Chapter 217 Your Majesty, I apply for a duel with Elder Sheamus!
The reason why Horn is interested in the Holy Father Society is not because he has nothing to do, but because there is a real need.
As the saying goes, nothing can be established without destruction. Not to mention destroying the Church of the Thousand Valleys in the future, just destroying the church in Longsand County will create a large power vacuum.
If Horn doesn't send someone to occupy the power vacuum, then it will be something else. Who knows who will occupy it.
In the empire, especially the Thousand Valleys in the Kingdom of Leia, it is common for grassroots governance to be contracted to the church.
Horn currently does not have that many intellectuals on hand to help him handle these grassroots affairs.
So either we should send members of the Holy Father Society to take the lead and cooperate with some of the old priests to deal with it, or we should send people from the Holy Father Society as an inspection team to monitor the actions of the old priests.
As the saying goes, prepare for a rainy day. Even though it is something in the future, Horne needs to start preparing now, not to mention that they may also serve as chaplains for the army or even chaplains for hundreds of households.
After arranging things for the Holy Father Worship Meeting, Horn’s schedule became practicing breathing techniques with Jeanne in the morning, dealing with government affairs in the morning, going to the Holy Father Worship Meeting to answer questions in the afternoon, and spending time with Shilov in the evening. Translate the ancient Aiur books in the Ethereal Spire.
After a busy few days, Horn finally ushered in the first regular meeting of the Papal Council.
Since the main hall is the dormitory of Horn, Shirov and Jeanne, and also contains Shirov's important lathe machines, the real place where the cardinals discuss politics is the side hall of the Mechanical Palace.
Sitting in the council chamber called the Stag Room, which is actually the Dog Room, Horne was wearing a simple white robe and a short felt hat, silently looking at the bishops and senators in front of him. .
I have to say that after six days of military training, the bishops and senators all looked a lot more energetic. Not only were their clothes neat and tidy, they no longer moved around, and their bodies were straightened up a lot.
After all, they have followed the Boy Army these days, getting up at five in the morning and going to bed at ten at night. They are either training discipline and reading and literacy, or they are reading and literacy to train discipline.
After only five days, they still looked unorganized, but it was much better than before when they were not at all in shape.
This made Horn nod with satisfaction, and even considered whether to make military training a necessary part of training to enter the Senate or become a bishop.
"Okay, everyone is here. Let's start when everyone is here. Armand, you will read out the agenda of the meeting."
In today's cardinal meeting, there are still three cardinals The bishops are, respectively, the Archbishop of Madeleine, the Bishop of Chilvis, and the Bishop of Grandpven.
The rest of the bishops are dead, and the casualty rate is much higher than that of the official Holy See.
These three bishops are obviously too few, so Horn's first topic at this regular meeting is to expand the group of cardinals and elect secondary bishops.
Naturally, everyone had no opinions on this issue. After all, qualified people saw it for all to see and quickly reached an agreement.
"Then the issue of the College of Cardinals absorbing Crispa as bishop and Busak as bishop was officially passed. The issue of recommending Busak as second bishop was passed." Horn tapped the table with his scepter. , indicating Armand to write down the results of the issue and sign.
"Then the second question is the formation of the Salvation Legion.
We plan to use 3,000 spearmen, 1,000 holy gunmen, 150 spring gun cavalry, and 200 horse-drawn carriages Soldiers, 50 cooks, 50 medical soldiers, plus 10 accountants, 20 orderlies, 10 military judges, and 10 military chaplains, a total of 4,500 people form a battle group.
The Salvation Legion has 8 members. A legion is recruiting new troops with veterans of the Black Hat Army and Guards as the backbone. The specific requirements are as follows and have been distributed to you
We expect that the restoration of the second batch of ten blocks will be completed, which is when the second regular meeting will officially start recruiting new recruits in about ten days.
The first batch of recruitment is expected to be 2,000 people, equivalent to four legions, and the recruitment will be completed within three days.
After the recruitment is completed, the new recruits enter the new barracks and are assigned after fifteen days of training. During this period, the veterans must undergo officer training. I propose to appoint Hakuto as the instructor of the new barracks and Jeshka as the veteran. Military instructors, do you have any objections? "
Chief Bishop Madeleine raised his hand.
"Speak. "Seeing him raise his hands before speaking, Horn felt that the military training these days was not in vain.
"Ten days later, we will have a total of thirteen blocks restored. If we recruit 100 households, the ratio of militiamen will be about seven to one to eight to one. Is this ratio too high?"
" No, no, no, I mean to recruit from all the subjects of the Papal State.”
“But in that case, our subsequent reconstruction work will be short of manpower. After all, there are 2,000 young men in one draw. "Horn turned the agenda in his hand to a page and handed it to Madelan: "This is the topic we will talk about later. Deploy 1,000 lycanthropic workers from Beizawa and detain 1,000 lycanthropic slave workers from Nanze. "Island auxiliary construction."
"Oh, oh, it's okay." Madelan put down her hand obediently.
"Then the preparations for the recruitment are as follows..." Horn thoughtfully bound all the work to be done into a booklet and distributed it to everyone present.
According to this pamphlet, Horn assigned positions to most of the people present.
The Holy Treasury Department, headed by Madeleine as the Director of the Holy Treasury, is responsible for financial budget allocation, cost accounting, logistics support and material deployment.
The Ministry of Truth, now headed by Armand as the Chief of Truth, is responsible for preaching, explaining the gospel and psychological counseling, and is also responsible for liaison and management with hundreds of local households.
The Holy Forging Department, with Crispa as the Chief of the Holy Forging, assisted by Rektor and Brock, is responsible for supervising a series of matters such as the creation of weapons, armor, textiles, and alchemy.
The Gospel Ministry, with Busak as the Evangelist and Halkin as an assistant, is currently mainly responsible for liaison with the lycanthropes and with Castle Joan of Arc, as well as some etiquette and supervision matters.
The Staff Department was temporarily canceled as the Secretariat, and Shilov was temporarily appointed as the Secretary-General.
Since there is currently only one small town, such as the Sheriff, it is directly managed by Horn himself.
"Okay, I've finished what I want to say, you should report it."
A senator immediately raised his hand, and Horn motioned for him to speak.
"Your Majesty, I am reporting that the elders of the Donkey Faction headed by Sarkis named the town Shengjing, which sounds like the word "nerve" in Al language, implying that Your Majesty the Pope is a psycho."
"Fart. !”
“Your Majesty, I’m reporting that the Dog Faction’s Sheamus said you’re crazy.”
“You’re just looking at our Dog Faction’s Thomas.” Are you jealous when you become the Chief Deputy Speaker? "
In the Papal State Senate, Horn serves as the Holy Speaker. Of course, most of the votes do not participate in Senate matters.
Therefore, it is Thomas, the great-grandson, who actually presides over the work of the Senate. Their daily job is to decide what name to give to which block.
In fact, the name of this town has not been decided yet, because the three factions of the Senate, the donkey faction, the elephant faction, and the dog faction, can't argue.
“What do you mean we are jealous!” The veteran named Sarkis shouted, “Your Majesty, I apply for a duel with Sheamus!” , Your Majesty, I apply to accept his challenge." Elder Sheamus also stood up and pointed at Sakis and shouted to Horn.
Seeing the quarrelsome elders in front of him and the dog pie popping up out of nowhere, Horn didn't know how to answer.
You say that they have gone through military training, but he still has to apply for a one-on-one challenge. You say that they have not received military training, and yet he has to apply for a one-on-one challenge.
"Your Majesty, I apply for a one-on-one men's battle!"
"Your Majesty, I apply for a team battle..."
"Okay, the name of the town Let it go first. If it doesn't work, I'll decide." Seeing that the senators were about to have a fight in the Bucks Room, Horn waved his hands impatiently, "You guys should be patient with each other during this period of time, let the matter be known, and investigate. Let’s take a look at the situation and summarize it.
If you really want to fight, I will give you a chance to fight to your heart’s content.”
Looking at the grinning elders facing each other, Horn let out a long sigh.
I still haven’t practiced enough.
(End of this chapter)