts, and then to separate another small part from this large part and clean it up one by one.
But among them, who really needs to be cleaned up, who can be cleaned up, and who can't, is an art, just weighing this huge network of relationships and the balance of interests, the thieves have exhausted their mental strength. Fortunately, in the end, the people who were cleaned up all died in the name of heinous crimes, many evils, and corruption.
He had never doubted how much danger his men would pose to him when he was chasing the gold coins and beauties, but now, Brownie knew that he was walking on the tip of a knife.
The Duchy of Darden, a small country slightly smaller than Urishan, has its capital at Versailles and is the core hub of Protestantism.
When Zimon and Ogulita arrived in Versailles, the Holy Crusade was practicing outside the city, and the drills of this army, which still had many non-martial artists, were so neat and tidy that it was not at all made up of those hot-blooded young people, but more like a well-trained and disciplined veteran.
The legal knighthood of the Duchy of Darden has increased to two, the Holy Cross and the Lasse Knights, and the two get along surprisingly well. (To be continued.) )