Chapter 161 We will never be slaves
[They clothed him in a purple robe and made a crown of thorns for him to put on his head. 】
——"Mark" 15:17
The crown of thorns symbolizes the suffering of Christ and also symbolizes his kingship.
However, Bishop Amedei saw with his own eyes that a crown identical to the one on the head of Jesus appeared out of thin air!
"Crown, crown of thorns?!" the bishop cried out.
But Garris in front of him seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"What crown? Bishop, are you dazzled?"
After listening to Garris's words, the bishop looked carefully. After blinking, the crown suddenly disappeared.
For a moment, Amedei even wondered if he was dazzled.
But is this really just a dazzle?
Rather than a hint given by the Lord?
Looking past Garris's figure, Amedei looked behind Garris and looked at the statue of Jesus with his head lowered.
A kind of sacred throbbing emerged in Amedei's heart, but when he took the initiative to seek answers from Garis.
Garris missed the previous signs again and was unwilling to directly answer Amedei's doubts, but allowed Amedee to figure it out on his own.
"Amedei, from now on, I will mobilize the entire Lower City."
"From now on, there will be people guarding the city wall day and night."
"From now on, I request to take over the guard duty of the upper city. If possible, I will also take over the guard task of Karak Castle."
Listening to Garris's request, Amedei suppressed the doubts in his heart first, and then asked a question.
"Gellis, didn't you say before that people who have nothing should not defend people who have everything?"
"Why have you decided to increase the city defense task now?"
Hearing Amedei's question, Garris smiled.
"In the secular world, the poor indeed have nothing, but they have more valuable things."
"God is the Lord who blesses life, and our life is nourished by the word of the Lord."
"Therefore, life is the most sacred, because Christ lives in our body."
"The kingdom of God is the kingdom of life, and the poor will fight for their lives!"
"Being sold into slavery is the most blasphemous trampling on life. The poor will fight until the end of the world for their lives and for the most precious gift given by God."
"We will never be slaves."
Amedei opened his mouth. He wanted to say something, but closed it again because Catholicism had long been opposed to slavery.
Starting from this perspective, Garris demonstrated the necessity of poor people guarding the city wall, but in fact he also denounced the behavior that the rich might do.
Those rich people may allow their brothers from the same clan to be sold into slavery by Adil for the sake of their own wealth...
Amedei nodded, indicating that he understood what Gehrys meant. He promised to Gehrys that he would transfer the city defense task of Karak City to Gehrys.
Only in this way can we avoid the rich people in the upper city, the poor people in Karak City, and him, the bishop, from selling out.
When everything was settled, Amedeh watched Gehrys walk towards the church door.
Suddenly, the previously disappeared crown of thorns reappeared on Garris's head.
Just when Bishop Amedei was surprised, he wanted to catch up and ask what was going on.
The moment he stepped out of the church, Garris disappeared.
ah?
This...
Disappeared? !
Bishop Amedei rushed out of the church nervously, but no matter how hard he searched, he could not see Garris.
Like a madman, he grabbed the poor people passing by and asked: "Have you seen Garris?! Have you seen him!"
And those poor people were all puzzled. Even those who had answers, they all said that they had never seen Garris.
The bishop was left alone, leaning against the door of the church in despair. Many experiences in his past life may have made him doubt his faith.
But today, things seem to have gotten serious.
Are there really people in this world who can perform miracles? ! [When the crown of thorns reappeared, the man had already stepped out of the temple and disappeared outside the door in an instant, leaving no trace. 】
[Amedei ran in a hurry, but no matter how he searched, people around him were denying it. 】
——"The Book of Kharak" 5:54
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Karak City has a population of six thousand people, crowded into a small platform of several hundred thousand square meters.
The platform gives Karak City the characteristics of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it also limits the city's development potential.
As a result, the city's downtown area is as crowded and dilapidated as an ant nest, stacked with various shacks that cannot be called buildings.
The upper city area was separated from the lower city area by a wall from the beginning.
Prevent those disorderly, barbaric, ignorant, and dirty citizens of the lower city from easily crossing the line and disturbing the noble gentlemen in the upper city.
But now it is a special situation. The city is under siege. Although the upper and lower city areas are divided by walls, the main city walls are connected together.
It is impossible for the soldiers guarding the city wall to deliberately distinguish the upper and lower city areas at this juncture, so someone needs to coordinate and arrange the city's defense work.
This responsibility was originally the responsibility of Bishop Amedei.
On the surface, Christianity is a religion rooted in peace, and Jesus repeatedly warned his apostles against violence.
Therefore, priests and bishops were responsible for city defense, which was extremely rare in Europe at the same time.
But in the Holy Land, due to special circumstances, it has become common.
In 1119, the city of Antioch was besieged by the Muslim Ghazi dynasty. Bernard, then Patriarch of Antioch, took over the task of city defense.
With the church as the center and the church's bureaucracy, a temporary military system was established, and Christian citizens in the city were successfully mobilized to participate in the defense of the city.
In 1120, the then King of Jerusalem, Baldwin II, and the Patriarch of Jerusalem held a conference in Nablus. Since the meeting, they formulated 25 decrees.
The main content of the decree is to divide the jurisdiction of secular royal power and religious theocratic power.
Most of the statutes were sex-related, condemning a wide range of sex-related crimes and specifying the penalties for these crimes.
However, because of the siege of Antioch in 1119, Article 20 of the decree stipulated that if a priest took up arms in self-defense, he was not guilty, but this was only a temporary measure.
To put it simply, priests and bishops should not become soldiers if they have a choice.
For this reason, Amedeh convened another municipal council in the city hall. He announced to those council members that there was now a better city defense chief to choose from, and he also had good news to tell everyone.
The city council hall, built of volcanic stone, can only accommodate a few dozen people.
This is more of a restaurant than a council chamber.
It is a restaurant where upper-class people in the upper city share their meals with ordinary citizens in the lower city.
Today, another meeting was held in this restaurant of wealthy people.
Bishop Amedeh, who was solemnly dressed as a prime minister and dressed in gorgeous sacrificial robes, stepped into the chaotic parliament hall with the guards leading the way.
Now, all the seats in the council hall were filled, and even the lord who was originally empty had people sitting on them.
The man was about forty years old, with golden brown hair coiled on his head, and a dignified and slightly cold face.
She is Stephanie.
"Amedei, you said there is a better city guard? Who is he? Where is he now?"
"Madam, you should know him, and he is here now." Amedei made way for the passage, and Garris walked into the parliament hall.
As soon as he walked in, the members of the council chamber murmured quietly.
Because Garris's dress was far from what they expected.
In this solemn and sacred parliament hall, there is an extra poor man wearing patched clothes? !
He didn't even wear armor, how could he become a city guard officer?
However, Stephanie did not speak, she just looked at Garris with a sullen face.
Indeed, she really knew Gareth.
The first update, because it is a current code, so I will post as many as I write. I hope there will be four updates today
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