Chapter 396 Throwing Out the Window

The two of them watched the noisy crowds of people passing by outside the window.

"Phew!" Liszt touched his chest. "It's not for us."

"I'll go down and take a look!" Sevia took off the cloak hanging on the wall and was about to go downstairs.

"You're crazy! Why are you just joining in the fun!"

Liszt grabbed her. Really, doesn’t this woman know who she is?

Sevia turned around, wanting to sneer at the man for being too timid, but when she saw the worried look on the other person's face, her expression softened and she said, "Don't worry! No one can recognize me in my current appearance."

She broke away from Liszt's hand and put on her cloak, "I'm very interested in any news about the church."

After saying that, he turned around and went downstairs.

"Alas!" Liszt stamped his feet angrily and followed him.

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"Angelo!"

"Angelo!"

The streets were abuzz with people, and the name of the new bishop was chanted repeatedly. Some people were very excited, while others were simply joining in the fun.

Sevia and Liszt followed the flow of people and found that they were moving towards the cathedral.

"Hey! Sir, what's going on?"

Liszt gently tugged on the clothes of the person next to him and asked carefully.

"***! Those damn vampires from Collins are coming to exploit us again!"

The other party came up with a burst of cordial greetings to the so-called "vampire" in his mouth. In his somewhat confusing words, which were full of various Corner Bay civilization terms, Liszt understood the cause of the matter.

After the big news in Sevia, the church armed forces continued a high-pressure policy against Nisburg for a period of time. Later, under the support of the new bishop Angelo, the blockade was lifted. Due to his strong dissatisfaction, he sent an envoy to Nisburg and reprimanded the Bishop of Nisburg in front of a group of senior priests, which made the people of Angelo's group furious.

However, what is even worse is that the messenger also brought an order to increase taxes from Collins. In order to cope with the increasing expenses of the so-called "Purge Teams" in various places, the newly appointed Archbishop of Cape Bay Elvis acted on the advice of some people. A special religious tax was added, and the church has always charged believers another Another kind of religious tax - tithe, that is, a person has to "donate" one-tenth of his income to the church. But don't think that more is collected and paid more based on actual income, and less is collected and paid. The amount of tax is based on estimates. The income is set, but with current technological means, the church is unable to calculate how much a person has earned.

The new religious tax is still a poll tax, which means that no matter whether a person has income or not, such as the elderly or children who have no ability to work, they all have to pay taxes.

What makes the people of Nisborg even more disgusted is that 90% of the newly collected taxes must be turned over to Collins for distribution by the Corner Church, while the local church of Nisborg can only keep 10%.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar, and various undercurrents surged in Nisborg. Now even the Council of the Corner Bay Alliance, which had previously cooperated with the church in the closure of the city, could not sit still.

Although sea trade is developed in the land of Corner Bay, nearly half of the country is landlocked. Coastal countries have made a lot of wealth by controlling maritime transport, and have always been coveted by landlocked countries that can only make a living on hills and small plains. However, these landlocked countries have Heavenly Father is particularly pious and almost obeys the instructions of the church. Therefore, the base of the Archbishop of Corner Bay is Collins, the most powerful among the landlocked countries, rather than the most economically developed League of Corner Bay.

People in the coastal countries have always suspected that the church has been secretly supporting the inland countries with the taxes collected from them to maintain their loyalty to the church.

The Senate sent a delegation headed by Marquis Forster to negotiate with the Archbishop's envoy from Collins. During the negotiation, the two sides argued over each other's opinions, and the negotiation reached a deadlock. The people from Collins were tough and didn't even have room for bargaining.

What made the archbishop's envoy angry was that a group of priests headed by Angelo, the protagonist of Nisberg, actually sided with the Council to oppose the tax increase. In the eyes of the envoy, this behavior was tantamount to betraying the church.

While the negotiations were stalling, a new archbishop's order came from Collins this morning - to remove the Bishop of Angelonisburg from his position and to be sent to Collins for trial on the charge of collaborating with the witches and conspiring to corrupt the church. Also being dismissed from their posts and being escorted there were several other high-level officials of the Nisberg church, all of whom were Angelo's supporters without exception.

Public opinion in Nisborg was once again in turmoil. Angelo was a clergyman deeply respected by the people. Before he became a bishop, he tried his best to avoid unjust, false and wrongful convictions in witch hunts. After becoming a bishop, he eased the continued Several years of high-pressure tactics, so it is very popular.

Now that they were being "escorted" to Collins, the people naturally refused.

I don’t know who instigated it first, but a huge march was spontaneously organized. People continued to join along the way, aiming directly at the cathedral.

"It turns out that so many things have happened during the past few days when we have been behind closed doors. Alas, just when my office was about to open, trouble happened."

List pulled Sevia and stood beside the street, shaking his head and sighing.

"I'm going to take a look."

Sevia looked very excited on her face, obviously she was watching the fun and not taking it too seriously. She probably hoped that the bigger the problem would be, the better. After all, it was a fight within the church.

"No! In this situation, stampedes, or even riots are most likely to occur. It's better for us not to get involved."

Sevia frowned: "Just take a look from a distance! You go back first." After saying that, she followed the crowd and left.

Liszt followed helplessly.

The two of them followed the marching people to the square in front of the cathedral. The place was already full of people, coming from all directions in Niceburg.

"Let them go!"

"Give us the Bishop!"

"Deport Collins' scoundrels!"

Screams were heard one after another, and the church knights holding the handle at the door of the church looked nervous as if they were facing a powerful enemy. They had never seen such a scene before.

Liszt quietly asked the person next to him: "Sir, what's going on inside now?"

The man replied solemnly: "Marquis Foster is making his last efforts inside! Alas, I really don't know what Archbishop Elvis is thinking."

Just as he was talking, the door of the church suddenly opened. In full view, Angelo and his party walked out with shackles on their hands. Beside them were armed men escorting them. A man dressed as a senior priest looked arrogant and shouted loudly. He yelled at the people to get out of the way.

The powder keg was detonated!

The emotions of the people in the square who had been suppressed for a long time were suddenly ignited.

"Too much!"

There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!

"Collins' minions!"

Someone shouted: "Come in! Kill these bastards!"

As if this was a signal, the crowd immediately formed a hammer and smashed at the church door, but was blocked by a blockade formed by church knights.

The messenger from Corinth became angry. Is this still the meek Lamb of the Father? What a bunch of thugs!

He shouted an order in a sharp voice: "Anyone who dares to attack the church will be shot to death."

However, the church knights who formed the blockade did not draw their weapons. On the one hand, they were facing ordinary civilians who lived together in the same city day and night. On the other hand, it was just physical pushing. If there were casualties, the people would lose their minds. They can't be stopped.

Besides, there are also a large number of Angelo's supporters among the church knights...

The thin line of defense was immediately broken through!

"That's unreasonable!" The expression on the messenger's face changed from anger to fear.

"Get back in first!" A group of people escorted Angelo and others into the cathedral and closed the door.

But the door was quickly opened, and angry people rushed in.

"It seems that the Archbishop's envoy did not end well!"

At the entrance of a dark alley nearby, Liszt and Sevia quietly looked at the cathedral.

"Hmph! It's your own fault." The witch said disdainfully.

Suddenly, a window on the second floor of the church opened.

"Throw it down!" "Throw it down!"

Wave after wave of sound came over.

"What happened again?"

Liszt concentrated his attention and looked towards the second floor.

I saw someone pushing in the window, and then a person was lifted up.

With a "pop", the man was thrown out of the window!

After falling to the ground, before he could even cry out for pain, he was immediately beaten up by the crowd below.

"Plop!"

"Plop!"

The sound of human bodies falling to the ground continued to sound.

The archbishop's envoy and his entourage were thrown out of the window one by one.