Warlock Royal Family

()Although it is already April, the suburbs of Munich are still very cold. <The cold and the more miserable rain are not much of a problem anymore.

Everyone's heart is hot, Ladislaus' heart is hot, gold may make the skin feel colder, but it can warm the soul, and the soul is always above the body.

"The Fugger family is really rich." Frundsberg couldn't believe that under the threat, there would be such a big harvest.

"I thought it would be enough to get another three to fifty thousand." This was the voice of the Hohenzollern officer, but Ladislaus didn't quite believe his words. This should be * * Your Excellency is flattering you. "It's still His Excellency the archbishop who has insight into human nature. It is expected that the patriarch Fugger will not be able to just give the bills, and there will definitely be a sum of cash for activities."

Although he knew it was flattery, Ladislaus certainly did not spoil the scenery. The Fugger family took out another 12 talers. This time it was cash collected from several branches in the surrounding areas to the Munich Textile Association. Of course, it was not immediately mobilized. Yes, the current traffic conditions are too dangerous to transport large sums of cash. The flames of chaos began to appear a few months ago, and the Fugger family concentrated their funds in big cities. Of course, Munich now has a population of just over 1. Li Di's era can only be regarded as an ordinary-sized township.

All the Fugger family provided this time was gold. Although it was smaller in size, gold was indeed more attractive than silver, and most of the gold coins minted in Augsburg were stamped with Habsburg The head portraits of family members are mostly Maximilian I, the founder of the Habsburg family.It's another kind of compliment.

"Leave [-] in the army treasury, and pay the rest immediately to the few grain merchants who have already negotiated the contract. These hoarders are considered rich this time, and the civilians should not be hired again. The Duke of Bavaria agreed to provide me with [-] Hundreds of people."

Although the price of grain has reached more than ten times that of a normal harvest year, and one taler can only buy less than ten pounds of wheat, it can only be slaughtered.

Those who can provide the supplies needed by the army are all big grain merchants. These big grain merchants have top-level backgrounds, and may even directly belong to the big shots in Bavaria.

It is impossible for the limited imperial power possessed by the Habsburg family to control them.

The real power is still the army.

The delay of the Austrian army not only made Fugger's son anxious, but also made the Duke of Bavaria feel extremely uncomfortable.Although this army helped him wipe out many rebels, who would like someone else to sleep soundly beside the couch.

It should be said that Ladislaus can be regarded as the benefactor of the Principality of Bavaria, but the current situation of the people's poverty makes the Duke of Bavaria really have little ability to repay the favor, coupled with the mentality of "Isn't it right for the royal family to rescue the ministers?", he really It can be regarded as nothing.

Of course, the Duke still made a gesture. He contributed his bathroom so that Ladislaus and his senior subordinates could take a long-lost hot bath.

In fact, there are maids who can provide various services, but Ladislaus refused.

Of course, Ladislaus is not without benefits.He captured more than a thousand captives who could be used as slave labor, and hundreds of captives were sold to landlords or a few small and well-defended free cities that were not worth besieging.

Moreover, in the past few days, the Austrian army has been running around in Bavaria, imposing heavy taxes on villages that were lucky enough not to be destroyed by the uprising, and buying and selling various pack animals and food by force.

It was under this pressure that the Duke of Bavaria was willing to provide a civilian husband.

Compared with military security, knocking a little gold from the Fugger family is really not what Ladislaus cares about most.Of course, he would not object if he could make some money along the way.

However, this kind of action should indeed be enough. Compared with the flustered Mr. Fugger, Ladislaus has more information.

The bishop's territory with du li's sovereignty is the focus of this round of uprisings. Several archbishop's territories have been breached, and even powerful religious electors such as Mainz and Trier have been surrounded.

Once the city is broken and captured.Archbishop of Cyric must be executed by priest of Bane, letter from Elector of Saxony.Martin Luther even "suggested" that the Habsburg family follow the trend and not share the fate of the destruction of the Roman Church.

Although the church of Sune, the goddess of love and goodness, is good at instigating uprisings, it is no match for the Benn Church in the struggle for power after the uprising.

At present, the leadership of the rebel army has fallen into the hands of the priest of His Majesty Blackhand, otherwise, with the courage of the Sunny Church, they would never dare to burn the dark archbishop to death.

Of course, Cyric's counterattack was also very cruel. This time, the priests of Ms. Fire and Ms. Night who were captured were all put to death by immersing them in a water tank.

By the way, at the recent New Year's Mass, His Majesty Anri issued an oracle called "The Source of Purity" through the Pope, abolishing all fire and stoning, because being burned to death or being crushed to death by stones is " Dirty death methods cannot purify the souls of the dead, and are not in line with His Majesty's magnanimous mind. Only after being thoroughly washed with clean water, can the souls returning to the kingdom of heaven rest in peace."

Although Cyric faced Bane's challenge, he had no intention of concealing his conflicts with Kossuth and Grumba. This conflict seemed to bring him a useful ally, the ability to strengthen the god of water element Isti. Xi Yaweixin's execution method is obviously a declaration of alliance.

After all, Cyric is the number one church in the mainland, not only within the church, several countries with unshakable hidden influence such as France, Spain (excluding the Netherlands), Portugal and most Italian city-states are also considering Do we want to completely abolish the punishment of fire and stoning?

This change in power combination has not spread to the Holy Roman Empire for the time being, where the elemental gods are basically just spectators.

The conflict is still concentrated between the two powerful men, Cyric the Dark and Bane the Black Hand.

It's just that the cooperation relationship between Bane and Sune is not smooth but does exist, which troubles Ladislaus very much. Because of the conflict of godhood, Lady Fire is the enemy of the Knights of Great Wish, that is, the Habsburg family. enemy.

If this conflict continues, Austria and Spain will inevitably have less choice between the dark sun and the black hand. Ladislaus doesn't care which god he believes in in name, but the smaller the freedom, the higher the price the other party is willing to pay Also smaller.

"In any case, this time the Duke of Bavaria has finally agreed to allow us to build a formal church in Munich. From then on, the public officials of the Principality of Bavaria can also be followers of His Majesty the Grand Wish Knight." Odd Kessler got an important achievement .

"Please choose one of the citizens of Munich who has felt the call of His Majesty the Knight of Great Wishes to be a priest, and then we should leave." Ladislaus has another question, "It is said that the captured priests of Sune were in the senior It is very popular among the officers, and there are endless requests for interrogation by turns. Considering that everyone has worked so hard in the winter, I didn't ban it immediately, but it should be over here. These women are all sent back to the moral training center in Vienna , not with the army."

"Praise your wisdom." This is what Odd Kessler has been fighting for. Although these priests are currently used as venting tools, the priests of other gods are always detrimental to the belief of the Grand Wish Knight. Who knows they will It won't be "in the enemy's camp, you still have to corrupt the enemy from the inside", even if you offend Sirica's boss for this, there is no way.