Marin thought bitterly for a long time and found that the money had to be spent. The Roman Cardinals could spend it or not, but the Archbishop of Cologne had to spend it.
The Holy See gave it to itself a large Bishop of Munster. It was a pity that the Archbishop of Cologne would be strange if the Archbishop of Cologne knew about it, it would be strange if he was not angry.
Although Archbishop Cologne is a subordinate of the Holy See, Archbishop Cologne is a powerful prince, and even the Holy See cannot command Archbishop Cologne at will.
What's more, if Marin used the Holy See to threaten Archbishop of Cologne, he might be in a foe. Originally, among the seven electoral emperors, the two families of Saxony and Brandenburg were already very hostile to him. If he offended Archbishop of Cologne again, he would offend the three electoral emperors.
The two electoral princes, with their younger brother, Marin asked himself that he could barely fight. If the three electoral princes formed a group to beat him up, Marin would not have confidence.
You should know that the Archbishop of Cologne is not only one of the seven electoral emperors, but also the Grand Speaker of the Burgundy (Netherlands), and has absolute authority to command the Holy Roman Empire northwest and north (such as the Bishop of Münster).
If the Archbishop of Cologne is severely offended, when Marin starts war with the Elector of Saxony and Elector of Brandenburg in the east, the local area may be jointly attacked by the Archbishop of Cologne in the south and west and its many affiliated bishops.
Marin's current territory is already scattered. While going to the east to fight against the coalition forces of the Elector of Saxony and Brandenburg, and then fighting against the Bishops' Group led by the Archbishops of Cologne, it is likely to be in great trouble.
Therefore, the best solution is to bribe Archbishop Cologne and make him agree to give up the Bishop of Munster. In this way, Marin will not have conflicts with the Bishop of Archbishop Cologne.
Moreover, Marin also understood that because the position of archbishop in the bishop state is not hereditary. Therefore, except for a few noble morals, most of the archbishops in those bishop states would make money during their term of office. In this era, it was normal for bishops in the bishop state to make money. Even bribing voters during the election was open. Just like when Alexander VI first elected the Pope, in order to withdraw the competitor of the Sforza family, he directly said to him - "How much do you want to withdraw?", and then sent a team of mules, filled with gold, and swaggered to the residence of the cardinal of the Sforza family...
Therefore, in Western Europe in this era, if you encounter problems, you can choose to spend money. Of course, not many people have the conditions to do this. Most nobles, because of their small land output, and their own luxury lives, spend money like soil. Therefore, most nobles cannot afford a lot of money to bribe people.
Moreover, secular nobles often can only rely on the output of their own territory to maintain their own territory, and cannot impose taxes on landlords. Often, under the rule of the noble, there will be more taxes.
In other words, you cannot make money by farming. Why are the Elector of Saxony and the Duke of Saxony rich? Because the Saxony region is a region with very developed handicrafts in Germany. Unlike farming, aristocrats can be taxed by opening handicraft workshops and selling goods. Therefore, only areas with developed industry and commerce will have better finances.
However, in contrast, the bishop's finances are often very good. Why? Because bishop's can impose tithes...
Tire tax is the natural power of the bishops. Although tithing is also levied within the territory of secular princes, those are all collected by churches in the secular princes and have nothing to do with secular princes.
But the bishops have the right to call the tithes of the bishops, not all of which are sent to Rome. Of course, even churches that collect tithes in secular vassal states can intercept a large amount of tithes and only part of them will be sent to Rome.
So, the church is rich no matter where the entire Western Europe region is. Think about it, the people in the entire church area must hand over one tenth of their income to the church. Can the church not make a fortune?
Bishops of the Bishops can use more than half of the tithes taxes for state expenses, and only a small part of the tithes taxes are sent to Rome. Of course, some of these expenses are falsely reported. These falsely reported parts become the personal property of the bishops. In fact, not many of the tithes sent to Rome eventually entered the treasury of the Pope, and most of them were divided up by the Popes and Cardinals of the Holy See...
Fortunately for Marin, as a great nobleman, he did not need to pay "tith tax". At least, no priest dared to ask him for tith tax.
Because all the priests in the territory of East Frieslandbour had to act according to Marin's eyes. When they invaded the lunar state of East Frieslandbour, Marin raised his butcher knife and slaughtered countless nobles. Therefore, the priests in the territory of East Frieslandbour were all afraid of Marin. Taylor even threw himself into Marin's arms.
When the priests in the country obeyed their orders, Marin actually evaded taxes...
Tits in business are the worst possible calculations. Because no one knows how much money a merchant has made. Of course, for those pure merchants with low status or Jewish merchants, churches can send people to check accounts. Of course, merchants can also make fake accounts and evade taxes.
So, in fact, the main source of tithes is the harvest of farmland. Every autumn harvest season, the priests will go to the fields to wait for "tax". For example, if you collect 400 pounds of rye per acre of land, you should pay 40 pounds of rye to the church...
However, from the beginning, Marin colluded with (or coerced) the local churches to falsely report their output, and still reported the yield of 400 pounds to less than 150 pounds. Therefore, when tithes taxes are imposed, the church in the East Frisland still imposes a low standard of less than 15 pounds per acre. Of course, this standard is not lower than before. In other words, the income of the church in the East Frislandland is no less than before.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! It’s not that Marin likes to evade taxes, but because if the tithes in the East Friesland State are too high, it will attract the attention of other countries and let people know the secret of the high yield per mu of the East Friesland State. Therefore, Marin has always colluded with the local church to falsely report the crop yield in order to keep the secret of high yields of crops, rather than evading taxes.
The archbishops of those archbishops were actually full of money transactions when they were running. After Herman IV became the Archbishop of Cologne, she was also busy making money. For example, before, Marin asked Herman IV to help him in the Imperial Parliament, and twice (the first was to make the East Frieslander country a member of the Imperial House of Princes, and the second was to let the Principality of Schleswig join the Imperial House of Princes) bribed 20,000 gold coins to Archbishop of Cologne. Herman IV also accepted it with a smile. Obviously, he was not a morally noble priest...
Therefore, it is possible to spend money to bribe Hermann IV and let him give up the Bishop of Munster.
As far as Marin knows, Hermann IV did not have mistresses and illegitimate children like Alexander VI. The money he accumulated was mostly subsidized for the family, namely the Hessian family.
The Hessenberg country was a poor country with poor land and a large population. Hermann IV was born in the Hessen family and naturally paid attention to the development of the Hessen country. Moreover, the nobles of this era had a very strong family concept. Therefore, many of the money that Hermann IV accumulated was not only to maintain his own luxurious life, but also to subsidize the family.
Therefore, Marin's plan was to bribe Herman IV himself on the one hand; on the other hand, to bribe Herman IV's relatives and ask them to help persuade Herman IV to agree to give up the Bishop of Munster...
But I don't know how much it will cost to bribe this time...
Chapter completed!