If you know the problem, it will be easy to deal with. There may not be many ways for people in this era, but Malin, who has experienced the economic wave of China in later generations, has many ways for them.

"This matter is simple. If you give more benefits to local churches and even secular princes, sales will increase soon!"

But Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici hesitated:

"I'm afraid I can't explain to Rome the money that originally belonged to the church to the place..."

Marin immediately laughed and made some calculations for Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici:

"Brother Giovanni, I'll do some calculations for you! You see, the sales of "indulgence" in Germany in one year are 30,000 gold coins, right? At 80% of the ratio, the Holy See can get 24,000 gold coins, right?"

Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici nodded repeatedly, while Marin continued:

"If you give the place half of the share..."

"This is impossible, the Cardinals will squirt me to death!" Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici shook his head after hearing this.

Marin smiled and said to himself - what is impossible? Originally, in history, Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici, who had become Pope Leo X in 1514, secretly reached a secret agreement with the Archbishop of Mainz at that time - Albert of Archbishop of Mainz Brandenburg is responsible for underwriting the "indulgence" worth 500,000 Goulden gold coins. Half of the sales proceeds belong to Pope Leo X, and the other half belongs to Albert III...

At that time, Albert III was not only the Archbishop of Mainz, but also the Archbishop of Magdeburg, but also the Bishop of the Bishop of Hallbestadt, and one person served as the three priests of the church.

Logically, this behavior was illegal (at that time, the church usually held two positions). But he was willing to spend money, obtained approval from the Holy See, and obtained the position of Archbishop of Mainz, becoming one of the seven electoral emperors of Germany, and was also the most honorable church leader (the Archbishop of Mainz was the Speaker of the German Holy Roman Empire). But in order to obtain the position of Archbishop of Mainz, Albert III owed a lot of debts.

In order to repay the debt, he hit it off with Leo X, who was promoting "indulgences" at the time. The two colluded and agreed in private that Albert III was responsible for the Archbishop of Mainz, Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bishop of Hallbestadt, which were under his rule, fully launched the sales of "indulgences", with a total amount of 500,000 Goulden gold coins, and the two shared the profits equally...

In these three bishops alone, Leo X earned 250,000 gold coins, let alone the whole German will? At that time, Leo X was willing to share half of the benefits, which completely ignited the enthusiasm of Archbishop Albert III. Subsequently, Albert III sent a monk named John Tzeel to serve as a representative of the sale of indulgences, and the three bishops under his rule fully launched the sale of indulgences.

According to historical records, at that time, John Tzell had a great show. Every time he went to a city, he had to create a great show.

Whenever Tzeel's "indulgence" sales team quickly entered the city, the most advanced thing was an encyclical about the Pope selling indulgences hanging on a large velvet. All the priests, municipal officials and school principals led all the students and men and women in the city to greet each other, raising flags and lit candles, singing poems after the envoy, and the churches in the city were ringing. After the welcoming ceremony, Tzeel and his envoys would come to the main church in the city, hang the flag with the encyclical of the Pope in front of the church, and then spread the stalls to sell indulgences...

John Tetzel is a man who is very clever and knows how to create momentum and show off. Therefore, his sales have achieved great results. Of course, he is also notorious in history and has become a great villain in the background to set off Martin Luther who opposes "indulgences"...

Because the matter was too big, Martin Luther was finally introduced, and a vigorous religious reform was launched...

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Marin silently calculated that the three vassal states, the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Magdeburg and the Bishop of Hallbestadt could sell "indulgences" of 500,000 gold coins... Although it was a few years of sales, it was no problem for each vassal state to sell tens of thousands of gold coins a year...

Germany has more than 300 vassal states, and there are hundreds of vassal states of the scale. Then, it seems not difficult to sell more than one million gold coins every year... If you use a little harder, it is possible to sell 2 million gold coins annually...

Then, Marin told Giovanni, Di Lorenzo, de Medici, and Old Joe opened his mouth wide in surprise:

"The annual sales volume exceeds one million? You have to have 500,000 gold coins in half!" Obviously, Lao Qiao was shocked by this number.

You should know that the annual fiscal revenue of the Pope is only 200,000 to 300,000 gold coins. The main income of the church is still paid through the very unstable "tith tax" in the local area. However, because the church is seriously corruption, many cardinals have divided the tith tax that should have been sent to the Holy See. This has led to not much money the church actually receives every year, but in theory, the church should have an income of one or two million gold coins every year...

If Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici could sell millions of gold coins in Germany every year and return to Rome with more than 500,000 gold coins, people in the Holy See would probably be impressed by him... Then, the choice of the Pope would be very sure...

"Tell me, what do you do?" Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici's eyes were already very red...

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"It's very simple, sharing of benefits! As long as you are willing to give up half of the benefits, the archbishops will probably be very happy to cooperate with you. The more money the Holy See makes, it means they make a lot of money too. Because everyone makes about the same money..."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici thought for a long time, nodded, and agreed to Marin's statement. However, he asked again:

"Your trick will naturally be fine in the church vassal states. However, more than half of Germany's vassal states are secular vassal states. The teachings there are suppressed by the princes. Even if the local church wants to vigorously promote the sale of 'indulges', those princes will not be willing!"

"It's simple. Isn't it just that the princes have no benefits, so they will object? Just give them the benefits! For example, if you sell the "indulgence" income, the Holy See takes half of the proceeds, the church in the secular vassal states takes 40%, and leave 10% for the local princes. If you have money, why don't they cooperate?"

In fact, Marin originally wanted to say that he would give the secular princes a quarter. However, Marin was worried that those secular princes would become stronger after taking too much money. Therefore, he compressed this ratio. Because only when the church eats more than the princes, it would cause dissatisfaction among the secular princes. Then, it laid the groundwork for the subsequent religious reform...

The reason why Marin encouraged Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici to sell "indulgences" was to create conflicts and allow Germany to carry out religious reforms in advance. If the secular princes were fed, and the secular princes and the church formed a group, then how could they reform them?

To put it bluntly, the Reformation in history was caused by the uneven distribution of spoils between the church and the nobles. The nobles took too little, and the church took all of them, and it would be strange if the nobles did not turn against each other.

Therefore, although Marin asked the Holy See to divide the interests, he only divided 10%. Although the secular princes would be allowed to cooperate with the sale of "indulges" in the early stage, over time, because of the uneven distribution of spoils, the secular princes would definitely accumulate dissatisfaction. When the dissatisfaction accumulates to a certain level, it would be a revolution...

As for whether the church gives up a lot of benefits to appease the nobles? It doesn't exist! The church in this era is the embodiment of greed. If it can be given, it will never be divided into benefits to the nobles. Therefore, conflicts will definitely accumulate and will eventually break out. Marin secretly promoted the outbreak of this contradiction. Then, taking advantage of the religious war to expand its territory...
Chapter completed!