Marin's approach to the topic of the topic was indeed very effective. The countries quickly shifted their attention from the conflict between the Pope and the Republic of Siena to the discussion of "tith tax".

Logically, after the churches in various countries collect the "tith tax", after deducting the normal expenses of local churches, the rest should be handed over to the Holy See. However, that is just a theoretical situation. Just like the friction is 0 in theory, but it is impossible in fact.

The acts of deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates and evading taxes are not unique to the East. Moreover, in this era, due to backward information, the Holy See could not confirm the amount of "tith tax" that countries should pay. In the end, the Holy See could only adopt a stupid method - counting "tith tax" according to the output of land acres. As for commercial income and mining income, it is impossible to count them in detail, and countries tacitly would not report these income to the Holy See. Even so, the Holy See could not receive much of the "tith tax" that countries should pay for land acres.

Because local churches will falsely report the amount of "tith tax". Those who have collected 100,000 gold coins will report you 10,000 yuan. What can you do?

If countries like the German bishops, because the position of the bishop needs to be confirmed by the Holy See, they have to submit more points. Those sovereign states are not so polite. Bishops of sovereign states are often nominated by each country themselves, and then they go through a process to confirm by the Holy See. In this way, the bishops of sovereign states are obviously on the side of the monarchs of various countries. Then, after these bishops supported by the monarchs come to power, they will also share the benefits from the "tith tax" to the monarch. Of course, these spoils will never be recorded in history, but will be quietly put into the monarch's own pocket, without knowing it.

Generally speaking, those who can be recommended as bishops are often children from noble families, and are often non-first sons from large noble families.

After such bishops take power, they often pay great attention to the protection and expansion of family interests. For a noble family, in addition to money, titles and fiefdoms are probably the most important pursuit. In many cases, titles and fiefdoms are often more important than money.

Therefore, after taking office, a certain bishop often uses the corruption of "tith tax" to secretly conduct PY transactions with the king. For example, expand the fiefdom to the noble family where the bishop is located, and even enhances the title. It includes rewarding the fiefdom and title to the bishop with nephews without inheritance, or even illegitimate sons. The king takes out the title and fiefdom, and the bishop takes out the corruption of "tith tax", and both parties conduct equivalent transactions, and everyone is happy...

The only thing that is not happy is probably the Holy See. Because their interests are ignored. However, the Holy See has no choice. Because the Holy See cannot break up with a sovereign state because of money. Only during the Crusades did the "tith tax" of various countries be paid very well. Usually, it is normal to give the Holy See a discount. According to an article Marin read in his previous life, during the Crusades, the Pope set the "tith tax" standard for England was 20,300 pounds per year (12

1991 standard), which is 30,450 marks of silver. France and Germany have more populations and arable land than England, so the tithing standard is naturally much higher. However, only when major events like the Crusades happen, countries will pay them together. At other times, they will find various excuses to deduct most of the tithing they originally paid and only pay a small part of the Holy See. If they do not launch a "jihad" like the Crusades, the Holy See will have no reason to force churches from all countries to pay them together. If they don't fight, why do they need so much money?

In normal years, churches in various countries usually bribe the corresponding leaders of the cardinal group, trying to pay as little as possible. Those who end up falling into the Holy See’s Holy Library are basically all about their intentions…

Siena is a sovereign state and was a republic that deprived the bishop of the power of rule as early as 1167. Although it was very close to Rome, the Republic of Siena despised the Holy See. In addition to not being afraid of the church, the Holy See has always been ineffective in military power, which is also an important reason why Siena dared to be presumptuous.

As a commercial republic, the 250,000 tithe tax" is definitely not the whole of the Siena Republic. It should be pointed out that in this era, the great nobles generally did not pay "tithe tax", and were basically paid by ordinary people. Moreover, the collection standards for "tithe tax" are mostly calculated based on the area of ​​cultivated land. Only those handicraftsmen with no background will be unlucky to be included in the collection category of "tithe tax" like farmers.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the Holy See. Even if the "tith tax" of the Republic of Siena each year is 250,000 gold coins, the Republic of Siena will give the Holy See a few thousand gold coins every year. If you encounter a bad year, you might as well not pay it.

To be honest, Siena is close to Rome, and his approach is so arrogant, which is very slapped in the face of the Holy See. Popes of all generations were very unhappy with Siena, a disobedient country in front of them, but the Pope's military has never been strong, and the terrain of Siena is very steep and difficult to attack. Therefore, Popes of all generations have endured it. Only Julius II, the "Pope God of War", has great ambitions and hopes to use Marin's hand to remove the "thorn in the eye" under the eyes of the Holy Seena.

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As time goes by, the autumn harvest begins to come to an end. There is joy in Europe, not only the farmers are happy, but the nobles are also very happy. Because the autumn harvest is the most abundant time of the year for these nobles. It is said that in the early Middle Ages, because everyone is poor, even the king would take the army to the fiefs of various nobles after the autumn harvest, fight the autumn wind in the name of "inspection", and take hundreds or thousands of subordinates to eat and drink in the aristocratic territory... Of course, a noble family could not withstand such free food and drink. Therefore, the king would take the army to take turns to eat and eat in the aristocratic territory. Some poorer lords were directly eaten up...

Of course, that was the dark era in the early Middle Ages. Nowadays, Europe is relatively developed, and the kings will not do the embarrassing things to eat and drink freely. The early lords would start wars for several boxes of bees, all of which were poor...

Just in this harvest season where the whole world celebrated, suddenly an explosive news came from Austria - Maximilian I decided to lead a large army to "marche into Rome" and seek to officially crown the emperor...

But at the same time, Maximilian I swore that he had led a large army into Rome and had absolutely no intention of being disrespectful to the Pope. As for the reason... it is said that he was afraid that Swiss mercenaries would ambush him halfway...

Although this statement is nonsense, it makes no sense. After all, the Habsburg family's army is currently fighting a tug-of-war with the Swiss Resistance Army in central Switzerland. Those Swiss mercenaries who are seeking independence must want to kill Maximilian I, the "tyrant". At least, they will be very similar to capturing Maximilian I and then threatening the Habsburg family's army to withdraw from Switzerland... and the combat effectiveness of the Swiss mercenaries is so strong...
Chapter completed!