New Gods of North America

The Americans' feelings towards the Windsor Kingdom at this time were, on the whole, rather complex.

The Windsor Kingdom, as the world's leading power at the time, possessed even greater national strength, a better industry, a longer history, and a more flourishing culture.

The American Federation, on the other hand, was merely a newly emerged New World country that hadn't been around for too long, with a large territory but limited actual control, industries that existed but were generally not strong, and states that were relatively independent and loosely united.

It couldn't even compare to the Windsor Kingdom, and in terms of overall ranking, it couldn't yet be compared to some of the old powers of the Old Continent.

At the same time, the Windsor Kingdom was the homeland of a significant portion of Americans or their ancestors.

Some saw it as a brotherly country that had separated, some harbored long-standing historical grievances, and others regarded it as their spiritual motherland.

In addition, the American Federation was founded on the basis of successfully expelling Windsor forces, and thus with the posture of a "victor".

Mixed together, the attitude towards the Windsor Kingdom was one of both recognition and opposition, both admiration and contempt, both alienation and nostalgia, both disdain and learning.

However, this was only the overall situation; when it came to individuals or groups, they usually could only choose a portion of it.

Although some enlightened people in America might still look at the world map and say, "I can take his place."

These people were still a minority in America at this time; most people would not and did not need to look that far ahead, and it was more important to live a good daily life.

Especially in the South, more people were willing to accept the reality that America was still a second-rate country, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with simply exporting various crops and exchanging them for gold pounds and cheap and high-quality industrial products from "world powers".

Even in the Windsor Kingdom, some big capitalists and landlords could easily become members of the upper class and honored guests, except that their core assets were not there.

Most factory owners were relatively more hostile to the Windsor Kingdom.

It was said that the city of London was a "man-eating beast", and the average lifespan of the Windsor Kingdom's working class was even reduced to fifteen years, but people from various countries were still constantly going there to develop.

American factories had to offer higher salary costs than the average level in the Old Continent in order to attract enough local and foreign labor, and they also had to worry about some workers quitting or running away after a few years of proficiency, but the products they produced often had to be priced down, otherwise most of them would not be able to compete with similar products from the Windsor Kingdom.

This was the purest hatred—"You're耽误ing my making money."

As for ordinary people...

Well, in this era when news still needed to be spread through newspapers and announcements, ordinary people's opinions were not that important in many cases.

But no matter what, one characteristic of the Windsor Kingdom was generally recognized by many people, that is, they liked to play the "offshore balancer".

Sometimes, even if they couldn't directly profit from it, the Windsor people also liked to support the "opposition派" in other people's homes, helping to create problems if there were no problems.

Anyway, they were rich and generous, and they didn't lack the few odds and ends to lay idle pieces and burn cold stoves.

Tom Hagen didn't expect that a proper investigation into the Radiant Heresy would actually turn up a "traitor" in the secular sense.

After reading Wayne's initial draft of the report, he rarely showed a look of surprise:

"I haven't dealt with this kind of situation before, and it may need to be reported to the Bishop for a decision, and maybe even a meeting of the elders of the diocese will be required."

The bishops of the Holy Spirit Church are not exactly the same as those in the Holy See.

If the latter is the "highest officer" of a place, then the former is more like the "permanent director" of a place.

The power center of the Holy Spirit Church within the American scope is the "College of Bishops", and the power center within the large diocese is the "Council of Elders" composed of the pastors of the main internal dioceses.

Theoretically speaking, the Bishop is actually an authorized person granted daily management authority by the Council of Elders, and is the "chief" and "power agent" among them, rather than being above them.

Unfortunately, theory is one thing, and reality is often another.

Just like theoretically everyone can run for American president, but in reality most people's names will not have the opportunity to appear on the ballot.

It's actually similar in the Holy Spirit Church.

In Wayne's view, the difference between the Council of Elders and the Bishop directly issuing orders is probably just that "a face-to-face notification will seem more polite".

But this is exactly what Wayne wanted.

As long as he wasn't forced to "stab someone in the back", then anything would be fine.

Seeing that Tom Hagen didn't dwell on the previous "choosing one between Pastor Tyrrell and Pastor Bazzini", Wayne threw the report aside and quickly slipped out of the office.

...

That afternoon, Tom Hagen returned to the Cathedral with the report first, and the high-ranking clergy who had been left in Georgeburg Church were restored to freedom.

Although in principle they still couldn't leave the Georgeburg area without permission, since they hadn't been directly ordered to be controlled, it meant that the problem wasn't too big, and the exorcists who stayed behind weren't too strict, at most arranging one or two people to continue following them.

At this moment, the criminals related to the incident, those who should be dead are dead, those who should be arrested are arrested, and that Mr. Wiseman who ran away has disappeared without a trace, probably not knowing where he ran to.

Wayne helped the exorcists to initially sort out the files, roughly explained all the information he had, and then prepared to go back to the detective agency to take a bath and sleep, and the next step was to find a way to recruit people.

When chatting with those two pastors in private, the feeling of being given a big pie was certainly good, but Wayne estimated the current strength of the detective agency and found that this might be two lions fighting and throwing out some meat to pull in people.

The premise of wanting to eat one side's pie is that at least you have to be able to withstand the other side's "slap", don't turn around and have a random skill thrown over, and your side will be gone directly.

Unfortunately, the detective agency doesn't seem to be good enough at the moment.

Pastor Tyrrell casually threw out a follower, and the people under his command were almost enough to gather to attack the detective agency.

If you really want to benchmark according to Pastor Pacier's situation, then who knows how much family fortune you can take out when you are desperate.

While thinking, he walked to the door of the church.

As soon as Wayne waved to Sanders to drive the carriage over, another carriage quickly stopped in front of Wayne.

Wayne looked at Pastor Tyrrell sitting in the carriage, and then honestly opened the door and sat in.

Pastor Tyrrell still looked like a good old man:

"Wayne, your report is well written.

I see how Bazzini that guy won't be able to escape responsibility this time.

But I didn't expect Pacier to collude with both the Radiant Church and the Windsor people at the same time."

Wayne's face was calm, but his heart "thumped".

What the heck?

Of course, Wayne wouldn't just show the investigation report to others, and Tom Hagen shouldn't either.

But you already know the content?

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