The Rise of the European Emperor

A sip of milk tea in Bishop Conrad's mouth almost spurted out:

"Are you crazy? That's 80 knights, not 80 ordinary manor masters! What if they rebel?"

"Do I care about the rebellion of the 80 knights?" Marin said with disdain.

Bishop Conrad suddenly remembered that the man in front of him had an army of 10,000 people. 80 knights, even if one person takes 5 attendants, there are only 480 people. Then some serfs were recruited, but those serf soldiers had no fighting power at all, and were completely vulnerable in front of Marin's tens of thousands of professional troops. Therefore, Marin has the capital to despise those knights.

"Are you directly robbing? If that is the case, you will be disgusted by all the knights. In that case, no knight will be willing to defect to you in the future."

"Well... that's a problem. Well, I'm a strong buy. For 50,000 Eugram's land, I'll pay 500,000 gold coins to buy it. However, I can't pay the bill until after the autumn harvest."

Bishop Conrad was speechless. It was early May, and the rye had already been planted. One Eugram land is 12 acres of land, and if the yield per mu is calculated at 120 pounds, it can also be sold for 2 gold coins. 12 acres of land is worth 24 gold coins.

That is to say, the price of autumn harvest rye alone is worth 24 gold coins. Even if the profit is only half, and the other half is the cost, the profit of one gram of rye is 12 gold coins per year. However, Marin actually wanted to forcibly redeem the land with 10 gold coins per Eugram's land, which was no different from robbery.

What's more shameless is that Marin said that the payment will be made after the autumn harvest. But now, the rye in these knights' homes is planted, and after the autumn harvest, the rye can be sold for 12 gp per yogram. It means that Marin bought these lands without spending a penny, and also earned 2 gold coins per Eugram...

"You just give this amount of money? The output of rye after the autumn harvest is higher than this amount! If this is the case, these 80 knights will lose their land and become wandering knights. At that time, in the knight world, they will spread like crazy. your bad reputation."

Marin silently calculated in his own heart, it really is... Giving such a little money by himself is basically not much different from robbery. For his reputation in the knight world, Marin decided to make up for it:

"Why don't you, Lord Bishop, compensate them for some arable land in the South Munster area?"

"What? You asked the church to compensate these knights for land? Are you kidding me?"

"Of course, these 80 knights are all church knights. If you continue to rule South Munster, don't you need these 80 church knights to continue to serve you?"

Bishop Conrad thought for a while,

If he continues to be in power, he really needs a group of military attachés to serve him. After all, the 5,000 mercenaries were sent away by Marin.

"However, 50,000 Eugram's land! If I use the church land to compensate these knights, it will cause strong dissatisfaction among the priests."

"Who asked you to compensate according to the original land area?"

"what do you mean?"

"Reduce the standard and compensate each person for 200 Eugram for arable land! You must know that the original fief area of ​​these 80 knights, especially the area of ​​arable land, has seriously exceeded the standard. I remember that the Hoffman Knight Manor where I was born was only 100 Eugram's arable land. You give them 200 Eugram each, which is not bad."

200 Eugrams per person, 80 people only need 16,000 Eugrams in total, but it can be considered.

"However, Lord Marin, why should I help you like this?"

"Because I continue to allow you to retain the right to rule the interests of the field and the South Munster area..."

Bishop Conrad was suddenly choked, and he knew that what Marin said was the truth. It is true that he has kept the interest fields and the right to rule the South Munster area for several years, which is worth 70,000 to 80,000 gold coins every year, and paid 36,000 Eugram for the church farmland, which is indeed not a loss.

"In fact, if it were a secular vassal state and I took over the Bishopric of Munster, I should take over the church land of 250,000 Eugrams," Marin said regretfully.

Bishop Conrad rolled his eyes:

"You also know that this is the church's land? Who dares to touch the church's land? Neither does the king!"

Marin pouted, thinking that the king really dared. After the Protestant Reformation, didn't Henry VIII confiscated all the property of the Catholic Church in England? For this reason, Henry VIII, from a poor ghost king, suddenly sent...

In addition, the reason why the Protestant Reformation has won the support of many princes, those princes, where is it because of faith? It is clear that he has taken a fancy to the huge property and wealth of the Catholic Church. As long as you convert to Protestantism, you can happily confiscate the land and property of the Catholic Church...

After all, the Reformation War was a gang fight between princes who coveted Catholic property and devout Catholic princes. Moreover, even the devout Catholic princes would not risk everything in the princely state and the Protestant princes for religious reasons. Only the Catholic bishops of the bishopric are more competitive. Because they want to protect church property. And those secular Catholic princes, in fact, are more of waving flags. Therefore, the Protestant princes could barely win the war.

After all, the secular princes are reluctant to make great efforts, and the military power of the bishopric is limited after all. Therefore, the Protestant League can't help it. The reason why Charles V desperately defended Catholicism was not that he was really apologetic, but that he wanted to complete the unification of Germany in the name of cracking down on Protestantism. As a result, the Catholic princes saw it out and released the water directly, and then the Protestant won by luck.

"Charles V's move seems to be very good..." Marin suddenly thought absentmindedly. Marin remembers that during the Protestant War, the Archbishopric of Bremen seemed to be a rare Protestant bishopric. If, at that time, in the name of defending Catholicism, can I take the opportunity to swallow the Archbishop of Bremen? In this way, your own territory can basically be connected together...

Just as Marin fell into YY, Bishop Conrad spoke:

"Then, Mr. Marin, is that settled? You keep our interest fields and guarantee me the secular governance of the South Munster area while I am alive. And I, I will try to find a way to take the seven parts of the North Munster area. The arable land of Wanyugram is in your name..."

After Marin reacted, he thought about it, and suddenly said:

"Bishop Conrad, that means we've only gotten 36,000 Eugram's land out of 250,000 Eugram's church land so far?"

"Yeah, how much more do you want? That's the church!"

"36,000 Eugram is too little, only a little over one-seventh..."

"Don't be too greedy, if there is more, I will be impeached by the priests." Bishop Conrad said angrily.

"What are you afraid of? I have the support of the Pope, and the Archbishop of Cologne is also on my side." Marin didn't care, and pointed out the fact that the Pope supported him.

"I'll help you get more church land, so what can I get?" Bishop Conrad grumbled.

"Haha..." Marin smiled, finally ready to use his trick...