Law of the Devil Chapter 364: [Layout, trigger at once! 】
Chapter 364 [Layout, fire at once! 】
I am afraid that there is nothing in this world that cannot be saved like time.
Every day is precious to Rolanders, although Dewey has done everything in his power to prepare as much as possible for all future "wars."
The 963th year of the Empire still passes.
At the end of the year, the last big thing that affected the future of the Roland Empire happened.
At a huge prayer ceremony in the Temple of Light held at the end of the year, Pope Paul XVI finally announced publicly his designated future temple heir Archbishop, Maximus.
This designation did not cause any surprise. After all, as the chief cardinal, Maximus has already become the future pope candidate in people's minds, but it is only a matter of time.
In this year, the Mossa faction led by Maximus was also struggling to suppress the Yeni faction. During this year, according to the resolution of the elders in the temple and the approval of the Pope himself, the archbishops who changed the three parishes were changed from Yeni to Mossa.
The Archbishop Maximus, however, has done something that will amaze and admire everyone.
The empire's most popular character, most appreciated by the Regent, has many legendary stories, and many glorious titles. For example, "genius young magician", "court scholar", "Duke Tulip" and so on ... just after he was almost crazy and generously donated a donation almost equal to one year of the Empire ’s financial revenue to support the Empire ’s military expenses, people gave him A new nickname "the richest man on the continent".
The Duke of Tulips, Dovedorf ... as deep as his loud name is, almost everyone knows that this distinguished gentleman is not a devout believer and he has not been baptized. Unbelief in the Goddess of Light even in his territory, preaching doctrine to the clergy of the temple, has been treated unfairly.
According to some gossip, even from the duke's house, it is said that the duke has little respect for the goddess. He even accidentally used rude words to describe those "priests" of clergy in some private places. This is what the Lord Duke said.
It is such a lost lamb, a wild horse that has always been out of the glory of the goddess, but finally tamed by the great Archbishop Maximos.
January 1st of the year. On the former square of the Governor's House in Loulan City, the provincial capital of Tessa, the Duke of Tulips held his own initiation ceremony. In the presence of tens of thousands of onlookers, he received the christening of the Archbishop of Maximus. , Archbishop Maximos personally completed the initiation ceremony to accept the Lord Duke Tulip, and also awarded an "Outstanding Contribution Medal" to the duke who had just entered the church. Generally, this badge. Only those who have made outstanding contributions to the church will be awarded.
The Lord Duke received this medal within five minutes of his life as a believer.
Due to Du Wei ’s official announcement of his conversion to the Deity of Light, Du Wei announced in public that he would make this choice entirely because of the personal charm of Master Cardinal Maximus. He praised the cardinal's personality charm and how kind he was, and praised how devoted he was to his faith, how much he taught him, and finally moved himself. Persuaded herself, into the arms of the goddess.
Undoubtedly, this practice has made Cardinal Maximus famous.
Du Wei then announced in a high profile that his territory, Desa, officially became a new parish of the church. And the close friend of the Archbishop of Maximus, the former Bishop of the North and North Diocese, Rams, served as the Archbishop of Desa.
Also, Du Wei stated that he would fully support the establishment of the parishion in the parish, and was willing to become the Holy Knights of the diocese of Desa province. Provide a good training ground, and he also generously donated five hundred excellent horses.
Maximos announced a resolution on behalf of the church. In order to express its sincere gratitude to Lord Duke Tulip, the church has decided to waive all religious taxes in the province of Desa for the next five years. At the same time, according to Dewey's huge popularity in Desa, the church's Presbyterian Council made a decision that Dewey would be awarded the title of "Honorary Bishop" in Desa.
The title of honorary bishop is more than just an "honour." Legally speaking. Due to his status as bishop of the church, Dewey will face any law of the empire in the future. Can have immunity. Although Du Wei doesn't care much about this "legal immunity", because he already has the status of a magician, he is also a legal privileged class.
But the title of honorary bishop has more functions than a magician:
First of all, any hostile act against an honorary bishop will be considered hostile to the church! In other words, from the first minute that Dewey won the title of honorary bishop, the enemy of Dewey was the enemy of the church.
The second point ... Dewey has the privilege to ask the Pope at any time. And he also had a seat of his own at the bishop's meeting of the church, of course, just to watch, he didn't have the right to vote.
The third point is what Dewey wants most. In order to show respect for the honorary bishop, the church made a resolution, Du Wei can draw his own cavalry of 500 people, and the church will grant this cavalry the "holy knighthood" status! Moreover, this cavalry was not maneuvered by the diocese, but only at the command of the honorary bishop. Of course, the premise is that this cavalry must ensure that each of them is a believer in the goddess.
Also, according to some legal vacancies, a formal knight can have up to four people's obedience, and these obediences are not counted. Therefore, Du Wei can expand the number of this "holy knight" who completely belongs to him to 2,500! Five hundred of them are full-fledged knights, and two thousand are in the name of "concubine", and all of them are legal.
"Killing a holy knight is about to be regarded as a full declaration of war against the Temple of Light."
According to the law of this Scripture, Du Wei owns his own "Holy Knight" squad, so in the future Northwest War, when facing the Northwest Army, this will be very effective arms.
No matter how arrogant the Northwest Army is, declaring war on the mainland's bright temple is not an easy task. Not to mention that there are also many soldiers in the Northwest Army who are church believers themselves. When the enemies facing these soldiers are Holy Knights, it is difficult to imagine how much morale these people have left.
After Du Wei got these preferential treatments, he paid the price: he signed an agreement in private, expressing his willingness to make a promise to the future pope heir, Archbishop Maximus He will become a close comrade-in-arm of the Archbishop of Maximus, and give the Archbishop strong support before any difficulties.
It is worth mentioning that Dewey gave this "holy knight" to Hussein to command. Hussein is a true holy knight. He is familiar with the strict methods of training all holy knights and knows how to lead such a knight.
Due to this, Du Wei soon announced his decision. He built a military fortress in his territory, that is, the eastern part of Desa province, on the border with Nulin province. The Knights' resident, this is a complete military fortress, but there is a religious place inside, which can be used by the knights to pray.
After that, at the junction of Desa and Nulin provinces, there were three military fortresses.
The first is a recruit barracks jointly built by Du Wei and Governor of the Nulin Province two years ago. After two years, Du Wei has already stationed two-thirds of his troops.
The second is a place built last year to house the tulip private army.
Now there is a third.
In this way, from the layout, Du Wei has stacked more than 70,000 troops on the border between his territory and Nulin Province. In addition, the 30,000 troops under Governor Bohan, a total of 100,000 troops, showed a state of siege to the Northwest Army's territory.
What makes Du Wei slightly strange is that for the past year, the Northwest Army seems to have been quiet ...
What the **** is Lukau thinking about?
Du Wei is waiting. Now the situation has entered the most critical moment. He is waiting for a signal, a signal from the imperial capital, and the arrival of that signal will declare the peace period on the mainland, and it will be over! !!
The footsteps of war are coming?
No no no, it should be said: war, when it starts!