Sorting out the accounts, Marin, as a big brother, naturally doesn't need to go out in person. www.biquge.info After all, the dozens of civilian personnel he brought were not vegetarians, and it was their duty to "eat the king's luck and bear the king's worries".

And Marin is responsible for sitting on the side and drinking the "self-created" "Earl Grey Milk Tea", and then bragging with a group of generals......

After all, the current matter is not a military general, it is purely a civilian matter. Except for some middle and low-level officers who went to take over the city defense and inspect the countryside, the senior generals actually have nothing to do now, so they can only accompany Marin to silently watch Marin brag and compare, and then praise and applaud in time......

Although the price of the black tea bricks from Lithuania is not cheap, since you are bragging with a group of subordinates, you can't drink milk tea by yourself, but your subordinates don't have to drink it, right?

Then, the generals present all drank the hot "Earl Milk Tea".

However, a military general is a military general. When drinking tea, it is completely cow drink, not at all as elegant as Marlin drinking tea......

However, speaking of which, Marin drinks tea elegantly because he was used to drinking bottled milk tea for 4 yuan a bottle in his previous life, and he had tasted a variety of flavors. Therefore, when facing delicious milk tea, he seems so calm, and when drinking tea, he still has the kung fu to learn from those who pretend to be elegant like those on TV in his previous life, and make a tea ceremony that is forced to break the sky......

However, most of the rammers under Marin were from civilian backgrounds, and they didn't understand the elegance of the nobility at all, and they couldn't pretend to be them. Moreover, the first time I drank the fragrant and sweet milk tea, I was gluttonous, and naturally drank it in a big gulp.

Fortunately, tea is not a one-time consumable and can be boiled several times. As long as you continue to add milk and cane sugar to the pot, you can cook it several times, and it can satisfy the tamping of this group of cows. Otherwise, the consumption of tea bricks alone would be enough to make Marin feel distressed......

Moreover, after drinking the delicious "Earl Grey Milk Tea", these rough men who have no ink in their stomachs don't know how to praise the deliciousness of the milk tea, but only know how to say-"Well, it's delicious!" "Well, that's good!" …… Or, just say, "One more bowl......

Marin was already disappointed in the rough guys, and if Jeffrey's fat man was there, he was guaranteed to be able to shoot the sycophants artistically. Unlike this group of rough guys, it is only when they tell adult jokes that this group of guys can easily understand and then resonate strongly......

Of course, Marin is not purely bragging about this group of rammers. When that group of civilians found something wrong in the file or found something interesting, they also came to report the situation.

He discovered, for example, that the southern border of the Bishopric of Münster had indeed reached the north bank of the Lippe River. The territorial division of the Ruhr region, south of the Lipper River, is very complicated.

Between the Lipper River and the Emschel River between the Lipper and Ruhr rivers, not counting the territory of the Duchy of Criver on the Rhine, there are about several hundred square kilometres of land called Vest Recklinghausen (available for reference). The ownership of this piece of land is very complicated. Originally, the land belonged to the Archbishopric of Cologne. However, in 1446, the then Archbishop of Cologne, probably because of lack of money, mortgaged the land to the lord of Gemen. In 1492, the land fell into the hands of the Count of Schoenburg. To be precise, it fell into the hands of the Counts of Schaunburg and Holstein-Pinneberg.

That is, Recklinghausen and hundreds of square kilometers of land in the vicinity are not now in the hands of the Archbishopric of Cologne. However, the Archdiocese of Cologne took advantage of the Cologne War to take the land back in 1576......

If the land was in the hands of the Archbishopric of Cologne, Marin really didn't dare to mess around. After all, he is also one of the electors. But, in the hands of an Earl of Schoenburg, Marin suddenly came to his senses.

You must know that the Schoenburg country is just a small country, with an estimated land area of less than 1,000 square kilometers. Of course, people's ancestors have also been wide. For example, the Duchy of Holstein originally belonged to the House of Schoenburg. It was hundreds of years ago, when the then powerful Duchy of Saxony gave the Duchy of Holstein to the House of Schoenburg. Later, however, the tyrannical King of Denmark took away the Duchy of Holstein from the House of Schoenburg, and only retained six small territories belonging to the Duchy of Holstein, including Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel, and Holstein-Pinneberg. However, only Holstein-Pinneberg remained in the hands of the Schoenburg family. The other 5 territories were either extinct or deprived by successive Dukes of Holstein. In fact, the people of the Schoenburg family were even dukes of the Duchy of Schleswig. It's just that it was later abolished by the Danes......

But in any case, the country owned by this family is only a small country. If you want to get West-Recklinghausen from them, there is still a good chance. After all, that's the coal-producing region of the Ruhr region!

Essen, south of West-Recklinghausen, is still nominally part of the Archbishopric of Cologne. However, the Essen people have already gained autonomy through redemption. Moreover, it was also granted the title of imperial city by Emperor Charles IV, with autonomy. In other words, Essen and its surrounding hundreds of square kilometers are actually autonomous imperial cities, similar to Dortmund.

Then, the Ruhr coal-producing region, the rest of the country, which belonged mainly to the kingdom of Marker and the Duchy of Criver on the Rhine. However, both countries belong to Duke John.

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It took 10 days for Marin's clerical team to count the books and rosters. It is precisely because of them that it is difficult for dozens of people to figure out the situation of a large vassal state of more than 10,000 square kilometers. Those books and registers took up almost half of the room.

However, their report made Marin very depressed......

Why? According to the clerks' reports, the Bishopric of Münster is a large country with 10,200 square kilometers and a population of 500,000. Of course, that's not the point. The focus is on arable land - the country, which has 350,000 eugrams (700,000 acres, or 4.2 million acres) of arable land. However, of the 350,000 yugrams, 250,000 yugrams, are in the hands of the church......

Marin was shocked - Nima, the church wants to go to heaven? It occupies five-sevenths of the country's land......

However, thinking about the meaning of the word "bishop" in the Bishopric of Münster, Marin understood it again......

After all, this is a country ruled by the Church, and in this agrarian society, can the greedy Church not hold the land in its hands? If he hadn't, Marin would have wondered......

But the problem is that Marin, as a farming earl, most wanted to concentrate the land in the country into his own hands or his own hands. In this way, you can get the maximum benefit.

If the land was in the hands of the original nobles, Marin could still use coercion and inducement to buy off the arable land by force, or "trusteeship" by force, as was done in the Earl of Oldenburg and the Duchy of Schleswig.

But when these lands are in the hands of the church, it's different. After all, the church represents the Holy See, and Marin cannot deprive the church of its land, no matter how good he is. This kind of thing, even the king would not dare. It was not until after the rise of Protestantism that King Henry VIII, like King Henry VIII, coveted the land of the Church and deprived the Church of its property and land.

However, Protestantism has not yet emerged, and the power of the church is still strong. This distressed Marlin. In the face of a strong church, it seems that you can't compete with the church for land......

"Only, in this way, I went to great lengths to get the Bishopric of Münster, and for what? Is it just for the sake of nominal domination? Marin was depressed.

However, it's not all bad news, there is good news. The good news is that most of the land controlled by the Church is in the South Münster region. After all, the core of the Bishopric of Münster is in the south, and the city of Münster is also located here.

North Münster, on the other hand, is still in a semi-developed state, and a lot of land has not yet been developed. Also, towns are scarce. The Church is also less powerful here, and it has less arable land.

In other words, with about 4,300 square kilometers of land in North Münster, Marin still has a lot to do, and it is completely possible to rely on secular governance to occupy large tracts of undeveloped land here.

It's just that Marin is red-eyed at the vast amount of fertile land to the south that is occupied by the Church. However, there was nothing he could do. You can't rob the church land, right?

"Or, in the coming Protestant Reformation, I will secretly support the Protestant revolutionaries to clean up the power of the church in South Münster?" Suddenly, Marin had such a vicious thought in his heart......

Martin. It seems that Luther had not been many years since he initiated the Reformation, and he was in the prime of his life, but he could use Protestantism to purge the church power entrenched in South Münster. When the clergy were killed by the Protestant revolutionaries, they could have burned the land ownership files and took most of the fertile land of South Münster for themselves......