These days, Munster Bishop Conrad has been worried. He has been in a panic all day since he was deprived of secular powers from the Holy See and Bishop Osnabrück.
He knew that he had been abandoned by the Holy See and Archbishop of Cologne. Now he could only think about the tithes of the Bishops of Munster and Osnabrück.
Although the Bishop of Munster had 250,000 Yugrams in the church alone. However, most of these lands were in the hands of the monasteries below. Even himself could not directly grab food from the monasteries. Because, in order to consolidate his status, he divided the interests. Now, he had lost the secular power and wanted to recover those interests, it would be difficult. Without the support of Archbishop Cologne, even if he wanted to deal with the monasteries under him, he might not be able to succeed.
Now, his only hope is the 10,000 Yugram interest field. This interest field is rare in Germany, and is somewhat similar to the "job field" in ancient China. It cannot be hereditary, and if he leaves, he must be transferred to the next person at a low price. Of course, the resignation of the bishop of the state and the bishop is death.
However, there are too many "job land" for 10,000 Yugrams. You know, 10,000 Yugrams are 120,000 acres of land! In the Sui Dynasty in China, the first-rank official's land was only 5 hectares, which is 500 acres, which is 240 times different from 120,000 acres of land!
The reason why so many profit fields appeared in the Bishops of Münster is mainly due to its vast area. The land area of ​​this Bishops is too large, larger than that of the Archbishops of Cologne. Therefore, it is not surprising that such rare and super-large profit fields have been formed.
However, these lands of interest were not the land of the church. After Marin became the new Munster Lord, he was qualified to forcibly redeem these lands at a low price.
Bishop Conrad felt extremely uncomfortable when he thought of the super profits of 70,000 to 80,000 gold coins brought to him every year by the 10,000 Yugram land. However, he had no choice. After all, the Holy See and Archbishop of Cologne were both on Marin's side. Even if he wanted to resist, the army could not defeat him.
After thinking about it, Bishop Conrad believed that he could only seize the opportunity of Marin trying to take away some of the arable land controlled by the church from his hands and bargain with him to protect his own interests.
However, before Bishop Conrad could take action, Marin's "Münster North-South Division Agreement" was sent over. After carefully reading this agreement, Bishop Conrad thought he was dazzled...
"Is there such a good thing?" He was a little unbelievable.
In Bishop Conrad's opinion, it would be a blessing to be able to protect the 10,000 Yugram's interests. Unexpectedly, Marin was so generous that he was willing to continue to rule the richest southern region of the Bishop of Munster?
However, after seeing the requests behind the treaty, he understood...
"So, this guy Marin is trying to make a church land!" Bishop Conrad smiled.
In fact, he also knew that according to convention, when the territory was transferred, the previous lord had the obligation to hand over all his land in the territory to the next lord. And if it was obtained for the reason of war, then this kind of handover was not necessary. Because the winning lord would grab the land of the previous lord by himself.
But the Bishop of Munster is too special. It is a church country. Most of the land is from the church. Before the rise of Protestantism, no noble dared to rob the land of the church. Of course, if the church takes the initiative to hand over it, it would be another matter.
However, Bishop Conrad also knew how greedy the church was. How could the church eat something that was willing to spit out?
However, Marin had a good opportunity. Because Bishop Conrad's main interest lies in the 10,000 Yugram's interest field. Therefore, Marin had the opportunity to use this to bargain with Bishop Conrad.
Although he may not be able to influence the following monasteries who have specific land ownership after losing the support of Archbishop Cologne. However, with the opportunity of the handover of secular rule, Bishop Conrad was also able to give some church land ownership to Marin. Moreover, the key point is that Marin, with the support of the Holy See and Archbishop Cologne, has mastered secular rule ownership, and those monasteries have no choice but to do anything about it.
Conrad had inquired about it. It is said that the current Pope Julius II hid in East Friesland before he succeeded to the Pope. In the end, he borrowed 7,000 elite soldiers from Marin and returned to Rome and seized the position of the Pope. Therefore, it is unrealistic for the church people to make trouble for him. The largest boss in the church will shield him from the wind and rain, and even a huge bishop state like the Bishop of Münster was given as a gift.
Therefore, as long as he is willing to cooperate with Marin, it is completely no problem to share a portion of the 250,000 Yugram land in the Bishop of Munster to Marin.
Moreover, the price offered by Marin is also very good - let him continue to manage the South Münster area...
Where is the South Minster region? The richest place in the Bishops of Munster! Moreover, it is a region where church industries are concentrated. If I lose the secular power and only have religious power, I may not be able to control the monasteries below. However, if Marincoln allowed me to continue to manage the secular affairs of the South Minster region, under dual power, Bishop Conrad could continue to suppress the monasteries and also gain benefits from the monasteries. After all, in addition to secular power, I also have religious power.
Marin is different. Although Marin has obtained secular power, he does not dare to do anything to those monasteries. Because the church is transcendent to secular aristocrats.
"Probably, the other party knew that he could not suppress the monasteries and wanted to borrow my hands to suppress them..." Bishop Conrad thought of this, and then he admired Marin very much, and could bear to go to such a wealthy place in the South Münster area.
If it were another noble, he might not give up the interests of the South Münster region because he could not give up the wealth of the South Münster area. But in the end, he would fall into a fight for power and profit with the monasteries and would not be able to gain any advantage. Because the church stood behind the monasteries and ordinary nobles could not afford to offend them. Fighting with the cunning monasteries, the final result is probably that he would not be able to gain any benefits.
But Marin took advantage of the opportunity of the interest field and chose to temporarily give up the interests of the South Münster region to exchange for absolute control of the North Münster region. In Bishop Conrad's view, there is no better choice than Marin's.
As the Bishop of Munster, Conrad didn't understand that the Normmunster region was not because of the lack of fertility of the land, but because it lacked population and official attention and had not been vigorously developed. If Marin quickly included this land in his own control and introduced population to vigorously develop it, the Normmunster region might not be bad.
In addition, the interest field does not belong only to Bishop Conrad. You should know that the total number of interest field reaches 50,000 Yugrams. The priests in the ruling Bishops of All Münster have their own interests in it.
If Marin was willing to give up on pursuing profit fields and wanted to give up part of the church land to him. In comparison, all priests who had part in the profit fields would choose to support Marin.
Anyway, if some of the church land is given up, the only loss of the interests of the church and some monasteries is the interests of the church, not theirs...
Thinking of this, Bishop Conrad had made up his mind - he decided to cooperate with Marin to give up control of the Northmünster area, and also gave all the 20,000 Yugram church land in the Northmünster area to Marin to preserve the land of interest and his rule in the Southmünster area.
As for the personal grudge between the Ritberg family and Marin? Is it just that a niece killed her husband by Marin. Can it be more important than family interests?
As long as I live a few more years, I continue to control the control of those profit fields and the Nanminster area, and make huge profits of 100,000 gold coins for the family every year. That is definitely true.
Chapter completed!