New Gods of North America.

Chapter 451 Report
Overall, Americans' feelings towards the Kingdom of Windsor at this time were still quite complicated.

The Kingdom of Windsor is now the world's most powerful country. It has stronger national strength, better industry, longer history and more prosperous culture.

The American Federation is just a new country in the New World that was born not too long ago. It has a large territory but a limited area under actual control. It has industries but they are generally weak. The states are a loose union of relatively self-contained systems. Not to mention comparing with the Kingdom of Windsor, it cannot even be compared with some of the old powers in the Old World in terms of comprehensive rankings.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Windsor is the homeland of a considerable number of Americans or their ancestors. Some people regard it as a brother country that has separated from each other, some people have a long history of inheritance and old grudges, and some people regard it as a spiritual motherland.
In addition, the American Federation successfully expelled the Windsor forces and established the country with the posture of a "victor". All these mixed together, the mentality towards the Kingdom of Windsor is both recognition and opposition, both admiration and contempt, both alienation and nostalgia, both spitting and learning.

However, this is only the general situation. When it comes to individuals or groups, usually only a part of it can be selected.

Although some knowledgeable people in America may still look at the world map and say "that can be replaced",
But these people are still a minority in America these days. Most people will not and do not need to look that far ahead. The serious thing is to live their daily lives honestly.

Especially in the South, more people are willing to accept the reality that America is still a second-rate country. They only need to export various crops to exchange for gold pounds and high-quality and low-cost advanced industrial products from the "world power", which seems to be nothing wrong.
Some big capitalists and landowners can still easily become members of the upper class and guests of honor even if they go to the Kingdom of Windsor, but their core assets are not there.

Most factory owners are relatively more hostile to the Kingdom of Windsor. They say that the city of London is a "man-eating beast". The average life expectancy of the working class in the Kingdom of Windsor has even been reduced to fifteen years old. However, there is still a steady stream of people from various countries willing to go there to develop.
Factories in America have to offer higher salary costs than the average level in the Old World in order to attract enough local and foreign workers. They also have to worry about some workers changing jobs or running away after becoming skilled after a few years. However, they often have to lower the prices of their products, otherwise most of them will not be able to compete with similar products from the Kingdom of Windsor.

This is actually the most simple hatred - "You are delaying my making money."

As for ordinary people...

Well, in this era when news transmission still requires newspapers and bulletins, the opinions of ordinary people are often not that important.

But no matter what, there is one characteristic of the Kingdom of Windsor that is recognized by many people, that is, they like to play "offshore balancing hand".
Sometimes, even if they cannot directly profit from it, the Windsor people like to support the "opposition" in the other family. If there is no problem, they will help create one. After all, they are rich and powerful, and they have no shortage of money to spend.

Tom Hagen had never expected that by investigating a heretic, he would actually find a "traitor" in the secular sense.

After reading the first draft of the report submitted by Wayne, he also showed a rare look of surprise:

"I have never dealt with such a situation before. I may have to report it to the bishop for a decision. Maybe I need to convene a meeting of elders in the diocese."

The bishops of the Holy Spirit Church are not exactly the same as those in the Holy See. If the latter are the "highest officials" of a place, then the former are more like the "permanent directors" of a place.
The power center of the Church of the Holy Spirit in America is the "College of Bishops", and the power center within the archdiocese is the "Council of Elders" composed of pastors from the main dioceses within the diocese. In theory, the bishop is actually the authorized person who is granted daily management authority by the Council of Elders. He is the "chief" and "power agent" among them, rather than being above them.

Unfortunately, theory is one thing, and practice is often another. Just like theoretically everyone can run for president of the United States, but in reality, most people's names will never have a chance to appear on the ballot.
It is actually similar in the Holy Spirit Church. The difference between the elders' meeting and the bishop's direct orders is, in Wayne's opinion, that "notifying in person would appear more polite."

But this is exactly what Wayne wants. As long as he doesn't force himself to "stab", then anything is fine.
Seeing that Tom Hagen didn't bother about the "choice between Reverend Tyrell and Reverend Bazzini", Wayne threw the report away and quickly ran away from the office. ...

That afternoon, Tom Hagen returned to the cathedral with his report, and the high-ranking clergy who had been left in Georgeburg Church regained their freedom.

Although in principle they were still not allowed to leave George Berg's territory without permission, since there was no direct order to control them, it meant that it was not a big problem. The exorcists who stayed behind did not follow them too strictly and at most arranged for one or two people to continue to follow.

At this moment, the criminals involved in the incident have been killed or arrested, and Mr. Weissman who escaped has not been seen yet. It is estimated that no one knows where he ran off to.

Wayne assisted the exorcists in compiling the files, roughly told them the information he had, and then prepared to go back to the detective agency to take a shower and sleep. The next step was to find a way to recruit people.

When he had a private chat with the two priests before, it certainly felt good to be promised a big prize, but Wayne estimated the current strength of the detective agency and found that this might be two lions throwing out some meat to attract heads during the fight.
If you want to have a piece of the pie on one side, you must at least be able to withstand a "slap" from the other side. Don't turn around and let any skill thrown at you, or you will be gone.

Unfortunately, the detective agency seems to be ineffective at the moment. If Reverend Tyrell throws out a follower, the manpower under his command will be enough to attack the detective agency.

If we really compare it with Pastor Pycelle's situation, then when he fights his life to the death, who knows how much he can get out of his family.

As he was thinking, he walked to the church door. Wayne just waved to Sanders to drive the carriage over, and another carriage soon stopped in front of Wayne.

Wayne looked at Pastor Tyrell sitting in the carriage, then obediently opened the door and got in.

Reverend Tyrell still looked like a good old man:

"Wayne, your report is well written. I don't think Barzini will be able to escape responsibility this time. But I didn't expect that Pycelle was colluding with both the Church of Light and the Windsors at the same time."

Wayne's face remained calm, but his heart skipped a beat.
Damn it?

Wayne certainly wouldn't show the investigation report to anyone, and Tom Hagen probably wouldn't do that either.

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