"Religion is a double-edged sword!" Luo Di sighed, and he smiled bitterly, "It's naturally good to use it to control people's hearts. But the more sacred it is, the more it cannot stand the slightest blasphemy. Once the devout believers are revealed, the bishops and lords whom they have always regarded as the most holy and holy of all, and the servants of the gods who serve the gods on high are simply a bunch of liars, then such a gap will arouse an unusually strong anger!" Roddy's tone gradually became serious: "That kind of anger is enough to destroy everything!"

Nicole lowered her head and thought for a while before she said slowly: "It seems that your plan is to take the opportunity to ruin the reputation of the Divine Cult, and a discredited church will not be able to continue to win the hearts of the people." ”

Roddy gently hugged Nicole's waist and smiled, "Okay, we've been in this hunting ground for a day, it's time to go back and see the bishop in the church." The Bishop must have lost weight several times in the past few days. ”

Miaosi next to her sighed, looking at Luo Di's eyes a little complicated: "Luo Di, how come you never said these methods of dealing with the Divine Cult when you were in Roland 6? ”

Luo Di was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "Miaosi, you are blaming me, right? Now that Roland 6 has started to fight, the war between the temple and the kingdom will definitely kill many people." I'll tell you, this is the method we use now, even if I told King Sauron at the time. They have no way to deal with the Divine Temple!The situation in the Roland 6 Land is different from that of the Bright Empire!"

In the church of Xiqiu City, the bishop has been living like a year. Outside, the soldiers of the police station surrounded the church like a prison cell, and no one was allowed to enter or leave, not even those who helped the church buy food and drink for daily needs.

At first, the bishop was even afraid that the other party would try to starve himself to death in the church, and that the people who had been sent out to buy food and drink tried to negotiate with the other party to no avail. On the contrary, after being beaten half to death, no one dared to go out again.

Luckily, Roddy didn't want their lives right now, and every day he would have the soldiers throw in a few pieces of the cheapest piece of air-dried brown bread.

When had the bishop, who had always been dressed in fine clothes, suffered such hardships? And few of the high-ranking clergy beside him were true ascetics, and after three days of coarse grain, none of them were not crying for their fathers and mothers. It's just that because of the majesty of the Marquis of Roddy, no one dares to make any moves.

However, even if nothing else, the diet was a little worse, and it was nothing more than to endure it, but the soldiers outside not only blocked the outsiders. Even the people who came into the church every day to clean up all of them blocked back – including the vehicles that handled the toilets.

There are dozens of people in the clergy, and they are trapped in the church these days, and even if they eat little, they always have to defecate! The toilets in the church have not been cleaned for many days. As soon as you enter the church, you can't hide the smell of a foul smell wafting around the otherwise sacred church.

The Bishop could only sit there and pray every day. This time the matter is big, and he naturally knows that even if he can escape this catastrophe in the end, I am afraid that he will have to take some responsibility afterwards......

Hoping for the stars and the moon, the Flame Warriors came, but things didn't go as the Bishop thought. The Marquis of Roddy on the other side had a surprisingly tough attitude. They didn't even pay attention to the Flame Warrior Regiment of the church, and the soldiers of the security station who surrounded them didn't disperse at all, and the Flame Warrior Regiment was simply hung there!

Roddy did a great job. He didn't even send someone to arrange a place for the Flame Warrior Regiment. Just pretending to let the sheriff go to greet him, that is, prepare a simple pergola outside the church. The Flame Warrior Order's deputy head of the Flame Warrior Order, Strayer, ran back to the church after begging to see Roddy. I also understand that it seems that things cannot be solved in a short time.

His first thought was to find the sheriff and ask him to arrange a location for them to be stationed with his two thousand samurai.

Strier's reason is very simple: first, the original church of the flame warriors went to any part of the empire, and naturally the local church was responsible for providing for it, but now the church is surrounded, and Xiqiu, as the fief of the Tulip family, has never had a church army stationed here. Naturally, Xiqiu will be held responsible.

The sheriff had already received Luo Di's secret order, and after quietly listening to the request of the Flame Warrior Order, he spread his hands and said lightly: "This forgiveness official can't do it." There has never been a military camp for the samurai regiment of the church in Nishigaoka. To tell you the truth, the only barracks here is where our soldiers are stationed, what else...... Hehe, there was originally an empty barracks, which was responsible for guarding the Tulip Annex. Now it is also occupied by the entourage of Marquis Roddy, so I am really helpless to ask for your request......"

"Do you want our Sacred Flame Warriors to live on the streets!!"

The sheriff rolled his eyelids and said lazily: "Well, to be honest, it's not within the jurisdiction of the lower officials." However, if you must find a place to stay, why not go to the barracks of the Tulip Annex, and consult with the escort army of Lord Marquis Rodi to see if they can give up some of the barracks......

Strail immediately sent ten men, and in less than half an hour, all ten of his own warriors ran back with bruises and swollen faces.

It turned out that when they got there, before they could finish their words, they were driven out by the escort army of Lord Marquis Rody. The two sides did not agree at the last word. The flame warriors of these churches are usually proud, and they never look down on the local army.

But this time they still kicked the iron plate.

Lord Marquis Roddy came to Xiqiu with his new wife, Miss Nicole, this time. Escorting two thousand troops, although it is not Thor's whip, I am afraid that it is not as good as Thor's whip in terms of combat effectiveness. But the shelves are ridiculously large!

That's two thousand royal guards!!

Who are the Royal Guards? They have always been the Royal Guards who are specifically responsible for guarding the royal family! They have always looked at people through their nostrils under the banner of the royal family, and the Flame Samurai Regiment is arrogant? The arrogance of the Royal Guards has become even more arrogant!

At that time, the two sides turned their faces, and the Royal Guards scolded: Only our Royal Guards have ever robbed other people's things. No one has dared to come and grab our territory yet!

Steller was anxious, he was not a stupid person originally, although he was a little short-tempered, but after calming down, he immediately understood a strange aura.

It is clear that this Marquis of Rodi is deliberately working against the Church!

The identity of this new powerful figure in the empire is a little delicate. Not only is he the brother-in-law of Duke Tulip, the first marshal of the empire, but also has the title of marquis, and the identity of the commander of the northern army of the empire, what is even more intriguing is ...... A marquis of an empire. When you travel, you can take the "Royal Guard" as an accompanying escort, which is the glory of the royal family!

It seems that the church is ill-prepared this time! I thought it was just a dispute in an ordinary local parish, and I sent myself to mediate and suppress those mobs, but I didn't expect the situation here to be so complicated......

Steller would never dare to act rashly. On the one hand, he immediately sent someone back to the imperial capital to report the situation here, and on the other hand, he reluctantly ordered all his subordinates to camp in the square outside the church.

If this order continues, those Flame Warriors are really stupid.

Stationed on the spot, how to be stationed, sleeping on the streets?

Because the Empire is so powerful. The Flame Warrior Regiment had never needed to carry any supplies in any city of the Empire, and this time they had two thousand people to Xiqiu. Not to mention any tents and other baggage, even the grain and grass are just carrying some personal rations.

Two thousand, men to eat, horses to eat grass – where do these things come from?

For a time, Steller even put down his face and begged the sheriff, and when he saw that it was ineffective, he came up with the same rhetoric of the church, trying to influence these barbarian fellows in the name of the great gods.

But the other party, from officers to soldiers, rolled their eyes when they heard this kind of rhetoric. He simply replied: "Lao Tzu is not a believer. ”

In the Empire of Light, although the Cult of God has established itself as the state religion. However, the Imperial Decree did not impose a requirement for the subjects of the Empire to believe in the Divine Religion, although the Imperial Decree also stipulated that it was forbidden to practice any religion other than the Divine Religion, and declared that only the Divine Religion was the only legal religious organization in the Empire. At the same time, however, the right not to believe in religion was allowed.

In other words, as long as you don't believe in other religions, then whether you believe in gods or not depends on your personal preference.

Strier was completely desperate, he had already seen that in Xiqiu, and even in the entire Xilin Province, everyone here, whether it was soldiers or ordinary people, seemed to have an unusually superior mentality, and in their hearts, no emperor, or His Majesty the Pope, all of them were not as great as a tulip duke! They only recognized tulips in their eyes, and they didn't recognize anything else! This was simply a private kingdom of tulips!

Thankfully, Roddy didn't really want to kill them.

After the Flame Warriors had spent the night in the square, Lord Marquis of Roddy finally appeared.

At noon the next day, the young Marquis got up late, had breakfast, freshened up, and rode to the church with the fifty Thunder God's whips.

Looking at Mr. Steller, who was a little haggard, Roddy finally had a somewhat peaceful smile on his face. But he still did not dismount, but sat upright on the horse, and said with a pleasant face: "Lord Stellier, you arrived yesterday, right?

Strail looked helplessly at the young marquis's smile. At the moment, I haven't slept all night, and my stomach is empty. But I had to put on a smile and deal with a few words.

Luo Di yawned and said with a smile: "Since you have rested, then let's start dealing with this land dispute today, you must have understood the incident a few days ago." I had already surrounded the church early and forbade anyone to enter or leave. I am afraid that someone will take the opportunity to destroy the evidence, and I hope you understand that I am doing this purely out of the desire to preserve the sacred glory of the Church!"

Speaking of this, Roddy waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers surrounding the church to get out of the way, and Roddy finally dismounted, took Strier's hand and smiled, "Let's go in and meet the Bishop." ”

When he walked into the church and saw the bishop, Roddy didn't have such a good face, his face was pale. He glanced at the bishop coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency, I have sent someone down to investigate in detail in the past few days, and there are indeed people who are cheating in the name of the church......

The bishop's voice was hoarse, but he still shouted: "That's a sham!

Roddy shook his head. said lightly: "Whether it is planted or not, this is naturally clear." As the saying goes, catch a thief and catch dirty, and in order to show justice, I would like to send someone in and search the church to see if there is any dirt. If not, this kind of behavior is the most direct and effective attack on those rumors! Teach innocence with hard evidence! I think this is the best solution now, you see?"

His last "look" was clearly addressed to Steller. Then Roddy added: "That's why I didn't search this place for a long time. Just to wait for your arrival, I just sent people to surround this place these days, the purpose is to wait for your arrival, and search under your witness, so that I can show justice!"

Search the church, search the religious office of a diocese in the land of the Imperial God! Even in the time of Abbasid, such an iron-bowl powerful figure as Abbasid the Great did not have such disrespect for the church!

But then again, even the Abbasid Emperor didn't make such a move as sending troops to surround the church.

Steller carefully weighed Roddy's words in his heart. Search the church?Since the young marquis dared to make such a proposal, he naturally had some certainty. Otherwise, wouldn't all these things he had done these days be useless?

But now that I'm reasonable, I don't seem to be able to refuse......

After thinking about it for a while, Strier lowered his face and said: "Lord Marquis, the church is a place dedicated to the great supreme god, and sending troops to search the church is disrespectful to the sacred majesty of the Divine Religion, you see......"

"I'm sorry. Luo Di said lightly: "First, I am not a believer myself. Second, I am the Marquis of the Empire, and I only obey the decrees of the Empire!

His words were brief, but there was no room for maneuver in his tone.

Strier glanced at the bishop, who hesitated for a moment, then nodded vigorously. Steller was relieved.

Since the bishops have said that the search has nothing to do with it, then search it! These days, the soldiers outside have surrounded this place so tightly, presumably the other party can't frame the blame if they want to.

Luo Di smiled slightly and said, "For the sake of fairness, the people who searched are half of the soldiers of the empire and half of the flame warriors of the church, what do you think?"

The more Roddy said that, the more suspicious Steller became. Could it be that this young Marquis is so sure? Even the bishop's expression seemed to be a little faintly uneasy, but then he took a tough attitude, and said loudly: "If the search fails, the Marquis will give us justice!

Roddy readily agreed.

At that moment, the fifty Thor's whips under Luo Di's command, plus the fifty warriors of the Flame Warrior Order, Qi Li began a search in the church. They searched extremely carefully, sparing almost every inch of land. After two hours, nothing was found.

The bishop's attitude gradually hardened, and Steller also looked at Roddy with some smugness.

Luo Di didn't panic at all, squinted his eyes and smiled, quietly listened to the report of his subordinates, and suddenly his eyes fell on the idol in front of the church hall, and suddenly whispered: "Move the idol away!"

"No!" the bishop's face changed, and even Strier showed an angry expression, gritting his teeth and saying, "Lord Marquis, the idol must not be wrenched! This is a matter involving the majesty of the supreme god! The empire has been founded for hundreds of years. You've gone a little too far today!"

Luo Di ignored the clamor of the two people, looked coldly at the thunder god's whip of his subordinates, and said lightly: "Didn't you hear my order?"

Those Thor's whips don't care what they do, they only recognize the Tulip family in their eyes! Now this Marquis of Roddy is the brother-in-law of Lord Duke, and he also came out of Thor's whip, and in their eyes he is his own person. Hearing Roddy's order. All the wolf tooth soldiers immediately got the order, and they went to move the statue with all hands and feet.

Steller's eyes were red, and he was about to turn his face on the spot, and he was about to shout to order his samurai to step forward to stop him, Roddy narrowed his eyes, and his hand was pressed on the hilt of the knife at his waist for some time, and there was a trace of cold in his eyes, and the murderous aura on his body made Steller and the bishop cold.

"You'd better not act rashly! This is Xiqiu! It's the fief of the Tulip family, and everything here must be under my orders! I repeat, I'm not a Christian! The rules of the church don't control me. I only recognize the decrees of the Empire!"

There was a calm aura on his body, and the faint momentum made the bishop and Strier suffocate.

Only a click was heard, and the huge stone statue of the god had been moved in half. The bishop's face immediately changed, and his legs trembled like a sieve. His face was earthy, his lips trembled, and he didn't know what words to whisper.

"Lord Marquis, there's something here!" a soldier with Thor's Whip reported loudly.

Roddy sneered and glanced at the two of them coldly. Strode over. The bishop was so weak that he sat down on the ground.

Strier's face also changed drastically, and he gave the bishop a fierce look. Quickly followed.

Under the idol, there was a wooden dark grid, and Roddy looked at it twice, and suddenly snorted softly, and drew his scimitar. I saw a bright cold light flashing, and with a chirp, the dark grid had been torn apart, and countless golden gold coins were scattered inside!!

Then a large pile of gold coins was suddenly exposed, and for a while, the faces of the people standing next to them were covered with golden light. It's just that Stellier's face immediately turned dead gray.

"I can't think of it. I think there's at least 50,000 gold coins here...... Gentlemen, how can the clergy of the church, who have always claimed to be in the service of the great gods, have so much private property? If it is a blasphemy to search the church and move the statues, what is it to hide so many gold coins under the statues?"

Strier gave the bishop a fierce look, with an indescribable resentment and despair in his eyes. The people of the Flame Warrior Order looked at the original clergy in the church with indescribable disdain.

"Yi, there's another layer of ...... below" Luo Di suddenly smiled slightly, and stabbed down with his backhand, splitting another layer.

With a bang, some bits and pieces were scattered, and everyone present had strange expressions, looking at the bishop and speechless.

"Hmm...... Candles, leather whips, iron shackles......" Roddy said in a strange tone, sighed, seemed to have a somewhat strange smile, and said slowly: "The interest of Lord Bishop is very peculiar......"

The bishop came to his senses and screamed, "These ...... These things are not mine!!"

Roddy snorted coldly and said, "It's not yours, it's not yours, is it mine?

Strier's eyes rolled twice, and suddenly a trace of fierceness flashed, and he suddenly shouted: "I'll kill you, the scum of the Divine Sect!"

After saying that, he suddenly pulled out his long sword and slashed at the bishop with his backhand!

Seeing that a cold light had reached the pale-faced bishop's neck, he suddenly heard a clang, Roddy's scimitar no longer knew when to hold his sword, Steller's body trembled, only to feel that the long sword was like an electric shock, the tiger's mouth hurt, and he almost couldn't hold it, and he couldn't help but take two steps back.

Roddy narrowed his eyes, he stared into Steller's eyes, and said coldly, "What's the matter?

He glanced at the other party fiercely, and then said loudly: "The bishop of the Xiqiu Divine Sect Religious Institute has hidden unknown belongings, and will move all these things back! Immediately arrest all the clergy in the Xiqiu Church and interrogate them!"

Fifty wolf tooth soldiers had already swarmed up, tying one to one like a wolf and a tiger, and pressing all the stunned clergy to the ground.

The bishop had already collapsed with fright, his fat face trembling, and he just muttered to himself.

Many of these clergy had some warlocks who wanted to resist on the spot, but with Roddy standing here, he was like lightning, and he instantly knocked down the two guys who tried to resist on the spot.

Stellier's mind went blank.

The embezzlement of money by some high-ranking clergy in the Divine Cult is not news to him. It's just that these things are quite ordinary, and what he can't figure out now is why this young upstart of the empire dares to take such a big risk and blatantly oppose the Divine Cult?

Could it be that this bishop has offended the marquis?

Seeing that the people had been kidnapped, Roddy didn't even look at Steller and left proudly.

Strier was silent for a moment, then he let out a long sigh and whispered to the people beside him: "Pass my orders, from now on, our people will be honest with me, and we are not allowed to have any conflicts with them, and we are not allowed to act rashly!

The attendant next to him hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Excellency......"

"Shut up!" said in a low voice, "We're in trouble this time!

Out of the corner of his eye, he brushed the scattered leather whips, iron shackles, and candles on the ground again, and couldn't help but show a somewhat disgusted expression, snorted fiercely, and strode out.

Roddy didn't pay attention to these guys anymore, and went back to the Tulip Courtyard with people, and all the people who were captured were put in the prison in the security station. Roddy specifically told the sheriff: "Don't interrogate them, don't embarrass them, give me good food and drink! But watch it tightly! Keep a close watch! No one is allowed to die! Especially the bishop!"

Looking at the sheriff's puzzled gaze, Roddy smiled slightly, didn't explain, waved his hand and let him go down, and whispered to himself: "They have a greater use! Keeping them is the best evidence of the Cult scandal! Hmph, that Tellier wants to kill people under my nose, am I a fool!"

After returning to the other courtyard, Luo Di gave a few women about today's events, and when he talked about finding those dirty things, and talking about the wonderful expressions of those people in the Divine Sect, Light Moon Dance couldn't help laughing and clapping his hands.

Immediately, this little girl couldn't help but ask: "By the way, are those gold coins really embezzled by the bishop?"

Luo Di nodded and said, "The Divine Cult of the Empire, the corruption of those high-ranking clergymen, has long been no secret. ”

Xiao Nizi's eyes seemed to light up, and she said, "But...... What are those leather whips, candles, and iron shackles for?"

Luo Di immediately stopped talking, looked at her with an embarrassed face, said a few words, and hurriedly ran away with an excuse.

Xiao Nizi became more and more curious, and turned her head to ask Nicole, Nicole was so embarrassed that her face was flushed, and Miao Ge also seemed to be unable to speak, but Gu Zuoyan dealt with a few words, and then he prevaricated.

The more she thought about it, the more confused she became, she only felt that there must be some secret here, and when everyone ran away, she suddenly called a servant and ordered, "Go and find me a leather whip, a candle, and a pair of iron shackles!"

Beat away the strange-looking servant, but Danyue Wu tilted her head and said with hatred: "Hmph, if you don't tell me, won't I study it myself?"