King of German Mercenaries

After sending off the fishing boat that went out to sea to try to hunt whales, Marin returned to the Royal Palace of Aurich and began to chat quietly with his sister-in-law Felice. Anyway, Angela said she would stay on Texel Island for a few days.

In fact, Marin is not an easy man to seduce. And Felice's appearance is also one grade worse than Angela's, and can only be regarded as above average.

However, Marin still gave Ferris to "rectification", why? Because Ferris is the daughter of the future Pope...

Archbishop Rovere has only two daughters - Angela and Ferris. At present, Angela is more favored. However, the future is uncertain.

For, Marin remembers, Felice was later married by Julius II to the son of a duke of Rome. Later, Felice also became a duchess, and when her husband had a legal heir and eldest son before his marriage, he ran his son into the Duke of Brassino.

It is foreseeable that although Julius II does not like this daughter, he will not really care about her daughter, and there must be a certain degree of support.

Although it is said that Angela is more favored by her father than Felice. However, if Felice married the son of a great Roman nobleman as in the original history, she would take advantage of it—that is, Felice would be closer to Julius II.

As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Although Felice is not as popular as Angela, if she is married in Rome, under the eyes of Julius II, she will always have the opportunity to have more contact with her father. And Angela is favored again, but also far north of Germany. Therefore, if Felice really married Rome in the future, Angela's advantage would be greatly offset by the distance.

Besides, a daughter is a daughter and a son-in-law is a son-in-law. Julius may like Angela the daughter the most, but he may not like the son-in-law Marin the most. You must know that Marin had planned on the old man before, and locked the old man for a few days, which must have left a thorn in the old man's heart. If there is a young son-in-law who is close to the Pope's father-in-law and competes with him in the future, Marin may not be able to compete.

Therefore, when he saw that Felice took the initiative to seduce him, Marin was cruel-he directly took the blood of his sister-in-law, and planned to take care of the sister-in-law...

At that time, the two daughters of Archbishop Rovere will be his own, and he will not have to worry about another son-in-law competing with him for resources. You must know that the support of the Pope is also a very important and very powerful political resource. However, this resource is limited. If a competitor emerges, Marin's care will be shared.

Marin took a huge risk and married Angela in order to be fully taken care of by the Pope's father-in-law in the future. How could there be room for others to grab food? Therefore, when he was cruel, he would rather make Angela sad than take Ferris into custody.

At that time, when Archbishop Rovere becomes the Pope, the second son-in-law will be Marin, and the third son-in-law will be Marin... There is no other choice, let's put all the resources on it...

Even, Marin has a very amazing ambition in his heart - that is, he wants his son to be the pope...

The son he had with Angela naturally wanted to inherit his country. But the illegitimate child born with Ferris has no public inheritance rights, and at most he will be sent to the American colonies to be a colonial lord.

However, he and Ferris' illegitimate child, there is another option - that is, to be a clergyman...

Just like Caesar Borgia, the illegitimate son of the current Pope Alexander VI, he became a very noble cardinal at a young age. As long as the backstage is hard enough, there is no difficulty in being a cardinal.

If Caesar Borgia hadn't voluntarily left the Holy See and pursued becoming a secular duke, his future in the Holy See might not have been bad. Of course, it's hard to come up with ideas. Because, the next Pope Julius II is the mortal enemy of the Borgia family.

Marin had read history and knew the pope behind Julius II,

Not an enemy of the Rovere family. Therefore, it is not impossible to operate the illegitimate son of himself and Felice to become the Pope.

In the absence of a sworn enemy, the Pope, and if Marin has a lot of money, if he aggressively bribery elections, he may not be able to be elected as the Pope in the future.

According to history, Julius II has only a dozen years left to live, and his son will not be able to enjoy direct benefits when he grows up. However, Marin could send Mongol doctors to help Julius II with his health and try to keep him alive for a few more years.

Then, when the next pope takes over, Marin will provide the next pope with money for election bribes, just as America's billionaires funded the elections of all candidates. In this way, they can fully ensure that their sons will receive key training in the Holy See. When my son is middle-aged, his prestige is sufficient. When the Pope was elected again, Marin threw a lot of money, and he was able to hold his illegitimate son to the high position of the Pope...

In this era, whether it is the election of the Holy Roman Emperor or the election of the Pope, money is the way to go, and hundreds of thousands of gold coins are spent at every turn. For example, when Charles V ran for the Holy Roman Emperor, he dropped 850,000 Gulden gold coins and finally got the throne. Pope prices are not that high because the pope candidates don't have as many fief taxes as the Habsburgs before they become popes. Therefore, it is impossible for them to come up with 850,000 gold coins, but they can still do it with 300,000 to 500,000 gold coins. And this amount is definitely not a problem for Marin, who is full of ways to make money.

As long as his illegitimate son becomes the Pope and in turn helps his country get more benefits, then this investment is worthwhile. Even, the Pope can use his own authority to forcibly sentence some colonies to himself... Just like the Spaniards shamelessly used the condition that Alexander VI was a Spaniard, and let the Pope sentence the huge America to himself... Alexander VI did not ask the opinions of other countries, and directly awarded half of the world to Spain...

Thinking of his bright "prospect" of having a son born from wedlock to be king and a illegitimate son to be Pope in the future, Marin laughed smugly. This also strengthened his determination to forcibly keep Ferris as his mistress. After all, not to mention the issue of his illegitimate son being the Pope, his future rise needs to be escorted by his father-in-law who is the Pope. In order to prevent others from competing for favor with him, he had to "reluctantly" accept his sister-in-law.

Although sister-in-law Felice is not as good-looking as her wife Angela, she is not ugly. Anyway, in the words of a classmate in a previous life, to find a woman, as long as the woman can make her body respond. If it's so ugly that you can't stand it up, it's a disaster, and it will give people the illusion that they are doing their own thing. It just so happened that Ferris was able to do this, and it exceeded expectations, so Marin reluctantly...

However, how to face Angela in the future gave Marin a headache. After all, Marin didn't want to hurt her. But Felice can't give it to others, otherwise it will rob her own interests...

"Forget it, let's take one step at a time, who cares..." Marin simply didn't think much about it.

As for the future father-in-law's interference in this matter, Marin also thought about it, but was not worried. After all, Felice is the illegitimate daughter of Archbishop Rovere and cannot stand on the stage. Bishop Rovere became the Pope, and he could not openly ask Marin to return his illegitimate daughter, otherwise the Holy See would lose face. At that time, if you cheat yourself, even the Pope can't do anything about it. Anyway, I won't treat Felice badly, and in the end, it must be nothing...