Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1205: Enjoyment of the Medieval Nobles
He had stumbled upon that place the night before when Eleanor Nixon was begging for mercy, and she would not lie at that moment.

Eleanor Nixon described that place very well. It not only allowed Han Li to experience the style of a medieval monastery, but also let him enjoy the situation that only aristocratic lords could have.

Of course, all of this costs money, and too little money won’t do.

So what is this place? This is what I mentioned in the previous article.

The unpopular children of the nobility chose monasteries or established monasteries with the help of "pursuers".

After they have established themselves in the monastery for a period of time, those children in their families or those of their suitors who are equally unfavored and deprived of inheritance rights will be sent to places where they have their own people in charge.

In order to secure the position of dean and to make his family's life better, he wanted to maintain this situation for a long time, or use it as a backup plan.

Some great nobles increased their investment in areas around their own monasteries. They bought more land in the surrounding areas, which also made many monasteries wealthy.

Over a long period of time, these monasteries became places where family-like businesses were formed.

They have no worries about food and drink, no need to worry about trivial matters, and their lives are getting better and better, so they have more and more thoughts in their minds.

These people began to wear fashionable clothes, keep pets, sing and dance in the inner courtyard of the monastery. It was common for them to have secret meetings with people in the middle of the night, and some even had illegitimate children.

As for the religious ceremonies and prayers, they were all dealt with roughly, and the trivial tasks such as cleaning and work were done by the lower-level secular nuns and field nuns.

However, things in this world are unpredictable.

You know, there may be a lack of everything in the Western Continent, but there is never a lack of war.

No matter how powerful the nobles were, they could not guarantee that their families would be able to escape unscathed from the war.

Therefore, small wars led to the decline of some nobles, while large wars and changes of dynasties caused some nobles to disappear.

For those nobles who were defeated in the war and lost their titles and fiefdoms but were still alive, the backup plans they left in the monastery came into play. All those in the family who were of appropriate age joined the monastery, and those who were not suitable were forced to farm outside.

Because the monastery's main source of income was the rent from farmland and the donations from nobles who came to the monastery to pray.

Now the land is registered under the name of the monastery. Although it has not been taken away, the support from the family and donations from the nobles are no longer there.

Now they have to feed so many more people and find ways to raise money to get the family back on its feet, which has made life very difficult for those living in the monastery.

The greatest pressure was placed directly on the dean. For this reason, the dean began to show goodwill to the new nobles, actively inviting them to the monastery to pray, and also introduced a method for them to bring the nuns home to pray on the spot.

These nuns pushed forward by the dean are basically all women in her family, hoping that they can establish some kind of in-depth communication with the nobles during this period.

It would be best to become the new favorite of these nobles and become a rich lady, so as to bring more money and opportunities to the monastery and the family. Some abbess families have no women, so she would personally invite those noble women to come to the monastery for fun in the name of prayer.

In short, these people found various ways to increase the monastery's income to help the family regain the opportunity to rise again.

Of course, those abbess who are a little older and whose entire family has died out did the same thing before they became abbess. But now they are old and did not do so at the beginning for the sake of stability.

But they had no choice but to follow the will of others. After other monasteries launched the above prayers, they had to follow suit in order to retain the nobles who could donate money to the monasteries.

This also opened the eyes of many nuns in the monasteries. They used it to break free from the miserable identity of believers and transformed themselves into wealthy ladies.

(It is basically impossible for them to become noble wives directly. Foreigners may not know the meaning of the term "equally matched", but they know what benefits a noble wife can bring to them. Even if they marry her and ignore her, ordinary people will not do such a thing as throwing away the watermelon for the sesame seeds.)
As long as there are wars, the rise and fall of nobles will continue, and the monasteries will change accordingly.

In the future, the influence of the church gradually declined, and in addition to paying taxes to the church, the monasteries had to pay taxes in kind to the king.

(Tax in kind: Because monasteries have their own properties and lands, most of them are very wealthy, although these properties are leased to farmers.

But after deducting this part, they still cannot digest the remaining output. At this time, the monastery will take the excess food, livestock, fruits, vegetables, and cloth to the market for exchange or sale.

At that time, the king did not dare to completely offend the church, and did not dare to manage the money donated by the nobles, but they would levy taxes on the products of the wealthy monasteries under their jurisdiction. This was a special period of in-kind tax.)
Due to the changes of the times, the Naduo Monastery did not last and was destroyed.

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For those monasteries that persisted, their lives became even more difficult in this era.

Due to the special nature of the monastery, although their houses are not subject to tax, all output from the land is subject to tax.

The larger monasteries were fine, because not only did they receive funding from the church and the royal family, they also had no shortage of businessmen and social elites who went there to pray and donate.

However, smaller monasteries were having a hard time, as fewer people prayed and the donations they received became smaller and smaller.

Relying solely on the little funds allocated by the church and the royal family, it would be difficult to maintain a middle-class life in today's society, let alone live up to the past.

Moreover, with the convenience of transportation and information, the monasteries not only have to accept visits from other colleagues, but they also have to go out to visit others and seek more funds from the church.

In the past, they could ride for free because of their status as nuns, but now they have to pay to go anywhere.

These are all their difficulties, which has led to more monasteries closing down and going bankrupt.

But some smart monasteries persisted and secretly introduced the enjoyment of medieval nobles. These monasteries were the places Han Li was going to experience today.

This was different from the last time Han Li was attacked by a bridesmaid in the church. This was open and aboveboard. So while driving, he was still thinking about what the scene would be like.
(End of this chapter)