(Besides the Black Crown, there was also the unexpected gain of the End Cube)
"Let's take the countryside, for example."
"The Church and the nobles both taxed the people. They went hungry, and the villages had terrible living conditions."
"In many regions, villages had long been plagued by large numbers of scumbags."
"The causes were shortages of supplies, and the inability of the state, the nobles, and the Church to govern at the grassroots level."
"Different times called for different policies."
"I think the Church's original purpose in organizing mass, singing, and reading theology books and stories wasn't faith, but education."
"Look: at mass, people practiced singing. Reading theology books taught them to read, and stories helped them grow wiser."
"Unfortunately, it later became rigid."
"Take the revival of slavery back then, meant to ease economic pressure. They made use of every last bit of a great number of traitors by turning them into slaves. The original intention was good, too, but it later became rigid."
"Or take the proposal, made who knows how many years ago by a person who was, in some ways, decent. He suggested taking in women who couldn't survive on their own and setting up a Red-light district to make money."
"Given the moral standards and humanity's capabilities at the time, it was also acceptable."
"They simply couldn't afford to support those women. He did it for the country's economy."
"But later, it became rigid and turned into something evil. What had once been consensual, or something people were forced into because they couldn't survive, gradually became a den of exploitation, enslaving countless poor people."
"The crackdown on prostitution was aimed precisely at that."
"Back then, the policies gradually opened up because the Church's canon law was too restrictive."
"Now we're rebuilding the rites and