Shimeles secret revealed

The tenors maintained a good relationship with the church until it initiated certain innovations in the organization of the Church. To carry out their far-reaching policies of modernization and reform, the tenors desperately needed finance. I planned to raise money from the Church by restricting the number of clerics allowed to serve two priests and three deacons in each church. The remaining clergy would have to work and pay taxes like other people and some lands of the Church would be delivered to ordinary farmers, who would pay taxes about them. This proposal was unacceptable for the clergy and these and other actions exposed to the tenors to the critical harsh, so much that people in general supported the clergy against him. In the last part of the reign of him, the personality and behavior of the tenors changed radically; He lost the high moral standards that had characterized the first part of his reign and became harsh and bitter. Finally, he moved completely from the clergy and the ordinary people and Abuya Salami himself was imprisoned in Mandala, where he died in 1867.