Next, we will continue to learn about the battles between the Pope and emperors and even kings of various countries. After all, since Christianity became completely popular, the Pope's status in the Christian world has become the supreme existence, but the Pope himself is not a divine God.

God in my personal thinking model may be the existence of the laws of nature, which will not be biased towards anyone, or even any living creature. Once the laws are established, they are absolute and will not be changed in any way, or there will be creatures in them that will

If these laws are forced to change, the laws of nature will consider this to be reasonable, and the laws of nature themselves will not produce any emotions of partiality or complaint.

The Pope is obviously a secular person. We even look at the legends about ghosts and gods in all Western countries. All gods have certain prejudices. Therefore, I personally judge that this also shows a kind of suffering of the common people in Western countries at that time.

A portrayal of life. For example, when Christianity was first born, it was originally about saving the world. This means that the world at that time was really too bad for the common people, so they needed to be saved. But in the end, Christianity developed into a real world.

My concept is judged as the existence of legalized oppression of civilians. There are many inside stories in this. Haven't we already analyzed a lot? Then continue to analyze the things related to the Holy See:

Around the 13th century, countries in Western Europe, especially France, rose to prominence. The king of France at this time was Philip IV. He relied on the very powerful military force within the country to seize the title of many dukes in France.

The territory, in short, is performing a process of centralization, ensuring that everything is decided by King Philip IV himself. Therefore, this process is quite bloody and cruel, but this process is not very common for atrocities committed by nobles.

, after all, the nobility and the common people are not the same concept. The nobility also has civilian soldiers in their hands, so it is more troublesome to fight. However, Philip IV defeated the nobility, a conceptual class of people, and took away their land.

We have also said that the reason why Philip IV did this was to fully implement the concept of centralization, and in this era, the concept of centralization was definitely more advanced than the previous concept of gods, so Philip IV also indirectly

He wanted all of France to only obey his orders. But at this time, the French believed in Catholicism, which was a disguised branch of Christianity, so many missionaries only obeyed the orders of the Roman Pope. For Philip IV

The world simply doesn't care.

This attitude of the Catholic priests towards Philip IV made Philip IV very angry, because many of the priests were not French, but were sent by the Pope in Rome, or were French designated by the Pope.

So Philip IV decided to use his very powerful force at this time, and then become a real king of France in the true sense!

But Philip IV has always been in successive wars, either civil wars, foreign wars, or invasion wars by other countries. We all understand the nature of these wars, which consume a lot of resources, money, and civilian lives, so

It needs to be replenished. Whether it is money, resources or the lives of civilians, it is just a consumable for the higher-ups. So since it needs to be replenished, it is necessary to plunder civilians or nobles!

Philip IV thought of a way at this time. He believed that if he continued to impose brutal expropriations on civilians, it would most likely cause an uprising in the country, so he set his sights on the church. Why? Because?

The church is also plundering the wealth of French civilians. We can imagine that the priests do not work, how can they get such luxurious churches and such a high quality of life, right? Not all of them are plundering the local civilians, haha

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So Philip IV believed that since the church was plundering the wealth of the common people, that is, their own French people, why couldn't he take away these wealth? He himself was the king of France, and he should have said it in the first place

Forget it. And at this time, because the church was protected by the Roman Pope, the church owned a large amount of land and property, but the church was also a relatively special existence. The church did not have to pay taxes to the king of the country where it was located. The church only paid taxes to the king of the country where it was located.

The Pope in Rome only pays taxes, but now Philip IV is targeting his own church in France, which is indirectly destroying the interests of the Pope in Rome. And people from these churches have already reported this matter to the Pope.

Therefore, the Roman Pope was very angry, and then issued an order to Philip IV, repeating that the church would only pay taxes to the pope, and the kings of various countries had no right to tax the church.

But King Philip IV of France did not take the Pope's order seriously at all. We must absolutely believe that if the Pope were in front of Philip IV now, Philip IV would probably cook the Pope alive right away.

Not to mention that the Pope is the incarnation of God in the human world. How can people from the royal family believe in God? Belief in gods is just a cultural product used by the royal family or the church to brainwash civilians.

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Therefore, the rebellious Philip IV immediately confronted the Pope tit for tat, and then issued an order: without the king's permission, the export of gold, silver, horses, and any goods from France is strictly prohibited. We can study this order, although this order

The Pope is not mentioned at all, but this strategy actually cuts off the way for all French churches to pay taxes to the Pope. Taxes are usually gold, silver or goods, so this also cuts off one of the Pope's financial resources.

In short, Philip IV's order completely cut off the French church's way of paying taxes to the Pope. We can think about it, if a priest, or a priest from afar, wants to transport French gold and silver out of France,

Then it was transported to Rome and handed over to the Pope, and Philip IV would prohibit this from happening. Because of the gold, silver and goods involved, Philip IV had the right to kill anyone who pulled out the gold, silver or goods on the spot.

!Now it’s not fun, at least for the Pope.

Is the Pope now going to issue an order telling the whole of Europe that he now wants the gold and silver of the French church to flow into his pocket? Isn’t this telling the whole world in disguise that he is a big liar who defrauds money? And now France

All the financial resources of the church have been cut off, and the priests in the French church think this is quite fun, because they don't have to pay taxes to the pope, so they can spend more money and live a more luxurious life.

Life.

But the Pope definitely doesn’t want this to happen. It’s okay to make a little less, but why not make nothing at all? So in the end, the Pope had no choice but to agree to Philip IV taxing the French church, but he had to cancel it.

He obeyed Philip IV’s previous order not to allow gold and silver to leave the country. But why did the Pope eventually do this? In fact, in addition to the situations we analyzed before, Philip IV’s army was particularly powerful. Let’s think about it,

Philip IV was always at war, was his army a joke?

Now, although it seems that the Pope and Philip IV have each given in a step, does this seem to be harmonious? No! It is not harmonious at all, because the current Pope Boniface VIII is very unwilling and decided to defend him.

The interests of the Pope! After all, the tax revenue collected has been reduced too much. And Philip IV is even more dissatisfied with the money he currently receives from the church, because Philip IV knows that more money flows to the Pope.

Go, so Philip IV wanted to further control the church.

It was precisely the reluctance in the heart of Pope Boniface VIII, coupled with the anger in the heart of Philip IV, that the battle between the divine power of the pope and the royal power of the king became more intense again.

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But now the Archbishop of France is relying on the support of the Pope to pretend to be powerful. He is now arrogant and arrogant in front of Philip IV. Who is Philip IV? From the beginning, he wanted to give birth to Pope Boniface VIII.

What about the people who are being cooked and eaten? How dare you, an archbishop, pretend to be too powerful? However, when Philip IV saw the archbishop's attitude at first, he remained completely silent and listened to the archbishop's lectures and reprimands.

But immediately the archbishop felt that Philip IV did not dare to speak at all. It seemed that Pope Boniface VIII was so powerful, so the archbishop immediately began to push the envelope further and reprimanded Philip IV even more severely, saying that he should not have issued the order.

The order restricting the power of the Pope is disrespectful to God and will lead to hell. Philip IV is now required to repent so that he will not be punished by God.

Philip IV couldn't help it when he heard this, and immediately ordered his soldiers to arrest the archbishop, throw him directly into prison, and then hand him over to the court for trial! But in France,

Philip IV has the final say in the court and everything else. It seems that the archbishop is in trouble this time. But no matter how we look at this matter, we can only blame the archbishop himself. The dispute between Philip IV and the Pope

A contest can only be carried out by an archbishop, right?

When Pope Boniface VIII heard that the archbishop was taken to court by Philip IV, he immediately made his supreme pope furious! The pope immediately issued three papal decrees, accusing Philip.

Philip IV made a very serious mistake this time, claiming that only the Holy See had the power to judge the archbishop, and announced that Philip IV's privilege to tax the church had been revoked.

And Philip IV was not to be outdone. Philip IV burned the papal decree to ashes directly in front of everyone! Then he made a very solemn announcement to everyone present: From now on, except God! He and
Chapter completed!