Germany is very big, and the indulgence sales team led by John Tzell is a three-foot-sized product. So, so far, his team has only gone through several bishops. Now, the bishops in the northwest of Germany have basically traveled all over the world. Next, the secular vassal states.
However, those secular vassal states are currently waiting and no one wants to try it first. So, John Tzell came to ask for help from Marin. After all, the Beihai State is currently the most powerful country in the northwest of Germany. The Beihai State took the lead, so it is hard to say anything else in other vassal states.
John Tzell came with his master Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici's handwritten letter, hoping that Marin could take the lead in subscribing to indulge in public and make a good start for the sale of indulge in secular vassal states.
Moreover, Marin has fought many wars over the years and has committed many murders. When it comes to the need for atonement, Marin is definitely at the forefront.
What is an indulgence? It is used to "eliminate sins". Logically speaking, generals who fight a lot of war, especially those who often win wars, must be seriously sinful. For example, Marin, after winning so many battles, he didn't know how many enemies he killed, and his sins were ranked among the top in Europe. In addition, after the Beihai Kingdom annexed many vassal states, it was already a secular power ranked among the top in the German region. It was indeed a good idea to let Marin take the lead in subscribing indulgences.
However, Marin was not very happy. Because everyone knew that this "indulgence" was a nonsense thing, and it was used by the Holy See. As for the role of atonement, it was simply the church's nonsense.
However, despite his unwillingness, Marin had to take the lead in subscribing. After all, he was on the side of the Holy See and could not slap the Holy See in the face. In addition, the future Pope Leo X was responsible for this matter, and he had to give him face.
However, Marin was unhappy to ask Marin to take out real money and silver, especially gold coins to subscribe for indulgences. Beihai is still short of money, so how can it be taken away by the Holy See?
After thinking about it for a while, Marin agreed to subscribe for indulgences, but he asked to pay with food!
It is true that Beihai Kingdom lacks money, but it has never been short of food. If it could use grain to subscribe to indulge indulgences, Marin was willing to buy in large quantities. Anyway, in the many granaries he built with cement, there were too many grains.
But John Tzell was stunned because Marin's request was unruly! According to the process of selling indulgences, the atonementer threw gold coins into a cash box similar to the merit box. When the gold coins jingle, the atonementer could go to heaven after his death.
If Marin used food and threw it into the cash box, it would be impossible to make a crisp "ding" sound...
Seeing that John Tzeel could not make decisions, Marin simply used a carrier pigeon to contact Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici and his Pope Father-in-law in Rome.
In the letter, Marin said that it would be fine if he took the lead in buying more indulgences. The only problem was that he didn't have that much cash and could only use food instead. Therefore, he asked to use food instead of gold coins and buy a batch of indulgences.
The son-in-law must give his face. Pope Julius II thought about it and agreed that Marin used grain instead of gold coins. However, gold coins were still needed at the ceremony of subscribing to indulge. However, Marin was allowed to exchange gold coins for equivalent grain afterwards.
After receiving the approval, Marin formally decided to use grain instead of gold coins and subscribe to a large number of indulgences. Moreover, the price of grain from Germany was used to offset the value of gold coins. At the same time, Marin promised that these inflated grains would be shipped to Rome by merchant ships from the North Sea Kingdom and sent to the Holy See...
This can make the Holy See a lot of money, because the price of grain in Italy is much higher than that in the German region. Due to the war, the price of grain in Italy has been high for a long time. For example, rye is only 1 Finny per pound in Germany, but in Rome, it costs 2.5 Finny per pound. If Marin pays the food directly, it will make the Holy See a lot of profit.
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Subsequently, Marin held an indulgence subscription ceremony in the square outside the Palace of Orich, under the witness of envoys from various countries, to build momentum for John Tzell's indulgence sales team.
On the high platform of the Orich Palace Square, Marin half-kneeled on the ground, and expressed his serious expression to confess to God. Behind him, Kahn, Schwartz, Wagner, Steindorf, Heinx and other North Sea generals half-kneeled behind Marin and followed Marin to confess to God.
After Malin took a group of Beihai generals who had "heavy murderous sins" to recite the confessional prayer like a show, each of them took out a pocket, and then poured gold coins into the cash box "ding ding dangdang", blinding the onlookers' eyes.
Among them, Marin poured the most, with almost 10,000 gold coins. John Tzell had to change the cash box several times to hold the gold coins. Several generals also poured a lot, each with at least thousands of gold coins.
Afterwards, a group of officers from Beihai Kingdom also came forward to confess and subscribe to indulge. Everyone, you guys and I threw gold coins into the cash box, forcing John Tzell to change the cash box many times.
Afterwards, the generals in Orich city, soldiers of the First Legion, as well as the nobles and officials of Orich, purchased a total of 220,000 gold coins worth of indulgences, shocking the envoys of other countries present to watch the ceremony.
This is not counting, because the Third Legion stationed in the east, the Second Legion stationed in the central and southern part, the Sixth Legion stationed in the central and southern part have not yet begun to subscribe. In short, this time, the 40,000 troops in the Beihai Kingdom are the big ones. After all, in terms of sin, there are still deeper than soldiers who kill people?
Although ordinary soldiers have little money, the other three legions of Beihai Kingdom and the nobles in several cities have taken action together. It is estimated that the national indulgence sales will not be less than 300,000 gold coins, and perhaps, they can reach about 400,000 gold coins...
At this moment, even John Tzell, the leader who sold indulgences, was shocked. Originally, he was just planning to let Beihai Kingdom lead the lead. Unexpectedly, Marin's headband was too fierce, and he had more than 200,000 gold coins at one move, which made others embarrassed to buy less...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, after the subscription ceremony, all the 220,000 gold coins were taken back by Marin. Then, according to the spoils sharing agreement, Marin only needed to ship the grain worth 110,000 gold coins and transport it to Rome. At the same time, he sent the grain worth more than 80,000 gold coins to the North Sea Church.
However, Archbishop Taylor, who knew Marin's cruel temperament, dared not really want so much? He just collected more than 10,000 gold coins and refused to accept it anymore. But what Taylor didn't expect was that Marin recently disliked the grain in the granary and gave it to the church warehouse worth more than 80,000 gold coins.
Then, John Tzell carried the banner of the Holy See in a high spirit and continued to sell indulgences such as Emden, Groningen, Münster, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Bremen, Las Vegas, Lüneburg, Wolfenbitel, Goslar, Bochum, Recklinhausen and other big cities, and continued to sell indulges. With so many cities and three legions, the indulges of more than 100,000 gold coins will definitely be sold...
Of course, Marin did not suffer any loss. Because he took the lead in subscribing to indulgences and had a very good attitude, Pope Julius II took the opportunity to order the "tith tax" of the North Sea Kingdom, and then it will be levied fixedly according to the current arable land area of ​​2 million acres (12 million acres). The collection standard is 90 pounds of rye per acre, equivalent to 15 pounds per acre. In the future, as long as the territory of the North Sea Kingdom does not change, the tax amount will be determined, and it will not increase or decrease...
Chapter completed!