23. People who are contrary to the times (3)

If there is a religion in this world that aims to hit God, I believe that the vast majority of people will laugh in the face of this paradox like a bad joke.

However, there is nothing absolutely to say about things involving people in the world, especially things involving interests, no matter how they evolve and develop, there is no need to be surprised. This is true of king-killing rebellion, and so is the self-determination of gods.

As with all organizations, the church in its infancy was indeed pious and vibrant, and it was very common for the clergy to reach out to the people to share their joys and sorrows with the common people and help them. As time went on, the organization expanded, bureaucracy and privilege gradually infiltrated and spread within the organization, and the church gradually degenerated into a hypertrophic organization that only cared about protecting rights and seeking more rights.

The church was so depraved that it acted as a thug of God in charge of theocracy, and one day a thought came to mind.

Why can we only be God's spokesmen on earth, and why can't we become gods ourselves?

Yes, for better or worse, right or wrong, human beings are creatures that are absolutely incompensable. Even if you have already acquired something, you will soon get used to it, get tired of it, and then you will start to crave new ones. The so-called desire is difficult to fill, even if you chop yourself up, you still can't fill the other party's bottomless greed.

After completing the confrontation between the two camps under the control of the church, the church leaders began to crave more wealth and power. However, the biggest obstacle that stood before this desire was their belief in God.

If it were a world without God, I believe that the church would not have such an idea. After all, God is just an abstract, imaginary concept that can be explained in any way as long as it can be justified. It is not so much that they are the spokesmen of the gods, but rather that they themselves play the role of the gods and the agents of the interpretation of the gods and doctrines at the same time.

This was roughly the case in the Dark Middle Ages of Western Europe on Earth, when at its worst, not to mention the burning of "heresy" and the possession of any knowledge forbidden by the Holy See was a felony, and those who hid it were cut off and burned to ashes like the great Bruno.

What the Holy Church today intends to achieve is a world dominated by a theocracy in which clergy and theocracy merge into one. All nations are united as one, and the Church directly rules the whole world, while preventing any ideas that contradict the doctrine and the official policies of the Church, and forever fixing the world in this form.

To be honest, what Alfheim wants to do is not much different from the church, except that on the one hand, the church is seated on the throne of the gods, and on the other hand, it is to achieve the goals under the guidance of the gods.

One side is the goal, the other is the means, and with the different races that sit on the throne, from the very beginning, there was no possibility of reconciliation between the Church and Alfheim. Not to mention that the Mother Goddess and Li Lin had long been aware of the betrayal plot hidden by the church under the appearance of deference, and the Mother God intended to let Li Lin clean up the tools that were no longer obedient, and Li Lin planned to kick away this group of people who would only pull back their legs and do things behind their backs. Thus there was the tragedy of a divine agent descending from the sky, and under the light of the Holy Light, all of Emir's life turned into amniotic fluid.

The destruction of Emir was indeed a severe blow to the Church, and almost all the high-ranking personnel were killed in that battle, paralyzing the central organization and a large number of departments. In other words, if other organizations encounter this situation, they will lose their cohesion and enter the stage of collapse. However, it is only at this time that the deep foundation of the church is truly revealed, and after some rapid and thorough integration, the action and cohesion of the church not only decreases, but also shows an increasing trend. Although there is a relationship between the old bloated and protracted bureaucratic structure and the extraordinary charisma and talent of Her Highness the Holy Maiden, it would have been impossible to complete the integration so quickly and launch a swift coup d'état with Charlemagne without nearly a thousand years of accumulation.

However, this is almost the limit of the church.

In any case, they have only just suffered a heavy blow, and a considerable part of their organizational function has not yet recovered. Moreover, the Defence was about to complete the encirclement of the main force of Charlemagne's army, and it was foreseeable that it would be a brilliant victory, and with the usual style of the Divine Will Agent, the next step would be to take advantage of a great victory and begin to purge the influence of the Church. At that point, the church did not have the strength and courage to resist.

So this coup d'état is really the last death throes of the Church, and if they can't turn the tide at this fork in the road of history, they will only be submerged in the next torrent. As a huge organization with ambitions and once only one step away from its goal, they were not willing to just quit the stage. Just like those aging actresses who are fading out of sight, they will do whatever it takes to regain what they are losing, even if it is an unbearable price.

The door to the conference room opened without warning.

The men in army uniforms were expressionless, neither the awe of entering the center of the highest power nor the nervousness of meeting the big men, but just a machine with a straight face, weapons in hand, surrounding the people around the round table. Outside the open door, the corpses of what appeared to be guards were being dragged around the corner.

Minerva glanced coldly at the armed men, the smiling generals and colonels, and her brother who was as motionless as a sculpture, and sighed silently in her heart.

- Is it still like this?

Before leaving, Roland had predicted that the crown prince would likely launch a coup d'état, thus tying the country and his own destiny together.

In other words, since you have to face death and sanctions no matter what, you can simply let the whole country bury yourself.

Combined with the anxious and depressed mentality of the crown prince and the army leadership, combined with Alfheim's idea of being unwilling to take the blame for sabotaging the peace talks, coupled with the general background that countries are eager to promote peace talks. This coup d'état is fundamentally an inevitable result, whether it is promoted by Alfheim openly and secretly, or the crown prince and his family cannot bear the pressure and erupts, the coup will definitely break out at some point in time. It's just that what Roland and Minerva didn't expect was that it would be this group of people who cooperated with the crown prince......

The muzzles were all aimed at Minerva and the Navy, and instead of a single-shot rear-loading rifle, the armed men were holding a small gun that could be easily concealed in their arms with a long magazine inserted horizontally.

Submachine guns - not those magic 79s of the Alfheim Defense Force, nor are they high-imitation MP5s that have only recently been released for installation. It's the self-developed submachine gun that Roland and the dwarven craftsmen are tinkering with, a submachine gun that fires 9mm Parabellum pistol rounds, and can be made by plumbers and small family workshops. That's right, it's the Stern submachine gun, known as the plumber's masterpiece and the king of fire.

Just as in the face of the pressure brought by the German MP38/40 series submachine guns in history, the designers of the corrupt country hurriedly tossed out the Stern submachine guns. In the face of the powerful automatic firepower of the Wehrmacht, Charlemagne's individual weapons were almost hanged and had no power to fight back, not to mention who scattered more bullets than assault rifles, submachine guns, and general-purpose machines, but in the face of semi-automatic rifles with self-defended box guns and carbines in the hands of armored soldiers, those single-shot rifles were also pressed to the ground and rubbed for their lives. As a result, the development of an automatic weapon with a low price (Charlemagne really didn't have the money to do anything high, so the price was put in the first place), with a simple structure and enough performance to meet the needs of the front, became the second most important task of the Roland R&D team (the first important is to develop an anti-tank weapon). Later, after several setbacks, a barely usable high-imitation Stern submachine gun was finally developed.

Seeing this, some people want to ask, isn't the structure of Stern very simple? Not to mention those plumbers in Europe, as long as they give you the drawings, can they build the dirt eight roads to show you? Why did Roland and them toss for a long time to make a "barely usable" rag?

Yes, the structure of the Stern submachine gun is indeed very simple, and the cost is very low, but please don't forget, this simplicity and cheapness comes at the cost of low reliability, and in history, even the British-produced Driver's Den submachine gun is famous for its extremely high rate of fire, so that the army explicitly ordered the soldiers with the Stern submachine gun to always walk in front of the team, so as not to accidentally injure other soldiers with this kind of submachine gun that will go off when it falls on the ground.

With the metallurgical process and manufacturing level of the rotten country during World War II, the submachine guns manufactured are so dangerous, what about the team on Roland's side?

Another obstacle was the old problem they had encountered in the development of the anti-tank rifle - the level of metallurgy and manufacturing technology could not keep up with the ideas.

Just as the body of the anti-tank rifle could not withstand the high bore pressure of continuous fire, the submachine gun made by Roland also had the problems of serious muzzle jump, difficulty in controlling the spread of the impact point, and the problem of exploding after continuous firing. However, through some tricks, such as loading the preloaded magazine with a certain number of non-firing duds, so as to force the soldier to fire only three or five bursts, so that the firing mechanism can obtain a short cooling during the continuous firing process, so that the use of guns is possible. Preparations are already underway for the start of small batch trials, with the first products expected to roll off the production line in two weeks and be delivered to the Lüdes garrison for testing.

And now...... A submachine gun that should have been a pile of parts waiting to be assembled pointed at him, coupled with the embroidery of words on the strips of white cloth hanging from the necks of the armed men - for the world dominated by man. The identity of the uninvited guest in front of him is already about to be revealed.

Facing the ten submachine guns, Minerva lightly opened her lips and asked indifferently:

"What do you have to do in the church?"

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