Duke of Herrington

Chapter 68 The Plan to Deal with the Church ([-])

In the morning, Ted wrote an order for the herald to recall all the students temporarily and return to class in the afternoon.

Now that the weather problem has been solved, there is no need for everyone to stay at home and get moldy
As for the coming New Year, in theory, it is just a planet orbiting a star, and there is nothing to celebrate.

Because the world under your feet has revolved around the sun for an unknown number of times.
Just like humans go to the toilet every day, there is no need to make a fuss about this kind of thing.

In the empire, the definition of festivals generally comes from the church. In order to prevent the people from being poisoned by theology again, Ted intends to personally assign special meanings to certain days.

In this way, the people will have a sense of belonging and will actively participate in nation building.

In the previous New Year, everyone chose to rest at home for two days, just because the period of the New Year was too cold, and there was no festive significance.

In other parts of the empire, the original meaning of 'New Year' was nothing more than an excuse for the nobles to cheer themselves up.

On the first day of each year, a group of sanctimonious beasts gather together to drink and eat meat, spend their days and indulge themselves. How could nobles refuse such a day?
When these nobles have had enough fun, they will drag their exhausted bodies to the church and spend some money to pray for God to bless the earth and let the people have a good harvest in the new year.
It's just that this kind of behavior is not all for the sake of sympathy for the people, but for the aristocratic lords, after the bumper harvest, to have sufficient reasons to raise the tax rate, and then take out the butcher's knife and ruthlessly chop a wave of leeks for their own enjoyment.

Let those people who have just ignited hope continue to live in dire straits, and continue to thank God for keeping them alive!

After all, according to the theory of the ruling class, it is the nobles who spend money to pray that the people get a good harvest!Deservedly charge a little 'credit fee' to treat yourself
Therefore, during the New Year like this, most ordinary people have no blessings at all, and sometimes they have to do some chores during the New Year to supplement their household expenses.

The hard work of a summer is just to save enough resources to survive in winter.

In this situation where there is not enough to eat and not to wear warm clothes, how can the people have the mood to celebrate the so-called "New Year"?

But now, the living standards of the people in the northern border have improved a lot compared to the people in other regions. They have a little money in their hands, and they also have some free time!

festival!Yes, it is indeed possible to celebrate drops!Just get rid of the religious meaning!
Right now, Ted wants to make the city run as soon as possible, and have a virtuous circle!So. This year is not the New Year's Eve, let everyone eat more meat to celebrate.

Wait until the beginning of the new year, and then give the new year a special meaning, let everyone go home to rest and spend time with their families!

"Well, I am such a good lord who loves the people like a son! Let the historians blow me up later!"

Thinking of this, Ted couldn't help complaining about the weather again: "If it wasn't for this stinky and long winter, I definitely wouldn't have stayed in Xinshou Village for so long!"

The main line of the mainland has only been completed for a while, and it has not continued. There are moon elves waiting to be rescued on the other side of the mountain!However, apart from being at home with my wives and pointing out the country with everyone, I have not made any real progress!
The culprit of all this!It's the weather!
Fortunately, Lilia is full, and she won't go hungry in the future, so she won't continue to torment the northerners in winter
"Huh" Ted let out a long sigh, put down the cup in his hand, closed his eyes and meditated.

Right now, it's still early for lunch, so why not think about how to define this 'New Year'

If the world unified the time and calendar, the southern hemisphere would enjoy the midsummer carnival on January [-]st, and everyone could go to the street to celebrate, but people in the northern hemisphere would have to suffocate inside the house, unable to move an inch!
This is not a good way, we must make this new year have a special meaning for people in the northern hemisphere~
For example, it's really a good way to get the family together. For people from the north, it's really feasible!

But people in other regions have a hard time.
However, if we can figure out a way to connect 'Christmas' with New Year, give new meanings, and make people accept it again, we can take back the rest day that belongs to people!

It can also weaken the role of religion, so that 'Christmas' will no longer be a handle for religious brainwashing!

From this point of view, the matter is much simpler!
To put it simply, it is to weaken religion!
At present, it should be impossible to eliminate religion immediately. Their illiteracy rate is higher, and they are deeply rooted in the rule of religion. Unlike the people in the north, they have not been poisoned by theology!

Stupid people have to believe in something to have sustenance!I want to immediately convince them that 'atheism' is unrealistic, but it can save the country with curves!Let them have a spiritual sustenance!

That being the case!

Ted spread out a piece of paper and wrote a few large characters on it: Sun God Religion!
People in other parts of the empire have to believe something, it is better to believe what they have made up!

Because Ted loves the people like a son, he will not exploit the people like other people, so he should be a little bit wronged, and be the "angel" of the sun god!

As for why it is called 'Sun God Religion'.
Ted has thought about this issue for a long time, because in order to attract people to believe in himself and defeat other religions, the definition of this god cannot be complicated, and it is best to be something well-known to the public!
In this way, it is the sun and the moon in the sky, and the influence of the sun is much greater than that of the moon, so the sun is a good target.

At the beginning, the people's "rest day" was brainwashed into "Christmas" by the magic sticks, so Ted would retaliate against him in his own way!

"Then call it 'God's Day'! It sounds very theological! It's a holiday bestowed by God, I'm so smart!" Ted smiled and opened a can of Coke to reward himself.

If you want to defeat the enemy, you must know the enemy!How about using the system data to check the history of this 'Christmas', and then find out the weak points to break through!
'This holiday is the day to celebrate the birth of Jesus.'

After a brief reading, Ted did find a few points that could be cracked.
There are parallels between this 'Christmas' and history on Earth.

The original holiday time was not to celebrate the birthday of Jesus, and the scriptures of their church did not record when this person was born, it was all made up by a mouth.

These magic sticks are just to let religion take root in the hearts of the people at the beginning, so they deliberately chose a day when everyone is relaxing as the festival goal!

At the beginning of the founding of the empire, the people would have a tradition of relaxing at the end of the year, which was regarded as a reward for a year's hard work. Although this reward was the same as nothing, at least a glass of barley wine would be added to the meal to show that it was different from usual.

And the gods of the church seem to have discovered this group phenomenon!So they brainwash those non-believers in the name of God on the same day, making them feel that this customary day is actually to celebrate the birthday of Jesus, so that everyone can relax.

Since then, these meaningless festivals have become 'Christmas', which is also a kind of cultural invasion, but also a kind of religious domination.

Gradually, with the efforts of believers, this festival was completely controlled by the church. Over time, this kind of relaxing time at the end of the year was endowed with the meaning of "Christmas" by the church.

So every year after that, people are no longer allowed to celebrate, let alone carnival, but can only come to church to pray or sing hymns, or sing praises to God!

Of course, it is just a dream to make stupid people believe in God like this!Especially those young and strong men, it is not easy to control them!

But. As long as the mind slips, there are always more solutions than difficulties!
These hot young men all have a common characteristic, a common weakness, and any man will have this weakness!
Therefore, the church established a kind of place in a smooth manner, and firmly grasped this 'weak spot'.

On the day of 'Christmas', after singing and praying for blessings, we should lead by example and take actions to thank God.

So, they came to the hospital run by the church next door. In the name of God, they spent a year's savings to help several women who were possessed by demons, punish the demons in their bodies, and free them from the infestation and bondage of demons.

After learning about this, Ted felt ashamed!After this set of operations, the "main labor force" of the empire is completely controlled!Control all the 'evil' and weaknesses!

In the era without the Internet, these "evils" have become the only pleasures of human beings. After all, it is simply unrealistic to point a bunch of illiterate people to study philosophy, mathematics, and literature to improve themselves!
The purpose of the church is indeed to make these people stupid and easy to control. It is best not to even know what 1+1 equals
After this wave of operations, not only did the church have a source of income, but also let the "women corrupted by the devil" firmly bind this group of shameless believers, making them firmly believe that there are devils in this world and they need their own Go clean!Believe in God to be saved!

After the purification ceremony, not only will the believers not feel ashamed of their actions, but they even feel that they have been sublimated and are one step closer to God!
"This self-deception ability is indeed exclusive to human beings, and it can be discovered with a little brainstorming. It may also be that this group of people know that they are in a dream and don't want to wake up!" Ted put down the Coke, lamented and continued to summarize the information
If these flesh and blood businesses break away from the church, women in this industry will be called witches, because they seduce men and let them overdraw their lives, so they have to be tied to the stake and burned to death!
But. If you are willing to accept the baptism of "God" and "voluntarily" give 7% of your income to the church, you will change from a mortal "witch" to a cursed poor woman, join the official business place of the church, and start the road to salvation .

Waiting for the 'clean' believers to come to help him get rid of the shackles of the devil.
After completing the 'ceremony', believers will make up a nonsense spell, trap the devil's soul in the silverware, and throw it into the holy water pool outside the door for God to help purify.

The fooled wives will also readily agree to these 'purifications', thinking it's for the good of the world!After all, such things as burning witches and purifying demons are all good ways to show courteousness to the Lord and make the world a better place!
And most of the silverware used to seal the devil are silver coins that can be seen everywhere, and all of them ended up in the pope's pocket!

However, the sanctimonious church will not reveal its true intentions!

They will only publicize to the outside world that these silver coins hiding the devil's soul were sent to the judgment stand and burned clean by God with fire!

For believers, just using a few silver coins to help God purify the devil not only 'sublimates' themselves, but also allows God to protect the whole family!

This deal!Really worth it!

(End of this chapter)