Therefore, Shado will never let the ideological voice in his territory fall into the hands of the contract that is supposed to be a tool. If it corresponds to a specific person, it will actually fall into the hands of the Lord of Glory and the group of priests affiliated with him.
This is unacceptable to Chateau.
He even has a more radical transformation method for the priest group, which is to arrange priests to hold secular positions in corresponding secular institutions according to their clerical abilities, and mainly focus on secular positions.
For example, those who can cure diseases and save people can be assigned to become medical staff in hospitals, and those who can detect lies can be assigned to become judges in courts or be assigned to become security guards in security stations.
This is the secular transformation of clergy. In this regard, whether it is Xia Duo's hometown or other countries on the earth, there is a lot of ready-made experience that can be used for reference.
For example, in the Jedi Tiantong in Xia Duo's hometown, it is of course impossible to cut off the Tianzhu during teleportation. The corresponding reality should actually be to nationalize the power of communication between humans and gods, and not allow individual wizards to have this power.
The specific method is to appoint two wizards who are in charge of heaven and earth. If you want to communicate with heaven or earth, you can only go through these two wizards, and then vigorously attack other wizards who claim to be able to communicate with heaven and earth.
And the two wizards in charge of heaven and earth were appointed by the king, so the royal power successfully controlled the divine power, or the secular world controlled the faith.
In the magical world, because gods are real, it is impossible for Shado to directly appoint priests of the Lord of Glory and then monopolize the power to interpret divine will. If he really did this, divine punishment might be imposed immediately.
But the idea of placing clergy in the secular system is consistent and allows the secular order to dominate.
At present, the clergy of the Lord of Radiance are the most suitable for such transformation. The reason is that the mortal teachings approved by the Lord of Radiance clearly stipulate that they must obey the arrangements of the superiors, and they are not even allowed to question.
When Leiden first got along with Shado, he acted submissively and asked for instructions on almost everything. It was Shado's continuous transformation that made him become the territorial governor with subjective initiative that he is now.
Of course, the price is that Leiden loses part of his divine grace.
Since Leiden can be transformed, other clergy should also be able to do so. In the future, Shado even plans to transform the temple of the Lord of Glory into a legal research institute within the Daxia Territory system. Non-clergy who are interested in developing the law can also do so.
To join, a certain proportion of non-clergy members must even be retained.
As for the clergy of other gods, I have to praise the clergy of Lady Mystery on this point. Most of the priests of Lady Mystery do not have the consciousness of clergy. They only feel that as mages, their holy power is just a supplement.
If it's profitable, then it's "praising the mysterious lady"; if it's not profitable, then we won't know each other even if we meet.
To a certain extent, utilitarianism is a manifestation of secularization. Faith does not require reasons, but secular needs. Clergy are placed in secular positions according to their abilities, and the influence of theocratic authority is gradually eliminated.
At present, in the Great Xia Territory and even in Netheril, divine power has not yet prevailed over royal power, but the future is uncertain. After all, there are still mortals who can become gods!
Xia Duo now feels that divine power overwhelms royal power, and other great arcanists also think so. But once a great arcanist succeeds in becoming a god, it is hard to say whether his butt will still sit on the secular side!
Don’t “stick to the secular side before ascending to God, and immediately switch to the theocratic camp after ascending to God”!
In addition, in the early days of Netheril, before the mages succeeded in ascending to the throne, priests had always been in charge, but they were not radiant priests, but death priests. The first king of Netheril was a death priest.
Legend has it that the reason why the royal power of Nese has been passed down to the princess's generation is because the second generation King Nese was a mage, and then he stabbed his father in the back for some reason. After he came to power, he established the system of the Mage Republic, but still
Enjoy the title of king.
Afterwards, it was passed down from generation to generation, and the royal power was gradually transferred to the Severnton Parliament. The Nese family could not even retain the title of king. The reason why the princess was a princess, not a queen, was because the royal power had long been transferred to the Parliament.
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Princess is just an honorary title and no longer has any privileges. However, out of respect and reward for the Nese family's transfer of royal power, the Nese family members have always acted as arbiters, similar to the current speaker.
Of course, there is another legend about why this happened, which is that after the second generation King Nese stabbed his father in the back, he was cursed by his father. Since then, the bloodline has been thin, and by the time it was passed to the princess's generation, there were no other clan members.
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After the princess ascends to the gods, it is equivalent to the death of the Nese family in the mortal world. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Seven Towers are willing to support the princess's ascension to the gods. Regardless of whether the ascension to the gods is successful or not, the Seventon Council will no longer have a transcendent person.
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The Seven Towers will become the absolute master.
It's just that the situation developed too quickly later. The signing of the new covenant certainly consolidated the ruling status of the Seven Towers, but status alone was not enough. The previous princess had a higher status, but what about the actual power?
After the new covenant was signed, the original power of the Seven Towers was restrained and split, and other council members became more involved in the power. This is of course a good thing for Netheril.
But for the Seven Towers - at least for some ambitious elements in the Seven Towers, this is undoubtedly terrible news.
For those ambitious people, the current situation is even worse than when the princess was here! At that time, they only needed to respect the princess from a distance, and the actual affairs of the parliament were actually completely in the hands of the Seven Towers.
Unlike now, meetings are held at all times, not only in the parliament, but also within the Seven Towers. Although the power of the Seven Towers controllers in the Parliament has been weakened, their power within the Seven Towers——
It has also been weakened!
After all, it was originally an alliance of interests, but now, the power of the Seven Towers as a whole has been restricted and split, which is equivalent to fewer internal resources.
Even under the current system, the lords who belong to the Seven Towers can get what they want directly from the Parliament without going through the Seven Towers. If the Parliament cannot give it, the Seven Towers will most likely not be able to give it to them.
Without privileges, there will naturally be no resources beyond the norm, and there will naturally be no way to promise more to individuals within the group.
Under such circumstances, the fact that the Seven Towers have not yet disintegrated is a sign of the huge inertia of the wheel of history.
Xia Duo is almost 100% sure that the Seven Towers will inevitably disintegrate in the future, or at least be reorganized. The Seven Towers at that time will have nothing to do with now.
The only connection is the names of the Seven Towers, the seven names that represent the legal ruling status recognized by the new covenant.