Chapter 258： Get the North Münster area

Although an agreement was reached with Bishop Conrad to dig the corner of the church of Bishop Munster, Bishop Conrad was very cunning and had to wait until his nephew was appointed as an assistant bishop and proved to have strong support from the pope. Ken really works hard.

Of course, in the early stage, he can still operate the 20,000 church fields in North Münster to Marin. This is actually easier to achieve.

why? Because the core areas of the **** of the Bishop of Munster are all in the South Munster area. The senior priests of the powerful bishopric of Münster also have interests in the South Münster area, especially the interests of 50,000 Ugram. As for the priests in North Münster, they are actually marginal figures in Bishop Munster and have no right to speak.

In order to protect the fields of interest, Conrad believed that the teachers of the real power would abandon those priests in North Munster without hesitation.

Sure enough, as Bishop Conrad expected, when he heard that he could preserve the fields of interest and allow Bishop Conrad and their rule in the South Münster area, the vast majority of the real power figures of those bishops in Münster , Have chosen to support this exchange of interests.

In this way, Bishop Conrad and the senior executives of the Church of Münster collectively announced that they would entrust the religious management rights and church lands of North Münster to the bishop Taylor of East Frisian Lambert.

In fact, many high-level priests of the Bishop of Munster knew that Taylor was Marin's dogleg. The transfer of the church power and church land in North Münster to Taylor is equivalent to the transfer to Marin.

Once the management of religion in North Münster was transferred to Taylor, then Taylor could, with the support of the Marin Army, replace all the monasteries in North Münster with priests from East Friesland. Then, there was no objection to the transfer of church land to Marin.

Of course, Marin will not let those monasteries suffer. For example, in the future, some land will be compensated for those monasteries. After all, the priests of the monastery cannot be hungry.

However, the land acquired by the monastery may only be a small part of the surrounding land. Moreover, Marin will take charge of all mansions and land, and the priests of the monastery can just sit and take advantage.

Once Marin promotes new agricultural technologies in the North Münster area, the local rye production will increase from more than 100 pounds per mu to 500 pounds per mu.

However, for the land allocated to the monastery, Marin will only pay a tithe (15 pounds per acre standard) to the church according to the standard of 150 pounds per mu, and after deducting about 30 pounds of seed weight, the remaining 105 pounds, take an integer of 100 pounds, and give it to the churches around as a benefit. The remaining big heads will belong to Marin.

Of course, the amount of church land in the North Munster area will no longer be 20,000 Ugram, but will be reduced by Marin to about 3,000 Ugram. After all, there are only 30 monasteries in the North Münster area, and 20,000 Ugram land is too much for them. Marin was reluctant to own unlimited lands in the monasteries under his control. Each monastery gave 100 Eugram's knights the same cultivated land, which was enough. Moreover, the land must be under the control of Marin.

In this way, the monasteries in the Marin Kingdom want food and salary from their own hands, not from them. It means that they are stuck in their economic lifeline. As a result, those priests have to obey their own. Otherwise, they will withhold their salary ...

Then, it was to deal with the land of the 80 church knights. Marin first dug a hole to let them know that the South Munster area will continue to be under the rule of Bishop Conrad.

As a result, these 80 church knights were really fooled, and they chose to continue to serve the church of the Bishop of Münster and stay in the South Münster area. After all, they are all church knights and naturally get closer to the church.

However, after they made their choice, Marin stated that since they chose the church in the South Münster area, all the produce in the North Münster area must be spit out.

For a time, the 80 church knights were in chaos. Some knights begged Marin to retain their land, and even intended to deny the previous choice and intend to throw it into Marin's arms.

However, Marin will not accept them. Mainly, this group of guys has too much land. In Germany, many poor barons do not necessarily have more cultivated land. You know, many barons in the southern mountains, although the territory is very large, but mountainous, arable land area is not as good as these knights of the Munster church.

In the end, Marin announced that he would forcefully buy their manor at the price of 10,000 gold coins for each knight. Moreover, these 10,000 gold coins are not cash, but rye. Anyway, Marin's granary is full of food. The rye of 10,000 gold coins, based on the market price of 1 fenny per pound, only needs 600,000 pounds. Even if you have to pay 80, only a total of 48 million pounds. For Marin, this amount is really nothing.

Moreover, not far from Münster is the Ames. The navigable section of the Ames River is right near Münster. Marin intends to ship 48 million pounds of last year's Chenliang rye by boat and pay them to the church knights.

At the same time, when they took over their manor, they were not allowed to go back, but they could only send their attendants to go back. In this way, you can fully avoid those knights going back with the manor to rebel. After all, Ma Linqiang bought their manor, which is equivalent to breaking their money. These knights are not those cowardly serfs, who made them angry, and indeed dared to rebel.

However, under the suppression of their tens of thousands of troops, they could do nothing in the city of Münster, and could only accept the fate of the manor being bought by force.

Then, Bishop Conrad came forward in time, and in the name of the competent church in the South Münster area, after various consultations, 16,000 Ugram's land was adjusted out, and the knights were placed, and 200 Ugram's arable land was allocated to each household. Although it is much less than before, some are better than none.

Moreover, Bishop Conrad is very cunning, not allocating the knight land from the existing land of the church ~ www.novelhall.com ~ but from the land that has not yet been opened up, to allocate the land to the knights.

After all, although there are 280,000 Yougram's arable land in South Münster, the converted land is only 2,266 square kilometers. The South Münster area has 5,900 square kilometers, and there are still many wastelands that can be reclaimed. The 16,000 Ugram's arable land, converted to less than 130 square kilometers. From the wasteland in the South Münster area, some land was allocated to the 80 knights, because it did not harm the interests of the church and was easily passed.

Just like you, in an atmosphere of "hello, me, and everyone", Marin completed the control of 4,300 square kilometers of land in North Münster and the deprivation of 70,000 Ugram land. The next step is to develop and use the North Münster area.

But what made the priests of the South Münster area strange was that they had all got the North Münster area, and Marin still did not leave. It stands to reason that he has ceded control of the South Munster area, and he should withdraw his army north at this time ...

Where do they know that Marin is waiting for a reply from Rome? Once John Conrad ’s nephew, John, was appointed assistant bishop, the second wave of larger land looting against the church in Münster will be officially launched. Previously, 20,000 Ugram's arable land was taken from the church.