The room fell into silence for a moment, and Du Wei frowned and said: "How could this happen? Since this Michius was able to fuse the three schools together and became the first pope, then his origin and identity must be known to everyone.
You should know everything, why..."
"Speaking of His Majesty Michus, his personal experience is legendary." Ramsay still played the role of storyteller, while Maximus continued to remain silent.
"His Majesty Michus was not the mastermind of any school before. In fact, when tracing his personal history, he was actually a priest in a small local church. He and Aragon, the founder of the Roland Empire
Your Majesty is a fellow countryman and an old acquaintance. His Majesty Aragon was born in a small noble family in the south-central part of the Roland continent, and His Majesty Michus is the priest of a small religious house of the Church of Light in that area.
It was a small religious center in a not-prosperous town. There were few people in the religious center and there were not many clergy. His Majesty Matthews was born in a family of devout believers and entered the religious center when he was sixteen.
He devoted himself to becoming a clergyman. At the age of twenty-two, because the old priest in the religious institution died of illness, how could he become the new priest...because there was really no one else at that time. As we all know, when His Majesty Aragon was young
, had several years of adventure experience outside, and also caused a lot of trouble, and was once arrested by the local officials at the time. It is said that for a period of time, His Majesty Aragon fled back to his hometown and did not dare to go home.
Hiding in the religious center headed by His Majesty Michus. It is said that there is a deep friendship between the two.
After His Majesty Aragon later became successful, he took charge of the power of a small country, which made later generations find it strange. It seems that according to all historical records, His Majesty Michus appeared next to His Majesty Aragon from that time. According to history
According to records, at that time, Aragorn gave Michius the power to summon believers to serve in the army within his own sphere of influence.
Before that, there was no record of the cooperation between Michus and Aragorn. To put it bluntly, it seemed that the two suddenly came together... Of course, later generations made speculations, and there is a theory that has been widely praised.
Some people agree that, in fact, when His Majesty Aragon raised his army, Michus was already a close comrade-in-arms of Aragon. Later, in order to help Aragon in the war of unification, Michus traveled across the continent.
Among the various schools of the church, he persuaded many people to participate in the cause of unification, and he used his outstanding abilities to accomplish this feat.
Later, during the Unification War, the Church of Light deepened its cooperation with Aragorn step by step, and Michus, who had been the liaison between the two parties from the beginning, also gradually took control of many powers of the church. After all, he originally
He is a priest of the church. If it is the Church of Light that helped Aragorn complete the great cause of creating the empire, then perhaps it can be said that... Aragorn's career also objectively created Michus's status in the church.
After all, at the beginning, he acted as the intermediary for the alliance between Aragon and the church, and because he was also a priest, he gradually focused on becoming the spokesperson for the cooperation between the church and Aragon. Finally, in the great cause of unification
Among them, he took the greatest credit, and his prestige in the church was unparalleled. In the end, he won the heartfelt support of everyone, and officially established the originally loose church into a strict organization: the Temple of Light! And he himself,
He also officially became the first Pope.
Objectively speaking, His Majesty Michus owes a lot to the fact that the Temple of Light is in its current situation. Without his efforts, the Church of Light would still be just a loose organization. It may not even be able to become orthodox on the mainland. Moreover, if
Without his efforts, the three schools of the year would not have cooperated.
His Majesty Matthews is a smart leader. He is good at communication, contacting and uniting forces from all aspects, bringing everyone together and twisting them into a rope to work hard. It is a pity that even a person as smart as Matthews,
It was also impossible to completely eradicate the sectarian differences within the church. Therefore, while he was alive, he could temporarily unite the various sects. But in fact, when the mainland was unified and he became the pope, the sectarian differences within the church resurfaced and became even more severe.
The last few years of Hughes's life were almost spent in quelling disagreements over power struggles within the church.
Moreover, in the last few years of his tenure, in fact, according to later generations' speculation, His Majesty Mathews had lost control of the overt and covert struggles among the factions below. After all, before the mainland was unified, everyone had a common
When striving for a goal, one can still listen to Matthews's persuasion, temporarily put aside differences, and work together. But after the continent is unified, there is no longer a common enemy and a common goal, so the cornerstone of 'unity' no longer exists.
Hughes could no longer find a reason to unite everyone.
He died of illness in the third year after the establishment of the empire, and His Majesty Aragon personally presided over his funeral. His Majesty Michus died on the hospital bed. What is helpless is..."
At this point, Ramsay sighed, as if he couldn't bear to continue talking. He looked at Maximus and hesitated.
"Speak, Ramsay." Maximus sighed: "This secret matter is a scandal in the temple, but there is no point in always covering up such a disgraceful matter. Since everything has been said today
We’ve learned so much, so we might as well just go on and tell them all!”
Ramsay originally looked a little wretched, but at this moment he still looked a little sad. He took a deep breath and said slowly: "Grand Duke Tulip, only a few heads of schools within the church know about this matter.
.And it has been kept secret since then and will never be told to the outside world. Because, this matter is really disgraceful to talk about."
"Well, why is it so disgraceful?" Du Wei frowned: "Could it be..." He suddenly whispered: "Could it be that this Michius was killed by someone?"
Ramsay was startled and quickly shook his head: "Of course not! Although His Majesty Mathews lost control of the disputes among the factions in his later years, he has a high reputation, especially among low-level believers. He
He has a very high reputation and is very respected. If anyone dares to harm him, he will have to face the anger of millions of believers on the mainland! No one will do such a thing! And... and...
Although the several factions are fiercely quarreling, they would not dare to assassinate the Pope, which is so treasonous."
Du Wei sneered and thought to himself: Don't you dare? I can't see...
Ramsay calmed down before continuing: "In fact... it is said. Well, it is just said. In the last few days of His Majesty Michus's death, he actually lost his power and was placed under house arrest by several factions.
Get up. He can no longer control anyone. He only has an old servant left who is loyal to him. Both the Yenis and the Mossas sent people to watch him closely and ask him to publish his will."
Du Wei raised his eyebrows: "Are you asking him to appoint a successor to the pope?"
"That's not true, come to think of it. Mathews had already thought of this issue when he officially became the pope, so he had already announced the Pope's Succession Act early on, when he still had power. It was not unreasonable for him to do so.
The pope himself appoints the candidate. The bill announced at that time was that the presbytery would vote uniformly, evaluate the merits of the archbishops of several dioceses, and finally select the best person to be qualified to become the successor. In this way, avoid
After the Pope’s death, the position of the Pope became the sole authority of some careerists. It is also a very correct approach to decentralize power.”
"Then what is the purpose of Michus's will?" Du Wei was puzzled.
Ramsay smiled bitterly and said: "That's the problem! At that time, the empire had only been established for less than two or three years, and His Majesty Mathews was already on his deathbed. If the merits of the archbishops of several dioceses were compared at that time... The Duke
Sir, think about it, the Unification War has just ended. Speaking of the archbishops of several dioceses, everyone made outstanding contributions in the Unification War! In this regard, no one is particularly outstanding. That
At that time, if we purely compared merit, then everyone would be about the same. Well, at this time, in the evaluation of the elders, since merit cannot be used as a criterion, then... emotional votes have become the most important!"
"Emotional vote?"
"Yes." Ramsay sighed longly: "This is also a major contribution made by His Majesty Michus to the temple! I said before that the Mosaic and Yeni sects are in competition, and the Black Mountain sect has always been in the middle.
Neutral state. And Michus also made full use of the neutral organization of the Montenegrin sect and leveraged its strength to integrate the internal conflicts. After he succeeded the pope, he made the largest and currently
It seems that a very smart move is to establish a board of elders! Most of all the members of the board of elders are from the Black Mountain Sect! This is a neutral sect, and their teachings focus on being independent from the world and insisting on their own.
The principles are ascetic, the character is pure and honest, and at the same time, he is not afraid of external oppression.
They are the best candidates to act as arbitration, and they will not be tempted by power. Therefore, almost all the elders at that time were from the Black Mountain Sect. The elders do not assume any power on weekdays, nor do they participate in the power in the temple.
and management, just self-cultivation, the name of elder seems to be just an empty honor, but when the pope succeeds, the importance of the status of 'elder' will be highlighted. Moreover, the Montenegrin sect itself is very powerful, regardless of
Neither the Mosaic nor the Yeni sect dared to easily offend or challenge them. At that time, the Montenegrin sect’s presbytery, as the final holder of the right to vote for the candidacy of the pope, evaluated the achievements of several archbishops basically equally.
After that, the final judgment cannot be made, and at that time, the emotional vote is very crucial..."
"You mean..." Du Wei frowned.
"The name of the school." Ramsay said solemnly: "At that time, everyone believed that Michus's position would determine the final position of the pope. Although Michus did not have the right to directly appoint a new pope, he
After all, others have too much hope. The most important thing is that he himself has never publicly stated whether he belongs to the Yeni sect or the Mossad sect. At that time, both sides believed that if at this time, Michus could admit that he was a
Which sect he belongs to will undoubtedly become the last weight that leads to the final tilt!! Your Majesty, Duke, do you think that when the candidates of the Yeni sect and the Mossad sect are equally matched, if at that time, Michus
If you stand up and say that he actually belongs to a certain school, then... because of his huge prestige, all the elders will vote for the successor of the school he mentioned!"
"I understand, so at that time, they forced Matthews to admit his own genre in front of his hospital bed, right?"
Ramsay's face turned red, he closed his mouth and was speechless.
Maximus spoke at this time: "Yes... Your Majesty the Duke, what you said was exactly the facts at the time. This is indeed a huge scandal! When the great Pope was dying, the two schools of thought
In order to fight for power, the leader threatened and bullied this great man in front of his hospital bed... This kind of behavior is really shameful! Although I am a Mossad, I have no respect for the Mossat back then.
This kind of behavior is also deeply shameful.”
"Things in the past were done by people in the past. The scandalous things done by those guys do not need to be held responsible by future generations." Du Wei waved his hand and said: "What I care about is... what happens next?"
"What happened next caused the internal division in the Temple of Light to last for thousands of years... and finally caused the Temple of Light to break up with the royal family! After that, the two sides were inseparable, and the supreme struggle for divine power and imperial power continued for thousands of years, and it has not been eliminated to this day.
, but it got worse and worse!”
It was Maximus who spoke. His expression was helpless, and on his old face was an inscrutable expression: "Your Majesty, what happened next will become even more secret. Do you really want to hear it?"
Du Wei understood that if you listened to such a secret "story", you would have to pay a price.
However, he seemed to be very relaxed: "I said it at the beginning. If I don't continue to finish it, I will not be able to sleep at night. Mr. Bishop, we are on the same boat now, you... say it!"