Vol 8 Chapter 623: debate

At the end of June, the weather started to get hot.
However, in the tall church of the temple, there was indescribable coolness.
After the routine chanting, the meeting between the cardinals and the Pope will be held once a week, because the peaceful "Rose Cross" has rarely changed since the last war. Zong's main themes are "recuperate," "relieve to work," and "maintain stability", so that such a routine meeting is almost a fallacy.
But for Rubens, an advanced cardinal, every meeting now becomes his tormenting moment.
According to the practice, Rubens, who was once the bishop, is actually very difficult to go further. However, because of his close cooperation with Everta and the subsequent series of battles that resulted in the "Viper Kiss", he took the responsibility for the mistakes of the battle. Cardinal Moglieni was in charge. After he took office, he became the spokesperson of the "Everta" line in the position of Cardinal of the Holy See.
No matter what is discussed in the Holy See, if it involves "Everta", the Pope's first question must be Rubens. And for two years, Everta's strong support for the "Rose Cross" directly gave Rubens status Straight up, a few months ago, Cardinal Rubens has become the leader of one of the three major forces of the Cardinal Regiment.
Although such a position is beautiful, despite its high weight, it has long been out of Rubens' original expectations.
Because he found that in the cardinal group standing above this person, the ears of the believers could no longer be heard in the ears as before. On the contrary, things such as hill-tops, party formation and private affairs are unveiled. Even if he had expected it, he still did not expect that the core of the "Rose Cross" for decades of religious devotion would be like this.
This is similar to Sally's feeling after she was in a high position: standing tall, she can see the dirt and filth more clearly.
With the victory of Everta's war against the orcs, Rubens's life suddenly worsened. When the "Rose Cross" saw Everta's rapid integration into a concentrated and efficient government, it was obvious that A sense of crisis.
The Pope hopes for stability, but in addition to the faction supporting him in the Cardinal Regiment, there are two other voices: One is led by Rubens, and he hopes to continue to maintain good cooperation with "Everta", and everyone will develop together.
The second is a bit more radical, trying to expand the Holy See, attract more believers, and ultimately control the Kingdom of Karen.
Rubens had previously dominated the Cardinal Regiment because of Everta, but when the Pope rejected the request to cooperate with Roddy, the situation has now reversed. More than 70% of the Cardinals have begun to think that the "Rose Cross" should now be free Forta, try to clarify the relationship so as not to cause more trouble.
But it is ridiculous that what was discussed at the meeting at this time was the question of "the temple guard's military expenditure is insufficient, and whether to continue to rely on the aid of Everta".
Rubens felt that these cardinals were sometimes shameless than the aristocracy. Armed with the aid of Everta, they screamed that we would be out of the control of Everta, and at the same time dreaming of ruling the kingdom ...
If you are so powerful, why don't you see the bright god?
But he couldn't say what he thought, after all, in this position, Rubens was basically "the determines his head." Rubens wasn't the one who stood here, representing all the political factions. So when everyone opposes cooperating with Everta, he ca n’t pat the table and say
I ’m the same as you think
, but can only bear the accusations of this group of old men silently, his lips tightly controlling his disagreement with each other Debate fiercely, lest the Pope fall to that side too.
"Everta's recent newspaper seems to be good."
The Pope started a new topic casually, but the people below didn't know how to answer. They all read the newspaper. The above content was all positive reports on the "Rose Cross". I did n’t know how to spray it for a while, and it was really difficult.
However, it is hard to fall back to the battle-fighting old men in red. Cardinal Norde said: "The content of the newspaper has now become a carrier of information circulating in the parish and the country. In my opinion, this is a The long sword that Everta holds in his hand is pointing at Milno today, and it may be pointing at us tomorrow ... "
This is indeed an irrefutable reason. There were a lot of discussions around, and many eyes focused on Rubens, but the latter remained silent and said nothing.
Someone started, and then someone followed up, Rubens listened to them for a long time, and remained silent. This attitude is basically regarded as "giving up resistance" by other cardinals, so after a few sentences, it also feels boring, and instead talks about other information.
"The Viper Cross cooperated with Milnor for military operations, and the march line moved northward."
"Borgen's territory was destroyed by the orcs, and there is indeed no food left."
"Then they plan to borrow food from us like a beggar to fight?"
The cardinal also said that the Karen kingdom often appeared in the scene. The lord rushed to other noble territories. He was heavy and inadequate, and he would use an loan to borrow food, manpower and even troops to continue the fight. Milnor is almost the same now, but now all the cardinals are discussing how to pass the wave of "beggars". Only Rubens, who had not been silent before, suddenly said: "The Viper Cross Belt How many troops are involved in the battle? Will it pose a threat to the 'Temple'? "
But before the Pope said anything, the other cardinals laughed collectively: "Master Rubens must remember the battle report before the next question. This is the battle of conquest authorized by His Majesty Count Milno. How bold he is Dare to run to the temple to cause trouble? "
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These old men had a peaceful face, and when they left the chamber, believers were willing to kiss the existence of boots, but the sarcasm at this time was no different from those aristocratic nobles. Rubens looked up at the pope with a calm expression, realizing that he didn't have any need to continue speaking, and responded with a low eyebrow: "That's why I think about it and make you laugh."
This attitude of advocating and advocating really makes the other old men feel like they are on cotton, but after all, they dominate, and they don't think that Rubens can continue to twitch, and then one after another After discussing three or four issues, the meeting was finally concluded.
Rubens saluted respectfully and slowly retreated. When he returned to his prayer room along the corridor with the white marble floor, his slightly trembling hands proclaimed a forbearing anger ...
There is never a "good man" in the true sense who can reach this position. Anyone can have a temper. Forgiveness can only be done by God. Rubens chanted the verse in a low voice, but could only suppress the anger but only half of it, but he saw the huge figure flying in the air.