Chapter 248: not that simple

To sort these things, Marin, as the big brother, naturally does not need to go out in person. After all, the dozens of civilians he brought were not vegetarians. "Eat the king and bear the worries of the king." This is their job.

And Marin is responsible for sitting on the side and drinking "Homemade" Earl Milk Tea, and then bragging with a bunch of generals ...

After all, what is happening now is no longer a military commander, it is purely a civilian matter. Except for taking part in the city defense and patrolling some of the middle- and low-level officers in the countryside, the senior military commanders have nothing to do now. They can only watch the Marin bragging silently by the side of Marin, and then praise and praise in time ...

Although the price of black tea bricks from Lithuania is not cheap, but since bragging with a group of people, you can't drink milk tea by yourself, but you have no need to drink it?

Then, the generals present all drank the warm "Count milk tea".

However, a general is a general. When drinking tea, it is completely cattle drinking, not as elegant as Marin when drinking tea ...

However, speaking of it, Marin drinks tea elegantly because he used to drink 4 yuan a bottle of milk tea in his previous life. He has tasted a variety of flavors. Therefore, when facing the delicious milk tea, it seems so calm. When drinking tea, there are also kung fu who learn to pretend to be elegant and pretend to be a **** of tea in the past life TV ...

However, the rammed goods of Marin's men are mostly civilians. They don't understand the elegance of nobles at all, and they can't pretend. Moreover, the first time I drank fragrant and sweet milk tea, I was greedy and naturally drank it with a gulp.

Fortunately, tea is not a disposable consumable and can be cooked several times. As long as you continue to add milk and cane sugar to the pot, you can still cook it several times, but it can also satisfy the rammed goods of this group of cattle drinks. Otherwise, the consumption of tea bricks alone is enough to make Marin distressed ...

Moreover, after drinking the delicious "Count Earl Milk Tea", the group of rough men with no ink in their belly did not know how to praise the deliciousness of the milk tea, only knowing-"Well, delicious!" "Well, good ! "... or, simply come to say-" another bowl "...

Marin had been disappointed with this group of rough guys, and if Jeffrey's fat man was present, he would be sure to shoot the art of a fart. Unlike this group of rough guys, only when telling adult jokes, this group of guys can easily understand and then cause a strong resonance ...

Of course, Marin is not purely bragging with this group of rammed goods. When the group of civilian staff found out any problems in the file, or found any interesting situations, they came to report the situation.

For example, he found that the southern border of the Bishop of Münster did indeed reach the north bank of the Lipper River. The territorial division of the Ruhr area on the south side of the Lipper River is very complicated.

From the south of the Lipper River to the Emschel River between the Lipper River and the Ruhr River, not counting the territory of the Principality of Cliff on the Rhine, there are about a few hundred square kilometers of land called Wester -Vest Recklinghausen (available for inspection). The ownership of this land is very complicated. Originally, this plot belonged to the Archbishop of Cologne. However, in 1446, the archbishop of Cologne at that time probably owed the land to the lord of Gemen (specially, I do n’t know how to translate the name of the area) because of lack of money. By 1492, the land fell into the hands of the Earl of Schaunburg. To be precise, it fell into the hands of Schaumburg and Holstein-Pinneberg.

In other words, Recklinghausen and the hundreds of square kilometers of land nearby are not in the hands of the Archbishop of Cologne. However, the Archbishop of Cologne took advantage of the Cologne War and took the land back in 1576 ...

If the land is in the hands of the Archbishop of Cologne, Marin really dare not mess up his mind. After all, they are also one of the emperors. However, in the hands of an Earl of Thornburg, Malin suddenly became energetic.

You should know that Uncle Schornberg is just a small uncle, and the estimated land area is less than 1,000 square kilometers. Of course, other people's ancestors are also wide. For example, the Principality of Holstein originally belonged to the Schaumburg family. It was a few hundred years ago, when the very powerful Principality of Saxony divided the Principality of Holstein to the Schaumburg family. However, later, the arrogant King of Denmark seized the Principality of Holstein from the Schonburg family and only retained Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel 6 small territories belonging to the Principality of Holstein, including Holstein-Pinneberg. However, what remains until now is the Holstein-Pinneberg territory still in the hands of the Schaumburg family. The other five territories were either heirs or deprived by the Duke of Holstein. In fact, the people of the Schaunburg family were also the Duke of the Principality of Schleswig. It was just abandoned by the Danes ...

But in any case, the country owned by this family is just a small country. There is still a great chance to get Wester-Recklinghausen from them. After all, it is a coal-producing area in the Ruhr area!

And West, Essen, south of Recklinghausen, is currently nominally part of the Archbishop of Cologne. However, the Essens have obtained autonomy through redemption. Moreover, it was also awarded the title of imperial city by Emperor Charles IV, with autonomy. In other words, Essen and the surrounding hundreds of square kilometers of land are actually autonomous autonomous cities, similar to Dortmund.

Then, the coal production area of ​​the Ruhr area, the rest, mainly belongs to the Markbe country and the Principality of the River Cliff on the Rhine. However, these two countries belong to Duke John.

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Ten days later, Marin's team of clerks calculated the books and rosters. It is also embarrassing them. It is really difficult for dozens of people to figure out the situation of a princely state with more than 10,000 square kilometers. Those account books and rosters occupy almost half of the room.

However, their report made Marin very depressed ...

Why? In the clerk's report, the Bishop of Munster is a large country with a population of 10,200 square kilometers and a population of 500,000. Of course, this is not the point. The focus is on arable land-this country has 350,000 eugrams (700,000 acres or 4.2 million acres) of arable land. However, of the 350,000 Ugram's cultivated land, there are actually 250,000 Ugram, in the hands of the church ...

Marin was shocked-Nima, the church wants to go to heaven? It actually occupies five-sevenths of the country ...

However, considering the meaning of the word "bishop" in the Bishopric of Münster, Marin understood ...

After all, this is a church-ruled country. In this agricultural society, can a greedy church not hold the land in its hands? Marin would be strange if he didn't do this ...

But the problem is that as a farming earl, Marin wants to concentrate domestic land in his own hands or his own hands. In this way, you can get the maximum benefit.

If the land was in the hands of the original aristocracy, Marin could use coercion and temptation to forcefully buy the arable land, or use force to "trust" it, as it did in Oldenburg and the Duchy of Schleswig.

However, if these lands are in the hands of the church, it will be different. After all, the church represents the Holy See, and even Marin ca n’t take away the church ’s land even if he is a cow. This kind of thing, even the king did not dare. It wasn't until the rise of Protestantism, like King Henry VIII, that the land of the church was greedy, and they devoted themselves to depriving the church of property and land.

However, now that Protestantism has not yet appeared, the power of the church is still strong. This distressed Marin. Facing a strong church, it seems that you can't grab the land with the church ...

"Just, in this way, what did I do to get the Bishop of Münster in painstaking effort? Isn't it just for nominal domination?" Marin was very depressed.

However, it is not all bad news, there is good news ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The good news is that the land controlled by the church is basically in the South Münster area. After all, the core area of ​​the Bishop ’s Diocese of Munster is in the south, as is the city of Munster.

North Munster is actually in a semi-developed state, and a lot of land has not yet been developed. Moreover, towns are also scarce. The power of the church here is also relatively weak, and the occupied cultivated land is relatively small.

That is to say, on the approximately 4,300 square kilometers of land in North Münster, Marin is still very promising, and it can completely occupy large areas of undeveloped land by relying on secular governance.

It's just that Marin was jealous of the large fertile land in the south occupied by the church. However, he had no choice. No way, go grab the church land?

"Otherwise, in the upcoming Protestant Reformation, I secretly support the Protestant revolutionaries, blood-washing South Munster once, and clearing out the power of the church?" Suddenly, Malin had such a vicious idea in his heart ...

It seems that Martin Luther has not initiated the Reformation for many years. At that time, he was in his prime, but he could use Protestantism to cleanse the church power that occupies South Munster. When the priests are killed by the Protestant revolutionaries, they can completely burn down the land ownership files and occupy most of the fertile land in South Muenster ...