After the death of Gustav V in 1275, known as the "Hammer of Perrault", the successor Emperor Friedrich realized that this excessively cruel religious policy could not be continued, otherwise it would cause immeasurable damage to the national power, so he adopted a more tolerant attitude - except for those who did worship evil gods, blood sacrifices and other terrorist activities, all other sinners who only worshipped pagan gods or violated the precepts of the Holy See for the first time were no longer burned at the stake, but were exiled to the Far East, where these heretics were allowed to cultivate the wasteland. This not only won the reputation of benevolence, but also developed the fertile frontier and brought new tax sources to the country, which can be described as the best of both worlds.

The successors of Friedrich the Great also inherited this policy, and the number of burnings at the stake in the country dropped sharply from more than 1,000 per day at its peak to less than 1,000 per year, considering that the empire alone had a vast territory of nearly 20 million square miles, and a population of up to 200 million, it was not cruel to burn thousands of extreme cultists every year, compared to the heretics who were driven to the Far East stabilized at about 1 to 20,000 per year, and of course, some of them were wronged. But, in general, the religious atmosphere was much more tolerant than in the era before Friedrich the Great.

During the reign of Emperor Charles IV, the punishment for heretics was relaxed, and for those heretics who believed in non-evil gods, if they did not want to suffer the fate of exile from the Far East with their families, they could obtain amnesty treatment for continuing to live in the region by purchasing indulgences, but they were still deprived of the qualifications to work as teachers, lawyers, doctors, journalists, etc., as well as to hold government posts, and were forbidden to publish articles and works of art, to participate in public activities, and to pay an additional punitive fee every year" Repentance Tax".

In contrast, the Far Eastern provinces were not often represented among the local officials, and the local heretics were taxed less than those in the interior of the empire, which was one of the reasons why Prime Minister Mill felt the need to impose a general tithe on the Far Easterners, otherwise the heretics in the inland provinces would feel unfair and would prefer to accept the punishment of exile rather than the purchase of indulgences and the payment of repentance taxes. So when the news of the rebellion in the Far East reached the Holy City, everyone from His Majesty the Emperor to his cabinet was puzzled: why did this so-called "heretical revolution" not first take place in the inland provinces of the empire, where there was more oppression and discrimination, but in the freer and more liberal Far East? The heretics who obediently bought indulgences and paid the tax of repentance did not rise up to rebel, so how could the mob in the Far East be embarrassed to rise up and overthrow the legitimate government that had treated them leniently?

His Majesty the Emperor and his cabinet could not think of any other answer than ingratitude. Driven by this sentiment, the "Ecumenical Patriarch" Gregory Constantine first expressed his position and made a profound self-examination in the letter submitted to the emperor, believing that the Church had neglected to supervise and manage the heresy in the Far East over the years, and that it was not enough to send a high-ranking priest to serve as the archbishop of the Far East, and that the correct way was to set up inquisitions in various towns and towns in the Far East to supervise local heretical activities, and to immediately and severely suppress the signs of crime, so as to purify the local corrupt and degenerate social atmosphere and prevent problems from occurring.

The Emperor himself was in poor health, and in recent years he had seldom taken care of government affairs, and he did not give any instructions after reading Gregory's letter, and asked the head of the court, Baron Steinmeier, to pass it on to the cabinet.

The Count, Count Müller, the Prime Minister of the Reich, read the letter at a cabinet meeting and asked the ministers what they thought. Most of the participants laughed it off, not interested in seriously discussing Gregory's proposal.

Although they did not say it, most of the ministers thought that the old man Gregory was outdated in his thinking and wanted to return to the era of religious terror when the stakes were full of smoke; On the other hand, even those ministers who agreed with Gregory's suggestion did not dare to openly support it, because his power as a "universal patriarch" was limited to administering churches and monasteries throughout the empire on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, but he did not have the authority to command the Inquisition.

The Inquisition is a system of priesthood independent of the church, except for the provinces of the Far East, there are branches in all other provinces of the empire, and the towns below the provinces have dispatched agencies, just like countless blood vessels penetrate all parts of the empire, and only such a huge system of institutions can monitor this huge empire and detect and punish cultists in time.

His Majesty the Emperor did not have the energy to manage this feared institution, and the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory wanted to manage but could not, and its authority was in the hands of Prince Frank, who was also the third leader of the Church, the "Grand Duke" and the crown prince. The Prince's position was the opposite of Gregory's, not only would he not set a burn at the stake, but he would completely reform the Inquisition and eliminate the horrific image of the institution in the eyes of the public, and the charity dinner that Grofa and Palatine were going to attend tonight at the "Palace of Love", co-organized by the Fogel family, was ostensibly about raising funds for the establishment of a shelter for stray dogs, in fact, raising funds for the Inquisition reform program that Prince Frank was preparing to implement.

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Dressed in a tuxedo and wearing a snow-white wig, the piano master sat in front of the Parino piano worth 100,000 imperial gold dugas and a constant variety of optimized tones, and was playing a welcome song that matched the atmosphere of the banquet, and when the most dazzling pair of handsome men and women in the guests tonight - the prince of Canaan and the princess of the empire - both walked into the banquet hall, the young pianist improvised a waltz.

Palatina felt that the artist's humor should be respected, and reached out to Grofa to dance. Grofa shook his head with interest and complained in a low voice, "Who does that old man think of us?" Actors entertaining guests? I don't want to be in this kind of boring limelight and be played as a monkey! ”

Palatine sighed softly, not surprisingly, since he was a child, Colossa's misfit was so unsociable, and he never reflected on his own personality too much, so that Palatine had to believe her mother's assertion: "Most men's emotional intelligence stops developing at the age of thirteen, and they will not learn to be considerate of others all their lives." ”

"Palatina, pay attention over there, the guy standing behind your father, who looks like a Baoshihua man, he keeps an eye on us, if my sixth sense is not out of order, he looks at me with a clear look of jealousy, maybe I should ask the pianist to play another song." A narrow smile appeared on the corner of Glova's lips.

"Come on, you don't want to be played like a monkey, am I willing?" Palatine glanced at the tall, majestic, rather manly young officer, politely lifted the sides of her skirt and bent her knees slightly, nodded to the man, and without waiting for the other party to return the salute, she turned her head and teased Coroman: "Your sixth sense is very accurate, probably thanks to the fact that you not only have a beautiful face that can pretend to be a woman without makeup, but also a heart as delicate as a woman." ”