On February 28, 1524, Ladislaus finally waited for the person who sent the money, and the envoy of the Fugger family arrived in Vienna.

It's just that the financial owner looked quite embarrassed. Although he was dressed decently, his mental state was very bad, and his panic and anxiety were palpable.

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, please save the lives of our entire Fugger family and tens of thousands of people in the Imperial Municipality of Augsburg." This envoy is also a branch of the Fugger family. Although it is only a branch, he will not be provoked.

Trouble has no ambition, and the life of just hanging around and waiting to die is quite easy.

Unlike his elder brothers who were wandering around the world, the well-dressed young master has endured hardships that he has never imagined in his life in the past half month.

Although the guards of the Fugger family protected him well along the way, it was not a good life to eat in fear, sleep in fear, and squat in pits in fear.

Fortunately for him, he was cordially received by the Austrian Acting Cardinal Archbishop as soon as he entered Vienna.

"Please rest assured, since the Elector elected our Habsburg family as the imperial family, we will not sit back and watch the mob destroy the place, and we will definitely save you." The intelligence network in Austria had already informed him of South Germany.

Before the large-scale peasant uprising occurred in the Black Forest, Ladislaus knew that a prairie fire of rebellion against the old order had been ignited in South Germany.

In Liddy's world, an assistant to the great mentor who ignited the divine fire called it the "Great German Peasants' War."

So Ladislaus is probably going to do something like "cruelly suppress the just peasant uprising".

But it doesn't matter, Ladislaus doesn't really care about what history thinks of him. He only cares about his own ass.

Who needs a weak, hesitant brain with random thoughts when you have an ass that is steadfast and never doubts itself?

Long before the leader of the rebel army had decided whether to sell himself into serfs or kill the small nobles who took advantage of his illness to annex his land, Ladislaus began preparations for war in the name of dealing with the Kingdom of France.

Although the officer cultural examination has not been successfully conducted for the time being, several regiments have distributed cloth to repair their clothes and maintained their weapons.

This was all carried out under conditions of extremely insufficient funds. Even Sazastan and Machiavelli only thought that Ladislaus was responding to His Majesty Ferdinand's grand strategy to attack the Kingdom of France from the east with all his strength.

In fact, Ladislaus was targeting this peasant uprising that would severely damage the original order in South Germany. Chaos would give the royal family a good opportunity to strengthen centralization.

Ladislaus's attitude of keeping his cronies secret allowed His Majesty Ferdinand to believe that his cousin wanted to help him. The batch of military supplies obtained from the Kingdom of Spain gave the Austrian army a strong combat capability. Those precious

It is simply impossible for Austria, which is currently building a trade center, to afford the supplies.

In fact, the peasant uprising began at the end of last year. However, at the beginning, no one could tell the difference between this peasant uprising and other peasant uprisings in the past hundreds of years. Landless farmers could not endure the past life in the lean days.

Desperately killing the owners of the grain, or the landowners who took away their last bit of private land.

With no organization, no discipline, no program and no goal, this kind of uprising will not accomplish much. Although many people are oppressed, it has no chance against the organized noble suppressive army, not to mention that under normal circumstances, the great nobles still have no chance.

will support each other.

Even if a few careless or the most brutal lords' castles are captured, the rebel army will still be engulfed by enemies coming from all directions.

But this time, after the peasants unexpectedly captured the castles of several bishops and counts, they unexpectedly found that a large number of knights and citizens had also joined the uprising.

At this point, the nature of this uprising changed. It was a war of resistance by the small German lords against the encroachment of the large princes. It was also an uprising by citizens and peasants demanding the most basic rights to survive. However, the assistant of the great mentor did explain the most important factors of this uprising.

The peasants were the core. They were more determined insurrectionists than the citizens and knights.

They demanded the implementation of ancient Roman law within the Holy Roman Empire, the abolition of serfdom, and the abolition of the personal restrictions and actual judicial power of lords on peasants.

The demands of knights and citizens only began to grow after peasant uprisings challenged the rule of princes and bishops.

The professional military skills of the knights and the participation of wealthy citizens with ambitions made this uprising different from most uprisings in history, and truly threatened the rule of the princes.

The rivalry between Bane and Sirik was also a major reason for this uprising. Compared with the hereditary noble territories and Dark Sun Bishops, the residents of the Archbishop's territory were more oppressed. Although these high-level clergy were also controlled by the great nobles,

But after all, it is not hereditary. Each noble family does occasionally have inspirational stories of being born as farmers, so every religious lord who gets a position is desperately trying to take back the efforts he has made as soon as possible.

As for whether there were any "good" bishops among them who were particularly considerate of the people, Ladislaus had no hope.

How can a compassionate and weak person gather the resources to defeat a ruthless enemy?

One of the demands of the uprising was to establish a German national church and restore the appointment of bishops to the Holy Roman Empire Council.

What His Majesty Ferdinand could do with diplomatic intimidation in the Kingdom of Spain was impossible in the divided Germany.

This area is the area with the greatest influence in Cyric, and it is absolutely impossible to make concessions if the Pope is really elected.

The impact of this request is complex, but not decisive enough. There are not many Italians serving as religious princes in Germany. In addition, the power of appointing bishops belongs to the Imperial Assembly rather than to the Habsburg family, so the Habsburg family did not take advantage of it.

The determination of this dangerous force.

"Then thank you very much. When I escaped, the army of the Elector of the Rhine-Palatinate had been defeated by those mobs, and now they are surrounding Augsburg." Regarding the destruction of the noble army,

The mood of urban aristocratic families is very complicated.

Various branches of the Wittelsbach family have always had great ambitions for the independent municipalities in Swabia. In fact, the elector of the Rhine-Palatinate and the Duke of Bavaria have always threatened the independence of the imperial municipality of Augsburg.

This is also the reason why the Fugger family and the central Habsburg family are getting closer and closer.

However, without the standing army of the nobles as the core of suppressing the uprising, the mercenaries organized by the urban nobles lost the determination to fight in the field. Each city only wanted to protect its own city walls and had no enthusiasm for cooperating with commercial competitors.

"But it is the power of His Majesty the Emperor to crusade against rebellion. I have to wait for orders from Madrid before I can take action." Ladislaus just deliberately took out the shackles he wanted to get rid of to say something about "His Majesty the Emperor's agent in Austria"

Naturally, the purpose of "people" is not to promote the authority of His Majesty Ferdinand, but to poach him.

I will definitely save you, but I don’t mean to save you right away.

"What, Vienna is so far away from Madrid. The danger is waiting for the order from Madrid. Maybe everything will be over." Little Mr. Fugger became completely panicked when he was scared. He thought that things would get better after finally escaping to Vienna.

Woolen cloth.

"But the emperor is the emperor, and only the emperor has the right to punish traitors." Ladislaus continued to insist on his lies and then sent away Mr. Fugger who was almost jumping.

The prince did not keep Ladislaus waiting for a second time and asked for a second interview. Although he was relatively confused, Old Fugger certainly sent reliable people to help his nephew translate the mysterious political language.

"Your Highness, please send troops quickly. The patriarch asked me to bring 100,000 thalers of gold coupons as military expenses." Of course, the Fugger family would not immediately say such reckless words as "Vienna is the center of the Holy Roman Empire."

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Ladislaus also did not count on a merchant family, even though they were actually the masters of Augsburg, to help him against Spain.

He just quietly and carefully spread the seeds of "The emperor may not be a good thing even in distant Madrid.", irrigated and fertilized, hoping that one day this seed would grow into a towering tree, so that Ladislaus could use it to climb into the clouds.

Of course, this is a very long-term thing. For now, Ladislaus just wants to gain as much benefit as possible for himself through this war.

Next, Ladislaus sent Machiavelli to continue squeezing the envoy and extracting the Fugger family's true bid.

In fact, this chaos did not only exist in Central Germany. Ladislaus's territory of Tyrol and Württemberg were also the hardest hit areas by the peasant uprising.

Sazastan has already led two thousand troops to conquer.

Although Ladislaus did not support serfdom emotionally, he did not yet have an urban handicraft industry that could absorb a large number of landless peasants, let alone make reforms due to armed uprisings, which would make enemies, allies and subordinates doubt his ability.

In the end, Machiavelli received a money order for three hundred thousand talers. In fact, old Fugger did not expect his nephew to be economical when he asked him to bring the money. This is not the point.

The point is that once these bills of exchange are obtained, Ladislaus will inevitably rescue Augsburg, and he will rescue Augsburg first.

Nowadays, the vassal territories of Rhine-Palatinate, Bavaria, and Hesse and their surrounding small territories are caught in a melee. However, the standing force of these feudal lords is still stronger than that of commercial cities.

Several prosperous imperial municipalities such as Ulm, Nuremberg, and Augsburg were in extreme danger.

Among them, Nuremberg is the place where the imperial crown is preserved and has great political significance.

Old Fugger was not sure what kind of monarch Ladislaus was. Maybe the archbishop thought that the location of the crown was a more important goal, and he would rather spend a little blood to ensure safety.

What's more, it is said that uprisings have also occurred in the electorate of Saxony and Brandenburg in the north. Although the chance is small, what if the Austrian army goes to the north?

Now that Ladislaus has obtained the Fugger family's money order, he must first rescue the Fugger family's treasury to ensure that these money orders will not become waste paper.

In any case, his plan should be considered a success. Although Ladislaus forcibly withdrew tens of thousands of talers from the Fugger Textile Association in Vienna, in order to protect his newly acquired property, he still directly sent troops to Augsburg.

Castle.

In theory, the Austrian army can pass directly through the territory of the Holy Roman Empire when countering rebellions and wars. However, this will inevitably make those princes doubt Ladislaus's true intentions, so Ladislaus sent envoys in advance to ask for passage.

He hoped to somewhat reduce the hostility of various princes towards him, although he did intend to suppress these feudal monarchs.

However, this result is inevitable. If these princes are unable to protect themselves, they will inevitably be suppressed by the Warlock Royal Family.
Chapter completed!