Chapter 1408: Marin's suggestion

If you know the problem, it will be easier to handle. There may not be many ways for people in this era, but Marin, who has experienced the Chinese economic wave in later generations, has many ways.

"This is simple, and give more benefits to local churches, even secular princes, and sales will soon go up!"

But Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici hesitated:

"The money that originally belonged to the church was distributed to the localities. I am afraid it is difficult to explain to Rome ..."

Malin suddenly laughed and settled an account for Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici:

"Brother Giovanni, I'll calculate an account for you! You see, now all-Germany's annual atonement ticket sales are 30,000 gold coins, right? According to the proportion of 80%, the Holy See can get 24,000 gold coins, right? "

Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici nodded again and again, Marin continued:

"If you divide half of the place ..."

"It's impossible, the Cardinals will kill me!" Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici shook his head again and again.

Marin smiled and said, "What's impossible?" In the original history, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici, who had become Pope Leo X in 1514, had secretly reached a secret agreement with the then Archbishop of Mainz-Archbishop of Mainz Albert of Brandenburg is responsible for the underwriting of "atonement notes" worth 500,000 Gulden gold coins. Half of the sales proceeds go to Pope Leo X, and the other half go to Albert III ...

At that time, Albert III was not only the Archbishop of Mainz, but also the Archbishop of Magdeburg, as well as the bishop of the Bishop of Hallbestadt, one person and three princes of the church.

It stands to reason that this behavior is illegal (the church generally held two positions at the time). But he was willing to spend money, obtained the approval of the Holy See, and also obtained the position of Archbishop of Mainz, became one of the seven electors of Germany, and at the same time was the most noble leader of the church speaker). But in order to get the position of Archbishop of Mainz, Albert III owed a debt.

In order to repay the debt, he and Leo X, who was promoting "atonement" at the time, hit it off. The two were embarrassed and committed privately-Albert III was in charge of the sale of the "Atonement Voucher" under the rule of the Archdiocese of Mainz, Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bishop of Hallbestadt For 500,000 Gulden gold coins, the two split the income ...

In these three bishopric countries alone, Leo X earned 250,000 gold coins, not to mention all of Germany? At that time, Leo X was willing to share half of the benefits, which also completely ignited the enthusiasm of Archbishop Albert III. Subsequently, Albert III sent a Dominican monk named John Tezer, as a representative of the sale of atonement, in the three bishopric states under his rule to fully launch the sale of "atonement".

According to historical records, at that time, John ’s Tezer had a big show. Every time he goes to a city, he has to make a big show-

Whenever Tezer ’s “atonement” sales team quickly entered the city, the foremost thing was the encyclopedia of the sale of the atonement by a pope hanging on a large velvet. Both men and women raised their flags and lit candles to greet them, followed the envoys to sing poems, and churches throughout the city rang bells. After the welcoming ceremony, Tezer and his envoys will come to the main church in the city, hang the flag with the Pope's proclamation in front of the church, and then roll out a stall to sell "atonement tickets" ...

Johann Tetzel (Johann Tetzel) is very clever, and also knows how to build momentum and make shows. Therefore, his sales have achieved tremendous results. Of course, it is also infamous in history, becoming a great background villain against Martin Luther against the "atonement" ...

Because the incident was so loud, it finally brought out the great **** Martin Luther and set off a vigorous religious reform ...

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Malin silently calculated that the three princes of the Archdiocese of Mainz, the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and the Archdiocese of Hallbestadt would be able to sell "atonement vouchers" of 500,000 gold coins ... although for a few years Sales, but each princely country sells tens of thousands of gold coins a year is not a problem ...

In Germany, there are more than 300 vassal states, and there are hundreds of vassal states on the scale. Then, it seems that it is not difficult to sell more than one million gold coins a year for "atonement notes" ... If you use a bit harder, it is possible to sell 2 million gold coins annually ...

Then Marin told Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici the data. Old Joe opened his mouth in surprise:

"Annual sales over one million? Half a million coins must be 500,000!" Apparently, Lao Qiao was stunned by this number.

You should know that the annual revenue of the Papal State is no more than two or three hundred thousand gold coins. The main income of the church

The very unstable “Tithe Tax” is handed over. But because of the serious corruption of the church, many cardinals divided the local bishops for the tithe that should have been sent to the Holy See. This results in little real money received by the church every year, but in theory, the church should have an income of one or two million gold coins per year ...

If Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici can sell millions of gold “atonement tickets” in Germany every year and return to Rome with more than 500,000 gold coins, it is estimated that all the Holy See will He was impressed by him ... Then, the election of the Pope made me very big ...

"You say, what the **** is going on?" Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici's eyes are already red ...

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"Very simple, benefit sharing! As long as you are willing to give up half of the benefits, it is estimated that the archbishops will be very happy to cooperate with you. The Holy See earns more, which means that they also earn more. Because, everyone earns almost ... … "

Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici thought for a long time, nodded, and agreed with Marin's statement. However, he asked again:

"Your move will naturally have no problem in the princely state of the church. However, more than half of the princely states in Germany are secular princely states. The teachings there are suppressed by the princes, even if the local church wants to promote the 'atonement' Sales, those princes will not be willing! "

"It ’s simple, is n’t it because the princes have no advantage, will they oppose it? Just give them the benefits! For example, the sale of the" atonement ticket ", the Holy See half, and the secular princes' church 40%, leaving 10% To the local princes. With money, why do n’t they cooperate? "

In fact, Marin originally wanted to say a quarter to the secular princes. However, Marin worried that those secular princes would become stronger after taking too much money. Therefore, this ratio is compressed. Because only the church eats more than the princes, it will cause dissatisfaction of those secular princes. Then, lay the groundwork for the subsequent Reformation ...

The reason why Marin encouraged Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici to engage in the sale of "atonement coupons" ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is to create contradictions and allow Germany to carry out religious reforms in advance. If the secular princes are fed, and the secular princes and the church are held together, then reform P?

To put it bluntly, the religious reform in history was caused by the uneven distribution of the church and the nobles. The nobility took too little, and the church took it all.

Therefore, although Marin allowed the Holy See to share the benefits, it only divided into 10%. Although the early period will allow the secular princes to cooperate with the sale of the "atonement ticket", it will take a long time. Because of the uneven distribution of stolen goods, those secular princes will certainly accumulate dissatisfaction of. When dissatisfaction accumulates to a certain level, it is a revolution ...

As for the church will not give a lot of benefits to appease the nobility? nonexistent! The church of this age is the embodiment of greed, and if it is given, it will never be divided into nobility. Therefore, contradictions will definitely accumulate, and will eventually erupt. Marin, however, secretly promoted the outbreak of this contradiction. Then, taking advantage of the religious wars, to expand the territory ...

In order to promote the sale of "atonement bills," Marin also recommended to Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici that John Tezer, a future "mighty man who sells atonement bills," would help him. Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici spread the atonement bills throughout Germany in advance to stimulate the full arrival of the religious war ...