The Rise of the European Emperor

The nobles also have face, that is, they care about the so-called "honor". It is impossible for them to directly say that they are afraid that Marin will destroy the original social order, and they have no face to say that Marin's appointment of civilian generals has cut off the future of the ineffective noble children. Therefore, they can only grasp the obvious black point of "Marin is the emperor's dog leg and may help the emperor unify Germany" and try hard to black Marin.

But under the influence of public opinion, many people who don't know the truth mistakenly believe it is true. Even Marin himself believed it, thinking that he was dragged down by the emperor. How did he know that the princes were just worried that there would be too many Marlins in this world and replace them. At the same time, many veteran aristocrats are also worried that the ineffective children of the family who have no inheritance rights will not be able to find a job. Therefore, most of the veteran nobles are so hostile to Marin.

After all, Marin still endangered the survival of many noble children. Not every aristocratic child has the ability, or in other words, most of the aristocratic children are actually very poor. If the "inferior people" of humble origins can take the lead casually, and even become princes, how can these incompetent "noble blood" people live?

Marin is considered smart even among the traversers, but because of the cultural differences of hundreds of years, he has long been accustomed to the modern thinking of "everyone is equal" and "the capable will advance and the mediocre will let go". I didn't notice how much his actions had impacted the nobles of this era.

Not to mention that those incompetent nobles felt threatened, even those powerful nobles were very dissatisfied with it. After all, who doesn't have a few incompetent playboys? Just because one has ability, does not mean that future generations will also be capable. Marin replaced the incompetent aristocratic children with capable commoner children, which is simply smashing the jobs of most noble children!

In this era, because of the "eldest son takes all" inheritance system. Therefore, the noble children who are not the eldest son are very sad. Among them, only a small number of them were able to take shelter of the family because of the strength of the family, and continued to eat and wait for death. For example, the other sons of the king and the duke, at any rate, can still be a part of the fief and continue to eat and wait to die. As for the aristocratic families that are not too wealthy, or the noble families with lower titles, the other sons can only go out to make a living. There are two main ways to make a living-one is to serve as a subordinate official to one's own brother or other nobles. After all, in this era, most Europeans were illiterate, and no matter how poor the noble children were, they were all literate. As long as you don't commit suicide, you can basically get a part-time job.

This is a bit like before the Tang Dynasty in ancient China, because the aristocratic family monopolized knowledge, the children of the aristocratic family could always get an official position. But Marin taught civilians to read and promoted civilians to become military officers or even civil servants, which is tantamount to smashing the jobs of noble children.

Although it is reasonable for Marin to choose capable people to hold important positions, in the eyes of those nobles, it is tantamount to letting the noble children who are not outstanding to die. For them, not being able to hold official positions and gain glory and wealth is tantamount to letting them die...

The Sui Dynasty developed the imperial examination system in order to break the family's monopoly on the official class. As a result, those aristocratic families said nothing on the surface, but they stabbed fiercely behind their backs, forcibly tossing a powerful Sui Dynasty away.

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin also went through a series of struggles with the aristocratic family, but still failed to complete the work. Sometimes, Li Shimin has to make some concessions. It wasn't until Wu Zetian came to power, relying on disgraceful methods such as encouraging whistleblowers, various framing and framing, and killing many people, that the aristocratic family was suppressed.

In the same way, Marin smashed the jobs of noble children in this way, and the resistance he encountered at the beginning must have been huge. Just like his plan to recruit soldiers and immigrants, he was opposed and obstructed by many princes.

Fortunately, the Beihai Kingdom, like the Tang Dynasty, had strong soldiers and horses, and was not afraid of such opposition and obstruction. However, it is inevitable to encounter a lot of troubles in the early stage.

As for the other way out for the non-eldest son of a nobleman, it is more helpless, and that is - to become a priest...

Becoming a priest can save a lot of wedding expenses, which is a favorite method for poor princes. After all, the marriage of the prince and princess of the princes' family is no joke, and the cost is astonishing. It's like Denmark married a princess to King James III of Scotland, but because she couldn't afford the dowry, she directly ceded the Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands to the Kingdom of Scotland as a dowry.

Of course, because it is too dangerous to have a child in this era, it is difficult to give birth to the queen every now and then. Therefore, the princesses still have no worries about marrying. Especially as the successor of the monarch who is the dead queen, he doesn't need much dowry.

But the princes of poor princes' families were unlucky. They could not distribute their property to their other sons, nor could they afford the high cost of marrying a wife. As a result, some nobles simply made their non-eldest sons priests. Of course, because of his aristocratic status, he was not an ordinary priest at first, but a senior priest with a certain status. For example, it is even more powerful for the younger generation of the pope's relatives to be priests, and they directly shade to become cardinals... Although the princes are not so good, it is still possible to ask for a high position with the church.

Even after some noble children (mainly from the German region) became senior priests, they could still run for the church princes of the German church princes. After becoming a prince of the church, he can also subsidize and help the original raise. For example, Bishop Conrad, who was Bishop of Münster before...

Of course, it is a very helpless choice for one's own son to become a priest. Under normal circumstances, the main way out for most noble children is to become an official. After all, they were born noble and cultured.

After all, if you let your son become a priest, you will have no legal heirs. Once the eldest son has no heirs, the fief will fall into the hands of other families. Therefore, most families would not allow their sons to become priests unless it was absolutely necessary, fearing that the family would become extinct. Unless there are too many sons, and there are several, one or two will be selected to become priests.

But if you are not a priest, you have to be an official, you have to have a decent position. Therefore, the nobles naturally did not allow civilians to compete with them for official positions. Even a military officer who went to the battlefield desperately is a radish and a hole, how can civilians come to grab it? Marin's behavior of letting civilians serve as civil and military officials also annoyed them...

They didn't want their children to become officials in Beihai, but they were afraid that Marin would take the lead and let other princes follow suit.

If the North Sea Country was still the East Frisian County with only more than 3,000 square kilometers, they might not care much about it. However, Marin's current North Sea State has an area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers, and it almost accounts for a quarter of the Holy Roman Empire. The influence is too great.

Therefore, many nobles did not mention this matter tacitly, but used the name of "emperor's running dog" to blackmail Marin to death...

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Marin was not aware of this because his thinking was influenced by modern thinking. And his two allies who noticed it refused to tell him...

Whether it was Emperor Maximilian I or John II, Duke of Cliff of the Lamarck family, they all knew why Marin was hacked. After all, these two are old foxes.

However, both of them chose not to tell Marin the truth...

why? Maximilian I believed that Marin was hostile to the princes, which would help the Habsburg family to win over Marin. Otherwise, if Marin and the princes reconcile, the Habsburg family will not only lose a strong support, but may also have a strong enemy. Therefore, Maximilian I would not tell Marin the truth unless he lost his mind!

As for John II, Duke of Cleaver, although he married the Hoffman family, the Principality of Cleaver is next to the North Sea Kingdom, and the Lamarck family actually didn't feel safe. After all, the military power of the North Sea State is too strong.

If Marin and most of the vassals reconcile, then, if the Beihai Kingdom sends troops to annex the Principality of Cleaver, no one will stand up to help speak out. It is in the interests of the Lamarck family that Marin is hostile to the princes. Because, when most of the princes are hostile to the North Sea State, Marin needs the support of his allies. Otherwise, everyone is friendly to Marin, and the Lamarck family has no use value for the North Sea country, and it will be annexed if it is said to be annexed...

Therefore, the two major allies of Marin, knowing the important reasons for the poor relationship between Marin and the princes, chose to keep silent... because it is good for them not to mention this...