The Rise of the European Emperor

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In fact, there are more Russians in this era. The population of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is estimated at this time to be over 6 million. Marin, however, would rather choose to recruit Ukrainians than Russians.

Why? Because of religious issues!

Although the Ukrainians and Russians at this time were both East Slavs and believed in the Orthodox Church, their belief in the Orthodox Church was different.

Not to mention the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it is a staunch Orthodox country, and most of its residents are staunch Orthodox Christians. And Ukrainians are more complicated, because, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is a Catholic country…

Under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ukrainians still maintain the Orthodox faith, but because Catholicism is the state religion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ukrainians do not reject Catholicism. After all, that's the state religion. Even some Ukrainians converted to Catholicism in order to blend into the upper class of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The Russians are different, they are Orthodox Christians who have eaten their hearts. After the fall of Constantinople, the Grand Duchy of Moscow became the only remaining sovereign state with the Orthodox Church as the state religion. Moreover, the current Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily III, because his mother was a member of the royal family of the Byzantine Empire, also considered himself the heir of the Eastern Roman Empire. Even, in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it advocated that the Grand Duchy of Moscow was the "third Rome", which made the Russians' belief in the Orthodox Church more firm.

Unlike Ukrainians who are accustomed to Catholicism, Russians' Orthodox beliefs are extremely strong and difficult to change. Therefore, Marin is not happy to recruit Russians as nationals, but more willing to recruit Ukrainians who are accustomed to Catholicism.

What? You say Ukrainians are hard to change their beliefs? This is too simple. After Simon became the count of Ukraine, Marin would find a way to send a large number of German missionaries to Ukraine, and try to transfer the Orthodox missionaries from Ukraine.

By then, do you want to worship? The church is full of Catholic missionaries, advocating Catholicism all day long. If it doesn't work for a day or two, for a lifetime? If you don't believe me, you won't be lame...

Then, Marin learned the trick of holding meetings in the rural areas of China in the future - converting to Catholicism and giving benefits...

Welfare doesn’t have to be too good. Catholics distribute food, salted fish, and even Erguotou spirits during festivals. Orthodox Christians don’t have it… Plus the church is full of Catholic missionaries… Human beings who have the nature of seeking benefits and avoiding harm will know How did you choose...

It is unacceptable to blindly use violence to force ordinary people to change their beliefs. However, without some means, verbal persuasion alone is not very effective.

Therefore, on the one hand, Marin set aside those Orthodox missionaries, so that the Orthodox Christians could not find Orthodox priests in worship. After that, if you use the popular food and salted fish in this era to lure, as well as the favorite spirits of Eastern Europeans, many people will definitely fall. One has two, and then it's much easier to do...

And the Russians, because they are not used to the dominance of Catholicism, it is too difficult to confuse them. Therefore, Marin now does not attract Russian men, only willing to accept Mao Mei. Mao Mei is a woman, so she is much easier to persuade than a man. Even in this era, there is no need to patiently persuade - domestic violence will be honest...

Although this approach may be criticized by later feminists, it is not unusual in this era. Not to mention that it is not uncommon in this era, even in later Russia, it is not uncommon to beat wives.

After these Mao girls were bought by Marin, most of them married soldiers in the army. At that time, the children born will still be able to convert to the Orthodox Church? Don't say that Mao Mei dare not stab in front of her husband in this era, nor will future generations...

As for the hairy men, Marin has no intention of recruiting them at the moment. At most, he will buy castrated Maozi men from Crimean slave traders... Well, it should not be called a man, but Mao Gonggong...

Eunuch Mao could not bear offspring, and most of them served as domestic servants or slaves, which naturally did not affect religious issues.

Don't underestimate religious issues. In this era, people can fight each other's lives because of religious issues.

Religious war, which time is not a sea of ​​corpses and blood? Therefore, Malinin accepted the Ukrainians who were accustomed to the existence of Catholicism, but was not willing to accept Maozi. Otherwise, there will be religious conflicts in the country in the future...

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In order to prepare for the temptation to convert Ukrainians, Malin specially summoned Bishop Taylor of the North Sea Kingdom. This person is a big fool, and he has also helped Marin cultivate a lot of small fools.

This time, Marin still approached him and asked him to prepare himself a group of missionaries who were good at deceiving the people and sent them to Kyiv to fool the local Ukrainians into converting to Catholicism.

In order to facilitate communication, Malin specially sent people to the Ukrainian church and hired missionaries who knew German to serve as Ukrainian teachers in the theology department of Aurich University where Bishop Taylor was the principal.

When the students of the theology department of Aurich University have learned Ukrainian, they can be sent to the Ukrainian region to fool the locals to convert. Moreover, as a teacher, you can teach local children to speak German for free.

Bishop Taylor today is no longer the same as in the past. Not to mention his own powerful flickering ability, now, he has trained several sessions of students with strong flickering ability for Marin, and was dispatched by Marin to various places and the army, vigorously preaching Marin's greatness and calling on people to be loyal to Ma Lin. Forest.

When Marin approached Bishop Taylor and hoped that he would train another group of little fools to fool the Ukrainians, Bishop Taylor waved his hand and said:

"Grand Duke, this kind of thing, I don't need to go out in person!"

"What? You don't want to help me?" Marin's face changed suddenly, and a dangerous light appeared in his eyes.

Bishop Taylor sensed danger and immediately explained:

"It's not that I don't want to, but that my students can take on this important task!"

It turned out that Bishop Taylor's first batch of students had been "contributing" to the position of Fudge for more than ten years. 10 years of cheating experience has given these Bishop Taylor's first batch of eldest disciples an incomparably rich cheating experience.

Therefore, Bishop Taylor believes that it is entirely possible for his early batches of disciples to come forward and train new little fudges to complete Marin's mission.

Although these early disciples of Taylor were not as powerful as Bishop Taylor, they were better than many. Bishop Taylor recommended dozens of his earliest disciples to Marin, intending to have them help train them. Dozens of veteran disciples, each with dozens of people... In this way, more than a thousand people can be trained at one time, which is better than Bishop Taylor who can only bring dozens of people at a time...

Marin was right in thinking that Bishop Taylor alone would not be able to train too many people. So, he agreed with Bishop Taylor's plan, intending to reuse the dozens of veteran disciples recommended by Bishop Taylor to help him cultivate a new generation of little fudges. But at the same time, Marin also asked Bishop Taylor not to rest. At that time, Marin will select dozens of apprentices with the best talent, and hand them over to Old Fool Taylor to train them... These people will be powerful weapons for Marin to appease the people...

You know, Marin is in urgent need of a large number of small flickering missionaries. In addition to the need to fool the Ukrainians, the eight vassal states that Malin has newly ruled also need a large number of little fool priests to help appease the hearts of the people...

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