In the northern section of the European continent, there were also clouds of war. After a long quarrel, the Swedish nobles finally ended the dispute and jointly elected Eric Johnson of the Vasa family as the new Swedish king. However, as a compromise, Sweden established a noble senate as a check and balance against the royal power.
This is actually an imitation of the Polish Kingdom. Because Poland also has aristocratic senate, which is the most powerful organ of power, restricts the royal power.
After all, the victory of the Vasa family was the result of compromise between multiple parties and was not a huge advantage. Therefore, in exchange, the king must share Swedish rights with the Swedish noble families.
Before Eric Johnson ascended the throne, the noble Senate decided to go to the front line to promote the titles of the 11 most powerful families in Sweden.
Previously, under the rule of Denmark, most of the 11 families were barons, with only three earls. After Eric of the Vasa family ascended the throne, the first edict was to comprehensively enhance the status of these 11 big families. Of course, the Vasa family had already obtained royal power, so there was no need to talk about it. The other 10 nobles, 3 earls were promoted to dukes, and 7 barons were all promoted to earls.
In addition, Swedish legislation stipulates that if a king has a son, the son will succeed him. If there is no son, whether the son-in-law or grandson will succeed him must be decided by the Senate. If the Senate believes that a new king should be chosen, then a new choice will be chosen. Moreover, if the king seriously damages the interests of the other 10 major families, the Senate has the right to depose it...
This bill seriously restricts the royal power. Of course, as long as the Vasa family has male heirs and does not harm the interests of the other 10 major families, the royal power can still be guaranteed.
As for the Sturay family, which worked hard for Sweden, this time it was abandoned - Sturay's son Sturay Jr. Sturay only won the title of a hereditary baron. Although the fief is very fertile, it was unable to squeeze into the noble senate. In this way, Sturay family also withdrew from the core decision-making circle of the Swedish kingdom... In this regard, Sturay Jr. Sturay, who was only 14 years old, had no choice... After all, the rise of Sturay did not depend on family strength, but on personal talent. But once Sturay died, the Sturay family quickly declined. However, after the death of Sturay, Sturay began a political reshuffle. Without the pillars, the Sturay family naturally failed in this reshuffle...
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In the New Year of 1507, Eric Johnson Vassa officially held a coronation ceremony in Stockholm and ascended the throne as King of Sweden. However, the first thing he did after ascending the throne was naturally to issue an edict to recognize the political status of the noble Senate and at the same time, to promote the titles of 10 major families.
But the second edict, Nimad directly targeted Marin...
Before, the big families in Sweden had long been fond of the interests of the Failun Super Copper Mine and expressed dissatisfaction with the profits of the Malin stand. However, they had never made up their minds to deprive half of Marin's shares. Because at that time, the major families in Sweden were fighting for the throne and could not take care of the Failun Copper Mine for the time being.
But after the battle for the throne was settled, the 11 major families in Sweden finally began to face up to the issue of ownership of the Farilun copper mine...
Previously, Marin occupied half of the profits of the Farilun copper mine, while the Sturley family and 11 other big families shared the profits of the other half.
However, because of too many powers, as many as 12 Swedish families share the profits of the Fa-Iron Copper Mine, each company does not receive much. Therefore, they turned their attention to the other half of their shares...
Of course, before that, the Sturay family, who lost the old Sten Sturay, was once again cheated by 11 major families - Sturay Sturay was once again expelled from the list of beneficiaries of the Failun copper mine. In order to suppress the Strei family, the king and the Senate directly sent Sturay Sturay to the non-core area of ​​Sweden - southern Finland. As a return on the income from the Failun copper mine "voluntarily abandoned" the Failun copper mine and compensation for being squeezed out of the aristocratic senate, Sturay obtained the fiefdom of Turku, the largest city in southern Finland (the old capital of Finland). Although it was very affordable among the barons, the Sturay family paid for the loss of the right to speak in Sweden and the distribution of the interests of the Failun copper mine...
Kicking out the Sturley family will obviously not allow the 11 families to share too much profit. After all, the Sturley family only accounts for 5% of the copper mine equity. After all, each of them will only be divided by 0.45%. Therefore, they finally turned their attention to the 50% equity in Malin's hands...
For this reason, in February 1507, the Kingdom of Sweden suddenly issued a second decree - announcing that the Farilun copper mine was nationalized... In this way, Marin's 50% of the equity of the Farilun copper mine was forcibly deprived...
In fact, the new king Eric Johnson opposed the deprivation of Marin's equity. Because, he knew that Marin had strong military strength. If he had revenge...
But the 10 great nobles in the Senate of the nobles had long been blinded by interests, and for the sake of the interests of the Fayilun copper mine, they did not care about the risks. In addition, the 10 major families believed that it was illegal to give half of the Fayilun copper mine to Marin...
Why? The Swedish Senate believes that - Old Sten Sturre is only the ruler of the Swedish Kingdom, not the king. Therefore, he has no right to give the mines of the Swedish Kingdom to foreigners. Now, a new king appears, and the ownership of the Swedish mines should be discussed by the new king and the Senate. Therefore, under the ruling of the "legal" government, a foreigner, Marin, has no right to occupy half of the ownership of the strategically significant Failun copper mine... Therefore, the Senate ruled that - confiscating 50% of the ownership of the Failun copper mine in Marin... and as "compensation" - the Swedish Kingdom recognizes that the polar region north of 66 degrees and 34 minutes north latitude in northern Sweden belongs to Marin's territory...
In fact, this so-called "compensation" of the Swedish Kingdom is quite shameless because the Swedes did not manage land north of the Arctic Circle at all. And living north of the Arctic Circle, there were no Swedes, but the activity area of ​​the Rap (Sami).
Moreover, Marin had signed an agreement with the Denmark King Hans to obtain sovereignty of the land in the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, and the Swedish Kingdom led by Old Sten Sturre at that time also recognized it. Therefore, this time, the Swedish Kingdom used the sovereignty of the land in the Arctic Circle as "compensation", which was obviously a shameless act, which means that there was no compensation.
After the news spread, the whole of Europe was in an uproar. Because Marin is now the hottest war madman in Europe. And Sweden dares to deprive Marin of his interests. Isn’t this a fight?
But what surprised all countries was that Marin, who had always been warlike, did not immediately raise troops to retaliate, but ordered the Foreign Minister to protest strongly against the treacherous practice of the Swedish Kingdom... Then, there was no further... This made the people who were waiting to watch the fun extremely depressed...
But in Copenhagen, the Danish king Hans, who learned the news, jumped up excitedly:
"Haha, I finally waited for this day! Since the Swedes are seeking death by themselves, don't blame me for taking ruthless actions! Ahhaha, southern Sweden is mine..."
Chapter completed!