Chapter 1476： An excuse to sell atonement

Both of them are very interested in collecting money and naturally share the same smell. Then, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici learned from his teacher the mastery of ancient China to get close to the virtuous prince-long talks all night long, and fell asleep ...

After discussing a lot of ways to accumulate wealth, both of them suddenly remembered one thing-if you want to sell atonement, you need to "be famous"!

Historically, popes who issued atonement bills generally had to establish a name. For example, the most common is to repair churches. Or, when they confuse those nobles in launching the "Crusade", they will also issue atonement vouchers for the soldiers participating in the eastward expedition.

In fact, repairing churches has always been an excuse for religious organizations to accumulate wealth. For example, the monk of Huaxia, when going down the mountain to apothecate, will also say "donor, please donate some money to a certain temple to repair temples and Buddha statues" ... but in fact, most of this money is used to raise Only a small part of the monks themselves is used to repair temples and repair Buddha statues. However, during the apocalypse, you can't always say "Monk is hungry, want money"? That's too hard. The excuses of repairing temples and repairing Buddha statues are much taller ...

Just after Julius II came to power, he actually planned to repair the historic St. Peter's Basilica (also called St. Peter's Basilica). It was only because there was no money and there were many things to do that I had to suspend it.

In fact, it's not that the Holy See can't collect the money, but most of the money collected is divided privately by the Holy See. Only a small amount fell into the treasury of the Papal State. Moreover, to support so many officials and troops, naturally there is no spare money to repair St. Peter's Basilica.

In later generations, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is the world's first cathedral, covering an area of ​​23,000 square meters, or 34.5 acres. Its main building is 45.4 meters high and 211 meters long. It can accommodate up to 60,000 people praying at the same time, which is extremely magnificent.

Of course, that is the scale of future generations. For now, St. Peter's Cathedral is still a very old church. After all, it was built by Emperor Constantine on St. Peter's cemetery from 326 to 333 AD, which is 1180 years old. A thousand-year-old church is strange if it is not worn!

But because the main church of the Holy See is now in the Basilica of Lateran, the Holy See has no sense of urgency to repair St. Peter's Cathedral. After all, they have a place to live.

However, the significance of St. Peter's Cathedral is very significant. Because this is the church named after Saint Peter, the head of Jesus' twelve disciples. Moreover, it was built on the cemetery of Saint Peter, which is of great significance in nature. In addition, Saint Peter was the first pope of the Holy See and belonged to the founder of the Catholic Church. Therefore, this church is of great significance to the Catholic Church.

Even the St. John ’s Basilica of Latran, where the Holy See now resides, is the name of the Basilica of Lateran, but it ’s just one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. The origin of the name John). Legend has it that **** liked the disciple St. John, but St. John only ranked fourth, and St. Peter was the first.

If the comparison is based on the Huashan sent, then Saint Peter is the master brother Linghu Chong. And St. John is just Shi Daizi, the four brothers ... Of course, St. John is most valued by Jesus, much stronger than Shi Daizi, the transparent man, but it is also better than St. Peter of Linghuchong. After all, that's a master ...

Therefore, although the Holy See is mainly located in the Basilica of Saint John in Lateran, many popes want to repair the Basilica of Saint Peter. After all, it was the originator of the Holy See. Resting on the Wudang faction, that is the same figure as Zhang Sanfeng.

However, the Holy See was heavily corrupted in the Middle Ages. The money received by the church was divided between the pope and the cardinals, and not much money could be used to repair the church.

Moreover, repairing a church is not an ordinary house repair, and it is very expensive. Not to mention, the countless statues and murals inside and outside the church cost an astronomical figure. As mentioned earlier, many carvings and murals require a lot of dyes, and ultramarine is one of the commonly used dyes. The price of ultramarine is five times that of gold ... It can be seen that building a cathedral is really a very money-burning project ...

Historically, in order to repair the St. Peter's Basilica, planning began after Julius II ascended the throne. It was not until 12026 that the brand-new cathedral was completely completed.

Marin doesn't know how much money was spent in the past 120 years, but he knows that there are a lot of statues of invaluable treasure in St. Peter's Cathedral in later generations. After all, many statues in the church came from the master Michelangelo.

Of course, the reason for such a slow repair is not all the difficulty of the project. There are also reasons why the Popes and Cardinals of the past wanted to take a slice of it. After all, the longer the construction period, the better for everyone to benefit from. If it is repaired a few times, everyone will not be able to fish. Just like building roads in some places in the later generations, it is obviously a good road. It is necessary to use an excavator to destroy it and rebuild it again.

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Obviously, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici and John Tezer also regarded the "repair of St. Peter's Cathedral" as the best excuse to sell "atonement" .

Of course, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici is not very greedy. His life is luxurious and wasteful, but he doesn't particularly care about money. However, because of the luxury of life, he also needs a lot of money to spend. Therefore, in history, in order to maintain a luxurious life, and in order to repair St. Peter's Cathedral, he ordered the sale of "atonement vouchers".

And now, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici has not yet become Pope. However, in order to take over as Pope after the death of Julius II, he also struggled.

Based on his knowledge of the Cardinals of the Roman Cardinals, these guys are all greedy for money. If you want to buy them to vote for yourself, you can bring them benefits is the best choice.

Moreover, unlike a one-time bribe, this kind of long-selling atonement can bring huge benefits to the cardinals of the Holy See for a long time. As Marin said, as long as this is done, the cardinals will be happy to vote for him.

what? Do you say that the sale of atonement will arouse the anger of the Germans? So what? Anyway, the election of the Pope requires only the votes of the Cardinals of Rome ~ www.novelhall.com ~ without the votes of the German people. So it doesn't matter what the Germans think ...

This is Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici's idea. Of course, this idea is actually wrong in the long run. Because the behavior of selling "atonement tickets" angered the Germans. In the end, the religious reform was initiated in Germany. The princes in the northern part of Germany kicked the Holy See away and started playing their own ...

But Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici is not so far away. In his opinion, Julius II is now obviously out of health, and he may not burp any day. He should take this opportunity to perform well in order to gain the support of Julius II and the Cardinals of Rome. Only after becoming a pope, the Medici family has the possibility of turning over. Because the Florence area is now in the hands of the Papal State. Only when he became Pope, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici can arrange for his brother to retake the Florence area and maintain the local rule of the Medici family ...

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