Chapter 1043： Entering Rome (Part 1)

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Marin's biased approach has really achieved good results, and countries soon turned their attention from the conflict between the Papal State and the Republic of Siena to the discussion of "Tithe".

According to the principle, after the "Tithe Tax" is collected by churches in various countries, the normal expenses of local churches are excluded, and the rest should be handed over to the Holy See. However, that is only the theoretical situation. It is like the friction force is 0 in theory, but it is actually impossible.

Such behaviors as cheating and concealing and tax evasion are not unique to the East. Moreover, in this era, because the information is backward, the Holy See simply cannot confirm the amount of "Tithe Tax" that countries should pay. In the end, the Holy See can only adopt a stupid method-according to the statistics of output per acre, "Tithing Tax". As for business income and mining income, there is no specific statistics, and countries will not report these gains to the Holy See. This is the case with Rao. The “Tithe Tax” payable on the output of farmland in various countries is not much received by the Holy See.

Because the local church will falsely report the amount of "Tithe". If you clearly received 100,000 gold coins, you will be asked to give you 10,000. What can you do?

For countries like the German bishopric, because the position of the bishop needs to be confirmed by the Holy See, they have to cross more points. Those sovereign countries are less polite. The bishops of sovereign countries are often nominated by the countries themselves, and then go through a process, which is confirmed by the Holy See. In this way, the bishop of the sovereign state is obviously on the side of the monarchs of various countries. Then, when these bishops supported by the monarch came to power, they would also share the benefits from the "Tithe Tax" to the monarch. Of course, these stolen goods will never be found in the annals of history, but will be quietly put into the monarch's own pockets, without knowing it.

Generally speaking, those who can be recommended as a bishop are often children of noble families, and often non-elder sons of large noble families.

Such bishops often pay attention to the protection and expansion of family interests after taking power. For a noble family, in addition to money, knighthood and fiefdom are probably the most important pursuits. In many cases, the title and title are more important than money.

Therefore, after a bishop takes office, he often uses the greedy tithe to secretly engage in py transactions with the king. For example, the feudal noble family extended the land, and even promoted the title. This includes nephews who have no right of inheritance, and even illegitimate children, who are rewarded by the enclave and the title given to the bishop. The king took out the knighthood and enclave, the bishop took out the greedy "Tithe Tax", and the two parties carried out an equivalent transaction, and they were both happy ...

The only thing that doesn't please is probably the Holy See. Because their interests are ignored. However, there is no way for the Holy See. Because the Holy See cannot tear a face with a sovereign country because of money problems. Only during the Crusades' eastward expeditions did the "Tithing Taxes" of all countries pay together. Normally, it is normal to discount the Holy See. According to an article that Marin had read in his last life, during the Crusades, the Pope ’s “Tithe Tax” for England was set at 20,300 pounds (1291 standard) per year, which was 30,450 Mark Silver. France and Germany have more population and cultivated land than England, and tithe standards are naturally much higher. However, only when a major event such as the Crusades takes place will all countries meet together. At other times, all kinds of excuses will be made, and most of the tithe originally paid will be waived, and only a small part will be paid to the Holy See. Without launching a "jihad" like the Crusades, the Holy See has no reason to force the churches of all countries to join forces. Without fighting, why do you need so much money?

In ordinary years, it is generally the corresponding responsible person of the church bribery cardinal groups in various countries, trying to pay as little tithe as possible. The last thing that fell into the Holy See is basically meaning ...

Siena is a sovereign country and a republic that deprived the bishop of the ruling power as early as 1167. Although very close to Rome, the Republic of Siena despised the Holy See. In addition to not having a cold for the church, the Holy See has always been unable to use military power, which is also an important reason for Siena's courage.

As a commercial republic, the 250,000 tithe is definitely not all of Siena. It should be pointed out that in this era, the big aristocracy generally did not pay "Tithe Tax", basically all ordinary people paid. Moreover, most of the "Tithing Tax" collection standards are calculated based on the area of ​​cultivated land. Only those craftsmen with no background will be happily included in the collection of "Tithe Tax" like farmers.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the Holy See. Even if the "Tithe Tax" of the Republic of Siena has 250,000 gold coins per year, the Republic of Siena will hand over several thousand gold coins to the Holy See every year. If you encounter a bad year, simply don't pay.

Frankly speaking, Siena is next to Rome, and the practice is so arrogant, it hits the Holy See very much. The popes of all dynasties were very unhappy with Siena, a disobedient state, but the military of the pope was never strong, and the terrain of Siena was very difficult to attack. Therefore, the popes of all dynasties have endured. Only Julius II, the "God of War", has great ambitions, and hopes to use Marin's hand to remove the "nail in the eye" under the eyes of the Siena.

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Over time, the autumn harvest began to come to an end. There was joy in all parts of Europe, not only the farmers were happy, the nobles were also very happy. Because, the autumn harvest is when these nobles have the most ample time of the year. It is said that in the early Middle Ages, because everyone was very poor, even the king would take a large army to the noble's land after the autumn harvest. Mixed eating and drinking in the territory ... Of course, a noble family can't stand such a bit of eating and drinking. Therefore, at that time, the king would take the army in turn to eat in the noble land. Some poorer lords are eaten up directly ...

Of course ~ www.novelhall.com ~ That was the dark age of the early Middle Ages. Now that Europe is more developed, the king will not do the embarrassing things of eating and drinking. The early lords would still fight for a few boxes of bees, all of them poor ...

It was at this plentiful harvest season that suddenly came an explosive news from Austria-Maximilian I decided to lead the army "into Rome", seeking to be officially crowned emperor ...

But at the same time, Maximilian I vowed that he had led the army into Rome, and there was absolutely no intention of disrespecting the pope. As for the reason ... It is said that the Swiss mercenaries ambushed him halfway ...

Although this statement is nonsense, it is not without reason. After all, the army of the Habsburg family is currently in a tug of war with the Swiss Resistance in central Switzerland. Those Swiss mercenaries seeking independence must have been eager to kill Maximilian I, the "tyrant". At the very least, they would look like captive Maximilian I, and then threaten the Habsburg family to withdraw from Switzerland ... and the Swiss mercenaries are so powerful ...

Therefore, it also makes sense for Maximilian I to take the army with him for protection. The only thing that makes no sense is that Maximilian I brought 20,000 troops with him ...