Your Majesty, the Spectacle Has Missed the Country!

Chapter 60 You are so pious!

Holy city, Bethlehem.

Unlike the bustling imperial capital of Saint Lawrence, the holy city of Bethlehem located in the southern part of the empire is like a pearl lost in the mountains. Although it has long since restrained its aura, it still cannot escape anyone's gaze.

As the legendary place where the God of Light descends, Bethlehem has the most majestic church and the largest number of statues among the four continental countries.

At the same time, it is also the seat of the Holy See, and the Lateran Palace in the center of Bethlehem is the residence of the Pope.

According to legend, the star cave in Bethlehem not only preserves half of the fragments of the "Book of Angel Rachel", known as "the first scripture in the world," but devout believers can also experience dreams and thoughts in the star cave. Communicate with the gods and accept the will of the gods.

Bethlehem has its own laws and its own army. Under the rule of the Pope, it is like a country within a country.

However, it has been twenty years since the current Pope Clement V took over the papal authority.

Except for attending the coronation ceremony of the Imperial Emperor eighteen years ago, he has never set foot outside the Holy City. Cardinal Camus Blanchard is responsible for many matters in Bethlehem.

And this time, believers were recruited to build the statue, naturally under the orders of Camus Blanchard.

At this time, a strange team ushered in outside Bethlehem.

This was a team of about dozens of people. They made the sign of the cross on their chests with their right hands and walked forward slowly.

Idar's soldiers escorted the fifty people to the edge of the holy city of Bethlehem and stopped moving forward. They walked the rest of the way by themselves.

In his previous life, Bruno still remembered the grand scene of believers performing Hajj in Mecca.

Since every aristocratic territory has to send people to build the statues, how can the church bishops remember these believers from the Idar territory?

The bishops of the church must be made aware of the piety of the Idar people!

You must know that it is very beneficial to have a good relationship with the church. At least in name, the birth of every imperial noble requires the approval of the church.

More importantly, everyone, including nobles, must pay taxes to the church. This is the legendary tithe!

Tithe is a tax that is added to the total land products, requiring the payment of taxes or in kind equivalent to one-tenth of the agricultural and animal husbandry products.

This is also one of the most important financial sources for the church!

Although almost all of this tax will be transferred to the civilians after layers of transfers, Bruno felt particularly distressed when he thought that the things that originally belonged to the Idar Territory needed to be handed over.

Even if they are civilians, they are civilians in Idar. Why should they pay taxes to the church?

And if you have a good relationship with the church, the amount of tithe will be more flexible.

As one of the fifty gangsters, Mike has the deepest understanding of the teachings of the Church of Light. Therefore, he is regarded as the most devout believer by Lord Bruno of Idar and becomes the leader of the fifty gangsters.

Bruno made a solemn promise to the gangsters who came to build the statue, and their families in Idar would be properly taken care of.

In addition, for Mike, once he completes the task ordered by Bruno and returns to the Idar Territory, he will receive generous rewards!

The team of fifty people was not very large, but this group of guys who kept making signs of the cross with their right hands and muttering words outside the city gate obviously attracted the attention of the Crusaders.

"stop!"

A Crusader soldier stopped these strange people.

"Where are you from? What do you do?"

Mike, who was making the sign of the cross devoutly, was startled by the sudden shout. He calmed down, then recalled what Mr. Sabi and Mr. Bruno had said before several times, and made another cross on his chest. This time Then he said: "The villain was brought from Idar. He is a believer who went to the holy city to build the statue of the god..."

Soldier: щ(???)щ

After hearing Mike's words, almost all the soldiers on duty nearby looked over.

"Are you believers...or soldiers escorting civilians?" The soldier felt that he had heard something wrong and asked again.

"We are believers and we are here to repair the statue of God!" Mike said sonorously.

"Then...where are the soldiers escorting you?"

"Soldiers? Why are there soldiers? We came here voluntarily!" Mike asked incredulously.

Something is wrong!

This is very wrong!

Which civilian who was escorted by the noble master to build the statue of the god did not have a sad face. Even these soldiers of the Crusaders asked themselves that it was impossible for them to be willing.

How could someone in this world voluntarily abandon their families and travel thousands of miles to the holy city of Bethlehem to build a statue of God?

You know, in this era, a man is the backbone of the family. If you come to repair the statue, what do your wife and children eat and how do they live?

Ordinary nobles only want to take you here to repair the statue, but they don't care about the life and death of your family!

Even if you were able to go back after finishing cultivating the statue alive, you would probably have gone wild on the green grassland when you got home.

This requires so much devotion to the God of Light to be able to do this!

I'm afraid only bishop-level bosses can be pious to this level!

Thinking of this, UU reads a book www. ukanshu.net Even the soldiers couldn't help but glance at this team and said: "Go straight along this road and go to the square in the center of the city to report!"

"May the God of Light bless you!" Mike said softly, and made a cross on his chest with his right hand again.

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In a side hall of the Lateran Palace.

Cardinal Camus Blanchard was looking through a thick roster, which recorded civilians recruited from various places.

"Have all the noble leaders sent over the manpower responsible for building the statue?"

Blanchard's voice was a little hoarse, but his voice seemed to contain an extremely strong aura that was irrefutable.

"Except for Duke Eric and his vassals who guard the northern border of the empire, the other nobles have successively sent their people..." Beside Blanchard, a bishop answered carefully.

"Duke Eric..." The red archbishop pondered for a moment, knocked on the table, as if he had finally made a decision, and said in a deep voice: "No matter how long we wait, I am afraid that the people from Northern Xinjiang will not be sent. Come on... In this case, let’s start the construction of the statue and let the Holy Army supervise the work.”

"Yes." The bishop on the side lowered his head and agreed quickly.

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Regarding currency, I checked it on CNKI today. It will be changed, but it won’t be a big change.

Preliminary consideration is to use gold coins, silver shillings, and copper pence as monetary units, and convert it according to 1 gold = 20 silver shillings = 400 copper pence. The price level and income level will refer to the data of the late Western Middle Ages, mainly because no relevant data has been found. Early medieval documents.

What do you think?