The Rise of the European Emperor

Chapter 2107 Help Martin Luther publish a book and become famous

Marin had expected what happened to Bond. Just like later generations, stars who are good at packaging themselves are more popular than greater scientists. Without him, most ordinary people are sensory animals.

For most ordinary people, they do not have a firm will and a mature and stable worldview, and are very vulnerable to external influences. In other words, it is easy to be deceived by the outside world.

In the words of San Dezi Propaganda Minister Goebbels - a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth!

In the same way, celebrities use media platforms to constantly bombard the sight and hearing of ordinary people. Even if he sucks, after bombarding your hearing and vision more than a thousand times, you have to admit that he is famous.

Why is capital so powerful? Because they have bought media channels, constantly bombarding your visual and auditory senses, forcing you to accept their weird remarks like force-feeding.

For a mature and well-educated adult, there may be a little resistance, but for a minor who has not established correct values, this is simply a disaster.

In Germany before World War II, compulsory education had been universalized, but the rate of enrollment in universities was relatively high. It is such a country with a high-quality population. The media, which is also controlled by Na Cui, has been limping with repeated propaganda. The whole country is limping. Among them, there are many senior intellectuals.

Even in the 21st century, there are people who have been fooled by the Internet and still insist that the fake news they know is the truth. MLM or something can always fool a lot of people.

So, to sum up, most people are foolable. This is applicable in the 21st century where education is very developed, but in the 16th century, it can be changed to - most people are foolable!

Because the literacy rate of people in this era is extremely low, and illiterate people are particularly superstitious and easy to fool. Even the college students of this era are easy to fool because they still believe in religion.

Therefore, Bond simply used a brass mirror to create a lighting effect, and then used a children's choir to add a little bgm, making him the most popular professor of theology, far surpassing the real academic bully Martin Luther.

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Of course, Bond did not forget his mission. At every opportunity, he advertised the erudition and greatness of Martin Luther. The reason for this is that I hope that Martin Luther will take the lead in doing things in the future. And doing things requires prestige.

Therefore, every time Bond lectures, he will emphasize that he was inspired when he communicated with Professor Martin Luther...

Therefore, Martin Luther did not mind Bond copying his lecture notes. After all, Bond emphasized every time that he was inspired, and he didn't take credit for it. Martin Luther just wanted to criticize, but he couldn't find a point to blame.

Moreover, Bond really wanted to make a name for Martin Luther. After all, it is impossible for him to take the lead in carrying out the religious reform, and he still counts on Martin Luther to be the leader.

However, seeing that his prestige far surpassed that of the lord Martin Luther, Bond was a little flustered. In particular, Martin Luther was recently writing a treatise against the indulgences peddled by the Holy See. If the prestige is not enough, wouldn't it be thrown into the water when making trouble?

Bond was very worried, so he asked Marin through a secret channel - how to solve the problem that Martin Luther's prestige was overshadowed by him...

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Marin was speechless when he received Bond's request for help—Nimma, isn't this the legendary case of "an undercover agent became a black boss"?

According to the handling method of the case of "undercover mixed up with black boss", it is to directly collect the net and catch everything. But Bond's problem is more complicated, because Martin Luther is not a criminal and cannot be caught.

The only problem is that Martin Luther's prestige was overshadowed by the "supporting actor" Bond...

How to do it? Of course it is to find a way to increase the prestige of Martin Luther!

And how to increase prestige? After much deliberation, Marin came up with a solution—to publish a book!

In later generations, publishing books is a magic weapon to improve one's style. Many low-quality stars will also publish books,

Come to brush up your reputation and set up a schoolmaster. Of course, except for a small number of people who write by themselves and find someone to proofread. Most of the stars actually provide their own general ideas and experience, and then find the gunner to complete it.

This method has become less common after 2010. The main reason is that, having entered the Internet age, the battlefield of celebrities has shifted to Weibo and other online platforms, where they post long articles at every turn.

Before the emergence and maturity of online platforms, paper media was also an important propaganda position. At the same time, publishing books is also an important means to improve the quality. This method was very popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. Because it was a literary era. If you don't decorate with a literary style, it will look special...

As for the earlier 1980s... Sorry, there was no entertainment circle in the mainland at that time, only the art circle...

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Of course, later generations cannot compare with the 16th century. The culture of the later generations is so developed that writing a book is not difficult. At a certain point, countless people rush to the street to write books every day to ask for tickets and subscriptions, just like beggars. In the words of Supreme Treasure, that street writer looks like a dog...

But in the 16th century, reading was difficult, let alone writing. Whoever can write a book that has no grammatical errors and can tell a little truth can be dubbed the title of "scholar" and gain countless fame!

Marin gave Bond instructions, but Bond found out that it seemed that Martin Luther hadn't written a book yet...

That’s right, Martin Luther only received a doctorate in theology in 1512, and he has only been teaching for less than 5 years, which is equivalent to the level of ordinary university teachers in later generations. Except for the highest academic qualifications, no results have been achieved.

In recent years, because he was busy teaching, Martin Luther had little time to write books. Moreover, this guy is only less than 34 years old this year, which is not too old or young. It belongs to the age that has left the rookie stage, but has not yet reached the master level.

Therefore, it seems difficult to get Martin Luther to publish a book...

The information was fed back to Marin, and Marin asked the spy to take a transcript of Martin Luther's teaching case. As a result, Marin found a bright spot-although it was in the Latin version. However, Martin Luther's teaching plans will be translated into German and annotated.

Moreover, in its annotations, there is also a faint tendency to reform against the Holy See...

For example, in his teaching notes, he faintly revealed the meaning of opposing the deification of the Pope, and, according to the content, he opposed the sculpture of gods and religious paintings by the Holy See, believing that this was idolatry that Li clearly opposed.

In addition, Martin Luther also believed that confession does not need to go through a priest, but directly to God. Because, he believes that God is everywhere and can communicate directly without going through a priest. Moreover, it is not a good thing for the priest to pry into too many other people's private affairs through confession. Because, there have been bad things where priests used other people's private affairs to extort money. Of course, the priest would not come out on his own, but would tell the agent his secrets and let the agent blackmail him.

"Huh? This lesson plan is very good. Come on, send someone to edit it, and the German version can be published directly!"

In order to help Martin Luther become famous, Marin directly sent someone to summarize his teaching plans, and obtained the German translation of Martin Luther. Moreover, a regular appendix has been made, adding many insights of Martin Luther.

Of course, in order not to offend the Church. Malin specifically had some anti-Catholic Pope remarks deleted.

Then, I got a Martin Luther edition in German.

Subsequently, Marin sent someone to send the book to Wittenberg and hand it over to Bond. Then, another spy was sent to pretend to be a big businessman, and expressed his willingness to contribute money to help publish and print.

When Martin Luther got the news, he was stunned—what? I wrote a book?

But when he opened the German version, Martin Luther found that these were indeed words he translated and said. Also, some of these anti-Holy remarks were suppressed. As for his usual lesson plans, only Bond often borrows them, so it is self-evident who helps summarize and publish the book.

"Thank you, Calvin!" Martin Luther was grateful. After all, a scholar like him doesn't care about money, but about fame. Otherwise, they would not jump out to carry out religious reforms.

In this way, with the secret support of Marin, the German version of Martin Luther was quickly printed and published. Moreover, in order to avoid the hostility of the church, it is specially stated on the cover of this book-this is the theological textbook of the Theological School of Wittenberg University.

Moreover, it is printed on yellowed earth paper without added brighteners produced by a paper mill on the island of Cape Breton in the North Sea. This kind of paper was originally used to make oiled paper, so no whitening agent is added. After all, brighteners have the potential to affect food safety. After all, oil paper is mostly used to package food, and safety comes first.

The reason why Marin used this kind of yellowed soil paper was helpless—the white paper from Beihai was too conspicuous, and he could tell it at a glance. Only the loess paper without whitening looks a little like European hemp paper.

However, the cost of Beihai national land paper is very low. The cost of printing a book of hundreds of sheets is only about 20 pfennigs, which is one-third of a gold coin. In this era, a piece of parchment, made of four or five hundred pieces of parchment, can be exchanged for a vineyard worth dozens of gold coins. Hemp paper is cheaper, but the price is definitely more than 10 gold coins...

Therefore, in this day and age, if there is a copy at home, it belongs to a rich family. If there is a parchment, it can be called a local tyrant...

But Marin wanted to help Martin Luther become famous, so he gave the spy who pretended to be a wealthy businessman a symbolic "wage" - 2 gold coins for each book!

In fact, for the printing factories in Beihai State, the profit is still very large. But compared to the cost of other homes in this era, this price is definitely a blood loss...

Therefore, Marin not only helped Martin Luther publish a book to become famous this time, but also made a small profit by relying on the price difference. The printed 5,000 copies of Martin Luther's German version can bring him a profit of more than 2,000 gold coins.

It's not that I don't want to print more, but that the literacy rate is too low these days. You print tens of thousands of copies, not to mention whether people can afford them, even if they can afford them, they can’t read or read... So, 5,000 copies are already considered a large scale, enough to become famous... Genius in a second Remember the site address:

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