Chapter 633: Final Election

After Cardinal Jerome and Cardinal Lawrence collapsed and lost their competitors, Cardinal Patrick successfully entered the final election.

In addition, Cardinal Hilmeria from Naian also became one of the final electors.

As soon as this news came out, everyone's eyes were immediately shocked. Everyone's first reaction was disbelief.

Everyone has only three thoughts: first, it’s impossible; second, it’s impossible. Third, it’s still impossible~!

How is this possible?

How could that woman, that young girl who had just graduated, become a red archbishop at such a young age?

There has never been any precedent for this in Fantino's thousand-year history.

You must know that it is not so easy to become a red archbishop. The Holy See is a super large monopoly group with power spread across the entire continent. It has a strict organizational structure, its own army, and enforces its own laws. It is a powerful organization with rights that transcend the country.

The great cardinal is the highest management of this organization, that is, the board of directors of the Holy See. He truly holds real power, and his status is higher than that of the king of a small country. He is a big shot that everyone looks up to on the road.

There are millions of employees under the Holy See, but there are only a few dozen cardinals. You know how important this position is.

Wanting to be a great cardinal is extremely difficult. It requires both qualifications and ability. It also requires a good background, good luck, popularity, prestige...etc., etc.

These conditions are indispensable.

The last person who set a record for promotion and became the youngest cardinal was fifty years ago. That person was already forty-nine when he became a cardinal. At that time, he was called

He was a young man with great potential and talent, and he also made a splash in the history of the Holy See.

Hilmeria, on the other hand, simply broke this record and set a precedent in the thousand-year history of the Holy See. She became a red archbishop before she was even twenty-three years old.

This was completely jaw-dropping.

Based on this alone, Hilmeria has become a legendary figure in the history of the Holy See and an idol for all female clergy.

But now, she is determined to run for the Pope, and has entered the final stage of the campaign. No matter how you look at it, it is a bit incredible.

At just such an age, Hilmeria is about to complete the triple jump in life and hit the ultimate goal.

This can be said to have subverted many people's understanding of the Holy See on the mainland.

Gambling casinos in many places on the mainland have discovered that they are profitable, and now they have all given up on the previous Mark Six lottery, stocks, futures, and even the most profitable football lottery, and shifted their attention to this.

This is a rare event in decades, and the whole continent is the focus of attention. Naturally, it must be organized perfectly.

Mr. Ma said: "A profit of 300% will make people crazy."

Now all kinds of transfer beasts are jumping out, commenting on the great significance of Hilmeria's candidacy for the Pope and the possibility of her becoming the Pope. People across the continent are also going crazy. What everyone is discussing all day long is

Mysterious elections at the Holy See headquarters.

When these bastards saw the astonishing profits behind it, they went crazy and had stage three epilepsy and meningitis.

They openly set odds for this papal election. They were not afraid of the wrath of the Holy See. They would hold everyone accountable afterwards, accuse them of blasphemy, and throw them all into the hard labor field to dig sand.

Of course, this also has something to do with the banker behind them. The biggest banker behind them is Flying Eagle International Co., Ltd. Now everyone knows that the Flying Eagle Group is huge, and they are the only ones who are not afraid of the Holy See and dare to stand up to the people of the Holy See.

Go ahead and do it.

Now this multinational company has a super trust, a monopoly business empire, and a domineering style. Wherever it can make money, it must have a foothold.

Moreover, Feiying Company relies on its powerful and unparalleled strength. After joining in, it adopts a full-scale strategy. It is completely like the local tyrant in the shopping mall. It does less work, exerts the least effort, takes the least risk, but gets the most out of it.

The most money.

So much so that when people mention it, they all love and hate it, and affectionately call the company's chairman - that damn little fat guy, the 'Thunder Tiger' who eats people without spitting out bones.

The implication is quite obvious, that is to say, although the little fat man is not very old, he is very sophisticated in his actions. When he encounters prey, he is like a tiger, opening his huge mouth and swallowing even the dregs of the opponent.

And this time is no exception.

Feiying Company relied on its powerful marketing network across the entire continent to open gambling games. In order to make more money, under Lorraine's instructions, they even directly manipulated the odds and engaged in black-box gambling.

*do.

At first, the news was just released that Cardinal Hilmeria had little chance of winning, so the odds of her being elected were extremely high.

After a while, he said that she is the star of hope in Naian and the savior of the orcs. She has millions of believers in the development alone. She is kind-hearted, willing to do good, and at the same time hates evil. She is an extraordinary talent that the Holy See has not seen in a century.

It's like angels came to the world to save all people from the fire and water.

A little while later, there was news that she was related to the Almohad queen, the Nazi.

Later, another news came that Cardinal Patrick used despicable means to frame Cardinal Lawrence, and also forged evidence to frame Cardinal Jerome...

There are all kinds of rumors flying all over the place, so much so that people have no idea what is true and which is false.

Some of these rumors are intended to create chaos and suppress Patrick.

For others, Lorraine started out as a skilled chess player and considered the future situation. To pave the way for future events, make arrangements in advance and inoculate the common people.

Usually people who believe in this and people who believe in that will get into fierce arguments. It is best to wave your fists and try to persuade and deal with it when you are angry. Anyway, it is true and false, false and true, and the whole continent is tossing it.

People want to die.

After this fatigue bombing, when Hilmeria really becomes the first female pope, people will not think that it is unacceptable for a woman to become the pope, and will even accept it as a matter of course.

Come down. This is called a *** offensive. This is what Lorraine saw in her previous life as a way of promoting people.

This will also make it easier for Hilmeria to control the entire continent in the future.

Cardinal Patrick did not know the power of this attack at first and was caught off guard.

You know, although the cardinal archbishops of each diocese are in control of their own diocese, they have to consider their own position and situation when facing fierce world discussions.

At the very least, when facing the questioning of the heavyweight aristocratic senators in the diocese, we must give corresponding explanations. We cannot directly tell those ruffians who have nothing to do but eat all day long: "I just like to vote for Patrick."

If you don’t accept the vote, will you bite me?”

Those ruffians have all been bribed by Lorraine and are one of the bosses behind that gambling game.

According to the odds carefully calculated by Lorraine, if Hilmeria wins, then they can make a fortune. But once Hilmeria loses, they will suffer heavy losses.

Those bastards have always been used to being arrogant, and they have the same problem as the Cixi witch who only wanted to live another three to five hundred years - if he doesn't make it easy for me, I will never make it easy for him~!

In order to make up for their losses, they will definitely go against their own red archbishops, leading the common people to carry out anti-rent and anti-donation campaigns, etc., and stumbling upon those big bosses.

By that time, everyone will really be in bad luck.

Therefore, under the persuasion and lobbying of local nobles, several wavering red archbishops lost their will and joined Hilmeria's camp.

Now is the last chance for the election. Regardless of whether you win or lose, you must choose your side.

There is no future for just being a fence-sitter. If a person is alone and isolated, no one will like him.

When the time comes, no matter which party comes to power, the first thing to deal with is these wallflowers. Firstly, it can free up space for personal affairs, and secondly, it can kill chickens and scare monkeys to frighten the hostile party.

It turns out that the cardinal archbishops of Lawrence's line and Jerome's line of cardinals completely failed in this papal election because their leader fell, and the entire faction collapsed.

Because Lorraine's frame-up was so successful, everyone thought that the downfall of Lawrence and Jerome was all caused by Patrick. Out of anger towards him, or out of sympathy for the two unfortunate friends, everyone immediately

They all turned to support Hilmeria.

As a result, Hilmeria's power suddenly increased greatly.

But even though everyone in Lorraine tried their best, in the eyes of those die-hards, her weaknesses were too obvious. Firstly, she was young, and secondly, she was a woman.

Under this circumstance, those guys chose to support Cardinal Patrick more firmly out of prejudices formed over the years.

Lorraine found that although many people had joined his side now, they were still weaker than Patrick and were at a relative disadvantage.

Fortunately, the final election of the pope is different from the election of the president in the United States. Everyone is directly elected by one person, one vote. And it must obtain more than three-quarters of the votes and be recognized by everyone in order to win.

This requires candidates to make promises to those who hold the votes, so that their policies are in line with everyone's interests, thereby ensuring the stability and development of the Holy See. Only in this way can they gain the support of others, which is essentially the same as before the election of members.

Pretending to be close to the people, going out to the streets and holding hands with everyone to say good things and praying for votes are all for the sake of that vote. As for the promises after being elected, that will be discussed after being elected.

The competition now has entered a fierce stage.

Since they are evenly matched, and no one can take a step back until now, both sides have used a variety of conventional and unconventional means to win this war.

In the Guangming Grand Council, the two sides were quarreling every day.

Everyone first compares each other's image to each other.

For example, "You bastard"

"You stupid pig"

"You son of a bitch"

"..."

At this time, the competition is about whose voice is louder, whose lung capacity is sufficient, and who can spray his spit into the opponent's face, he will win.

Then in the second stage, they expose each other’s secrets.

"You peeked at girls taking a shower back then."

"Your hands and feet were dirty and corrupt."

"Thirty-seven years ago, you lent me three gold coins to go to the shampoo room for a massage. Please pay me back now."

"..."
To be continued...