Rise of Empires: Spain

In the huge and luxurious Madrid Palace, a meaningful conversation is taking place.

"Your Majesty, what is Prime Minister Primo going to do? Is he going to destroy the entire Spanish Church?" Archbishop Pedro showed his innocence and indignation the first time he saw Carlo, trying to win Carlo's sympathy.

"What happened? Bishop Pedro." How could Carlo not understand what the people of the church had suffered? Even Carlo was one of the planners of the plan to cleanse the church.

But at this juncture, it is better to pretend not to understand. At least Archbishop Pedro's indignation is all shared by Prime Minister Primo, and Carlo will not suffer any losses.

"I know that the assassination of Prime Minister Primo is of great importance, but we can't arrest the bishops of the church without evidence, right?

Your Majesty, the government has arrested more than a dozen bishops, and the arrest operation is still in progress. If you don't stop it, I'm afraid I will be arrested by Prime Minister Primo tomorrow." Archbishop Pedro continued.

"It's not that serious, Bishop Pedro. I agreed to conduct a full-scale search in Madrid. If bishops were arrested, they must be suspects, right?

If you have any questions, you can protest to Prime Minister Primo. Marquis Primo is definitely not an arbitrary person. If you can prove the innocence of those bishops, the government will definitely release them." Carlo will not hinder Primo's cleansing of the church. The best way is to kick the ball to Primo.

Carlo's meaning is very simple. If Archbishop Pedro has sufficient evidence to prove that the protagonists are innocent, then of course he can put pressure on Prime Minister Primo and ask the government to release the church members.

But the difficulty lies here.

Although Prime Minister Primo does not have complete evidence to prove the church's responsibility, it is still easy to produce some evidence to accuse these church members.

It is difficult to prove guilt, and it is even more difficult to prove innocence.

Archbishop Pedro obviously does not have sufficient evidence to prove the innocence of those church members, which also means that Prime Minister Primo has sufficient evidence to continue to detain those church members.

Seeing that he could not find any sympathy or shelter from Carlo, Archbishop Pedro finally realized that something was wrong.

Either Carlo really knew nothing and naively thought that the government's arrests were justified.

Or Carlo knew everything, and even the arrest of church members was agreed upon by Carlo and the government, with the purpose of clearing up the church.

But no matter which result it was, it was not a good thing for the current church and Archbishop Pedro.

If the king's support could not be obtained, relying solely on the power of the church to fight against the current government would be like an egg hitting a stone.

Just because Primo controlled the army, it was destined that the church could not compete with the government.

And Carlo's words also reminded Archbishop Pedro. Compared with the church, the government was obviously on the side of public opinion.

It was reasonable that the assassination of the prime minister led to a city-wide search, right? It was reasonable to arrest suspects found during the search, right?

As for why most of the people arrested were church personnel, what responsibility did the government have?

As long as Archbishop Pedro cannot prove that the arrested people are innocent, the church will bear the responsibility of suspected murder of the prime minister.

Looking at Carlo with a plain smile on his face, Archbishop Pedro did not understand that the young king in front of him was playing dumb.

Archbishop Pedro determined that most members of the church had nothing to do with the assassination, after all, the church leaders knew nothing about it.

But at this moment, the church could not get rid of suspicion at all, because the only victim of the decree on the abolition of tithes in Primo's reform was the Spanish church.

The church was dissatisfied with the government's abolition of tithes, and assassinated Primo, who promoted the reform, in an attempt to restore the payment of tithes, which seemed to be a very reasonable reason.

No matter how much Archbishop Pedro and the church argued, they could not get rid of their suspicion and could only passively bear it in this incident.

After walking out of the palace, Archbishop Pedro sighed and decided to go to Primo's mansion to find a solution to this matter.

The church was speechless at this time, but it was absolutely impossible to let the government arrest church members.

The only way is to negotiate with Primo and reach a compromise on certain interests in exchange for the government to cancel the arrest of church members.

Primo is not a simple guy from the military. Archbishop Pedro understands that if he talks with Primo, even if he can solve this incident, it is bound to cost the church a lot of benefits.

But there is no way at this time. If it is the heyday of the church, Archbishop Pedro will challenge the government no matter what, and there will be no retreat at all.

Unfortunately, the influence of religion on the people has been greatly reduced, and there is no ability to subvert the government at present.

More importantly, even the Pope is trapped in the Vatican Palace, what can these archbishops do?

Facts have proved that religious power can no longer be compared with political power. In front of the huge institution of the national government, religious forces must give in and have to give in.

In Primo's mansion, Prime Minister Primo is asking about the arrest.

Hearing the news that Archbishop Pedro asked for an interview, Primo smiled and looked not surprised at all.

"Dear Prime Minister, when will you give up arresting church members?" Pedro looked angry as soon as he entered the room and was quite dissatisfied with the government's arrests.

"Bishop Pedro, shouldn't you ask the bishops of the church? When all the fish that slip through the net are caught, that's when the police will stop taking action." Primo said with a smile on his face.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you are arresting church members and bishops, not traitors planning assassinations! I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation. Is this how you treat devout believers in God?" Archbishop Dro always wanted to stay on the active side and kept attacking Prime Minister Primo.

"No, Bishop Pedro. If they have nothing to do with the assassination, I believe no police will find them. If you want to exonerate them, please bring sufficient evidence." Puri Prime Minister Mo is not a weak person. After hearing Archbishop Pedro's continuous questions, he stood up and said with a sneer: "

If you don’t have enough evidence to prove their innocence, can I understand that you want to challenge the authority of the government for these bishops? "

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