Bishop Conrad almost squirted out a mouthful of milk tea from his mouth:

"Are you crazy? Those are 80 knights, not 80 ordinary manor owners! What if they rebel?"

"Will I care about the rebellion of 80 Knights?" Marin looked disdainful.

Bishop Conrad suddenly remembered that the man in front of him had an army of 10,000. There were 80 knights, even if he brought five servants with him, there were only 480 people. Then he summoned some serfs, but those serf soldiers had no combat power at all and were vulnerable to Marin's tens of thousands of professional troops. Therefore, Marin completely despised the capital of those knights.

"Are you robbing directly? If that happens, you will be disgusted by all the knights. In that case, no knight will join you in the future."

"Well... this is a problem. Let's do this. I'll forcefully buy 500,000 Yugram's land, and I'll give 500,000 gold coins to buy it. However, I have to wait until the autumn harvest can't pay the bill."

Bishop Conrad was speechless. It was early May and rye had been planted. The land of Yugram is 12 acres. If the yield per mu is calculated at 120 pounds, it can be sold for 2 gold coins. 12 acres of land is worth 24 gold coins.

In other words, the price of autumn harvest rye alone is worth 24 gold coins for the rye produced by Yugram's arable land. Even if the profit is only half and the other half is calculated as the cost, the profit of Yugram's rye is 12 gold coins per year. However, Marin actually wanted to use 10 gold coins forcing land to redeem land for each Yugram's land, which is no different from forcing robbery.

What's even more shameless is that Marin said he would wait for the autumn harvest before paying. But now, the rye in the knights' homes has been planted. After the autumn harvest, the rye can be sold and earned 12 gold coins per Yugram. It means that Marin bought these land without spending a penny, and earned 2 gold coins per Yugram...

"You just give this little money? The output of rye after the autumn harvest is higher than this money! If this happens, these 80 knights will become wandering knights if they lose their land. At that time, in the knight world, they will spread your bad reputation wildly."

Marin calculated silently in his mind, it was true... giving such a little money is basically not much different from forcing him to rob. For his reputation in the cavalry world, Marin decided to compensate him more:

"Or what if you do, Lord Bishop, you will compensate them for some arable land in the South Münster area?"

"What? You asked the church to compensate these knights for the land? Isn't it a joke?"

"Of course, these 80 knights are all church knights. If you continue to rule Nanminster, don't you need these 80 church knights to continue to serve you?"

Bishop Conrad thought for a while and if he continued to rule, he really needed a group of military officers to serve him. After all, the 5,000 mercenaries had been sent away by Marin.

"But, 50,000 Yugram's land! I will compensate these knights with the land of the church, which will arouse strong dissatisfaction among the priests."

"Who asked you to compensate according to the original land area?"

"you mean?"

"Reduce the standard and each person compensates 200 Yugram for arable land! You know, the original fiefdom area of ​​these 80 knights, especially the arable land area, has seriously exceeded the standard. I remember that the Hoffman Knights Manor where I was born was only 100 Yugram for arable land. It is good for you to give them 200 Yugram each."

Each of 200 Yugrams, only 80 people only needs 16,000 Yugrams, so you can consider it.

"But, Lord Marin, why should I help you like this?"

"Because I continue to let you retain the dominance of the Yitian and the Nanminster area..."

Bishop Conrad was choked at once, and he knew that what Marin was saying was the truth. He had saved the profit field with a profit of 70,000 or 80,000 gold coins per year and the rule of the Nanminster area for several years, and paid 36,000 Yugram's church farmland, and did not suffer any losses.

"In fact, if I take over the bishops of Munster, I should take over the 250,000 Yugram church lands," Marin said regretfully.

Bishop Conrad rolled his eyes:

"You also know that this is the land of the church? Who dares to move the land of the church? Even the king dares not!"

Marin curled his lips and thought to himself that there was really a king who dared. After the Protestant Reformation, did Henry VIII confiscate all the property of the Catholic Church in England? For this reason, Henry VIII suddenly sent a letter from a poor king...

In addition, the reason why the Protestant Reformation received the support of many princes was not because of their faith? It was clearly because of their huge land and wealth of the Catholic Church. As long as they were converted to Protestantism, they could happily confiscate the land and property of the Catholic Church...

After all, the Reformation War was a gang fight between princes who covet Catholic property and devout Catholic princes. Moreover, even those devout Catholic princes would not bet on everything in the vassal states for religious reasons and fight against Protestant princes. Only Catholic bishops in bishop states were more fighting because they wanted to protect the church property. In fact, those secular Catholic princes were more waving flags and shouting. Therefore, Protestant princes could barely win the war.

After all, the secular princes refused to make great efforts, and the military power of the bishop state was limited after all. Therefore, they could not do anything to the Protestant Alliance. The reason why Charles V tried his best to maintain the Catholic Church was not that he really accused the Church, but that he wanted to complete the unification of Germany in the name of attacking the Protestantism. Later, the Catholic princes realized it and let the water go directly, and then the Protestantism won by chance.

"Charles V's move seems very good..." Marin suddenly thought distractedly. Marin remembered that during the Protestant War, the Archbishop of Bremen seemed to have become a rare Bishop of the Protestantism. If, then, in the name of maintaining Catholicism, could he take the opportunity to swallow Archbishop of Bremen? In this way, his territory will basically be connected...

Just as Marin was trapped in YY, Bishop Conrad spoke:

"So, Lord Marin, that's it? You keep our interests and guarantee me the secular rule of the South Münster area when I am alive. And I will find a way to bring all the 70,000 Yugram farmlands in the North Münster area to your name..."

After Marin reacted, he thought about it and suddenly said:

"Bishop Conrad, that is, we have only made 36,000 Yugram's land from 250,000 Yugram's land so far?"

"Yes, how much more do you want to do? That's the church!"

“36,000 Yugrams are too few, only one-seventh of the point…”

"Don't be too greedy. If there are more, I will receive impeachment from the priests." Bishop Conrad said angrily.

"What are you afraid of? I have the support of the Pope, and Archbishop Cologne is also on my side." Marin didn't care at all and pointed out the fact that the Pope supported him.

"I will help you get more land for the church, so what can I get?" Bishop Conrad complained.
Chapter completed!