Doomsday, starting from a generation of masters

Chapter 190 Faith and Kingship

Cersei went up the steps and into the Great Sept of Baelor,

Walking into the hall of lights, she saw more than 20 monks kneeling on the ground, wearing simple linen robes and sandals, wiping the floor with wood and soap,

"Even here are these lowly sparrows!" Cersei raised her wrist and covered her mouth and nose with a silk handkerchief, as if these dirty sparrows polluted the air,
"Your Majesty!" One of the sparrows raised his head,

"Brother Donald!" The Queen Mother looked at this acquainted bishop in amazement, his face was flushed, and the blisters on his hands were bleeding.

"What are you doing?"

"He is working," the man who answered her was about the same height, but as thin as a hemp stick. "Work is also a kind of prayer, especially to please blacksmiths!" He stood up with a scrub brush in his hand.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Queen Mother!"

Cersei watched the man carefully. The man's half-gray beard was neatly trimmed, his thinning hair brushed back, and his robes, though clean, were frayed and patched.He rolled up his sleeves to work, but he was soaked from the knees down.with bare feet,

She was surprised to find that those black feet were as hard and rough as tree roots, covered with calluses, and extremely ugly.

"Are you the new Archbishop?"

"It's down!"

"Is this person the big sparrow?" The queen mother thought,
Yili said that the queen mother should salute at this time, but she looked at the sewage and soap on the ground, and really didn't want to stain her clothes,

"Where is my friend Mobert?"

Mobert is her favorite archbishop. She originally thought that he would succeed the archbishop in this election.

"Brother Mobert is confessing in the confinement room. During the confession, we only provide bread and water. Half the country is starving. It is a sin for him to gain weight."

The Empress Dowager's face darkened,
The archbishop has let so many bishops drag the floor here and confines the archbishop just after he took office. It can be seen that he has already controlled the power of the church. Such a person who has no foundation and suddenly appeared, why should he do this?
"Do you know who I am? Is that how you greet me? With a dripping brush?"

"The Queen Mother is the Regent Queen Mother of the Seven Kingdoms," the old sparrow replied, "but the "Seven Stars Bible" says that commoners should pay homage to the lord, the lord should pay homage to the king, and the king and queen should pay homage to the seven gods!"

The old sparrow's answer was neither humble nor overbearing, neither the servility of the previous archbishops nor the arrogance of fanatics!

"According to the etiquette, you should wear a robe and a crystal crown to greet me at the stairs!"

"I have no crown, queen!"

"Why? Didn't the royal family give you a very luxurious crown made of gold and crystal."

"For this crown!" The old sparrow saluted, this was the first time the old sparrow saluted after they met,
"But the toilers were still hungry, and I had no right to wear gold and crystal on my head, so I sold it, and I also sold the other diadems in the storeroom, all the rings, and the robes of gold and silver .The seven gods created sheep, and the wool is enough to keep humans warm."

The words of the old sparrow made all the believers and monks in the hall kneel on the ground and pray to him!
Cersei felt extremely uncomfortable. This new archbishop was different from any monk in the past. He neither feared power nor was obsessed with gold and silver. What exactly does he want?
She suppressed this doubt and continued:
"King Tommen needs you to dismiss the refugees in King's Landing and dismiss your believers. The king can declare them innocent, as long as they go home!"

"But they don't have a home anymore... There's misery everywhere, there's sorrow and death everywhere."

"Before I came to King's Landing, I was in charge of looking after fifty or sixty small villages that were too small to have monks of their own. I went from village to village, performing weddings, absolving sins, and naming children. Now, All these villages are gone, Queen Mother, and weeds and brambles are overgrown in the beautiful gardens of the past, and bones are piled up scattered by the roadside."

How could Cersei care about this!He said forcefully: "These atrocities are caused by the northerners and Stannis!"

"But some sparrows also saw Lannister soldiers, and they killed an old monk in Saltpan Town."

"Dear Queen!" The old sparrow stood in front of Cersei, looking directly at her,
"What were the king's knights doing while these atrocities were happening? Didn't Jaehaerys the Arbiter swear to the Iron Throne that the royal family would always protect the Church?"

The old sparrow showed his dagger word by word!
It's a pity that Cersei has not read any books and has no idea what he is talking about...

In fact, because the teachings of the church are against rebellion, and the Targaryen family has always married internally, conflicts often erupt between the two.

Jaehaerys was the fourth king of the Targaryen dynasty. When he succeeded, the church armed forces had already existed in name only due to the suppression of the previous kings, but they had not been completely disbanded and continued to strive to restore their old strength.Moreover, the judicial power enjoyed by the church has led many greedy monks to demand whatever they want from lords everywhere.Jaehaerys negotiated with the High Septon.The king swore that the Iron Throne would protect and defend the church forever, in exchange for the remaining armed members of the order laying down their weapons and the church handing over the right to judge.

These two actions directly made the church a vassal of the royal power!I can no longer turn over the waves,
But now, the new archbishop, Old Sparrow, actually brings up this matter again!
And his target is the "smart" woman in front of him who is currently the most powerful woman in the Seven Kingdoms, Queen Cersei!

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Half a day later, Cersei walked out of the Great Sept of Baelor contentedly,
Taking away the date on which the Archbishop would bless Tommen and forgive the royal debt of 90 ducats.

At the same time, the promise to restore the Church's right to arm and judge,

One month after Lin En returned to Storm's End, he received a royal order to inform the whole land,
Restore the right to arm and judge the Church of the Seven Gods!The church will reorganize the Knights of the Holy Sword, the Knights of the Stars!

Lynn was stunned!

How stupid would Cersei be to agree to such a thing?Who does she think she is?Generations of Targaryen kings rode giant dragons, fighting monsters that were barely locked up for many years, and she easily released the shackles like this!
And still in this chaotic time!
What devastation did the War of the Five Kings cause!The more troubled times are, the more fertile the soil for religious growth.
What do people who are enveloped in despair do when they cannot be saved?We can only seek spiritual support, the best way is faith!

"Just wait and see, once this wind blows, it will definitely cover the sky and make everyone panic!"

Fortunately his Storm's End had no church from the start,

He will not allow religious fanatics to appear in his territory in the future,
(End of this chapter)