The lady is so cute

Chapter 169
For the nobles who had direct conflicts with the church, Sullivan III adopted a policy of concessions and signed many agreements with the great nobles.

By restricting the power and status of church personnel such as cardinals and improving the power of local nobles, they can attract the support and belief of the great nobles.

At the same time, the nobles have to help the church to contain the royal family's counterattack against the church, so that theocracy still has an advantage in the confrontation with the royal power.

On the other hand, he changed from giving up the church's forced oppression and exploitation of ordinary people to free donations.

Nor did they build temples as widely as the clergy of the Sun God system did before, but ordinary churches were built at regular intervals.

"Ariwell's grandpa is really an amazing old man."

Aside from the fact that he is the grandfather of Elrivell, Ye Yu also sincerely admires this old man, Sullivan III.

"The measures that seem to be conceited and ignorant are actually hidden secrets. The old man is really far-sighted."

Ye Yu also had a good understanding of this period of history, and it was precisely because of this understanding that Ye Yu admired this old man.

It seems that the church under the control of Sullivan is infinitely weaker in all aspects than the previous period of the Sun faction's management, but the fact is completely different from this.

During this 100-plus years period when the faction of believers in the Goddess of Light, Helia, was in charge, the status of the Church began to grow again in all aspects.

People's hearts are really strange. When they are forced to do something, they will not be happy.

After telling them not to do it, they did it again.

Without the suppression and restraint of religion, all aspects of the human world have entered a high-speed development track.

The greatest of these is the development of magic technology.

Some technological developments that were originally suppressed during the long reign of the solar system have been accumulating steadily.

When Saliwan came to power and lifted those religious restrictions, magic technology in the human world experienced a blowout growth in an instant, and the suppression that lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years was all concentrated in the past hundred years.

The rapid increase in strength has brought conditions for the human race to multiply more people and create more wealth.

All of these have promoted the development of the church and brought benefits to the God Realm.

When people become rich, they always feel a little empty in their hearts, and then faith becomes their best choice.

In particular, belief in the Goddess of Light does not require any restrictions or costs.

This costless belief naturally appeals to many rich people, especially those with a guilty conscience.

Even if they know that the gods may not necessarily pay attention to them, these wealthy people will choose to donate a large amount of money to the church for the sake of peace of mind.

In this way, the wealth and income of the church has not actually decreased.

It can be converted, the development of human society, the ability to create wealth is several times or even dozens of times before.

A person originally only has 100 yuan a day, and you force him to give you half of his income, which is only 50 yuan. When a person’s income reaches 500 yuan a day, even if he is only willing to donate one-fifth of his own twice as much as before.

What's more, because of some special connections between rich people and church personnel, when wealth was compulsory collected in the past, it was often only collected from ordinary people.

But now it has become the rich who donate actively, and the difference is very big.

Sometimes a rich person's donation may be comparable to the various taxes from hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of ordinary people in the past.

As the leader of the church, Sullivan III was not as extravagant and wasteful as the previous church leaders under the Sun God after allowing the church to obtain a lot of wealth.

He planned the use of the money well and rationally. Instead of building temples, he used it to build public facilities such as almshouses and schools for free.

In this way, the church can gain a lot of goodwill and trust from ordinary people.

At the same time, the talents who come out of the schools founded by church schools can be used by the church.

To make money, to earn prestige, and to acquire talents, it can be said that Pope Sullivan III's measures are multiple in one fell swoop.

"That fellow Xilia is very good at herself, but she's really lucky!"

Thinking of this, Ye Yu couldn't help baring her teeth.

This year's Demon King is very strong, especially in this era when the strength of human superhumans, that is, professionals, has declined sharply, and a Demon King with super-strength appears. It stands to reason that Xilia is very likely to follow in the footsteps of Apollo.

But Xi Liya summoned Ye Yu.

The Demon King this time is very perverted, but Ye Yu is even more perverted.

Xi Liya was so perverted that she didn't dare to let Ye Yu take action, so she had to find a substitute temporarily.

Of course, Xilia's original plan did not intend for the brave to defeat the Demon King.

Instead, let Ye Yu sneak into the demon clan to kill the demon king, and then pretend to be the demon king and lose to the brave man.

Although the situation has changed since then, the overall result is almost the same.

The more Ye Yu understands the history of the resurgence of the church over the past 100 years, the more Ye Yu admires the old man Sullivan.

Now he even has the idea of ​​wanting to meet the old man.

Of course, Ye Yu would not admit that there were many factors in this because the old man was Aliwell's grandfather.

Ye Yu was really taken aback when Xi Liya told Ye Yu that Aliwell was the granddaughter of Sullivan III.

In order to avoid the hereditary power of the church like the royal power, as the pope, he cannot have descendants.

Therefore, Sullivan III has descendants, which shows that he has violated the belief of the gods.

It's fine that Xi Liya didn't punish him, and she actually agreed to let the Pope's granddaughter be the saint of her faction, which really surprised Ye Yu.

Of course, it may also be because of this reason, in order to avoid being targeted by other god factions.

As the Holy Maiden of the God of Light, Aliwell has always been protected, and she has been very low-key from the beginning to the end.

If it weren't for the relatively high-ranking members of the church and the great princes and nobles, they would not have known that there was such a saint in the Guangming Department.

But it seems that even with such a low profile, some people still don't want to let Aliwell go.

For example, those believers in the solar system.

Relying on the wealth accumulated by private individuals in the past, the Sun God System has been loathed by ordinary people, but there are still a large number of believers.

To put it bluntly, so far, the solar god system is still the second largest faction among the church gods after a great decline.

"It's annoying to be called Apollo."

Ye Yu had already turned off the computer and was lying on her bed.

"It seems that I really need to find a time to meet the old man the Pope."

Ye Yu needs to discuss some things with Pope Sullivan III, he can't let the people of the solar system continue to target Ariwell like this.

People thought that Aliwell would not suffer any harm under Ye Yu's protection, but it would not be good if it went on like this.

To handle this matter well, Ye Yu can't rely on herself directly.

"By the way, why don't you just call Aliwell to go with me once then?" This is also considered home for Aliwell.

To a certain extent, it seems that both of Aliwell's parents are dead, so this is his plan to take Aliwell to visit the old man?

Ye Yu suddenly lay on the bed and grinned slightly as she thought this way.

"Bah, what am I thinking, don't overthink it!" Ye Yu didn't want to admit that he was not the kind of complicated person.

(End of this chapter)