The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, 5,000 copies is just a publicity figure. Secretly, in fact, Beihai State spies printed a total of 10,000 copies. However, except for the 5,000 copies that will be "half sold and half given away" in the Elector of Saxony and several nearby vassal states, the remaining 5,000 copies will be taken to other regions by the spies of the North Sea State and secretly sold.

At the same time, Marin will also let the spies of the North Sea State make up and help Martin Luther become famous in taverns everywhere. After all, in order to push Martin Luther to stand up as mt to attract firepower in the future, he must have enough fame.

Moreover, Marin is a chicken thief, and he has carefully selected the places where he promotes and sells books quietly-all of them are princes who plan to annex them in the future. That is, North Germany and parts of Central Germany.

With prior propaganda, these areas will be more easily agitated to carry out religious reforms in the future. Then, as soon as the religious war started, Marin had reason to send troops to occupy it.

Especially in some bishop states, Marin is more focused on taking care of them. Because the bishop's country is the territory of the church. If it is a secular vassal state, it will be more troublesome to annex. After all, they have a bloodline inheritance sequence. Moreover, the nobles intermarried from generation to generation, and the relationship was intricate. Annexing a vassal state means offending several or even a dozen vassals.

But the bishop's country is different. This is the territory of the church and does not belong to any one. If the bishop's country obeys the orders of the Holy See, Marin will naturally not move. But what if the Bishop State betrayed the Holy See? Such a vassal state, occupying it, does not need to cause inheritance disputes. Because no one has the right to inherit the bishop's country.

Like the Archbishop of Magdeburg, the Bishop of Minden, the Bishop of Paderborn, the Bishop of Hildesheim, the Bishop of Halberstadt on the edge of the North Sea, and the Utrecht in the west The bishop's country is all in Marin's calculations.

Even in the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Cologne, Marin sent people to infiltrate and propagate. However, it depends on luck. It stands to reason that the bishops of the episcopal country, as those with vested interests, should belong to the Holy See. However, this is hard to say. For example, in history, the Archbishop of Magdeburg and the Archbishop of Bremen, although they were both powerful church forces, threw themselves into the embrace of Protestantism without hesitation. Of course, the archbishop of the Archbishop of Magdeburg is the Hohenzollern family from Brandenburg. Therefore, it is not surprising that they side with Protestantism.

However, Magdeburg paid a very high price for standing in line with Protestantism - in the "Thirty Years' War", Magdeburg, a famous religious and cultural city, was massacred by the imperial army that maintained Catholicism...

One person has to be mentioned here-Albrecht, the younger brother of Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg. This product was born in 1490 and is only 27 years old this year. However, he became Archbishop of Magdeburg several years ago. Moreover, this guy will become the Archbishop of Mainz, one of the seven electors in the future.

But this person is quite contradictory, because he is from Brandenburg and is naturally close to the electorate of Saxony. Therefore, he admired and supported Martin Luther at first. In other words, he has always admired Martin Luther.

But after he became the Archbishop of Mainz, his identity made him naturally stand on the opposite side of the Reformation. Therefore, this guy later acted as a mediator between Catholicism and Protestantism as the Archbishop and Elector of Mainz.

This guy is a smart guy, clearly leaning towards Lutheranism. But on the surface, because of their status and interests, they sided with the Holy See. The result is that you can get everything you want, and you can get all the benefits. Moreover, it also protected Protestantism incidentally.

If there were no mediator, Archbishop Albrecht, who acted as a "lubricant" between Protestantism and Catholicism, the two sides would have already started fighting. As for Protestantism and Catholicism, the later it is, the better it is for Protestantism. After all, the development and growth of Protestantism requires a process. Therefore, Archbishop Albrecht's reconciliation actually gave Protestantism time to breathe and develop.

Moreover, this guy also has a show operation-this guy borrowed a huge sum of up to 500,000 Gulden gold coins from the Fugger family to run for the position of Archbishop of Mainz.

After being elected, this guy doesn't seem to be able to pay back the money. Then, he allowed the Protestant forces to help him repay the 500,000 gold coins. In return, Archbishop Albrecht allowed Lutherans to preach under him. First, the Archbishop of Magdeburg, which completely Protestantized the Archbishop of Magdeburg. The Archbishop of Mainz, on the other hand, has limited permission. After all, he is also a Catholic.

Therefore, Yu Zecheng, a proper Lutheran of this buddy, broke into the high-level of the Catholic Church and secretly protected the Protestantism.

Of course, Marin didn't know these details. If you know, you must like it like crazy. Then, learn from this stuff, train a few religious talents, break into various bishop countries, and do things.

Right now, Marin is adopting the bottom penetration method. It is to use spies to spread propaganda among the neighboring bishops and nationals, to help Martin Luther become famous, and to advocate religious reform. Then, it affects various places in these bishop states, and finally completes the transformation.

Of course, Marin's approach cannot be wrong. After all, taking the high-level route is straightforward, but the cost is not small. For example, Albrecht actually needed 500,000 gold coins in order to become the Archbishop of Mainz. You know, Charles V only spent 850,000 gold coins in running for the emperor. The emperor is a higher position than the elector.

Therefore, the cost of taking the high-level route is not lower than spreading the net at the bottom. Therefore, it doesn't matter which one Marin chooses.

But popularity is better if it is publicized among ordinary people. After all, just publishing a book, with the literacy rate of this era, it is too difficult to spread it thoroughly. Moreover, even if many people read this German version of Martin Luther, their attention may not be on Martin Luther, but they may be on themselves.

Therefore, if you want to become famous, you have to have a "minded person" to stand up and point out the "brilliance" of this book. By the way, to promote Martin Luther's "extraordinary". Then, through word of mouth, one to ten, ten to a hundred.

After that, through the "herd effect", more people can arouse their admiration for Martin Luther, even though they may not know why they should adore Martin Luther...

For example, two scumbag girls in school chatted enthusiastically about Brother Zhu, and the other girl was curious—who is Brother Zhu? Then, she was despised by the previous two girls - even our hard-working and excellent signing brother didn't know, are you from an alien? Okay, so earthy...

Then, the despised girl became depressed and had self-doubt—is it really me who is too stupid? In fact, this has nothing to do with me and soil. But because of the unscrupulous bombardment by the media and the word of mouth of some people who are easily influenced, many people who have no opinions are easily led astray. Fools despise normal people, it often happens in the 21st century. Moreover, as long as there are many fools and powerful people, normal people will often be led astray. Of course, I'm talking about normal people who aren't very smart.

Marin used this "herd effect"-he let the spies of the North Sea State make up and talk in pubs all over the world, praising Martin Luther's German version. This will definitely arouse the curiosity of passers-by. If someone asks, what is this? Just introduce Martin Luther and his writings to him with contemptuous eyes and a sense of superiority. If you don't know and don't want to listen to their introduction, just put on a big hat of "ignorance" first...

Just like in Li, people are unwilling to admit that they are stupid, so they pretend to see the emperor's "new clothes". Similarly, under the influence of the herd effect, ordinary people will definitely refuse to admit that they are "ignorant", and will find ways to understand Martin Luther and his writings. Even if you haven't read the book, you still need to know something that you can blow. And these knowledge points, the spies of Beihai Kingdom will be very considerate to help them sum up, for them to brag about...

As long as the spies of the North Sea country travel to the taverns of the target vassal state, talk loudly when there are many candidates, and use the herd effect, they will definitely be able to quickly establish the reputation of Martin Luther... The genius remembers the address of this site in a second: