To Four Thousand Years Later

Except for the Red Flower Gang, which is full of flaws, the other information Charlie spit out is indeed quite valuable. After confirming that he was not lying, Leonardo fell into deep thought. In his impression, the Solomon Theocracy basically maintained a low profile and absolute neutrality after the founding of Vienna.

After all, their land area is not considered large, and they are at the level of a principality, which is equivalent to half of Austria. And they are next to Teutonic, which has a strong military power, and go a little southwest from the southernmost edge of the Theocracy. We are about to touch the northeastern frontier of Sardinia. The west of the Theocracy is close to Teutonic, while the northeast is the Principality of Lithuania, and the southeast is one of the main branches of the Holy Roman Empire in the past, the powerful New Roman Kingdom. Their land area even exceeds that of the Teutonic Kingdom—from the Church to the southeast, from Greece to northern Egypt. Contains the entire eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. And occupied the main trade routes of Persians, Arabs and Chu people. Closely surrounded by three powerful countries, the Solomon Theocracy dared not move at all. They raised the banner of the orthodox inheritance of the Solomon Church and crowned every king who considered himself the successor of the Holy Roman Empire... and this is their main mission international political function. In addition, there are only missionary schools opened in various countries. They sent a large number of missionaries abroad to run voluntary schools in various countries, and the professors from the age of 18 to the age of 18 can learn knowledge for a total of ten years. According to the size of different church schools, different levels of knowledge are taught. How many highest-level church schools can be opened in a country, and how many can be opened in a city, depends on their "donations" to the Theocracy.

Yes, missionary schools are free for everyone - but that doesn't mean that the priests of the Theocracy are working for nothing. They charged the monarch directly, the school was built by the local nobles or officials, and the living expenses of the priests were also paid by the local nobles. They were only responsible for sending out people and teaching materials. The teaching salary of priests will be paid directly by the church to the beneficiaries designated by priests in China. Priests can only return to China for one month a year, and they can only retire and work in China after they have taught abroad for twelve years. However, their new salary is very high, three to four times that of high-level craftsmen. This salary is actually given by the monarchs everywhere. But even so, other countries still have to pay for it obediently. Because the teachers they cultivated themselves are not as capable as the priests produced by the Solomon Theocracy.

At that time, before the division of the Holy Roman Empire, the old Pope Leo was keenly aware that the land ruled by Emperor Charles was about to fall into war, so he decided to find another place for Solomonism while preserving the knowledge that might be lost. . They found an opportunity, with the former Gothic nobles of the southern military region as the main backer, led a small number of people, gathered 80% of the Solomon priests in the country, brought a lot of wealth, and ran away with all the books in churches everywhere. Way to go. Under the **** of a knight corps, they slipped to Vienna without encountering any accidents all the way, and decided not to continue going north—so quietly and quietly established the country.

At the beginning of their founding, they basically swept away all the books of the entire Holy Roman Empire. Except for the libraries built by the lords themselves and the collections of the nobles, there are not many books left. The teachers who did not follow them could only be recognized as great scholars or sages by the aristocrats who later realized that the Solo teachers had absconded with their books, and hired them with high salaries to teach their children knowledge. This is also the only inheritance of teachers left in various countries...and also the pioneer of commercial schools invested by rich people today.

After the start of the Great Separation War that year, the Solomon Ecclesiastical State announced that they could send wall priests to various countries for free, and impart knowledge to anyone for free. But the premise of accepting priests is to recognize the independence of the Church State. Do not attack the Theocracy, and anyone who attacks the Theocracy must help resist. At that time, the separatist forces in various places thought about it for a while, and thought it was okay, so they agreed. The result is more and more money, and so far, missionary schools have taken root everywhere. As the only exporting country of teachers, the priests of The Church are divided into three levels: "Jianxue", "Supervisor", and "Great Supervisor". Among them, even the most low-level scholars must know at least three languages, and the arithmetic knowledge to pass the exam, and read through the "six holy books" written by Charles, namely "Life", "Mathematics", "Starry Night", "Light" , "Sea" and "King Power" six books of wisdom and benefits, and have received good teaching skills training. In missionary schools, Jianxue is only allowed to teach children under the age of twelve such skills as literacy and arithmetic. In more advanced church schools, intelligence can teach them music, dance, sculpture, astronomy, geography, physics, biology, history, chemistry, optics and other specialized knowledge, and each intelligence is only allowed to teach one subject. If you change subjects, you need to go back to your home country to take the exam.

As for the rest of the knowledge derived from the book "King Power", after hundreds of years of research by many Theocracy scholars, only the Great Governor can teach the principles and wisdom in it to others. Knowledge related to the economy, people's hearts, military affairs, politics, etc. will not be printed into books, but will only be passed on orally by the governor.

The cost of hiring priests from the Church is less than a fraction of the cost of cultivating one's own teachers for the common people. What's more, the church state's seemingly free move has almost monopolized the market, making it difficult for the commercial teachers they cultivated to find jobs—but if they don't pay money, the church schools will be demolished, and the people will rebel again.

They are in a dilemma, and in the end they still have to pay what should be paid.

Except that the Franks can rely on the collection of books in the Great Library of Charlemagne to train their own teaching team, if the nobles and royal families of other countries cannot find professional classrooms, they still need to recruit professional intellectuals or even grand superintendents to train them. own child's. But the employment price of the chief inspector is high. They are directly based on the total annual income of the nobility. The ratio required is generally 5% to 10%. The Theocracy takes a 25% tax from it. This is also one of the main income of the Theocracy. Over the past few hundred years, other countries have realized the importance of enlightenment knowledge, but the Theocracy has thoroughly grasped this industry. An insurmountable industry barrier has been formed. Unless it is a church, they even started a business similar to cram schools, trying to squeeze the space for running commercial schools. Those who are particularly good at a certain professional knowledge will hold temporary training courses somewhere in certain months of the year, regardless of their status and status, as long as they pay a fee, they can attend one. And people still subconsciously believe in these teaching lands that run schools for free . Therefore, under the same teaching level and charging standards, this kind of alternative "cram school" is far more popular than commercial schools. This monopoly of low-level knowledge is the main source of profit for the Theocracy of Solomon. They don't care about the colleges everywhere... because whoever wants to go to a college goes to their mission school first. Even the monarch of a big country would bring gifts to visit the Theocracy every two years. Anyway, it was just to save face. The Theocracy disbanded all the permanent troops. Only the security forces remained, and their food, iron, kerosene and other products basically relied on imports. Other countries think that they have no need to be afraid of them. Because volunteer teachers put in contracts. They can't easily attack the Theocracy; and the Theocracy is not going anywhere. It can even be said that they are quite poor, and they don't have the ability to make trouble for them.

Therefore, during the three hundred years of war, the Theocracy was the only holy place that was spotless and not attacked by anyone—this was precisely because of their neutral nature. And... are they going to stop being neutral?