The Rise of the European Emperor

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After receiving the letter from Marin's flying pigeon, Julius II was extremely speechless - his son-in-law is really greedy. He has already given him the right to appoint a bishop, but it's not enough, and he wants to make a "tithe" idea...

It's not okay to give Marin directly, it's too much of a breach of the rules. What if other countries also claim this right? Therefore, Julius II could not publicly declare that the "tithes" of America belonged to Marin.

Therefore, he came up with a solution, which was to allow the Archbishop of America to dispose of the "tithing" of the American kingdom for his mission in America.

Of course, the specific privilege given by Julius II was to allow the Archbishop of America, after consultation with the King of America, to decide for himself the use of half of the "tithes". However, it is best used for missionary causes and improving the living facilities of the locals…

That is to say, the interpretation of Julius II's authorization is - to allow half of the "tithe" of the Americas to be used to build the infrastructure of the Americas. For example, building roads and bridges, or building churches or something.

The other half of the "tithing", which Julius II stipulated - must be used for Christian affairs. For example, building a church or something. Specifically, it is still the same sentence, "It will be decided by the American archbishop and the American king after consultation."

In other words, although Julius II did not explicitly give the "tithing" of the Americas to Marin, he still gave it in disguise. After all, the Archbishop of America was nominated and appointed by Marin, how dare you disobey? Marin will not be nominated if he is not obedient. In addition, the right to appoint regional bishops is in hand, and it is not too easy to reach out to the "tithing" of the Americas.

As for the Holy See's inability to collect "tithes" from America, the Roman Cardinals have no objection either. After all, the reasons given by Julius II are also very good - people still need to pay for the construction of new churches and missionaries...

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As for the capture of 100,000 people in Haiti, Julius II also adopted Marin's suggestion and planned to form a Holy See investigation team to conduct field inspections in Santo Domingo and Guantanamo, Cuba, in order to clear Marin of suspicion.

Julius II also complied with Marin's proposal to send observers from the feudal vassals who were spreading rumors. However, some of the German princes who were suspected of spreading rumors flatly denied the rumors and were unwilling to send observers. However, three of the vassal states were vassal states of the Church and could not withstand the pressure of the Holy See, so they had to send a senior priest to accompany the investigation team to the Americas. In addition, there were also two secular princes who did not believe in evil, and each sent a representative to observe with the group to see if the Holy See was covering up Marin.

But it's not going to happen so soon, because the castle on the other side of Guantanamo hasn't been built yet. Also, it takes time to cut down trees and plant sugar cane. so,

The investigation team will not leave until at least six months later. At that time, Guantanamo was almost ready.

In addition, because to meet the arrival of the investigation team and to prove the "danger" of the colony to the investigation team, Marin postponed the original order to have Tara send troops to quell the rebellion in Haiti immediately after the arrival of reinforcements, and instead let Tara in After the investigation team left, they sent troops to defeat the resistance of the indigenous Carlos.

And the existence of Carlos, the real leader of the resistance army, can also allow Marin to "play well" the "difficult" drama of the colony.

You know, Carlos originally had 3,000 resistance troops. If it is allowed to develop, it is estimated that when the investigation team arrives, Carlos will have seven or eight thousand resistance troops. Moreover, its recurve bow will be more and more. Except that the arrows can only be made of stone (the indigenous people do not smelt metal), the combat effectiveness of this rebel army will be amazing.

Of course, this means that in the face of the general army, the combat effectiveness of this group of people is not weak. But if Marin sends 2,000 officers in rhino leather armor over... the enemy's recurve bows and stone arrows will be in vain, and they can only accept the fate of defeat...

But before the demise of the rebels, Marin was very much looking forward to their siege of Santo Domingo. At least, you can scare the investigation team of the Holy See and the observers of the five German princely states.

Those resistance troops are different from the resistance troops Marin arranged at Guantanamo. At Guantanamo, Marin just let the 1,000 "puppet troops" act as if they had enough momentum. But in Santo Domingo, an uphill battle is expected.

And if you want the rebel army to besiege Santo Domingo when the investigation team arrives, this is also easy, as long as you send a small group of elites to provoke first, then kill a few opponents, anger the opponent, and the opponent will come. Siege of Santo Domingo. At that time, the Santo Domingo defenders can fight a brutal and bloody city defense battle in front of the investigation team, scare the members of the investigation team and the five vassal state observers with blood.

This group of people was so excited that they would naturally publicize the danger they saw with their own eyes after they went back. Then, Marin has achieved his goal...

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Of course, those are all half a year later. And now, Marin has just recruited 2,000 masons to go to Guantanamo to build a castle with a shipload of red bricks and cement and other building materials.

As for the 4,000 Hungarian prisoners of war selected by Kleiman, they have just joined the 1,000 Beihai veterans selected by Marin and are currently undergoing training. It is estimated that it will take two or three months to be dispatched to the island of Cuba. After all, these Hungarian prisoners of war were not familiar with the training methods of the North Sea army, nor were they professional enough.

According to the tradition of the Beihai Army, recruits need to undergo three months of recruit devil training. Although these Hungarian prisoners of war also participated in the Hungarian peasant uprising war, they were not professional and required strict training before they could barely be regarded as soldiers...

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While dealing with colonial affairs in the Americas, Marin also had to review various documents from all over the country and from other colonies.

After Marin made arrangements for Cuba and Haiti, he reviewed a document from the Laayoune colony. The document states that Mosingen will lead an expedition to Timbuktu again...

When it comes to Mosingen's expedition to Timbuktu, we have to mention Mosingen's first two expeditions. For the first time, Mosingen came to Timbuktu by mistake under the guidance of two black slaves, and exchanged dozens of pounds of sand. Then, this matter attracted the attention of Marin, and he approved Mosingen to go out again, intending to open up a trade route for salt and gold in Timbuktu.

However, Mosingen's second expedition did not go well...

Last year, Mosingen brought a total of 100 Egyptian slaves and 20 musketeers trained in Mamluk cavalry to Timbuktu. At the same time, he also brought 5,000 pounds of salt in bags, which he planned to replace with gold.

But this second expedition, Mosingen missed...

Originally, Mosingen's team successfully arrived in Timbuktu, and they successfully exchanged for the golden sand as heavy as salt. However, on the way back, they ran into huge trouble...

Because of the appearance of Mosingen, the interests of many established North African businessmen have been violated. As a result, several caravans immediately turned their faces and planned to eat black and kill the Mosingen team.

But Mosingen's team was strong, and they killed several North African caravans that attacked them.

Then, Mossingen swells...

After defeating several groups of provocative enemies, this fellow was full of self-confidence and said that he planned to swallow Timbuktu's salt and gold trade. Then, it completely angered other North African bearded businessmen...

These North African bearded businessmen who dare to cross the Sahara Desert are not good things. Ordinary people wouldn't have the guts to cross the dangerous and hot Sahara desert.

If one family couldn't win against Mosingen, they joined dozens of families to form 1,400 machete cavalry...

Moreover, the commander of this coalition was a businessman from Egypt, Nasella. Nassella had served in the cavalry army of the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt and also served as a mid-level officer. However, because it is not a Mamluk of Turkic origin, but a local (the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty excluded local people), it is not reused. Later, he got into a conflict with a Mamluk nobleman, and after hitting each other, he was expelled from the Egyptian army. Then, in order to make a living, Nassella was employed by Salah, the great Egyptian merchant who traveled between Egypt and Timbuktu, and was responsible for protecting Salah from Egypt and Timbuktu, trading gold.

This time Mosingen brought 100 pseudo-Mamluk cavalry from Egyptian slaves, plus 20 musketeers. The strength was too strong for the other families to fight alone, so dozens of them joined together and recommended them as cavalry officers. Nassella served as commander-in-chief.

Nasella is very cunning. He knows that the opponent is very strong and has muskets. It is difficult to take advantage of frontal conflicts. So, he sent the 500 weakest scimitar cavalry to attract Mosingen's attention on the front. Then, the remaining 900 people were divided into two parts and flanked from the left rear and right rear of Mosingen respectively...

After the 100 pseudo Mamluk cavalry in Mosingen launched a charge, hundreds of scimitar cavalry suddenly rushed out from the left and right rear...

These machete cavalry, composed of the bodyguards of bearded merchants, although their personal combat power is not as powerful as the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry trained by Mamluk cavalry, they are worse than the number of people, and they are copied from the back...

So, Mosingen's second expedition suffered a fiasco, 46 ​​of the 100 pseudo Mamluk cavalry were killed, and the Musketeers lost 7. Not only that, the 5,000 pounds of gold sands that were traded were also taken away by the enemy...

Even Mo Xingen himself was seriously injured, and his abdomen was cut open by a machete...

If it weren't for those bearded businessmen who had conflicts over the ownership of the 5,000 pounds of sand, they began to fight internally and did not care about pursuing them. It is estimated that Mosingen's second expedition would have died near Timbuktu...

This time, the governor of Laayoun, Cotton, bought 800 pseudo Mamluk cavalry from Egypt who were Egyptian slaves, and together with 100 musketeers, his strength was greatly enhanced.

Mosingen is also actively fighting this time, intending to make up for the mistake last time, sweeping the bearded merchants in North Africa for Marin, and completely controlling this gold trade route in the Sahara Desert...

Marlin looked at it and felt that there was nothing wrong. Moreover, Mo Xingen is also familiar with the route, and since he suffered a loss last time, he should be careful this time. So, he approved the plan of Cotton and Mosingen to go out again, and expected them to win the desert battle and grab the huge profits of the Sands trade for him...