Chapter 886 (1/2)
Almost the day after Loren and the imperial mission left, little priest Weber began his ”reform plan”.
And bear the brunt, targeting the luxury of Bain cathedral.
In short, to open source, first reduce expenditure.
Superior Nightingale wine, white bread mixed with milk, honey and sugar, traveling motorcade, church servants, stables, tableware of pure gold and silver, satin priest's robes
All the priests' pomp, supplies and servants were collected under Weber's ”bishop's order”, or dismissed or sold at a low price to the United Chamber of Commerce (of course, little Joad had planned long ago, otherwise the ordinary chamber of commerce could not have spent so much money at once) to subsidize the daily operation of the Byrne church and charity work.
Facing Weber, who ”set an example” and was supported by the Duke of Byrne and the Holy Cross Church, the painstaking Byrne church priests can only ”willingly” and raise their hands in favor of the Bishop's decision.
But this does not mean that they really gave up resistance, but aimed at Weber's second decision - layoffs.
As the ”spiritual guide” of a principality, Byrne church also has a large number of things to deal with. It even has to undertake certain work of courts and tax collectors in the countryside, publicize the Duke's ”great achievements”, promote the principality's policies to the countryside, and occasionally deal with civil disputes.
Of course, it is impossible for the deacons of the ”noble and holy” cathedral to do so by themselves; They were only responsible for coming forward, and the specific work was entrusted to all kinds of employees and church servants.
Under Weber's ”new reform”, the number of these employees and servants was reduced by four fifths, which made the deacons complain incessantly; So they began to use slack work and ”lack of manpower” as the reason to make Byrne Cathedral almost semi paralyzed.
But they obviously underestimated the ”bishop's” superhuman perseverance and his ability to win over allies and ”move people with sincerity”.
Weber first abolished the redundant church servants, but all employees with certain ”professional skills” - propagandists, judges and tax collectors, were retained by Weber as priests in the church, and then all were transferred to the Byrne court to be loyal to the Duke of Byrne and the round table Council.
In other words, although they still hang on to the name of the church and do the same things as in the past, their salaries are paid by the principality and the church will no longer intervene.
This can be described as ”mutual benefit” for both sides. Weber got rid of miscellaneous mundane affairs, while the round table Parliament had a large number of grass-roots bureaucrats overnight, and the implementation effect was much stronger than that through the court of the Earls in the past.
Charlotte Turin, who was surprised, immediately took advantage of the lack of reaction from the Earls everywhere and began to carry out her centralization plan; The ”bishop Weber”, who has spared no effort, can finally focus on the main functions of the church.
In the case of the collective inaction of the deacons of the cathedral, Weber showed superhuman perseverance and extraordinary energy. With only a few priests secretly bought and instructed by Charlotte, he operated the whole Bain church alone.
This time, the deacons were really flustered, because they suddenly found that they did nothing, and the church was still as usual - that means they are redundant to the bishop, and he won't even abolish his own group?!
However, Weber once again ”changed his style”, first deposed several greedy deacons, most of whom were only removed from their posts, but retained the clergy and remained the priest of the cathedral.
Most importantly, whether deposed or dismissed, Weber's reasons are excuses such as ”getting old” and ”dying of an emergency”, leaving them the last thin face.
The rest of the group immediately understood it and asked the bishop to remove their posts so that they could go home for rest on the pretexts of ”sore eyes”, ”sprained little finger”, ”got the mouse hand” and ”lying down without remembering”.
Weber was naturally happy to agree, and then promoted a group of young people with similar ideals to him from chapels around the world to fill the vacant positions.
After rectifying the cathedral, the little priest - Bishop Byrne - Weber finally had the opportunity to turn the spearhead from ”saving” to ”opening up”.
Among all the principality churches in the Empire, the Byrne church is certainly not the most powerful, but it is absolutely one of the richest; This rich Byrne, together with the perennial donations of nobles from all over the world, and the intentional solicitation of Byrne Dukes from all generations, made the Byrne church have an amazing number of funds and real estate.
In lottel, priests in villages and towns need to ”encourage” nobles and rich farmers to donate if they want to make money; The priests in the imperial capital have donations paid by believers who regularly come to pray in various churches.
Only Byrne church, almost all churches and churches have their own fields, manors and plantations; Together with the donations of believers and nobles, it is enough to make the local priests live a life comparable to that of the count; The bain Cathedral in red blood castle has the most prosperous lot in the inner city. It also has a staggering number of assets in the United Chamber of Commerce and yode chamber of Commerce, making money by lending.
However, these properties were almost sold by priests and deacons during the fall of governor Byrne and the Centaur war; In addition, Loren and Charlotte secretly ”inspired”, little Yoder was responsible for the implementation, which was swept away by the Turin family and Yoder chamber of Commerce from the inside to the outside, leaving only Weber an empty shell.
That's why Weber cleaned the public servants in the church and ceded the employees to the Duke as soon as he took office - unless he borrowed money, he had no spare money to supply these ”idle people”.
Weber, who was almost ”poor and white”, immediately made up his mind to those deposed deacons and wanted to confiscate the money they bought from reselling church assets in the name of ”corruption”.
But it's a pity, because young Joad of the United Chamber of Commerce had long guessed that he would do so.
As soon as Weber came to the door, the deacons either ”ran away with money” or ”failed in investment” and went bankrupt; The walls of the house are appalling; Last month, the Deacon family, who once had delicacies, lay in bed in just a few days. They were thin and haggard, hungry to the point of taking off shape, and there was only half a breath left.
At this point, even if the dying deacons didn't tell him, Weber could guess who was behind all this - the treasurer of the principality, the president of the United Chamber of Commerce, Loren's intelligence leader, Lord Joad Jr.
The only problem is that although little Joad's means are cruel, he either cooperates or dies; However, whether transferring assets or planning the ”bankruptcy” of the caravan are tricks within the ”rules”, which do not involve the internal affairs of the church.
In other words, unless his face is torn and the needle is divided, bishop Byrne can only accuse little Joad of immorality and scold him.
Weber decided to be polite before the soldiers.
Bishop Byrne politely came to the door and told him that the Byrne church had a large amount of money in the accounts of the United Chamber of Commerce. He now needs to put forward some money from this money to maintain the operation of the church.
And little Joad said very politely, it doesn't matter, just wait a few days; Because so many investments are involved and the amount is so huge, it takes time for the United Chamber of Commerce to collect the money.
Weber nodded to show that he could understand.
So after waiting for more than half a month, Weber, who had never heard from him, finally realized that it was wrong, immediately came to the door and questioned little Joad face to face.