When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#216 - The Adoration of the Holy Fathers and the "Holy Word of God"

Looking at these members of the Holy Father Society exchanging glances, Horn's mood was also somewhat complicated.

The Holy Father Society, in essence, is a radical nationalist group under the guise of religion.

Nationalism is good, but for Thousand River Valley, with its only four to six million people, it is poison.

Because their main ethnic group is too small, and their ethnic history and culture are not only shallow but even fragmented.

The result of forcibly promoting nationalism is the emergence of two major cancers: inventing history and the prevalence of populism.

Once the above two situations occur, government policies will inevitably be hijacked by popular sentiment, eventually leading to self-inflicted wounds, and even the 'Thousand River Valley powder keg' situation.

But Horn cannot completely deny the claims of the Holy Father Society, because the imagined community of the nation does have its progressive aspects.

Moreover, their original intention is good, but they have overcorrected, and compared to other muddle-headed vagrants, this group of people basically belongs to the 'open their eyes to see the world' group.

If Horn wants to build a monastery that fits his ideas, then he will still absorb this group of people.

That's why Horn is so hesitant about their existence.

"Does Your Eminence think we should not expel the church and the foreign races?" a more straightforward member of the monastery asked.

"Replacing the church with the Cushitic nation is certainly a good idea, but it is not applicable; it is better to replace it with the Thousand River Valley nation."

Horn beckoned them to let the people behind walk to the front row and sit with him, so they could hear what he said as clearly as possible.

"Let me put it this way, if you replace the church with the Cushitic nation, then are you so purely Cushitic?

Judging from bloodlines alone, you should know that the original Cushitic people were all short, with black hair, long eyebrows, and drooping shoulders.

Among you thirty-odd people, let alone the unique feature of long eyebrows and drooping shoulders, there are only one or two with black hair.

To talk about pure bloodlines, those Cushitic nobles who only marry within the group have the purest bloodlines.

But Däne of Jeanneburg, the representative of the Cushitic people, betrayed the Cushitic people, so what's the use of pure bloodlines?

If it is on a spiritual level, using Cushitic culture to replace the culture of the church, then what are the traditions of the Cushitic people? What are the festivals of the Cushitic people? What are the ancestors of the Cushitic people? Where do the Cushitic people come from?

These things have long been lost in interbreeding and evangelization, and no one can remember them."

Horn used a mental and realistic two-pronged attack to silence the members of the Holy Father Society. They wanted to say something but stopped, looking at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"Is the common ground between a Frankish farmer and a Cushitic farmer less than that between a Cushitic noble and a Cushitic farmer?

Among the vagrants wandering around, there are also Franks and Norn, who have also been farmers in Thousand River Valley for hundreds of years.

But according to the division of the Cushitic nation, most of Langsand County does not belong to Thousand River Valley. After careful division, it is estimated that only the mountainous areas of Thousand River Valley completely belong to the Cushitic people.

Dividing friend from foe by the Cushitic nation is tantamount to pushing the foreign races who also need to overthrow the church and the empire to the opposite side.

The result of this is nothing more than strengthening the enemy's power and weakening our power, which is too stupid."

"So what?" A hot-tempered member, unable to stand Horn's remarks, stood up, ignoring the hierarchy and directly asked, "Your Eminence, Thousand River Valley is our Thousand River Valley, this is our home, they should have rolled out long ago, what does it matter to us what happens to them?"

"Do you think it's over after overthrowing the church and imperial rule in Thousand River Valley?" Horn's voice gradually became cold. "Do you think the church and the empire will sit idly by and watch us secede from the empire?

The nobles who are greedy enough to start wars for a pond or a beehive, the nobles who treat Thousand River Valley as a nursing home, will they sit idly by and ignore Thousand River Valley?

I tell you that the current goal is only to overthrow the Thousand River Valley Church, because it is meaningless to establish other goals before overthrowing the Thousand River Valley Church.

From the moment Thousand River Valley becomes independent, we will face pressure from all directions of the entire empire!

Compared to the Thousand River Valley Diocese, the entire empire and church are our real enemies!"

This was not Horn's alarmist talk. Compared to his hometown, the stability of the feudal system in the empire, due to the existence of a transcendent society, was beyond imagination.

Under the banner of the empire, although the kingdoms would fight endlessly due to geographical disputes, it was ultimately a dispute within the aristocratic society.

In the face of a situation that might overturn the entire aristocratic society, they would immediately unite and elect the emperor of the empire, whose throne had been vacant for decades.

Then, under the authority of the emperor and the pope, they would jointly resist foreign enemies.

In the Hundred Years' War and the Millennium Dispute with the Flesh Court, this feudal system has become more and more perfect, and the facts have also proved the high efficiency of this system.

Even when the Frankish capital fell into the hands of the enemy, the empire was able to fight back and, by the way, recover the lost Zealand Islands.

Although hundreds of years have passed, this system is far from being corrupt.

Among the three knight orders that resisted the Flesh Court, there are still many Grand Knights, who are the pinnacle of transcendent knights above the ninth stage of breathing techniques, capable of carrying five or even four blessings.

The lifespan of these Grand Knights is similar to that of witches, and some Grand Knights who fought in the Hundred Years' War are still alive.

It is said that Prince Condé's teacher was a Grand Knight, otherwise, how could he have gained the favor of the church.

Steadying his mind, Horn picked up his water bag and took a sip, giving the members present some time to digest.

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Seeing that they had digested it, Horn continued:

"Let's calculate from the territorial area. The area of Thousand River Valley is about 20 million hectares, but it is only a territory of the Armorwood Province.

Among the ten major provinces of the empire, the church has one province, the Kingdom of Leia has two provinces, and the Kingdom of Fran has three provinces.

The three provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Norn occupy more than half of the empire's territory.

Let's calculate from the manpower alone. Thousand River Valley has four to six million people. According to your division, the real Thousand River Valley people are estimated to be about three million.

Three million people, is that a lot?

The entire empire has 80 million to 120 million people. Counting 80 million, we Thousand River Valley people only account for 3.75%. Counting 120 million, we Thousand River Valley people only have 2.5% of the strength.

Even if they hold each other back and can only mobilize one-third of their power to deal with us, that is still ten times the power we have.

How many farmers and civilians are there in the empire? At least 70 million.

If we can get their support, even if only one-tenth of them support us, we can reduce the gap between us and the empire to only twice..."

Considering that although these people are considered to have broad horizons, their cultural level is still low, Horn did not use too complicated comparison methods, but adopted more popular words.

This political analysis class lasted from noon to evening, until Horn's voice was hoarse, before he finally persuaded the members of the Holy Father Monastery.

However, Horn has not yet determined the status of the Holy Father Monastery, but took out a small booklet.

"This booklet is called 'Holy Path Salvation Doctrine'," Horn said seriously in a hoarse voice, "It puts forward two major goals: anti-church, anti-empire, and three major propositions: civilization, freedom, and equality. You take it and read it.

Cough, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, I will come here every day to answer questions. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with these, just leave.

Don't worry about anything. Before formally joining, the Holy Father Society is free to come and go."