Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 164 168 The Kingdom of God and the Word of God (4116 words)
"His Royal Highness Erlang God! Hasn't this place become the kingdom of God?"

"Yes! From now on, we are all your most devoted servants!"

"His Royal Highness Erlang God! Please accept our service!"

The reactions of the believers were surprisingly unanimous, and the miracles performed by Zuo Ming had deeply impressed them.Even those knights and warriors with pious beliefs knelt down on one knee.

Seeing this situation, Ethelbert's heart suddenly turned cold.

His biggest mistake this time was to make this trial public. Now almost everyone in the royal city is convinced by the miracle of Zuo Ming. Opposition of the guards!

And most importantly, he couldn't kill Zuo Ming!He couldn't think of any way to kill this god!

Facing Zuo Ming, he was like a grain of sand facing the entire desert!

"His Royal Highness Erlang God! Your humblest and most devout believer is willing to dedicate the entire Kingdom of Kent to you! I only hope that you can leave him a duke position for the sake of your servant's piousness!"

In desperation, Ethelbert had no choice but to lower his head again in dejection.

Seeing this situation, some princes and ministers wanted to speak, but after looking around at the turbulent crowd, they lowered their heads quietly.

Ethelbert had no choice. If he refused to serve God Erlang, he would be despised by all the believers in the kingdom, and even regarded as a heretic.

Especially for those guards and knights, he really didn't know which one was a devout believer and which one was just showing off. He couldn't even imagine that if he lived among such a bunch of fanatics in the future, what would it be like? What kind of torment!
He has absolute reason to believe that those people will assassinate him without hesitation for the radiance of divinity to shine on the earth!

Augustine also has fanatics, but he is a human being, and he is sure to kill him!So Augustine dare not go too far.But Zuo Ming is different, he is immortal, you can't kill him at all!He doesn't care about your feelings either!

An almost invincible enemy, how do you think Ethelbert can muster the courage to fight against it?Especially when he himself is still a fanatic!
"Duke? No! You will still be the king of Kent in the future! It's just that the army of the kingdom must be led by the saints of the temple! You can retain the dignity and rights of the king, and you can also keep the 300-man guard of the kingdom! But all external military All must be handed over to the temple!"

Seeing his depressed face, Zuo Ming shook his head and said.

What he wants to establish now is a religious kingdom like the Vatican, and he doesn't simply want to seize his throne.

Hearing that he could retain the throne, but lost the military power to the outside world, Ethelbert's eyes suddenly brightened.He was originally a person who was content with pleasure, and he never cared about foreign military affairs at all, so doing this was exactly what he wanted.

Most importantly, he saw Zuo Ming's ambition.

This god doesn't care about the land of his Kingdom of Kent, what he wants should be the entire British Isle!With a god fighting for him outside, why should he be discouraged?

"Great God Erlang! You are so generous! Grand Duke Johnson! From now on, you will be assigned by the temple!"

Ethelbert was really happy to be able to preserve his beliefs and retain his original rights, and immediately said to a bearded man in the distance.

After hearing this, Grand Duke Johnson quickly made a salute of allegiance to Zuo Ming.He was also fed up with the king's stupidity, and it would be a relief for him to be under the command of a god.

After the trial of divine power, St. Martin's Cathedral was changed to "Erlang Temple"!
There are three saints in the entire Erlang Temple, one is undoubtedly Sabo, the second is the holy knight named Galen, and the third is Ryan who came to seek refuge.

Originally, Zuo Ming didn't like Ryan very much, but he always used the name of Jack, which made it difficult for Zuo Ming to say no.

The matter of Jack has always been a thorn in Zuo Ming's heart. Although they haven't been together for a long time, he has seen Jack's innocence and kindness.Such an angelic little boy died because of himself, which made it difficult for him to forgive himself.So when Ryan mentioned Jack, Zuo Ming would always lose all the power to refuse.

After the determination of the three major saints, it is the reformation of religion.

Because it is still under the banner of Christianity, the system of the temple is not much different from that of the church. Even Anne, the saint, has retained her left life.Not only that, but also gave her enough rights.At the very least, the several holy knights that belonged to Augustine were assigned to her.

The reason for this is actually because of De Laite's face.

At that time, Augustine was about to escape, and no one else dared to stop him. Only De Laite completed the final kill!This made his plan come to the perfect conclusion!
How could Zuo Ming ignore such a huge contribution?

However, De Laite seems to be determined to follow Annie for the rest of his life, so he is not willing to become a saint and follow Zuo Ming.Zuo Ming naturally admired such an infatuated Chinese character, but besides admiring him, he silently scolded him "stupid comparison", but after scolding, he still gave him the honor he deserved.

After Annie changed from a saint of the church to a saint of the temple, De Laite became a trial knight who was second only to the three saints in authority in the temple.

The Judgment Knight is an institution set up by Zuo Ming apart from the Holy Knight.They are served by the most fanatical fanatics. They don't need to stay in the temple or the army. Their biggest duty is to travel around, experience the sufferings of the world, and punish the dirty and sinful.Because this kind of knight has the power of life and death, the election is extremely harsh, and one is elected every three years.

De Laite was the first and last trial knight in the entire temple who did not meet the requirements but obtained the professional title.

In addition to setting up the Judgment Knights, Zuo Ming also set up a special assessment organization for the Temple Knights, which he named "Knights Guild".

All temple knights must pass the rating of the "Knights Guild" before entering the army. The rating range includes: physical fitness, agility, and fighting ability!According to the scores of various data, it is divided into: guardian knight, lightning knight and killing knight!
Guardian knights mainly wear heavy armor in the army, and hold swords on top of their shields. They are the backbone of infantry!The Lightning Knight is dressed in middle armor—that is, the inlaid chain scale armor—holding double knives and riding a war horse. It is an absolute sharp knife for cavalry!As for the Killing Knights, there is no standard equipment, what they wear is up to them, because people like them are the most suitable for fighting, and they know what suits them best under what circumstances!

Zuo Ming, the killing knight, stayed with him, and even formed a team of more than 300 people. He wanted to train them as a special force!

The three major knights will be honed in the army after obtaining their professional titles, and then they will be divided into four ranks according to their military merits!They are: lower knight, middle knight, upper knight and knight leader.

Different grades, the more military pay you get during your lifetime and the more "sacrifice pension" you can get after you die in battle.

"Sacrifice pension" is also a new thing created by Zuo Ming.In addition to spiritual heaven, he also wants to use this method to make his soldiers more fearless and fearless!

After the death of the next knight, his family can continue to receive his military salary, but the time limit is one year.The center back knight is two years, while the upper knight is four years!As for the Knight Commander, he was paid for ten years of adulthood!

In addition to material benefits, poor people and believers also have to salute when they meet knights.Moreover, low-level knights must also salute when they meet high-level knights.

The reason for this is to impress the sense of honor in the hearts of all knights.

After making this series of changes, it was the turn of Grand Duke Johnson.It was impossible to make a Grand Duke a saint, so Johnson was given the temple title of "The Fanatic".

With this title, he can command the three great apostles of the temple and the three armies they lead, but he must be restrained by Erlang God.

Since then, the army of the entire Kingdom of Kent has been completely sanctified and become the private army of the temple.

After turning the army into believers, Zuo Ming made many reforms in political affairs.The first is taxation. In the past, the taxation of the Kingdom of Kent was too high. Now the entire kingdom is still in a semi-nomadic state. Such a high taxation will greatly affect the living standards of the people in the kingdom, thereby reducing their productivity.

After exempting some exorbitant taxes, some administrative officials were replaced by fanatics one after another.

Superstitions are sometimes useful.At least those nobles and officials who lost a lot of benefits did not rise up against Zuo Ming.And if those fanatics go to be officials, they are really extremely pragmatic, and all of them are extremely fair.

Of course, Zuo Ming knew very well that this situation was just a temporary effect of his rising god name, so he still set up a special reporting agency afterwards.

After becoming the uncrowned king of the Kingdom of Kent, Zuo Ming made great efforts in agriculture and commerce within the kingdom.The most important of these are the manufacture of cotton spinning machines and the teaching of those Westerners to turn wool into wool, the refining configuration of salt and the promotion of a series of Chinese dishes.

He had had enough of bread and milk every day.

The people of the Kingdom of Kent were once again impressed by Zuo Ming's wisdom.

Cotton cloth first appeared in the first century A.D. and was brought to Italy and Spain by the Arabs. At that time, the Italians and Spaniards did not know how to grow cotton. There is nothing to do about it.

It was not until the ninth century AD that the Moors introduced the method of cotton planting to Spain, and they were finally able to make cotton cloth by themselves. At that time, it happened to be equivalent to the late Tang Dynasty.It was at that time that the Chinese knew how to make cotton cloth!
After that, the production of cotton cloth was introduced to England, but at that time, it was already the fifteenth century AD!It was centuries behind Spain, Italy and the Tang Dynasty!

After successfully producing such things as cotton cloth, quilts and wool, the economic strength of the Kingdom of Kent began to increase linearly.

They buy cotton and wool from other countries, and then make finished products and sell them. This almost predatory trading method is naturally profitable.

After implementing a series of Tang food, Zuo Ming began to teach those foreigners Chinese.Of course, here he is teaching Chinese in the name of "Shenyu".

Just like many Chinese monks and believers like to learn Sanskrit, those believers in the Kingdom of Kent heard that they can communicate with the gods after learning the "language of God". stand up.

Since then, the Kingdom of Kent has bid farewell to the age of semi-nomadic, linen and leather.Before winter came, they already had one quilt for each family and three or four sets of sweaters for each person.In terms of eating, they have also been greatly improved, because things like potatoes have entered their field of vision!

In this era, Spanish fishermen have already been to Europe, but with their sailing knowledge, they were accidentally sent to America by wind and waves, and they regarded it as a huge deserted island, so they didn't want to go there again. Go back and check.

And the potatoes they brought back were just admiring their flowers, they didn't know it was a kind of food!Even the potato flowers that Zuo Ming bought in Datang also came from here, but they were sold all the way to Datang.

Those Spanish fishermen sold these potato flowers to nobles, but those nobles didn't know how to take care of them at all, so many potatoes died due to soil quality problems and various acclimatization.

This was also Zuo Ming's early move, otherwise, these potatoes would basically be ruined.This is probably the fundamental reason why things like potatoes didn't really enter the vision of Europeans until the fifteenth century.

After spending a lot of money to buy these potatoes, the people of the Kingdom of Kent fell in love with this food deeply.They were grateful for the grace of God Erlang, so they worked harder to learn the language of God.

At this time, the British Isle was originally a multi-ethnic community with a variety of languages. This is also the reason why Zuo Ming has been here for so long, and it is no surprise that everyone speaks poor English.

Now that there is a unified language, it is not a bad thing for them.In particular, their god Zuo Ming also writes some short stories in divine language from time to time.

Each of those stories is magical, but thought-provoking.

They knew that this was the story of God, and God Erlang wanted to educate them in this way!This is much easier and more enjoyable than facing boring scriptures.

So, when all the adults were actively learning the "God's Language", the children in the Kingdom of Kent also took it as their mother tongue!

Even at home, when those Kents talked with their children, they mostly used divine language.Because they feel that if their child's divine language is not good in the future, it will definitely be an extremely embarrassing thing
(End of this chapter)