In order for Jim to pretend to be more like a preacher, Marin gave Jim a "crash course in the magic stick". Who is the first god stick in East Friesland? Naturally, it's our Bishop Taylor.

Archbishop Taylor elevated the art of flickering to art. Most of the people who believe in God will be fooled by Bishop Taylor. Only an ungodly man like Marin can not be fooled.

If you want to fool Martin Luther, you first need Jim to have a holy temperament. For example, the application is solemn, ethereal, or something. In short, dressing up as a god stick requires the strength of a senior Oscar actor. And at this point, Taylor is definitely the best of them.

Of course, Bishop Taylor is not only on the surface, but also on the inside. As a young man, Taylor was sent to study at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Cologne for three years. Although I didn't get a graduation certificate, I still have a training completion certificate, which is also considered a professional background.

Moreover, when fooling the believers, Bishop Taylor also quoted scriptures and spoke well, and at first glance he was a medieval professor. Of course, Taylor's knowledge can indeed be a professor. With the intelligence of modern people, they are still superstitious about those professors, let alone the people of this era? His solemn appearance and good conversation are also the secret of Taylor's success.

As a result, Marlin threw Jim directly to Taylor. Taylor is actually helping Marin train a new batch of petty flicker-level missionaries to be sent to the newly controlled provinces. However, Jim's training is also important. So, Marlin made another make-up fee for Taylor to help guide Jim when he didn't have classes.

Marin even placed Jim in the newly established Theological Faculty of the University of Aurich to systematically learn the basics of theology. After all, the object of Jim's fooling was Martin Luther, who was born in an authentic class, if the foundation was not good, and he would be exposed after a few words, how could he fool the other party?

How to fool those who have the ability? First of all, you have to act better than him......

So Marin asked Jim to learn all the basic theology within a year. In addition, outside of class, they also receive special tutoring from Taylor's "Crash Course for Divine Sticks".

Marin's request was that Jim must reach a certain level of theology within a year, and then be sent to stay with Martin Luther for three years or more, depending on the effect. If the results are good, maybe I will be back in two years.

It's just that this matter is too secret for anyone to know. Otherwise, Marin would have become the enemy of both Protestantism and Catholicism. As a result, Marin gave Jim a pseudonym and dressed up as a middle-aged man to be trained by Bishop Taylor. In this way, when Jim returns from his mission, no one will recognize his previous identity with Martin Luther, and no one will suspect Marin.

As for whether Jim will defect? Marlin believed that with Jim's cleverness, he wouldn't do that stupid thing. You know, Marlin is in control of Jim's family. Moreover, it was promised that Jim's eldest son would be allowed to become a follower of Caesar the Younger...... In fact, Marin doesn't remember how many followers he booked for little Caesar. In short, there are definitely more than two dozen......

In the face of his family's domination and his son's bright future, Marin believes that Jim should know how to choose. Moreover, lurking next to Martin Luther this time was not dangerous at all. Because, Martin Luther was just an ordinary priest, and there was no way to hurt Jim. As long as Frederick III left before Martin Luther was inactivated, there was no danger to his life.

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In any case, even if Marin helped Martin Luther to get to a speedy career, it would take at least ten or eight years for Martin Luther to gain the support of Frederick III and expand Protestantism into northern Germany.

During this period, what Marin had to do was to "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slow down...... Oh no, it's a king......"

As long as the Protestant War broke out and Marin took the northern part of Germany, it would be difficult for him not to be king......

But before that, Marin has something very important to do. Putting aside the lucrative trade, Marin's priority now is to obtain a stable and abundant source of saltpeter.

Only with enough saltpeter can Marin be able to dominate the sea and dominate the land. You know, America is so rich. Taking advantage of the fact that everyone does not know the situation in the Americas now, coupled with the opportunity of Marin deliberately alarmist and scaring people with "Diary of Savage Terror", Marin is estimated to be able to quietly develop the Americas for decades. But with the development of the Great Voyage, there must have been navigators who would have been curious about the Americas.

At the same time, it is also possible that a ship, like the original historical Portuguese fleet, accidentally deviated from the course and drifted to Brazil......

Therefore, in this interim, Marin must not only take control of the whole of America from the Holy See, but also build a powerful navy to deal with those pretenders and protect his own interests.

As a history graduate, Marin knew that even though Spain was historically powerful, it was challenged by England and France. Of course, Spain's hegemony in the Americas was challenged, mainly because Spain focused on the development of Latin America and neglected the development of the east coast of North America, which allowed England and France to take advantage of the loopholes.

In addition, England sent the Italian navigator John in its original history. Capote discovered the East Coast of North America, such as Newfoundland. It's just that in this plane, Marin's men detained John. Capote and his entire crew. Therefore, the English did not know what was going on on the east coast of the North American continent. As for France, they went to the North American cliffs with the English. After all, the two countries love and kill each other, spy on each other, and it is normal for the French to follow to North America to mix. Moreover, England in the early period was only a broken house, not a later overlord, and it could not prevent the French from going to North America......

The Atlantic Ocean was so wide that Marin did not have the confidence to stop all the ships going to North America. However, if you can stop one, it's considered one. It really can't be done, just send a powerful fleet to attack those countries that dare to secretly send ships to the Americas, threaten their capitals, and force them to give up. It's just that, in that case, a lot of gunpowder is needed. The gunpowder was consumed in the naval artillery battle alone......

Therefore, Marin now has a special need to develop Chilean saltpeter. Although importing saltpeter from the Ming Dynasty was also a good way, the cost may be lower than the development of Chilean saltpeter. But the problem is that Marin can't let his saltpeter supply get stuck in his neck. What if, one day, a civil official in the Ming Dynasty had a brain pump and stopped the sale of saltpeter to Marin? In that case, wouldn't Marlin be cut off from the supply of saltpeter? Once other European countries formed an alliance to attack, and Marin suddenly cut off the source of saltpeter, the country was properly destroyed......

All in all, saltpeter in Chile must be mined. Even if the cost is high, it must be mined. It's not a question of cost, it's a question of strategic security.

As for Marin will be cut off from sea routes? I'm afraid that only the UK's geographical advantage can do it. Because, the English Channel is really important to Marin.

But Marlin was already plotting to seize England, and as long as England was plotted, no European country would be able to intercept Marin's fleet at sea. Therefore, the supply of saltpeter in Chile is not too affected. As long as Marin's powerful fleet remains, Chile's saltpeter supply will not be cut off. On the contrary, as long as the intelligent saltpeter mines were still supplying saltpeter in large quantities, Marin's naval guns would not stop firing, and it would be difficult to defeat them......

Therefore, it is imperative to open up sea explorations that bypass the Strait of Magellan in search of Chile and Panama......

Considering that Amerigo had just returned from India, he still needed to rest. Therefore, Marin sent someone to invite Columbus over......