Chapter 1055: Chapter 998: Your Citations Explode, I Abstract

"How to emancipate slaves in a way that aligns with the principles the Holy Father spoke of, from 1447 to 1454, the Black Snake Bay Federation has been grappling with this for eight years without complete clarity.

Perhaps County Governor Louise’s redemption policy is better, but judging from the current situation, it’s still too rigid..."

In a small wooden cabin outside Shelley City in Kasha County, morning light streams in through the window, illuminating the dust dancing in the air.

Rang Buluo took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes with his coarse fingers.

In March 1454, as mentioned in Truth Newspaper earlier, after settling the affairs of the twenty-four counties of the Holy Alliance, His Holiness the Pope headed south to Black Snake Bay.

Rang Buluo could deduce the purpose of going to Black Snake Bay with a little thought.

Just from the latest article signed by Horn, one can see "Black Snake Bay and Black Snake Bay People."

This was aimed at rectifying Black Snake Bay, especially the slavery system there.

The Black Snake Bay Federation doesn’t believe in Miseria religion, and the Holy Path monks endured it because Holy Path preaches "religious tolerance and harmony is precious."

But slavery undermines the cornerstone of "equality," which is against the beliefs of Holy Path. All monks, regardless of their position, are united on this issue.

Strictly prohibit slavery!

Do you think you’re being given face? Black Snake Bay is nothing but a dog guarding the spice plantations for our Holy Alliance!

However, a few senior counsels exercised considerable restraint on this issue.

Black Snake Bay is an important raw material production base. Carelessly disrupting it could affect foreign exchange gold input and the entire economy of the Holy Alliance.

Still, seeing the monks so passionate, it doesn’t seem right to do nothing.

Thus, Horn’s visit served a dual purpose: one to visit Cynthia and the other to make a political statement.

Rang Buluo saw it clearly, despite not being in the political circle of the Holy Alliance, focusing on academics, yet he had numerous students working within the Holy Alliance.

The Juanist Faction monks he trained in the past had many appointed as Wandering Cultivators, with the highest even reaching the position of Priest-in-Charge.

Thus, correspondence was a given, as these new monks, inexperienced, often sought the teacher’s advice.

However, Rang Buluo never responded directly, often merely excerpting a passage from Truth Newspaper or indicating the specific article to refer to.

Rang Buluo understood Horn Gallar, who was always straightforward, never indulging in secretive politics.

No matter the task, it was clearly communicated to the entire Holy Alliance well in advance.

The details of the action plan, reasons, goals, and impacts were all articulated in his writings.

Although Horn may seem idle daily, he was diligently studying theology and penning articles.

He wasn’t slacking or resting after becoming the Holy Son of the Pope.

Almost every month, the Pope published an article in Truth Newspaper, expounding governance concepts, discussing the Holy Alliance’s administrative directions, and evaluating current affairs.

However, Horn complained that he couldn’t understand the reports from the Secret Monk Barracks, while the monks lamented that they couldn’t grasp Horn’s writings.

From Horn’s perspective, his writing style was concise, straightforward, plain, and approachable.

But as Rang Buluo put it: "rugged and jagged," meaning sharp and thought-provoking respectively.

Horn was highly educated by contemporary standards, and an overachiever in terms of scholarship.

His writing naturally carried the style of an information-rich, critical-thinking mindset from the modern era.

It’s noteworthy that, under Horn’s accelerated guidance, the official thought movement in the Holy Alliance progressed to the late Renaissance to early Reformation period.

Horn was standing on the shoulders of giants, whose shoulders themselves rested on other giants.

Due to Horn’s hasty advancement in thought movements, many theories weren’t derived from practice and experience but through "revelation."

Normally, a thought foundation is built step by step into a towering structure.

Horn constructed the rooftop first, then gradually had the monks build downward.

This resulted in a consequence whereby Horn often needed to express (translate) a term or concept, with no existing word available, leading to the creation of new terms.

Not only creating terms but even creating a term to explain the new term, resulting in entire articles dedicated to clarifying them.

Often, a third of the article was annotations on newly coined terms, making the piece extraordinarily abstract.

This led to Secret Monk Barracks dumping their reports onto Horn, while Horn countered with abstract writing monthly.

The reason, as Rang Buluo summarized—

Monks couldn’t understand Horn’s articles due to their lack of philosophical proficiency.

Rang Buluo, though struggling to comprehend initially, found the writings remarkably insightful once understood.

His questioning of "Saint Rania’s Life" emanated from Horn’s article published last May in Truth Newspaper titled "Revisiting ’Bread and Circus’."

This was based on then-contemporary star charts, language habits, word origins, and customs to redefine "Bread and Circus."

Although this act sought cultural policy validation by Horn, it remained a fascinating approach for Rang Buluo.

Not confined to mere text but leveraging multi-faceted corroboration, logical inference, rigorous analysis, verifying truth within ancient texts.

To truth-seekers like Rang Buluo and other senior monastery scholars, this approach was a treasure trove.

He couldn’t fathom why such simple, efficient logic hadn’t been devised by predecessors.

Nonetheless, armed with this tool, many monks fiercely attacked challenging questions within theological literature.

Just like in natural history, engineering, and medicine, where the introduction of "control variable method," "experimental method," and "mathematical analysis" led to exponential growth in research publications and breakthroughs after four to five years.

Similarly, these methods were co-written by Horn and the "Two-Wheeled Monster."

With Horn’s reformative methods, the theological and philosophical levels within the Holy Alliance are bound to ascend another tier in four to five years.

To address the comprehension difficulty of Horn’s articles, the Truth Court has a dedicated Proverb Bureau, compiling "Pope’s Proverbs," explaining and particularizing his writings.

Within the Holy Alliance government, though unspoken publicly, those in the know understood that joining the Proverb Bureau was akin to boarding the fast track to promotion.

Otherwise, you couldn’t claim genuine devotion without comprehending His Holiness’s intentions.

Rang Buluo, despite once being political adversaries with Horn, was adept at interpreting Horn’s writings.

He was even invited multiple times as a lecturer by the Proverb Bureau, though Rang Buluo declined each time.

Political waters were too murky for him to navigate.

Of course, entering the Ry Court Barracks wasn’t necessarily unfavorable, but staying at Blago Monastery offered boundless opportunity.

Rang Buluo put on his glasses again, picked up scissors, and cut out several articles and manuscripts from Truth Newspaper, and pasted them into his notebook.

Initially, due to expensive paper, he would meticulously transcribe, but with Joan paper’s mills expanding, paper prices consistently dropped.

Now, Rang Buluo just clipped the pieces, letting students transcribe and organize them later.

These materials formed top-tier textbooks for Blago Monastery’s affiliated middle school, ensuring the monks of Kasha County a head start of ten steps compared to others! 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

With this upcoming "Saint Rania’s Life" project, it could inaugurate Blago University.

If the university could be established, Rang Buluo would not be ashamed to face Ludvik and Juanuo even after passing away.

Once more, Rang Buluo reached for the letter paper, preparing to write another mail to Martin.

He sought Martin’s influence on behalf of Ludvik for approval; otherwise, the university couldn’t materialize.

"Hmm?" Rang Buluo paused, noticing the letter-paper box was empty.

He smacked his head, realizing the drop in paper prices led to careless use, exhausting a yearly supply within a month.

Rang Buluo took out some paper money from the drawer, opened the window, and waved it: "Brutus, Brutus, help me buy some letter paper, specifically Joan of Arc Castle paper!"