After receiving the message from Marin's flying pigeon, Julius II was speechless - his son-in-law was really greedy. He gave him the bishop's power, but it was not enough. He wanted to make the idea of ​​"tithing"...
It is not possible to give Marin directly, it is too damaging to the rules. What if other countries also ask for this right? Therefore, Julius II could not publicly declare that the "tith tax" in the Americas is dominated by Marin.
So, he thought of a way, that is, to allow the archbishop of the United States to dominate the "tith" of the Kingdom of America to preach in the Americas.
Of course, the specific privilege given by Julius II is to allow the Archbishop of the United States to decide on the purpose of half of the "tithes" after consultation with the King of America. However, it is best to use it for missionary causes and improve the living facilities of the locals...
In other words, Julius II's authorization interprets it as allowing you to take half of the "tith" of America and use it to build infrastructure in America, such as building roads and bridges, or building churches.
The other half of the "tith" tax, Julius II stipulated that it must be used for Christian affairs. For example, building a church or something. Specifically, it is still the same sentence, "it is decided by the Archbishop of the United States and the King of America after consultation."
In other words, although Julius II did not explicitly give Marin the "tith tax" in the Americas, it was also considered a disguised gift. After all, the Archbishop of the United States was nominated by Marin. How dare he disobey? Marin would not nominate. In addition, the bishop of the region has the right to be in charge of the "tith tax" in the Americas, it should not be too easy.
As for the Holy See's inability to collect "tith tax" from America, the Roman Cardinals had no objection. After all, Julius II gave a very good reason - they still had to use money to build a new church and preach...
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As for the capture of 100,000 people on Haiti, Julius II also adopted Marin's suggestion and planned to form a Vatican investigation team to conduct field investigations in Santo Domingo and Guantanamo Cuba, thinking that Marin cleared him of suspicion.
Julius II also did the matter of asking the vassal states that were very fierce to send observers. However, some of the German vassal states suspected of spreading rumors denied the rumors and were unwilling to send observers. However, three of the vassal states were church vassal states, and could not withstand the pressure of the Holy See, so they had to send a senior priest to accompany the investigation team to America. In addition, two secular princes did not believe in evil and sent a representative to each to observe the group to see if the Holy See covered up Marin.
But this matter will not happen so quickly, because the castle in Guantanamo has not been repaired yet. In addition, cutting trees and planting sugarcane will take time. Therefore, the investigation team will not set off until at least half a year later. At that time, Guantanamo was almost ready.
In addition, because we need to welcome the arrival of the investigation team, we also need to prove the "danger" of the colony to the investigation team, Marin delayed the original order to ask Tara to send troops to quell the rebellion on Haiti after the reinforcements arrived, and instead asked Tara to send troops to defeat the rebels of the indigenous Carlos after the investigation team left.
The existence of Carlos, a real leader of the rebel army, can also allow Marin to "play" the "unmanagement" of the colony.
You should know that Carlos originally had 3,000 resistance troops. If he allowed it to develop, it is estimated that when the investigation team arrived, Carlos would have seven or eight thousand resistance troops. Moreover, his recurved bow would be more and more. In addition to the arrows that can only be made of stone (the natives cannot smel metal), the combat effectiveness of this resistance army will be amazing.
Of course, this means that when facing ordinary troops, these people have not weak combat power. But if Marin sends two thousand officials wearing rhino leather armor over... the enemy's recurve bow and stone arrow will be futile and can only accept the fate of failure...
But before the rebels perished, Marin was very much looking forward to their siege of Santo Domingo. At least, he could scare the Holy See's investigation team and observers of the five German vassal states.
Those rebels were different from those arranged by Marin in Guantanamo. In Guantanamo, Marin would just let the 1,000 "pseudo troops" behave and make enough momentum. But in Santo Domingo, there would be a tough battle to fight.
If the rebels happen to be besieging Santo Domingo when the investigation team arrives, it is also easy. As long as you send a small group of elite troops to provoke first, then kill a few opponents and anger your opponent, the opponent will come to besiege Santo Domingo. At that time, the Santo Domingo defenders can fight a cruel and bloody battle in front of the investigation team, and use blood to scare the members of the investigation team and observers of the five vassal states.
These people were stimulated and would naturally promote the dangers they saw with their own eyes after they went back. Then, Marin also achieved his goal...
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Of course, those things will happen half a year later. Now, Marin has just forced 2,000 masons to go to Guantanamo to build a castle with the red bricks and cement that have been built into a ship.
As for the 4,000 Hungarian prisoners of war selected by Kleiman, they have just met with 1,000 Beihai veterans selected by Marin and are currently in training. It is estimated that it will take two or three months to be sent to Cuba Island for missions. After all, these Hungarian prisoners of war are not familiar with the training methods of the Beihai Army and are not professional enough.
According to the tradition of the Beihai Army, recruits need to undergo three months of new recruit devil training. Although these Hungarian prisoners of war also participated in the Hungarian peasant uprising war, they were not professional and needed to be strictly trained before they could barely be considered soldiers...
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While handling American colonial affairs, Marin also needs to review various documents from all over the country and other colonies.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! After Malin arranged the related matters of Cuba and Haiti, he reviewed a document from the Ayuen colony. The document stated that Mosingen is going to lead a team to Timbuktu again...
Speaking of Mosingen's expedition to Timbuktu, we have to mention Mosingen's first two expeditions. The first time, Mosingen came to Timbuktu by accident under the guidance of two black slaves and exchanged dozens of pounds of golden sand. Then, this matter attracted the attention of Marin and approved Mosingen to go on a new expedition, intending to open up a trade route for salt and gold in Timbuktu.
However, Mosingen's second expedition did not go smoothly...
Last year, Mosingen brought a total of 100 Egyptian slaves and 20 musketeers trained by Mamluk cavalry to Timbuktu. At the same time, he also brought 5,000 pounds of bags of salt, intending to exchange them all for gold.
But during this second expedition, Mosingen failed...
Originally, Mosingen's team successfully arrived in Timbuktu, and successfully moved to the golden sand weighing salt. However, on the way back, they encountered huge trouble...
Because of the emergence of Mosingen, the interests of many old North African merchants were violated. So several caravans immediately turned against each other, intending to defeat Mosingen and destroy Mosingen's team.
But Mosingen's team was strong and he killed several North African caravans who were planning to attack them.
Then, Mosingen swelled...
After defeating several provocative enemies, this guy was overwhelmed with confidence and spoke out, intending to monopolize the trade of salt and gold in Timbuktu. Then, he completely angered other bearded merchants in North Africa...
These bearded North African merchants who dared to cross the Sahara Desert are not good at crossing the dangerous and hot Sahara Desert.
The whole family could not defeat Mosingen, so they joined forces with dozens of them and gathered 1,400 scimitar cavalry...
Moreover, the person in charge of commanding this coalition was Nasera Nasera, a merchant from Egypt. He once served in the cavalry army of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt and served as a middle-level officer. However, because he was not a Turkic Mamluk dynasty, but a native (the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt excluded locals), he was not valued. Later, he had a conflict with a Mamluk nobleman, and after fighting the other side, he was expelled from the Egyptian army. Then, in order to make a living, Nasera was employed by Salah, a great Egyptian merchant who traveled between Egypt and Timbuktu, and was responsible for protecting Salah from Egypt and Timbuktu and trading gold.
This time, Mosingen brought 100 pseudo-Mamluk cavalry from Egyptian slaves, plus 20 musketeers, and was too strong to fight against each other alone. So dozens of them joined forces to elect Nasera, who had served as cavalry officer, as commander-in-chief.
Nasella was very cunning. He knew that the opponent was very powerful in combat and muskets, and it was difficult to take advantage of head-on conflict. So he sent 500 of the weakest scimitar cavalry to attract Mosingen's attention on the front. Then, the remaining 900 people were divided into two parts, and surrounded Mosingen's left and right rear...
After the 100 pseudo-Mamluk cavalry in Mosingen launched a charge, hundreds of scimitar cavalry suddenly rushed out from the left and right rear...
These scimitar cavalry composed of bodyguards of bearded merchants, although their personal combat effectiveness is not as powerful as the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry trained by Mamluk cavalry. They are defeated by many people and they are surrounded and sneak attacks from behind...
Therefore, Mosingen's second expedition suffered a crushing defeat, with 46 pseudo-Mamluk cavalry killed in battle, and the musketeers also lost 7. Not only that, the 5,000 pounds of gold and sand traded were also stolen by the enemy...
Even Mosin was seriously injured and had a gap in his abdomen with a scimitar...
If the bearded merchants had not had conflicts over the ownership of the 5,000-pound golden sands and began to fight internally and did not have the time to pursue, Mosingen would have died directly near Timbuktu on the second expedition...
This time, Governor Cotton, Ayuen, bought 800 pseudo-Mamluk cavalry from Egypt, and combined with 100 musketeers, his strength was greatly enhanced.
Mosingen also actively asked for a fight this time, intending to make up for the last mistake, sweep away the bearded merchants in North Africa, and completely control the golden trade route in the Sahara Desert...
Chapter completed!