Sir, this is not how bad women are used.

Chu Yan bent down and nudged his aunt Nancy with his back. Nancy didn't like him moving around, so she pushed back immediately. Noticing that Chu Yan was getting excited and wanted to nudge back, Nancy used a little more force in her hand, and Chu Yan straightened up immediately (meaning his waist was straightened), and dared not move again.

"Be quiet and lie still! Wait for the goddess of luck to bring inspiration to your dreams."

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Even though Aunt Nancy was so bad, she couldn't really restrict his actions forever.

Chu Yan took advantage of her deep sleep, removed the white claws that were grasping her weak spot, quietly slipped out of the room, and took a walk to his companions.

Of course, Chu Yan took the time to calm himself down before visiting.

For the companions under the same roof, Chu Yan went to find them with an umbrella high up, which was not an offense, but an invitation...

Even if he met Tiffany's mother, the decision might not be in his hands.

After visiting some relatives and chatting, he sneaked to Princess Melissa's residence.

Before entering the door, he lowered his head again to confirm his condition, then greeted the maid in the yard and walked into the hall of the mansion.

After sitting down and exchanging a few words of greeting, Chu Yan didn't waste any words and directly stated his purpose:

"I want to continue what we didn't finish talking about before. I remember that Princess Melissa happened to talk about her relationship with the Pope of Discipline last time. Now that I have some free time, I think of this matter and I am very interested."

Princess Melissa was stunned. She didn't expect Chu Yan to really come to ask

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This matter.

When Qimingxing conveyed his words, Princess Melissa thought it was just a common excuse. It didn't matter what they talked about. The important point was to let the servant go back and pass on the message, expressing the invitation to meet.

It turns out Chu Yanzhen came here to talk about the Pope of Discipline...

However, although Chu Yan's expression was calm, Princess Melissa still caught a hint of anxiety.

"There seems to be some hidden story behind this. Is it inconvenient to tell?"

When asked this by Princess Melissa, Chu Yan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Is she that sharp?

He spread his hands and nodded, "Yes, I will explain it when the time is right, but it's not convenient now."

"I asked my maids to use the beauty trap, but that doesn't work?" Princess Melissa confirmed calmly.

"I didn't imply that. It's a really serious situation." Chu Yan smiled bitterly and refused firmly.

This reminded Chu Yan of a joke about keeping secrets - A said to her best friend B, I'll tell you this secret, don't tell anyone else. Then B turned around and said to her roommate C, I'll tell you this secret...

Finally the whole world knew about it.

The best way to keep a secret is actually not to tell anyone and to keep it to yourself.

It is enough to pass the information to my aunt. Unless Princess Melissa has some big news, Chu Yan might consider leaking the news. Let's forget it now.

Princess Melissa did not force the question. She immediately talked about her past with the Pope of Discipline, but there was nothing special about it.

The friendships during school days, when expanded upon, are nothing more than “the relationship goes from good to bad, and finally becomes dull and we no longer keep in touch.”

The opportunity for the relationship to deteriorate was the ranking of a certain important competition. The Pope of Discipline had long been ranked first in many daily competitions and assessments, but in that important competition, Princess Melissa took the top spot.

It’s a bit helpless to think about it.

Some people are like this. The premise that she can be good friends with you is that you cannot be better than her. Her so-called friends are more like green leaves that set off herself, with the moon surrounded by stars. Once you are better than her once, she will immediately become her enemy.

But even though they had a falling out, the Pope of Discipline did not do anything out of line afterwards, and the incident in Paradise City was a bit like suddenly hearing news about an "old acquaintance", so he made things a little difficult and disgusting.

"That night when I was hit by the little lord through the wall, even if I was really taken away by Commander Deluya, my life would not be in danger. The Pope of Discipline would release me soon. At most, I would be in a very embarrassing situation."

"Then did I make Princess Melissa suffer in vain?"

"Not really." The noble and beautiful princess shook her head gently. "If the Pope of Discipline succeeds in making things difficult for me, my life will not be in danger, but the situation in my country will be difficult to handle."

"The Pope of Discipline is helping your political enemies?"

"No, she probably just wanted to make things difficult for me and wouldn't care about any problems I might face later."

"Okay." Chu Yan scratched his head. After looking at the situation inside the church, he found it really difficult to find out from the outside.

At this time, Princess Melissa confirmed:

"The young lord wants to confirm if there has been any abnormal situation in the church system. It seems to be related to two high-ranking popes... If it is about this, the Gospel Pope might be a little strange."

"Please speak!" Chu Yan asked impatiently.

"His ambitions suddenly became smaller after he came to power."

Author's words: I have saved the pictures, but I am a little afraid to post them

Chapter 197 This is also my aunt!

Nimogebi, also known as the Pope of Gospel, is a full generation older than the Pope of Discipline. It may not be appropriate for him to be a father, but he can still be a grandfather.

Although he is nearly seventy years old, the Evangelical Pope looks only about forty years old, with the classical blond hair inherited from his family only frosted by time at the temples.

Although he is old, the Pope of Evangelism came to power at the same time as the Pope of Discipline.

This is an old rule within the church. The fear is that if one pope abdicates, the other pope will still be in office and could take advantage of the new pope's infancy and use his own seniority to infringe on the new pope's power.

When the two popes of this term ascended the throne, some officers from the empire laughed and said that this was a "father and daughter" ascending to the throne, referring to the age difference.

But in fact, the two popes come from different families. The two families have no relationship and are even wary of each other.

"The Pope of the Gospel is already very old when he took the throne, but he is still ambitious. Regarding the issue of the kingdom, he has previously proposed using the Holy Knights to suppress and conquer it."

"So wild?" Chu Yan was surprised.

"Yes. The background at that time was that the Empire was growing stronger and stronger, and its style of doing things was no longer restrained. At the same time, some people in the Kingdom were wavering and wanted to secretly surrender to the Empire. However, the Empire would not accept surrender, nor would it allow those who surrendered to become nobles of the Empire."

If the people of the kingdom want to surrender to the empire, they must put forward conditions. They must keep their noble status at all costs. Otherwise, there is no point in surrendering if the nobles of the kingdom cannot keep anything.

"The church had not yet accepted so many nobles from the kingdoms at that time. For those wavering ones, Nimogpi strongly proposed to send troops before he came to power to further consolidate and strengthen the church's territory and avoid being suppressed by the empire."

"Is it because of this persistence that he sat on the throne of the Pope?"

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She nodded slightly, drank a sip of red tea, and continued:

"Yes, his proposal is in line with the interests of many parties within the church, especially the group of kingdom nobles who surrendered to the church first."

The present church nobility is composed of capitulating nobles of the kingdom.

Surrender sounds a bit harsh, maybe it should be called surrender.

The nobles of these kingdoms who surrendered first were worried that if there were too many surrenderers later, their own interests would be squeezed, so they would definitely support conquest by force. The kingdoms conquered by force would basically be reshuffled, and all the nobles there would disappear, making it difficult to snatch the interests of those who originally surrendered.

It is equivalent to breaking the bridge immediately after the person who surrendered first crossed it, leaving no chance for others to surrender and please the church.

The elder families that occupied the core of the church were also worried about the expansion of the empire. They wanted the church to have the ability to check and balance the opposition and to unify the scattered internal forces.

"Such an ambitious Nimogebi, after gaining the support of most church forces, successfully sat on the throne of the Gospel Pope."

Chu Yan listened carefully and nodded from time to time.

Judging from the current situation, the Evangelical Pope has undoubtedly deviated from his original intention. He did not adopt a policy of iron-blooded conquest, but instead accepted the surrender of other kingdoms, which led to more people becoming bishops through their noble status.

Although the status of those kingdoms that surrendered later was slightly lower in the church, it took several small kingdoms to jointly elect a representative to serve as a position such as archbishop.

However, the power of the church's top brass became further confused.

“Princess Melissa, could it be that the Gospel Pope was pretending before?”

"I don't think he has any motive to pretend. The Evangelical Pope belongs to an ancient family under the church system. If he conquers by force, his family can also gain benefits in terms of land and wealth.

In the early days after he took the throne of Pope, he prepared for war seriously for a period of time, arranged food and fodder, and planned the expedition of the Holy Knights, but he suddenly announced the cancellation of the plan and accepted the surrender of the kingdom. His family was strongly opposed to it. "

It seems that the radical attitude of this old Pope Deng was not pretended. He had no profit motives. He really lost his ambition suddenly, which caught the church leaders at that time by surprise... Chu Yan shrugged and said in surprise:

"It seems that his family didn't know that the Pope they elected would do such a ridiculous thing.

But I don't understand, can't his family withdraw the Pope and replace him with someone else?"

Didn't the Evangelical Pope "ascend the throne" by virtue of his absolute strength and the support of his family? Wouldn't he be driven off the throne because of a loss of support? Why did he allow the situation to go against the interests of everyone and continue like this?

Princess Melissa smiled and reminded:

"Young Lord, you overlooked the information just now. The Gospel Pope changed his mind only after he had prepared the Holy Knights Legion."

Oh, I see...

The Holy Knights are ready, and the military force is under the control of Nimogbi. Anyone who dares to have other opinions can be directly sent out to suppress their own people.

It is easy for these veteran families to push people to power, but it is difficult to remove them.

And there is one more thing - the two popes advance and retreat together!

If Nimogebi were deprived of the papacy or died unexpectedly, the Pope of Discipline and her family would also lose the papal throne.

Therefore, even though the Pope of Discipline was disgusted by Nimogpi's change of mind, she had to protect Nimogpi, otherwise she would lose her position.

With the joint support of the Holy Knights and the Sanctuary of Discipline, Nimogpi has completely secured his position.

Princess Melissa has told everything she knows, and finally concluded:

"This is probably the biggest anomaly that has occurred within the church in recent years. Before he took office, the Gospel Pope was as ferocious as a wild boar in the mountains, but soon he became like a castrated domestic pig."

This metaphor is indeed somewhat accurate.

In this era, wild boars are extremely terrifying creatures. Even in some legendary stories, wild boars can become big bosses and kill a powerful adventurer hero with one blow.

Castrated domestic pigs are those boars that have been castrated in the slaughterhouse.

The contrast between the two does correspond well to the changes before and after the Gospel Pope.

Chu Yan thought about it carefully. If that was the case, the church once had an important opportunity for rapid development.

There was hope that it would develop directly from a church into a religious state and then rise to the Holy Gospel Empire. At that time, everything was ready, only the order was needed.

As for the Holy Knights controlled by the church, sweeping across the kingdom is indeed not a problem, and it won't even take much time.

The legion troops set out in several directions. It would take one year to conquer and three years to reorganize and integrate. Basically, the initial appearance of a centralized empire would be revealed. In today's situation, the church could also easily send troops to investigate the Tower of Babel like the Yama Empire did.

Unfortunately, at that important juncture in time, the actions of the Evangelical Pope were beyond everyone’s expectations, which has led to the current stagnation of the church’s development.

Strong, still strong.

However, the high-level roundtable meetings had more voices and more diverse opinions, making it difficult to fight against the Yama Empire alone.

Chu Yan asked, "So what is the current situation of the Gospel Pope?"

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Searching for the right word in her mind, she said:

"I have never attended a high-level meeting of the church, so I have no way of witnessing it with my own eyes. I can only guess and imagine from some events. Little Lord, you can try to draw a picture in your mind...

An old man sat peacefully in a rocking chair, watching the young people at the table in front of him talking and laughing, making noise, and then sighed for love and peace.

Perhaps the Evangelical Pope occasionally showed his authority, but after the events of his early years in office, he basically did not take any other decision-making actions and just let the round table disagree.

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It's rare to have such a long serious conversation in Princess Melissa's residence.

Chu Yan was afraid that his presence would make the maids panic and nervous, so he said goodbye and left after seeing that everything was almost done.

He walked around the city to relax, clearly trying to clear his mind, but his mind kept recalling the information from the previous conversation.

During this conversation, almost no information related to God was mentioned, but the topic of discussion unexpectedly came up: the strange changes in the Gospel Pope.

If the current situation is what the Gospel Pope wants to see, then what he expects is... the decline and cessation of the Church?

Could it be a spy sent by the Yama Empire?

As a result of his actions at that time, the only beneficiaries were the newly joined surrender faction, and even he and his family did not gain any benefit at all.

"It's incredible. The interior of the church is so wonderful. Isn't this full of hidden dangers?!"

When Chu Yan was sighing, he suddenly felt someone was staring at him.