In Italy in October, the autumn tiger just passed, and the temperature was still high. The soldiers would not think that the sea water was cold when they were wading in the water and landing. At the same time, the temperature in East Friesland was several degrees lower than that in Italy, and the sea water began to cool. Because the latitudes of the two places were quite different.
The village of Doromia is located near the city of Rome, with a latitude of about 42 degrees north latitude. On the other side of Orich, it is located at 53 degrees north latitude and north. The latitude difference between the two places is more than 11 degrees, while one latitude is almost 111 kilometers, and 11 dimensions are all more than 1200 kilometers. The difference between the two places is more than 1200 kilometers north and south latitude difference, so the climate difference is naturally very large.
However, even if Italy is very south and the climate is much warmer than in northern Germany, the official war starts after November, which is already early winter. Even if Italy is relatively warm, it is still very cold. Therefore, Marin plans to reserve a large amount of firewood in the small fishing village on the coast of Grosseto. Once the army wading in the water, it will immediately set up a fire to burn the soldiers. Otherwise, in the cold season of early winter, if the fire is not burned in time after wading in the water, it is very likely that the cold will be caught. There is no cold medicine in this era, and the European race has a relatively poor resistance to colds. If one is not good, it is easy to die if a cold is caught in a cold.
Marin rushed to the small fishing village of Doromia and met with the main generals who led the troops this time - Kahn, Stad, Steindorf and Heinx...
Needless to say, Kahn is a close confidant of Marin. Although he generally does not lead troops, he has a superior position in the North Sea Army; Stadder is the second highest-level general of the North Sea Kingdom after Schwartz; Steindorf is the commander-in-chief of the North Sea Kingdom's firearms unit; as for Heinx, he is a young general who Marin recently promoted and reused.
Speaking of which, Heinkes was noticed by Marin, and his name took a great advantage. Before Marin traveled through time, Bayern beat the arrogant Barcelona under the leadership of the old coach Heinkes. In the knockout round in two rounds, he humiliatedly eliminated Barcelona, ​​known as the "Space Team", with a total score of 7-0, and shot Barcelona down from space and dropped them into the mortal world. Therefore, "Eunuch Sea" (Heinkes) has also become a legend of Bayern.
When Marin first heard the young officer named Heinx, he wanted to laugh. Because the contrast was too big - Eunuch Hai was an old man in his seventies, and Heinx in front of him was only in his twenties.
But it was precisely because of the name of this legend that Marin noticed the young man. Then, Marin discovered that - Oh, this young man is not bad...
Like Kahn, Heinx also comes from the Wurttemberg mountainous area. However, unlike Kahn's family, Heinx was born in the Knights' House. He has been skilled in martial arts since childhood and received a systematic military education.
However, Heinx's father, the old Knight of Heinx, offended the powerful nobles of the Duchy of Württemberg and was excluded. This led to Heinx's obstruction when he wanted to go to Stuttgart, the capital of Württemberg, to be promoted to the official knight after he became an adult. The other party even spoke to end the inheritance of the Knights of the Heinx family.
In a rage, Heinx rode his horse and rode his spear to surrender to Marin. Of course, he was not recruited by Marin himself, otherwise his name alone would have attracted Marin's attention. After being in the army of Stadt for several years, he caught Marin's attention by chance.
Previously, Heinx had become an excellent phalanx leader, commanding an infantry phalanx. Moreover, he performed well in the Battle of Lübeck and was named a hereditary knight by the Beihai Kingdom for his military achievements.
Afterwards, Marin noticed him because of his name and began to cultivate him intentionally or unintentionally. Heinx was also a bachelor, so he directly brought his father, Heinx and his whole family to the North Sea Kingdom and completely broke with the Principality of Württemberg. Because of this, Marin admired him even more.
At present, Marin has dozens of knights from the Knight family serving him and serving as officers of all levels. However, not many people have truly moved the entire family to Beihai Kingdom and completely surrendered to Marin, only a dozen people. The other families where those people are located are obviously unwilling to put all their treasures on Marin. Some officers even have brothers to serve as officers in other vassal states.
Logically speaking, this behavior of not putting eggs in a basket is correct. But that is only for those knight families, but for the lord Marin, it is very unhappy. Obviously, these people cannot be trusted completely...
Therefore, he dared to break with the Principality of Württemberg where he was originally located, and did not hesitate to hand over the original Knights Manor. Heinx, who joined his family to surrender to Marin, was appreciated by Marin. In addition, he was quite talented, so Marin planned to train him to be the new commander of the legion. This time he attacked the Republic of Siena, Marin specially brought Heinx to allow him to accumulate merits and find an excuse to promote him.
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When Marin inspected the mountain infantry army, Julius II also began to attack the Republic of Siena as planned...
Why attack? Obviously, it is an excuse for the Pope to send troops to attack Siena...
In wars between countries, you must find a suitable excuse. Otherwise, if you are not famous, you will not only be easily opposed by many countries, but your own army's morale will also be hit. Only by standing on the rightful side can you send troops openly and with high morale.
The excuse for Julius II to attack is also very simple - the issue of collecting "tith tax"...
According to the regulations of the Holy See, all Catholic countries have the right to impose "tith tax" on all their citizens. Of course, after these "tith taxes" are collected, they will not be handed over to the Holy See, but local churches intercept half of them and then handed over the remaining part to the Holy See.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, this is just a theoretical situation. In fact, the church cannot receive... or it cannot collect all of this half of the tithes...
There are many reasons for this, such as local churches lied about the number and greedy for taxes. In addition, the great nobles in many countries refused to pay "tith tax", and the people who really bear the "tith tax" were actually civilians from all countries. But in this era when serfdom still dominated, most of the land was controlled by the nobles. In this way, the collection of "tith tax" was naturally greatly reduced. Sometimes, it would be considered good if the "tith tax" in some countries could give 10% to the Holy See.
For example, France, because of its strong national strength, did not go to the Holy See at all. After the local church was levied, it was not very willing to hand over half of the tithes to the Holy See. In order to fight against the Holy See, the French church even colluded with the French officials to put pressure on the Holy See. The Holy See was obviously afraid of France's strength. You must know that France once did the work of hijacking the Holy See to Avignon, France, and ruined the prestige of the Holy See.
Therefore, the Holy See actually cannot collect any tithe tax in France. The tithe tax paid to the Holy See by the French church is not as much as a larger bishop in Germany. After all, the appointment of those bishops in Germany requires the Holy See to nod. If the official hat is held in the hands of the Holy See, the bishops have to pay more tithes. But generally speaking, every country will honestly give all "tithes" and will always find ways to give less.
For example, dozens of cardinals in the Roman Cardinals were actually responsible for the tithe payment of certain regions.
But as the corruption in the Holy See intensifies, these cardinals may not really pay "tith tax". For example, the cardinals responsible for the Spanish "tith tax" will often collude with the Spanish church. Originally, Spain might have paid 400,000 gold coins of "tith tax" to the Holy See. However, the Spanish church would bribe the cardinal in charge and give the other party 10,000 or 20,000 gold coins. Then, list a lot of difficulties and deceive the Holy See. The chief who collected the money would be the chief of the Holy See.
The computer bishop will also help deceive. Then, the "tith tax" that should have been paid 400,000 gold coins, but when he entered the Holy See, it turned into 200,000 gold coins, or even 100,000... How much discount this depends on how much bribes the local church and whether the country is strong or not. For example, France and Europe's first-class country, the church can give the Holy See 10,000 gold coins every year, which is considered to be a face. Sometimes, it is just a reason - there is a disaster in the country... and the Holy See cannot turn against France...
The Republic of Siena is right next to the Pope, and it is said that it should be heavily controlled by the Holy See. But in fact, the Republic of Siena has long deprived the church of its ruling power in the local area. As for the "tith tax", it is also given less.
In fact, the Holy See has been in power for a long time and has wanted to move Siena. However, the Republic of Siena is relatively wealthy and has money to hire enough troops. Moreover, the most important thing is that Siena has a complex terrain and blocks the way. It is quite difficult to attack Siena.
In addition, the military power of the Holy See has always been very ordinary, so we can only stare at the disrespectful Republic of Siena.
Chapter completed!