Chapter 350 The fruits of surplus labor and the devil
Outside the Castle of Joan of Arc, on the third floor of the Lubyanka Monastery.
Under the sign of the Holy Father's Baptism Class, Horn's loud voice sounded in this small classroom.
“The simplest principle is that labor must be paid what it deserves, just like craftsmen build tools and farmers grow millet. This is the simplest axiom that most workers can agree with. ”
“Why is the bishop said to be a devil? It’s because he gets rewards that far exceed his labor...”
Standing behind the podium, Horn was giving lectures to these newly minted Holy Father monks.
Under the podium, the two rooms originally used to educate new monks were opened, and the windows were rebuilt with mortar to allow outside light to shine in.
The preparatory monks of the Order of the Holy Father, wearing half shawls, were lying on the shore, writing notes quickly on the paper.
Among these monks of the Order of the Holy Father, there are young skitarii from various villages, war monks in the army, low-level monks in the monastery, and even individual heads of households.
In three months, the Holy Father Worship Club expanded at a rate of nearly a hundred people per month.
The rapid training course of the Holy Fathers is held at the Lubyanka Monastery, the headquarters of the Boy Army.
The main subjects are grammar, law, mathematics, natural theology and the most important "Holy Word of Salvation".
In line with the attitude of doing political work personally, Horn will give lectures whenever he is free, whether it is an internal class of the Salvation Army or a training class of the Holy Fathers.
As the foundation of political education work, Horn finally decided to promote labor ideas that were easier for ordinary people in the empire to understand.
It’s not that Horn doesn’t want to adopt more advanced ideas, but that the level of productivity does not allow for more advanced ideas.
The theory that Horn is talking about now clearly draws on the agrarian school that was popular in the early years of the Kingdom of France, but his should be called the labor-only school.
The Agricultural School mainly introduced the concept of "net output", that is, the excess produced by agricultural production in excess of necessary production, which is the source of wealth.
So they concluded that all agricultural activities are the foundation of the economy.
Horn's labor theory expanded this concept and replaced the relatively narrow agricultural production with all labor, thus introducing the concept of surplus labor results.
In the theological system of the Church of the Holy Father, the "devil" is an entity that unreasonably takes over the fruits of surplus labor from workers through coercion or deception.
The so-called "Exorcism Jihad" or "Great Judgment" is the act of workers expelling devils through violence and taking back the fruits of their labor from the devils.
As for what other theories future generations will deduce based on the concepts of "surplus labor results" and "exorcism jihad", it has nothing to do with Horn.
Anyway, he believes in the wisdom of future generations.
At present, the content of "Holy Way of Salvation" has finally added a new content after advocating freedom and equality, that is, advocating labor.
“But if all the fruits of labor belong to you, for example, if you harvest 100 pounds of wheat, you will not be able to support the soldiers. How can you protect yourself when foreign enemies invade?” A man with a Paul-style Mediterranean hairstyle The monk with the hairstyle raised his pen and asked.
Horn remembered the monk, Matthias, who had been a junior monk at the old Lubyanka monastery.
At the beginning, the Salvation Army generally regarded low-level monks as accomplices of the monastery, but later they were surprised to find that low-level monks were also the oppressed party.
These low-level monks were sent to monasteries by their parents. As long as they were not of noble origin, they had to bear extremely heavy labor and complicated paperwork.
Many low-level monks live in poverty, and there may even be cases where a large number of monks flee or even go up the mountains to become bandits. The really rich people are the clergy at the level of bishops, abbots, and cathedrals.
Why don't you teach me to be ruthless? If you scrape the land, you'll even scrape your own people!
After thinking for a few seconds, Horn came up with an answer.
"I want to build a perfect heaven within ten years, a heaven where no taxes are paid, and a heaven where all the fruits of labor belong to oneself. Do you think it is possible?" Horn asked.
Matthias replied hesitantly: "It seems, unlikely."
"Yes, that's why we have to pay taxes." Horn turned around and looked at the black paint board "Exorcism Jihad" was written with a lime pen on it, "The tax we ask them to pay is because there are still devils in the world, and the Exorcism Jihad cannot be stopped."
Matthias was still confused: "But this is inconsistent with the surplus labor results you said."
"It is not inconsistent." Horn slowly walked up to him, "The tax we require is not used." Not for their own enjoyment, but for serving the civilians, protecting the civilians, providing a better life for the civilians, and building the Kingdom of Heaven.
In other words, it is taken from the people and used for the people. I know that during this period, it will be. There are losses, but if you don't pay taxes and use other methods, the efficiency will only be lower.
Currently, civilians are not able to make full use of the fruits of their own labor. In order to expel the devil, we can only use this method temporarily.
We are facing huge pressure from the outside. All the devils, those bishops and knights are trying to destroy us. If we don't pay taxes, the war monks will have no money to buy weapons and training. Not only will they not be able to go to heaven, Will return to the hell-like life of the past
The taxes paid by the common people are not only for the maintenance of current life, but also for the repayment of debts that were not resisted in the past, and are also an investment in the future. ”
Matthias lowered his head thoughtfully and wrote down something in his notes.
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After class, Horn Under the escort of several gendarmes, he left the Lubyanka Monastery
As soon as he walked down the steps at the entrance of the monastery, he saw Rene and Busak waiting at the door, holding a stack of books in their hands. Thick paper
"Has the survey and statistics of the black hat army's participation in the army come out?" Horn stepped forward and asked with a smile.
Tucking his shirt up to his elbows, Busak was sweating profusely in a cool outfit on a hot day: "Now, we have all the statistics, and I will report to you."
Horn picked up the stack of thick books, flipped through two pages at random, and then looked at Rene aside.
Rene was wearing a wrist-length jacket on a hot day without even sweating, which was in sharp contrast to Busac beside him.
"What are you here to report, Rene?" Horn asked, holding Rene's shoulders and walking forward.
Rene's always prim face showed a trace of helplessness: "Papa, Chika captured four wizards from Black Snake Bay in Sour Melon Town."
"Oh, this is strange, how come? "What happened?" Horn asked in surprise as he walked to the stable and took out the docile mare Grape.
“When they got out of the car, they used acid to break the axles and hubs of the carriage. They were discovered by the coachman, who reported them as North spies, and there happened to be two military police nearby.
Unexpectedly, they ran away as soon as they saw the military police. In the end, the Guards and the Cheka were able to catch them with holy muskets and keel flutes.
We found two letters from them. The letter, but the specific content will have to wait until the confidentiality environment is reached.”
"Okay." Horn got on Putao's back, "Let's go back to the Holy Hall."
(End of this chapter)