The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"They are looking for a scapegoat!" Sylvia immediately gave the answer after reading the relevant reports, saying: "They must have found nothing, but they can't drag it on indefinitely like this. An explanation, so the organizer of this evangelistic activity naturally became their primary object of accountability." She said, showing doubts again: "However, they dealt with it too fast and too violently, directly baptizing The expulsion of churches and even other churches is obviously not a radical decision that a politician should make, and it seems that the reason behind this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface.”

Hearing Sylvia's analysis, Leo pondered for a while, and said, "You mean that the decree of godlessness has already been prepared long ago, and someone took this opportunity to secretly push the decree of godlessness through Ott Constitutional review by Federal Congress?"

"Take an opportunity? Maybe!" Sylvia smiled and said, "It may not be an opportunity, but a guide."

"Guide?" Leo was stunned for a while, as if he had thought of something, he guessed: "Do you think the people on Emerald Island were made by the Otto Federation?"

Sylvia nodded slightly, took a sip of the drink on the table, and said: "The Otter Federation was founded because of religious wars, and their founding fathers are almost all victims and survivors of religious wars, so They have always maintained a hostile and repulsive attitude towards religion. If it weren't for the great influence of religion on the old and new continents, they might have written religious bans into the constitution at the beginning of the founding of the country, and it would not be like When treating religious affairs like before, it adopts an ambiguous attitude. A country like this, where the core power of the country is extremely repellent and hostile to religion, would actually agree to a religion’s public preaching in that officially approved way. It feels weird."

What Sylvia said, Leo also agreed very much. When he learned about this incident, he also felt a little weird, but this incident was the internal affairs of the Otto Federation, and what he cared about at the time was Sylvia successfully completed the bloodline promotion, so she didn't think too much about it. Looking back now, it's not hard to feel how weird the permission made by the Otter Federation was.

At this time, Sylvia took out a newspaper from the federal capital from a pile of newspapers, handed it to Leo, pointed to one of the small reports on the fourth page, and said, "Look at this."

Leo took it over and looked at it. There was not much content, and he finished it soon. The content of the report said that the federal government started to count the legacy left behind after the churches were expelled.

Leo closed the newspaper and asked, "Do those churches have a lot of property?"

"A lot." Sylvia nodded and said, "Although the Federation has never allowed the church to preach publicly, it does not reject the church's investment in various industries of the Federation. Almost 90% of the various industries have investment from various churches." She paused and reminded: "Do you still remember the additional conditions put forward by the other party when we bought the smelter?"

Leo thought for a while and said, "Is that the 5% stake?"

"Yes." Sylvia nodded and said, "At first I thought that the 5% of the shares were taken by the Beruk City Government or the federal government, but then I found out that those shares had been taken by three divided among different church organizations."

"Three churches? So many!" Leo was also a little surprised.

"They are the Church of the Mother of God, the Church of the Immovable Water, and the Church of the Mist King." Sylvia said: "Three churches are not too many, and some industries have ten percent of the shares shared by more than a dozen churches. "

"Why do the names of these churches sound so strange?" Renault frowned.

"It's not just the name, their teachings are even weirder." Sylvia smiled and said: "For example, the Mother of God Church, they claim that the object of their belief is the mother of all the gods in this world, and the form of the Mother of God It is a mass of darkness without a fixed form, and this mass of darkness often appears in front of her believers in the form of a black goat, and what is even more interesting is that anyone who sees the Mother of God will die immediately..."

"Wait!" Leo immediately interrupted Sylvia and asked, "Since she died immediately, how did the form of the Mother of God come out?"

"This is the most interesting point," Sylvia signaled Leo to be calm, and continued: "The Church of the Mother of God is actually born out of another very mysterious church, this church is called the Twins Church, this church The god of belief is a conjoined twin, one is kind and the other is evil, one can resurrect the dead, one can turn a healthy person into a corpse, one makes people lucky, and one makes people Get bad luck, so this church is also called the Church of Disaster and Fortune.”

"Church of Calamity and Fortune? I seem to have heard of this church somewhere?" Leo had a contemplative look on his face, and he quickly remembered, and said, "I remember that the first church that migrated to the New World seemed to be Disaster and Lucky Church, right?"

"Yes." Sylvia nodded, and said: "So this church has also taken advantage of the pioneers to become one of the most influential churches in the New World. The Church of the Mother of God was born out of disaster. And a sentence in the highest code of the twins in the Lucky Church, that sentence seems to say, the source of the twin gods, the mother of all gods, the black goat of all things, everything begins with you, and everything belongs to you."

"With the emergence of the Church of the Mother of God, did the Twin Church not contradict it?" Leo asked again.

"I'm not sure about this, but judging from the development of the Church of the Mother of God, it should not have been suppressed by the Church of the Twins." Sylvia shrugged and said, "The Mother of God gave birth to the owner of our smelter. In addition to shares, they also hold shares in other large and small industries in Beruk City. The same is true for other churches. In addition, they also have various properties in the suburbs. It is no exaggeration to say that although the Otter Federation is known as the Godless Country, But in fact, religion has a great influence on this country, but these influences are hidden and unknown."

Leo thought for a while and said: "It seems that the Otto Federation should be in a hurry."

Although it was just a guess, Leo already felt that Sylvia's statement might be true. The Emerald Island incident was likely to be a play directed and performed by the Otto Federation, in order to allow the godless decree to pass the constitutional amendment. Incorporate it into the constitution, and then justifiably drive out all the churches entrenched in the Otter Federation, and by the way, be able to take over a large amount of church heritage.

Think about it, after the Emerald Island incident, the rapid response of the Otto Federation is incredible. It passed the godless decree, expelled the church, comforted the victims of Emerald Island, and so on. It was almost perfect.

Not only did the Baptist Church, the protagonist of this incident, not have time to respond, but even the other churches in the Outer Federation were bewildered at the moment they were driven away, and it made people feel that the Outer Federation was prepared. What followed was that the expulsion of the church, although hindered in some places, was quickly resolved without affecting the entire expulsion in the slightest.

You must know that what the Oeter Federation expelled is not just one or two churches, but dozens of churches that have been entrenched in the Oeter Federation for hundreds of years. In the eyes of Leo and Sylvia, the difficulty is no less than that after destroying a country. The rebuilding of the Otter Federation was completed so smoothly after the unexpected incident. It can be seen that the entire church expulsion operation was definitely arranged in advance by the Otter Federation, just waiting for an opportunity or an excuse.

Leo suddenly smiled when he thought of this, and said: "It seems that we should be more careful when dealing with people from the Otto Federation government in the future. They are so cruel that they even dare to use their own people as bait to find excuses to deal with us two foreigners. It's probably not too difficult."

Although he expressed his concerns about the Outer Federation, Leo's tone did not seem tense, but very relaxed. Obviously, he was just talking, and he didn't care about the possible annexation of the smelter by the Outer Federation. .

"This matter will not end here." Compared to Leo's ease, Sylvia looked a lot more serious, and said: "Those expelled churches should not just give up their property like this, they must What will be done against the Ott Federation to force the Ott United to revise the godless law."

Leo was also a little more serious, and said, "You mean those expelled churches might incite neighboring countries to wage war?"

"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty. Think about it, if someone finds an excuse to take away all the countless properties you have accumulated through decades of hard work, what would you do?" Sylvia said solemnly: " I'm afraid you will try your best to get back what you lost, even at the expense of starting a war." She stopped suddenly and said, "If I guess correctly, the federal government should send a commissioner to Beiruk City. "

"For the Emerald Island incident?" Leo asked suspiciously.

"No, it should be for us." Sylvia explained: "If the surrounding countries are encouraged by various churches to start wars, then the quality of weapons will definitely determine the key factor in the direction of the war. Our smelters It is an important material for new weapons, so the federal government will definitely send a commissioner to the smelter to urge an increase in production."

Although Leo also agrees with Sylvia's point of view, he doesn't think that the Outer Federation will send any commissioner at this time, because he feels that even if the smelter is fully operating, he wants to replace all the troops of the Outer Federation. It may take several years to pretend, it cannot be done in a short time, and it is useless to send a commissioner.

However, Leo obviously underestimated the importance that the Outer Federation attaches to special steel. On the second day after the conversation between the two, the special commissioner from the federal government came to Beruk City and directly found Leo, hoping to smelt The output of the factory can be increased, and he even said that the three smelters confiscated from several churches will also be merged into his smelter. Leo does not need to pay money, only Leo needs to increase the production of special steel within a certain period of time. Yield.

When Leo was still hesitant about this, Sylvia agreed for Leo, but there was one more condition, which was to allow Leo to read the mystic books collected by the Otto Federation.

However, this request was directly rejected by the commissioner as soon as it was put forward. Obviously, the Otter Federation has very strict control over mystic knowledge. Leo's previous deal with Bojie Hans was similar, which was to allow Leo to read in the private library of the ancient family in Beruk City for a certain period of time.

After hearing the commissioner's proposal, Leo immediately said: "This family will not be the Hans family, right? If it is, there is no need, because I have already had a deal with Bojie Hans. In the past two days Will go to the secret library of the Hans family to read."

"It turns out that your Excellency has already had a deal with Bojie Hans." The commissioner was stunned, and then said: "I did think of the Hans family just now, but since you have already had a deal with Bojie Hans, Then I'll change the family's secret library, what do you think of the Zorn family?"

"The Zon family?" Leo didn't know much about the powerful families in Beruk City, and felt a little strange when he heard the name, so he turned to look at Sylvia.

Sylvia thought for a while, and introduced: "This Zorn family is not a powerful family, but a family of scribes in the Federation. This family produces literati and scholars. Now the dean of the Humanities College in Beruk City is a member of the Zorn family. , Although the history of their family is not ancient, but because of the special nature of the family, their library has collected a large number of books, and it is said that even the Federal National Library sometimes needs to borrow some old out-of-print books from their family."

After hearing Sylvia's introduction, Leo didn't say anything more.

Increasing the output of special steel is not just a matter of merging several smelting factories together, adding some workers, and igniting a few furnaces. There are still many things to be done, such as transforming other smelting furnaces, making the Standardization, retraining of steelworkers to familiarize them with new smelting procedures, etc.

All in all, on the second day after the commissioner left, Sylvia was already stationed in the smelter, presiding over the transformation of the smelter and the increase in steel production. There are some technical troubles, but in terms of manpower and material resources, there are no major problems.

As for Leo, in the past two days, he prepared enough catalysts and fusion agents for a month. After that, he was about to leave the manor. The private estate of the Hans family in Mt.

It's just another thing that affected his itinerary, because the federal commissioner found him again, expressing the hope that he could help the federation design a long-range weapon that could have a wide range of lethality.