The matter was not over, and after the meeting, many monasteries did not give up. Especially the remaining quarters of monasteries who refused to vote. Although the vote failed, they did not intend to let Bishop Conrad go and threatened to sue.
Bishop Conrad was naturally not afraid with the support of the pope, so he sneered:
"I want to sue? Yes, do you want me to provide travel expenses? Bonn or Rome? You guys! Of course, the Archbishop of Cologne is not qualified to revoke my post. You can only go to Rome. Do you want me to provide a carriage?"
Bishop Conrad was right. Although Archbishop Cologne was the leader of the bishop states in the northwest of Germany, he had only the right to recommend and agree to whom he was a bishop, but he did not have the right to remove the bishop state. In this era, even if he was not a bishop state, he needed the approval of the pope. Even divorces of ordinary people required the approval of the pope himself.
If Bishop Conrad's power is revoked in the hands of Archbishop Cologne, Bishop Conrad may be afraid. However, only the pope in Europe has the power to revoke the bishop. In this way, Bishop Conrad is not afraid at all. Because the pope not only promoted his nephew John as assistant bishop, he also wrote a letter to comfort him personally. With the support of the pope, who is he afraid of?
Therefore, Bishop Conrad was very arrogant in the face of those monasteries who opposed him. Even Bishop Conrad threatened to transfer the land to Marin to divide it specifically from the land owned by the monastery that voted against one quarter.
Although I don’t know why Bishop Conrad is so arrogant, the people present are not fools. Many people speculate that Bishop Conrad’s behavior should have been acquiesced by the Pope. Otherwise, no one would be so stupid. Because if the Pope is dissatisfied with Conrad’s actions, even if the bill is forcibly passed, it can be sentenced to invalidation.
Bishop Conrad was obviously not a brainless person, otherwise he would not be able to be the position of two bishops and bishops. Therefore, many calming monastery deans began to speculate whether there was anyone in the Holy See who supported Bishop Conrad doing this. Otherwise, no one would be willing to commit suicide like this.
Although the dean, who firmly opposed it, felt strange, was unable to get out of Taiwan, so he insisted on forming a group to go to Rome to petition.
Seeing the monasteries leaving by car, Bishop Conrad sneered and loudly ordered the Minister of Agriculture to take out the account books of the land ownership in the area where the monasteries were located, and began to arrange the transfer of land to Marin. Bishop Conrad publicly told the Minister of Agriculture that only needed to leave enough fields for those monasteries to feed the priests. The others were transferred...
The other monasteries present took a breath. Bishop Conrad's approach was so cruel.
You should know that the so-called fields that are sufficient to feed those priests refer to the food produced and enough to eat and wear and wear for the priests in the monastery. That's all.
If this standard is followed, I am afraid that none of the country monasteries in the Munster area need more than 100 Yugrams.
However, in fact, because of the numerous lands in the Bishops of Munster, the cultivated land of ordinary monasteries has reached more than 1,000 Yugrams. A little rich, with thousands of Yugrams, is richer than most barons. Therefore, in the Bishops of Munster, every countryside monastery is equivalent to a wealthy baron leader.
Moreover, within the jurisdiction of each monastery, the monastery's heads only need to hand over one tenth of the harvest as much as possible. The remaining 90% is that he takes the big head and gives the rest to his subordinates to share.
Of course, every time the monastery is renewed, that is, when the previous monastery dies, the monastery is not so arrogant at this time. Because the bishop can appoint a new monastery. At this time, the priests in the monastery will compete to curry favor with the bishop and offer many benefits. But after successfully becoming the monastery, they will immediately get up and may not be willing to pay attention to the bishop.
Therefore, the bishops thought with malicious intentions that it would be great if the dean died every day. In that case, they would receive more bribes from the candidates for the dean...
It is precisely because most of the interests of the church land are controlled by the countryside monasteries. Therefore, Bishop Conrad and his priests and officials attach so much importance to the 50,000 Yugram land. As for the land that divides the monasteries, they don’t care much. Anyway, it is not them who suffer the benefits, but the priests of the countryside monasteries.
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Just when the monastic deans of the Bishop of Münster formed a group to appeal to Rome, about hundreds of religious princes from all over Germany had already written letters to the Roman Catholic Church, protesting the Holy See's act of giving German religious princes as gifts to secular princes.
In the eyes of those religious princes, if this continues, they will one day be given as gifts for reward. Therefore, they feel fearful about the ending of Bishop Munster and Bishop Osnabrück being given as gifts, fearing that their next gift would be given.
To this end, hundreds of religious princes in Germany decided to jointly issue protests and put pressure on the Holy See to prevent such incidents from happening again.
Julius II also felt a headache after receiving the joint protest. After all, he had just become the pope and had not yet settled. From now on, he was opposed by so many religious princes in the German region. If one of them was not handled well, it would lead to a drastic reduction in the prestige of the Holy See.
For this reason, after thinking for many days, Julius II finally figured out a countermeasure...
He issued a papal order targeting all religious princes in the German region. In the order, Julius II took the lead and accused the religious princes in the German region of being somewhat slanderous to the Holy See.
For example, on the issue of tithes tax, the vassal states began to look for excuses in one kind or another, and began to arrears and pay less tithes. In short, they tried their best to find ways to deduct the tithes and were unwilling to hand it over to the Holy See as much as possible.
Therefore, this time, the two religious princes of Münster and Osnabrück were given as gifts to Marin. In addition to thanking him for his outstanding contributions to the Holy See, punishing the Münster and Osnabrück was also an important reason for this. Because, in recent years, the tithes paid by the Münster and Osnabrück to the Holy See have been reduced from half of the previous one to about 30%. Therefore, these two countries became the targets of the Holy See...
In fact, the tithes tax paid to the Holy See in recent years by the Bishop of Munster and Bishop Osnabrück have indeed only 30%. The reason is that the Bishop of Munster and Archbishop of Cologne have joined forces to deduct about 20% of the tithes for various reasons. Among them, Archbishop of Cologne took the head, while Bishop Conrad only took the head. Moreover, the leader is also Archbishop of Cologne.
However, when Julius II accused him, he did not accuse the Archbishop of Cologne, nor specifically criticize Bishop Conrad, but instead accuses the two bishop states of Bishop Münster and Bishop Osnabrück, and interprets the act of sending the two countries to Marin as a kind of punishment.
Moreover, in the order, Julius II also threatened that if any religious vacancies were found to have tax evasion, the outcome of the Bishops of Münster and Bishops of Osnabrück would be their example...
Of course, as a veteran politician, Julius II naturally knew the method of "striking a stick and giving two dates". At the end of the order, Julius II also announced that bishops allowed bishops to increase one-tenth of the harvest from the church lands of their subordinate monasteries as a subsidy for the daily expenses of each bishop.
This policy benefited the bishops of the bishops of the bishops, and the ones who were harmed were the lowest-level monasteries. However, Julius II did not care about the views of the monasteries. Because those monasteries were just rich people in the countryside. They had no army and had no say in national affairs, but just a group of very affordable priests. Even if they opposed the Holy See, there was no sound. Unlike those bishops who held military power and had a say in the European situation, their voices would be heard...
Sure enough, after the Pope's teachings were made public in the German region, the bishops were very dissatisfied with Julius II's threatening tone. However, the "two dates" he gave in the end were so much liked by them.
The legal gain of 10% from the monasteries under their command with strong independence is definitely a huge profit. Stimulated by this huge benefit, the bishops in the German region were only cheering.
Moreover, Julius II promised in his instruction that as long as those bishops no longer evade taxes, there will be no risk of being sent to the Holy See.
Although he could no longer find a way to tact the tithe, Julius II allowed them to legally blackmail the deans below, which allowed the bishops to receive enough compensation even far beyond the past. Therefore, the bishops praised His Majesty's wisdom...
As for the dean who has suffered losses, dares to say bad things about the pope? Who dares to say it? Just in time, the bishop can say that you are "despised", and then take the opportunity to dismiss the disobedient dean and replace him with his own people. At the least, you can also take advantage of the opportunity to re-elect the dean and collect bribes from the candidates...
Chapter completed!