Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War.

Chapter 136 The Eternal's Layout
Orville has a clear understanding of his special abilities. To put it bluntly, it is a youth version of the detection technique, and it cannot even be released remotely. As a golden finger, it is not strong, or it can be said that this golden finger is not strong for ordinary people.

For a ruler, this ability is simply a blessing from the gods. Combined with Orville's not bad historical knowledge, he can know people and assign them to the right positions in a variety of senses. Add to that all the knowledge and concepts from modern times, and he can thrive in ancient times.

But even he couldn't do it like Jeanne, who could get so much information just by looking at it. Now Orville probably really believed what she said. She might really have the blessing of God behind her.

Some psychologists in later generations claimed that Joan of Arc might have some mental illness, which is why she stubbornly believed that she was blessed by God. The situation in this world is obviously different.

After everyone on the scene had left, Jeanne didn't keep anyone in suspense and explained her general situation to Orville.

Since she grew up, she could hear the voices of angels, who sometimes provided her with guidance and instruction. It was also the angels who asked her to lead the Gauls and Romans against them.

At the beginning of the Siege of Orleans, the reason why Jeanna was able to pass through the Roman soldiers' blockade and defense network was not because the soldiers were busy slacking off, but because an angel provided her with guidance. Her intuition told her the correct route, so she was safe all the way.

The situation was similar in the Battle of Alesia. Jeanne knew in advance that a group of Roman soldiers would march past Alesia, so she led her soldiers to ambush nearby, catching the Romans off guard and seizing the initiative. As a result, the Romans were defeated by the Gauls, who had a similar number of people but much worse training and equipment.

Jeanne spoke in a very serious tone, not as if she was talking nonsense. Seeing the solid evidence before his eyes, Orville, who tended to be an atheist, had to believe it. Then he began to think very seriously about the whole story and how to deal with Jeanne Dacre.

Vespa was not wrong. As a native of this world, he knew better than Orville how difficult it was to deal with the Chosen Ones, so he wanted to kill them from the beginning.

To be honest, after Orville realized that the other party could use the "perspective cheat", he had the urge to kill him for a moment, because this ability was too exaggerated. Assuming that this ability had no restrictions or the restrictions were relatively small, then if Na followed one side to lead the troops to fight, that side would have a decisive advantage.

As long as there is no fundamental difference in the combat power of both sides, then it is basically impossible for Jeanna to lose, and the confrontation between the two sides will present a crushing situation, because this is equivalent to a unilateral transparent war. If you let the other side live, you will have to bear this risk, which is countless times greater than letting someone like Vercingetorix (the leader of the rebels) live.

However, this thought only flashed through his mind and was quickly rejected by Orville himself. Putting aside those emotional thoughts and moral constraints, Orville could not figure out what the so-called "angels" and "revelations" were. In this case, his behavior would tend to be cautious and conservative.

Even if he sent the Joan of Arc of this world to the stake, it would not necessarily mean that the Eternal's Chosen One would disappear from the world. If there were the first and second, there would be the third and fourth. At most, there would be some restrictions. On the contrary, it would mean that Orville would become completely hostile to the other party.

Whether it is worthwhile and right to offend a god or his followers is questionable. Judging from Jeanne's performance, it seems that the Eternals are not completely opposed and hostile to the Romans or Orville himself, but just have some demands and plans for them.

Many complicated questions came to his mind, and finally he asked Jeanne tentatively: "So, what do the angels think of the Romans?" "They think that your behavior and thoughts need to be corrected, and you are not completely right or perfect."

After hearing this, Orville probably had an idea in his mind. Jeanna herself might not realize it, but he knew what the future world line would be like and could probably guess the other party's intentions.

The current Roman Empire believes in Greco-Roman polytheism, but a few hundred years later they will become devout believers of Christianity. Now Orville is in a delicate period of transition.

On the one hand, the Romans themselves still believed in local gods on a large scale, but on the other hand, the New Testament of the Bible had begun to be written, and the seeds of monotheistic belief had been sown.

To be more practical, the angels may have asked this girl to save the Gaul people. To put it in a more conspiratorial way, the angels may have been planning in advance, and Jeanne d'Acre is one of the "idols" they are going to establish.

Regardless of whether this conjecture is correct or not, Orville believes it now. However, he does not intend to stop or warn the other party. He just wants to take advantage of this matter and make a profit from it.

He was not a professional in the fields of thought and religion, but he could clearly realize that polytheism and monotheism each had their pros and cons. There must be reasons why the Olympian gods were finally replaced by the Eternals. His knowledge level was not enough to make a comprehensive judgment on who was superior and who was inferior. He could only draw some definite conclusions based on the final results of his previous life.

Without reform, Greco-Roman polytheism could not compete with the systematic monotheistic beliefs in terms of organization and practicality. If we want to reverse the eventual disappearance of Greco-Roman polytheism, we need to carry out an overall systematic reform of this belief so that it has similar depth and practicality.

This task is too difficult, and it is not something that someone of Orville's level can accomplish easily. Maybe in the end, after all the fanfare and effort, the final result will be worse than before.

So at this stage, his decision is very simple - see through it but don't say it out loud, and at the same time believe in the wisdom of future generations.

If he reaches a higher position in the future, it is right for him to think about higher-level issues. Now he cannot grasp the issue of the empire's faith, so it is a good thing for him to remain silent.

So he said to Jeanne, "I understand, but I may not necessarily become a believer in your God. I don't really care about these things, but if the top officials of the empire are found to believe in your God in private, they will be impeached or criticized. I can't take such a risk.

But other than that, I have no control over what you believe in or don’t believe in. As long as you pay taxes and obey the law, you are a resident of the Roman Empire. The laws of the empire stipulate that freedom of belief shall not be infringed, and I will strictly enforce this.”

(End of this chapter)