In addition to being able to use the wealth and talents of the church to set up a hospital, Marin also had an ulterior motive - through intervention in the wealth of the church, the church would spit out some land so that the priests would not live too well.
You should know that at present, even if the Beihai Kingdom cooperated with Bishop Conrad to seize the church's land, 20% of the arable land is still in the hands of the church. The Beihai Kingdom currently has 12 million mu of arable land, which means that 2.4 million mu of arable land is under the control of the church. The military nobles under Marin, including some Junker landlords, account for 30% of the country's arable land (the other half belongs to Marin).
Moreover, many farmers in the land of these churches were bound to the land and could only contribute to the church, and could not benefit Marin and the North Sea Kingdom.
Therefore, Marin planned to take advantage of the fact that the current and next pope were in close relations with him and within a few years, he would find a way to reorganize the property resources of the North Sea Church and let the church spit out half of the arable land, which is about 1.2 million acres.
Of course, it was not that Marin was jealous of these lands, but that the farmers on these 1.2 million mu of land could be liberated to a certain extent. Then, they could free themselves to serve themselves.
You should know that working in Marin's manor and working in the church's manor. Under Marin's manor, not only did Marin's manor in his own name be more friendly to serfs, gave enough food, and even gave clothes and salted fish and other benefits. In the future, he planned to promote children to drink cow milk and goat milk.
But the church’s manors are different. The church is very corrupt these days, and the church’s duties are all bought with money publicly, and the church’s top leaders are all greedy.
Among them, senior officials like Archbishop Taylor will put pressure on the lower division bishops and monasteries to "give" themselves. The regional bishops and monasteries will press down on the next level and leverage these burdens. In the end, they will naturally be assigned to the lower-level missionaries responsible for managing the lowest-level manor.
These low-level priests who personally manage the manor are often older and hopeless to advance within the church. These people are often more arbitrary because they have no hope for their future. Anyway, if the future is gone, then make money...
Therefore, Marin provided fertilizer to the church's manors in time, so that the church's arable land yield reached more than 400 pounds per mu. However, in the end, the church manor was still very harsh in treating farmers. At most, it was a little better than before.
In the past, because the yield per mu was only about 100 pounds, more than half of the church had to be taken away. Therefore, the serfs in the church manor lived a miserable life at that time. They could not afford to eat black sticks mixed with mud and stones. They could only eat bitter rye porridge with wild vegetables, leaves and grass roots. Moreover, it was a very sparse kind.
After Marin promoted the new fertilizer and the crooked plow, the church increased the treatment of serfs in the church manor. However, it was only given black bread. It should be noted that they sent serfs a low-end version of "Korel bread", that is, black bread mixed with grass bran.
According to Marin's initial requirements, the proportion of grass bran incorporation should not be higher than 30%, that is, the content of grass bran must be less than 30%. Later, with the increasing amount of rye storage in the Beihai Kingdom, Marin kept reducing the proportion of grass bran in the "Korel bread". Now, in Marin's manor, the black bread sent to serfs no longer contains grass bran. At most, the bran in the rye was not removed, but was ground into the noodles to make bread. This seemed a bit stingy, but in fact Marin knew that bran was also very nutritious. Therefore, he did not treat the people unfairly.
Many of the military nobles under Marin gave up the addition of grass bran to the black bread for the serfs. Only those stingy nobles and the old Bremen noble families still insisted on adding grass bran to the bread for the serfs to the serfs to the serfs to the serfs to make more profits.
But Marin could not manage the manor under the name of the church. Because the church does not belong to the Beihai State administrative system, Marin could not force the church people to do whatever they want.
Even Archbishop Taylor, the highest-ranking bishop in the North Sea Kingdom, could not control the priests under their rule to reduce their exploitation of farmers.
Or, if people join the church, they are here to make a fortune. Can you control it? Unless you fight tigers every day like in later generations, you can shock everyone. But the church is extremely corrupt these days. Even if Archbishop Taylor issues orders every day, what should be done next?
For example, Archbishop Taylor has ordered that the "Korel bread" distributed to serfs in the church manor should not be higher than 30%, which is in line with the secular manor of Beihai. But in fact, the "Korel bread" distributed to serfs in the church manor of Beihai has a stable content of about half. However, when the report is reported, it is calculated based on 30% grass bran. In other words, the additional 20% rye was greedy by the lower priests...
Marin was helpless about this phenomenon. Because he could draw swords at other princes, but could not be harsh on the people of the church. Even if there were very evil and cruel scum inside the church, Marin could only report to Rome, and after obtaining permission from the Holy See, he would use Archbishop Taylor to solve the problem, and could not eradicate it by himself.
Therefore, Marin really hopes to interfere in the management of church land in person. For example, when building a hospital, he deliberately overspends. What should he do if he overspends? Sell some land for emergency...
Then, Marin turned his left hand to his right hand and paid for part of the land of the church, including the serfs trapped in the land...
As long as you can take away 10% of the arable land from the domestic church, it is equivalent to taking away nearly 200,000 farmers from the church, which is of great significance to Marin.
Even Marin plans to find a way to recruit Slavic farmers in the future to replace the German farmers under the control of the church. In this way, Marin can switch from the church to 300,000 to 400,000 German farmers. These populations are of great benefit, whether they are developing the local area or developing the Americas...
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But those are secondary and things that need to be solved later. Moreover, you can only take your time. After all, the Holy See also needs face. If you bully the Church of the Beihai Kingdom too ruthlessly, it will cause trouble for the priests of the Beihai Kingdom to make trouble, and the Holy See will not be able to get out of Taiwan. Therefore, it will take many years for Marin to do this slowly. The most important thing is to first obtain control of the Church of the Beihai Kingdom. Then, you can raise your knife to cut your flesh...
Now, when Marin's "Save the Knights" was first launched, the most important thing is not how to calculate the church in his country, but to first make a name for himself and get recognition and praise from all over Europe. In this way, the work in the future will continue to be carried out. Otherwise, it is easy to be vilified. After all, it is too envious, jealous and hated to be able to use the wealth of the church.
As the leader of the North Sea Kingdom’s Knights’ Rescue, what is the first thing Marin has to do now? To legitimize the cat’s name!
Throughout the Middle Ages, cats were regarded as the embodiment of unknowns and disasters in Europe, and were expelled and even killed by people. When Marin first traveled through time, he could not even find a cat to catch it, so he could only run to the grass near the Friesian fishing village on the North Sea to catch stray cats.
Because cats love to eat fish, and fishing villages on the North Sea often dry salted fish, it has become a place where stray cats like to stay. In the inland areas, most places have basically disappeared because cats are regarded as unknown incarnations.
Later, Malin used stray cats caught near the fishing village on the North Sea to breed, cultivated a large number of cats, and distributed them to each sea boat to avoid mice on the boat and plague (Black Death) and other things. And inside the city, many cats were also raised.
But except for some people who are loyal to Marin and listen to Marin very much, most of the people in Beihai still have doubts about cats and dare not keep cats for fear of bad luck.
Taking advantage of the establishment of the "Save the Knights" this time, Marin decided to give the monarchs and envoys present the source of the Black Death and the importance of raising cats.
Chapter completed!