Chapter 246: The Holy Way is Lame
The dark red watchtower is covered with white snow, standing like a silent giant among the low and pale houses.

Cross the thick door panel and climb up the stacked windows.

The windows on each floor are protected by iron bars, and above the windows are rows of exquisite stone carvings of angels and acanthus leaves.

The towering spire points straight to the sky, as if to pierce the clouds. The weather vane on the top of the tower is buried in the snow, occasionally flashing a metallic luster.

White snow covered both sides of the cobblestone street. In the snow piles, vendors were still shouting with gritted teeth.

The wheels rolled, and a fine carriage stopped in front of the watchtower.

Holding a bag of books in his hand and putting away his luggage, Mitternich jumped off the carriage and trotted to the gate with exquisite bronze decorations.

After staying on Autumn Island for five days, it was not until January 1 that Mitternich and Sissi hurriedly left with the contract.

Martial stayed behind as Horn's legal advisor, helping him organize ancient books and establish laws.

As of today, January 1th, Mitternich, who had traveled by land and sea, finally arrived back in Rapids.

In addition to returning the results of the covenant, he came back to apply for a blacksmith and a wizard who could cast lightning spells for Horn.

The guard at the door knew Mitternich, so he let him in. He went up the spiral staircase to the second floor and walked smoothly to the waiting room.

A middle-aged priest was having an awkward and irrelevant conversation with Carter.

"Carter, where is Lady Catherine?" After entering the waiting room, Mitternich smiled apologetically at the middle-aged priest and asked Carter.

When Carter saw Mitternich, he breathed a sigh of relief as if he had found his savior: "In the living room, you are not allowed in for the time being... This is Brother Martin."

The middle-aged priest stood up and saluted. "Good afternoon, you must be Master Mitternich. I am Martin, a monk from the Blago Monastery. Ms. Catherine is talking to Ludwig, the new abbot of our Blago Monastery."

Mitternich immediately laughed and said, "Hello, Brother Martin, just call me Mitternich. I came here at the right time."

"why?"

Mitternich took out a book from his bag. "We got a volume of their theological work, The Word of God for Salvation, from the Salvation Army. We wanted you to study it. It just so happens that you arrived today."

Carter looked at the title suspiciously: "Holy Word is lame... can they still have theological works?"

Martin glanced at the cover and asked, "Can you show it to me?"

Mitternich handed over the book in his hand: "Of course, it was originally intended for you."

Martin took the well-bound volume from Mitternich.

This book "The Holy Way to Save the World" is just a draft, so it is not very thick, with only a few dozen sheets of paper and hundreds of pages of text.

The entire book is more of a collection of essays than a book.

It is divided into five chapters: Myrcella's Free Will, The Basis and Origin of Inequality, The Corruption of the Church, The Birth of the Thousand Valleys, and The Road to the Holy Father.

In the first chapter, "Horn" argues for the sanctity of free will, citing the Gospels and a long-lost ancient book to argue that "the basis of moral responsibility is free will."

In the second chapter, "Horn" quotes the Gospels to prove that all people are essentially the same and are all creations of the Father.

The first two chapters, which take up more than half of the book, establish the "truth", thus leading to the following three chapters.

The third chapter lists evidence to denounce the corruption of the church and quotes the Gospel: "All who believed were together and had all things in common." to prove that church property is used to serve the poor and vulnerable groups.

The fourth chapter satirizes the secular authority of the monarchy represented by the empire from the perspective of the truth of equality, and proposes that the Thousand River Valley is geographically oppressed and the people of the Thousand River Valley are spiritually oppressed, which is a kind of inequality.

The fifth chapter talks about how ordinary people should approach the Holy Father in the absence of the Holy See.

Its core idea is to explore and study nature, the greatest creation of God the Father, and to provide a series of feasible means.

At first Martin skimmed through the book, but the more he read, the more focused he became, and finally he turned back to the beginning.

Even as he was reading, he subconsciously took out red ink and a quill pen and began to make notes and marks in the blank spaces of the pages.

You know, the local priests in Qianhe Valley have been thinking about how to break through the professional ceiling.

After countless attempts and failures, they desperately gathered at the Blago Monastery and, under the leadership of Juano, began to try to rebel against the church. But when it comes to rebelling against the church, why should we rebel and how should we rebel are all vague topics.

These questions are all answered in the book, and in Martin's opinion they fit very well with his understanding of the people of the Thousand Valleys.

From the perspective of the people of Thousand Valley, they are not against Messiah, but only say that they want to expel the Thousand Valley Church, which can win over small landowners, low-level nobles and low-level priests.

Call for freedom, abolish the Fugitive Slave Law to win over public farmers, advocate equality, abolish the Labor Law to win over citizens and workers.

The only ones standing on the opposing side were the great nobles and landowners, who were labeled as devils and demons by Horn.

After unifying everyone's demands, he was able to make up his mind and prove that he did not deliberately cater to them, but that it was decided by Mircella a thousand years ago.

What the insurgents did was to unite the majority of them and believe that they were just; although they were clearly rebelling against the church, there would be no psychological barriers.

As an uprising program, it has many minor flaws, but there is no problem at all in the overall situation.

This book is not without errors. Many times, when they could have used formal doctrines, they chose to cite questionable ancient sources.

Moreover, there are too many doubtful elements in the scriptures, and constantly reversing the verdict will greatly reduce its credibility.

Some issues can obviously be said to be just individual cases that do not affect the larger phenomenon, or simply ignore the facts.

But it is puzzling that the book insists on using questionable sources from nowhere to overturn doctrines that have been patched up countless times.

This meant that the book, which was originally very much to the liking of Martin, a Juano, would always have a flaw that would ruin his appetite and make him unable to help but pick up his pen to make changes.

"The explanation here is wrong." Just as he was writing furiously in the blank space of the book, an old finger stretched out from his hand and pointed at the sentence Martin had just written.

Martin looked up in astonishment, only to find that it was the new Dean of Blago, Ludwick, standing behind him. "You are confusing the concepts of feeling and perception. Your inference here is obviously wrong. His is the right one."

In this small waiting room, Carter had already left, leaving only Mitternich standing beside Catherine with a smile.

“Dean Ludwick.” Martin stood up and saluted. “I was so absorbed in reading that I deliberately, oh no, accidentally wrote a note on the book.”

Ludwig was a tall and thin old man with a sad face. He drooped his eyelids, took the book from Martin's hand and started reading it.

"The idea is very lofty, there are too many doubts, and the doctrines and classics cited are not very familiar to me." With Ludwig's theological background, he could naturally see that the basic level of this book is actually average.

It is obvious that this is a work compiled by a few seminary students and monastic monks.

But even Ludwig had to admit that the overall paper might not be very good, but the idea was very high.

The entire article's arguments are logically self-consistent, from establishing two major truths to extending the truth to reality, to specific means.

If such a collection of papers were placed in a seminary, his instructor might ask him to reduce the content of questionable scriptures and add credible scriptures and orthodox doctrines, and he would be able to graduate after three to five years of polishing it.

However, the propositions put forward in this paper, such as nationalizing church property and abolishing the Labor Law, actually coincide with the propositions of the Juano faction.

Ludwig even felt that "all he said were my words."

After all, as a theological sect, the Juanites have never established their core ideas, and cannot be explained holistically and reasonably from the root.

In other words, there is a title but no text, and this book is a perfect reference to the core ideas of the Juano School.

"What exactly do those... Saviors want to do with this book?" Ludwig asked, weighing the volume in his hand.

Mitternich glanced at Catherine before answering, "They need you to work with them to study and write this book, The Teachings of the Holy Word to Save the World, as a programmatic document for their uprising."

Holding the "Holy Way to Save the World" in his hand, the old dean fell silent. His slightly narrowed eyes made it difficult for others to understand his expression.

"Martin."

"I'm here, teacher." Martin stood respectfully.

"I will open the library of the monastery to you and give you all the authority. You can choose any young priest with good education to bind and revise this book. Can you do it?"

"In the name of Myrcella, give me two weeks, I think I can do it!"

(End of this chapter)