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Eugen expressed his gratitude to those noble lords who wanted to support him, but he still politely refused because he had absolute confidence in his strength.

A month ago, Eugen's Leber City received huge financial support. With the support of these funds, all industries are being improved. He has not fallen behind in all aspects, from scientific and technological research and development, product production, education, life, etc. In this way, how could he just pull down the most important military strength?

In fact, in just one month, the military strength of Lebir City has been improved several times, and the increase is simply terrifying.

A month later, the army of Lebre City has completely abandoned the old attack methods. Whether it is heavy armor or sharp short weapons, they are all hidden in the deepest part of the warehouse, and all the soldiers and weapons have been replaced in unison.

Now, every soldier in Lebor City is already a member of the Dragon Crown Army, and the Dragon Crown Army has become the only unit in Lebor City.

Under the Longxiang Army, it is divided into ordinary infantry, machine gunners, and artillery. At this moment, the Longxiang Army can be regarded as a modern force with its combat effectiveness and its combat effectiveness is not at the same level as the soldiers in the hands of other nobles.

What's even more terrifying is that the number of Longxiang Army has reached 10,000.

This is not a difficult thing. As long as you have money and enough benefits, you can recruit soldiers continuously.

New rifles are not difficult to operate, and ordinary people can easily master them. After nearly a month of training, new soldiers can basically use new rifles to fight.

As for the original members of the Longxiang Army, they were either promoted to the captain level or joined the artillery and machine gun troops. Those veterans, who operate new weapons and equipment, could have a greater effect.

The equipment of the machine gun troops is all heavy machine guns. Four people operate a heavy machine gun, while the artillery troops are ordinary grenade launchers, rather than more powerful mountain cannons and Italian cannons.

These are all recently developed by the Institute. From research and development to delivery to production in surrounding factories, to equipment to troops, it takes less than fifteen days. From this we can see how terrifying the speed at which Leber City knowledge is transformed into power.

With such a powerful army, Eugen would not be afraid of any enemy at all. He was unwilling to resort to force in many things, but in this barbaric world, sometimes you cannot choose.

Just when Eugen and the Vettelsbach family were at a strife, what was unexpected was that another thing fermented at this time.

In the past period of time, in the printing department established in the city of Lebre, there were still many beautifully packaged books printed all day long, with only two kinds of books, one was the Book of Redemption written by Father Martin Luther himself, and the other was the German version of the Bible, which was also translated by him.

Tens of thousands of books are printed every day and sold to every corner of the Holy Roman Empire through various channels.

These books are sold at extremely low prices and are only charged for some cost. They are published solely to popularize knowledge, not to make money.

In this way, books have quickly become popular all over the country. Where the economic conditions are slightly better, they have almost reached the point where they are handed in one book. In rural areas with poorer conditions, many books can be circulated.

This behavior can be said to have completely touched the nerves of the huge organization of the church.

As early as the Heidelberg Medical Competition, the Cardinal reminded Eugen not to participate in such matters, especially to ban Father Martin Luther from translating the Bible.

However, Eugen completely regarded these words as indifferent to the threat of the Holy See. This huge organization, in a sense, even has more powerful authority than the royal family.

But even so, even though it was very difficult, Eugen wanted to publish the Bible in order to promote the Reformation.

To put it bluntly, the existing religious system has bound people's thoughts and turned everyone into slaves to the Holy See, which has greatly hindered the development of history and the progress of civilization.

To put it bluntly, if Eugen's business empire wants to develop, it must have a relatively relaxed and free economic environment. On this road, the stubborn thinking of the Holy See is the biggest stumbling block.

Only by liberating the shackles in people's minds can scientific, technological and economic conditions take off.

For this reason, Eugen forced this matter to continue without any effort.

Similarly, the Holy See also gave the most intense reaction to this. At the beginning, they did not directly come to Eugen, but began to let churches and believers in various places take the initiative to destroy the Bible printed in Leber City.

In their mouths, those Bibles are forged versions, and are the introductions used by conspirators to confuse the world.

At the beginning, this method played a great role. People still had some deep-rooted shackles in their minds, and were convinced of the majesty of the Holy See. They destroyed the books in their hands or handed them over to the church.

But as time goes by, Lebre City is still printing books continuously, and more and more people are beginning to open the books in their hands intentionally or unintentionally out of curiosity or other ideas.

Gradually, people's thoughts changed, and some truly knowledgeable people began to realize that there seemed to be some problems in the Holy See's command. This Bible was simply translated from the original version, and the overall content was exactly the same as the original version.

The most important thing is that the above records the deeds of Jesus and the Word of God. If the Holy See says that these Bibles are wrong, then aren’t they denying God?

The contradiction began to emerge, and this time, the Holy See's words were no longer so convincing.

On the other hand, the painful memories left by the Black Death have not been erased. When they opened the Book of Redemption, they saw the tragic deeds above, and gradually began to think about the Vatican and the meaning of the existence of indulgences.

There is no sentence in the Bible that indulgences can help believers enter the kingdom of heaven.

On the contrary, a sentence written by Father Martin Luther on the title page of the Book of Redemption resonated with most believers in China.

"Anyone who, as long as he believes in God devoutly, can enter heaven after his death without passing through any vassal."

The most important thing is that this sentence is derived from the Bible. At this moment, people obtained weapons to resist the Holy See from the Bible, and there were differences within the Holy See.
Chapter completed!