This trick is very ruthless and very effective. Historically, many new rulers have issued similar tax exemption orders. And the sole purpose of this initiative is to maintain stability!

What Ma Lin was worried about was that the nobles of the eight vassal states would slip through the net, and they would take advantage of him to lead his troops south to induce the peasants to launch an uprising.

As soon as there was a peasant uprising in the territory, Marin had to send troops to suppress it. When the time comes, I will have to return to the division. Even, when the time comes, they will have to raise their butcher knives and kill the rebels on a large scale. After all, in order to prevent those who come after him from following suit, he must deal with the rebels with his killers.

Therefore, the best countermeasure is to let those German serfs not have any thoughts against him. In this way, even if there is a careerist incitement, no one will pay attention to it.

Whether it was the peasants in ancient China or the serfs in Europe in this era, what they were most concerned about was probably the output of grain and the rent handed over to the serf owners. In fact, most of the grain harvested by the serfs every year had to be handed over to the lord of the manor, and only a small amount of grain was left to barely make ends meet.

Therefore, Marin simply ordered the exemption of this year's tax, and even let the serfs keep all the harvested grain and not pay the land rent, so that the serfs could have a fat year this year. At least, this year, the serfs of these 8 vassal states will definitely be able to eat and drink enough. Because, they can keep their food completely, and they don't have to hand over most of it.

In this way, the serfs, who have received huge benefits, will rejoice. Even, will be grateful to Marin.

At this time, even if a careerist jumped out to incite them to rebel, no one would pay attention to it......

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Sure enough, when Marin posted and issued an order in various parts of the eight vassal states to "exempt all taxes for this year", the serfs everywhere rejoiced.

On the contrary to them, it is the anger of those nobles, big and small. Because, Marin's decree has made them have no income this year, and life will become difficult.

But Marin didn't care what they would think, because the main noble members of these 8 vassal states basically participated in the war to invade the Beihai Kingdom. Then, either he died in the North Sea State or was imprisoned in Oldenburg. The nobles who stayed at home were either too old or too young. Even if they wanted to rebel, they couldn't afford to make waves.

And if they wanted to incite the serfs to revolt, it would be even more impossible. Because, this decree gave the serfs a huge benefit, and made Marin popular in the eyes of the serfs, who would oppose Marin? As long as there are no serfs to follow, these nobles who are either too old or too young will not be able to make waves!

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Of course, Marin didn't offend these nobles too harshly. After all, he will have to rule these regions in the future, and he can't offend everyone.

So, while announcing that he would not collect taxes on serfs, Marin also told the nobles of the eight vassal states that he would give them some compensation after that. The premise is that they are obedient. In a word, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish......

In fact, if Marin hadn't been in a hurry to lead his army south to coerce the princes into acknowledging his occupation of the eight vassal states, including the Schaumburg Count, how would he care about the economic losses of these eight nobles? It is a gift to keep them alive......

But for Marin, it was obviously more important to go south and gain the recognition of the princes than to deal with the nobles of the eight vassal states. Therefore, Marin was willing to compensate them for their economic losses.

In order to reassure these veteran nobles, Marin specially gave each nobleman a white slip according to their harvest in previous years, promising to fulfill it when he returned. Anyway, the income per mu of these nobles' fiefs was only a few dozen pounds of rye, and Marin had a lot of grain, so he could afford it completely......

As long as these people don't make trouble for themselves when they lead their troops south, these efforts are worth it.

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Before leaving, Marin hosted a banquet for a group of elderly aristocratic representatives from the eight vassal states, and repeatedly reiterated that they would retain their nobility and fiefdom interests in the future. Of course, he didn't say that in the future, he would still replace the fiefdoms of these nobles in Bremen Province in order to facilitate unified management......

After pacifying these representatives of the nobility, Marin regathered his army of 40,000 men, set out from the city of Goslar, and first headed west to his hometown of Bochum. Then, after the grain ships of East Friesland had brought enough military rations through the Münster Canal, they regrouped and continued south to the Swiss region......

While passing through Bonn, the seat of the Archbishopric of Cologne, and Mainz, the seat of the Archbishop of Mainz, Marin paid a special visit to the two archbishops, and presented a lot of gold and silver looted from the city of Goslar, bribing the two venerable Electors of the Doctrine, hoping that the Archbishop of Mainz would temporarily convene an extraordinary meeting of the Imperial Diet to discuss and recognize the question of Marin's dominion over the eight vassal states. Of course, Archbishop Marin of Trier, who was also the Elector of the Church, was not left behind - he also sent an emissary to send a large amount of gold and silver......

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On the one hand, out of wariness and disgust with the Habsburgs, these ecclesiastical princes did not have a favorable opinion of Marin, who was close to the Habsburgs; But on the other hand, because of Marin's close relationship with the current Pope Julius II, it is not convenient for these church princes to openly turn against Marin, so as not to be remembered by the Pope.

You know, they, the princes of the church, care more about the attitude of the pope than the secular princes. The rights of secular princes come from the inheritance of blood. The Pope can only pronounce excommunication, that is, excommunication, for secular princes on secular princes. It's not fatal, though. At least, it does not affect those secular princes to continue to be his princes. Unless, there is a great enemy of life and death who uses this excuse to come to the door to challenge.

Therefore, in real terms, the emperor is more afraid of the pope's excommunication than the secular princes who inherit by blood relationship. Because, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was elected by the princes and needed a good reputation. If he was excommunicated, the princes could use this as an excuse to depose the emperor.

But those princes are different, their fiefs and titles do not need to be elected and recognized by others, but come from the inheritance of blood. Even if they were excommunicated by the pope, at most they had a bad reputation, but it did not affect them to continue to be his princes. This is like some celebrities with a very bad reputation in later generations, even if everyone dislikes it? People live the same way......

But these religious princes were different, and they, like the emperor, were elected. And, in terms of status, they are all subordinates of the Pope. And the status of the emperor and the pope is about the same, and at most the emperor is inferior in fame. Even the emperor was afraid of the Pope's excommunication, let alone these princes of the Church who were subordinate to the Church?

Therefore, even if they are not happy with Marin, they dare not publicly Diss Marin. Otherwise, if you anger the Pope and be dissed by the Pope, it will be a big deal......

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Therefore, in the face of Marin's request, the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Cologne and the Archbishop of Trier were all very difficult.

Eventually, the three Church Electors were surprisingly unanimous in agreeing to convene an extraordinary meeting to discuss Marin's annexation of the eight vassal states. However, they are only responsible for holding meetings. After the extraordinary council, they, the princes of the church, will express their neutrality. In order to legally gain the right to rule the eight vassal states, Marin had to obtain the consent of more than half of the secular princes......

This attitude is actually equivalent to a polite refusal. Because, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for those secular princes to agree to the legitimate occupation of the 8 vassal states by Marin, even if there is a duel book.

But Marin didn't care, because he was ready to coerce the group of secular princes to agree. Therefore, as long as the Archbishop of Mainz agrees to convene an extraordinary council, his purpose has been achieved......

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After Archbishop Uriel of Mainz promised to inform the vassal states of an extraordinary council, Marin left Mainz with his army satisfied. In fact, Marin had planned that if Archbishop Uriel did not agree, he would lead his troops to stay in Mainz......

Outside the city of Mainz, Marin's 40,000-strong army unfurled its flag. The momentum displayed by the 40,000 elite veterans during the march is extremely amazing.

On the city wall, Archbishop Urle of Mainz looked at the 40,000 elite troops of the North Sea Kingdom with flags in the sky, and sighed:

"Germany is about to have another eventful season......

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