The furniture, tea, porcelain, perfume, cotton, cigarettes and other products of the Tuya Kingdom are far more cost-effective than those produced by other countries and churches, regardless of quality, quantity, variety and price.

Therefore, in foreign trade, Li Feng's territory is in a state of "super-entry" all year round.

economy, which has led to further population growth.

By the sixteenth year of Dragon Soul, the Tuya Kingdom was already a superpower with an area of 7.8 million square kilometers, a population of more than 200 million, and more than 600,000 elite troops.

Li Feng was no longer satisfied with a small title of king, he wanted to be crowned emperor and change the kingdom into an empire.

In this world, empires are one level higher than kingdoms, and the emperor is naturally the king of kings.

So, last time he spent a lot of money to bribe a crown from the Grand Pontifical Bishop Thomas in the Northeast, and that guy gave him a small crown with three legs and gold edges, and he endured it, after all, it was not long after the founding of the country, and he didn't bother to argue with the world's giant power-the church.

This time, he sent a special envoy to the Pope and asked for the greatest crown in the world.

This move was categorically rejected by the Pope, who severely rebuked Li Feng's unreasonable demands in the name of God, calling them wishful thinking.

There are only two empires in the world today.

One is the Saihan Empire, also known as the Savage Empire, which rose in the northern steppes.

One was the Xinlan Empire, which had been strong for hundreds of years and was closely bound to the pope.

Compared with these two empires, a newly established Tuya kingdom, which came by rebellion and usurpation, and stood on the blood of countless nobles, was not worthy of the title of emperor at all.

"Since you don't give it, won't I rob it?" Li Feng sneered and immediately made a major decision.

He's going to drop a bombshell, something more terrible than a nuclear bomb, on the Pope and the kingdoms that are against him.

Lao Tzu was originally a copy, and the world was so important to me.

Soon after, a tobacco product called "Strengthening Cream" appeared on the market, which began to be popular among the Saihan Empire, the Xinlan Empire and the church's high-level leaders.

Soon, a few people of insight in the church came to a shocking conclusion through the economic and trade statistics of the past ten years: if the church continues to live at 8 million, 16 million, 25 million, 56 million per year....... 100 million, 290 million gold coins out of the super-speed, at most another 25 years, the Church has accumulated hundreds of years of gold and silver reserves will be exhausted, and finally there will be no money available, and it will lose its transcendent status.

And the toll tax levied by the church every year from the Free Merchants League and the mercenary group under the Tuya Kingdom is only a little output of the land, not enough to buy a few top-grade blue and white porcelain from the Tuya Kingdom.

As for tithes and property donations after the death of the people, they have long been directly banned by the king of the Tuya Kingdom.

After this report was handed over to the Supreme Pope Innocent III, it attracted great attention, and after some internal consultations, it was decided to limit the number of commercial goods in circulation in the Tuya Kingdom, prohibit the circulation of "strengthening ointment", and impose a 30% commercial tax and mining tax, and order the whole world.

"Pay a cent, don't pay a penny of commercial tax and mining tax, I want to eat fart."

Li Feng was angry, and to this day, he is not afraid.

He's still a little excited to face the Pope and challenge the most terrifying force in the world.

"Come on, it is not yet known who will kill the deer."

..........

Father Paul, who was nearly eighty years old, was lying on the hospital bed and dying, Li Feng came to visit him, waited for him to lie down, helped him scrub his body, and watched him quietly after all this.

Seeing Li Feng like this, Paul suddenly smiled.

Outside, he has been disqualified as a priest, but in the kingdom of Tuya, he is already the spiritual leader of the whole people, the embodiment of an angel, and his glory is greater than that of being a small priest of St. Peter's Monastery.

Although I was a little sad to think that I was excommunicated, when it came to the moment of dying, I saw everything.

"What do you want me to do?"

Father Paul spoke slowly, looking at Li Feng with burning eyes, he knew that this guy must be behaving like this today more than just visiting him.

Li Feng sighed: "Before you die, do me another favor." ”

"Tell me about it."

"Founding a Protestant Church."

"You ........"

"Don't get excited, you have to continue to look at me and see the unification of the world, and the prosperity is coming."

Li Feng stroked Paul's chest, took a stack of documents from the guard's hand, and said, "This is the doctrine of Protestantism, I will read it to you...... The universe is desolate, heaven and earth..... Heaven and earth are level.... Man is the spirit of all things, the master of the leylines, and the person that man should believe in is the emperor of men, not the pope...... The royal family and even the respected family deserve to be supported by the world..... In this world, human rights should be above theocracy. ”

"Thieves, thieves corrupted by the devil, you not only steal the rights of the lord, you also steal the authority of the lord, you will go to hell, you ......"

Father Paul was suddenly in high spirits, and he started squirting again, and Li Feng couldn't remember how many times he squirted himself.

But he is not annoyed, perhaps, this is the only person in the world who dares to spray himself in the face.

For a long time, Father Paul was in a state of despair, and he was still angry when he looked at the man in front of him, but he must admit that this man was indeed great.

A farmer's son climbed to the position of king, and I heard his son John say that this guy still wants to be an emperor, and for thousands of years, I am afraid that it will be difficult to produce such a person.

Although this man killed countless nobles and church leaders, and although he was stained with blood, the life of the lords under his leadership was indeed much better than before.

It was also this person who set his family on a completely different path, and it is said that his son John has become a general with an army of 60,000.

Oh my God, the king of a big country couldn't command so many armies before.

Perhaps, this is providence, an alternative manifestation of the Lord's will.

"I'm old, let my apprentices do it, they will do it better than me." Paul's voice trembled, his eyes glistened with tears, and he closed his eyes.

The meaning is self-evident, he never wants to see Li Feng again.

"Take good care of yourself, and wait until I arrest the Pope and make amends for your sins."

Paul was angry: "You..... Is it okay not to do this? ”

..........

Returning to the capital, Li Feng immediately ordered the expulsion of the clergy who still supported the pope in the country, supported the ambitious clergy, and established Protestantism headed by the twelve disciples of Father Paul.

Protestantism does not need to pay tithes, changes love labor to paid labor, coupled with the supremacy of human rights, hard work in this world, and reincarnation in the next life and other teachings are more down-to-earth, and soon became popular among believers, and a large number of believers have converted to Protestantism.