Chapter 217 Your Majesty, I request a duel with Elder Sheamus!
Horn's interest in the Holy Fathers is not because he has nothing to do, but because there is a real need.

As the saying goes, there is no construction without destruction. Not to mention destroying the Thousand River Valley Church in the future, just destroying the church in Longsander County will create a huge power vacuum.

If Horn doesn't send someone to fill the power vacuum, then someone else, no one knows who, will fill it.

In the Empire, especially in the Thousand Valley of the Kingdom of Leia, it was common to contract grassroots governance to the church.

Horn does not have that many intellectuals on hand to help him take care of these grassroots affairs.

So either they would send members of the Holy Fathers' Society as the main force to cooperate with some of the old priests to deal with it, or they would send people from the Holy Fathers' Society as an inspection team to monitor the actions of the old priests.

As the saying goes, it is better to prepare for a rainy day. Although it is a matter of the future, Horn has to start preparing now. What's more, they may have to serve as military chaplains or even centurion chaplains.

After arranging matters concerning the Worship of the Fathers, Horn's schedule became practicing breathing techniques with Jeanne in the morning, handling government affairs in the morning, answering questions at the Worship of the Fathers in the afternoon, and translating the ancient books of El in the Ether Spire with Shilov in the evening.

After a few busy days, Horn finally welcomed the first regular meeting of the Papal Council.

Since the main hall is the bedroom of Horn, Shilov and Jeanne, and Shilov's important lathe machine is also housed inside, the real place where the cardinals hold political meetings is in the side hall of the Mechanical Palace.

Sitting in the meeting room, which was actually a dog room but was called the stag room, Horn, wearing a simple white robe and a short felt hat, silently looked at the bishops and elders in front of him.

It must be said that after six days of military training, the bishops and elders looked much more energetic. Not only were their clothes neater and they stopped moving around, but their bodies also stood straighter.

After all, they have been following the Children's Army these days, getting up at five in the morning and going to bed at ten at night. They are either training in discipline and reading and literacy, or on their way to read and learn literacy and training in discipline.

But after five days, they still looked sloppy, but it was much better than before when they were totally disorganized.

This made Horn nod with satisfaction, and he even considered whether to make military training a necessary training part for entering the Senate or becoming a bishop.

"Okay, everyone is here, let's get started. Armand, you will read out the agenda for the meeting."

There are three cardinals in the current cardinals' conference, namely Archbishop Madeleine, Bishop Chilvester and Bishop Grampven.

The rest of the bishops died, and the casualty rate was much higher than that of the authentic Vatican.

These three bishops were obviously too few, so Horn's first agenda item for this regular meeting was to expand the body of cardinals and elect a second-in-command.

Naturally, no one had any objections to this issue. After all, qualified people had seen it all and quickly reached a consensus.

"Then the College of Cardinals has officially passed the proposal to accept Crispa as bishop and Boussac as bishop. The proposal to nominate Boussac as deputy bishop has also been passed." Horn knocked on the table with his scepter, signaling Armand to write down the results of the proposal and sign.

“Then the second question is the formation of the Savior Corps.

We plan to form a battle group with 3000 pikemen, 1000 holy musketeers, 150 spring musket cavalry, 200 charioteers, 50 cooks, 50 medical soldiers, plus 10 accountants, 20 orderlies, 10 military judges, and 10 military chaplains, a total of 4500 people.

The Salvation Corps has 8 legions under its jurisdiction, and is recruiting new troops with veterans of the Black Hats and Guards as the backbone. The specific requirements are shown in the following table, which has been distributed to everyone.

We expect to complete the restoration of the second batch of ten blocks and officially start recruiting new soldiers at the second regular meeting about ten days later.

The first batch of recruits is expected to be 2000 people, equivalent to four legions, and the recruitment will be completed within three days.

After the recruitment is completed, the new soldiers will enter the recruit camp and will be assigned after 15 days of training. During this period, the veterans will undergo officer training. I plan to appoint Hakuto as the instructor of the recruit camp and Jieshka as the instructor of the veteran camp. Do you have any objections? "

Archbishop Madeleine raised his hand.

"Speak." Seeing him raise his hand before speaking, Horn felt that the military training these days was not in vain.

"After ten days, we have a total of thirteen blocks that have been repaired. Among the 100 households that have been resettled, the ratio of recruiting militiamen is about seven to one to eight to one. Is this ratio too high?"

"No, no, no, I mean to recruit from all the subjects of the Papal States."

"But if that happens, we will be short of manpower for the subsequent reconstruction work. After all, we will need 2000 strong men at once." Horn turned the page of the agenda and handed it to Madeline. "This is the topic we will discuss later. We will transfer 1000 beastmen from the North Lake and detain 1000 beastmen from the South Lake to the island to assist in the construction."

"Oh, oh, that's okay." Madeleine put down her hand obediently.

"Then the preparations for conscription are as follows..." Horn considerately bound all the work to be done into a booklet and distributed it to everyone present.

According to this pamphlet, Horn assigned positions to most of the people present.

The Treasury Department, headed by Madeleine, is responsible for financial budget allocation, cost accounting, logistics support and material deployment.

The Ministry of Truth is now headed by Armand, who is responsible for preaching, explaining the gospel and psychological counseling, as well as liaison and management with local households.

The Holy Forging Department, headed by Crispa, assisted by Rector and Brock, is responsible for supervising a series of matters including the manufacture of weapons, armor, textiles, alchemy, etc.

The Ministry of Evangelism, with Busack as the head of evangelism and Halkin as the assistant, is currently mainly responsible for liaison with the beastmen and Jeanne d'Arc, as well as some ceremonial and supervisory matters.

The General Staff was temporarily abolished as the Secretariat, and Shilov temporarily took over as Secretary-General.

Since there is only one town, such as a sheriff, it is directly managed by Horn himself.

"Okay, I've said everything I want to say. Now come and report what you need to report."

An elder immediately raised his hand, and Horn motioned for him to speak.

"Your Majesty, I report that the elders of the Donkey Cult, led by Saqis, named the town Shengjing, which sounds like the word "nerve" in the El language, implying that Your Majesty the Pope is a lunatic."

"fart!"

"Your Majesty, I report that the dog faction's Seamus said you are crazy."

"You're playing word games with me, aren't you? You're just jealous because our dog-faction Thomas became the chief deputy speaker, aren't you?"

In the Senate of the Papal States, Horn serves as the Holy Speaker, but of course in most cases he does not participate in the affairs of the Senate.

So the one who actually presided over the work of the Senate was Thomas, the great-grandson of the saint, and their daily work was to decide what name to give to each neighborhood.

In fact, the name of this town has not yet been decided because the three factions of senators in the Senate, namely the Donkey Faction, the Elephant Faction and the Dog Faction, are arguing with each other.

"What do you mean we are jealous?" The elder named Sachis slammed the table and said, "Your Majesty, I request a duel with Seamus!"

"Let's have a duel, Your Majesty. I request to accept his duel." Elder Himus also slammed the table and shouted at Horn, pointing at Sachis.

Seeing the elders arguing in front of him and the dogs that appeared out of nowhere, Horn didn't know how to respond.

You say they have done well in military training, but he still has to apply for a one-on-one challenge. You say they have not done well in military training, but he still has to apply for a one-on-one challenge.

"Your Majesty, I request a one-on-one battle between men!"

"Your Majesty, I request a team battle..."

"Okay, let's put the name of the town aside for now. I'll decide if it's okay." Seeing that the elders were about to have a fight in the Stag Room, Horn waved his hand irritably, "You guys should just put up with each other for the sake of the country for a while, blow the whistle on the conscription, investigate the situation, and then report back.

If you really want to fight, I will give you a chance later and let you fight to your heart's content."

Looking at the elders who were grinning at each other, Horn let out a long sigh.

I still don’t practice enough.

(End of this chapter)