After hearing this news, Marin was in a bad mood. Then, the memories of the Eight-Nation Alliance forcing the "Qing Dynasty" to pay 450 million taels of silver in the last life would always unconsciously come to my mind.
In the previous life, Ma Lin was actually very strange. Why did there be Qing fans? It’s easy to say that there were Ming fans, after all, the Ming Dynasty did not lose much in foreign wars. And the Qing Dynasty... In the early days of Kang Mazi and Yongzheng, it was fine, but in the later days it was so miserable. All of China were pressed to the ground and rubbed and insulted... The century-old history of humiliation is not nonsense... Ma Lin couldn’t figure out why anyone missed the “My Qing Dynasty”...
Of course, he was not a Ming fan (the Ming Dynasty killed himself), nor did he particularly hate the Qing Dynasty. But to be honest, the Qing Dynasty did lose face completely and could not find his face until the 21st century. Before Malin was reborn, China was still trying to gain a face internationally, just to fill the huge deficit of the face lost by the Qing Dynasty.
However, although they are all called "Eight-Nation Alliance", Marin did not take this army seriously. Especially the country of Ritberger, which was added in the end, was a township-level little country. Such a product was to send people to the heads... no, it was to send land. But Marin also disliked Ritberger's country as being too small. It was only a small place of only one or two hundred square kilometers, which was equivalent to a larger town, which made Marin not interested in touching them.
But no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. Since the Ritberg family wants to die, Marin doesn't mind fulfilling it. Moreover, the Ritberger country is close to the southeastern border of the Bishop of Munster, and it is very convenient to manage it after annexation. Therefore, Marin is "disrespectful"...
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In fact, when Marin heard that Bishop Conrad deliberately separated three-quarters of the property of the church in the South Münster area in order to empty the South Münster area, he was extremely happy. Because Bishop Conrad did what he wanted to do but was worried about.
Although most of these properties will be stolen by this so-called "Eight-Nation Alliance", that is not a problem. As long as Marin destroys all the eight vassal states, they can all be taken back.
Moreover, what made Marin happy the most was the land issue. Most of the land in the church was separated from the church by Bishop Conrad, who was determined to "dig his own walls", which saved Marin a lot of trouble. Although Bishop Conrad dug the walls of the church to save his family and his allies, in fact, the cheapest one was Marin. After all, from the legal documents, three-quarters of the church land in the South Münster area were owned by Marin. Speaking of which, Marin wanted to thank Bishop Conrad...
Of course, thanks do not exist. After all, Bishop Conrad colluded with the princes of the seven kingdoms to seize the foundation of the North Sea Kingdom, which was unforgivable.
Therefore, Marin sentenced Bishop Conrad to death...
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Previously, Marin had already arranged a way to die for Bishop Conrad - Ma Shangfeng...
Moreover, the relevant intelligence personnel had already been in place and were waiting for Marin to give the order.
"Let's start, give Bishop Conrad more to the fun, and make sure that the elderly are 'happy' to see God." Marin told Kohler.
"Okay, I'll make arrangements now!"
Then, several secret letters were sent quietly to the south. All of these secret letters were made of the simplest Morse code, and the letters were full of Arabic numerals, which ordinary people could not understand.
It should be pointed out that although Arabic numerals are also popular in Europe, Arabic numerals do not dominate. For example, in coins of this era, the numbers are Roman numerals, not Arabic numerals.
Strictly speaking, the North Sea copper coins ordered to be minted by Marin were the first coin in the European Christian world to use Arabic numerals. Because Marin engraved the words "1508" on the brass coins, which are somewhat similar to coins from later generations. But in this era, the numbers on European currencies were basically Roman numerals.
Arabic numerals really squeezed out Roman numerals and occupied a dominant position in Europe. After the rise of Protestantism, mathematics had no pressure from the church and began to develop eruptively. Because of the convenience of calculation, Arabic numerals squeezed out the status of Roman numerals.
Moreover, Arabic numerals were introduced to China very early, not as described in time travel novels, but were introduced in modern times. In fact, during the Yuan Dynasty, Arabic numerals were introduced to China. However, it did not become popular.
Because at that time, China already had a very convenient calculation abacus, so there was no need to use Arabic numerals. Also, Arabic numerals were very convenient to calculate on drafts. But the problem is - ancient paper was very expensive, so how could it be as cheap as later paper? Try to calculate on rice paper? It would be strange if you don’t break your legs...
Abacus is not only convenient, but also does not consume expensive paper. If it is just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, Arabic numerals are not used at all. Only by doing more complex mathematical calculations can the superiority of Arabic numerals be shown. However, ancient Chinese mathematics was underdeveloped and there was no need for the convenience of Arabic numerals. Therefore, it cannot be popular.
Therefore, it is a bit nonsense to kill all the Arabic numerals as soon as they appear. In ancient times, you tried to calculate with white paper and pen? This is as luxurious as using rice paper to wipe your butt, or using an abacus is more cost-effective... Of course, if you promote modern papermaking and reduce the cost of paper, it is also feasible to calculate with white paper and pen. Otherwise, using white paper to calculate Arabic numerals is something that ancient tycoons could do...
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However, Marin knew the superiority of Arabic numerals. Moreover, he also took out middle school mathematics textbooks. Therefore, Arabic numerals are naturally of great use. In addition, Marin made cheap paper on Cape Breton Island, so he had no problem promoting Arabic numerals in the North Sea Kingdom.
The spies in Beihai Kingdom naturally learned the mathematics of Arabic numerals and knew Arabic numerals. Then, each of them had a codebook in their hands. Then they referred to a novel or the Bible. According to the number number, they found the corresponding words in the row and translated the entire information. It was that simple...
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After the news was delivered, the North Sea spies in the city of Münster received the order to "start operations". Then, the lurking spies in the Münster Cathedral moved...
"Sir, this is the milk tea you want!" Beihai Country intelligence officer Hua Te respectfully gave Bishop Conrad a cup of milk tea with amusing medicine...
At the same time, the mistress of Bishop Conrad, named Alice, also drank the added drink...
Soon, Bishop Conrad and Sister Alice, who felt that they felt, began to get up in Bishop Conrad's secret room...
At the beginning, the spies didn't add much material, just because they were afraid that Bishop Conrad would be done before he could get it done. However, in the secret room, there was a teapot with tea added with ingredients. Moreover, it was an excessive amount...
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It is summer now, and people are more likely to feel thirsty. Sure enough, Bishop Conrad was moving for a while and felt thirsty, so he grabbed the teapot on the table and quenched his thirst. After drinking the tea with added ingredients, the elderly Bishop Conrad continued to play "opposite scenes" with Sister Alice...
But after a while, while climbing to the peak of happiness, the elderly and weak Bishop Conrad suddenly died suddenly. Before his death, he still had a comfortable smile on his face...
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Sister Alice felt strange and screamed in fear. Watt, the spy lurking beside Bishop Conrad, hurried in and knocked over the remaining tea while Sister Alice was not paying attention...
Then, Walt shouted in panic:
"No, Bishop Conrad is so happy!"
Chapter completed!