Chapter 170 What happens after the Duke leaves?
In the city hall, Horn asked someone to bring him a glass of refreshing mint water. While waiting for the water, he smiled and said to these core members:
"We are all here now. People, everyone can relax and speak freely. I will take a drink of water and take a rest.”
These people are the core power level of the old camp, including Sissi, Chilvis, Jeshka, Armand, Rene, Das...
Everyone who is not injured is basically here.
After the thrilling night before, the remaining senior executives started talking one after another.
“Should we change our original four legions?”
“I think we should rob a group of craftsmen.”
“Everyone in the Ibe River area Hang a white sail..."
Different from before, after this period of training, these people's knowledge and experience have far exceeded before.
It was not for nothing that Horn and Bonade gave them extra lessons every day. After this battle, compared to the peripheral refugees, the mentality of the core of the old camp was relatively leaning towards Horn.
"Your Majesty, now that we have exposed the matter of the blue-blooded orphans, this is another problem with the church. How can we explain to the brothers in the old camp when you leave and come back?"
"Yes, although the old brothers didn't say anything, they were all very confused."
"We'll talk about this later." Taking the mint water from René, Horn took a sip. He asked Busak: "I asked you to try to gather the first batch of refugees and their families before the sun sets in the evening. How is the situation?"
Busak immediately stood up. Standing up: "The first batch of reservations is for 6,000 people. The list and rations have been determined. They can set off before evening."
"Well, that's right." Horn nodded, "Don't be too tough on your attitude, but once you hit the road, you're not allowed to look back. Do you understand?"
"Understood."
"Armand "Horn shouted to Armand, "Have you finished the investigation?"
Arman took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Horn, and started a briefing: "As you said. , I took Bernard to observe and question 1,000 refugees at random. About 105 people held a positive view of us, and 411 people held a negative view, complaining that you deceived them and caused them to be..."
"What?" Jeanne's face immediately wrinkled, "We worked so hard to avenge them, do they have this attitude?"
"They are right." Horn sat calmly at the table.
Looking at the surprised eyes of everyone in the meeting hall, Horn rubbed his forehead and stood up. "I just want to discuss the situation of our Salvation Army next. Let's unify our thoughts and use this as an entry point."
Standing in front of the table, Horn handed some collected information to the person next to him. Jeshka, let them pass it around one by one.
"Let me put it this way, they followed us to kill the Duke. To a certain extent, they were impulsive. It is no different from killing with passion.
They did not have that consciousness, it was just a temporary Above, if the Duke does not die, this energy can be maintained for a while longer
Now that the Duke is dead and angry, and the church and the Royal Company are about to arrive, they regret it. If you ask them to shout "Kill someone who is unfair to you", do you think they still dare?
Of course, the Blue Blood incident will break out sooner or later. They will make trouble sooner or later, but they will not make it so fierce and have such a stalemate with the church. "
After ruthlessly breaking these core illusions, Horn continued to talk to himself:
"If I were Johnny VIII, I would directly cut off from the Church of the Thousand Valleys. Sell Constance and replace a group of bishops for the Thousand Valley Church.
While rehabilitating Juanno, he sent troops to suppress the assassins, and finally he was exempted from taxes for two years.
Armies are pressing down on the country, bishops are being changed, the pope is regressing, tax exemptions are imposed, and it would be disrespectful to continue making trouble.
By then, do you think we will be directly betrayed by the farmers like the Duke of Kush?
Do you still remember what you once said? Xiaomin can't see that far, even if this matter is good for them in the long run.
They will never see that if the church is not overthrown, such things will happen endlessly, and then there will be an endless cycle of 'squeezing - rioting - giving in - forgetting'. ”
Speaking of this, Horn himself couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.
Extraordinary power means that the gap between ordinary people and individual knights is much greater than in Horn's hometown. A small number of knights can suppress a large number of farmers.
Then they must take more drastic measures to stop the farmers' uprising. After the farmers' uprising, they will clean up the remaining forces more thoroughly, leaving almost no fire.
Due to the emergence of the supernatural, priests were able to show their holiness in front of people, and even actually summoned angels to descend to the earth. God's authority became stronger and the people's thoughts were more deeply imprisoned.
Under the pressure of both sides, the upper limit of what the farmers could endure was so high that Horn even despaired.
"Isn't this too ungrateful?" Sissi couldn't help but said. "It's not their fault. You tripped over a stone. Don't you think it's ridiculous to blame the stone instead of the person who put the stone?"
Horn lowered his head, but his voice could be heard clearly by everyone in the chamber.
“Why do they show such evil nature? It’s because there is a devil in their hearts, an invisible chain is locked around their necks.
The military hegemony of the empire and the ideological hegemony of the church , these two were so powerful with the blessing of extraordinary power that they were defeated in almost every struggle.
This established the third hegemony of the empire and the church - extraordinary hegemony. br>
By monopolizing extraordinary resources through the first two, cutting off the path to extraordinary for non-nobles and non-priests, and forcibly binding extraordinary and identity from the ideological and social levels. ”
During the Lent Year, farmers are prohibited from eating meat, but nobles can eat eggs and fish. The "Frugal Law" even prohibits people except nobles, monks, squires and merchants from eating beef and spices.
Isn’t all this because of the fear of other new extraordinary beings appearing outside their extraordinary system?
Isn’t this the reason for the endless pursuit of the Secret Party?
< br>Because transcendence is the guarantee for the hegemony of the first two!
In the eyes of many common people, it is not because they are extraordinary that they are noble knights, but because they are knights, they are noble and extraordinary!
If a knight loses his extraordinary blessing, it will still frighten them.
Why does Horn continue to grant empty titles to followers of the old camp without any matching benefits, and they can still be content with it.
Isn’t it because in their ignorant understanding, knights are noble because of their titles, rather than knights being noble because of their extraordinary qualities?
This is why many knights hate mercenaries who can breathe. Because mercenaries have extraordinary power, but they are mortals in terms of identity, which is a counter-evidence to the existence of knights and priests.
"The empire needs the church to reduce their governance costs so that they can obtain enough resources to maintain their extraordinary status.
The church needs the empire to maintain their economic and ideological status."
As if he was thinking and speaking at the same time, Horn slowly walked around the table in the conference hall.
“Among all the Qianhe Valley people, no, we extend to the entire empire system, all the bottom of the empire have devils in their hearts.
Even if the empire and the church squeeze and betray them, they will still Subconsciously rely on and follow the church
Because this has been a practice for thousands of years, in their eyes the empire and the church represent victory and correctness.
Fighting the empire and the church is a taboo for them from a psychological level.
So, most of the time, they are not on our side. Even if they are forced to join us, they will try to recruit us.
It is easy for us to kill knights, it is easy for us to destroy churches, but it is difficult to kill the devil in their hearts.
Their uprising was less an uprising than a strike and a protest.
It's a little better in Caxia County with Juano's big flag. Look at us, Thomas' group of people before were either forced to do so or wanted to be nobles.
No one has ever said that I joined the uprising in order to overthrow the church. "
As Horn moved around, the expressions on the faces of these Salvation Army executives became more and more solemn, and they even began to fall into long contemplation.
"The Duke's cognition came from a certain That's true on one level, they don't have cohesion.
When I say using blue blood to inspire their cohesion, it is because of the banner of the Duke, this cohesion can last.
Now that the Duke has fallen, the flag is gone, but the Salvation Army's flag is not enough to convince them.
So they were happy, scared and confused. They were happy that they finally had a breath of bad breath. They were afraid of the devil in their hearts and the devil in front of them. They were confused about whether the Salvation Army could lead them to resist the church. "
After finishing this long paragraph, Horn let out a sigh of frustration and sat back on the chair:
"They are on our side, and their hearts are on the church. Unlike our old camp, they have no sense of identity with us and do not regard the Church and the Empire as real enemies.
Unless we can break the three hegemonies of the nobility and monks, they will support us.
But the problem is that if we don’t break the three hegemonies, they won’t support us, and if they don’t support us, we won’t be able to break the three hegemonies. "
Picking up the mint water on the table, Horn took a sip to moisten his dry throat.
After a long silence, Jeanne on the side asked in a deep voice. : “What should we do? Is there absolutely nothing we can do? ”
(End of this chapter)