In fact, the process of sneaking into Lance City was smooth and without any surprises. As a very ancient city, there are many ditches that have been used since Roman times buried underground. Find one of the exits, and the rest will not be able to stop the excavation of the "dimensional bubble".
And when so many people suddenly appeared in the city like divine soldiers descending from the sky, a certain city guard captain who was still wavering became the most determined internal responder and protector; and the whole city gathered together. The rising trials and executions also diverted most people's attention in disguise.
Therefore, it was no surprise when a steady stream of Free Army soldiers poured into the city, and with the cooperation of this captain, they quietly raided and opened the nearby city gate. Jiang Tian even had enough mood to bring people to the square in the city center to observe the trial.
Although the ancient city of Reims has been successfully captured, the problems Jiang Tian or the Free Army have to face have just begun. For example, Archbishop Giovanni of the Southwest and his followers took advantage of the chaos and hid in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore at the last moment, trying to use the sacred objects to resist.
It's just that these holy objects passed down from ancient times may be effective when used against aliens; but when used on normal humans, especially those heritage knights responsible for breaking down doors, they are basically not very useful. Therefore, their last resistance was quickly suppressed with a swift attack.
Even the efforts of some of them to buy time, set fire to the Notre-Dame Cathedral and engage in self-martyrdom, failed on the spot. However, the subsequent treatment of the captured Archbishop Giovanni and his followers took several meetings to decide.
The Free Army and the national salvation government, which have been on the right track, will no longer kill people easily. What's more, sometimes the method of direct physical destruction is not suitable for such religious disputes and contradictions; on the contrary, it will achieve the other party's success. , a self-motivated martyr plot.
Therefore, in the end, it was Jiang Tian who made the decision himself. The former archbishop Giovanni, who had committed major mistakes and crimes, and his cronies were exiled to the overseas provinces of Africa; in the border areas where pagans were mixed, the traditional Go on a redemptive missionary tour.
This is also a method of handling that has been inherited by the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Ephesus in the Western Continental Church. The Arian, Neapolitan, and other factions that were classified as heretics in the past have enjoyed similar treatment; it's just that the Free Army is not worried about the future.
Because the overseas province of the Kingdom of Africa is now also one of the few remaining areas where the heretical Arian sect of the church once left. Therefore, Jiang Tian was looking forward to seeing how the exiled Archbishop of the Universal Church, Giovanni, would collide with the local African Order.
Along with Archbishop Giovanni, a group of church leaders from the Northwest Region were quickly escorted south; this only temporarily solved the superficial problems in the city of Reims. However, the Kingdom Church, which has suffered from long-standing shortcomings, cannot easily change and innovate just by replacing the top figures.
In fact, Archbishop Giovanni himself, who lived a simple life and was determined to rectify the church, did not hesitate to stand in the die-hard camp; the remaining members of the middle and upper levels of the church who came from aristocratic backgrounds committed The list of culpable and broken precepts is endless.
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But fortunately, what Giovanni had done before that made the process easier. Because of the need to convene an enlarged meeting of the Bishops' Conference of the Northwest Region to discuss countermeasures, the abbots and bishops from the surrounding provinces were summoned to the city of Reims; there was no need to follow the plan again.
Therefore, teachers and students from seminaries and church schools from the southern controlled areas, Avignon, Toulouse, Marseille and other places were also urgently summoned; they would be responsible for conducting Bible debates with the remaining local church members, and Reorganization of the Federation of Bishops' Conferences of the North-West Region.
After completing the follow-up investigation and trial of those corrupt and fallen members within the church, the vacancies left can be filled and the impact of the church's reorganization on local order can be minimized. There is also the release of those arrested Swearers.
Representatives were selected from them to join the piety review committee subsequently formed by the Free Army. They are also members of the local church, and they are obviously more aware of the shortcomings and problems within the church.
We know the basics; there is also a practical need for innovation and change/settling old accounts.
Therefore, after such operations, Reims, the kingdom's holy land, once boasted thousands of clergy and tens of thousands of jihadist defenders. Today, there are less than a thousand clergy left to meet the minimum maintenance needs of various religious places and daily sacraments.
In fact, after the scene of the burning at the stake, these so-called jihadi armies, composed of traditional believers and city guards, collapsed and disintegrated more completely than those of the clergy. Some people even changed their stance and became whistleblowers within the church.
Therefore, the Free Army did not casually demobilize them and let them go back to their places freely, becoming a potential factor of instability. Instead, they selected the best from them and formed a dozen new redemption companies; and then cooperated with the follow-up supplementary companies to suppress and maintain local order nearby.
In the surrounding provinces of Champagne, Ardennes, and Loire, riots and rebellions fanned out by individual clergy also broke out as expected. The most powerful among them, even with the cooperation of local nobles, joined forces inside and outside to occupy a city and became known as the Holy Land Guards.
Then, there is no more. The newly formed Redemption Company, eager to show their piety, attacked the rebellious city almost frantically; they hanged the priests and followers who had instigated the rebellion, as well as many potential supporting city nobles and wealthy merchant families, from street trees.
But then, these members of the Redemption Company were obviously still unsatisfied, and joined the suppression corps of the Free Army to purge local church organizations and old and new aristocratic forces; and what they were most passionate about was to hang up those high-ranking figures one after another. die.
This also made Jiang Tian somewhat vigilant and reflective. The pros and cons of religious belief as a double-edged sword can also be seen from this. If you cannot control and weigh things properly, you will only be swayed by religious fanaticism and be involuntarily involved in catastrophic events.
Therefore, he privately signed an internal order to restrict the use of these new companies full of religious fanaticism; to ensure the upper limit of the scale of their investment to avoid mutual infection of religious fanaticism; in turn, it would affect the regular troops of the Free Army, and even maintain surveillance and suppression the power of.
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After approving a series of official documents, Jiang Tian also received notifications from outside attendants again; as the original source of this series of events, Giordano, who had been tortured and burned by the church, after a short period of cultivation and After treatment, I was finally able to come for an appointment.
In fact, before this, Jiang Tian had no idea that such a figure existed; in other words, he himself was not a serious Free Army spy; he was not even a peripheral or informant for the development of the field company. Priest Giordano's only connection with the Free Army came from Liberation Theology.
Due to some kind of chance, he got an unknown annotated copy of "Liberation Theology"; and then, he advocated "critical thinking on Christian practice based on the word of God." The basics are regarded as the truth, and we start to study in depth.
As a result, he also joined a certain study club that was somewhat related to the Redemption Company, but his connection with the Free Army ended there. Later, he received news from his hometown that his brother was dying due to the outbreak of the plague; he voluntarily rushed back to see him one last time, but by mistake he was a step late.
Then, at the funeral, he successfully treated a guest who had an asthma attack, and was praised by the local mayor. After learning that he was a hospital monk from the church, he tried his best to persuade him to stay and sponsor him. He preaches regularly in the church donated by his family.
As a result, because of his behavior of treating believers while preaching, he soon gained a considerable reputation; at the same time, some children from well-to-do families were sent to serve as his apprentices, just to observe and learn his medical skills nearby; Not treating everyone equally.
However, as Giordano became more and more famous in his hometown, his younger brother, who had just inherited the family business, could not sit still. Especially when his wife heard that a certain noble wanted to ask him to return to the secular world during the chat with the nvshu. After the rumors spread that Hao would marry off his daughter, his mentality completely collapsed.
Because, according to the inheritance law of the kingdom, monks who are allowed to return to secular life also have the right to claim the division of family property; therefore
Therefore, when people from the Holy Land City of Reims heard about his reputation and summoned him, Giordano's brother did not hesitate to report his many crimes to the parish priest.
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As a result, there was a series of subsequent events. Therefore, most of the church's accusations against him are simply a huge mistake. But surprisingly, according to the church interrogation records, it was these torture and cross-examination processes that made him more determined.
But no matter what, after undergoing the miracle of being burned on the spot, he is now the idol and spiritual symbol of those pious companies. To put it in a less honorable way for later generations, no matter how lonely and unknown he was before this, he had already lived out the value of being united in the battle in his own way.
Then, Giordano, who was placed in a special wheelchair and his whole body was wrapped, was pushed in by a trainee attendant, and then quietly exited and opened the door. However, the moment Giordano saw Jiang Tian, he stretched his body with excitement and seemed to want to stand up.
However, he was gently held down by an invisible force; he couldn't help but choked up his voice and said: "Holy One, you...". However, Jiang Tian interrupted him calmly and said: "I am not the saint you imagined, I am just a person who has power and came to this world with a mission."
"I will follow your instructions, sir." However, Giordano suddenly realized something and slowly calmed down. Apparently the saint thought freely. After all, even the Savior and the saints around him were persecuted and hated by the secular authorities.
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