When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 551 Laurent and the Dock
The spring rain sprinkled finely on the green earth, and the sky looked like a veil with silver needles inserted, swaying back and forth in the rising and falling spring breeze.

After March, the warm current of the Emerald Sea and the cold current of the Crucible Highlands collide in the Thousand River Valley.

The cold and heavy water vapor, lubricated by the spring breeze, turned into drizzle and fell on the military tents of the war monks.

The legion commander, 10 division commanders, and the military chaplains all gathered in a tent, listening to the legion clerk read the latest Holy Word Gospel.

"...War monks are also monks. The Salvation Army is a corps of monks. Similarly, the Papal States is also a country of monks..."

"…What is a monk? Sitting in a monastery and reciting scriptures every day, can you be considered a monk? If you don't work and don't produce anything, and don't make any exchanges and don't circulate, you can't be considered a monk…"

"... Monks should know who we are, what our country is, and why we should defend our country..."

"...The reason why war monks are called monks is because they engage in war and are responsible for protecting the output of labor and the exchange of goods. Their status is not higher than that of other monks..."

"Isn't this what we said before? Why are you saying it again?" A division captain asked another division captain in a low voice.

The division commander lowered his voice and said, "It was probably the division commander of the Black Crown Eighth Army who got drunk and slept with the knight's daughter."

"real or fake?"

"I saw it with my own eyes yesterday. Several gendarmes escorted him past our station."

"Isn't she the daughter of a knight? Moreover, she is the daughter of a knight from Hotham County..."

"The chief priest is reciting His Majesty's scriptures, what are you doing? Is this the time for you to chat?" Laurent, who has now become the commander of the legion, yelled at the two men.

"No, Your Excellency the Legion Commander." The two guys immediately stood at attention.

"Apologize to Clerk Adol!"

"Yes, Secretary Adol, we were wrong. Please forgive us."

"Hahaha." Adol, the chief chaplain of the army, laughed. "Everyone, sit down. This is a discussion meeting. There's no need to be so serious."

The so-called military chaplains are not the political commissars of their own country, nor are they even Soviet-style political commissars.

Under the current conditions of productivity and ideological level, these two types of political commissars cannot be born.

In comparison, they are more like a combination of military chaplains during the Thirty Years' War and special commissioners during the French Revolution.

Their tasks included leading the war monks in prayer, presiding over battlefield funerals, encouraging morale, supervising officers in carrying out orders, and promoting the ideas of the Word of God.

The requirements for them were very simple. They did not even need to receive the priesthood. They just needed to be able to read the Gospels, read and write, and do simple debates.

As for the materials read by these military chaplains, most of them were set by Horn himself and then written by the writers of the Holy Fathers.

These pens are different from those of church clergy.

Compared with the church's rhetorical articles that are full of classics, they prefer to use a colloquial and radical writing style.

This was not decided by Horn, but was a conclusion drawn from a series of large and small wars and daily activities in Longsand County.

The monks of the Order of the Holy Fathers even gradually developed a set of oral writing paradigms.

If the serious priests in the church were allowed to come, they would not be able to adapt.

Generally speaking, each legion is equipped with 2-3 military chaplains.

However, the specific administrative work such as life and logistics are all managed by the legion's clerical staff.

Of course, since the Salvation Army’s current organization is not yet complete, even the service soldiers are often vacant.

Therefore, in many cases, the legion clerk also serves as the military chaplain.

This is why the war monks call this legion clerk the "Chief Chaplain".

After reading and explaining the materials again, Adol clipped the hemp paper to the writing board and put it aside. A dozen big men who picked their toes sat cross-legged together, and it was a damp and rainy day, so the smell in the tent was naturally sour and unpleasant.

But as for life in the military camp, Adol, who came from a civilian background, had long since adapted to it.

He cleared his throat and said, “I have finished telling you what the Saint Grandson has warned you about. Now I will tell you my own understanding.

Why did Your Majesty establish a country of monks? It is because the world is now in chaos, demons are rampant, and people's hearts are lost.

If His Majesty the Saint wants to save the world from the final judgment, then he must first save people's hearts. This is why we must revive fundamentalism and the Al way of life.

We must have faith because we are the people chosen by the Holy Father, so we should have good moral character.

We should have demands on ourselves, including not bullying the weak.

The knight himself is guilty of an unforgivable crime. Even if his daughter is implicated, she should be punished by law.

That is the job of the monks who make the judgment. It is not our specialty. Don't use your own thread to pierce other people's needles.

Our war against the nobility and the church is a holy war, don't smear it, do you understand me?"

The officers naturally answered in unison that they understood, but whether they really understood or not, probably only they themselves knew.

Therefore, several military chaplains will have private talks with these officers one by one and hold a small meeting to debate.

The truth will not be clear unless it is explained. Moreover, promoting the concept of "monks" in the army is Horn's secret pilot project to establish a new imagined community.

Laurent, who was once just a small tailor, led the Black Hat Seventh Legion, which is now stationed near the detention dock.

Compared to the other Black Champion Regiment and the Guards Corps who were attacking Lujiao Township, they had a lot more free time, so they had so many gospel meetings to hold.

After the officers had held the gospel meetings, the war monks also had to hold them one division after another.

In addition to gospel meetings, literacy classes were also held, requiring every soldier to master the reading and writing skills of at least 500 words.

These political tasks are equally important as combat tasks and will also be included in the final assessment of military merit.

However, Laurent felt depressed when he thought that his old friends were able to achieve great success on the battlefield while he could only sit on the river bank and attend meetings day and night.

But Adol, the legion clerk and chaplain, enjoyed it and smiled every day.

During the gospel meetings and literacy classes, the expressions of the two sides, one sad and one happy, complemented each other.

However, this busy yet peaceful daily life was broken by a burst of hurried footsteps.

The sentry in a raincoat lifted the curtain of the tent, and raindrops slanted in, instantly soaking the blanket under the buttocks of a legion commander.

Laurent stood up and shouted to the sentry, "What's going on?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, there is an urgent report from the Holy Sun Righteous Army." The sentry took off his hood, revealing his wet head.

Laurent rushed to the sentry in two steps, opened the envelope in his hand, and began to read it by the dim candlelight in the tent.

After reading it, he took a deep breath, forced himself to suppress his pounding heart, and handed the urgent report to Adol, the legion clerk beside him.

Adol was not as calm as Laurent. His eyes almost popped out after just one look.

"Count Sampoli is rebelling?!"

"Four earls and three abbots responded?!"

"The Holy Sun Righteous Army pretended to be refugees and surrounded the Detention Dock. The Detention Dock was tricked into opening the city gates by the Earl's order at night..."

"It was breached?!"

(End of this chapter)