In addition to being able to use the wealth and talents of the church to build a hospital, Marin also has an ulterior plan - to let the church spit out some land by interfering with the wealth of the church, so that the clergy will not live too nourishingly.

You must know that at present, even if the Beihai Kingdom cooperates with Bishop Conrad to seize the land of the Church, 20% of the arable land is still in the hands of the Church. The current arable land in Beihai is 12 million mu, that is, 2.4 million mu of arable land is under the control of the church. The military aristocracy under Marin, including some Junker landlords, together accounted for only 30% of the country's arable land (the other half belonged to Marin).

Moreover, there are many peasants in the lands of these churches who are bound to the land and can only contribute to the church, but not to benefit Marin and the North Sea Kingdom.

Therefore, Marin plans to take advantage of the fact that the current and next pope have an iron relationship with him, and in a few years, find a way to reorganize the property resources of the Beihai State Church, so that the church will spit out half of the arable land, that is, about 1.2 million mu.

Of course, it is not that Marin covets these lands, but hopes that the peasants on these 1.2 million acres of land can be liberated to a certain extent. Then, set aside to serve yourself.

You know, working on Marin's manor is not the same thing as working on a church manor. Under Marin's compulsion, not only was Marin's manor under his own name more friendly to serfs, giving him enough food, and even giving him benefits such as clothes and salted fish. In the future, we even plan to promote the use of cow's and goat's milk for children.

But the church manor is different, the church in these days is very corrupt, the church positions are openly bought with money, and the church's top brass are all greedy.

Among them, high-ranking bishops like Taylor will put pressure on the subdivision bishops and abbots below to "make offerings" to themselves. The bishops and abbots of the divisions pushed down to share these burdens. In the end, it was naturally assigned to the low-level missionaries who were responsible for managing the lowest estates.

These junior clergy, who were personally in charge of the estate, were often old and hopeless in the church. These people are often more reckless because they have no hope for the future. Anyway, the future is gone, so let's make money......

Therefore, Marin also provided fertilizer to the manors of the church in his country, so that the yield of the church's cultivated land reached more than 400 pounds per mu. In the end, however, the Church Manor was still very harsh on the peasants. At most, a little better than before.

In the past, because the yield per mu was only about 100 pounds, and the church had to extract more than half of it, the serfs on the church estate were living miserably, and they could not even afford to eat black baguettes mixed with mud and stones, so they could only eat bitter rye porridge with wild vegetables, leaves, and grass roots. Moreover, it is a very thin kind.

After Marin popularized the new manure and the curved plow, the church improved the treatment of serfs on the church estates. But, only that, black bread was given. It should be noted that the serfs were given a low-grade version of "Kohler bread", that is, black bread mixed with grass bran.

According to the original requirements of Marin, the proportion of grass bran should not be higher than 30%, that is, the grass bran content must be less than 30%. Later, as the reserves of rye in the North Sea country increased, Marin kept lowering the proportion of grass bran in "Kohler bread". Now, the brown bread distributed to the serfs on Marin's estate is no longer bran-free. At most, the rye bran was not removed, but the flour was ground together to make bread. It may seem a bit stingy, but Marin actually knows it – bran is also very nutritious. Therefore, he did not treat the people badly.

And many of the military aristocrats under Marin gave up mixing grass bran into the black bread for serfs, and only those stingy nobles, and those old aristocratic families in Bremen, still insisted on mixing less than 30% of the bread issued to serfs with grass bran in order to make more profits.

But the manor in the name of the church, Marin can't take care of it. Because the church did not belong to the administrative system of the North Sea Kingdom, Marin could not force the people of the church to behave and behave.

Even Archbishop Taylor, the highest-ranking bishop of the North Sea State, could not restrain the clergy under his rule to reduce the exploitation of the peasants.

Or do you know that people join the church to get rich, and you can control it? Unless, like the future generations, every day to fight tigers, can we deter everyone. But the Church in these days was extremely corrupt, and even if Archbishop Taylor issued orders every day, what should be done next.

For example, Archbishop Taylor has ordered that the "Kohler bread" distributed to serfs on the church estates should not contain more than 30% of the chaff, which is in line with the secular estates of the North Sea Kingdom. But in fact, the "Kohler bread" distributed to the serfs on the church estates of the North Sea State had a stable bran content of about half. However, when it is reported at the bottom, it is calculated according to 30% of the grass bran. In other words, the extra 20% of rye was coveted by the low-level clergy......

For this phenomenon, Marin is also helpless. For he can draw his sword against other princes, but he cannot be rude to the people of the church. Even if there is a very evil and brutal scum in the church, Marin can only report and expose it to Rome, and after obtaining the permission of the Holy See, he can solve it with the help of Archbishop Taylor, instead of eradicating it himself.

Therefore, Marin very much wanted to personally intervene in the management of the church's lands. For example, when repairing a hospital, he deliberately overspended. What should I do if I overspend? Selling point: land emergency......

Then, with his left hand poured into his right, he paid for part of the land, including the serfs trapped on the land......

As long as 10% of the arable land can be taken away from the domestic church, it is equivalent to taking away nearly 200,000 farmers from the church, which is of great significance to Marin.

Marin even planned to recruit Slavic peasants in the future to replace the German peasants under the control of the Church. In this way, Marin would be able to get three or four hundred thousand German peasants from the hands of the Church. These populations, both indigenous and American, are of great benefit......

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But those are secondary, things that need to be addressed later. And, only slowly. After all, the Holy See also wants to save face. If you bully the Beihai Church too harshly, you will cause trouble among the Beihai clergymen, and the Holy See will not be able to come down. So, Marin can only do this slowly, and it will take many years. The most important thing is to get control of the Beihai State Church first. Then, you can raise a knife to cut the meat......

Now, the most important thing for Marin's "Knights of Salvation" is not how to calculate the church in his own country, but to make a name for himself and be recognized and praised by all of Europe. In this way, the work can be carried out in the future. Otherwise, it is easy to be blackened. After all, the ability to tap the wealth of the church is too enviable, jealous, and hateful.

As the Grand Master of the Beihai Kingdom, what is the first thing Ma Lin has to do now? Justify the name of the cat!

Throughout the Middle Ages, cats were seen in Europe as the embodiment of ominous and calamity, being banished and even hunted by people. When Marin first crossed, he couldn't even find a cat cub to catch, so he had to run to the grass near the fishing village of the Friesian people on the North Sea to catch stray cats.

Because cats love to eat fish, and the fishing villages by the North Sea often dry salted fish, it has become a place where stray cats like to stay. In the inland areas, most places are basically extinct because cats are regarded as ominous incarnations.

Later, Marin bred a large number of cats from the stray cats caught near the fishing village on the North Sea, and distributed them to each sea boat to avoid rats and bubonic plague (Black Death) on board. And in the interior of the city, there are also quite a few cats.

But except for some people who are loyal to Marin and listen to Marin very much, most of the people in Beihai are still suspicious of cats and dare not raise cats for fear of bringing bad luck.

Taking advantage of the establishment of the "Save the Knights", Marin decided to educate the monarchs and envoys present about the origin of the Black Death and the importance of having cats.

If the cat is successfully named, the mouse will have to be a human with its tail between its legs in the future...... No, it's a rat...... The Black Death (bubonic plague) or something will be greatly reduced. And this is exactly the business scope of the "Save the Knights......