Marin still had many places to ask to go to Lubeck and Hamburg, so he naturally took the two great speakers, Tagfacht and Heisenberg, to the emperor's headquarters and visited the emperor Maximilian I who had arrived.
It's also a pain. As the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I was not as authoritative as the Eastern Emperor. When the Imperial Conference was held, Maximilian I was just the leader of the forces in Austria. The person who presided over the meeting was Mainz's general election. Of course, the emperor was also on the rostrum and was a mascot.
However, even if it is not an emperor with real power, Maximilian I was still very strong. Not to mention that Austria itself and its ally Swabian League had dozens of votes, in addition, Prince Philip, the son of Maximilian I, had many votes alone.
Because Prince Philip is not only the Duke of Burgundy, but also the Count of the Netherlands, the Count of Flanders, the Duke of Brabant, the Duke of Luxembourg, the Count of Russillon, etc. He has several votes per person, which can be called a ticket machine.
Anyway, when voting at the Imperial Conference, others would vote with one vote, while Prince Philip would vote with one vote...
Fortunately, although Prince Philip was unfilial and unkind, he was still a smart man and knew that he was politically consistent with his father, Maximilian I. It was precisely because of this that the Habsburg family led by Maximilian I became the family with the strongest ability to vote. Of course, in the face of the alliance formed by the seven electoral emperors, that number of votes was nothing.
You should know that Maximilian I could only get about 65 votes, including a group of Austrian nobles, his sons, and the Swabian League. The seven elected emperors, but the three religious princes led 120 religious votes. This is not even considered the secular elected emperors and their younger brothers.
Therefore, in the Imperial Parliament, Maximilian I could not compete for the vote-making group formed by the seven electoral emperors.
Of course, the reason why Maximilian I was always blocked by the princes was because when he was young, he expressed his intention to learn from France, abolish the autonomy of the princes, and to develop centralization.
This idea is undoubtedly a great harm to the interests of the princes. Therefore, in order to curb the idea of ​​centralization of Maximilian I, the seven electoral emperors, began to fight against it everywhere.
Even Malin, the former thug of Maximilian I, was excluded and hostile to most princes because of his boss' ambition to centralize power. If it were other emperors, such as Maximilian I's father Frederick III, were not collectively excluded like Maximilian I. Because Frederick III never regarded himself as an emperor, but instead focused on expanding the territory of the Habsburg family and treating himself as a big prince. Therefore, the princes did not reject him.
But when Maximilian I was young, he envied France's centralized system very much and expressed his desire to suppress the princes and establish a centralized prince in Germany.
After the news spread, Maximilian I suddenly became the enemy of all the German princes. Even if they were older and no longer young, the princes never gave up their vigilance against him. In the first Italian war, Maximilian I asked the Imperial Parliament to impose war taxes to prevent the French from becoming bigger in Italy. Although the princes knew that Maximilian I was right, in their hearts, preventing Maximilian I from becoming bigger was the most important thing. Therefore, the princes would rather watch the French become bigger in Italy than see Maximilian I win the anti-French allied army as the leader.
Because if the Allies led by Maximilian I defeated the French army, Maximilian I'd gained a lot, which would help him expand his influence in the German region and possibly promote Maximilian I to engage in his "centralization". This is something that the princes would never want to see.
Therefore, although Maximilian I went to the Wolms Empire Conference to seek help, the princes ignored him, which led to Shinra's army slowing down and not acting with the Italian army, and also lost the opportunity to defeat Charles VIII.
Of course, after Marin traveled through time, this result changed. Marin took advantage of the weakness that the French army could not see clearly in the middle of the night and organized a night attack, defeating the French army, scaring away Charles VIII.
Because Marin was a general of Maximilian I, Marin's victory also brought fame to Maximilian I, and because of the ransom of the captives, a large amount of money brought to Maximilian I. This was helpful to Maximilian I's great cause of "centralization".
Therefore, as the emperor's "lack dog", Marin was naturally hostile to the princes before.
However, as time went by, everyone discovered that although Marin was still on the emperor's side, he was no longer leading the troops to fight the emperor, but he just sent Frenzberg to lead two square formations to serve Emperor Wei.
Therefore, everyone's attitude towards Malin was eased later. After all, Malin was becoming more and more like a prince, not an emperor's hawk.
After bringing the two Grand Speakers to the emperor's headquarters, Maximilian I warmly received the two Grand Speakers, Tagfaht and Heisenberg.
In fact, not only Lübeck and Hamburg need political allies, but the emperor needs allies more than them. Maximilian I knew very well about the capabilities of the Hanseatic League. Not to mention other things, the Hanseatic League led by Lübeck and Hamburg has absolutely great influence on the 75 commercial-oriented empire cities, which can at least affect more than half. Winning up Lübeck and Hamburg is equivalent to winning most of the 75 votes for the imperial city.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The 65 votes of the Habsburg family and allies, plus 75 Imperial City votes (ideally), have reached 140 votes. Although it is still a little short of half of the 330 total votes, 165, it is only 25. As long as there are more than 165 votes, the emperor will be able to realize some of his wishes. At that time, as long as you are willing to pay the price, 25 votes will be available.
Therefore, Maximilian I treated the two great speakers, Tagfaht and Heisenberg, as VIPs. Looking at the posture, it hit it off.
After finishing his allies' affairs, Marin naturally needs to do his own affairs. This time, he wanted to successfully become the Duke of Schleswig and let the Principality of Schleswig join the Holy Roman Empire, which was definitely a big deal.
This kind of thing is bigger than ordinary things. Therefore, it needs to reach three-quarters of the votes before it can be determined.
This is because once the Holy Roman Empire openly accepts the Principality of Schleswig, it means that the Principality of Schleswig will be protected by the Holy Roman Empire. If Denmark wants to take back the Principality of Schleswig, it will not be facing the Marin family, but the entire empire.
This kind of thing requires great risks. Therefore, voting will be more cautious, and three-quarters of the votes will be required to pass.
Therefore, Marin needed to ensure that the total number of votes reached 248 before it could pass. At present, what Marin could plan is mainly 120 votes from the religious community, 75 votes from the imperial city that Lubeck helped to get, and 65 votes from the Habsburg family.
It seems that Marin passed it safely. However, the 120 votes in the religious world will not be voted for Marin. Even the three religious electors cannot do it. Because people have likes and dislikes. Even the three electors cannot guarantee whether those members of the religious community support Marin.
According to the three electors, they could only guarantee 100 votes for Marin. In addition, those 75 imperial cities would not actually vote for Marin, and even if Lübeck helped, it would be useless. Because 20 of these 75 imperial cities were cities controlled by the Saxony business district and the Brandenburg electorate.
These 20 imperial cities may give face to the leader and deputy leader in other aspects. However, on the issue of Marin, they may not vote for Marin under the pressure of Saxony and Brandenburg.
The reason is very simple. These cities are all within the territory of the Saxony Electoral State, Brandenburg Electoral State, or the vassal states of the two countries. If they do not listen to the greetings of the two major Electoral Emperors, the two Electoral Emperors will only order the establishment of a checkpoint to block the commercial activities of these 20 cities, which will be enough to make them submit.
Therefore, what Marin can guarantee now is actually only 100 votes from the religious world, 55 votes from the imperial city, and 65 votes from the emperor. The total number is only 220. It is 28 different from the 248 required.
Therefore, Marin needed to give gifts, mainly to win over those priests and kingdoms, as well as some dominions. The total number of these votes is definitely more than 28.
So, after helping to help, Marin took his followers to visit the princes who were in their own sects...
"Mr. Albert, please help me in this election." Marin said to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria with a smile on his face. Of course, verbal words are useless. Marin waved his hand, and a small box full of gold coins was sent up, with 3,000 gold coins in it. Seeing that Marin was so adept, Albert nodded and agreed, and was willing to help convince his younger brother to vote together.
Then, Marin visited other neutral princes. However, this process made Marin a little confused...
"Duke John, I have to worry about my affairs. A small gift is not respectful!" After saying that, a box of gold coins was presented.
"Earl John, please help me with my affairs. A small gift is not respectful!" The Earl's should be less, and it was a bag of gold coins.
"Duke William, please help me. A small gift is not respectful!" A small box of gold coins was presented.
"Earl William, my business..."
"Lord William, my business..."
"Earl William, my business..."
"Duke Charlie, please help me..."
"Count Charlie, my business..."
"Lord Charlie, mine..."
...
After a few days, Malin visited dozens of princes and was all fainted.
What made him even more dizzy was that most of the princes he visited were called John, William, and Charlie, which made him very collapse...
European nobles were too creative to name their names, and they used a few names over and over again. Just like France, from Louis I to Louis XVIII, if it weren't for the Kingdom, they would probably be dozens of them...
The more than 300 princes in the German region, named John, William and Charles, seemed to be more frequent than other names. Some countries were more than John X. As for William VIII and Charles IX, it was not surprising.
As far as Marin knows, among these 330 princes, there are at least one hundred or more than one hundred, which makes Marin a little dizzy.
So, in order to distinguish these people, Marin brought a small notebook and recorded it - this is John II of a certain country, that is John XI of a country XX, that is William IV of a country XX, and that is Charles VIII of a country XX...
Chapter completed!