Chapter 594: Constituent Assembly (Part 2)
The sound of rain hitting the windows became more and more urgent, clearly blowing away the short-lived enthusiasm in the venue, and was replaced by an oppressive silence.
Horn frowned and looked sideways at Meliyati, who shook her head at him solemnly.
In the silence, a legion commander from the left seat took the lead in shouting: "Is our saber not sharp enough, or is our holy gun not accurate enough?"
The legion commander didn't wait. After saying that, Armand apologized to Lu Feier beside him and stood up: "I think Mr. Herman does not mean an overt confrontation, but some undercurrent of rat-like undercurrents, right?"
Herman smiled, but his voice was low and cold: "Everyone must understand that although we sitting here today may not necessarily have the same interests, we must have the same enemies.
But where is the place? The knights and nobles above, but Not necessarily. Due to the power of the army, they may obey, but they cannot be of the same mind as us."
Standing up slowly, Herman smiled apologetically at Meliyati: "Your Highness, I used to be smart, but now everything , all of which were obtained with the blood of our close friends and relatives, I must ask clearly."
"Of course you can ask." Before Meliyati could answer, Horn took the first two steps forward and stood. In front of him, "If I were you, I would do the same. "
Herman's sharp eyes were fixed on Horn's indifferent face: "You let the knights and housekeepers serve as heads of households, but they are not of the same mind as us, especially since they have mastered the discourse of the people in the territory for a long time. Right.
For example, you ask them to pay 20 gold pounds and keep 15 gold pounds. They agree on the surface and then pay 20 gold pounds.
In the end, I turned around and asked for 30 gold pounds from the believers in Baihu District without telling you, and put the blame on you. What should I do? ”
At this time, the representatives of the left seat are all deep in thought. Even if they want to suppress them, they cannot kill them indiscriminately.
If these knights choose to surrender, then they will be followed first. Violate, violate or corrupt lower-level monks, just like they once corrupted the church.
Aren't the original good policies still transferred to the peasants?
"Aren't Articles 1 and 4 of the Charter prepared for this?" Horn spread his hands and asked rhetorically, "The first thing we need to do to transform the place is the reform of permanent leasehold rights!"
“Oh damn.”
“So they’re waiting for us here.”
There were murmurs of realization immediately from the audience.
The implementation of permanent leasehold rights not only represents the enhancement of farmers’ economic strength, but also represents the weakening of personal dependence.
The lord could not deprive his subjects of their farmland and identity at will, let alone judge or deprive them of their lives and property at will.
In addition to violence and inertia of rule, the people of the territory are economically decoupled from the lord to a certain extent. In this case, the people of the territory can assume part of the responsibility of supervising the knights.
The knights are violent, but unable to gather, and the efficiency is very low.
Compared with Horn and Meliaty's aggregated and efficient extraordinary violence system, they can only bow their heads.
Although he was dissatisfied with the extraordinary hegemony in this world, Horn felt that it was really satisfying when the extraordinary hegemony was in his hands.
After mastering absolute violence, only a small group of people can suppress a large group of people, ensuring that small chaos may continue during the reform process, but it is difficult to break out into major chaos.
“But who will guide them? Even if one person is allocated to every 100 households, the entire Qianhe River Valley will need nearly 9,000 monks. Do the monks in your hands and the reliable monks in the hands of Brago Monastery add up to 2,000? ”
This time it wasn’t even Herman, but a representative from the center bench asking the question.
“It’s very simple, three steps.” Horn held up three fingers, “Cultivate a group of our own, transform a group of church members, and introduce a group of outsiders.”
“Let’s Aren't you against the Qianhe Valley Church? Are you going to take over the church again?" As soon as Horn said this, someone on the left seat couldn't help but stand up and asked.
"We are against the church, not the priests." Horn turned around and looked at the representatives in front of him and said loudly, "Not all priests are bad people. If you think about it carefully, the lower-level priests are also opponents of the church.< br>
Actually, I know a good old priest. Although he may sometimes be cowardly and risk his life, he is indeed a good and brave man.”
In the church system, the same is true for grassroots priests. They were part of those oppressed by the church, including the lower-level monks in the monastery.
Secular identity still works in the church. Since Pope John, who has seen a pope with a real civilian background?
Horn had seen many low-level priests who were skinny and bruised. Except that the latter could read and write, they were almost the same as the slaves of high-ranking priests.
Today, there are a large number of such low-level monks in Chikari, and Horn finds their anti-church methods too radical.
And from a practical perspective, it is impossible to completely abandon the church system.
Even in Langsand County now, at least 20% of former priests and former monks are involved in the administrative work of the Priestly Order. There are 26,000 priests in the entire Thousand River Valley to maintain grassroots rule. According to Horn, it is seriously overstaffed, but even if the reduction is to be reduced, at least 40% to 50% must be retained.
Because firstly, there is no manpower to fill it, and secondly, complete replacement may lead to instability at the grassroots level, giving those knights who pretend to convert an opportunity to cause trouble.
Taking this opportunity, Horn simply revealed the next renovation plan:
“First, we will select 400 reliable monks and 100 accountants and auditors from Langsand County and Brago Abbey. , 20 Cheka Commissioners
They will form the Order of Efficient Exorcism and the Order of Agricultural Exorcism. Go to the place with more than 2,000 Salvation Army members from 4 legions.
After arriving at the place, the church system must be completely dismantled, all priests must be laid off, and all affairs shall be temporarily taken over by the Agricultural Exorcism Order.
During this period, they will conduct a statistical summary of all tax records and religious properties in the area
After obtaining the tax rolls, with the help of the Salvation Army and the Sheriff's Army, he sincerely persuaded the local knights and public farmers to sign a "Permanent Lease Deed".
At the same time, the Efficient Exorcism Order will gather all priests and monks according to the division of villages to conduct examinations and reviews.
Those who pass the exams will stay on and participate in the Holy Word Sect study class for two to three weeks of intensive training.
Those who failed the examination were sent to the Prago Monastery for re-education, and those who failed the examination were sent to the Lubyanka Monastery for re-education.
In this way, with manpower, tax rolls, and teaching assets, we can carry out the reform of hundreds of households into districts.
Hundred-household districts were determined based on tax rolls and population, and then their names, ages, and household registrations were registered, and a collective oath was taken to join the Holy Monarchy of the Thousand River Valley.
Then, according to the principle of one traveling monk for every ten hundred-household districts and two or three remaining monks, a priestly order was established. ”
The first reason why so many people are able to do this is thanks to Juano’s legacy talent pool, and the second is the result of Horn’s hard work for so long.
Horn sent all the monastery monks and priests to the Holy Hoe Monastery and forced them to Working with laborers at the same salary
After more than a year of development and training, excluding those currently being used by the Holy Armament Government, Horn has at least 200-300 available devout monks. At least 200 more people are being trained
It was obvious that the representatives of the monk groups in the three seats on the left, center and right breathed a sigh of relief.
Some monks even had expectations flashing in their eyes. The outrageous thing is that even within the monastic system, it is not uncommon for large monasteries to bully small monasteries.
And this obviously lifted the ban on some monks participating in politics, and would cause an uproar in the Imperial Holy See.
At this time, Herman had returned to his seat and sat down, but he did not close his eyes and rest like before. Instead, he squinted and spoke again:
"I have seen too many good laws passed down. The situation is different now. The tradition between the church and the knights has lasted for thousands of years, and the farmers have already adapted to it.
Can you really guarantee that between you and the knights, the peasants will choose to side with you instead of following tradition and siding with the knights? "
After pondering, Horn slowly spoke, his voice steady and low: "The human heart is the most unpredictable. Even if I promise not to do it, you can't believe it. In the short term, we cannot stop the cavaliers from being submissive and the peasants from being ignorant and short-sighted.
But the reality is that we must take this risk, fight for it, supervise it, fight wits and courage, and even pay the price of blood. "
Horn raised a finger, and Horn's voice gradually became more and more passionate in the quiet venue:
"Do you think the war in the Thousand River Valley is over? No, it’s just starting now! And the bleeding may not be less than before.
We can't be perfect in everything, and we can't get everything without giving anything.
I also want to directly eradicate the nobles in the entire Qianhe River Valley. I also want to convert the entire Qianhe River Valley to the Holy Dao Sect. I also want to directly unify politics and religion in the entire Qianhe River Valley.
But that means a terrible civil war, and it means being picked by the Kingdom of Leia. If we don't want to be short-lived, we have to endure a moment of unwillingness and compromise.
If you ask me now, after we have endured unwillingness and compromise, can we defeat the Kingdom of Leia in the future?
I still can’t guarantee it, but I still have to fight for it. Even if I know it may be meaningless, shouldn’t I just fight for it? ”
Looking at Horn blankly, Herman's eyes flashed with unexplainable meaning.
"Juano knew he was going to be burned to death, did he run away? He didn't, he chose to stay!
Our local reforms may not succeed, then Don’t want to reform? No, we still have to change, even if we have to pay a heavy price!”
Learn from Meliya! With the lifting movement, Horn's fist hit the table hard, making a crisp sound. His face was a little distorted, but he still endured the pain and shouted in a high voice:
"Church Juano can be burned to death, but the truth cannot be burned to death. The knight can resist the truth, but he cannot resist the future! ”
(End of this chapter)