Chapter 62 Once Turned Over for Clouds and Rain

For several years, when the Holy See thought that Augsburg had given up revenge, Augsburg carefully planned an unprecedented revenge operation to overthrow the Holy See from the foundation.

First, they took advantage of the momentum of the Holy See's witch hunt to spread rumors, making people believe that cats were accomplices of witches and evil messengers, and killed them.

After the death of a large number of cats, the mice that lost their natural enemies spread rapidly at an unimaginable speed.

When rats flooded throughout Europe, the mages of Augsburg used some kind of spell to spawn the mutant plague.

It can be believed that they should disperse the plague in several cities at the same time. As long as the key points are connected, they can easily spread all over Europe.

Therefore, the fierce arrival, rapid spread and high number of deaths of this plague, known as the Black Death, far exceeds people's understanding of the normal spread of the plague, and is not what ordinary medical methods can deal with.

The spread of the plague is bound to cause extreme panic.

People in panic are most likely to pin their helplessness on religion.

With the usual style of the Holy See, it will definitely take the opportunity to preach the power and glory of God. Although they are also helpless about this plague, it will not prevent them from taking the opportunity to preach, which is the usual practice of all magic sticks.

When the Holy See used one lie after another to defend the authority of the Holy See and the dignity of God, Protestants appeared at the right time.

It can be imagined that since Martin Luther launched the Reformation, Martin Luther has been promoting his theory in an attempt to compete with the Holy See, but his lack of money has been quite difficult to promote the new theory. Although he has borrowed money from Augsburg to maintain the promotion of doctrine, it is what Augsburg has shown to the Holy See. In terms of attitude, he will never be interested in the promotion of Martin Luther's teachings.

But when Augsburg decided to launch a retaliatory action against the Holy See, they must have contacted the Protestant Church led by Martin Luther in the first place and put forward a support plan, but asked the Protestants to cooperate with their actions.

Protestants may know that Augsburg is the real culprit of the Black Death, or that they may not accept the help of Augsburg just for their own benefit, but in any case, the two sides have reached an agreement.

At the critical moment when the Black Death threatened the survival of Europe, Protestants appeared in various cities with the therapeutic drugs provided by Augsburg, helping people fight the plague and spreading Protestant teachings. They easily won a large number of believers. Correspondingly, it was the incompetence of the Holy See. There was nothing he could do about the plague, but he also took the opportunity to make a profit in the name of God - the nobles and rich businessmen were particularly angry about this. During this period, the sales of atonement vouchers increased by at least 50 percentage points, but there was no surprise that the nobles who bought the indulgences deserved to die.

Therefore, when Protestants preached, a large number of nobles and rich businessmen who were deceived and angry fell to Protestants faster than ordinary people. After they believed in Protestantism, they provided money, places and other conveniences to help Protestantism spread, which soon formed a virtuous circle, and even the royal families of all countries began to believe in Protestantism. .

This is also the main reason why the Holy See is so panicked that it wants to assassinate those Protestants. The mass loss of believers is like a landslide, which has seriously threatened the dominance of the Holy See.

This series of profits is intertight, rigorous and accurate, which is simply chilling.

It was not the Holy See at that time that connected these, and the historical researchers of the Holy See in later generations, but they only inferred the above content from various relevant historical materials, but there was no real evidence.

At this time, the mages of Augsburg had already officially shown the banner of GelbHalstch Priory in Europe, becoming one of the most important magic forces in Europe.

But at that time, the Holy See could not rationalize these contents.

Because the situation worsened after the failure of the Paladin's assassination.

The Protestants displayed the bodies of the paladins and announced the despicable deeds of the Holy See to their followers and those who had begun to waver, making people aware of the Holy See's fear of Protestantism.

Why are they afraid?

Because Protestantism is the real master and the real spokesperson of God!

This has intensified the pace of believers towards Protestantism.

The Holy See became more nervous and began to suppress Protestants through various channels, including using relations with royal families to persecute Protestants.

Although there are a large number of nobles and rich businessmen in Protestantism, which has gathered a large number of believers in a short period of time, it is far from enough to penetrate the royal level.

This is also the main basis for the inference that later researchers suspect that Augsburg is the mastermind behind the scenes. You should know that Augsburg's influence on the royal families of various countries with its strong financial resources has reached an unimaginable level. For a long time, even the source of royal military expenditure of the two sides at war is Augsburg. The loan was provided, so when the two sides fought to the death, they looked back and were stunned to find that their mine castles had been marked with Augsburg, so what were they fighting for?

With the influence of Augsburg, if it is really a behind-the-scenes supporter of Protestantism, there is no reason not to pave the way for Protestantism in the royal family.

But there are also conspiracy theorists who have made a further inference that not helping Protestantism promote it in the royal family is a huge conspiracy in Augsburg, in order to create more bloody conflicts and unrest and further shake the ruling foundation of the Holy See.

This conspiracy theory inference is based on the subsequent development of the situation.

The suppression of Protestantism by the royal families of various countries has caused serious dissatisfaction among Protestants. Protestants held gatherings, attacked Catholic churches, and even unrest under the banner of Protestantism.

This antagonism reached its peak until the bloody October serial assassination.

In October 1571, assassinations that shocked Europe occurred one after another, targeting the backbone of the Cardinal and archbishops of the Holy See.

This is a shocking event both in the secular world and in the magic world.

Each cardinal himself is a very high-level mage, but he died one by one under the assassin's knife, as if he were really a powerless monk.

In extreme panic, the Holy See further intensified its crackdown on Protestants and took more bloody measures.

A protracted bloody religious war was set off between Protestantism and Catholicism, and reached its peak after the night of St. Bartholomus.

In order to end the full-scale civil war caused by religious disputes, the Catholic French royal family at that time married Princess Margaret de Valois to King Henry of Navar, the secular leader of Protestantism. But this is a long-planned and purposeful massacre. Just as everyone celebrated the wedding, all the bells in Paris rang, and a massacre against Protestants began. The whole of France was bleeding into a river, which caused a long religious war until Protestants won, Henry ascended the throne of France, and the Bourbon dynasty ended.

At this time, the power of the Holy See had shrunk rapidly and could no longer maintain its dominance in Europe. In order to survive and fight against the aggressive Augsburg, it had to reach an agreement with the Wizards Guild for joint rule.