Father Mavie

Chapter 75
Levin slammed the first draft of the news on the table, and said with a serious face: "No matter how you look at it, the Bureau of Religious Affairs is a weapon used by Congress to control the church! On the surface, they distribute benefits to the church, but in fact they secretly collect church information for further development. Next move!"

"Do you think Congress is still under the control of the congressmen?"

"What do you mean? Hasn't Congress always been the highest legislative body in the Kingdom of Windsor? It is composed of the House of Commons and the monarch, and any laws must be voted on."

"On the surface it does."

Ma Wei picked up the first draft of the news on the table and read it again: "But you have to make judgments based on current events. The essence of politics is power grabbing. People use political means to fight for greater power and the right to speak for themselves."

"The new Religious Law clearly states that a large-scale censorship will be carried out, that is to say, churches that have not registered with the Religious Affairs Bureau will be deemed illegal and all will be eliminated."

"And the promoters of this law may not be the king or the House of Commons. I think so."

Not the King, the House of Commons?
Who could that be?

Levin lowered his head and pondered for a while, and recovered a little bit.
The "New Religion Law" seems to be targeting all churches, but in fact, it only targets churches other than the state religion.

In this change, the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny, which is the state religion, has not been affected in any way, and its status is still lofty, after all, they are the official church.
"You suspect that the promoter behind the New Religious Law is the Church of the Three Fate Goddesses?"

"Well." Ma Wei nodded: "Although I have no evidence, since the coming of the gods, all religions have not made much action. It is not difficult to guess that they are waiting for the Pope's order."

"If the Pope, who is far away in the royal capital, wants to ride the wind and wield huge power, he must not bypass the Congress and King Rhodes IV. As the rulers, how can Rhodes IV and the Congress hand over power to others? ?”

"There is bound to be an open and secret struggle between them, and the promulgation of the "New Religion Law", in my opinion, is precisely the result of the struggle."

"Who's winning?"

After a pause, Levin changed his phrase: "Who can win?"

"The answer is obvious, isn't it?"

Mavi looked at Junia, who was sitting beside her, eating a chocolate croissant: "If the king wins, then the newly promulgated law will definitely include the Church of the Three Fate Goddesses. Otherwise, it proves that the Pope won."

In this struggle for power, it is not surprising that the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny won. With the support of the gods, it is strange that they cannot win!

"Damn."

Levin scratched his hair and said grumpily, "Is the Church of the Three Goddesses going to attack other churches? It's too fast!"

"For the time being, not yet." Ma Wei said: "This is just a census of the number of churches. Small churches that do business in the name of religion, such as the Church of Sweets and the Church of Tobacco. These small churches have no name but just use the skin of religion to gain profits. The emergence of the "New Religion Law" is partly aimed at them."

"Why did you hit them? Why didn't you do it before?"

"Because after the signing of the Naval War Declaration, the disappearance of the privateer system has caused a sharp drop in the financial revenue of the royal families of all countries. Do you know how much wealth the Kingdom of Windsor can obtain each year from privateer ships?"

"It is said to be millions of pounds." Levin replied.

"Oh, that's a figure from 300 years ago." Mavi smiled disdainfully: "I'm afraid you calculated it based on the wealth obtained by Captain Drake's voyage around the world from 1577 to 1580. That's right, during that voyage, Drake The captain plundered a total of about 150 million gold pounds in property, but the wealth plundered by the Saint-Martil fleet three years ago is conservatively estimated to be around 200 million gold pounds. You must know that our ship was about to be destroyed at that time. Gold and silver treasures are weighed down."

"200w?!"

Levin was shocked: "The last time I went to the palace for sightseeing, I saw the Minister of Finance's report, which said that the annual financial revenue of the Kingdom of Windsor was 1 million pounds, and you plundered fifty cents in one voyage. One of the wealth?!"

You know, the fleet of the Kingdom of Windsor with a privateer certificate is not the only one of the Saint-Martil fleet!

There are dozens of them anyway.

"The Popang Kingdom is very rich, and their merchant ships are even richer."

Ma Wei said lightly: "Before the privateer system was abolished, the Kingdom of Windsor didn't care about some small religions that cheated the world, but the situation is different now. After the privateer system was abolished, the kingdom's financial revenue was directly cut in half. If you want to make money, You have to start elsewhere.”

"Is the Kingdom of Windsor short of money?"

"The wealth accumulated in the past is enough for them to squander for a few years. Unfortunately, the situation is special recently. They are really short of money."

Tapping the table with his fingers, Ma Wei narrowed his eyes and said a piece of information that shocked Levin: "The Kingdom of Windsor will declare war on the Kingdom of Romanov in the near future."

"What?! Where did you get the news?"

"I know a friend who has a lot of contacts and has his own intelligence channels. Most of the news is true."

"."

Levin didn't know what to say for a while.

He didn't want to see war break out, because that would mean that the peaceful life would be broken, and once the wheels of war started turning, it would be difficult to stop.

"This is the tide of the times, and we cannot stop it."

Seeing his silence, Ma Wei sighed: "Peter the Great destroyed the Apocalypse God, that is to say, in the next war, the Romanov Kingdom will not have the support of gods, even if they have a vast land, It is also impossible to be the opponent of the Kingdom of Windsor. This will be an overwhelming war without any suspense."

"That's not necessarily true." Levin thought for a while and said, "The Kingdom of Romanov can ask for foreign aid! Aren't the Cult of Wisdom in the Kingdom of Popang and the Cult of Judgment in the Kingdom of Frederick all excellent allies? "

"Indeed, the Romanov Kingdom is not defenseless."

Ma Wei did not refute, but agreed with Levin's statement: "In any case, in addition to the religious statistics, the "New Religion Law" also announced many favorable policies, the purpose of which is to keep various churches in the country, Preventing them from contacting the Romanov Kingdom, boiling frogs in warm water, what Peter the Great did at the beginning really left a big shadow on other churches, and to this day, no church dares to set foot on the Romanov Kingdom land. Huh?"

"what happened?"

"I suddenly thought of something." Ma Wei's eyes lit up, he got up in a hurry, took out a silver shilling and put it on the bottom of the cup: "Let's go, let's go home!"

"I haven't finished my tea yet."

"Go back and drink!"

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's not even noon yet."

Amidst the depressed complaints, Levin picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair and began to chase the two fast-moving figures in front of him.

(End of this chapter)