Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 132 The Roman Church

Under Theodora's coercion, several others reluctantly agreed to obey her.Seeing this, Theodora let them go and let Guo Kang go back to eat.

When she returned to her seat, Shi Ke took a peek at her, and walked over when she saw that there was nothing wrong.He pushed away Li Xuanying who was lying beside him, and sat down.

"How is it?" He asked, "Tell me about it, brother?"

Guo Kang himself didn't know what to do, so he told him the performance of the other people at that time.

"Anyway, we finally compromised with each other for the time being." Guo Kang said, "Even Meltem said that it would be hard not to get along with her. At least we can calm down for a while."

"I don't think it's that simple." Shi Ke thought for a while, and judged: "These people are very smart, we can't underestimate them."

"Is Meltem considered smart?" Guo Kang said helplessly.

"That's right, including Zhu Rangna, who is a big kid, and your silly-looking cheap sister." Shi Ke said confidently: "I still know who is stupid, who just lacks enough experience, and who just doesn't care. of."

"You have so much experience?" Guo Kang asked unexpectedly.

"Nonsense, my younger sister is really stupid. As long as you compare her with her, the characteristics of other people are self-evident." Shi Ke was obviously full of resentment.

"Then..." Guo Kang became even more worried.

"These people will not let it go." Shi Ke judged: "This is not peace, it is just a truce of up to 20 days."

When Guo Kang heard this, he felt even more uncertain.

He decided to find a chance to avoid the limelight.

Of course, this time it wasn't that he was avoiding things on purpose, but that there was really nothing he could do to help.Negotiations have reached this point, in fact, it is almost done.

For the Purple Horde, as long as the opponent is willing, everything else is fine.Within the Khanate, there will certainly not be any resistance to this.

Although Romania, the core area of ​​the Purple Horde, is an Orthodox area in name, the religious belief here is actually quite special.The local church calls itself the "Church of Rome", but whether it has a close relationship with the Holy See or the Orthodox Church in Constantinople in terms of doctrine...or in other words, there may be no inheritance relationship.

Strictly speaking, the Romanian Church is actually the "Roman Orthodox Church".It did not originate from the existing church, but was created by Khanting himself.

Contrary to the common impression of Guo Kang's time, until the late Middle Ages and even modern times, in the vast European countryside, the theological level of most Christians and even priests was as bad as their overall cultural level.Compared with those scribes who study philosophy and theology at the upper level, it is almost a world of two.In some remote areas, there are even "believers" who can't even draw a cross.

After all, Europe at this time was just a feudal society—and it was an authentic feudal society, not the kind of "feudalism" unique to Celeste.Although the church is a rare "cultural" force here, its upper limit cannot surpass this era.

As an organization, the church also has no ability to bring its own order to the grassroots. It can only rely on enfeoffment to allow subordinates to have strong autonomy.Dioceses all over Europe are actually religious fiefdoms.As a local feudal lord, the diocese may not even listen to the Holy See first.When Shinra was powerful back then, he could even order the Bishop of Mainz to be the vanguard and lead troops to attack the Pope of Rome.

In this case, the lower the influence of the church, the more rapidly it decays.Moreover, in various places, it is very dependent on the personal level of the bishops and priests who are "landlords".

But when the Purple Horde Khanate was first established, the local church was on the verge of collapse during the war.At most, the new local citizens know that they should probably be a God-worshiping believer.As for what the doctrine is and what they should do in their daily life, they basically have no idea.The only remaining country priests, who just memorized a few scriptures and knew a few procedures of the ceremony, and the others were equally blinded.After all, in this place, at least those who can understand Greek, be able to read and write, and can read the scriptures by themselves, have the basic ability to study theology.This request was too extravagant at the time.

When the Purple Horde brought order to the countryside for the first time, carried out large-scale education in the army for the first time, and tried to establish its own organization in the countryside, it also had a way to pass on its own ideas to everyone Opportunity.Moreover, due to stronger organizational capabilities and a higher degree of self-run education, they have a great advantage over other churches.

It was Patriarch Zhang at that time who set the tone for worshiping God.

Zhang Patriarch was originally a Taoist priest, but he seemed to be frustrated in his hometown, so he ran out, ready to try his luck.In the Golden Horde, he got acquainted with Boyan Timur, Guo Gai and others.

However, the Golden Horde Khan Court believed in Tianfang Sect at that time, and found that Daoist Zhang was still not easy to mess with, so he switched to Tianfang Sect and organized a small sect, which attracted many herdsmen, so he called himself Imam Zhang.

Not long after the Zizhang faction began to rely on themselves, Imam Zhang also came here.At that time, because of the constant fighting among the nobles and the reluctance of Boyan Timur and others to pay church taxes, many of the only priests and monks left.Although the people don't understand anything, but no one is chanting scriptures, they feel guilty and panic for a while.

Seeing this, Imam Zhang stood up and took the initiative to lead everyone to chant scriptures and worship Heavenly Father.Anyway, the prayer ceremony is almost the same in any way, and the villagers also think that it is enough to have a style, and there is no need to be too particular.

After discussing with Guo Gai, Imam Zhang claimed to be Patriarch Zhang and established the first church in the Zizhang Khanate.

Although the level of theology is questionable, Patriarch Zhang's ability to organize believers is very strong, and he quickly restored everyone to an orderly life of faith.In order to make it easier for everyone to understand, he also found scriptures in Greek, annotated them in Chinese and local dialect, and explained them to everyone.

Zhang Patriarch is humorous and approachable. He likes to use popular stories and metaphors when preaching scriptures, and even wrote some folk songs and singing tunes.Everyone liked to listen to his sermons very much. In the end, even in the surrounding territories, there were busybodies who came to join in the fun.

After he became famous, some nobles and priests accused him of heresy and even brought soldiers to beat him.But at that time, there were too many people who came to attack the purple tent, and Boyan Timur and others couldn't tell what they were doing, anyway, just fight the same thing.At that time, Guo Gai also felt that it was a good thing that other priests were jealous of him because of his popularity.

Guo Gai suggested that since this is already the case, it is better to play your own brand directly.

Zhang Mushou deeply agreed.He believes that the pronouns of various churches are written in Greek and Latin without translation, so it is difficult to understand and spread.Although there is Nestorianism, the influence of Nestorianism here seems to be very small and not enough to rely on.If you want to formalize the church, you still have to go your own way.

(End of this chapter)