Chapter 829： Strong buy Recklinghausen

The land area of ​​the Recklinghausen area is about six or seven hundred square kilometers, which is very important in the Ruhr area. Moreover, the land severely cut off the link between the country of Dormmund and the region of South Münster. If you win Recklinghausen, you can make the western part of the Ruhr River region of Markerberg and the South Münster region unite to facilitate the rule of Marin.

Of course, more importantly, there are many coal fields ...

Although the coal reserves in the Recklinghausen area are small, it is not an important coal-producing area. However, its land area is relatively large. If it is not included in the layout, it will seriously affect the continuity of the section between the Ruhr and Liper rivers in the Ruhr area. Most importantly, it will affect the transportation of coal ...

According to Marin ’s estimate, the coal in the Ruhr area will definitely be transported directly to the Lipper River in the northern region, directly into the Ames River through the Münster Canal, and arrive in Emden. However, the coal in the southern Ruhr area, such as the coal in Bolin, Marin's hometown, needs to walk the Ruhr River and then enter the Rhine River. Enter the Lipper River again and reach the Munster Canal ...

The Recklinghausen area is located just downstream of the Lipper River and also controls the areas on both sides of the lower Lipper River. To transport coal from the Ruhr River into the Münster Canal from the Rhine, you must go to the Recklinghausen area. If the other party sets up a card to collect taxes ... it will be disgusting ...

Therefore, in order to consider the economic strategy of "a national chess game," Marin must solve the hidden danger in the Recklinghausen area. Moreover, the unclear property rights in the Recklinghausen area also gave Marin a chance to intervene.

Of course, it is also because of the unclear property rights that makes it harder for Marin to obtain the Recklinghausen area ...

What to say, it stands to reason that the land property right belongs to the Archbishop of Cologne. However, the Archbishop of Cologne owes money to Gomen and Schaumburg, and it is the boss's sum of money. The Archdiocese of Cologne is not unable to change, but does not want to pay back ... So, things have to be delayed like this ... So, Gomen and Schaumburg continue to control the Lekkereklinhausen area ...

Marin initially wanted to obtain Recklinghausen by way of purchase. For example, give Gomen and Schaumburg money to buy this land ...

But it's wrong, why? In the final analysis, the property rights are still in the hands of the Archbishop of Cologne, but Cologne has always refused to pay for the redemption.

However, if Marin wanted to buy this land, it would be different. Originally, Cologne was still dragging, but seeing Marin intervening, maybe he will suddenly figure it out, and he is willing to use the money to redeem Recklinghausen ...

Therefore, in order to obtain the Recklinghausen area, the Archbishop of Cologne is an inescapable Kaner ...

How to deal with the monks of the Archdiocese of Cologne? Marin thought of smashing money ...

Therefore, Marin sent a lobbying team represented by Kohler to Bonn, the archbishop of Cologne, to lobby Archbishop Hermann IV and senior bishops of Cologne, hoping that they would agree to Marin buying the Recklinghausen area.

After all, for now, the owners of the Recklinghausen area are still the Archbishop of Cologne. Gomen and Schaumburg, in fact, can only be regarded as "rent" tenants.

As long as you have negotiated with the "landlord" of the Archdiocese of Cologne and bought the property rights of the "house" of Recklinghausen, you can take over. As for the weak Gomen and Schaumburg? Who controls their opinions? Weak countries have no say ... Anyway, Marin helped to repay the arrears of the Archbishop of Cologne ...

"I'm curious, why did Lord Marin buy Recklinghausen ..." Herman IV did not understand Marin's approach.

Kohler thought for a while, and according to Marin's instructions, he told the theory of "the rich and the rich do not return to their hometown, such as Jinyi Night Walk, who knows it" to Herman IV, saying that Marin had such a plan. Only then went to take Mark Macbeth.

However, in the Ruhr River Basin of Markerberg, during the trade communication with the Aurich region, although there was the Minster Canal in the South Munster region, it still had to pass through the Rhine region and enter the Lipper River.

The section of the Rhine is easy to settle. After all, the Principality of Cliff is an ally of the North Sea. Kleinhausen ’s control of Gomen and Schaumburg was not. If they suddenly stopped the river to collect tolls, Marin was helpless. Therefore, Marin decided to solve the problem roughly-directly take the Recklinghausen area ...

Herman IV was a bit dumbfounded-is this okay? Just because they are afraid of being tolled, will they buy if they do n’t agree?

Although it sounded nonsensical, Archbishop Hermann IV of Cologne decided to believe Kohler's remarks. Because, Kohler quietly sent him 20,000 gold coins ...

However, the bishopric is not determined by the archbishop. Those high bishops, like the senior members of parliamentary countries, also have a say. Therefore, even if Herman IV agreed, the senior bishops would also agree ...

Then, Kohler started the lobbying process. Of course, every time after lobbying, will give gifts-thousands of gold coins ...

As a result, several senior bishops also fell ...

Then, Hermann IV and several senior bishops convened a priest conference to vote on this issue ...

But the problem is here ...

There are hundreds of participants in the priest congress. They are middle and senior priests, and many are monasteries. Those monasteries, although not too high-level, have a low vision. If you send a few hundred gold coins, the other party may not be worth it. But if you send thousands of gold coins ... hundreds of people present, it costs hundreds of thousands ... this is quite uneconomical ...

Many monasteries are also equivalent to a little prince. They may have no intention of taking back the Recklinghausen area. However, he was reluctant to sell the land's sovereignty. Even if Hermann IV and several senior bishops agreed, most of them disagreed. As a result, things are at an impasse ...

"How could this be?" Herman IV began to sweat on his head.

In the past, Herman IV received Marin's money and expressed support for Marin, but he did not see the opposition of these monasteries ... this time ...

In fact, this is no wonder. After all, Herman IV used to support Marin in the Imperial Parliament. That was foreign affairs, and the monasteries in the country generally did not care much about it. Even if the Bishop of Münster is given to Marin, it is not the business of the Archbishop of Cologne. After all, the Bishop of Münster is only under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Cologne, and not under the jurisdiction of those monasteries. After all, the Bishop of Münster is only a dependent state of the Archdiocese of Cologne, not the territory of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

But Recklinghausen is different, where the territory of the Archdiocese of Cologne, those monasteries, have a say. Although they may not have any interests there, it can be seen that the Archbishop of Cologne betrayed their territorial sovereignty. It should be known that the Archbishop of Cologne is one of the seven electoral princes and is the existence of a German tycoon. To lose sovereignty for no apparent reason is to lose face ...

For a time, the meeting stalemate ...

Kohler felt the problem was tricky, so he sent someone back to Aurich and asked Marin what to do.

After thinking for a while, Marin decided to use a compromise-that is, to give up the management of religious affairs in Recklinghausen, and to recognize the archdiocese of Cologne who nominally owned Recklinghausen. However, the civil rights and land property rights, especially the ownership of the minerals, belong to himself ... Of course, he will pay an additional 100,000 gold coins to the Archbishop of Cologne ...

At the same time, Marin secretly ordered-to send a bag of silver coins to each of the 300 low-level priests of the Archbishop of Cologne ...

These silver coins are worth 100 gold coins. But the Finney silver coin itself weighs less than half of the gold coin, plus less than half the silver content. Therefore, the original 100 gold coins that could only hold a small bag, after being replaced with Finney silver coins, there are more than two thousand coins, there is a big one, it looks very visually impactful ...

Seeing Marin made concessions, no longer sought ownership, and even gave up management of religious affairs, these monasteries stopped saying anything.

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Marin gave up management of religious affairs. In this era when the power of religion is no less than that of governance, it is equivalent to giving up half of the sovereignty. Therefore, the meeting of senior priests of the Archdiocese of Cologne passed the proposal of agreeing to Marin's purchase of secular rights in the Recklinghausen area.

After receiving the agreed motion, Marin immediately sent an envoy to Recklinghausen, made a request to the lords of Gomen and Schaumburg to purchase Recklinghausen with 200,000 gold coins, and showed the archbishop of Cologne. The meeting decided ...

In fact, Marin did not discuss with Gomen and Schaumburg lords, but came with an ultimatum. Moreover, he is not afraid to cause trouble this time-the "landlord" of the Archdiocese of Cologne has agreed, and you, a small "tenant" of Gommen and Schaumburg, can you even disagree?

Marin came in accordance with legal procedures and was not afraid of trouble ...

Moreover, Malin did not worry about Gomen and Schaumburg. Because, in terms of fighting, who is Beihai afraid of? What's more, this time the North Sea State dominates ...

While Marin sent envoys and Gomen and Schaumburg lords to "discuss" the purchase of the Recklinghausen area, Marin also sent a 10,000 army to go south. It was said that he took over Mark Bok, but actually went straight to the Recklinghausen area and threatened each other with force ...

The Gomén and Schaumburg together constitute more than 600 square kilometers of territory, with a population of more than 10,000. Counting the 30,000 inhabitants of the Recklinghausen area, the total population does not exceed 50,000. Being able to make up three or four thousand people is very scary, not to mention fighting power. Faced with the double threat of Marin's diplomacy and military affairs, they have no resistance ...