71. Wine tasting
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Some people say that Shi Ang, who is more than 200 years old, is an old fool and his mind has long been clear.
Otherwise, he would not have beaten his only disciple and most proud disciple, the little Mu Shengsheng, who was called the "Kind and Benevolent One", half to death and driven out of the Holy Realm.
When Mu's friend Ka Miao came to question, the reason he gave was that Mu had put too much chili powder in the barbecue he had prepared for him, choking his tears.
However, Zachar, who had already given birth to a bad heart, knew that in the entire Sanctuary, I am afraid that there would be no one more far-sighted than Pope Shi Ang.
His stupidity, his confusion, and his seemingly self-righteous and impulsive actions were all deliberate.
He was just preparing for the impending turmoil in the Sanctuary.
Because when he recruited the lonely and arrogant and stubborn young man Saga into the Holy Domain to give him the title of Golden Saint Seiya, he had already felt the evil hidden in that young man.
-- It is an evil that even God dares to deceive and disobey.
As I get older, the evil aura hidden in that kind of bone becomes stronger and stronger, and I am almost about to break my body and meet the gods and slaughter the gods, and see people kill people.
However, Shi Ang clearly felt that deep in his heart, he also had a righteous edge that could stop his demonic nature.
In Sagana's young body, it is like hiding two completely extreme souls, one is extremely good, upholding orthodoxy and justice, and has the heart to protect the goddess and the sacred realm with death.
One is extremely evil, always brewing conspiracies and tricks, planning to subvert the goddess, subvert the holy realm, and dominate the world at any time.
This is the Gemini constellation, this is the guardian of the goddess.
Shion believed in his own divination.
Shi Ang believed more in the choice of the goddess.
Since the goddess watched the heavens at night and gave Shi Ang a revelation to choose Saga as one of the twelve palace masters who guarded the holy realm and guarded himself, there must be a reason for him.
If Sachar, who has a righteous heart, really does something evil that is not good for the Sanctuary and the goddess, it is definitely not the goddess's fault.
Because, God, is infallible.
It can only be said that it is just providence.
It is God who deliberately created this tribulation in the name of righteousness and hope in the sanctuary.
Everything is providential.
Therefore, when Shi Ang felt that the evil aura hidden in Zachar was getting stronger and stronger, so strong that it had completely overpowered the righteous aura that was hidden in him, he did not directly attack Zaga and nip his evil heart in the bud, but put the selection of the next pope on the agenda.
Eventually, Aeoros was chosen as the successor to the next pope.
This is not only because Ioros is mature and steady, and he is very loved by other Golden Saints.
What's more, he has the same strength as Zachar.
Once Sagar abandons his kindness and tries to do something detrimental to the Sanctuary, Aeoros is able to suppress him in the first place.
Of course, Ioros is not without its drawbacks.
He is mature and steady, but he is indecisive in doing things, and because he has a good personal relationship with Zachar, it is inevitable that he will be played the emotional card by Sachar, who has abandoned everything, in the future, and use his one-mindedness to make all kinds of devastating changes.
Therefore, Shion wants to help him fill this loophole and make an important decision for him to become the next pope and contend with the soon-to-be-made Zachar.
That is, to select and train the truly strong men as a reserve force to suppress Zachar.
This kind of selection is not limited to the Holy Domain, but is universal.
In other words, the selection of the new generation of "Saint Seiya" is no longer limited to the children of the family with pure Sanctuary blood, but all over the world.
As long as there is potential and a young man who has the heart to punish evil and promote good, he may be given the title of "Holy Clothes" and given the title of "Saint Seiya" in the name of the goddess.
He even promoted his personal disciple, Mu who shocked the Holy Domain with his medical skills, to the palace master of the Aries Palace who guarded the first palace of the Holy Domain, which had the meaning of ruling the twelve palaces.
At the same time, Aioros's younger brother, Aioros, who was young but had the power of a lion, was promoted to the grand palace master of the Lion Palace.
He even gave this near-out-of-the-ordinary plan an even more outrageous name, "Thorn".
Thorns, pierced into the flesh, are not fatal, but they can make the flesh hurt.
Flesh pain will make people feel that their body is no longer normal.
People will do everything possible to pull out this thorn.
But this thorn planted by Shi Ang was actually to divert the attention of the House of Elders and everyone in the Sanctuary to the hidden "thorn" of Sagana.
However, before the "thorn" of Saga was revealed, everyone was already dissatisfied with Shion's "thorn" plan.
The first to be angered was the House of Elders.
ββThe elder organization that has absolute decision-making power over the name of the Saint Seiya, and even among the Twelve Palace Masters who guard the Holy Domain, there are people who are dissatisfied with this.
Selecting Mu and Aioria to be selected as the Golden Twelve Saints is understandable.
First, one of them is the first disciple of the current pope, and the other is the younger brother of the next pope, and this is the case in name.
Second, they also have the strength to become a Golden Saint Seiya.
People in the Holy Realm, who dares to say that they have not received the rejuvenation technique of that national physician Mu, and who dares to admit that when facing the lion known as Aeolia, there will not be a moment of fear in their hearts.
What they objected to was Pope Smith's decision on the selection of the all-encompassing Saint Seiya.
Because in their opinion, the children of the family with the pure bloodline of the Holy Realm have the blood of the goddess in their bodies. Only those who possess the blood of the goddess are qualified to become a saint warrior and guardian goddess.
What's more, the Holy Clothes are the most valuable property of the Holy Domain, and once the selection of Saint Seiya is released all over the world, it means that the Holy Clothes are no longer exclusive to the Holy Domain, but will gradually flow into the world, into the mortal world, and even into the Oriental Martial Arts, which has always been despised by them - full of deception, obscenity, and bloody killing.
This suicidal decision is still being carried out amid a wave of opposition.
The selection and training of a new generation of Saint Seiya is a huge military expense.
This expenditure, which had been approved by the House of Elders to be paid from the State Treasury, was shelved due to the opposition of the House of Elders to the new selection plan.
However, Shi Ang still has a way to proceed.
He made an even bolder decision, piercing the stab deeper into the flesh of the Sanctuary, and he actually got the idea of those holy clothes.
He was so bold as to put the supreme treasure of the Sanctuary up for public auction, the Holy Clothes.
The meaning of the public auction is that even if you don't have the pure bloodline of the Sanctuary, even if you have nothing to do and don't have the potential to become a Saint Seiya, as long as you can offer a high enough price and come up with more money than others, Shi Ang will still give you the Holy Clothes in the name of the goddess and the Pope, and give you the title of "Saint Seiya".
It's a lot like what we now call the method of selecting students from prestigious schools.
Even if your admission score is much worse than the admission score, as long as you can come up with enough money, there will still be a place for you in the classroom of these so-called elite schools.
Another decision is that if you are a poor kid and can't come up with enough money to bid with those rich kids, as long as you have the potential to become a Saint Seiya and can pass the various tests of the Saint Seiya, you can still enter the Sanctuary to study. This is similar to some auditors in a modern university classroom.
In the end, as long as these poor auditors can pass the various assessments of the graduation examination with excellent results, they will still be given holy clothes and the title of saint warrior.
The precedent for small security guards to become graduate students and civil servants probably began to rise from the sacred area at that time.
And the money for the children of poor families who passed the Saint Seiya assessment to buy holy clothes was paid by Shi Ang.
This bipolar method of selecting Saint Seiyas, on the one hand, has gathered a lot of money for the selection and training of the new generation of Saint Seiyas in the Holy Domain, and on the other hand, it has gathered a large number of Saint Seiyas with strong strength for the Holy Domain.
Of course, this also aroused the dissatisfaction of the children of the family who took money to buy the qualification of Saint Seiya.
But Shi Ang's statement is that I opened the door to the Sanctuary for you, but you just drink cold beer and eat crayfish at the stall in front of the door and talk about life without entering the Sanctuary, and I can't help it.
ββYou spent money, I opened the door, you only know that you can't get a diploma if you don't pass the graduation exam in the end of eating, drinking and having fun in school, and I can't help it.
At that time, becoming a Saint Seiya was a manifestation of gilding.
As long as you have the title of Saint Seiya, it will be smooth sailing in the future, whether in officialdom or shopping malls.
Therefore, although every year, a large number of children from rich families obtain the admission qualification of the Holy Domain by bidding for holy clothes at a high price, and are brushed off in the graduation examination at the end of the year, there will still be more children of the family who bid for the holy clothes at a higher price to gild their lives.
This back-and-forth bidding yielded Shi Ang an astronomical sum of his fortune.
However, the expenses spent on training and selecting Saint Seiya are almost a bottomless pit.
Although there is a lot of money, the hole is not filled at all.
Holes, infinite.
The holy garments, however, are limited.
88 holy clothes, after all, can't meet the huge military spending, so the only way is to let money make money.
The Sanctuary does not just refer to the mountain where the Golden Zodiac and the Temple of the Goddess are located, but also to a coastal urban agglomeration located in the far west.
In the Holy Domain, there are already many masters of business, and some of the big palace masters in the Golden Zodiac are themselves from giant merchants.
However, Shi Ang was not at ease about the origins of those Golden Palace masters.
Because those who were opposed to his performance of bidding the sacred clothes at a high price to outsiders were themselves against him.
So, he met Feng Nantian.
Oh, no, to be precise, it should be Ioros who met Feng Nantian.
That is, it is now known as the epicenter of the state, known as the world's richest man and the owner of the rich villa - Feng Nantian.
He is also the father of our respectable, lovely and pitiful Miss Feng Feifei.
At that time, Feng Nantian, who met Ioros by chance and was appreciated by Pope Shi Ang and appointed him with full authority to act as the agent of the Sanctuary Commerce, was not the richest man in the world.
At that time, Feng Nantian was weak and weak, and he was just a nameless down-and-out literati from Zhongzhou, and he was what everyone called "unlucky eggs" and "broom stars".
No one has ever seen someone as unlucky as him.
As for how exactly he got unlucky, that will be the story of the next volume.
Because this is the end of this volume.
Voiceover: Don't say you want to write about the papal treasure in this chapter, what about the papal treasure??? Lin Ge, you big liar!!
Lin Ge: I can't help it, it's Lan Sa who dragged the number of words himself.
Reader: And what about the title of your volume, "Tasting Wine"?
Lin Ge: Oh, Lan Sa, can you explain to us what these four words mean?
Lan Sa turned around and poured Wen Zhuyuan a glass of wine.
Wen Zhuyuan waved his hand again and again, and said: "Don't don't, it's obvious that you want to tell me these things about your holy area, and now you actually want to use poisonous wine to kill me, no way." β
Lan Sa held up his glass and said with a smile: "Is it poisonous wine, you can try it." β
Wen Zhuyuan: "Don't try, don't try." β
Lan Sa: "Try it." β
This volume is officially closed, can you be satisfied or not.
Voiceover: Lin Ge, you big liar, you fool us again!!