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

Chapter 648 Great Purge

In fact, the greatest influence on monotheistic belief is not polytheism, but the awakening of people's wisdom.

Because the spread of knowledge will inevitably have an impact on faith, and the impact on monotheism is particularly great.

The doctrines of unreformed monotheism are full of contradictions for those students who have mastered knowledge, which directly leads to many scholars being skeptical about monotheism and gods.

This also caused monotheism to be unpopular in various colleges. On the contrary, polytheism was smarter. After reform, polytheism integrated many philosophical ideas.

Therefore, polytheism was easier for those scholars to accept.

This also led to the fact that among the imperial officials, the number of polytheistic officials was far greater than the number of monotheistic officials.

As a result, these officials subconsciously supported polytheism, which caused polytheism to develop at an alarming speed.

The development of monotheism has become slow, and if time continues, monotheism will continue to shrink.

Richard was well aware of this situation and was secretly encouraging it.

He planned to use various subtle and slow methods to weaken the monotheism. At the same time, because Richard had no offspring for a long time and had many concubines, there were no rumors of pregnancy.

Rumors began to spread in Rome that Richard was unable to have children. After all, with so many women and in such a long time, a normal person would have already had countless children.

As a result, no good news came from the palace.

Originally, the various policies implemented by Richard were very unfriendly to the nobles. After seeing this scene, these nobles began to secretly fabricate various rumors.

Some people even directly said that Richard was promoting polytheism and abolishing the status of monotheism, which angered the gods and caused them to become extinct.

The news spread quickly in Rome. This kind of palace secrets can be said to be the best gossip for people after dinner. Human nature is to eat melons. So this kind of thing naturally spread quickly and quickly spread to other parts of Italy.

Richard naturally also heard these rumors. The polytheists and the generals under Richard were very angry and sent people to find the person who spread the rumors.

On the other hand, after learning of the rumor, the bishops of monotheistic religions had different opinions.

In the Vatican, several cardinals are arguing.

"Salvas, I don't agree with this decision. You are playing with fire!" a cardinal said in a deep voice.

"This is not what we spread. We don't need to clarify. We just need to remain silent. There is no loss for us," said the cardinal named Salvas.

"It's true that we didn't spread these rumors, but have you ever considered that if we don't speak out, will they think we did it?"

"Can we afford the wrath of the Emperor?"

"We didn't spread it, and he has no evidence! He can't do anything to us!" Salvas said indignantly.

At this moment, a calm but majestic voice sounded: "He doesn't need evidence!"

"This is impossible! He can't do this!" Salvas retorted subconsciously.

"He can do this!" Everyone turned around and saw His Holiness the Pope walking in with a gloomy expression on his face.

"Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty." Everyone stood up and saluted. The Pope walked straight to the crowd and said, "The current situation is very unfavorable to us. We can't give them any excuses!"

"Otherwise, those people will have even more excuses to suppress us!"

"Your Majesty, how long do we have to wait for such a day?" asked Salvas.

"This Roman Emperor is indeed powerful, and his prestige is unmatched, but he is still a human being after all. We can just wait for him to die."

"He can now suppress all resistance by himself, and he has enough prestige to make everyone listen to him, but his descendants don't have that!"

"We can even send women over and let them get pregnant. Then we can support them to become the emperor of the empire. Then our church will naturally reach its peak again."

"Why should those polytheistic pagans fight with us?"

Everyone nodded.

After seeing that everyone had reached a consensus, the Pope continued, "Send someone to clarify the rumors. We also support the great Augustus, His Majesty the Emperor, and then continue to look for a suitable girl and send her to the palace."

"If you have any ideas to increase the chances of pregnancy and childbirth, please tell me and we will send them to the palace together."

The Pope's meaning is very clear. He does not intend to fight for twenty or thirty years. He wants to fight for one hundred or two hundred years.

Monotheism was able to survive despite being suppressed, persecuted, and displaced. Instead, it gradually grew and became the state religion of the Roman Empire.

He was confident that in the coming time, the monotheistic church would defeat the polytheistic church once again.

Unfortunately, Richard did not intend to give them this opportunity. He would not allow the believers of Monotheism to conceive his offspring, so all the plans of Monotheism were basically useless.

Without Richard's orders, after discovering the rumors, his subordinate Dranos immediately took people to investigate the spread of these rumors.

Because of this rumor, thousands of people were implicated, and many nobles who were dissatisfied with the status quo and secretly fanned the flames were also arrested by Drenos.

In addition to these, Drenos also took the opportunity to clean up the palace and cleared out the spies of the nobles in the palace.

During the time of Valentinian III, the palace was like a sieve. Richard did not clean the entire palace at that time, but now he took this opportunity to clean it thoroughly.

Not only Dranos was cleaning, but Alea was also cleaning those around her. Now, except for Richard and her, no one else knew that she was pregnant.

For the safety of her future child, she had to ensure the absolute safety of those around her. So all those who were uncertain were transferred away, and those with problems were dealt with directly.

After the cleanup, all news in the palace was cut off.

At the same time, Richard also cleaned up the city of Rome, the officialdom, and the nobility. After several cleansings, the remaining nobles basically became cautious and did not dare to have any small thoughts.

After the cleanup, colleges in various places have become pure. He doesn't want to cultivate a group of people with ulterior motives in the school.

At the same time, the proportion of nobles in the college was also reduced.

At the same time, Richard ordered the expansion of colleges in various places to add more students. He also ordered the establishment of a military academy to start training more military talents.

(End of this chapter)