Chapter 57 / The beginning of the first heretic saint in history
By the time Ian woke up, most of the day had passed, but it felt like the sun was a little brighter than it started.
However, the moon's position has indeed set in the west, the tea party has ended, and everything has returned to normal. Although there are still injuries on the lawn full of silver roses, slowly moving with the help of the maid, most of the people are already busy with their own efforts.
Yiwen Ian sat up, yawned, and handed a wet towel right next to him.
"Iofeta..." Yiwen Ian took the towel naturally and wiped his face hard, "Where are the others? They have returned to the Duke's Mansion? Are Teacher Pernard and the others finished?"
"Article Allin is here." Aofeta explained concisely, "He brought the reaction of the Holy City."
Yiwen Ian held the wipes and calmed down for a while, "Oh."
Finally, he nodded like this.
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In the end, the church's reply surprised Yiwen Ian.
Originally, he thought that since the Holy City sent the result back so quickly and had almost no consideration, the talks were probably broken. However, when Yarlin greeted him with a smile on his face, the contract amendment case taken out of his arms was simply overshot.
"First of all, 20,000 gold coins are really too much." Yarlin explained to Yiwen Ian one by one, "Now the total savings of the entire Nanling Church are added together, and there are only more than 10,000 gold coins. Then, with the operation required, 8,000 gold coins can't be more than 8,000 gold coins."
"..." Yiwen Ian frowned and sat in front of Yarlin, gently tapping the armrest of the chair, "18,000 Empire gold coins, and then you take away 3,000 of them."
"Cough cough cough!" Yarlin suddenly started to cough violently.
Yiwen Ian didn't care. He knew very well that the church's development in Nanling has not been very good. As a slippery and somewhat selfish guy, Yarlin has been an archbishop in Nanling for more than 10 years, but he has not gained much money. These 3,000 imperial gold coins should be considered a huge sum of money for him.
Humph, the stupid people in the other world probably don’t know that there is still a “kickback” in the world, which can make trouble at the negotiating table and turn enemies into friends.
Sure enough, Yarlin looked at the room secretly while coughing, and then carefully performed a small magic trick, but he didn't continue to say anything at this point.
This did not surprise Yiwen Ian. For the Nanling Church, 18,000 imperial gold coins are indeed a considerable amount of wealth, but for the wealthy Central Church, or the Royal Hall, the large area of territory in the eastern part of the empire alone has more than this money.
Without further confirming the issue of 3,000 Empire gold coins, Yarlin, after the coughing, took the first note lightly: "In addition, among the tax exemptions, agricultural tax and commercial tax are easy to say, but the toll tax and fundraising tax are too hindering the development of the church, so the Royal Hall said that it cannot agree. In addition, Mr. Sir, you also know that the development of the church in Nanling is very bad. In some rural areas, the money raised by missionaries can barely make a living. It should be said that this little money does not have much significance for you who own the entire Wenning District factory."
Yiwen Yian's face was as deep as water, but he did not relax at all: "I can exempt some of the four basic taxes, but no one of the donation taxes can be lost. I don't want any of my leaders to win without any effort."
"This..." Yarlin was stunned for a moment. He felt that he could not keep up with Yiwen Ian's thoughts.
"If the money raised is not enough to eat, go farming and pray to the gods for spiritual comfort. It is better to do your own thing honestly. As the perpetrators of the gods, the priests of the sect should set an example first."
Yiwen Ian has always been calm about religion. He is neither as hostile to religion as some people in his previous life, nor too much praise for the role of the church in stabilizing the people's hearts like those who must-do religious scholars. For him, compared to religion, the only thing that law and morality cannot do is the afterlife theory.
If he does good in this life, what will happen after death? If he does evil in this life, what will happen in the next life? This has always been an important factor for the major religions in his previous life to absorb believers. And just like a certain Crescent Church, there are also many teachings to drive believers to become jihadists with empty checks after death. These empty checks are indeed very important to believers. If used correctly, they do have a very positive effect on the values and moral values of believers. However, other things are just religious dregs. As for priests who believe in God, they must be superior to others and do not have to work or anything... they even want to criticize the church's face.
"This... let the priests work with other believers..." Alling was immediately entangled.
Yiwen Ian gently tapped the armrest of the chair, and his eyes turned to the corner of the room without hesitation: "3 thousand..."
"Okay!" Yarlin gritted his teeth. Anyway, according to the current treaty of the Royal Hall, his resignation was inevitable. As a fence-boy who was already quite old, instead of looking forward to returning to the Holy City, the Royal Hall would give him a new position, it would be better to devote all the 3 thousand gold coins that Yiwen Ian promised to him. In addition, the savings he had gained bit by bit over the past decade, it was enough to go home to retire.
The world is going to be in chaos, and you will retreat bravely and leave without leaving even any legend in the world. This is the romance of a little person like him who lives in the cracks.
“As for registration…”
“3,000…”
"This is OK!"
After three steps, Yaerlin felt like he had run five kilometers, his eyes wide open and panting. Both eyes were a little red, with a fierce momentum of "Who cut off my wealth, I cut off his descendants!"
However, Yiwen Ian knew very well that the first three points did not touch the fundamental interests of the church at all. What kind of results will be affected in the end, and the only thing that Yarlin negotiated in the end was his own future, and the last three points were the real focus that both sides valued.
"But the fourth item cannot be given up anymore!" As if he was afraid that Yiwen Ian would continue to use "3,000..." to block his mouth. As soon as he came up, Yarlin quickly clarified the theme, "Nothing can be said for labor! Let alone military service!"
"For thousands of years since the establishment of the church, no secular lord can surpass the church. Even the first emperor of the empire, he had to respectfully call him "Great Teacher" when he saw the Pope. This precedent must not be opened. If you insist on this, the church will fight you to the end!"
Yiwen Ian looked at Yarlin with his head tilted for a while: "What about the teaching staff? In other words, your church sends people to my school as a teacher."
"Teacher?" Yarlin was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Yiwen Ian had the idea. However, this is not a question of whether the interests are not good or not, or whether it is appropriate, but rather a matter of the church's face and reputation in the empire, and there is no possibility of concession.
So he finally said firmly: "No, no matter what kind of hard labor, no matter how hard labor is, no matter how hard labor is!"
"Um..." Yiwen Ian pondered for a moment, considering the wording, the church could not agree to this point, which he knew from the beginning. However, he built nearly 30 schools of all sizes throughout Nanling. According to the plan, the number of schools will be more than five years. However, in addition to sufficient students, more schools need enough teachers. To expand the education system by cultivating teachers, from the examples of his previous life, it is both successful and failed. This profit-making model looks refreshing for a while, but it is extremely destructive for the real talents he needs.
So he has been considering, at least to some extent, recruiting some people with actual combat or practical engineering experience to enter the school, guiding students in spell and art for him, and at the same time taking out hands, compiling textbooks, formulating teaching plans, and improving the entire education system.
However, these things are already a little short of the resources of mages and scholars that Yiwen Ian already has. So he has been considering opening up new channels for teachers. As he was doing this, he hit the church priests who were consuming and raising funds all day long, studying divine arts and theology. In addition to worshiping God, he was idle all day long.
He was not afraid that these priests would abduct his students into believers of the gods, and he would not find anyone to teach people. However, if we talk about supervising them, there were many military constitutional officers in the New Model Army who worshipped him enthusiastically. These military police groups that were armed through the most rigorous ideological education and political review selection have always been the morale engines of the entire New Model Army. If you want them to switch to the church? You have to first ask the orphans and victims of the military constitutional officers who were bullied by priests and hated the church!
That's it! A priest accompanied two military constitutional officials to follow! He couldn't say that he could turn around and get two warhammers and the other "Capital", shouting Marx, the priest who "piupiu" littered magic, even the political commissar's science tree was also pointed out.
Thinking of this, Yiwen Ian said to Yarlin, "So that's it. Didn't you say that there were clergy in the church before that wouldn't be full? Then tell the Pope Hall to let them open up the free employment rights of the priests in the Nanling Mountains. If they give me a job, I will give them wages. As for the nominal term, you add a nominal term under the Nanling General Church, and then I will transfer the wages directly into this group, which is nominal fundraising."
Yarlin was stunned: "Is this true? It seems that it is not impossible. When I go back, I will tell you the Supreme Bishops in the Pope Hall."
"As for the right to remove the bishop..." Yarlin lost his previous momentum, and he subconsciously looked down at the treaty, "This..."
"Accept my request to remove the archbishop, but can't the candidate for the archbishop be accepted?"
Yiwen Ian recited this line from the treaty directly, which was why he was surprised before.
"Yes..." Yarlin smiled bitterly. As soon as he saw this, he knew that he had been completely given up.
"There is the last one..." Speaking of this, Yiwen Ian's expression was very complicated. "If you do not object to the fourth and fifth article, the Pope Hall can agree to the requirement to add my monk's citizenship to the church..."
This is... being rebelled against the general...
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Five hundred thousand words! The Saints Expedition finally hit the point! Cheer! Long live!