The Rise of the European Emperor

Besides being able to use the wealth and talents of the church to set up a hospital, Marin also had an ulterior plan—to let the church spit out some land by interfering with the wealth of the church, so that the priests would not live too well.

You must know that even if Beihai Kingdom cooperated with Bishop Conrad to seize the church's land, 20% of the cultivated land is still in the hands of the church. And Beihai Country currently has 12 million mu of arable land, that is to say, 2.4 million mu of arable land is under the control of the church. The military nobles under Marin, including some Junker landlords, together accounted for 30% of the country's arable land (the other half belonged to Marin).

Moreover, on the land of these churches, there are many farmers who are bound to the land and can only contribute to the church, not to benefit Marin and Beihai.

Therefore, Marin intends to take advantage of the strong relationship between the current and the next Pope, and within a few years, find a way to reorganize the property resources of Beihaiguo Church, so that the church can spit out half of the cultivated land, which is about 1.2 million mu.

Of course, it's not that Marin is jealous of these lands, but he hopes that the farmers on the 1.2 million mu of land can be liberated to some extent. Then, free up to serve yourself.

You know, working on Marin's estate is not the same as working on a church estate. Under Marin's compulsion, not only the manor under Marin's own name was more friendly to the serfs, they provided enough food, and even distributed benefits such as clothes and salted fish. In the future, it is even planned to promote letting children drink cow's milk and goat's milk.

But the manor of the church is different. The church these days is very corrupt. The church positions are bought with money openly, and the top leaders of the church are all greedy.

Among them, high-level officials such as Archbishop Taylor will put pressure on the bishops and abbots of the districts below to "provide" themselves. And the bishops and abbots of the districts pressed down to apportion these burdens. In the end, it was naturally apportioned to the low-level missionaries who were in charge of the manor at the bottom.

These low-level priests who personally manage the manor are often old and hopeless within the church. Because these people have no hope for the future, they are often more reckless. Anyway, the future is gone, so let's make money...

Therefore, Marin also provided fertilizer to the church's manor in his home country, so that the yield per mu of the church's arable land reached more than 400 pounds. However, in the end, the church estate still treated farmers very harshly. 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 take more than half of it away, the serfs in the church estate had a miserable life at that time, and they could not even eat black bread mixed with mud and stones. Bitter rye porridge with wild vegetables, leaves and roots. And, it's very rare.

After Marin promoted new fertilizers and curved ploughs, the church raised the treatment of serfs in church estates. But, it's just, to black bread. It should be noted that they sent the serfs to eat a low-quality version of "Kohler bread", which is black bread mixed with grass crumbs.

According to the original requirements of Marin, "Koehler Bread" should not contain more than 30% of the straw bran, that is, the straw bran content must be less than 30%. Later, with the increasing storage of rye in Beihai, Marin kept lowering the proportion of straw bran in "Kohler Bread". Now, in Marin's manor, the brown bread sent to the serfs has no straw. At most, the bran of the rye is not removed, but is ground together to make bread. It may seem stingy, but Marin actually knows that - bran is also very nutritious. Therefore, he did not treat the people unfairly.

And among the military nobles under Marin, there are also many people who gave up the black bread for the serfs mixed with straw chaff,

Only those stingy nobles, and those old-fashioned noble families in Bremen, still insist on adding less than 30% straw chaff to the bread sent to the serfs to make more profits.

But Marin couldn't manage the manor under the church's name. Because the church did not belong to the Beihai Kingdom's administrative system, Marin couldn't force the people of the church to behave.

Even Archbishop Taylor, the highest-ranking bishop in the North Sea Kingdom, could not restrain the clergy under his rule from exploiting the peasants.

In other words, people join the church to make a fortune, can you handle it? Unless you fight tigers every day like later generations, you can deter everyone. But the church these days is extremely corrupt. Even if Archbishop Taylor issues an order every day, what should be done is still the same.

For example, Archbishop Taylor has ordered that the content of straw husks in the "Kohler bread" distributed to serfs in the church estate should not exceed 30%, which is in line with the secular estates of Beihai Kingdom. But in fact, the "Kohler Bread" distributed to the serfs in the Beihai State Church Manor has a stable grass bran content of about half. However, when it is reported below, it is calculated on the basis of 30% of the straw. In other words, the 20% of the extra rye was greedy by the bottom priests...

For this phenomenon, Marin is helpless. Because he can draw swords against other princes, but he can't be rude to people in the church. Even if there is a very evil and cruel scum within the church, Marin can only report it to Rome, and after obtaining the permission of the Holy See, he can use the hands of Archbishop Taylor to solve it, rather than eradicate it himself.

Therefore, Marin very much hopes to personally interfere in the management of church land. For example, when building a hospital, deliberately overspending. What if I overspend? Selling some land for emergency...

Then, Marin turned his left hand to his right, and paid for part of the church's 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 nearly 200,000 farmers away from the church, which is of great significance to Marin.

Even Marin planned to find a way to recruit Slav peasants in the future to replace those German peasants under the control of the church. In this way, Marin will be able to exchange three to four million German peasants from the church in total. These populations, both for the development of the native land and for the development of the Americas, are of great benefit…

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

And now, when Marin's "Salvation Knights" was founded, the most important thing is not how to calculate the church in its own country, but to make a name and gain recognition and praise from all over Europe. In this way, the future work can continue to be carried out. Otherwise, it is easy to be blacked out. After all, being able to use the wealth of the church is too enviable.

As the head of Beihai National University, what is the first thing Marin has to do now? Name the cat!

Throughout the Middle Ages, cats were seen as ominous and catastrophic incarnations in Europe, expelled and even hunted. When Marin crossed for the first time, he could not even find a cat to catch, so he could only go to the grass near the Frisian fishing village on the North Sea to catch stray cats.

Because cats love to eat fish, and the fishing villages on the north coast often dry salted fish, they have become a place where stray cats like to stay. In the inland, most places have basically disappeared because cats are regarded as ominous incarnations.

Later, Marin used the stray cats caught near the fishing village on the north seashore to breed, cultivated a large number of cats, and distributed them to each sea boat to avoid the generation of mice on the boat, the plague (Black Death) and so on. In the city, there are also many cats.

However, except for some people who are loyal to Marin and listen to Marin's words, most of the people of Beihai still have doubts about cats and dare not keep cats for fear of bringing bad luck.

Taking advantage of the establishment of the "Salvation Knights", Marin decided to give the monarchs and envoys of various countries here to popularize the origin of the Black Death and the importance of raising cats.

If the cat's name is successfully rectified, the mouse will become a human with its tail tucked in the future... No, it will be a mouse... The Black Death (plague) will be greatly reduced. And this also happens to be the business scope of "Saving the Knights"...

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