Chapter 2108： Herd effect

In fact, 5,000 copies are just a number for publicity. Secretly, the North Sea country spies had printed a total of 10,000 copies. However, apart from the 5000 copies that will be "half sold and half free" in the electorate of Saxony and several nearby states, the remaining 5000 copies will be taken to other regions by the spies of the North Sea country and sold secretly.

At the same time, Marin would make the spies of the North Sea country put on makeup and help Martin Luther famous in taverns everywhere. After all, in the future, Martin Luther will be pushed to stand up as mt attracting firepower, and there must be enough fame.

Moreover, Marin is a chicken thief, and he carefully selected the places for propaganda and secretly selling books—all the princes who intend to annex in the future. That is, North Germany and part of Central Germany.

With prior propaganda, these areas will be more likely to be encouraged to carry out religious reforms in the future. Then, as soon as the religious war started, Marin had reason to send troops to occupy it.

Especially in some bishops' countries, Marin is even more concerned. Because the bishop's country is originally the territory of the church. If it is a secular state, it will be more troublesome to annex. After all, they have blood inheritance sequences. Moreover, inter-generational marriages between nobles have complicated relationships. To annex a vassal state means to offend a few or even a dozen princes.

Unlike the bishopric, this is the site of the church and does not belong to any one. If the bishopric obeys the Holy See, Marin will naturally be unmoved. But what if the bishopric betrayed the Holy See? Such a vassal state does not need to cause inheritance disputes if it is occupied. Because no one has the right to inherit the bishopric.

Like the Archbishop of Magdeburg, the Bishop of Minden, the Bishop of Paderborn, the Bishop of Hildesheim, the Bishop of Halberstadt on the border of the North Sea, and the Bishop of Utrecht in the west The bishop's country is in Marin's calculations.

Even in the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Cologne, Marin sent people to infiltrate and promote it. However, this thing depends on luck. It stands to reason that the bishops of the bishop's country, as those with vested interests, should be the users of the Holy See. However, this is hard to say. For example, in history, the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Archbishopric of Bremen, although both large church powers, have resigned themselves to the embrace of Protestantism. Of course, the Archbishop of Magdeburg is the Hohenzollern family from Brandenburg. Therefore, it is not surprising that they stand in line with Protestantism.

However, Magdeburg paid a very high price for the Protestant squad-in the "Thirty Years War", Magdeburg, a famous religious and cultural city, was slaughtered by the imperial army defending the Catholic Church...

I have to mention one person here-Albrecht, the younger brother of Chochem I, the elector of Brandenburg. This product was born in 1490 and is only 27 years old this year. However, he became Archbishop of Magdeburg years ago. Moreover, this guy will become the Archbishop of Mainz, one of the seven electors in the future.

But this person is quite contradictory, because he is from Brandenburg and is naturally close to the electorate of Saxony. Therefore, he admired and supported Martin Luther at first. In other words, he has always admired Martin Luther.

But after he became the Archbishop of Mainz, his identity made him stand on the opposite side of the Reformation. Therefore, this guy later acted as the mediator between Catholicism and Protestantism as the archbishop and elector of Mainz.

This guy is a clever man, obviously inclined to Lutheranism. But on the surface, because of his identity and interests, he stood in line with the Holy See. The result is that the benefits will be exhausted. Moreover, the Protestant religion was also protected by the way.

If there were no mediator between Protestantism and Catholicism, Archbishop Albrecht, who acted as a "lubricant", the two parties would have been doing it a long time ago. Between Protestantism and Catholicism, the later you start, the more beneficial it is for Protestantism. After all, the development and growth of Protestantism requires a process. Therefore, Archbishop Albrecht’s statement of peace actually gave the Protestant respite and development time.

Moreover, this guy also has a sorrow operation-this guy borrowed a huge sum of up to 500,000 Gurdon coins from the Fugger family to run for the position of Archbishop of Mainz. After he was elected, it seemed that he could not afford the money. Then, he allowed the Protestant forces to help him repay the 500,000 gold coins. In return, Archbishop Albrecht allowed Lutherans to preach under him. First, the Archbishop of Magdeburg, the Archbishop of Magdeburg was completely Protestant. The Archbishopric of Mainz has limited permission. After all, he is also a Catholic.

Therefore, Yu Zecheng of the Lutheran sect, who was a good buddy, entered the upper ranks of the Catholic Church and secretly protected the Protestantism.

Of course, Marin didn't know these details. If you know, you must like it crazy. Then, learn this stuff, train a few religious talents, enter various bishopric states, and do things.

Right now, Marin is using the bottom layer penetration method. It was through spies to propagate among the neighboring bishops, helping Martin Luther to become famous and advocating reformation. Then, it affects all parts of these bishopric states, and finally completes the transformation.

Of course, Marlin's approach cannot be wrong. After all, taking the high-level route is straightforward, but the cost is not small. For example, Albrecht needed 500,000 gold coins in order to become the Archbishop of Mainz. You know, Charles V only spent 850,000 gold coins in running for emperor. The emperor is a higher position than the electorate.

Therefore, the cost of taking the high-level route is no lower than casting the net at the bottom. Therefore, it doesn't matter which Marin chooses.

However, it is better to promote this thing among ordinary people. After all, it is too difficult to spread the word through the literacy rate of this era just by publishing books. Moreover, even if many people read this German version of Martin Luther, their attention may not be on Martin Luther, but they may be on itself.

Therefore, if you want to become famous, you have to have a "wishful person" to stand up and point out the "smartness" of this book. By the way, to promote Martin Luther's "extraordinary". Then, through word of mouth, one pass ten, ten pass a hundred.

Later, through the "herd effect", more people will be able to admire Martin Luther, although they may not know why they admire Martin Luther...

For example, in UU Reading school, two scumbag girls chatted enthusiastically about signing brother, and the other girl was curious—who is signing brother? Then, she was despised by the previous two girls-we didn't even know the good sign brother we worked so hard, you're an alien? It's so good...

Then, the despised girl became depressed and self-doubt-could it really be that I am too silly? In fact, this has nothing to do with myself and soil. But because of the unscrupulous bombing by the media and the word of mouth from some easily affected people, many people who have little opinions are easily biased. Fools despise normal people, and it often happens in the 21st century. Moreover, as long as there are a lot of fools, and they are justified and confident, normal people will often be biased. Of course, I'm talking about normal people who are not very smart.

Marin used this kind of "herding effect"-he made the North Sea country spies put on makeup and talked in taverns around the world, praising Martin Luther's version of German. This can certainly arouse the curiosity of passers-by. If someone asks, what is this? He introduced Martin Luther and his works with a look of contempt and a sense of superiority. If you don’t know and don’t want to listen to their introduction, you just put on a big hat of "ignorance and ignorance" first...

Just like here, people refused to admit that they were stupid, so they pretended to see the emperor's "new clothes". Similarly, under the influence of the herd effect, ordinary people will certainly refuse to admit that they are “little and ignorant” and will find ways to understand Martin Luther and his works. Even if you haven't read the book, you must know something you can blow. And these knowledge points, the spies of the North Sea country, will be very considerate to help them summarize them, for them to brag about...

As long as the North Sea country’s spies run around the taverns in the target princely country, talk and talk when there are a lot of people, and use the herd effect, they will definitely be able to quickly start Martin Luther’s reputation...

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