Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 237 Guilds in the Middle Ages
Jehovah abandoned Jesus. At that moment, Jesus seemed to no longer be the "Son of God", but Jesus was still the "Son of Man" after all.

However, the Jews instigated the Romans to crucify even the "Son of Man".

The man who crucified the Son of Man was stained with filthy sin.

That sin is even more horrific than crucifying the "Son of God".

After all, the Son of God went to the cross voluntarily, while the "Son of Man" was destined to be crucified from the moment he was born.

Jesus was born in a poor family, and in the end he still ended up like all the poor.

The only difference is that he was crucified on a visible cross, while the others were crucified on an invisible cross.

In the process of crucifying countless "Sons of Man", "Jews" were the instigators and "Caesar" was the executor who could not be disobeyed.

In the original text of the Bible, those who wrote the Bible repeatedly emphasized that the killing of Jesus was the fault of certain individuals among the Jews.

But Gairitz, who "annotated the Six Classics", must also emphasize what results "Rome" and "Caesar" led to in that process.

In Gellis's discussion, "Jews" refers to the vested interests, while "Rome" refers to the social order, and as for "Caesar", he is the dictator of everything, or the public power.

In the logical chain of Catholicism, the Bible is not an absolute religious text.

The interpretation of the Bible, as a power, is firmly controlled by the Church in the form of "Holy Tradition".

Gellis is bound to break this kind of power, but he has to avoid going too far, which is actually quite troublesome.

The transmission of Catholic teachings is as follows:

[Jehovah wanted to reveal His intentions to mankind out of His love for mankind, so that mankind could understand His intentions. Therefore, the Word of God became a human being, Jesus Christ, to deliver the “truth”.]

Then:
【The disciples of Jesus, through the promises of the prophets, spread the gospel announced by Jesus himself and preached it to everyone.】

And then,
【The transmission of the gospel, according to the command, is divided into oral transmission and written record. 】

Among them, the record is: [The apostles and their disciples, inspired by the Holy Spirit, compiled the good news of salvation into a book. ]

The whole logical chain is that Jehovah wanted to communicate with humans, so he incarnated his Holy Word into a human being and found disciples to record his "gospel," or good news.

These gospels, recorded in books, became the New Testament, and were passed on orally by the apostles to their successors as Holy Tradition.

For Catholics, if the Bible is the only one respected, then their uniqueness and power will no longer exist, because anyone who can understand Latin can understand the Bible.

Therefore, the concept of holy tradition is something that Catholics must promote, after all, they claim to be the successors of the apostles...

Pure scriptures, no matter what Christianity claims: [The Bible is the word of God because it was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. ]

In Gaillis's view, it is not a big deal. After all, the scriptures are dead, and how to interpret them depends on the "wisdom of future generations."

Gellis' solution was to elevate his own status and create a new source of the "Holy Tradition".

It is like starting a new business, wearing the skin of Christ and speaking one's own words.

As for whether his interpretation of the scriptures will be "distorted" by later generations, there is really nothing we can do about it. We can only say that it depends on the "wisdom of later generations."

……

Gillis is not just experiencing life, he is also taking statistics.

By investigating the living conditions of dock workers and looking at price changes before and after, Gellis roughly determined the inflation situation in Tyre.

Indeed, Tyre is currently in a state of inflation due to the influx of a large amount of money. This is generally very rare in ancient times.

Most feudal social systems are in a state of chronic deflation.

To put it simply, taking the young man as an example, in the past six months, his weekly wage income has increased by roughly 50%, and his cost of living has also increased by about 40% in the process.

It’s not that life hasn’t gotten better, it’s just that the changes are very limited, not enough to cause qualitative changes through quantitative changes.

Specifically speaking, for the young man who drinks while he can, it means drinking a few more glasses of wine, or sleeping in a woman's bed a few more nights.

Because of this change, the other party began to be grateful to Garys and his gang.

After leaving the dock, Garys, under the guidance of Aaron, plunged into the world of apprenticeship.

The docks were being maintained by the Paladins, and since it was purely physical labor with no technical threshold, they had already begun to move into the status of workers.

But as a medieval city, the real economic entity of Tyre was not the docks, but the guilds.

The medieval guild system refers to an organization of craftsmen and merchants in medieval Europe that was designed to protect the economic interests of its formal members, maintain industry standards and promote vocational training.

Guilds were usually divided according to different industries (such as blacksmiths, carpenters, bakers, etc.). Each guild was a self-managed and self-supervisory organization for the industry, similar to modern industry associations or trade unions.

Guilds can be said to be a product of the feudal system and the era when the commodity economy was underdeveloped. The motivation for forming guilds came from selfishness.

It did not emerge to seize the power of the feudal lords, but was a private business organization established in a subordinate position and based on economic privileges.

If we summarize the guild system, there are three main points.

The first focus is on a strict entry system that controls the number of people employed in the industry.

The second is that the specifications of the goods produced must be unified and the quality of the goods must be supervised.

The third is that the selling price of goods is determined uniformly by the guild, and the guild cannot arbitrarily raise or lower prices to engage in commercial competition within the same industry.

The series of measures derived from these three key points are aimed at preventing involution among formal members of the same industry guild and further monopolizing the market, while using the power of the guild to crack down on retail investors who disrupt the "order".

In a sense, being able to become an official member of a guild is actually equivalent to joining a "gang".

Whether it is commodity competition, or life festivals, religious activities, funeral rituals... guilds will always get involved.

As a union of artisan citizens, it is natural that they will have a considerable level of voice after becoming strong.

However, there will always be differences within any organization.

To be more precise, only those who pass the guild's assessment can become formal guild members, otherwise they are just apprentices.

Apprentices, however, do not enjoy full rights and interests in the guild.

"To be exact, my family spent half a year's savings to allow me to become an apprentice."

Aaron said this to Garys himself.

But now, the apprenticeship status that I spent half a year saving to obtain has actually become invalid.

　Fourth update, then I'll see if I can continue with the fourth update

　　
　
(End of this chapter)