Chapter 1668： Grain

In fact, in this era, few sovereign states were willing to honestly pay the tithe to the Holy See. Often, monarchs in various countries will secretly collude with their own churches and embezzle the tithes collected by their own countries. Then, to report to the Holy See a natural or man-made disaster, deliberately rely on most of the tithe that should be paid to the Holy See.

Although the Holy See only requires churches in various places to hand over half of the "Tithe Tax" they have received, the churches and government offices in various places will collude with each other and greedy most of them. Then, they will take out part of the greedy “Tithe Tax” and bribe the relevant cardinals within the Holy See responsible for the collection of the “Tithe Tax” in the area, so that this person can help conceal and hide ...

In this way, the local church and government benefited, and the cardinals associated with the Holy See also benefited. Most of the "Tithe Tax" was gone.

The Pope is aware of this point, but successive Popes did not dare to do it. Because the pope was elected by the cardinals. Moreover, the pope often comes from the prominent family, but also expects the younger generation to come forward, how dare to open this cover? Moreover, many popes did not do such a thing when they were cardinals before being elected. Becoming a pope will not be willing to lift this lid. Because, if you really check it, you will have to pay in ...

Broke people's money, such as murdering parents. Those cardinals who have no real power live on the bribes of their respective parishes. If anyone dared to move their interests, these cardinals would not be allowed to take risks.

In the end, I am afraid that only the "Tithes" sent by the church princes in the German region are relatively more. This is because even if the church princes are elected, they must obtain the approval of the pope to formally perform their duties. The official hat is in the hands of the Holy See, and dare not to cooperate. In most secular countries, only part of the "Tithe" will be sent to the Holy See. And in a rogue country like France that dares to kidnap the Pope, the Holy See didn't expect them to give ...

Of course, Marin will definitely pay half of the "Tithe Tax" to the Holy See. Because he still needs the support of the Holy See. Even, in the future religious war, the banner of the Holy See needs to be carried. Therefore, he wouldn't be obliged to pay "Tithing Tax" or something. Otherwise, it will not be possible to borrow the name of the Holy See.

However, Marin is not stupid. He didn't honestly pay the "Tithing Tax" on the basis of real mu output, but paid the tax based on the "low standard" of 150 pounds per mu. This standard is considered a very high standard in general countries. Because, in most countries, the average yield per mu is less than 150 pounds per mu. But in Beihai, this is really very low output. The reason why the Holy See agreed to levy according to this low standard, but also set the amount, is mainly because the Pope is the father-in-law of Marin ...

But the "Tithing Tax" paid by the North Sea State honestly shocked the Holy See. Because, after the autumn harvest, Marin shipped 90 million pounds of rye to Rome according to half the standard. Of course, all are Chen Liang. And these rye are enough for 200,000 people to eat for one year. In addition to the sale of the food converted from atonement, the granary of the Holy See is now full ...

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Just as the North Sea began shipping food to Rome, the Spaniards also landed on the northern coast of Italy, with soldiers pointing directly at the Principality of Milan.

Gonzalo de Córdoba accepted Marin's suggestion. At this time, just as the autumn harvest ended, the city of Milan was filled with food harvested from the Po River plain. At this time, sending troops to Milan will definitely get a lot of food!

Moreover, in the letter of recommendation, Marin also implicitly told Gonzalo-at this time the German mercenary general Gudendorff who controlled the Principality of Milan secretly reached a tacit agreement with Maximilian I ...

Therefore, the bold Gonzalo de Cordova directly suggested that the Spanish royal family should buy up Gudendorff in order not to be obstructed by this operation.

You know, Gudendorff has 16,000 German mercenaries in his hands anyway, and his strength cannot be underestimated. If the opponent and himself die, although Gonzalo is confident to win, the loss is certainly not small.

So, he simply let the two kings of Spain secretly send envoys, secretly bought up Gudendorff with 200,000 gold coins, so that he deliberately ignored Gonzalo's military operations ...

How did Gonzalo act? In order to quickly enter the grain production area of ​​the Pohe Plain, he mobilized 5,000 Spanish halter cavalry, plus 3,000 light cavalry, and landed in the Lucca region. Then, he quickly drove north, and while Gudendorff was leading troops to attack the Mistel Valley, he rushed to Milan with a very fast speed.

On the day the army arrived in Milan, Gudendorff had already arranged his men and quietly opened the city gate in the middle of the night ...

Then, the 8,000 Spanish cavalry, the next day, forced 20,000 Milanese people to rush the carriages and carts to transport large amounts of food to the southern port of Lucca ...

When Gudendorff "learned about the bad news" and "led the army back", most of the food in Milan was taken away by the Spanish ...

Fortunately, the Spaniards also followed the rules and did not take them all. Even, even the robbing of the Milan city was not done, and he rushed to retreat in a hurry.

Therefore, Gudendorff's army "just happened to miss" the opportunity to confront the Spanish army. But this army is not without food, because the autumn food collection in the Po River Plain of the Principality of Milan is still in progress. The food stolen by the Spaniards can only be regarded as a large part, and a small part is being sent to Milan. Therefore, the 16,000 troops of Gudendorff are hungry.

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However, when the news reached Paris, Louis XII felt uncomfortable ...

Because ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Louis XII had also planned to rely on the Principality of Milan to provide food, and then sent a large army to help the Swiss expel the Habsburg family from Switzerland. As a result, the food in Milan was robbed, and the idea of ​​the French helping Switzerland was shattered.

What's more serious is that because of the autumn harvest rainstorm in the northeastern part of France, the poor harvest of grain requires a lot of grain relief. Without food from the Po river plains of the Principality of Milan, let alone send troops to help Switzerland, even the relief is far from enough ...

Louis XII was very angry, but after the anger, he realized the danger-because, the Spaniard shot again ...

Originally, the Spanish were defeated by the French and lost the Kingdom of Naples, Louis XII knew they would not be reconciled. However, Louis XII did not expect that the Spaniard's counterattack came so quickly.

According to Louis XII's assumption, the Spaniard suffered such a large loss, and it should be delayed for a year or two before it can fight back. After all, the Spanish died a lot of people in the last war.

But Louis XII did not know, because Marin deliberately found someone to leak the role of volcanic ash to the Spaniards, making the Spaniard realize that if the French were not organized early to continue to obtain volcanic ash from the Kingdom of Naples, the French had enough reserves Grain, the end of the Spanish is coming ...

Therefore, even if the breath is not completely relieved, the Spaniards can't wait, they will never allow the French to continue to easily obtain volcanic ash from the Kingdom of Naples. At least, before the spring ploughing next year, the Spaniards will cut off the French's access to volcanic ash. At the same time, he seized the volcanic ash producing area and dug back to the country to promote agricultural development.

This time, Spain sent troops to the Principality of Milan to rob food, which means that the Spaniards are ready and started to fight back ...

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