A mouthful of milk tea in Bishop Conrad's mouth almost squirted:

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

"I would care about the rebellion of 80 knights?" Marin looked disdainful. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Bishop Conrad suddenly remembered that the man in front of him had an army of 10,000 in his hands. 80 knights, even if one person with 5 squires, is only 480 people. Then some serfs were recruited, but those serf soldiers had no combat effectiveness at all, and they 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's the case, you'll be disgusted by all the knights. In that case, no knight will come to you in the future. ”

"Hmm...... That's a problem. That's it, I'm a strong buy. 50,000 yugram land, I give 500,000 gold coins to buy. However, we will not be able to pay until after the autumn harvest. ”

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

In other words, the price of autumn harvest rye alone is worth 24 gold coins from the cultivated land of Yugram. Even if the profit is only half and the other half is calculated as the cost, the profit of one eugram rye is 12 gold coins per year. However, Marin actually wanted to forcibly buy land for 10 gold coins per Yugram's land, which was no different from robbing.

What's even more shameless is that Marin said that he would wait until after the autumn harvest to pay. But now, the rye in the knights' homes has been planted, and when the autumn harvest comes, the rye will be sold for 12 gold coins per yugram. In other words, Marin bought these lands without spending a penny, and earned 2 gold coins per yugram......

"That's all you give? After the autumn harvest, rye yields are higher than that! If this is the case, these 80 knights will lose their land and will all become wandering knights. When the time comes, in the knightly world, they will go crazy to spread your bad reputation. ”

Marin silently calculated in his own heart, really...... Giving such a little money by yourself is basically not much different from robbing. For the sake of his reputation in the knightly world, Marin decided to make up a little more:

"Or, my lord, will you compensate them for some arable land in South Münster?"

"What? You asked the church to compensate these knights for the land? No kidding, right? ”

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

Bishop Conrad thought about it, and if he continued to be in power, he really needed a group of military attachés to serve him. After all, those 5000 mercenaries were sent away by Marin before.

"But, 50,000 yugrams! My use of ecclesiastical land to compensate these knights will cause a strong displeasure among the clergy. ”

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

"What do you mean?"

"Lower the standard and compensate each person 200 eugram arable land! You must know that the original fiefdom area of these 80 knights, especially the cultivated area, has seriously exceeded the standard. I remember that I was born on the Hoffmann Knight's Manor, only 100 eugrams of arable land. You give them 200 eugrams, which is good. ”

200 yugram per person, 80 people only need a total of 16,000 yugrams, but it can be considered.

"But, Lord Marlin, why am I doing this for you?"

"Because I continue to let you retain the dominion of the fields and the region of South Münster, ah......"

Bishop Conrad choked on the fact that he knew that Marin was telling the truth. He kept the interest field of 780,000 gold coins a year and the right to rule the South Münster region for several years, and paid 36,000 yugram for the cult arable land, and indeed did not suffer a loss.

"In fact, if I take over the Bishopric of Münster in the case of a secular vassal state, I should take over all the 250,000 Ugram ecclesiastical lands." Marin said regretfully.

Bishop Conrad rolled his eyes:

"You know this is church land, huh? Who dares to touch the land of the Church? The king didn't dare! ”

Marin pursed his lips, and said in his heart that there was really a king who dared. After the Protestant Reformation, didn't Henry VIII confiscate all the property of the Catholic Church in England? For this reason, Henry VIII went from a poor ghost king to a ......

In addition, the reason why the Protestant Reformation was supported by many princes, and those princes, where was it because of their faith? It is clearly that he has taken a fancy to the huge land 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......

In the final analysis, the War of the Reformation was a mass fight between princes who coveted Catholic possessions and princes who were devout Catholics. Moreover, even the devout Catholic princes would not gamble everything on the vassal states and fight to the death with the Protestant princes for religious reasons. Only the Catholic bishops of those episcopal states are more fighting. Because, they want to protect the property of the church. And those secular Catholic princes, in fact, are more waving flags and shouting. Therefore, the Protestant princes were able to barely win the war.

After all, secular princes were reluctant to make a big contribution, and the military power of the episcopal states was limited after all. That's why I can't help the Protestant Union. And the reason why Charles V desperately defended Catholicism was not that he really apologized, but that he wanted to complete the unification of Germany in the name of fighting Protestantism. As a result, the Catholic princes later saw it and released the water directly, and then the Protestants won by luck.

"Charles V's trick seems to be very good......" Marin suddenly thought distractedly. Marin remembers that during the Protestant Wars, the Archbishopric of Bremen seemed to be a rare converted Protestant episcopal state. If, at that time, in the name of preserving Catholicism, can he take the opportunity to swallow the Archbishop of Bremen? In this way, their own territories can basically be connected......

Just as Marin was caught in YY, Bishop Conrad spoke:

"So, Lord Marlin, that's it? You keep our fields of interest, and guarantee me temporal dominion over the region of South Münster while I am alive. I'm going to find a way to get all the 70,000 eugrams in North Münster under your name......"

After Ma Lin reacted, he thought about it and suddenly said:

"Bishop Conrad, that is, so far, we have only gotten 36,000 yograms out of 250,000 eugrams?"

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

"36,000 eugrams is too little, only a little more than a seventh ......"

"Don't be too greedy, if you do more, I'll get impeachment from the clergy." Bishop Conrad said angrily.

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

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

"Hehe......" Marin smiled, finally ready to make a move......