Give Me the Name of God

Those who deserved to be killed were killed, and those who deserved to be punished were punished. Manda originally thought that he could live a clean life for two days, but there was some movement from the cathedral.

There is no need to hide the fact that Manda has an spy in the cathedral. Even Leo himself knows it well, and he firmly believes that he has nothing to hide from Manda.

But something strange happened recently. After the conflict between the ministers and the church, Leo changed his daily prayer routine. After praying to the Lord of Divine Punishment, he also prayed to the Holy Seraphim.

The Divine Punishment Religion is a pure monotheistic religion, so pure that only the Lord of Divine Punishment can be called a god, and all other known and unknown creatures can only be called divine creations. In the process of the Divine Punisher's prayers, absolutely There should be no other names.

What is the origin of this holy seraphim? Is it possible that someone else wants to forge the name of God and take advantage of the opportunity to steal the wool of the Lord of Divine Punishment?

Manda had done the wool-gathering thing, and some of the God Punishers who were transformed by Manda also believed in Hermes.

Now Manda has the power of the Romulu Kingdom, but he has only carried out transformation in the southwest. So far, he has not promoted the faith of Hermes to all God's Punishers nationwide.

Excessive transformation would lead to war. Manda was cautious about this, but he did not expect that someone would dare to take advantage of him under his nose. What made Manda even more unbelievable was that he was the mastermind of the Leo accident.

Archbishop, are you ungrateful?

If you do such a thing blatantly, how can the Lord of Divine Punishment tolerate it?

Manda originally wanted to question Leo directly, but after thinking about it again, she decided to figure out the cause and effect of the matter first before dealing with it.

Leo's nerves have been a little sensitive recently. After the last conflict, he became hostile to all the ministers, including Manda. He even refused some of the donations given to the church by the ministers.

After Manda canceled the God's Punishment Consecration, the God's Punisher lost the right to collect taxes and the church lost its main source of income. Refusal to donate would only make things worse. Leo's move fully proved his dislike of his ministers.

At this time, there is no blind provocation. Manda first investigates the identity of Seraphim through the internal agent.

Unexpectedly, Nai Ying gave a reply on the same day. He did not need to investigate the matter. For the God of Punishment who was familiar with the scriptures, the Seraph Seraph was equivalent to a common sense existence.

He comes from the prophecy of the Lord and is the first messenger, servant, agent and praiser of the Lord of divine punishment. Among the doctrines, he is the existence closest to God.

Now the question comes, when did this Seraph appear? When did Leo receive the news?

Neiying gave two pieces of information. First, on the day of the conflict, Madesa appointed Leo as the Archbishop of Romulu in public.

Second, Madesa asserted his superiority to the pope, and Quequin succeeded him as pope.

Madesa is here? When did he come? When did you leave again? He already has the strength to come and go freely in the capital?

What does it mean to be above the Pope? He defeated Quaquen, continued to make Quanqun the pope, and then installed himself as an emperor?

He should not do such meaningless things. According to the most reasonable inference, Madesa is the Seraph. His status is above the Pope, which proves that he has become a ninth-level believer, the only ninth-level believer of the Lord of Divine Punishment. A ninth-level believer and the only ninth-level believer among all gods.

He is called the agent of the Lord in the world, which proves that he has most likely become a demigod.

But what does it mean when he appears in God's Punisher's prayer? Is he already capable of receiving faith?

Could it be said that he has become a true god?

This is contradictory. According to Manda's three known conditions for becoming a god, the first is to obtain the soil of the initial sequence, which is a necessary condition for leaving the mortal world.

The second is that there is a temple on Mount Olympia, which is considered a registration.

The third is to leave deeds on the cliffs of Olympia, which determine the person of a god.

The latter two conditions are obviously not met by Madesa.

Maybe he has it?

Perhaps Hermes was negligent, or perhaps there were secret deeds on the cliff, just like what Sangela had done.

But where did the temple come from? Could it be that there was an extra building on the mountain and Hermes didn't notice it?

God Pan must be told about this immediately.

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After listening to Manda's story, God Pan shuddered while sitting on the altar.

"This happened out of the blue, and it made me shiver all over. To become a god, you must pass through Mount Olympia. If the Lord of Divine Punishment breaks even this restriction, the end of the gods will not be far away. You continue Find out about Madesa and I will tell my father about it.”

Manda sent spies among the God's Punishers, but ordinary God's Punishers had no chance of contacting Madesa.

Moreover, Madesa descended into the mortal world in full view of the public, proving that he had no intention of concealing his identity.

We had to find an opportunity to get some information from Leo, but before Manda could find the opportunity, another change occurred in government affairs.

After so many years of fighting, the economy of the Romulu country has reached the brink of collapse. The first to collapse are the lives of civilians. They barely have enough food and clothing all year round. Their economic foundation is already very weak. Under the devastation of the war, except for the southwest and Zhengzhou In the south, other parts of the country fell into years of famine.

It is puzzling that during the war years, the problems caused by famine were covered up by the war, because most of the young men were drafted into the battlefield.

But after the war ended, these young and strong men returned to their hometowns. Faced with empty granaries, they had to fight for a chance to survive for themselves and their families.

Survival will make people take risks, especially those who have been baptized by war. They may provoke civil uprisings at any time. In fact, in some towns, civil uprisings have already begun.

Manda is caught in a dilemma. If the civil unrest is allowed to develop, Romulu will soon fall into chaos. However, if troops are sent to suppress it, Romulu will be involved in war again.

The root of the problem came from food. Manda used the hands of Shertai and Tikas to issue a decree to allocate food from the south to provide relief to refugees from various places. For some out-of-control refugees, Manda sent assassins to kill their leaders, and then slowly disintegrated their organizations through the temptation of money and food.

At first, this strategy was very effective. Most of the refugees were pacified, leaving only two larger groups of refugees who turned into bandits and relied on looting to make ends meet.

Manda thought he had plenty of time to deal with these bandits, but just after spring, his strategy began to fail because there was not much food in the south.

Many years of fighting with Sheltai gave Manda the illusion that there was fertile and vast land in the south, so the food in the south was inexhaustible.

But in fact, the grain reserves in Zhengnan are also very limited. Sheltai has been fighting wars over the years, and the war needs people. Young and strong men have become soldiers, and farming has naturally been abandoned. Seventy to eighty percent of the grain reserves accumulated in previous years have been consumed.

Coupled with a fierce battle with Madesa, most of the farmland was destroyed, and this year's defense is extremely pessimistic. If the granary in Zhengnan is really emptied, Zhengnan will definitely be the one who will starve after the autumn, and a civil uprising will occur. I'm afraid it's also due south.

But if we don’t dig out the granary in the south, where will the food come from?

Turnaround from the southwest?

That is impossible!

Southwest is the root of Manda, the root of the Claude Sai family. Considering the worst outcome, even if he fails to become a god, the king will not take it seriously. At least Manda has found a destination for his life, even if the Romulu Kingdom Subverted again, it is impossible for Manda to sacrifice the interests of Southwest.

According to Manda's way of thinking, there are two ways to solve the problem. One is to rob from neighboring countries, but this means launching a war.

The other is to buy. However, the Romulu Kingdom is the largest kingdom on the continent. Where can we buy enough food to alleviate the famine in most of the Romulu Kingdom?

Manda stood at the door of the palace, silently staring at the statue of Hermes in a daze.

Is a year a little too long? If you don't allow me to start a war, at least give me a way out.

In times of hardship, Manda received good news that the fleet of Qinges merchant Qijero arrived at Blue Bay.

Manda personally met with Kegelo at Blue Bay. The businessman spoke frankly: "Sir, we rarely do food business. Compared with silk and ceramics, the profit of food is very limited. But in the current situation, silk It is difficult to find a market for ceramics and ceramics in your country, and life is also very difficult for most nobles, so we made an exception and brought twenty shiploads of food. I know we can't make much, but in terms of price, I believe you won’t disappoint us too much.”

Manda said happily: "The price is easy to talk about, but twenty ships seems to be a little less."

Kejiro smiled and said: "As long as I can see your sincerity, food will be delivered soon. The Qinges people are willing to work with you to tide over this difficulty."

Manda stood up and raised his glass and said: "The price is as you say, I want as much food as I want!"

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On the way back, the finance minister reminded Manda: "Our treasury is actually not that rich."

Manda smiled and said: "Don't worry, there are plenty of gold coins, it's just not in the treasury."