The Rise of the European Emperor

Deutschland is very big, and the sales team of indulgences led by John Tezel is a thing that scratches the ground. Therefore, up to now, his team has only traveled a few bishop states. Today, the episcopal states in Northwest Germany have basically traveled all over. Next, there is the secular vassal state.

However, those secular princes are currently waiting and watching, and no one wants to be the first to try. So, John Tezel came to Marin for help. After all, the North Sea State is currently the most powerful country in Northwest Germany. The Beihai Kingdom took the lead, and it was hard for the other princes to say anything.

John Tezel came with a letter from his master, Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, hoping that Marin would take the lead in publicly purchasing the indulgences and open the way for the sale of indulgences in the secular kingdoms. good head.

Moreover, Marin has fought many battles over the years, and has committed a lot of murders. When it comes to the need for atonement, Marin is definitely at the forefront.

What are indulgences? It is used to "remove sins". It stands to reason that generals who fight many battles, especially those who often win battles, must be sinful. For example, Marin, who has won so many battles and killed so many enemies, has the highest crime value in Europe. In addition, after the North Sea State annexed several vassal states, it is already the top secular power in the German region. It is indeed a good idea to let Marin take the lead in subscribing for indulgences.

However, Marin was not very happy. Because, everyone knows that this so-called "indulgence note" is a nonsense thing, and it is used by the Holy See to collect money. As for the function of redemption, it is simply the church's nonsense.

However, despite his reluctance, Marin had to take the lead in subscribing. After all, he is on the side of the Holy See and cannot hit the Holy See in the face. In addition, the person in charge of this matter is the future Pope Leo X, and he has to give him face.

It's just that Marin is not happy to ask Marin to take out real money, especially gold coins, to subscribe for indulgences. The North Sea country is still short of currency, how can it be taken away by the Holy See?

After thinking over and over again, Marin agreed to subscribe for indulgences, but he asked for food to pay!

It is true that Beihai is short of money, but it has never been short of food. If food can be used to offset coins to subscribe for indulgences, Marin is willing to buy in large quantities. Anyway, in the many granaries he built with cement, there was a lot of old grain.

But John Tezel was dumbfounded, because Marin's request was against the rules! According to the process of selling indulgences, the redeemer throws gold coins into a money box similar to a merit box. When the gold coins jingle, the redeemer can go to heaven after death.

If Marin used food, throw it into the cash box, it would be impossible to make a crisp "jingle" sound...

Seeing that John Tezel could not make the decision, Marin simply used pigeons to contact Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici in Rome and his father-in-law the Pope.

In the letter, Marin stated that it would be okay for him to take the lead in buying more indulgences. The only problem is that he doesn't have that much cash, so he can only use food instead. Therefore, he asked to use food instead of gold coins to buy a batch of indulgences.

The face of the son-in-law must be given. After thinking about it, Pope Julius II agreed that Marin should use grain instead of gold coins. However, in the ceremony of subscription of indulgences, gold coins were still required. It's just that Marin is allowed to exchange gold coins for equivalent grain afterwards.

After receiving the approval, Marin formally decided to replace gold coins with food and subscribe for a large number of indulgences. Moreover, the price of grain in Germany is used to offset the value of gold coins with grain. At the same time, Marin promised that these offset grains would be transported to Rome by merchant ships from the North Sea State and sent to the Holy See...

This can make the Holy See a lot of money, because the price of food in Italy is much higher than that in Germany. Because of the war, food prices in Italy have remained high for a long time. For example, rye is only 1 pfennig per pound in Germany, but it costs 2.5 pfennig per pound in Rome. If Marin pays the food directly, it will make the Holy See a lot of profit.

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Subsequently, Marin was on the square outside the Aurich Palace, under the witness of envoys from various countries,

An indulgence subscription ceremony was held to give John Tezel's indulgence sales force a boost.

On the high platform of the Aurich Palace Square, Marin half-kneeled on the ground, repenting to God with a serious expression. Behind him, Kahn, Schwartz, Wagner, Steindorf, Heynckes and other North Sea generals half-kneeled behind Marin, and followed Marin to repent to God.

After Marin led a group of "deathly murderous" Beihai generals to recite the prayer of repentance like a show, each of them took out a pocket, and then poured gold coins into the cash box in a "jingling" manner, making him blind the eyes of the beholder.

Among them, Marin poured the most, with almost 10,000 gold coins. John Tezel had to change the cash box several times to hold the gold coins. Several generals also poured a lot, and each of them has at least a thousand gold coins.

Afterwards, a group of military officers from the Beihai Kingdom also stepped forward to repent and subscribe for indulgences. You and I threw gold coins into the cash box, so that John Tezel had to change the cash box many times.

According to statistics afterwards, the generals in the city of Aurich and the soldiers of the First Legion, as well as the nobles and officials of Aurich, bought a total of 220,000 gold coins worth of indulgences, which shocked the envoys of other countries who were present at the ceremony .

This is not counted, because the Third Army stationed in the east, and the Second Army and Sixth Army stationed in the central and southern regions have not yet begun to subscribe. In short, the 40,000 troops of the Beihai Kingdom are the main force in the subscription of indulgences. After all, in terms of crime, is there anything deeper than a murderous soldier?

Although ordinary soldiers have little money, the other three legions of the Beihai Kingdom and the nobles in several cities have taken action together. It is estimated that the sales of indulgence coupons nationwide will not be less than 300,000 gold coins, and maybe they can reach around 400,000 gold coins...

This time, even John Tezel, the leader selling indulgences, was shocked. Originally, he just planned to let Beihai take the lead. Unexpectedly, Marin's headband is too fierce, and it costs more than 200,000 gold coins in one shot, which makes others feel embarrassed to buy less...

Of course, after the subscription ceremony, the 220,000 gold coins were all taken back by Marin. Then, according to the spoils agreement, Marin only needs to ship grain worth 110,000 gold coins to Rome. At the same time, food worth more than 80,000 gold coins was sent to the Beihai State Church.

However, how dare Archbishop Taylor, who knows Marin's ruthless temper, really want so much? He just received food worth more than 10,000 gold coins, and he refused to accept any more. But what Taylor didn't expect was that Marin recently disliked the fact that the grain in the granary could not be filled, so he gave the grain worth more than 80,000 gold coins and sent it to the church's warehouse.

Subsequently, John Tezel carried the banner of the Holy See in high spirits and continued to Emden, Groningen, Münster, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Bremen, Las Vegas Indulgences continued to be peddled in large cities such as Schloss, Lüneburg, Wolfenbüttel, Goslar, Bochum, Recklinghausen, and others. With so many cities and the addition of three legions, the indulgence coupons worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins will definitely be sold...

Of course, Marin didn't suffer either. Because he actively took the lead in subscribing for indulgences and had an excellent attitude, Pope Julius II took the opportunity to order that the "tithe tax" of the North Sea State will be fixed according to the current cultivated land area of ​​the North Sea State at 2 million acres (12 million mu). to levy. The collection standard is 90 pounds of rye per acre, equivalent to 15 pounds per acre. In the future, as long as the territorial area of ​​the Beihai State remains unchanged, the tax amount will be fixed and will not increase or decrease...

In other words, even if Beihai State reclaims arable land in the future, there will be no tax increase. This is great news for the North Sea country. Moreover, everyone knows that the tax rate of 90 pounds per acre is not even one-tenth of the yield per mu in Beihai. Because the food production of Beihai country has always been relatively high...

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