After thinking everything through, that night, Bishop Conrad put on an ordinary black monk's robe, buttoned the hair on his head so that people could not see him, and took a few bodyguards and quietly went from the back door of Münster Cathedral to Marin's residence for a negotiation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After arriving at the Provisional Governor's Palace, where Marin was, Bishop Conrad was quickly invited in and entered a secret room with Marin.

"Don't let anyone get close!" Before entering the chamber, Marin instructed Sauer.

"Yes!"

The vicinity was quickly emptied, and of course, the perimeter was tightened by a tighter guard. Ma Lin didn't want to make the mistake of Wu Sangui emptying the backyard in the star version of "The Legend of Deer and Ding 2", and as a result, Duolong was mixed in. Fortunately, Doron is a tease, and if he is a killer, then it will be a lot of fun.

"Welcome, Bishop Conrad, how is it, have you thought about it?" Marin lifted the freshly boiled teapot next to him, poured Bishop Conrad a cup of "Earl Grey Milk Tea" himself, and then poured himself another cup.

Bishop Conrad didn't rush to answer Marin's question, things had come to this point, but there was no need to rush. Moreover, at the negotiating table, whoever is in a hurry is at a disadvantage.

I saw him pick up the cup, take a sip of "Earl Grey Milk Tea" unhurriedly, and then his eyes lit up:

"It's a delicious drink, may I ask the Earl, what kind of drink is this?"

Marin saw that Bishop Conrad was not in the right place, and he was not in a hurry. As a human being in two lives, he is no longer a frizzy young man. So, he patiently explained:

"It's called milk tea, and it's made using tea leaves from the East, mixed with milk and cane sugar. Tea alone, with a bitter taste, does not fit into the European diet. However, with the addition of milk and cane sugar, it becomes a great drink for Europeans and even the world. ”

"Oh, I've heard that a drink called 'Earl Grey' is becoming popular in the courts of Poland, Lithuania and Bohemia lately, is this what is going on?"

"Yes, strictly speaking, this milk tea was invented by me. When I visited Lithuania, Grand Duke Alexander brought out tea to entertain me, and I invented this way of drinking it on the spot. Because I'm a Earl, it's called 'Earl Grey Milk Tea'. Marin shamelessly took the invention of this English milk tea for himself. Of course, because the time was more than two hundred years earlier, no one would hold him accountable for piracy.

"You're such a genius!" Bishop Conrad complimented.

"A new diet recipe is just a small story." Marin pretended to be indifferent.

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The two sides talked about it for a long time, but they just didn't get to the point. Marin is not in a hurry at all, because it is he who has the initiative now. Bishop Conrad had to bow to himself if he wanted to keep the 10,000 yugrams, and even to continue to govern the South Münster region. Otherwise, he would have to be the bishop of a secular vassal state without power or power. Moreover, it will also lose the interests of the 10,000 yugram interest fields with huge interests.

Seeing that it was almost late at night, Bishop Conrad finally couldn't sit still. After all, he came to negotiate with Marin, not to talk nonsense. So, he finally cut to the point:

"Lord Marlin, you sent me a message during the day, saying that you want to cooperate with me?"

"Yes, I want to work with you. And, we should work together too, shouldn't we? Marin accompanied Bishop Conrad for an hour or two, and he was also a little impatient, and he spoke more directly.

"Hehe, Lord Marin, though you have become a secular lord of the Bishopric of Münster. However, you have not been able to own the property of the Bishop of Münster, the first Ugram. So, you need my help, right? ”

Although he was in a hurry, the cunning Bishop Conrad still said the opposite, saying that he had a request for Marin, and that Marin had a request for himself. In this way, it is also conducive to bargaining. After all, the status of asking for people and being asked for is very different in negotiations.

"Really? I remember that as a lord, I had the right to forcibly buy the 50,000 yugram's non-ecclesiastical, non-aristocratic fiefdoms south of Münster at a low price, right? ”

Marin didn't get used to him, and directly pointed out the 50,000 eugrams. If he really bought the 50,000 eugram fields, Bishop Conrad's loss would be great. After all, that's a huge income of seventy or eighty thousand gold coins per year.

Bishop Conrad was choked up and weakened. However, he still refuses to admit defeat:

"Then, although you have taken over the Bishopric of Münster, you can only get the 50,000 yugrams of arable land!"

"Oh, Bishop Conrad, you mean, if I work with you, I can get more fields than 50,000 yugrams?"

"Hmph, why ask knowingly? When I die, the 50,000 yugrams will still fall into your hands. Now, as much land I transfer to you from the church, you will receive as much land. ”

"So, how much more land can you give me?" Marin asked very directly.

"All 20,000 eugram lands in North Münster will be given to you, including church control in North Münster."

"It's too little, only 20,000 yugrams......" Marin was dissatisfied.

"So how much do you want? Is the land of the Church so good? Conrad rolled his eyes.

"Bishop Conrad, do you know? Your 10,000 eugram fields are already known to the Archbishop of Cologne. Had it not been for me taking over the Bishopric of Münster, he would have been planning to divide more than half of your annual income of seventy or eighty thousand gold coins. Marin didn't take the other man's words, but said something else.

"Is there such a thing?" Bishop Conrad was taken aback. He had recently been so distracted by the loss of secular authority in the Bishopric of Münster that he had no intention of paying attention to anything else.

"Of course, the windfall profit of seventy or eighty thousand gold coins every year will make anyone red-eyed! With so much money, you can buy a fief as big as the Rietberg Kingdom! ”

Bishop Conrad was silent, and he also knew very well that so much money would indeed make people blush. Previously, the annual tithes of the Bishopric of Münster amounted to 800,000 gold coins per year. However, most of them are to be turned in. He needed to hand over 600,000 gold coins to the Archbishop of Cologne. Then, the Archbishopric of Cologne withheld another 200,000 for the Archbishop of Cologne and a number of senior bishops to divide up. In the end, the remaining 400,000 was handed over to Rome for the Pope and the cardinals to divide. In the end, there is only a small amount left for teaching affairs......

Although the annual tithe of 200,000 gold coins seems to be a lot, but the Bishopric of Münster is so large, and there are many places to spend money. Just raising the 5,000 standing army costs 100,000 gold coins a year. The remaining 100,000 gold coins will feed hundreds of clergy officials and a large number of clergy in the Bishopric of Münster. In the end, if you can be greedy for ink, it would be good to have one or two thousand gold coins.

Therefore, for Bishop Conrad, it is the 10,000 eugram that interests the most.

"So, Lord Marlin, how much do you want? However, as you know, church land can't be taken out casually, and it's nice to be able to take a small portion of it, so don't get too hopeful. Bishop Conrad asked curiously. At the same time, Marin was also vaccinated so that the Marin lion would not open his mouth.

"I heard that in addition to the 20,000 yograms' ecclesiastical lands, there are also 50,000 yograms' knights' lands in North Münster?"

"Yes, the fiefs of 80 ecclesiastical knights of the Episcopal State of Münster, all in the North Münster region. At that time, the area of North Münster had not yet been developed, and the former bishop of Münster simply sent all the knights who had sworn allegiance to the North Münster region to establish estates. ”

"But these church knights' estates are too big, aren't they? 80 people have 50,000 yugrams, and each knight can have an average of 625 yugrams. Such a standard of luxury is only available to French knights, right? ”

In general, the standard fief of a knight is a thousand acres, which is what 500 yugram looks like. However, the fiefdom of 500 eugrams is not all arable land. Like the Hoffman manor where Marin was born, 500 yugram fiefs, only 100 yugram are arable land.

Even the French knights, with 1,500 acres of fiefdom, are equivalent to 750 yugrams, but the area of arable land rarely exceeds 500 yugrams.

However, the average of the 80 ecclesiastical knights in the Episcopal State of Münster owns an average of 625 yugrams, or 7,500 acres of arable land.

"It's normal, you know, hundreds of years ago, the North Münster region was a vast barren area. The Bishop of Münster at that time, in order to win over those knights, went to the North Münster region to open up the wasteland. In fact, no one expected that there was so much good land in North Münster, and that these church knights would get so much arable land. ”

Marin thought about it, really, it used to be wasteland, who would have thought that these knights could reclaim so much arable land......

"I want those 50,000 yugrams, so that I can take the whole of North Münster into my own hands!" Marin said earnestly to Bishop Conrad......