When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 998 You Explode, I Be Abstract
"How exactly should slaves be liberated in accordance with the principles taught by the Holy Father? From 1447 to 1454, the Black Snake Bay Federation spent eight years trying to figure it out, but still hadn't fully understood it."

Sheriff Ruth's buyout policy might be better, but given the current situation, it's still too rigid..."

In a small cabin outside Shelley, Caxia County, the morning light streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air.

He took off his glasses and let Bro rub his eyes with his rough fingers.

In March 1454, as previously mentioned in Pravda, after settling the affairs of the twenty-four counties of the Holy Alliance, His Holiness the Pope went to Black Snake Bay in the south.

As for the purpose of going to Black Snake Bay, Bloe could figure it out after a little thought.

This can be seen from the latest article signed by Horn, titled "Black Snake Bay and the People of Black Snake Bay".

This was aimed at reforming Black Snake Bay, especially the slave system there.

The Black Serpent Bay Federation does not adhere to the Messiah religion, and the monks of the Holy Path sect tolerated it, after all, the Holy Path sect emphasizes "religious tolerance and valuing harmony."

However, the practice of keeping slaves undermines the very foundation of the Holy Way sect's four cornerstones: "equality." All Holy Way monks, regardless of their position, are united on this issue.

Slavery is strictly prohibited!

You think you're so great? Black Snake Bay is nothing more than a dog guarding our Holy Alliance's spice plantations!

However, the senior judges were quite restrained on this issue.

Black Snake Bay is an important source of raw materials. If it is accidentally disrupted, it will affect the inflow of foreign exchange and gold and the overall economy of the Holy Alliance.

But seeing how enthusiastic the monks were, it didn't seem right to do nothing.

That's why Horn made this trip; on the one hand, he wanted to visit Cynthia, and on the other hand, he wanted to make a political statement.

Bro saw it very clearly: although he himself was not involved in the Holy Alliance's political arena and focused on academia, he had a large number of students working in the Holy Alliance.

Many of the Juano monks he brought with him became itinerant monks, with the highest-ranking among them even reaching the position of priest.

The correspondence was naturally indispensable, since these new monks had little combat experience and needed to consult their teachers for advice.

However, Jean-Brock never gives a direct answer; he usually just quotes a passage from Pravda or simply writes down which article from which issue and sends it back.

In Jean-Browne's view, he knew Horn Galar well; he was always upright and honest, and didn't play the game of backroom politics.

Whatever needs to be done, the entire Holy Alliance must be clearly informed in advance.

The article should clearly explain: Why? What to do? How to do it? What is its effect?
Although Horne seemed to do nothing all day, he still spent his days reading, studying theology, and writing articles.

Do you really think that after the grandson of Jesus Christ became Pope, he would just slack off and lie down?

Almost every month, the Pope publishes an article in Pravda, outlining his governing philosophy, explaining the administrative direction of the Holy Alliance, and commenting on current events.

However, while Horn complained daily that he couldn't understand the reports of the Privy Councillors, the monks below him were also complaining that they couldn't understand Horn's articles.

Horn's writing style, in his own view, is concise, clear, straightforward, and easy to understand.

But in Jean-Brock's words, it was "rugged," which means both that the article was sharp and thought-provoking.

Horn had received higher education from later generations, and was even at the level of a "King of Scrolls".

When he wrote, he unconsciously brought with him the style of information overload and critical thinking that would be common in later generations.

It's important to understand that, under official leadership and with Horn's accelerated efforts, the Holy Alliance merely pushed the ideological movement to the point between the late Renaissance and the early Reformation.

Horn stood on the shoulders of giants, and the giant beneath him stood on the shoulders of other giants.

Moreover, due to Horn's forced development of intellectual movements, many of his theories did not come from practice and experience, but rather from "divine revelation."

In other words, the edifice of normal thought is built step by step from the foundation.

Horn built the roof first, and then had the monks build it down step by step.

This has led to a situation where Horn often wants to express (translate) a noun or a principle, but there are no words available on the spot, so he has to make up words.

Not only do they have to create new words, but they also have to create another word, or even write an article, just to explain the new word.

Often, a third of an article is dedicated to annotations of neologisms, making the entire article exceptionally abstract. This creates the bizarre situation where the Privy Councillors are constantly bombarding Horn with classical texts in their reports, while Horn is monthly producing abstract articles.

The reason for this, as summarized by Blow, is as follows:

Horn couldn't understand the monks' writings because he lacked literary skills.

The monks couldn't understand Horn's writings because their philosophical understanding was insufficient.

But for an academic master like Jean-Baptiste Brod, while it was difficult to understand, once he grasped it, it was a treasure trove.

For example, his criticism of "The Life of St. Lannister" stemmed from Horn's article "On 'Bread and the Circus' Again" published in Pravda last May.

It involves reinterpreting "Bread and the Circus" based on contemporary celestial phenomena, language habits, word origins, and customs.

Although this behavior was based on Horn's cultural policy and was an attempt to overturn the verdict for the sake of overturning it, its underlying logic was so impressive that it amazed Broe.

It is not limited to textual evidence, but uses multiple methods of verification, reasonable reasoning, and rigorous logic to verify the truth of past classics.

For Jean-Baptiste, who was passionate about "questioning the scriptures," and many other old monastery elders and scholars, this line of thought was a treasure trove.

He couldn't understand why the ancients hadn't thought of such a simple and efficient approach.

Regardless, the monks who obtained this tool launched a concerted attack on the long-standing and difficult problems in theological texts.

Just like natural history, engineering, and medicine, which initially promoted the "controlled variable method," "experimental method," and "mathematical analysis method," after four or five years of development, the number of published papers and their pioneering nature increased exponentially.

Similarly, these methods were co-authored and published by Horn and the "Two-Wheel Man".

With Horn's method of questioning scripture, the theological and philosophical level of the Holy Alliance will likely reach a new level within four or five years.

To address the issue of not being able to understand Horn's writings, the Court of Truth has a dedicated department of proverbs that compiles the "Pope's Proverbs" to explain and elaborate on his writings.

Within the Holy Alliance government, though no one says it.

But those in the know understand that entering the Proverbs Department is a fast track to promotion.

Otherwise, if you don't even understand His Holiness the Pope's meaning, how can you be devout?

Although Jean-Browley was once a political enemy of Horn, he was indeed adept at interpreting Horn's writings.

He was even invited by the Proverbs Department to be a lecturer on several occasions, but Broe declined them all.

The political waters were too murky for him to handle.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with entering politics in the Holy See, but staying at the Blago Monastery to teach would offer him a much wider range of options.

Put the glasses back on, and have Bro pick up the scissors and cut out several articles and manuscripts from Pravda, then have Bro paste them into the notebook.

Originally, paper was expensive, so he would copy it carefully. Later, after the paper mill of Joan of Arc expanded, the price of paper dropped three times a day.

Now that we've reached this point, we've had Broke cut out the text and have the students copy and organize it.

This content is the top-tier teaching material at the Blago Abbey Secondary School, ensuring that our monks in Caxia County are ten steps ahead of others from the very beginning!

Since they've already got this big project, "The Good Deeds of Saint Lan," it's a perfect opportunity to put it on the stock market and create a Blago University.

If this university can be established, even if Broe dies, he won't be too ashamed to face Ludwick and Juano.

Let Bro reach for the letter paper again, ready to write another letter to Martin.

Ask him to put in a good word for Ludwick; without Martin's approval, the university can't be established.

"Huh?" Blo was taken aback, only to find that the letter box was empty.

He slapped his forehead and realized that with paper prices so low, he was more likely to waste it. Before he knew it, he had used up a year's worth in just one month.

He took some banknotes from the drawer, had Bro open the window, and waved the banknotes: "Brutto, Broutto, go buy me some stationery, Jeanne d'Arc paper!"

(End of this chapter)