My XX deal with Sister Nero

Chapter 583 Something seems wrong?

About two days later, Tony submitted a new proposal to the Senate. The proposal had only one content, which was to increase steel production.

Similar to the previous proposal, Tony's proposal is of great benefit to the current Roman Empire. Only by increasing steel production can the Roman Empire have enough steel to work at full capacity to manufacture new weapons and armor.

However...in this era, there are only two ways to increase steel production. The first is to use new iron smelting technology to increase steel production. The second is to find new iron ore and increase steel production by increasing raw materials.

Tony knew a lot of iron-smelting techniques, but none of these techniques could increase production, and the Roman Empire did not have the corresponding technical means, so the only way to increase steel production was to develop new iron mines.

However, new iron ore is not easy to find. In that era, there was no surveying and mapping technology like that of two thousand years later. The Romans found iron ore... sometimes it really depended on luck.

Therefore, the Senate cannot veto or agree to this proposal.

"Can't find iron ore? Since the Roman Empire can't find iron ore, why not mobilize the vassal states below to look for it together?" After learning about the difficulties of the Senate, Tony was very straightforward and gave the Senate a new suggestion.

……Fine.

Anyway, it was harmless to the Senate, so... the Senate quickly passed the new proposal. At the same time, according to Tony's wishes, it summoned envoys from several vassal states of the Roman Empire and signed an agreement, requiring the vassal states to cooperate with the Roman Empire in finding new iron mines within their own countries. The ownership of these new iron mines would naturally belong to the Roman Empire.

The vassal states agreed.

There was no way they disagreed with this option.

"Very good, now that they agree, the next step will be easy." In the study, Tony snapped his fingers and said in a light tone.

Soon, under Tony's arrangement, teams looking for iron ore rushed towards the Crimean Peninsula with Tony's map.

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"This... is the new religion you founded?" In the Roman branch of Dimen located in a block in the Roman Empire, Sanzang casually flipped through some religious doctrines of Dimen with some excitement in his eyes.

After casually flipping through two pages of Di Men’s teachings, Sanzang discovered that Di Men’s teachings were too similar to those of Buddhism!

As mentioned before, the teachings of the Earth Gate originated from the Stoic school and the original Earth Gate theory, combined with some religious arguments and other philosophical schools to form new doctrines. Among these sources, the biggest source is of course the original Earth Gate theory.

The original source of the Earth Gate Theory is Buddhism!

Don’t you think this is similar?

"Yes, Master Sanzang should have seen it too, right? My theory is very similar to your Buddhist theory, so I asked you to write some Buddhist scriptures for me to see." Tony said somewhat embarrassedly.

"I understand, I understand." Sanzang subconsciously touched Tony's head. This little guy... seems to have a close connection with Buddhism.

Almost at the same time, on a street about a hundred meters away from the Dimen branch, two Roman soldiers in leather armor reached out to stop a little girl in a white gauze dress.

"Children, where are your parents?"

The little girl in front of me looks to be in her early teens. Girls of this age walking alone on the street are either asked by their parents to go out to buy things, or they are out to play with friends.

But she looked like... just walking aimlessly on the street, not like she was looking for someone to play with or was asked by her parents to go shopping.

"My parents? I don't know where my parents are either." The girl tilted her head, looked at the two Roman soldiers with some curiosity, and said.

"Huh? Is she lost?" The soldier frowned. How about... taking her to the Weixi (street) office first?

After all, it is very dangerous for the child to walk alone on the street. It would be troublesome if he was discovered by human traffickers.

"Little girl, why don't you come with me? I'll find you a place to rest, and then help you find your parents, okay?" The soldier tried his best to put on a kind smile and said to the little girl.

"No." The girl shook her head and said, "Uncles, do you know Tony? Tony o Claudius o Augustus o Germanicus."

Looking for His Royal Highness?

The soldier was stunned at first, then his expression became alert.

What does this girl want to do with His Highness?

"What... do you want to do with him?" The two soldiers looked at each other, one of them took a small step back, while the other put his left hand on the hilt of the sword without leaving a trace and asked.

"I'm looking for him just to ask him something." The girl said to the two soldiers with an innocent expression.

She saw the little tricks of the two soldiers, but to her, they didn’t matter. After all... no matter how strong the human soldiers were, they were no match for the Demon Pillar!

That’s right, the girl in the white gauze dress is Barbatos, one of the 72 Demon Pillars of Solomon!

"Ask something?" The soldier raised his eyebrows subconsciously. Although he was not sure about the identity of the little girl, he did not believe her.

"Yes, I want to ask something, so...can you two uncles tell me where he is?" Barbatos asked with a smile.

"...We don't know." said one of the soldiers.

They are just ordinary militiamen who maintain the city's law and order, and belong to the lower-class small fry. How could such small fry know the whereabouts of His Highness?

And don’t even mention that they don’t know. Even if they do know... they can’t tell you!

"You really don't know where Tony is?" Barbatos sighed, looking a little frustrated.

"We..." Just as the soldier was about to answer, suddenly, a female voice came from the alley next to him.

"Oh? I heard you mentioned Tony just now? Tony Claudius Augustus Germanicus?"

Ok?

Hearing the voice, the two soldiers subconsciously turned their heads to look to the side, and saw a woman holding a spear standing at the entrance of the alley and asking with a grim smile on her face.

Who is this? !

Although the other party's identity is unclear, it is not difficult to judge from her expression that this woman is looking for the young prince...definitely not to throw herself into his arms!

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Katniss is suffering.

After being inexplicably resurrected on the island of Crete, she wanted to take revenge on the Greek gods, but because of the intervention of the Roman Empire and Tony, she was eventually captured by Atalanta and taken back to Mount Olympus. At this time, if you said that she hated Tony, she didn't.

Tony was a prince of the Roman Empire, and the Greek priest she killed was also a Roman. It was only natural for him to lead a team to capture you. So even after she escaped when the Greek gods focused their attention on Africa when Cefalu appeared, she never thought of causing trouble for Tony.

But! This time, she didn't kill any Romans, so why did her whereabouts continue to be leaked by the Romans, causing her to be hunted down by the Greek gods?

Chapter 584: The Holy Church and the Earth Gate Hall of Light

You know what, Tony really has to take the blame for this.

Back then, Tony assisted Atalanta in capturing Katniss. According to normal logic, Tony had a grudge against Katniss, right?

Later, Caenis took advantage of Cephalus's appearance to escape from Mount Olympus, and then met Gilgamesh and appeared in Rome.

At that time, Tony had just deployed spies in Rome, and his spies happened to discover the trace of Katniss... So the question is, what would Tony think at this moment?

Katniss escaped and appeared in Rome. There was no doubt that he was here to pick a fight with him! So Tony would certainly try every means to assist Mount Olympus again and get rid of Katniss.

Who would have thought that Katniss never thought of causing trouble for Tony?

Tony never expected that she didn't play by the normal rules!

So this time, Tony and Katniss really had a grudge against each other.

"We... don't know where His Highness is." Although it was unclear why this woman wanted to see His Highness, but... it was right to say that they didn't know, and they really didn't know.

"Really?" Katniss raised the corner of his mouth and looked at the two soldiers.

She was once a princess, so she understood that it was normal for the soldiers below to not know where the prince of the Roman Empire was. 【%

Looking at the honest expressions of the two men, Kenis nodded. Based on his understanding of the Roman Empire, these two men looked like militiamen. How could militiamen know the whereabouts of His Royal Highness the Prince?

"You... are a heroic spirit?" Barbatos, who had been silent until this moment, suddenly spoke, looked at Katniss and said.

"Huh?" He looked at the girl in the white gauze dress with some surprise. It's true that Katniss is a heroic spirit, but... heroic spirits and the like, aren't they something that everyone in the street knows about?

"You are a heroic spirit, right?" Barbatos smiled at Katniss and said.

"I am." Katniss tightened the spear in her hand. For some reason, this girl... gave her a very dangerous feeling.

"Where are the Heroic Spirits..." Barbatos touched his nose. Heroic Spirits were summoned by the Restraining Force to deal with all enemies with malicious intent towards this world, including her. Logically speaking, they should be the masters of this Lostbelt, that is, friends of Tony. But judging from her performance, she... seemed to have a conflict with this Tony?

"Kennis... I think we can discuss it." Looking at the somewhat vigilant Kennis not far away, Barbatos said with a grin.

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The existence of the Earth Gate shocked Sanzang and Nezha. They had never expected that in this distant Roman Empire, there would be people who could establish a religion similar to Buddhism.

Of course, if they knew that the teachings of the Earth Gate were copied from Buddhism by Tony, they might not have made such an exclamation.

Just as Tony took Sanzang and Nezha out of the underground gate and prepared to return to the palace, on the other side, in a dim little house in the city of Rome.

"Don't you want to know why that underground sect can grow so strong in such a short period of time, why it can possess such strong combat power in such a short period of time, and at the same time they are targeting you Christians?" A middle-aged man in a plain white toga with a playful smile on his face said to the young man in tattered clothes in front of him.

This young man and his companions were hunted down by the Earth Gate Christians before. If it weren't for the middle-aged man who secretly rescued them, these Christians would have been thrown into the Tiber River by now.

"I don't know..." The young man shook his head.

Not to mention him, even his superiors were puzzled as to where the so-called Dimen came from. They felt like they had just heard of this organization yesterday, and the next day they came with thousands of troops to attack them.

"There are two reasons why the Earth Gate has been able to grow and develop. The first is that they say they are a religious organization, but in fact their theoretical system is closer to a philosophical school than religious doctrines, and does not conflict with other religious doctrines, so other religions do not make things too difficult for them. As for the second point..."

At this point, the middle-aged man paused, then suddenly leaned close to the young man and said mysteriously, "The second point is that behind this organization is the official Roman Empire. The official Empire condoned the existence of the Earth Gate and even secretly helped the Earth Gate expand."

"You said that the Empire... helped the Earth Gate to expand?" The young man looked at the middle-aged man sitting in front of him in disbelief and opened his mouth.

The Roman Empire was a universal empire. There were many polytheistic religions based on mythology within its territory, such as Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, and Celtic mythology. These mythologies had their own religious priests and their own temples... In any case, the Roman Empire was quite open-minded in terms of religion.

However, no matter how open-minded the Roman Empire was, it would at most adopt a non-supportive attitude towards these religions. Except for the Roman polytheism based on Roman mythology, they neither supported nor suppressed other religions... Well, only Christianity, which was just short of pointing fingers and scolding at others, was suppressed.

But why did the Roman Empire help Dimen expand in the religious field?

Seeing the young man's puzzled expression, the middle-aged man smiled and did not continue to dwell on this topic: "I heard that you have an independent armed organization called the Holy Church, right?"

"Huh?" Hearing this, the young man subconsciously became alert.

Although the Roman Empire allowed the existence of private soldiers and mercenaries, certain organizations or individuals were not allowed, such as... Christianity.

The Holy Church, like the Konoha Anbu, is the other side of Christianity. It is an armed organization whose purpose is to "hunt heretics". If the Christian Church on the surface promotes light and love through the Bible, then the Holy Church uses the black keys in its hands to tell those heretics that Dad loves them.

"Don't be nervous. I'm not interested in the Holy Church." The middle-aged man shrugged and continued, "I think you should have heard of the armed organization of the Earth Gate? It is the Light Palace, which has the Four Heavenly Guardians and Eight Guardians, as well as the Ten Dharmas, Eighteen Dhyanas, and Thirty-two Aspects. Among these people, from the Eighteenth Dhyana onwards, they are basically mercenaries with extremely strong combat effectiveness and long-standing reputation, and the rest... are powerful magicians from the Magic Association. Do you think your Holy Church can defeat the Light Palace of the Earth Gate?"

"Magic Association?" Hearing this, the young man finally reacted: "The core members of the Light Hall of the Earth Gate are from the Magic Association, and the Roman Empire officials are also secretly protecting the Earth Gate. The only one who can mobilize the Magic Association and the Roman Empire officials at the same time... is Prince Odney!"

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PS: Ahem, I’m too lazy to update... I was updating yesterday because a plate broke when I was washing dishes at noon and I cut my right hand. It hurt so much. Today I went to the hospital to visit a relative who just had surgery, so the update was a little late... emmm, the update will be back to normal tomorrow.

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Chapter 585: Martha in the Province of Judea

Having said that, it would be really strange if this young man still didn't understand.

They disrupted His Royal Highness's engagement ceremony and launched an assassination attempt on His Royal Highness. In retaliation, His Royal Highness wanted to exterminate the church. This is understandable.

...Except for certain fanatics.

For some Christian fanatics, not only can they not understand His Royal Highness's revenge, they even cannot understand why His Royal Highness the Prince did not just accept his death at that time?

But then again... Prince Odney is the one who built the Earth Gate behind the scenes. This kind of thing shouldn't be known to ordinary people, right? Then... who is this middle-aged man in front of me?

"Are you curious about my identity?" Seeing the young man in front of him constantly looking at him, the middle-aged man chuckled and said, "I am just an ordinary slave, but my master behind me said that as long as you are willing, my master is willing to provide you with some help."

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"Your Highness, the Christians in Rome have been completely suppressed. Except for a few remnants whose whereabouts are unknown, there are no longer any Christians in Rome." In the palace study, a young man in a black robe stood in front of Tony and whispered.

"What about the suburbs? What's the current situation in the suburbs of Rome?" Tony asked without raising his head while looking at the report from the British province on the table.

"What we can confirm now is that there are no Christians in your pilot community who want to close their churches on their own. In other towns, we found two Christian churches and more than 30 Christians. These Christians have been arrested by local militias."

"Yes." Tony nodded. "For Christians, we should mainly capture them. As long as they don't attack, we can't take the initiative to use force against them. Once you find a new church, you should immediately contact the local militia or garrison and let the army capture them as much as possible."

Tony was relatively tolerant towards the ordinary peripheral Christians. For these Christians, Tony would at most arrest them and lock them up for two days and then be done with it. But for those core Christians... Tony would never let them go!

"By the way, what's Martha's whereabouts?" After carefully reviewing the situation in the British Province, Tony looked up at the black-robed young man standing in front of him and asked.

"Uh... Your Highness, according to the intelligence, Martha went to the Jewish province."

"Jewish Province?" Tony was stunned for a moment, then frowned tightly.

Martha was born in the Jewish province, so it makes sense for her to go back now, but the problem is that the current Jewish province... is not safe.

Florus had been poisoning the Jewish province for too long, so that the Jewish province was on the verge of rebellion. Tony had originally planned to deal with Florus and remove him from the post of governor of the Jewish province, but because of the appearance of Cefalu and a series of subsequent events, he forgot about it, and Florus took the opportunity to bribe the Senate to keep his position as governor. Therefore, the most direct result of this incident was that the Jewish province was still on the verge of rebellion.

And the most crucial point is that the Jewish province is the base camp of Judaism and Christianity. If a rebellion occurs in the Jewish province, then this rebellion is very likely to spread to the entire province in the shortest time!

"Do we have any people in the Jewish province?" Tony asked, frowning at the young man in black robe.

“Your Highness, there are not many members of the Earth Gate in the Jewish province.” The young man in black robe said with a wry smile.