Chapter 537： North Sea Grand Duchy

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() & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp The matter of Oldenburg was also successfully resolved. Before signing, Julius II gave a light talk about the matter of Oldenburg. Originally, some princes also opposed Marin's annexation of Oldenburg. However, Julius II said that Marin had given up half of the confiscation of the Kingdom of Norway and Brandenburg and Saxony, and the problem of the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg seems to be no big deal.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp However, there are still a lot of traditional nobles who objected-they believe that the noble title can not be easily abolished, and should not be deprived of the title of the Oldenburg family because of its defeat.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp For this, Julius II naturally proposed a plan that had been prepared long ago-to change the oldenburg family's enclosure to the Kingdom of Norway ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbspSince the Kingdom of Denmark has avoided ceding the Kingdom of Norway, shouldn't it be okay to accept an Earl who has lost his land? Anyway, the Kingdom of Norway is mostly land. What's more, John, Earl of Oldenburg, is also the cousin of the Danish King Hans.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp But the Danish King Hans said that even if he accepted his cousin John, he could not give him the same fertile land as the Oldenburg. Because the most valuable land in the Norwegian kingdom is in the south, but it has been divided by the traditional old aristocratic family. It is impossible to have the same fertile land for the cousin. Although Norway is large, it is mostly uncultivable land. The land, even if it is given to John ’s cousin, will make the cousin ’s family receive no tax and will live very poorly ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp, Marin has already prepared a countermeasure for this-he said that the former manor of the Oldenburg family that was taken over from Earl John ’s hand, the output of the food is still supplied to the former quantity every year. Earl John's family. In this way, even if Earl John was allocated to barren land, he did not have to worry about family expenses. Moreover, as long as Count John is an enduring heir, Oldenburg under Marin and Marin's descendants will insist on providing a considerable amount of food to Count John and his descendants every year ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp In other words, in terms of economic benefits, John Earl of Oldenburg has not suffered any losses. Then, what King Hans had to do was to give Earl John a piece of land to ensure his noble status. In this way, things are easier to handle. Because the most important thing in the Kingdom of Norway is land.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp So, King Hans really registered Earl John as Earl of Iceland ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Iceland! It was a country with a large area, covering a total area of ​​100,000 square kilometers ... However, Iceland did not engage in agriculture at all. In later generations, Icelandic agriculture can only grow cold-tolerant potatoes, or engage in some vegetable greenhouses (vegetable greenhouses are not popular in Europe, glass greenhouses are popular) or something. Because of the lack of light, there is often a phenomenon of polar night. In later generations, vegetable greenhouses in Iceland often use fluorescent lamps to provide light to the vegetable greenhouses, which consumes a lot of electricity every year. However, fortunately, Iceland has cheap geothermal power generation, and the electricity price is relatively low, but it can be done.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Because Europe has not yet grown potatoes, nor is it capable of establishing a vegetable greenhouse. Therefore, the Earl of John's family went to Iceland and could only let the people who were governed to raise reindeer, sheep, Icelandic horses, etc., engage in animal husbandry. Of course, fisheries can also be developed ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Fortunately, Marin is willing to provide the same food as before, and the Earl of John's family has no loss in profit. However, in the future he will stay away from the mainstream European society. After all, Iceland is too far away from the European continent ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp However, Marin also promised to allow Earl John's family to live in the Las Vegas casino at the mouth of the Elbe. As for the Count of Iceland, you can send someone to take care of it. In this way, the Earl family can also avoid the bitter cold of Iceland. However, there are a lot of fun projects in Las Vegas, and the temptation is also great. As for the grain harvested by the Earl family will be spent in Las Vegas, it is not guaranteed by Marin ...

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& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Of course, since John, Earl of Oldenburg was renamed as the Earl of Iceland, the original princes of Oldenburg, although the princes agreed to the occupation of Marin, they strongly disagreed that Marin occupies the empire of Oldenburg Seats in the hospital. So, the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg, after the princes voted, was formally removed from the Imperial Court. In other words, Marin won the land, but did not get a corresponding score. Of course, Marin himself wants to seal an earl collar under his rule, that's no problem. However, that kind of earl does not belong to the Imperial Earl sequence and is not eligible to enter the Imperial Court.

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& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp That's it, things in Oldenburg have been satisfactorily resolved. Just when everyone thought the matter was over, after signing, Pope Julius II suddenly proposed an amazing proposal-the land replacement plan.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp As for who and who is replaced, specifically-Marin took out the Stendal region and Salzwedel region (a total area of ​​more than 4700 square kilometers) ceded from the electoral country of Brandenburg Archbishop May carried out land replacement.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp From then on, the Archbishop of Bremen moved the capital from Bremerfeld to Stendal. Instead of the original territory of the Archdiocese of Bremen, it became the territory of Marin ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp At first glance, most people seem to feel a bit disadvantaged by changing the Archdiocese of Bremen to Stendal and Salzwedel. After all, the area of ​​the Archbishop of Bremen is about 6,000 square kilometers. The Stendal region and the Salzwedel region add up to only 4,700 square kilometers.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp However, the actual situation is not like this at all ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp The Archdiocese of Bremen looks large in size and also bears the name of the famous Hanseatic city Bremen. But in fact, the city of Bremen has long been independent from the Archdiocese of Bremen, and the rich city of Bremen has nothing to do with the Archbishop of Bremen. From 1219, the residence of the Archbishop of Bremen moved from the city of Bremen to the small city of Bremerfeld. Moreover, the outer port of Cuxhaven in Hamburg City, although also on the side of the Archbishop of Bremen, was also sold to Hamburg by the Archbishop of Bremen, and has nothing to do with the Archbishop of Bremen ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp The current Archbishop of Bremen, although located by the sea, is actually an agricultural country with an underdeveloped economy. Moreover, because of its location by the sea, there are more swamps in the Archdiocese of Bremen, and the land development rate is not very high. Even in the Stendal region alone, the economy surpassed that of the Archbishop of Bremen. Agriculturally, the area of ​​arable land in the Stendal and Salzwedel regions is also larger than that of the Archbishop of Bremen, and so is the population.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp So, when Pope Julius II proposed this land replacement plan, Archbishop Bremen John Rodval did not have much resistance. There is only one requirement for him-that is, the electorate of Brandenburg will bring the nobles from the two regions back to the east coast. In that way, those nobles' arable land and manor in these two areas were vacated, just to divide him with the protagonists of the Archdiocese of Bremen ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp As for the land of the Archdiocese of Bremen? Because there are too many swamps, it is not as much cultivated land as in the Stendal and Salzwedel regions. What's more, Stendal is a very prosperous commercial city and inland port on the Elbe. After they moved their location from Bremerfeld to Stendal, the commercial taxation here was all vested in the bishops of the Archbishop of Bremen ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp The only thing that was depressing was the election of Brandenburg Elector Joachim I. After all, if you take away all the nobles, big and small in these two areas, you have to take a place to settle ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp After signing, the Stendal region and the Salzwedel region already belong to Marin. So, how to deal with the land is Marin's own business. Of course, if you exchange sites, it becomes a matter between Marin and Archbishop John Rodvale of Bremen. As long as the Archbishop of Bremen agreed, no one else could interfere. Moreover, in consideration of economic benefits, Marin is actually the loser. After all, the Stendal region and the Salzwedel region add up, except for the area smaller than the Archbishop of Bremen, in other respects, they are all better than the Archbishop of Bremen. As long as Marin did not take advantage, the princes would also like to see their success.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp As for why Julius II was proposed at the Imperial Conference, it actually allowed the princes to bear a witness. In addition, Julius II proposed that-since Marin ’s territory is basically on the North Sea, he It is proposed to merge all the territories of Marin into a princely state-the Grand Duchy of Beihai. And Marin, also renamed Grand Duke Beihai ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp don't have any opinions about Marin's desire to merge the territory. Moreover, the territorial merger means that Marin will lose a seat in the imperial court (Marin originally had two seats in East Frisia Lambert and Principality of Schleswig). However, as soon as we were promoted to the Grand Duchy, everyone was suddenly unhappy ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Why? The status of the Duke is above the Duke ... If Marin succeeds in the promotion of the Duke, everyone will salute him first. This is unbearable for the nobles who are very face-saving ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Now, in the entire Holy Roman Empire, there is only one Grand Duchy of Austria. Moreover, the Habsburg family is the royal family, and the title of Grand Duke is to highlight the noble. Do you want to be a Grand Duke? Dreaming?

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp In the end, Marin retired, and promised that even if he was promoted to the Grand Duke, the Duke and the protagonists of Germany saw that they did not have to go down to see the superior etiquette. In other words, this is just a name. Within the empire, its status is equal to that of the Duke.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp Of course, as a price, Marin is willing to give up a seat and only keep a princely seat in the imperial court ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp The princes heard that Marin did not take advantage of it. Although it was called the Grand Duchy, but in the Imperial Parliament, it was equal to the Duke, and it did not crush them. So, they adopted Marin's proposal, agreeing that Marin would integrate the ruling site into the Grand Duchy of Beihai, and they also agreed that Marin would be the Grand Duke of Beihai. However, the Imperial Parliament invented the stipulation-Marin's rights and interests are still equivalent to the Duke ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp like this, Marin became the Grand Duke of Beihai, and the territory under his administration was also integrated into the Grand Duchy of Beihai. As for why it is called the Grand Duchy of Beihai? That's because, the last man who dominated the North Sea ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is called Kanute ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbspWho is Kanut? That was the founder of the Danish North Sea Empire, named "Kanut the Great". Marin integrated the land under his administration into the Grand Duchy of the North Sea, and actually included the meaning of Fakanut, and wanted to dominate the North Sea ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp In fact, Marin is also secretly sending a signal to the German princes-I do n’t want to participate in the land hegemony, just want to dominate the ocean ...

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp And the German princes, although vaguely aware of Marin's ambitions, they are also happy to see their success. Anyway, their interests are not above the ocean, and it is none of their business for Marin to make wind and rain in the North Sea. Even, for Marin, who can fight, turned his eyes to the North Sea, they were still happy.

& nbsp & nbsp & nbsp & nbsp The only thing unhappy at the scene is probably the Danish King Hans-Nima, you want to be the Kanut Emperor and dominate the North Sea, what about Denmark? You know, the North Sea has always been the basic dish of Denmark. Moreover, Emperor Kanut is a Danish himself ... Unfortunately, now he is unable to compete with Marin, he can only bear it first ...