Chapter 287: The Book of Wealth (4000 words)
The surrounding scene silently changed into the basement of Henning Mansion.
"Master, if you strip two-thirds of the cardinals of their power at once, will the Temple of Woking collapse?"
Yuzu's eyes were glowing orange, and she obviously hadn't recovered from the excitement of playing an angel.
It feels so good.
Otherwise, so many people who were reborn in India at Qidian are Brahmins.
I haven't seen any rebirth in India: I am a Dalit.
However, the Church of Woking is not known for its combat power after all. Now it has lost nine high-end combat forces. What if it cannot stabilize the situation?
"When have you ever seen the Temple of the God of Wealth go bankrupt?" Fang Yu chuckled.
Not to mention other places, even in the Wei Zang area, the most popular temple is the Temple of the God of Wealth.
After the high school entrance exam, he and Fang Daqiang went to Luosha, a place known for its piety, and spent nearly a month there.
One day when I came out of the youth hostel in Pingcuo, I saw thick smoke in the distance and thought there was a fire.
When I got closer, I found that it was a small temple with a lot of incense, called Zhaqi Temple.
The smoke you see is formed by the burning of mulberry branches, which are used as incense locally, in the mulberry furnace.
After asking further, I found out that this temple is a branch temple of Sera Monastery, dedicated to worshiping Yellow Jambhala.
As for whether it works or not, everyone says it does, but there is no real evidence.
A temple with no real evidence can be so popular. The Temple of Woking really has the magic of wealth!
Temples without magical powers didn’t go bankrupt, so how could a temple that really did have magical powers go bankrupt?
Unless other righteous gods join forces and send an oracle to their temple, demanding the destruction of the Temple of Wealth.
But if the six major temples really join forces to issue an oracle and wipe out the Church of Woking, having a few more level seven traitors will be of no use at all.
To be precise, under the current system of Vol'jin Temple, Vol'jin's believers are of no use.
They are a bunch of money-grubbers. Is there any one of them who would really sacrifice himself for Woking?
It would be better to kill Jitian and rebuild the Temple of Wealth from scratch.
All you are greedy for is my money!
However, we can't blame these people entirely. After all, the Temple of Wealth is not like other temples and does not really have the guidance of God.
When other temples were first established, at least it was indeed after these legendary wizards who had escaped into the astral realm had spent countless years trying to communicate with the remaining humans in the main plane.
The Temple of Wealth was created by a group of people who happened to believe in the so-called Woking Mirror and accidentally created this Temple of Wealth.
The so-called Holy Code of Woking is nothing more than the incomprehensible fragments received by this group of charlatans when they communicated with the wealth system, and then they used their imagination to compile it into the so-called Holy Code of Woking.
This set of scriptures is full of errors and omissions. If it were not for a group of people in the Church of Woking who were as imaginative as the five hundred people in Lingao who had created two, three, or even more scripts over the past thousands of years, it would have been questioned as a sieve and would not even be hard enough to be used as a table leg.
Even so, not many people really believe in this stuff. If the Temple of Woking didn't really have the magic of wealth, the temple would have fallen apart long ago.
Without a rigorous theory to support belief, it is impossible to build a combat-ready team.
But in the future... hehehe.
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Flavius never imagined that he, the chief cardinal, would actually become the Pope.
Even though he's just an acting pope.
Pascal Arum was nearly ten years younger than him. Even at the next Holy Selection Ceremony, it was impossible for him to become one of the three Chosen Ones due to his age.
But who could have imagined that the God of Wealth, who had remained silent for thousands of years since the founding of the Woking Church, would actually bring down divine punishment today!?
Not only were two-thirds of the cardinals removed at once, but even the Pope was recalled to the Kingdom of God to receive divine punishment!
Immediately afterwards, in addition to appointing him as the interim bishop, the angel of wisdom also appointed eight interim cardinals, whose terms would also last until the Holy Election Ceremony.
Of the eight temporary cardinals, only one was in Weiss Paradise, and the other seven were either on business trips or were bishops of various temples.
Of course, these people themselves are also level 7 priests, but they do not have the position of cardinal.
Thinking of this, Flavius couldn't help but feel happy and worried.
The good news, of course, is that without so many cardinals, it will be much easier to cleanse their factions and replace the middle-level positions of these factions with their own people.
The worry is that due to the special nature of the Woking Temple, most cardinals have complicated relations with the Norwen countries, and some of them are even representatives of certain countries in the Woking Church.
For example, Ribery, who was completely deprived of his power by Woking this time, represents Luwak's rights and interests in the Woking Temple.
It is precisely because he has the support of the most powerful country in the continent that he dares to be so arrogant.
The other people who were punished also represented the interests of different countries to a greater or lesser extent.
Now that these people have been stripped of their cardinal powers by Woking, I wonder how these countries will react.
Things are about to change in Woking Temple.
No, Woking, forgive me, it is daybreak.
Flavius had just felt a little emotional and reminded himself to speed up the implementation of the oracle about the relocation of the temple when he heard the angel of wisdom, Jorzi, give another oracle.
"The Oracle of Woking, there are differences between humans and gods. Mortals are often dull and have difficulty understanding the sacred language of the scriptures, and there are many misinterpretations. Therefore, I have taken back the original scriptures and bestowed upon you the five volumes of the 'Holy Codex of Wealth' in the Woking Divine Mirror for your study."
The Holy Book of Wealth!!!
The Book of Wealth bestowed by Woking himself!!!
Could it be that the Temple of Woking actually has some kind of doctrine? Isn't it true that whoever donates the most money is considered more devout?
One of the main reasons why Flavius became the chief cardinal was that he had the deepest understanding of the doctrine of the Temple of Woking and made great contributions to the clarification of the doctrine.
In other words, he himself is a big liar and has made many patches to the Codex of Warking.
Because of this, he didn't believe in the Woking Codex at all. What was the point of reading that thing? He might as well read a few more novels.
But now...Vojin actually bestowed the Holy Codex!!!
Ordinary priests in the square may not understand the meaning of this, but they just think that this is the case. No wonder the previous scriptures were incomprehensible. It turned out that it was because the divine language could not be translated into human language.
But as an academic and professional patching master among the cardinals, how could Flavius not understand the significance of this?
Flavius didn't even have time to prepare for the coronation ceremony. He just gave some instructions to a few of his confidants and ran to the side hall where Woking's magic mirror was hidden to see what the "Bible of Wealth" given by Woking himself was.
The oracle had already been given, and Flavius did not dare to neglect it. He took a bath and burned incense before coming to the Woking Mirror. After kneeling down and praying respectfully, he began to communicate with the mirror and asked it to show him the Bible of Wealth.
After all, Flavius had obtained the power of the Pope, and the Woking Mirror quickly gave feedback. A golden book with only the words "Holy Scripture (I)" on the cover appeared on the mirror.
Flavius excitedly opened the first page, looked at the table of contents, but didn't understand what it meant, so he turned to the main text, Chapter 1 - The Wealth, Section 1, Wealth and Morality.
"Creating wealth is the greatest morality!"
It's truly enlightening! It's truly a sacred text bestowed by Vol'jin himself.
Just this one sentence inspired Flavius to develop countless doctrinal and moral associations.
Previously, the most criticized point about the Temple of Wealth was its immorality.
Many temple scriptures even directly define money as unrighteousness. Although it is not evil, it is not a good word either.
Therefore, believers in the God of Wealth, even devout believers in Woking, generally have a second belief that they can face the public.
As a result, even though the Oath of the Gods clearly defines Vol'jin as a righteous god of the neutral camp, Vol'jin's followers live like followers of evil gods.
Flavius was excited and read the book of wealth carefully.
Some of these fallacies, no, truths, have been more or less mentioned in the annotations of various versions of the original Woking Codex, but not in a systematic way.
But after Woking's analysis, he proved with many irrefutable facts that the reason why humans can become humans, the reason why humans can reproduce and thrive, the reason why humans can create civilization, and the reason why humans can become the spirit of all things is all because - humans know how to create wealth!
This solves the problem of the moral foundation of the original teachings of the Temple of Woking!
Praise Woking! Praise the God of Wealth!
Flavius' eyes filled with tears.
After reading the section on wealth and morality, I looked at the pages and realized that I had only read one percent of it.
Turn to the next section and see the name - On Division of Labor.
"Woking says: 'A labourer who has not been properly trained for his trade, and does not know how to use the machinery which is required of him, may, with all his might, not be able to make one brooch in a day, and certainly not twenty.'"
"But according to the method of business, says Woking, ... one draws the wire, another straightens it, another cuts it, ... the manufacture of the safety pin is divided into eighteen operations."
"... one can produce 12 pounds of needles in a day... that is, one person can produce 4,800 needles in a day."
"If they worked independently, without specializing in a particular skill... they might not be able to produce even a single needle in a day..."
"Woking said: Please give me what I want, and you can also get what you want!"
This! This! This!
Flavius couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Praise Woking!
Divine arts and divine power all come from the grace of God. No sacred text of any temple can grant divine arts.
But the "Book of Wealth" bestowed by Woking can truly bestow wealth!!!
This division of labor is so simple, why has no one thought of it for thousands of years?!
Because your social productivity has not developed and is still stuck in the Castle Age, silly child.
Flavius quickly rolled back.
Section 3 - The origin and utility of money.
"Woking says: When the division of labour is thoroughly established, the produce of a man's labour can supply but a very small part of his wants..."
“He supplies the greater want by exchanging for the produce of other men, whatever is above his own consumption, the produce of his own labour…”
"Thus, everyone makes his living by exchange, or becomes a merchant in some degree..."
“Therefore, all of you are my people, bathed in my divine light…”
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Section 4. Real and Nominal Prices of Commodities
Section 5——…………
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It is not until Section 20 - The Invisible Hand - that the first chapter of The Wealth of Nations comes to an end.
And this is just the first chapter of the first volume of "The Holy Book of Wealth"!
There are three more chapters to come!
Chapter 2, Comparative Advantage and Tax Principles.
Chapter 3: Population Principles
Chapter 4: Industry and Trade
Almost every sentence in every chapter gave Flavius a feeling of enlightenment.
I see.
So that's how it is.
No, that’s not the case. After reading Chapter 3, Section 2, I realized that my understanding of Chapter 1, Section 8 was still superficial.
Huh? This theory... No wonder Luwak chose to quarrel with the Temple of Light and attack Clement despite its mediation. So this is why.
At the time, Louvain's finances were indeed tight. It was said that even Raymond XIII's weekly silver banquets were reduced to only thirty noble ladies...
After watching the first part, Flavius's excitement was beyond words.
Holy Scripture!
This is the real holy scripture!
With the guidance of this set of scriptures, the future development of the Temple of Woking can be imagined!
What's the big deal about moving to Albergh?
Even if it is moved to the Bohari Desert, the Woking Temple can still become one of the most influential temples in the Norwen Continent!
Although Woking did not explicitly state it, it is obvious that every priest who wants to obtain a teaching position in the future must study and master the "Book of Wealth" before they can take up the position!
Change, big change!
Flavius excitedly found the next few volumes.
I see. No wonder I was confused about Section 13 of Chapter 1 of Book 1. It turns out that Woking gave a more in-depth explanation in Book 3 of the Holy Scripture.
However, it seems that the difficulty of the scriptures increases as you go along. It seems that only priests who have passed the exam are qualified to study the subsequent scriptures. This must be noted.
It took Flavius three days to finish reading the first four parts like a cow chewing on a peony.
When Flavius finished reading the last section of the fourth volume and sighed with satisfaction, and was about to turn to the fifth volume, the Woking Mirror suddenly gave a prompt.
"The fifth volume of the 'Holy Codex of Wealth' is accessible only to the current Pope. Please confirm that you have the required authority. Do you wish to access it?"
Only the current Pope can read it! ?
Flavius was excited and nervous all at once.
It was like going back to that night more than sixty years ago when I peeped at the maid taking a bath.
Could it be that the fifth volume has already touched upon the realm of God?
Flavius felt his heart pounding violently.
"Review."
Flavius licked his dry lips and realized that he hadn't had any water for several hours.
The surface of Woking's magic mirror darkened for a moment, then lit up again.
A book completely different from the previous one appeared on the Woking Mirror, spinning.
Why is it a red book cover?
Flavius opened the first chapter, on which were printed a few large characters: On Surplus Value.
It seems that masks are back again recently. Everyone should take care of their health, wear masks when going out, and wash hands frequently.
(End of this chapter)
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