The Rise of the European Emperor

However, Marin's mood did not last long. After occupying the city of Osnabrück, Marin left 1,000 soldiers and horses to garrison, and with 10,000 troops and 10,000 people, he continued to march to the southwest of Münster.

It was fine when he first left the city of Osnabruck, but when he left the Bishopric of Osnabruck and entered the southern region of the Bishopric of Münster, Marin felt that there was a problem...

It turned out that in the territory of the Bishopric of Münster, the roads and bridges leading to the city of Münster were all damaged...

Obviously, Conrad, Bishop of Münster, did not welcome Marin's arrival.

For Marin, however, this, while troubling, was not a big deal. Because, among the 10,000 strong people under his command, there is a 2,000-strong engineering corps...

What does the Corps of Engineers do? It was dedicated to building fortifications and camps, as well as building bridges and paving roads. For bridge damage, road excavation, etc., they have a very mature response plan.

With a wave of Marin's hand, these engineering troops immediately took off tools such as shovels from the carriage and began to repair the road. And some went straight to logging and repairing bridges.

In order to hurry up, the bridges built by the engineering troops are all simple. For example, if the river channel is very narrow, the logs are directly placed on both sides of the river, and wooden boards are placed on it. If the river channel is too wide, the felled logs are tied into rafts, and then connected together to make a pontoon bridge to facilitate the passage of the army.

In this way, although the road was damaged, four days later, Marin arrived at the city of Münster with a large army and surrounded it.

Just after Marin surrounded the city of Münster, Conrad, Bishop of Münster, sent a letter. In the letter, Bishop Conrad asked Marin angrily--"Why have you been having trouble with my Rietberg family?"

"Having trouble with the Rietberg family? What do you mean?" Marin was a little confused. It was me who robbed you of your dominion, why did it become difficult to live with your family? Moreover, the country of Rietberg is just a small country, with an area of ​​only a few hundred square kilometers, and it is not worth paying attention to...

However, Schwartz on the side remembered something:

"Master, you seem to have forgotten what happened a few years ago..."

"What do you mean?" Marin asked suspiciously.

"Elizabeth, the wife of the former East Frisian tyrant Edsard I, is the daughter of John I, Count of Rietberg!"

"Ah...I remembered! But,

Didn't I send back that Elizabeth back then? "At the beginning, Marin killed blood in the East Frisian country. However, considering the unspoken rule that you can't kill nobles of other countries. Moreover, Elizabeth of Rietberg was not pregnant at the time, Marin killed her. put it back.

"Yeah, you sent her back, but you sent her back after killing her husband..." Schwartz was speechless - you killed her husband, can you not get revenge?

In fact, Bishop Conrad is the uncle of Princess Elizabeth. However, when Marin captured East Frisland, Bishop Conrad had just become Bishop of Münster, and he was not in control of the situation and was unable to organize an army to attack Marin. Moreover, his niece was not killed, and he endured it at that time. Besides, his niece Elizabeth did not leave offspring with Edsard I, and Edsard I was also killed. Even if he sent troops to retake East Friesland, it would not help. Because widows without children cannot inherit the throne. After returning, Princess Elizabeth suffered from depression and no longer wanted to remarry, but entered a convent and became a nun.

At the beginning, Bishop Conrad was extremely disliked by Marin because of this, and wanted to teach Marin a lesson. However, after the 20,000-strong army of Albrecht, the previous Duke of Saxony, was defeated, Bishop Conrad gave up his plan to take revenge on Marin. After all, Bishop Conrad does not consider himself stronger than Saxony.

However, Bishop Conrad didn't expect that after a few years, Marin, who had bullied his niece, got through the relationship with the Holy See and bullied him... This is simply a deal with Rietberg. The family is right...

Malin, who learned the truth, was also a little embarrassed. He really didn't specifically target the Rietberg family, but the other party was too coincidental to be a stumbling block in his path. Marin also "moved them away" with ease. He really didn't mean to target them ...

It's just that the people of the Rietberg family are really stubborn. Why is Mao always standing in front of Marin, the transmigrator and the protagonist, waiting to be removed?

The country of East Friesland is indeed a family from Marin's mother. Although it was faked in the marriage of nobles, the blood inheritance is true...

Then there is the Bishopric of Münster. Who told you that it is in the south of East Frisian Country, and it is so large? Marin wants to expand, of course, has to choose neighboring countries. In this way, territories can be easily connected together, management is easy, and resources can be easily allocated in a unified manner.

If you choose a place where the territory is scattered for expansion, even if you get those territories, it will be inconvenient. If nothing else, to issue a decree, you must first pass through the territory of another country. Even the delivery of food and other materials has to pass through the territory of other countries.

Moreover, in this era, the nobles of various countries have a bad habit of setting up cards to collect taxes. If those territories and the mainland are separated by several countries, a truckload of grain may be charged several times to return to the mainland.

Therefore, Malinning can choose to collide with a powerful country like Denmark, and also take the opportunity to win the Earl of Oldenburg, just to expand his own territory and at the same time to facilitate management. Otherwise, if Marin gets a territory in the inland of southern Germany, there is no way to manage it properly...

In the same way, when Marin took the huge risk of offending the previous Pope, Alexander VI, and insisted on marrying Angela as his wife, he was trying to gain the support of Julius II, who was still in trouble at the time, so as to obtain the support of the Holy See, and complete the Expansion of the Bishopric of Münster. Even, in order to gain the favor and help of Julius II, the husband-in-law, Marin brazenly put his sister-in-law Felice to sleep, just to be the only son-in-law of Julius II, the Pope, and get all the resources.

Today, Marin's choices are well-reported. The confrontation with Denmark, because of the support of the Hanseatic League leader and deputy leader, gave Marin a huge diplomatic support. Otherwise, it would be really difficult for Marin to legally occupy the Duchy of Schleswig. After all, the dozens of tickets brought to him by the two leaders of the Hanseatic League were no joke.

The investment in Julius II, who had been down and out, was a huge success. The acquisition of the Bishopric of Münster greatly increased the area under Marin's control. More than 12,000 square kilometers of land made Marin ecstatic. To seize such a large area of ​​territory, there is actually legal support endorsed by the Holy See, it is simply an order to invade and expand...