The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 563 Chaos
The Gnostic sect developed very smoothly, and Henry knew how to take advantage of it better than George. Although releasing a large-scale holy light spell consumed a lot of energy, it also gave him a reputation that was close to that of the savior.

At the same time, Henry also united many small sects that were previously ignored, and directly used divine magic and performed miracles to subdue these people.

This allowed Gnosticism to rapidly expand from a secret sect to a universal sect.

Henry also used the Roman Church's methods to seek cooperation with the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. Compared with the Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire was also suffering, but it was still much better than the Western Roman Empire.

In addition, the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire also controlled a large number of troops. Although they could not defeat the Hun Empire, they were enough to fight the surrounding barbarians.

After seeing the miracles performed by Henry, the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire was immediately shocked and agreed to cooperate with Henry after just a little thought.

With Henry, the "saint" on earth, the Eastern Roman Emperor could get a lot of benefits. Although the Roman Empire defeated many barbarians and established provinces to rule, this did not mean that those barbarians surrendered.

The Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire had the same problem, which was financial problems.

Fortunately, the number of nobles in the Eastern Roman Empire was far less than that in the Western Roman Empire. At the same time, many barbarians in the Eastern Roman Empire had been taught a lesson by the Hun Empire and were not very strong, which made the situation of the Eastern Roman Empire much better.

Now the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire wants to use Henry's influence to make those barbarians surrender.

The two hit it off immediately, and the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire directly declared that Gnosticism was the orthodox church of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The once powerful monotheism was directly split into three under Richard's operation, and the three sects regarded each other as heretics and wanted to kill each other. Unfortunately, none of the three sects had the strength to do so.

Polytheism, which had been struggling to survive under the shadow of monotheism, also got a chance to breathe.

After all, the monotheistic religion was split into three, and each wanted to kill the other. To the monotheistic religion, heretics were more dangerous than pagans.

Pagans can be suppressed simply by preaching, but heresy will cling to the church, becoming stronger and stronger, and even replacing them.

Like Arianism and Gnosticism, it directly split the church.

The three churches were busy fighting among themselves, which made the polytheists feel relieved. Finally, there were no endless Inquisition, monasteries, and demon hunters chasing them.

After the split and infighting of Monotheism, Richard returned to his territory and began to vigorously develop it. Now because of the war in his territory, many slaves and bankrupt farmers have fled here.

Richard organized these slaves and bankrupt farmers and began to reclaim wasteland outside the city and cultivate it.

At the same time, because the Barbarian Servants' Army fought very bravely in the last battle against the Huns, Richard directly upgraded the Barbarian Servants' Army to a foreign legion.

And appoint a transcendent person of barbarian origin to lead this foreign legion.

At the same time, Richard was preparing to enfeoff some nobles. Of course, he did not have any title now, and neither the Roman Emperor nor the Count of Valenza gave him a noble title.

But what time is it now? Everyone knows that the Roman Empire is about to collapse, and by then the governors of various regions will inevitably become independent, and the one with the army will be the boss.

What's more, all the people under Richard understood that Richard could give them extraordinary powers, and they didn't care about the title of the Roman Empire at all. What they cared about was Richard who conferred the title on them.

In the eyes of these people, Richard is now on the same level as gods.

Lord's Mansion.

Richard sat in the main seat, and below him were Mia, Dranos, Sean, Cruz and Betley. Alea was not here. During this period, the monotheism was divided and there was no time to deal with the remnants of the polytheism, so Alea went to look for other polytheistic priests and temple guards.

Prepare to lure them here.

Looking at the people in front of him, Richard nodded slightly, then stood up and said, "Delanos, Sean, Cruz, and Belit!"

"Master, we are here!" The four of them stood up and said respectfully.

"Your Majesty!"

Without any hesitation, the four of them knelt on one knee in front of Richard and lowered their heads.

"You have done well in this war, so I am going to make you knights!"

Hearing Richard's words, everyone was slightly stunned, their eyes full of surprise.

'Clang! '

A long sword was unsheathed, the blade was so bright that it could illuminate people, the sword edge was flowing, the cold light was intimidating, making people's hair stand on end involuntarily.

Richard placed the sword flat on the shoulder of Dranos, who was kneeling on one knee.

"Humility, bravery, mercy, sacrifice, honor, loyalty, honesty, and justice!"

Richard's voice rang in everyone's ears, and Dranos looked at Richard in surprise.

"I, Richard, in the name of the gods and God, knight you!"

In the hall, everyone was excited and looked at Drenos with envy.

"I, Drenos and my family, are willing to swear allegiance to Sir Richard until the end of time!" Drenos said loudly. Then Richard conferred titles on the remaining three people. This time he conferred titles on four knights. His territory was not large at the moment, so conferring titles on four knights was already a lot.

At this time, the knights needed to be given territories. Richard gave each of the four people a piece of land as their knight manor.

A knight's manor included three to four villages or towns, and could easily support a dozen soldiers.

In the future he would certainly enfeoff more nobles. Although the feudal system had gradually disappeared in the East, it had just begun in Europe. This feudal lord system was still more advanced than the Roman slavery system.

It also gave hope to the lower class people and allowed them to see room for advancement.

This was very helpful for Richard's rule.

In this era, knights basically have real power, unlike in the Middle Ages where they were everywhere and everyone was a knight.

Richard the Knight is actually a small landowner and a good family. At the same time, he is also preparing for the abolition of slavery.

The collapse of the Roman Empire led to the collapse of slavery, and of course slavery later turned into feudal serfdom.

He planned to abolish slavery and classify the slaves as free people. He also stipulated that even the nobles had to pay taxes to him.

Richard's reforms did not cause any turmoil, after all, his place was too small. The Roman Empire's top officials had no time to manage this place, and the emperor was engaged in a political struggle with Aelius.

After defeating the Hun emperor Attila, the Scourge of God, Aetius's reputation reached its peak and everyone feared him, but Aelius was not an emperor after all.

As the emperor of the empire, Valentinian III was unwilling to give up the power in his hands. The problem now was that he, the emperor of the empire, had almost no sense of existence.

Although Valentinian III was addicted to enjoyment, he still had great ambitions as an emperor.

In fact, in many cases, we are not afraid of the emperor indulging in enjoyment, but we are afraid of the emperor having great ambitions. There are very few emperors who are ambitious and capable, and there are only a few in history.

Without exception, they were all wise rulers, but there were too many emperors who had great ambitions but lacked the ability to match them.

They are the ones who have great ambitions but little talent.

Many people wanted to realize their ambitions and make their country strong again, but ended up causing the collapse of their country.

Valentinian III did not have a clear self-recognition. He felt that although he was addicted to women, indulged in luxury, and favored treacherous women, this did not prevent him from becoming a great emperor.

After seeing Aetius's high reputation, Valentinian III became more wary of Aetius.

So the emperor began to find various excuses to weaken his influence and let people he trusted take control of the army.

Unfortunately, his political skills were not very good. The people he sent out wanted to control the army, but the army did not listen to him at all.

As for the army, they would rather follow a general who can lead them to victory. As for the emperor? Haha.

The tradition of the Roman Praetorian Guard is not just talk.

These troops don't care who sits in that position.

Although the Huns were defeated, Rome was still unable to recover lost territory and expel the barbarians. Coupled with the power struggles and political struggles among the Roman high-ranking officials, Rome became unstable.

As for the Roman Church, it had no intention of caring about these things. The Arian sect, with Milan as its center, was fighting against the Roman Church. On the other hand, it was fighting against the Gnostic sect.

There was no time to worry about the Roman Empire.

Under such circumstances, Alea successfully brought a dozen polytheistic priests and temple guards to Richard.

These polytheistic priests are basically nobles, and their arrival is good news for Richard.

These polytheistic priests are not just priests. They have all received a complete education and are very good managers. They also master some skills and abilities.

Just like the Druid priests, they have mastered many farming skills, and other priests also have skills in architecture, medicine, music, sculpture and so on.

Although many nobles in this era were greedy and corrupt, there were still many talented people among them.

After all, in this era, only the nobles had the money and ability to receive education and learn knowledge, while other people were almost no different from illiterate people.

The arrival of these people immediately made Richard feel much more relaxed. There were people to take care of the construction of the city, the establishment of water conservancy projects, the building of city walls and the promotion of agricultural technology.

This immediately reduced Richard's workload by a large amount.

With the help of these nobles, a large number of trivial matters were quickly handled.

Therefore, Richard specially rewarded Alea. As for this priestess of the god of love and beauty, Richard simply stood up and kicked, and fed her until she was full every day.

(End of this chapter)