Chapter 231: Selling Food (Part 1)

Malin thought bitterly for a long time, and found that the money had to be spent. The Roman Cardinals may or may not spend the flowers, but the Archbishop of Cologne must spend the flowers.

The Holy See gave itself to the large Bishop of Münster. It was the generosity of the Archdiocese of Cologne. If the Archbishop of Cologne knew, he would not be angry if he was not angry.

Although the Archbishop of Cologne is a member of the Holy See. However, the Archbishop of Cologne is a powerful prince. Even the Holy See cannot command the Archbishop of Cologne.

What's more, if Marin used the Holy See to intimidate the Archbishop of Cologne, then he might really be singing all around. Originally, the Seventh Electorate, the Elector of Saxony and the Elector of Brandenburg were already very hostile to themselves. If you offend the Archbishop of Cologne, you will offend the three elected emperors.

The two Electors, with their younger brothers, Marin asked himself that he could still fight. If the three major electors formed a group and beat themselves together, Marin would have no confidence.

You should know that Archbishop of Cologne is not only one of the Seven Electors, but also the Speaker of the Burgundy region (the Dutch region). The right to command.

If the Archbishop of Cologne is offended, in the future when Marin and the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg in the east will fight, the mainland may be united by the Archdiocese of Cologne from the south and west and its many affiliated bishops attack.

Marin's current territory is already scattered. While going to the east to fight the coalition forces of the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg, while fighting against the group of bishops led by the Archdiocese of Cologne, it may well be bad luck.

Therefore, the best solution is to buy the Archbishop of Cologne and make him agree to give up the Bishop of Münster. In this way, Marin will not be in conflict with the Archbishop of Cologne.

Moreover, Marin also understood that the position of the archbishop of the bishopric is not hereditary. Therefore, the archbishops of those bishopric countries, except for a few with high moral character, most of the bishops will make a lot of money during their tenure. In this era, it is normal for the bishop of the bishopric country to make money. Even bribing voters in elections is public. Just like when Alexander VI elected the Pope, in order to let the rival of the Sforza family withdraw, he said directly to him-"How much do you need to withdraw?" Then, a mule team was sent to pretend Full of gold, he swaggered to the house of the cardinal of the Sforza family ...

Therefore, in Western Europe in this era, if you encounter problems, you can choose to smash money. Of course, not many have the conditions to do this. Most nobles, because of the small amount of land produced and the extravagance of their lives, spend their money. Therefore, most nobles cannot afford to bribe people with much money.

Moreover, the secular nobles can often only rely on the output of their own territory, and they cannot tax the landlords. Often, there are more commercial cities under the control of nobility, and more tax revenue.

In other words, you cannot make a fortune by farming. Why are the Electors of Saxony and the Duke of Saxony rich? Because the Saxony region is a very developed area of ​​German handicraft industry. Unlike farming, nobles can be taxed when starting handicraft workshops and selling commodities. Therefore, only in areas where industry and commerce are developed, the finance of the nobility will be better.

However, in contrast, the bishop's finances are often very good. why? Because the diocese can impose tithes ...

The tithe is a natural power of the bishopric. Although it is said that the territory of those secular princes is also levied tithes, but that is levied by churches in those secular princes, and it has nothing to do with secular princes.

However, the tithe of the bishopric country, the bishop has the right to call, not all sent to Rome. Of course, even the churches in the secular princes who levied tithes can retain a large amount of tithes, and only send part of them to Rome.

Therefore, the entire Western Europe region is rich in churches no matter where they are. You think, the people in the whole area where the church is located must give one tenth of their income to the church. Can the church not get rich?

The bishop of the diocese can spend more than half of the tithe tax on state expenditure, and only need to send a small portion of the tithe tax to Rome. Of course, most of this expenditure is false. These false reports have become the private property of the bishop of the bishopric. Those tithes sent to Rome actually end up in the treasury of the Papal State. In fact, not many, most of them are divided by the Pope and Cardinals of the Holy See ...

Fortunately for Marin, as a great nobleman, he does not need to pay the "Tithe Tax". At least, no priest dared to ask him for a tithe.

Because, the priests in the East Frisian Lambert must see Marin's eyes. At the beginning, when he entered the East Friesland, Marin raised his butcher knife and slaughtered countless nobles. Therefore, the priests of East Frisian Lambert were afraid of Marin. And Taylor was directly involved in Marin's arms.

In the case where domestic priests are obedient to themselves, Marin has actually evaded taxes ...

Commercial tithes are the worst statistics. Because, no one knows how much money the merchant made. Of course, for pure merchants with low status, or Jewish merchants, the church can send people to check the accounts. Of course, businessmen can also use fake accounts to evade taxes.

So, in fact, the main source of tithe is the harvest of farmland. Every autumn season, the priests will go to Tiantou to wait for "taxation". For example, if you receive 400 pounds of rye per acre, you should pay 40 pounds of rye to the church ...

However, from the beginning, Marin colluded (or coerced) with the local church, falsely reported output, and still reported 400 pounds per mu as less than 150 pounds. Therefore, the churches in East Frisian Lambert still levy a low standard of less than 15 pounds per acre when collecting tithe. Of course, this standard is not lower than before. In other words, the income of the Church of East Frisian Lambert is no less than before.

This is not to say that Marin likes tax evasion, but because if the tithe of the East Frisian nation is too high, it will attract the attention of other countries and let people know the secrets of the high land yield in East Frisian nation. Therefore, Marin has always colluded with the local church and falsely reported the yield of crops, in order to keep the secret of high yields of crops, not to evade taxes.

The archbishops of those archbishoprics were actually full of money transactions when they campaigned. After Herman IV became Archbishop of Cologne, he was also busy making money. For example, before Marin asked Herman IV to help him speak at the Imperial Parliament, twice (the first time was to make East Frisian Lambert a member of the Imperial Court of Princes, and the second time was to make the Principality of Schleswig Joined the Imperial Courts) and bribed 20,000 gold coins to Archbishop Hermann IV of Cologne ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ And Hermann IV also laughed. Obviously, he is not a morally priest ......

Therefore, it is possible to spend money to buy Hermann IV and let it abandon the Bishop of Münster.

As far as Marin knew, Herman IV was not as mistress and illegitimate as Alexander VI. Most of his accumulated money subsidized the family, the Hessen family.

Heisenberg is a poor country with poor land and a large population. Herman IV was born in the Hessian family and naturally paid attention to the development of the Hessian country. Moreover, the nobles of this era have very heavy family values. Therefore, the large amount of money accumulated by Herman IV, in addition to maintaining his luxury life, many subsidized the family.

Therefore, Marin ’s intention was to bribe Herman IV himself on the one hand; on the other hand, to bribe Herman IV ’s relatives and help them persuade Herman IV to agree to give up the Bishop of Münster ...

It ’s just, I do n’t know how much this bribe will cost ...

Unlike the previous request for Herman IV to vote for himself at the Imperial Conference, this time, Marin was to "cut the meat" in the area of ​​Herman IV. If you want Herman IV to agree, it will be an astronomical figure ...