Although an agreement was reached with Bishop Conrad to dig a corner of the church in the Bishopric of Münster, Bishop Conrad was cunning and had to wait until his nephew was appointed assistant bishop and proved that he had the Pope's strong support before he could really exert his strength. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, in the early stage, he could still operate to hand over all the 20,000 church properties in the North Münster region to Marin. This is actually relatively easy to achieve.

Why? Because the core of the Dominion of the Episcopal States of Münster is in the South Münster region. The interests of the high-ranking clergy of the powerful Bishopric of Münster were also in the South Münster region, especially in the fields of the 50,000 yugrams. As for the priests in the North Münster region, in fact, they are marginal figures in the Münster bishopric and have no right to speak.

In order to preserve those interests, Conrad believed that the teachers of the real power would not hesitate to abandon the priests of North Münster.

Sure enough, as Bishop Conrad had expected, when he heard that he could keep his interests and that he could maintain his rule in the South Münster region, the vast majority of the powerful people in the Münster Bishopric chose to support this exchange of interests.

In this way, the Bishop of Conrad and the top of the Münster Church collectively declared that the religious administration and church lands of North Münster would be entrusted to the Bishop Taylor of the East Friesian Metropolitan State.

In fact, many of the top clergy in the Episcopal State of Münster knew that Taylor was Marin's dogleg. The transfer of the ecclesiastical and ecclesiastical lands of the North Münster region to Taylor is tantamount to the transfer of Marin.

Once the religious administration of North Münster was transferred to Taylor, Taylor could have replaced all the abbots of North Münster with the clergy of the East Friesian Lamberland, with the support of Marin's army. Then, there was no objection to the transfer of the church land to Marin.

Of course, Marin didn't let those monasteries suffer. For example, in the future, some land will be compensated to those monasteries. After all, the priests of the monastery could not be starved.

However, the monastery may have acquired only a small amount of land in the surrounding area. Moreover, Marin would take charge of all the estates and lands, and the clergy of the monastery would just sit and take the benefits.

Once Marin introduced new agricultural techniques in the North Münster region, the local rye yield increased from more than 100 pounds per mu to 500 pounds per acre.

But for the land that was allocated to the monasteries, Marin would pay tithes to the church at the rate of 150 pounds per acre, and after deducting about 30 pounds of seed weight, he would give the remaining 105 pounds, a whole of 100 pounds, to the churches in various places as income. And the rest of the big heads will belong to Marin.

Of course, the amount of land of the church in North Münster will no longer be 20,000 yugrams, but will be reduced to about 3,000 yugrams. After all, there are only 30 monasteries in the North Münster region, and 20,000 yugrams of land is too much for them. Marin didn't want to have unlimited land in the monasteries under his rule, and it was enough for each monastery to give 100 Yugram knights about the same amount of arable land. Moreover, the land must be under Marin's rule.

In this way, in the future, the monasteries in the territory of Marin, who wanted food and salaries, took it from their own hands, and not from them. It is equivalent to saying that they are stuck in their economic lifeline. In this way, the clergy have to obey themselves. Otherwise, I will deduct their salaries......

Then, it's time to deal with the land of the 80 church knights. Marin dug a pit first to let them know that the South Münster region would continue to be under the rule of Bishop Conrad.

As a result, these 80 church knights were fooled and all chose to continue to serve the church in the Episcopal State of Münster and stay in the South Münster area. After all, they were all knights of the church, so they were naturally closer to the church.

But when they had made their choice, Marin said that since they had chosen the church in South Münster, they had to spit out all the land in North Münster.

For a moment, the 80 church knights were thrown into chaos. Some knights begged Marin to keep their land, and even, intending to deny their previous choice, intending to throw themselves into Marin's arms.

However, Marin will not accept them. Mainly, these guys have too much land. In Germany, many of the poorer barons did not necessarily own as much arable land. You must know that many barons in the southern mountains, although their territory is large, are mountainous, and the area of arable land is not as good as these knights of the Münster Church.

Eventually, Marin announced that he would forcibly buy their manor at the cost of 10,000 gold coins for each knight. Moreover, the 10,000 gold coins were not paid in cash, but in rye. Anyway, there is a lot of grain in Marin's granary. 10,000 gold coins of rye, based on the market price of 1 fennig per pound, only 600,000 pounds are needed. Even if you have to pay 80, the total is only 48 million pounds. And this amount is really nothing for Marin.

And, not far from Münster, is the Ames River. The navigable part of the Ames River is right near the city of Münster. Marin was going to ship 48,000,000,000 pounds of last year's stale grain rye over and pay them to the knights of the church.

At the same time, when taking over their estates, they were not allowed to return in person, but could only send their attendants back. In this way, it can be fully avoided that those knights will return and rebel with the manor. After all, Ma Linqiang's purchase of their manor is tantamount to cutting off their financial route. These knights are not those lowly and cowardly serfs, who provoke them and dare to rebel.

However, under the suppression of their own army of tens of thousands, they could not do anything in the city of Münster, and could only accept the fate of the manor being forcibly bought.

Then, Bishop Conrad intervened in time, and in the name of the competent church in South Münster, after much consultation, adjusted the land of 16,000 eugrams, and placed the knights, and allocated 200 eugrams of arable land to each household. It's much less than it used to be, but it's better than nothing.

Moreover, Bishop Conrad was cunning and did not allocate the knightly lands from the existing lands of the Church. Rather, from the land that had not yet been cultivated, land was allocated to those knights.

After all, although there are 280,000 eugrams of arable land in the South Münster region, these are only 2,266 square kilometers when converted. The South Münster region has 5,900 square kilometres and there is still a lot of wasteland to be cultivated. The arable land of 16,000 eugrams, when converted, is less than 130 square kilometers. The allocation of land from the wasteland of the South Münster to the 80 knights, as it was not to the detriment of the Church, was very easily approved.

In this way, in an atmosphere of "hello, hello, everyone", Marin completed the control of 4,300 square kilometers of land in the North Münster region and the expropriation of 70,000 eugram arable land. The next step is the development and exploitation of the North Münster region.

But to the surprise of the priests of South Münster, they all got the North Münster region, and Marin still did not leave. It stands to reason that he has relinquished control of the South Münster region, and should have retreated north with a large army at this time......

How did they know that Marin was waiting for a reply from Rome? Once Bishop Conrad's nephew, John, was appointed assistant bishop, a second, larger wave of land grabbing against the Church of Münster would begin in earnest. The 20,000 eugrams of arable land that were taken away from the church were just a small fight......