Tang Qi Tan

"If I'm a devil, what are you?" Jiang Tian said indifferently: "A sacrifice to the devil, or a fallen person who indulges in the devil's tricks? Besides, Paulina is not a weak lamb , she is a leader with great potential. Perhaps, she will become the key to changing the fate of most people in this country and ending all these wars."

"Isn't this what you are doing right now?" Malena couldn't help but suddenly stopped her body movements, and then continued: "Why, you have such high hopes and expectations for her, and you are so convinced, She will definitely be the key you are looking forward to?"

"There's no reason, it's just a personal feeling." Jiang Tian felt the heavy softness on the back of his neck, and couldn't help but spread his hands and smiled: "It seems that one of the main reasons why I came to this world is to make her Sending you to the peak...you just treat it as my wishful thinking."

"Then, do you have any other reasons?" Marlena asked again casually: However, at this moment, Jiang Tian felt the rapid heartbeat and faint disorder of breathing close at hand, and said slowly: "Of course there is also you, ma'am, and The secret behind you! It's like a rich and fragrant wine..."

"Didn't you promise to ask me about my past?" Marlena couldn't help asking: "Could it be that you can't wait to break your promise?"

"Of course not, but if you take the initiative to tell me, it's not considered a breach of contract!" Jiang Tian said confidently: "Don't you want to find your lost daughter Theresia? Naturally, the more clues you have, the better."

Well, with the prompt that pops up on the visual interface; the progress of the "Doll's House" task has also increased.Feelings change with the mood of the woman, and the progress of the task can be achieved!It's just that for a straight man like Jiang Tian, ​​who mainly loses his kidneys, this thing is really too difficult to figure out.

Could it be that in this time and space, this half-baked auxiliary system has actually changed its nature, and it has directly become a development game like a beautiful girl's dream factory, or is it based on the skin of a country's internal hegemony, by increasing the degree of favorability and ghosts, and advancing the process together? Small butter task?

Of course, for Marlena, who has been taught for a long time, but has not had time to use; the wonderful fruit that is fully ripe, the best way to subtly influence, shouldn't it make her cry and beg , keep saying the words of honesty and honesty to death?

But came from outside, Andrew, who was in charge of the clerical and communication agency, knocked on the door lightly to announce: "Sir, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Avignon, Priest Stephen has requested a visit; and I hope to report to you on the management of the church's property, and Matters concerning the supplementary appointment of the clergy..."

"Thank you, my lord, for sending troops to protect the sanctuary of the Lord, and to expel and severely punish those lawless people who violated the holy objects." The priest of Stephen was gray-haired and described charity. Thick and callused, I put on a top hat as soon as I met:
"Then what? I do all this, and I don't target churches or monasteries alone, but any law-abiding place under the rule of the Free Army should be safe and sheltered." Jiang Tian said indifferently: "This is a rule for The basic requirements of the readers, so there is no need to flatter."

"Well, you are indeed a person of high moral character and full of honor." Priest Stephen said slowly after hearing the words: "But I don't know, my lord, what do you think of the church in Avignon today, or Pross in other words?" How does Wang Diocese think about it..."

"To be honest, my understanding of you is limited; therefore, this issue depends on the basic attitude and position of the church." Jiang Tian nodded slightly when he heard the words: "For example, if the church dares to cover up and hide the remnants of the royal party, that is our responsibility." The enemy, the object of banning and censorship."

"If the church today just keeps its duty, and can abide by the regulations of the Freedom Army, and advocate and encourage some traditional public order and good customs." Jiang Tian continued: "Then I will allow the church to maintain the status quo and provide considerable convenience, but Not including retrospective things."

"Don't go back to the past, just maintain the status quo?" The white-haired Priest Stephen looked a little disappointed when he heard this, but he didn't have any extra emotions: "Then can you ask the sir to attend the holy election ceremony held in Notre Dame Church on Wednesday?" , and as a witness present..."

Before the Free Army moved to various places and did not have a long-term foothold in one place, this kind of problem was not obvious.But after the Freedom Army settled down and established its base area and scope of rule, it had to face the common problems of religion and belief in this era.

In other words, it is also something that most people in this era have to face.Although in this time and space the churches on the eastern and western continents have in fact split into several camps and factions.Among them, the four most influential sects/camps are the North, West, Middle, and East.

These include the Northern Holy Court (Northern Sea Sect) spread among the Norman and Germanic princes; the Roman Catholic Church (Universal Sect) with the Western Empire as the core, and the only Orthodox Church (Junbao Sect) with the Eastern Empire as the basis, and Eastern Orthodoxy (Quds) in Jerusalem.

In addition to the four major church camps, there are several de facto independent factions: for example, the Holy Kingdom of Britannia established with the armed military order - Holy Thorn Knights as the core; In addition, Saint Laurent, the founder, is also worshiped as the last apostle.

For example: the Armenian Presbyterian Church, which claims to be earlier than the Roman Empire, and established Christianity as the state religion; for example: the Aksum Church, which claims to be the oldest Christian sect; and the Coptic Church in Upper Egypt; the Arabian Dynasty ruled for a long time under the Assyrian Church/Joints.

Another example is that it is popular underground in North Africa and southern Italy, advocating that Jesus is inferior to the Father and opposing the church's possession of a large amount of wealth; the heresy that was banned by the Eastern and Western Empires-Arianism.The church of the poor/Paulites who once launched the iconoclasm movement in Eastern Rome...

And this kind of complicated situation has given those ancient local pagan beliefs that were once suppressed and integrated to revive in the cracks; even changed their appearance and continued to be active in some remote and remote areas under the cover of rural churches or in the form of underground associations. opportunities in the zone.

However, although the church in this time and space did not gain an overwhelming advantage on the mainland because of the split, it did not monopolize knowledge inheritance and secular interpretation; The impact goes deeper.

In other words, although the middle and upper classes lack a sense of awe because of this, and regard it as a tool to assist in ruling; but the influence and sense of presence of ordinary people in the middle and lower classes has not diminished much.From the baptism at birth, to the blessing at marriage, to the daily worship, to the mass at the end of life.

Almost participated in every link of birth, old age, sickness and death, and all aspects of social production and life.Therefore, there is no lack of low-level priests such as priests, priests, and deacons who have defected halfway in the Free Army; because under the turbulence of the torrent of the times, they cannot be alone.

In the past, the mainstream belief in the Kingdom of Sealand was still the universalism (the Holy See) that belonged to the Western Empire and the Holy Kingdom; then there were some Arianism and other localized minor factions with pagan traditions left in the local area.And the royal family supported mainstream suppression and banning.

As a result, a pyramid structure of the capital, provinces, counties, cities, townships/dioceses was formed; there were 8 to 600 priests in the Kingdom, but only more than [-] of them were high-ranking archbishops and bishops; almost all of them were descendants of royal nobles , and its affiliates and other long-term monopoly and monopoly.

The remaining tens of thousands of low-level priests came from the citizens, the poor, and the rich peasants.Although the lowest ordination can be obtained by serving monasteries and churches from an early age, and graduating from missionary schools.But it can almost only stop at the officiant in the township, or the deacon class in the city.

But all of this was smashed to pieces by the series of events brought about by May Storm.First, the liberals/capital communes who forced the abdicated king to abdicate, in order to cope with the depreciation of the currency and the emptiness of the treasury, ordered the seizure and auction of a large number of church properties in various places, and filled them into the treasury of the new regime.

Of course, those who can afford church real estate are nobles, merchants and other wealthy classes, and the common people cannot benefit at all. Sowed the seeds of downfall.

Therefore, these church properties that fell into the hands of rich merchants and nobles were almost seized by the Free Army after changing hands several times during the turmoil.Hence Priest Stephen's initial temptation.Of course, the property rights relationship has become extremely complicated, and even tracing it back is extremely troublesome.So I guess it's just a question.

Then there was the republican National Convention/Charter government; ordered tens of thousands of clergy including priests and nuns across the country; swore allegiance to the country and people represented by the new government, not to the king/royal family and the kingdom it led .The result was another continuing schism.

Among them, only a small number of clergymen, re-swear to the new government of the kingdom; disassociated from the past.And most of the high-level members of the church fled abroad and localities one after another, and even joined the ranks of the royalist party; they participated in the counterattack of the old aristocrats against the capital.

Coupled with the invasion of foreign enemies, the clergy who refused to take the oath in the original place had another disagreement.Therefore, the current church organization in the kingdom is also in a state of fragmentation.The weakening of secular influence also made it easier for the Freedom Army to reorganize the situation.

For example, priests in many villages and towns where the Freedom Army passed, they threw themselves into the defenders of order without hindrance.Another example is that there are almost no high-level church leaders in Avignon today, because most of them are related to the old nobles of the royal party and resist orders from the capital government.

Stephen, the priest of Notre Dame Church, is the only priest with the highest clergy in the city, and because he is a minority who swore an oath to the new government, he was imprisoned together with his disciples for a long time , until the arrival of the Free Army.

Therefore, after this meeting full of mutual temptations ended, Jiang Tian immediately ordered: "Come here, please come over to Father Lacha."

Among the low-level priests, they are divided into white priests who serve the secular world and black priests who serve the Lord for life; and only black priests can be promoted to higher ranks and serve as priests above the local bishop; therefore, the priests in the Free Army Priests are mainly white priests who can marry.

However, there are very few individual exceptions; that is, the lifelong priest Lacha was actually a sworn republican; he even raised an insurgent army, broke through several noble manors, and hanged the Steward all male members up to the master.

In other words, because of certain encounters and experiences in his early years, he, who was exiled in a disguised form to a remote village, became one of the very few outliers among the low-level clergy of the church who were relatively bitter, bitter, bitter and cynical, with a more radical style and behavior .

Therefore, when he surrendered to the Free Army, Jiang Tian also gave him an extra choice.Either give up the sworn black priesthood and join the Free Army as an officer, or a magistrate; or continue to perform religious services as a priest.

Then, Priest Racha chose the latter without hesitation, and thus became one of the few priests accompanying the army in the Free Army.Lead a group of specially selected clergy, and at the same time spread the ideas and ideas of the Freedom Army when they are traveling around the country.