Chapter 216: The Society of Worshiping the Holy Father and "Holy Word of Salvation"
Looking at these members of the Society of Worshiping the Holy Father exchanging glances, Horn's mood was also a bit complicated.
The Holy Father Society is essentially a radical nationalist group in the name of religion.
Although nationalism is good, it is a poison to the Thousand Valleys, which has a population of only four to six million.
Because their main ethnic groups are too few, and their national history and national culture are not only shallow but even disconnected.
The result of forcibly promoting nationalism is the emergence of two major cancers: the invention of history and the prevalence of populism.
Once the above two situations occur, government policies will inevitably be hijacked by popular sentiment, and eventually become trapped in a cocoon, or even become a "thousand valley powder keg" situation.
But Horn cannot completely deny the claims of the Holy Fathers, because the imaginary community of the nation does have its progressive nature.
Besides, their intentions are good, but they have gone too far. Compared with other confused refugees, this group of people basically belong to the group of people who "open their eyes to see the world".
If Horn wanted to build an order that suited his ideas, then he would still attract this group of people.
That's why Horn was so hesitant about their existence.
"Your Majesty, don't you think we should expel the church and foreigners?" asked a member of the order with a relatively straightforward temper.
"Replacing the church with the Kush nation is certainly a good idea, but it is not suitable. Rather than using the Kush nation, it is better to replace it with the Thousand Valley Nation."
Horn Wave to them, ask the people behind you to come to the front row, sit with him, and try to hear what he says clearly.
“Let me put it this way, if you replace the church with the Kush nation, are you that pure as a Kushite?
From a purely ancestry perspective, you must know that the original Kush people are short, black-haired, with long eyebrows and drooping shoulders.
Among the thirty or so of you, not to mention the unique feature of long eyebrows and drooping shoulders, there are only one or two with black hair.
In terms of pure blood, those Kushite nobles who only intermarry internally have the purest blood.
But as the representative of the Kush people, Dané of Joan of Arc betrayed the Kush people, so what is the use of pure blood?
If it is on a spiritual level, using Kush culture to replace the church's culture, then what is the tradition of the Kush people? What are the Kush festivals? What are the ancestors of the Kushites? Where do the Kushites come from?
These things were completely lost in the mixing of blood and missionary work, and no one can remember them. ”
Horn’s set of spiritual and realistic combos silenced these members of the Holy Father Society. They hesitated to speak and looked at each other, but they didn’t know how to answer.
“Do a Farran peasant and a Cushite peasant have less in common than a Kushite nobleman and a Cushite peasant?
Among the wandering refugees, there are also Franks and Norns, who have also been farmers in the Thousand River Valley for hundreds of years.
But according to the classification of the Kush ethnic group, most of Langsandang County does not belong to the Qianhe River Valley. After careful classification, it is estimated that only the mountainous areas of the Qianhe River Valley belong entirely to the Kush people.
Using the Kush nation to divide ourselves and the enemy is tantamount to pushing the aliens who also have the same need to overthrow the church and empire onto our opposite side.
The result of this is nothing more than strengthening the enemy's power and weakening ours. This is too stupid. "
"So what? "A red-tempered member who couldn't stand Horn's remarks stood up. He couldn't care less about his superiority and asked directly, "Your Majesty, Qianhe River Valley is our Qianhe River Valley. This is our hometown. They We should get out, how do they have anything to do with us? ”
“Do you think that overthrowing the church and imperial rule in Qianhe Valley will be the end? "Horn's voice gradually became colder, "Do you think the church and the empire will watch us become independent from the empire?
The nobles who are so greedy that they wage war over a pond and a honeycomb, and the nobles who treat Qianhe River Valley as a nursing home, will they just watch Qianhe River Valley being ignored?
I tell you that the current goal is only to overthrow the Qianhe Valley Church because it is meaningless to establish other goals before overthrowing the Qianhe Valley Church.
From the moment Qianhe River Valley becomes independent, we will face pressure from all sides of the entire empire!
Compared with the Diocese of Thousand Valleys, the entire empire and the church are our real enemies! ”
This is not an alarmist statement by Horn. Compared with his hometown, due to the existence of extraordinary society, the empire’s feudal system is more stable than imagined. Under the banner of the empire, although there will be conflicts between kingdoms, There are endless fights because of geographical disputes, but in the end they are disputes within the aristocratic society
Faced with a situation that could overthrow the entire aristocratic society, they would immediately unite and elect the emperor who had been vacant for decades.
They would then jointly defend themselves against foreign enemies under the authority of the Emperor and the Pope.
In the hundreds of years of war and thousands of years of disputes with the Flesh and Blood Royal Court, this feudal system has been polished more and more perfectly, and the facts have also proved the high efficiency of this system.
When the capital of France fell into enemy hands, the empire was able to fight back and take back the lost Zealand Islands.
Although hundreds of years have passed, this system is far from corrupt.
Among the three major knights who resisted the Royal Court of Flesh and Blood, there were still many great knights. They were the pinnacle of extraordinary knights above the nine-stage breathing method and could carry five or even four blessings.
The lifespan of these great knights is about the same as that of witches. Some of the great knights who have fought in hundreds of years of war are even still alive.
It is said that Prince Condai’s teacher is a great knight, otherwise he would not be favored by the church.
After calming down, Horn picked up the water bag and took a sip of water. This was to give the members present some time to digest.
Seeing that he was almost digested, Horn continued:
"We calculate from the territorial area. The Qianhe River Valley covers an area of about 20 million hectares, but it is only a territory of Kaimu Province.
Among the ten major provinces of the empire, the Church has one province, Lai The Kingdom of Asia has two provinces, and the Kingdom of France has three provinces.
The three provinces owned by the Kingdom of Norn occupy more than half of the territory of the empire.
We alone. In terms of manpower, there are four to six million people in Qianhe River Valley. According to your division method, the real people in Qianhe River Valley are estimated to be about three million.
Is three million people a lot?
The entire empire has a population of 80 million to 120 million. If we calculate it as 80 million, we Qianhe River Valley people only account for 3.75%. If we calculate it as 120 million, then we Qianhe River Valley people only account for 2.5%. strength.
Even if they hold each other back, they can only use one-third of their strength to deal with us, which is ten times the strength we have.
How many farmers and civilians are there in the empire? At least 70 million people.
If we can get their support, even if we only have one-tenth of their support, we can narrow the gap between us and the empire to only twice..."
Considering that even though These people have a broad vision, but their cultural level is still low. Horn did not use too complicated comparison methods, but used more popular words
This political analysis class lasted from noon to evening, and it was not until Horn's voice became hoarse that he finally convinced these members of the Order of the Holy Father.
However, Horn still did not confirm the status of the Order of the Holy Father for the time being, but took out a pamphlet.
"This pamphlet is called "Holy Word of Salvation"." Horn said seriously in a hoarse voice, "It puts forward two major goals: anti-church and anti-empire, and three major goals: civilization, freedom, Equality, you can take a look.
Ahem, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. I will come here to answer it every day. If you don’t agree with this, it doesn’t matter. Just leave.
No need. What are you worried about? Before you officially join, you can come and go freely in the Holy Father Worship Club.”
(End of this chapter)