Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 238 Let Us Create a New Heaven and a New Earth

"What do you think is the biggest difference between you and the dock workers?"

In Garys's residence, that exceptionally clean and unpretentious house, Garys took up a pen to record what he had seen and heard today while asking Aaron questions.

"At least they don't have to pay before they start working like I do."

“It’s just appearance.”

If you want to become an apprentice, you have to pay money, and this is actually a result.

The porters at the dock and the guilds in the city were already differentiated in terms of economic composition.

The concept of guilds was itself a very feudal product in medieval cities.

Whether it is a city or a municipal council, in the feudal system, it exists as a part of feudal obligations.

That is, the city, as a concept similar to a legal person, became a subordinate feudal lord of the lord or king, providing military service, taxes, etc. in order to obtain autonomous rights.

Within the city, all aspects of citizens' lives, work and production are regulated by guilds and planned production is carried out.

Ensure that the quantity of goods on the market is in a relatively scarce state to avoid price competition among producers.

“It enables the formal members of the guild, the ‘masters’, to obtain relatively huge profits from the production process, but this is achieved by exploiting apprentices and monopolizing the market.”

"In the event of short-term market fluctuations, if the guild wants to expand production, it does not need to hire workers, but recruit more apprentices and increase their working hours at the same time."

"In the past, apprentices could have one or two days off a week, but now they can only have one day off a month."

As he spoke, Garys looked at Aaron, who lowered his head. This was what he had experienced.

His father spent a lot of money and found many ways to send Aaron to learn a craft, but he not only didn't get any money, but also had to pay money out of his pocket.

"After taking on so many more apprentices this year, how many of you do you think will be able to escape apprenticeship?"

Being unable to escape the apprenticeship status actually means that one cannot run a business on one’s own. If one rashly engages in this industry, one will be punished by the guild.

In this era, it is not absurd to say that teaching a disciple will lead to starvation to death.

The market demand of a city in a stable feudal society will remain stable for quite a long time.

Every time you train an apprentice, it means that your share in the zero-sum game becomes smaller.

For the masters, in order to make up for their lost market share, they must double their exploitation of apprentices to make up for their own losses.

Since every master started out as an apprentice, this is even more of a tradition and a process that every generation must go through.

The surge in demand for Tyre this year was completely unexpected.

Since it is an unexpected event, we must be prepared for a decline in demand. Therefore, no matter how many apprentices we recruit, the number of apprentices who can finally graduate will be fixed.

Therefore, the relationship between apprentice and master is more of a personal dependence.

“No matter if there are one hundred or two hundred more apprentices, only a few can become masters in the end, and the original masters have their own sons.”

"Why do you think it's your turn?"

Aaron's expression was already very bad, as if this future was destined.

Gillis had much more to say.

Most apprentices do not need to be paid wages, which makes their life even more miserable than that of dock workers.

The drunk young man a few days ago at least got a pay raise. But Aaron... he was working for nothing.

Because of the Crusades or the kingdom's tax cuts, a large amount of money flowed into Tyre, and prices in the city soared.

But apprentices like Aaron not only did not increase their income, they even had to undertake heavier labor and endure more expensive city prices.

The city of Tyre has become an abyss that devours people.

Aaron's father, with good intentions, wanted to help Aaron find a way out, but it was doomed to be in vain.

The son of a pickpocket will only be a pickpocket, and the daughter of a "prostitute" will only be a "prostitute".

This is the feudal era.

An era where people eat meat in small bites, chewing it slowly, while wearing a mask of tenderness.

"Aaron, if I tell you that the reason I did this investigation and came to Tyre City is to break this era, would you believe it?"

"What happens after it's broken?"

"After breaking it? We will create a new heaven and a new earth."

Garys looked at Aaron, and smiled slightly at the boy's somewhat bewildered expression.

In this era, in the eras to come, and even thousands of years later, countless people, countless poor people, will fall from hunger and disease every day.

Disease, hunger, war, poverty...these are all the crosses that crucified the Son of Man.

The face of Christ during his crucifixion appeared again and again on the faces of people like Aaron, and the pain of being nailed to the cross was repeated countless times on people like Aaron.

These abandoned people, who were competing for food with birds and beasts in the garbage dump and should have lost hope, stood up again and again in order to survive, performing the miracle of "resurrection"!

It can be said that everyone who lives on "bread" has the blood of Jesus flowing in his veins and is a part of Christ.

The "Son of Man" is walking on this bloody land. When one "Son of Man" falls, countless "Son of Man" stand up!

Garys has no intention of discussing whether Jehovah is omniscient and omnipotent, but he knows that everyone is a "Son of Man" and will also be a "Son of God."

Perhaps, as the Italian Gramsci wrote.

【For the church, faith in God should be the source of everyone's greatest comfort and the unshakable foundation of moral life.

[But the church does not seem to be particularly dependent on the immovable and solid nature of this calm comfort, because the church drives believers to establish private institutions and rescue the suffering through private means, so as to avoid believers doubting and shaking their faith. ]

[From this, it can be seen that the church itself tacitly believes that God is only the incarnation of all mankind organized to help each other.]

Of course, Gailis would not say such words directly, after all, it was a bit too advanced.

But it is true.

“We will prepare a great banquet for all the peoples of the earth, with fine wines and choice delicacies.”

“We will remove the veil that is over the peoples from this mountain, the curtain that is enshrined over the nations.”

"We will swallow up death forever. We will wipe tears from all faces and remove the reproach of our people from all the earth."

“On that day they will say, ‘Behold, these are we; we will rejoice and be glad in this salvation.’”

“Come, let us create a new heaven and a new earth.”

(End of this chapter)