727. Celebrations and Religion
On the main road of the temple district of Night Qi City, an anonymous sect still insists that their rituals be held in the open air, and these days the priests of the sect distribute a large number of leaflets, attracting guests from the imperial capital, Dragon Tooth City, and other places.
The crowd gathered around the sleek priests, cheering and shouting loudly, and soon a layer of wine-stained gold coins was quickly laid on the ground.
Uffy led a dozen knights to the corner of the street, watching this farce with a blank face, feeling very speechless.
When Priest Hughes finished speaking, Uffy patted his mount and amplified his voice with wind magic: "Priest Hughes, your ritual is too unethical, I ask you to return to your temple in the name of the Knights of Night Qicheng!" ”
As soon as Uffy finished speaking, there were boos from the crowd.
"Uffi Knight, our festival has already applied to the Consulate and received permission, why are you letting us go back?" Hughes yelled unconvinced, "In the past few days, there have been sects holding open-air ceremonies every day, why can't they be?" ”
Hughes's fat figure was disgusting to look at, and she said impatiently, "Because they have at least one dress." Uffi said with a blank face.
"That's everyone's ritual rules are different! Our sect has always been like this, and our feelings for Your Majesty must be publicized in public! Hughes said over and over again, causing the witch prostitutes behind him to scratch their heads, causing the crowd to cheer.
As Hughes himself said, his sect worships the ancient gods related to the moon god, the god of love, and the god of life, so since they moved back to Yeqi City, they have almost turned their own temple into a brothel and prostitution, and they are wantonly noisy day and night, and even run to the street from time to time to hold "rituals", which makes the priests of the Galloping Horse family and the representatives of the Temple League very headache.
Since the religious edict 300 years ago, the Terran Empire has strictly forbidden any such rituals and disbanded a large number of witch prostitutes, but this edict does not cover the then-extinct Plains of the Galloping Horse.
And the people's sect is interested in the special location of Night Qicheng, and through such actions, it has attracted a large number of nobles and merchants from all over the empire to come over and consume, and they have earned a lot of money in just one or two months, and even paid a considerable amount of taxes to the Finance Department of Night Qicheng in order to be able to do it justifiably.
After a few months of observation, Rand probably understood that this so-called sect was actually an adult entertainment venue with a religious name.
If it weren't for the fact that they had indeed greatly driven the consumption and tax revenue in the surrounding area, Rand really planned to find the law enforcement team of the Temple Alliance and directly raze them.
But no matter how much income is generated, Rand is not ready to indulge these guys to swagger around, so he sends knights to limit the scope of these activities.
The festivities in the streets did not continue, the temperature in the air suddenly plummeted, and the priest of Hughes sneezed while he was still trying to argue.
"Priests, go back to the temple, it's warmer!" Uffy waved his hand, and more than a dozen black-scaled horses advanced at the same time, causing the crowd of white flowers to retreat.
"Hmph, Uffi Knight, I'm sorry you can't understand the mystery of this ritual, you must know that in the past it was a grand event presided over by the gods, but in the last few hundred years, such a ritual has been undeservedly discriminated against!" The priest roared loudly.
"I understand, I'm a barbarian, we have an alliance every year, that is, to breed livestock, but such an alliance is in the spring, and now it's autumn, you better go back to the house!"
Uffi's heart is not turbulent, once the Gray Goose tribe has made the Spring Alliance not only for the sake of horses, but also for the barbarians to find a partner and home for the children of their tribe on the spot.
Such a meeting is of great significance to the barbarians of the steppe, so this spring, Rand also held a festival with a similar function in the northern part of Night Qicheng.
Hearing Uffy's words, Hughes didn't get angry, but said: "Humans and beasts are different, and the human race has broken away from the boundaries of the seasons and can approach the gods at any time!" ”
As the temperature gradually dropped, after sneezing repeatedly, Priest Hughes finally returned to the temple with his people, and a large number of people watching the excitement on the street also took out gold coins, ready to find Hughes's subordinates to do "rituals".
Seeing that the farce in front of her finally came to an end, Willis approached by Uffy and stopped her: "Sister Uffie, shouldn't you be in Iowa?" How did it end up here? ”
"Neil has returned with us, and the front line has been handed over to the hunting regiment of the Dutch knights, and the city needs more knights to maintain order." Seeing that it was Willis, Uffy's face relaxed a lot, "Do you want to go back to the students?" Then come with us! ”
Wellis was very happy to hear this, but asked with some worry, "Won't it delay your mission?" ”
"No, the roads around here will be closed after dark, and we won't have to worry about it then!"
Uffy dragged Willis onto her black-scaled horse and took her back to the Galloping Academy.
Uffy pointed in the direction of Hughes's temple, "There are similar things every day, gambling and making trouble, eating poisonous mushrooms and hallucinating, gathering people to make money, I really don't understand how this group of priests can toss more than animals." ”
"This ......" Willis was also a little incomprehensible, and at this time a knight's apprentice suddenly spoke beside Uffy.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the true appearance of each sect, the reason why the Divine Temple Alliance you know has today's unity and moderation is the result of the joint control of the three god orders of the Demon Emperor, the God Emperor and the Pope!"
"Oh?" Uffy looked at the knight beside him and saw that the young apprentice was from the Cleland family in the imperial capital.
"The more ancient the religion, the more it will be governed by desire, and almost every ancient god is involved in various desires, and their rituals will naturally carry many expressions of desires."
The young man smiled and said, "And the witch prostitutes have always been a huge source of wealth for the sect, and at the beginning of the establishment of the Temple Alliance, the largest financial source came from the support of more than 400,000 witch prostitutes in the empire, and they took the initiative to hand over more than 5 million gold coins back then!" ”
"Active?" Uffy and the other students listened to the boy's words, a little unconvinced.
"Anyway, that's what the official said, for hundreds of years, some religious scholars have studied the truth of that year, and explored the whereabouts of those witch prostitutes after the Reformation, and it is said that the results have been compiled into an anthology, which only needs the cardinal's hand-signed approval in the Holy City of the Temple League, and it can be consulted."
"Uh......" Wellis didn't know how to complain.