Chapter 1205 The Enjoyment of Medieval Nobles

He accidentally learned about that place when he was begging Eleanor Nixon for mercy last night. She would not lie at that time.

Eleanor Nixon described that place very well. Not only could Han Li experience the style of a medieval monastery, but also enjoy the situation that only a noble lord could have.

Of course, all this requires money, and it is not enough if the money is too little.

So what kind of place is this? This is about the content of the previous article.

Those unpopular children among the nobles, after they choose a monastery, or rely on "pursuers" to establish a monastery.

After they have established a foothold in this monastery for a period of time, those children in their families or in the families of their pursuers who are also unpopular and deprived of inheritance rights will be sent to a place where their own people are in charge.

In order to secure the position of the dean and to make the family's life better, this situation can be maintained for a long time, or as a backup retreat.

Some great nobles have increased their investment near their own monasteries. They bought more fields around them, which also made many monasteries rich.

For a long time, these monasteries have become places where family businesses are formed.

They have no worries about food and drink, no worries about trivial matters, and their lives are getting better and better, and they have more and more ideas in their hearts.

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

As for those religious ceremonies and prayers, they were all roughly dealt with, and those cleaning and working trivial matters were done by those lower-level secular nuns and field nuns.

However, things in the world are impermanent.

You must know that there may be a lack of everything on this land of the Western Continent, but there is never a lack of war here.

No matter how arrogant the nobles are, they can't guarantee that their families can retreat unscathed in the war.

Therefore, small wars led to the decline of some nobles, and large wars and dynasty changes made some nobles disappear.

The nobles who lost their titles and fiefs but still survived the war, the backup plan they left in the monastery came into play. All the family members of the right age joined the monastery, and those who were not suitable had to farm outside.

Because the main source of income for the monastery was the rent of farmland and the donations from the nobles when they came to the monastery to pray.

Now the fields are registered under the name of the monastery. Although they have not been taken away, the support from the family and the donations from the nobles who love them are gone.

Now they have to feed more people and find ways to pay for the family to stand up again. This has made the lives of those living in the monastery tight.

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

The nuns pushed out by the dean are basically all women in her family, hoping that they can have 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 wife, 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 to have fun in the name of prayer.

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

Of course, those abbess whose families have died out and are a little older, even if they did this before becoming abbess, but now they are old and did not do this at the beginning for stability.

But people are in the rivers and lakes and cannot help themselves. After other monasteries launched the above prayer, they had to follow others to retain these nobles who could donate money to the monastery.

This also opened the eyes of many nuns in the monastery. They used this to get rid of the miserable identity of believers and transformed themselves into a rich and wealthy wife.

(It is basically impossible for them to become noble wives directly. Foreigners may not know the meaning of the term "equal status", but they know what benefits a noble wife can bring to themselves. Even if they marry and ignore one side, ordinary people will not do such things as throwing away watermelons and picking up sesame seeds.)

As long as there is war, the ups and downs between nobles will not stop, and the monastery will change accordingly.

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

(In-kind taxes: because the monasteries have their own real estate and land, most of them are very wealthy, although these industries are leased to farmers.

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

At that time, the king did not dare to offend the church completely. The king did not dare to manage the money donated by the nobles, but they would levy taxes on the part of the products produced by the monasteries under their jurisdiction. This is the in-kind tax in special periods.)

Because of the changes of the times, many monasteries did not persist and were destroyed.

Those monasteries that persisted, in this era, their lives have become more difficult.

Due to the special nature of the monasteries, although their houses do not have to pay taxes, all the output on the land must be taxed.

Those larger monasteries are fine, because they can not only get funding from the church and the royal family, but also have no shortage of businessmen and social elites who go to pray and donate.

However, the days of those small monasteries are miserable. The number of people praying has decreased, and the donations they can get are getting smaller and smaller.

Relying solely on the little funds allocated by the church and the royal family, let alone living in the past, it is difficult to even maintain a middle-class life in the current society.

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

In the past, they could ride for free with their status as nuns, but now they have to pay for everything.

These are all their difficulties, which has caused more monasteries to close down.

However, some smart monasteries persisted, and they secretly introduced the enjoyment of medieval nobles. Such monasteries are where Han Li is 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.