I have a shelter in the last days

Chapter 281
After a while, Andre hurried back, and he said solemnly: "Master, Master, our people have arrived at the designated location, but we did not receive Miss Liana within the designated time!"

"What?" The old Duke and Jiujiu couldn't help but change their expressions when they heard the news.Could it be that Liana has already told the church the secret of the Star People?But they immediately denied this possibility, because although Lianna has not completely given up her faith during this period of time, her loyalty to the church has been shaken a lot, otherwise it is impossible to try to communicate with Jiujiu what was found in the scriptures It should be impossible for her to report to the church without warning at this time... Or the church itself discovered something?Control Liana?
I saw Andre went on to say: "Our people took the risk to inquire. It seems that for some unknown reasons, most of the teaching staff of Bulton Church have gone to the temple of the king's capital, including all missionaries. The woman and the pastor. The one who led the team to leave was the Bishop of Lante, accompanied by a knight who was suspected of being a church jury. The few remaining people in the church who did not leave kept secret about this matter, so our people have no way to find out the specific reason Yes. But there was another piece of news two days ago. I personally think it may have something to do with their departure. It is said that the pope has received a new oracle from God, and the temple will be closed in a month. A congregation of believers was held to announce the news, and at the same time, a group of blasphemers were publicly tried... From the calculation of time, it seems that the group of Bourton Church is going to participate in this congregation of believers. After all, as the bishop of the largest cathedral in the south, Longte The bishop is a member of the Privy Council of the Church."

The old duke turned his head to look at Jiujiu, and said in a deep voice: "You have done everything well before, but the arrangement for this Liana is the only omission, remember the lesson this time, and now notify the people of the starry sky , I need to meet with them immediately!"

Jiujiu lowered his head, his heart was in a mess. If Liana encountered an accident because of his wrong judgment, it would disturb his conscience.And what's more serious, if the secrets of the people of the stars are known by the church, their Cayman family may suffer a devastating blow from the church without being fully prepared.Although the Cayman family is the oldest and top family in the empire, they are only a part of the nobility, and they are far from being able to stand alone against the church that has been fighting against the entire aristocracy for countless years.

He was so full of thoughts that he didn't hear his father's words. It wasn't until the old duke patted him on the shoulder and repeated what he said just now that he regained his composure and pressed the communication button on the communicator on his arm. button.

In the worst case scenario, only the people of the starry sky can help the Cayman family resist the church.

The royal capital of the Insector Empire is located in the north of the central part of the empire.The first king of the empire established the capital here since he unified the entire empire, and it has never moved for more than 1000 years.In the past, it was the political, economic and cultural center of the empire. Countless nobles and big businessmen were proud of having their own manors in the capital of the empire.

In the past, the royal capital was once a paradise for the powerful, but since the church built the temple here, it has also become a sacred capital at the same time.After thousands of years of historical changes, the Insector Empire is now governed autonomously by nobles with fiefdoms everywhere. The nobles have almost complete autonomy in their own territories, and even independent private armies that are only loyal to themselves rather than to the empire.

Due to various historical reasons, the church also owns a large number of private lands in the empire that belong only to the church and a large number of believers. These lands are spread all over the country, interspersed among the fiefs of different nobles, and some are even in the fiefs of some nobles.At the same time, the church also has its own private army, known as the Knights of Retribution, and its chiefs are called paladins.Most of the knights in the knight order come from orphans adopted by the church or devout families with more than three generations, so the loyalty of these knight orders to the church is beyond doubt.

This is actually a typical feudal system, mixed with the distinction between secular and religious rights.To some extent, this system is very suitable for civilizations with low productivity, because if a civilization establishes a unified empire that is too large, then limited by the development of productivity, the leader or commander of this civilization will not be able to obtain all aspects of this civilization in time information, and its administrative instructions are difficult to pass on, and even if they can be passed on, it is difficult to fully implement them.This undoubtedly poses a huge challenge to the governance of the entire civilization.However, the feudal system artificially divides civilization into units of one level or several levels, and by selecting the managers of these small units, that is, the noble groups in the Insector Empire, they can manage them relatively stably. Small units, even if some managers cannot manage their own small units, will not bring devastating damage to the entire civilization.

Although the feudal system has staged benefits for the entire civilization, it also has obvious disadvantages.Just like the Insector Empire, in the long history, there have been conflicts between centralization and local power, and conflicts between secular rights and religious rights. Once the centralization makes mistakes in local control, it will inevitably lead to some enfeoffment The regime slowly grew stronger.As a result, the power and interests of the imperial king have been greatly reduced, and the current king is nominally the supreme leader of the empire, but it is really only in name.In fact, the wealth, power, and army in the hands of the king can only be calculated as an ordinary nobleman, even worse than many old nobles.

Because of the various conflicts of interests among the three parties, they have been jealous and intriguing with each other since hundreds of years ago.The nobles believed that the church had become a state within a state in their own territory, that is, they did not pay taxes, held a heavy army, and had a large number of believers, which was a serious threat to their authority in the territory.

The church believed that the nobles not only did not believe in gods, but also continued to fund some heresies for their own interests, and even tried to fundamentally shake people's beliefs.Not only that, they are also constantly restricting their freedom to develop new believers and spread the glory of God in their own territory, which is destined to be disgusted and abandoned by God.

On the other hand, the king believed that the church and nobles controlled a large amount of land and wealth of the empire, as well as a large number of troops who were not loyal to the empire, and forced himself, the lord of the country, into a mascot...

This is a commoner house in the northeast corner of the capital, just like the most common house, with domed earthen walls and small courtyards. It is not surrounded by tall manor houses with two or even three floors like in the aristocratic gathering area. Some bungalows with similar styles.

(End of this chapter)