Right here in Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. Medici and John. While Tezell was busy forming the choir, Marin was not idle, and he sent someone to Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici sent a small military band.

Although it can't play the majestic electronic sound at the beginning of "TheMass", most of it can still be played on orchestral instruments, such as the violin and cello "invented" by Marin. As for the electronic music at the beginning, Marin replaced it with a drum sound, although the effect is much worse, but it is better than nothing. With the accompaniment of these orchestral instruments and drums, the singing effect of "TheMass" has been increased by N times, which is very shocking.

Marin had been looking forward to John for a long time. Tezel's indulgence sales group arrived in Germany early to make money, because, without Johann. Tezel's indulgence sales team could not arouse Martin Luther's anger or set off the Reformation.

Although it is said that Marin has sent 007 to lurk around Martin Luther and began to try to influence Martin. Luther's thoughts. But, because he didn't see the utterly depraved side of the church, young Martin. Luther had not yet made up his mind to break with the Holy See. So, John. Tezeer's indulgence sales corps will be the most important part of Marin's plan – provoking Martin. Luther's anger and rebellion......

When this big guy is angry and cold to the church, when the time comes, 007 will persuade him to carry out the religious reform. Historically, Martin. Luther did not begin to speak out against indulgences until 1517. Marin didn't want to wait that long, so he was going to make Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici made the sale of indulgences larger, and went to the Electorate of Saxony to sell them on several occasions. The Electorate of Saxony is none other than Martin. Where Luther lived. John. Tezel has been on Martin several times. Performing in front of Luther can also provoke his anger as soon as possible.

In fact, Martin. Luther didn't know that Marin, who had historically refuted indulgences, had prepared it for him. Once 007 discovered Martin. When Luther began to hate indulgences, he would spread the contents of the Ninety-Five Theses to him. Then, through his mouth, the program was disseminated.

In addition to this, Martin. Luther's Protestant ideas, Marlin are ready for 007 to secretly influence Martin. Luther. One of the most important of these was to encourage the princes to confiscate church lands and property......

This is very, very important, because it took decades for Protestantism to be accepted by most of the princes of northern Germany. And Marin threw out the "confiscation of church land and property" early on in order to attract the princes to join Protestantism. After all, the church is so rich that it is strange that those princes are not greedy.

But when it comes to the issue of tithes, Marin is very sensitive. Because, this thing is a nuclear weapon. Historically, Martin. Luther agreed in principle to pay tithes to secular monarchs, but Marin would never agree, and would even desperately oppose it!

Why? Because Marin is worried about France! In today's France, the king of France can only rely on territorial land and commercial taxes and customs duties to obtain income. Therefore, the number of troops that can afford to raise is very limited, generally only 10,000 or 20,000, and at most tens of thousands in wartime. It can be said that due to limited income, France has not used the demographic dividend of 15 million people at all.

And it would be terrible if the French crown could collect tithes instead of the Church! The population of Germany was not as large as that of France, and if Louis XII had French tithes in hand, it would have been difficult to feed an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000. When the time comes, in the face of France, which has ample tax revenues, Marin, a traverser, will also tremble.

So, Marin's bottom line is that you can confiscate the land and property of the church in the Protestant Reformation, but you must not get involved in tithing. Whoever gets involved, even if it is the king of France, Marin will send troops to kill him!

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And from now on, Marin has silently begun to prepare for the wars of religion......

On the military side, Marin is training the domestic police force while planning to hide troops overseas. The Legion of the Americas was already quietly recruiting, and in order not to provoke other vassal states, Marin did not raise the banner, but sent spies to quietly go deep into the German countries, especially in the southern mountains, to select suitable sources of troops. After recruiting, these people will be loaded and transported to the North American colonies, where they will be systematically trained in the early stage, and then set out to attack those Indian tribes to exercise their courage and combat ability. Of course, they also need to master logging skills, because the battle to conquer North America will eventually require cutting down forests and clearing arable land. In this way, European immigrants can stand on their feet. Otherwise, the Reckless Forest is definitely the home of the Indians. In the face of the archers of the Indians in the deep mountains and old forests, no matter how powerful the army is, it will be a headache. Therefore, Marin decided to let the army fight steadily, and cut down trees wherever they hit. Without the cover of the forest, the Indian archers are lambs to the slaughter......

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In addition to military preparations, Marin also made a lot of economic preparations. For example, the land of his new 8 vassal states......

Although Marin had reined in his greed, half of the farmland of the 8 vassal states had fallen into Marin's hands. The other half of the arable land went to the local church and the more obedient minor nobles and Junker landlords.

The arable land of the eight vassal states is not a small number, according to the rough estimate of the officials in charge of statistics under Kohler, Marin "ransomed" about half of the arable land of the eight princes and their nobles, with a total area of nearly one million acres.

In other words, the half of the cultivated land owned by Marin in these 8 vassal states is close to 6 million mu!

In addition to the need to give 100,000 acres to reward meritorious soldiers, the remaining 900,000 acres are under the name of Marin. And this year's autumn harvest of these lands will be owned by Marin. Therefore, Marin is also very concerned about this.

However, out of secrecy, Marin did not use a three-pronged mixture of fertilizers on the newly acquired 8 land, but only planned to use volcanic ash as a cover on the millions of acres of arable land (including the land allocated to his subordinates). Of course, the yield will not be too low. At least, it's a lot better than not using fertilizers.

And Marin didn't just apply volcanic ash to this million-acre farmland. In the volcanic ash mined from Italy, Marin also had a lot of potash stirred into it. In this way, the fertility of these volcanic ashes will be greatly increased. At that time, the land taken by Marin and his subordinates in these eight vassal states will yield more than 100 pounds per mu. At that time, more than 200 pounds was just the beginning, and 300 pounds per mu was not a myth. After all, the volcanic ash plus potassium salts is already fertile enough......

However, with the French invading the Kingdom of Naples, several volcanoes in Naples that Marin had privately bought to cover were lost. Fortunately, Marin later thought of Iceland, which has many volcanoes, and spent money to buy Iceland and regain the volcanic ash. With potash-added volcanic ash as fertilizer, Marin believes that two to three hundred pounds per acre of the millions of acres of arable land in the newly acquired eight countries will not be a problem......

In this way, Marlin can obtain high yields of newly acquired land without revealing the true fertilizer secrets. Although it is not as high as the more than 500 pounds per mu in the early four provinces where the mixed fertilizer with three full fertilizers was used, it is already considered high compared to the current grain yields in other European countries......

As summer quietly wears, Marin is already waiting for autumn to arrive. In autumn, both the native farmland and the newly acquired farmland using volcanic ash fertilizer will usher in a bumper harvest. Although the yield per mu may be very different, in any case, it is much higher than that of other countries...... 8)