"Based on my experience in observing the multiverse, [the power of the king] forces the nobles to comply with the moral standards of the church and no longer can easily squeeze the people."

"But at the worst, when productivity develops, the church's 'moral requirements' are roughly no different from 'freedom'."

——Dagong's third comment on "The Kingdom Storm"·The Second

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The devil and the young lord chatted in the castle study late at night for a long time, and during this period they also searched for several books.

It must be admitted that the structure of religious organizations is often complex and cumbersome and even somewhat outrageous.

Siga is a kingdom of divine authority.

Therefore, before talking about the complex interests of the church in Spain, the French and Portuguese church, the three parties, regarding the domestic situation in Spain and the structure of the church, we must first "understand the overall situation" before we can "learn the world".

To put it bluntly, you have to understand international forms of food futures.

To put it bluntly, if you don’t hear about the world, how can you get the “Longzhong Punishment”?

Let’s start with the church, God comes first, and the king comes later.

(There are more than one church in this world, and it is a family of [Atonement Lord]. It is to simplify the number of words, and it is collectively referred to as the church in the following text)

Hundreds of years ago, in the early days of the founding of the Kingdom of Siberia, the first generation of the heroes, the second and third generation kings, in order to curb some secret beliefs left in the territory - such as blood sacrifices, raising monsters, gender distortions, and other strange and historical niche beliefs that [seriously affect farmers' production and labor] - established the [Soul of Atonement] as the only designated national religion belief.

The great dukes and the royal family assisted the church, and the power resources of the core aristocratic circle assisted religious organizations to implement the church's concept of "self-restraining and sin-devouring" within the kingdom. While eliminating ancient secret beliefs, they supervised the lower lords (i.e., the secondary feudal landlords in the feudal aristocratic circle) in accordance with the church's philosophy ("moral requirements") - "progress" compared with the chaotic ancient times.

Feeling too complicated? Some are confused?

It's OK, you can remember the simplified version:

Hundreds of years ago, in the new Kingdom of Siberia, there were many [very evil] niche beliefs left behind, which were scattered and hidden everywhere, seriously affecting the productivity of the kingdom.

The nobles in the core power circle thus united the church. Feudal forces supported religious forces and forced the [relatively advanced] faith of the [Soul of Atonement] to be forcibly promoted in the Kingdom of Siga.

The church helped the nobles to [stabilize] the rule of the territory, and at the same time [supervised] the exploitation of the people by the lower nobles is within the scope of the moral standards of [relatively progressive].

What, it still feels too complicated?

Then it will be summed up in one sentence:

[With the support of the great nobles, the church broke other faiths in the Western Region and maintained the ruling efficiency of the nobles.]

Well, if Grand Duke Asmotiels came to evaluate, He would probably say:

"Not erasing other gods or demons is equivalent to not denying more idols and theorists in ideology... In other words, acquiescent to believe in other people, unite in other names, and form their own gangs, which is certainly not conducive to the rule of mortals."

After hundreds of years of development, the church has undertaken the four functions of "preventing foreign beasts and demons" at the grassroots level, "supervising the degree of exploitation of nobles", "spiritual comfort/discipline of villagers", and "providing public welfare services to the society within the scope of teachings".

As the saying goes, priests and nobles [govern the world together], you are your master, and I take my authority.

However, the power (job) and ability (energy) held by the church happens to be most closely related to the "daily life" of the residents of [grassroots].

In other words, the distance between the priests and grassroots residents is relatively more [closed to the masses] than the nobles!

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In addition, churches, monasteries, and monks in various places - with the holy city [Vatikan] as the highest core - the church has an independent and self-organized [information circulation and decision-making communication] network within the kingdom, so about 75% of the [grassroots] of the entire Kingdom of Siga is under the "quality maintenance" of the church.

(Although the lord ruled directly, in the maintenance work at the grassroots level, the nobles' "maintenance quality" is often inferior to the church)

The other 20% is the capital of the kingdom and the direct territory of the great dukes.

The remaining 5% is a remote countryside similar to Gus City.

After all, what exactly does [Divine Authority of the Lord] depend on?

Is it force?

Come on, come on, the military comparison process that you like.

On the top extraordinary combat power:

Although the church's Holy See's Crown and the Great Knights of the Heretic Inquisition are extremely powerful - the court swordsman of the royal capital of Siga, the family guest of the three great dukes, and the hidden adventurers of other noble leaders, such a group of top extraordinary people who serve feudal nobles, gather together to start a group, and the only two top combat powers in the church will probably be killed by Duizi.

On the standing armed forces:

[Saint Cult Army] took the elite route, forming a legion of about 2,000 people, formed by the "Sin Knights" who entered the extraordinary realm and the half-step extraordinary devout warriors. The logistics and support of the knights are entirely owned by the Holy City [Vatikan] - the ascetics, the devout people, and the retired old devout warriors, as the non-combat support of the legion.

Assuming that all the members of the Siga Kingdom are united, the nobles and men from various territories will pull out their knights, soldiers, and extraordinary guests. With the private army of the three great dukes as the core, the royal imperial guards as the face of the flag, plus the private soldiers of the lords from various places, regardless of the number of logistics and knights, the actual number of people in the actual warheads is calculated. The army of the Siga Kingdom has about 80,000 people.

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Of course, 80,000 is just a theoretical upper limit.

In actual situation, where does "all members are united" come from? All the nobles and men in the entire kingdom "sell the gambling family's foundation" at the same time?

Obviously impossible.

For example, in the "One-year War" launched by the Kingdom of Siberia against the Kingdom of France and Portuguese five years ago, the number of warheads that the Siberia actually participated in was about 30,000.

Ahem, by the way, Chuyang Feidieleish's current assets are:

One knight (part-time by the guard Hamo), and 24 soldiers.

This is the case in remote areas, without resources and no reason to raise too many combat personnel.

Well, back to the topic.

Through simple data comparison, we can see that although the church's military foundation is not weak, if the core aristocratic circle of the Kingdom of Siberia is really determined and wants to break the church, the [Sacred Army] of only more than 2,000 people will not be able to withstand the secular army controlled by the feudal aristocracy.

However, in Westland, it is a kingdom of [the power of the king].

Force is just a tool after all, not a result.

It's like,

No matter how many aircraft carriers and nuclear warheads are, if [the grassroots] completely lose control and fall into chaos and division, if the people are completely intoxicated by the depravity of hatred and violence, can it still be considered a kingdom? How can the nobles rule?

Therefore, at least at this historical stage, the nobles and men of the Kingdom of Siga cannot live without the church of the [Atonement Lord].

The church successfully connected most of the [grassroots] of the entire kingdom under the same ideology - at least in the surface form - if the nobles of the feudal forces wanted to continue to use the assistance of the church to maintain the rule of their own territory with the logic of social operation that had been [stable] for hundreds of years.

Of course, historical experience has proved that productivity will slowly change in quantity until the critical point, and will have to undergo a qualitative change, forcing an old system to gradually become out of control.

The Kingdom of Sigali was established for hundreds of years. After several rounds of reshuffle and accumulated hundreds of years of resource background, the ambitious people in the kingdom finally couldn't bear it anymore after this generation.

We are all nobles from the same kingdom. Our ancestors have been introductory for hundreds of years. In our generation, we should stop introductory.

Make the cake bigger and let's divide it one more.

(However, some nobles also oppose, namely, the factions within the palace and the differences in the positions)

50 years ago, a declaration from the previous king of the French Portuguese banned the church's sermons and preaching qualifications within the territory of the French Portuguese Kingdom, and determined that the belief of the [Atonement Holy Lord] was "harmful" to the French Portuguese Kingdom.

The previous French Portuguese King was also a benevolent monarch. He (and the great dukes who supported him) did not directly kill and arrest the religious personnel and believers of the church in the French Portuguese territory.

Instead, it was very gentle to let relevant religious personnel and believers leave the border of France and Portuguese within a time limit.

Of course, when the specified period passes, if the believers or missionaries of the [Soul of Atonement] are found in the territory of our French and Portuguese, then the lords from all over the country must be given high pressure treatment.

After the "ban You Religion" incident 50 years ago, the church at that time was extremely annoyed, and through the circles of some feudal aristocrats and some extraordinary people, the church's senior officials and French and Portuguese court forces cursed for several years.

Yes, I've been scolding each other for several years.

Only verbal confrontation.

The main high-level church leaders do not intend to launch a 'holy war'.

Reiterate that the core leadership of the church is not · There is no intention to launch a 'holy war'!

In the Kingdom of Siga, the old king was considered a wise ruler at that time, suppressing the ambitions of some aristocratic factions in China. For the ambitious people, the opportunity finally came. Both the church and the old king believed that there was no need to launch a "holy war".

[The Holy Lord of Atonement] The first Holy See of the Church, the proverbs left by him:

"The jihad in our church should be a war of justice declared to the true blasphemy of the evil of chaos."

Time flies, 45 years have passed, and the two generations have changed.

The court of the Kingdom of Siga,

Now I'm going to want to

Reverse guest,

In the name of [God-given power of the king], one should practice one's own selfish desires!

And at this time, [Corruption] has also been seen within the church.
Chapter completed!