Chapter 65

General Carr's outstretched hand trembled. He was about to take the seal, but it was like touching the fire. He looked up in disbelief at young Ferri III.

"Lo Legrand? "

Asked general Carr.

The war between Blaise and Legrand has lasted for hundreds of years. Both sides have thrown countless blood on the battlefield. It is not too much to say that they are enemies of life and death.

"The knight who swears allegiance is not as good as the one who has been the enemy for generations. It will be ridiculous for future people to talk about this." Ferri III gave a smile and said, "the canon is circulating again. We don't have the time to care about the identity of the alliance."

The canon is an important document which spread in all the countries under the influence of the holy see in the ninth century. The contents include the letters from the Holy See bishops of the past dynasties and the documents of their meetings with other countries. It is not so much called "holy decree of the Holy See" as "the knife on the king's throat".

In the canon, the holy see once again emphasized the absolute status of the Holy See, taking the appointment and removal of bishops from the king in the form of documents. In Blaise, nearly one-third of the land was controlled by the Abbey nobles and monasteries. After these bishops were completely controlled by the Holy See, Blaise actually appeared as a "Kingdom of nations".

"Roglan's overseas spies are cautious, but they are separated by a channel." Ferri III said faintly, "collect the trends of the lowland countries controlled by the Holy See and pass them on to Legrand."

General Carr understood what Ferri III meant.

Their cooperation with Legrand will never come to light, and it is even a temporary alliance between the wolf and the lion rather than an "ally".

Once the Pope's plot is successful, Blaise and Legrand will face the most terrible crisis at the same time.

Therefore, Blanche is concerned about the actions of the holy see on behalf of Legrand, hoping that Legrand can contain the power of the Holy See. And Legrand will send a way to help king Blaise not be controlled by the coronation baptism, so as to avoid that overnight, Legrand will face a real kingdom of the holy kingdom.

General Carr wanted to make sure that all the people who carried out the order did not know the inside story. The Royal agents of Blaise would only think that they were collecting information to serve the royal family, but would not know that the information would cross the Strait and be sent to the king of Legrand.

If one party is exposed, the other party will never admit it.

There is no sincerity to speak of, but both sides conspire with the tiger.

"Let our warriors prepare armor and sword."

Ferri III said he looked out of the window as if he saw the aggressive papal mission.

General Carr backed out as he was told.

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In Brasi, in colo.

Under the gray sky, a privy assistant and a hooded man came down from a black carriage with a black leather box in his hand. They scurried through the street to the monastery gate.

At this time, the papal mission was stationed in the monastery of colo City, and the heavily armed Templars surrounded the resting place of the Pope. As they approached, the long sword of the knight of the temple immediately stood up. The light of the sword flickered and the air conditioning was pressing.

The cardinal's assistant raised his hand and showed the knight the Pope's instructions.

The knight of the temple put away his sword and made way.

"Come on, Mr. Ansel." The cardinal assistant priest said to the man in the hood who seemed afraid of being seen.

The black cloth carriage that sent them moved forward slowly. As the wheels rolled, bright red drops of blood kept falling down, as if other people in the carriage had been killed.

The man known as "Ansel" shivered and followed the cardinal into the monastery.

As the power of the whole Holy See, the room in which the Pope rests in the monastery can be called simple. The Pope's trip had no other ornaments except the luxurious Vatican carriage.

The priestess solemnly stepped into the Pope's lounge, followed by Ansel. As soon as he entered, he breathed a little. In a small room sat two cardinals of the Holy See, one young and the other white haired. And then there was the papal Secretariat.

Ansel couldn't help shaking. He took off his hood before entering the room. If general Carr were here, he would be recognized.

He was one of the deacons of the important castles of the Blaise royal family, and he was also a count of high status.

"Prince Charles is willing to offer it to the throne."

With the help of the cardinal's eyes, Ansel crawled down and lifted the black box with both hands.

The Pope was at the table in the room, looking through a document sent by the eleventh ministry. He stopped and looked at the white haired cardinal.

The old cardinal got up and took the black box from Ansel. The lock of the box was closed. The cardinal came forward, took out the key and opened it. Between a yellow letter lying on the golden flannel.

The cardinal carefully picked it up, carefully reviewed it, slightly relieved, and presented it to the Pope: "Pope, it's it."The Pope took the letter.

Ansel fell on his knees, not daring to move.

He also knows the content of the letter.

It was a letter written in 723 to the Archbishop of tinsias by King crimo V of Blaise, in which he promised to hand over the whole lowland territory and the secular domination of the western part of the kingdom to the Holy See. In history, crimo V had no blood of the descendant of the hero king. He killed his brother and ascended the throne by means of conspiracy. [1]

at that time, the whole Blaise aristocracy was noisy, and was afraid of the strong Crusade in the country, so the conspirator crimo V tried to get help from the Holy See.

Unfortunately, his knights soon betrayed and assassinated him. Because crimo V became the shortest reigning monarch in the history of Blaise, nicknamed "short-lived king".

With the death of crimo V, the letter, together with other documents, was sealed in Blaise's royal archives.

However, the younger brother of ferry III, Prince Charles, who competed with ferry III for the throne some time ago, stole it and secretly sent it to the Pope.

When the Pope finished reading the letter, he put it down and looked at count Ansel, who was prostrate on the ground: "the Holy See cares for every child, but Prince Charlie's contempt for the holy see some time ago broke the hearts of those who care for him."

It's a condemnation, but it's mild.

Count Ansel knew what to answer. Some time ago, during the struggle for the throne, the Holy See used to support ferry III, who was the crown prince. Prince Charles, who turned the holy see into an enemy, did something that he didn't respect very much.

But that's the past, isn't it?

"Prince Charles has confessed his sins, and he is eager to return to the embrace of the Lord. Today I am here out of Prince Charles's own will, spontaneous behavior, in order to redeem his sins." Count Ansel raised his hand and crossed his chest.

The Pope looked at the others in the room. "My dear friends, do you think this poor young man deserves forgiveness?"

The cardinal, the assistant priest of the cardinal, and the secretary looked at each other. They raised their hands, drew a cross on their chest, and chanted: "God! Have mercy on me according to your lovingkindness, and blot out my iniquity according to your great mercy [2]

"father, forgive him, for he does not know what he has done." The Pope got up and raised count Ansel, who was prostrate on the ground. "The Lord is kind and merciful. He forgives the wrongs of the lost and places high hopes on him."

"The father is merciful."

The stone in count Ansel's heart finally lay down, and there was a cold sweat behind him.

"Tell him, then, sir, the joy of the Lord's knowledge of his lost ways."

The Pope smiles.

After count Ansel left, the Pope picked up the letter personally written by crimo V and stamped with the royal seal of Blaise. He looked at the right men in the room: "the Millennium kingdom is coming, and we are duty bound to build his empire. St. Peter gives us these servants of God two knives to revive his kingdom. "

The others in the room stood up and crossed their chests: "holy, holy! Lord of hosts, king of kings

The solemn chant is the light and shadow of conspiracy and sword.

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Legrand, kosia.

The shadow of the Black Death receded with the arrival of the king. General Sheehan took this opportunity to organize the citizens to join the whole city's cleaning operation. People carrying buckets are scouring the streets, and obsessive-compulsive architects' sewage systems are spreading out three times faster.

The blockade is lifted.

They were worried that the black death would spread to their own cities, and they were relieved one after another. After the kosiya plague, the voices of the southeast about the free chamber of commerce were gradually reduced.

Now that he had come to the southeast in person and settled the affairs of kosiya, the king took this opportunity to deal with some affairs of the southeast coast in person.

As a king, there are two most important duties: one is to lead the army to fight, the other is to administer justice.

In the period of Mad King Henry, in order to suppress the power of local lords, shortly after the abolition of divine judgment, the jurisdiction of most cases was transferred from the Lord's court to the royal court. During the period of William III, the royal family set up the royal court and royal circuit court in order to reduce the burden of the central court.

Due to the previous civil strife and a series of subsequent events, the court, which was supposed to patrol regularly, has been shelved. The only way to conduct judicial proceedings is to go north to the palace of METZL. Now that the king is in the southeast, it's really good news for people who have been waiting for litigation for a long time.

The king also wanted to use this opportunity to achieve some goals.

The manor lords in the southeast were one of the groups that suffered the greatest impact from the rise of Commerce in Legrand, and their influence was far less than that of the Lords in the north. In the trial, the king took this opportunity to deprive some aristocrats of the land occupied by the bankrupt peasants.

In the name of the royal family, he rented the land to some free people who were faced with the situation of becoming serfs.Charles was silent when he saw how the king granted the third family the land that two families had been arguing with each other and provoked the fight between the traditional aristocratic forces in the city.

It has to be said that the monarch has never been just and kind in his power control.

On this day, after the king settled a territorial dispute, general Hearn reported that a painter asked to see the king.

The author has something to say: (1) the church practice in history is the real operation In the 8th century, the papal Secretariat forged a letter from Constantine the great to the bishop of Rome, promising to present the whole Roman city and the whole Italy and the whole western part of the Empire to the bishop of Rome. This promise is "the gift of Constantine.". Then, according to this document, the Pope put forward power demands to the feudal lords in Western Europe.

[2] From Psalm 50.

Briefly explain the letter of crimo V in this chapter:

as a monarch's letter, it is an important political file and belongs to the scope of preservation. In 1213, when the land lost King John faced the crisis of the 15000 troops raised by Philip, he surrendered his national sovereignty to Pope innoson, thus avoiding the crisis of French invasion. At that time, John's correspondence with the Pope was also preserved as an important file.

In addition, a very important issue is that in the struggle for power, letters and treaties are just props. If Blaise is powerful enough to fight the Pope head-on, it doesn't matter how many treaties the former king signed. In the Middle Ages war, how many times did Britain and france fight and then reach a peace agreement. Just a few days after reaching the agreement, they quickly tore their faces apart It's the power, not the tool, that decides.

Even if the file has not been saved, as long as the Holy See wants, it can still take out a fake. It's just an excuse and a cover. The letters forged by the church in the middle ages are not one or two This is a professional master (.) History is like this How many high sounding things come down to strength in essence.

In the third section of the third chapter of the brief history of Christianity written by Mr. Chen, "the relationship between social power and religious power in Western Europe", there is an introduction to the power of Pope Gregory I at that time Gregory I's economic and political strength was not limited to Italy; in addition to the above areas, he had his territory in northern Africa, Dalmatia and southern Gaul. There are hundreds of estates in his estate, and every estate in each estate is conventionally operated by papal clergy. In addition to operating the estates, he is also engaged in business and trafficking in grain, wood and pig iron... "

Historically, in the eighth century, the church owned a lot of land, and many bishops were manors at the same time. In the 11th century, the economic strength of the Catholic Church increased rapidly, and the church occupied almost one third of the parish land. In addition to controlling a large area of land in Western European countries, it also occupied forests, pastures, mills and controlled wine making, salt making, marine transportation and other industries At this time, the Pope's economic income even exceeded the total income of European countries. In addition, the church at that time had a great influence on culture and thought.

In this paper, the historical development of Blaise has been described. Its founding originally depended on the support of the holy court. In the end, the unification of many small countries also depended on the holy court to achieve spiritual unity, so as to build the basis for the realization of rule. As Ferri III said in the article, the Holy See was deeply rooted in Blaise's land. Its history was entangled with theocracy from the beginning, and even the framework was shrouded in the thought of the Holy See from the beginning.

The proportion of land controlled by the Holy See of Blaise refers to the historical Frank.

With the great influence of Vatican hublaise, the authenticity of the letter itself is not a problem. Even if the files are not kept according to the regulations, the Holy See can still forge other ones.

What matters is not what excuse a force uses, but what kind of power it has.

The following are some references [because the domestic research on Christianity is relatively unpopular, only some references are provided here]

[1] Wang Jiao. "The gift of Constantine" - a multi perspective analysis of Constantine's contribution to the development of Christianity [D]. Liaoning Normal University, 2013.

[2] Guo Chao. An analysis of the social pattern of political and religious dualism in Western Europe in the middle ages [J]. Journal of Jiangsu Second Normal University, 2017,33 (08): 50-55

[3] Yang Changdong. The contribution of Christianity in medieval Europe [M]. Social Sciences Literature Press: Beijing, 2000:160.

[4] Chen qinzhuang. A brief history of Christianity [M]. People's Publishing House: Beijing, 2004:133. [4]

[5]] Zhang Wenjian. The way of heaven: Christianity [M]. World Knowledge Publishing House: Beijing, 1999:82