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Chapter 650: Monotheism Crisis
Richard is very wary of monotheism. After all, monotheism was able to eventually grow and develop into a world religion in history, so there must be something worthwhile in it.

You should know that another world religion, Desert Green Religion, is basically a replica of monotheism. Its tenacity is unmatched by other religions.

About two months later, Alea's belly began to grow, and the news of her pregnancy finally spread. At the same time, Alea's pregnancy made the polytheistic priests very excited.

That afternoon, a team of polytheistic priests came to protect her. The lesson from the last Roman emperor was too profound, and they were afraid of another accident.

These polytheistic priests guarded the outermost perimeter, while inside were Aleiya's trusted followers and the guards arranged by Richard. There were three layers of protection inside and outside.

Alea's pregnancy directly dispelled the rumor that Richard was infertile. Of course, there were also some people with ulterior motives who secretly slandered him, saying that the child was not born by Richard, but was surrogate birth.

Drenos was furious and brutally suppressed those who spread the rumors.

On the other hand, after seeing that Alea was pregnant, the rest of the Monotheistic Church and the governors and nobles from all over the place were ecstatic and began to look for various ways to make the women they sent pregnant with Richard's child.

All of a sudden, all the women in Richard's harem became female demons, and Richard became like Tang Monk's meat. A group of beautiful women used various methods to seduce Richard.

Richard accepted all of this. Anyway, without his permission, these people could not get pregnant, and Richard was not ready to have a second child yet.

He planned to wait until Alea gave birth to a child and her position was consolidated, and then he would select one or two governors and nobles from various places to make them pregnant.

It is very difficult to control such a huge empire. Now he has high prestige and great strength and can control the empire, but his descendants probably cannot do so. Therefore, the best way is to divide it into several principalities and let his descendants manage them themselves.

Richard planned to divide Thrace and Asia Minor into a duchy, and also divide Gaul in the north into one, or divide the British Isles overseas into one.

Such a huge empire would be very difficult to manage without good transportation. It would take two or three months to travel from the farthest and most remote part of the empire to the capital without stopping.

It takes half a year for the empire's decrees to travel back and forth.

It is unrealistic to manage directly, so enfeoffment is the best way.

Richard has been studying which areas to divide and which areas must be directly governed by the empire. The reason why the Roman Empire can have such a large territory in this era is largely because of the Mediterranean Sea.

The developed sea transportation made the empire's transportation much more convenient. By sea transportation, even Egypt and Jerusalem could be reached within a month.

But this is not the case in areas far from the sea.

Richard planned to renovate Constantinople and give it to one of his children. Thrace and Asia Minor near Constantinople were his fiefs.

The British Isles will also be divided into a principality. It is too far away from Rome and is surrounded by the sea, far away from the European continent. As long as people don't do anything stupid, inheriting a kingdom will not be a problem.

Another kingdom is Gaul. This area of ​​Gaul is the front line against the northern Germanic barbarians. At the same time, the land is fertile and can be divided into a kingdom.

As for North Africa, Egypt, Spain, the Balkan Peninsula, Greece and other places, they were provinces under the control of the empire.

In addition to these places, Richard planned to enfeoff nobles in Spain, Hungary, Asia Minor, Jerusalem, Egypt and other places.

The thirty bloodline knights under his command will be assigned to various places by him.

The reforms of the Roman Empire were implemented smoothly, especially after Richard had gathered a large number of talents and had a large number of qualified officials, the Roman Empire's decrees were implemented smoothly in various places.

Next, eight months later, a baby's cry was heard in the palace, and Richard's first child was born.

Under the expectation of everyone, the female doctor in charge of the delivery shouted excitedly: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, it's a healthy baby boy!"

"boom!"

Everyone in the palace cheered immediately. The empire welcomed its legitimate successor!
Outside the palace, the polytheistic priests breathed a sigh of relief. They wanted to see an heir to the empire who had deep roots in polytheism.

At the same time, the knights and nobles nearby also cheered. They didn't care about polytheism or monotheism, but they cared about Richard's bloodline. For them, only Richard's bloodline was the heir to the empire and their king.

The empire has an heir, and they can rest assured.

The news quickly spread throughout Rome and quickly spread to all parts of the empire. Richard immediately ordered that the whole of Rome celebrate for three days.

He also ordered a grand polo match and football exhibition. Richard promoted polo and football in the Roman Empire.

Polo can train cavalry, and football can train infantry. These two sports are competitive and confrontational, which are very suitable for the empire.

The giant Colosseum in Rome was also reopened and, after renovation, became a large sports stadium that can host polo and football matches.

Richard walked into the palace. Several nurses were helping to clean up the area. Aleiya was lying on the bed weakly. Richard went up to her, held her hand, and kissed her on the cheek, saying, "Thank you for your hard work."

Aleiya smiled and said, "It's not hard."

Then he picked up the child in his arms with some difficulty and said, "This is our child!"

Alea never dreamed that as a witch she could give birth to a child, and that the child was strong and healthy, and she also felt the magical power of the child.

When this baby was born, he had golden pupils. These pupils came from divine blood, but he did not inherit much divine blood.

The rules of this world do not allow powerful gods to appear, so this child is at most a divine creature, not even a demigod.

And even so, its golden pupils will gradually turn black. This is the suppression of the world's rules and also the self-protection of its bloodline.

Through this self-protection of blood, the baby's power will be inherited to the greatest extent.

When it reaches adulthood, its bloodline will be fully awakened. If it is in the high magic world, this baby is born as a warlock with the ability to cast spells, and will reach the pseudo-legendary level when it reaches adulthood.

The pseudo-legendary level refers to the legendary strongmen who have not found their own destiny.

In this world, his strength is basically unable to reach the legendary level. His physical strength is stronger than those bloodline knights, and he has a strong regenerative ability. At the same time, he has a strong bloodline suppression effect on those bloodlines.

In addition to these, this bloodline is born with magic power. However, due to the world's nobility, the ability to cast spells is limited.

After giving birth to a child, Richard issued an order to canonize Alea as the queen of the empire, and the child as the crown prince of the empire.

Officially appoint an heir.

After completing these, three more women in Richard's palace became pregnant. Richard would confer titles on the children born by these three women as Duke of Constantinople, Duke of Gaul, and Duke of Britain. As for the Duchy of the Rhine, he would concurrently hold the title of Emperor of the Empire.

When the three children grow up, Richard will officially enfeoff them in these three regions and help them establish principalities.

In addition to these, those heroes and blood knights who had made great military achievements also began to be enfeoffed. Drenos, who had the highest military achievements, was enfeoffed as the Duke of Prussia. His territory was in the northeast of the Rhine. This area had been ravaged by the Huns for a long time, and Richard took it back.

As a polytheistic druid priest, he not only possesses the power of the Blood Knight, but also some natural power. There are already quite a few tribes here that believe in the druid faith, which are just right for him to manage.

Cruise was granted the title of Duke of Wales, with his territory in the British Isles and later in Wales. This was the vassalage that Richard prepared for his future son.

Sean was granted fiefdom in Germania, and the remaining blood knights were granted fiefdoms in Jerusalem, Asia Minor, Egypt and other places.

In just two years, the entire kingdom became vibrant.

Richard had four children.

It can be said that everyone in the entire empire was happy except the Pope and cardinals of the monotheistic religions.

Richard's tax reform and official system made life much better for the lower-class people and reduced taxes a lot. This also made many far-sighted people bite their teeth and squeeze out some money to let the smartest children in the family go to school.

On the other hand, after arranging a large number of officials, Richard took the opportunity to introduce the position of Inspector Censor.

The duty of the Inspector General is to supervise officials from all over the country in order to prevent them from levying heavy taxes and doing whatever they want while in office.

At the same time, the position of Inspector General was held by all young people who had just passed the examination. This position allowed these young people to understand the conditions in various places before becoming local officials.

Young people are basically passionate young people who cannot accept many things. Few of them are willing to go along with local officials. The vast majority of them have a passionate heart.

This is a good opportunity to allow these passionate young people to supervise officials from all over the country.

Richard has almost completed the establishment of the empire's system. Although this system seems to be relatively complete, Richard is also aware that there is no immortal dynasty, and even the most glorious empire will be destroyed one day.

So the Roman Empire would eventually be destroyed.

It’s just that Richard added a few insurances when the empire was destroyed. Even if the empire collapsed, Richard’s descendants could still live in the Principality of the Rhine.

The countries established by the other three branches will also be prosperous for a period of time if they are lucky.

After Richard finished the arrangements, the Monotheistic Church felt that something was not right.

Because they found that all the women sent by polytheists or governors and nobles from all over the country had children, but none of the women sent by their monotheism became pregnant.

The monotheistic religion waited for several years without the birth of a child closely related to it.

On the other hand, the Crown Prince of the Empire had a very close relationship with polytheism. As a result, even if Richard died and the Crown Prince ascended the throne, their monotheism would have no chance of rising again.

As for continuing to wait, they suspected that the polytheists would not give them any chance at all.

A few decades is enough for a large number of monotheistic believers to grow old, which will also gradually reduce the faith in monotheism.

As long as it lasts for a hundred years, monotheism will probably become a legend in the hearts of many people.

The Pope and cardinals of monotheistic religions would absolutely not want to see this situation.

For this reason, the Pope personally asked Richard to show more preference to the women sent by the Monotheistic Church. Richard agreed, but a year later, none of these women were pregnant.

This made the monotheistic world very uneasy.

But they didn't have any better solution.

As for praying to the gods, under the rules of this world, the gods are responding to believers less and less.

Of course, there is also the issue of Richard's deliberate interference. Under such circumstances, the decline of monotheism is inevitable.

Monotheism uses various methods to attract believers, but the effect is not good. With the spread of polytheism, more and more monotheistic believers begin to change their beliefs.

In the Balkan Peninsula, the spread of Druidism has led to a decreasing number of monotheists. After all, Druidism can increase grain production, and with the increased production, families also have the opportunity to send their children to school.

As long as one successfully studied and passed the examination, one could become an official of the empire, which was equivalent to completing a class leap, directly moving from the bottom of the empire to the middle of the empire.

This has great appeal to the lower class people.

Although the success rate is very low, there are still many people flocking to it. On the other hand, monotheism cannot increase food production, which means they have no surplus food to provide their children with schooling.

You will never be able to participate in the assessment and become an official.

And these students are basically polytheists. Even if there are some monotheistic students, their number is far less than that of polytheists.

Finally, after these students become officials, the number of monotheistic officials will be very small, while the number of polytheistic officials will far exceed the number of monotheistic officials.

Even if these officials did not favor polytheism, monotheism would gradually decline.

So ten years after the establishment of the empire, the number of believers in monotheism was far lower than that in polytheism.

In the Roman palace, there were no princes with close ties to monotheism. Outside, the number of monotheistic believers gradually decreased. This situation made monotheism increasingly worried, and a sense of crisis arose.

So after another disappointment, different voices began to emerge within monotheism.

"We can't go on like this."

"If you continue to be patient like this, our Monotheistic Church will completely take advantage of the opportunity and become history, and those pagans will become the masters of this continent."

"The glory of the Lord will also be dimmed because of this, and this is something we cannot accept!"

"We have to do something!"

(End of this chapter)