After sending off the fishing boat that went out to sea to try to catch whaling, Marin returned to the Aurich Palace and began to quietly mess with his sister-in-law Felice. Anyway, Angela said she would live in Texel for a few days.
In fact, Marin is not a man who is easily seduced. And Felice's appearance is also one level worse than Angela's, which can only be considered above average.
However, Marin still "rectified" Felice, why? Because Felice is the daughter of the future pope...
Archbishop Rovere only has two daughters—Angela and Felice. At present, Angela is more favored. However, the future is uncertain.
Because, Marin remembered, Felice was later married to the son of a duke in Rome by Julius II. Later, Felice also became the Duchess, and when her husband had the eldest son of the legal heir before marriage, she operated her son as the Duke of Brassino.
It can be predicted that although Julius II does not like this daughter, he will not really ignore the daughter, and there will inevitably be a certain degree of support.
Although, Angela was 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, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. Although Felice is not as popular as Angela, if she marries in Rome, she will be under the nose of Julius II, and she will always have the opportunity to have more contact with her father. And no matter how favored Angela is, she is far away in the 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 the daughter Angela the most, but he may not like the son-in-law Marin the most. You know, Marin had counted on the old man before, and locked him up for a few days, which must have left a thorn in the old man's heart. If a young son-in-law near the Pope's father-in-law emerges in the future and competes with him for favor, Marin may not be able to compete.
Therefore, when he saw Felice seduce him actively, Marin was so cruel-he directly took the blood of his sister-in-law, and planned to keep his sister-in-law...
At that time, the two daughters of Archbishop Rovere will belong to him, and he will not worry about another son-in-law emerging to compete with him for resources. You must know that the pope's support is also a very important and powerful political resource. However, such resources are limited. If a competitor emerges, the care Marin receives will be shared.
Marin took a huge risk and married Angela as his wife in order to be fully taken care of by the Pope's father-in-law in the future. How can there be room for others to grab food? Therefore, he was so cruel that he would rather make Angela sad than take Felice into custody.
At that time, when Archbishop Rovere becomes Pope, the second son-in-law will be Marin, and the third son-in-law will still be Marin... There is no other choice, so let's put all the resources here...
Even, Marin still has a very amazing ambition in his heart—that is, he wants his son to be the pope...
The son he had with Angela would naturally inherit his own country. But the illegitimate child born with Felice has no public inheritance rights, and at most he will go to the American colonies to become a colonial lord.
However, he and Felice's illegitimate child has another choice—that is, to be a priest...
Just like Caesar Borgia, the illegitimate son of the current Pope Alexander VI, he became an extremely honorable cardinal at a young age. As long as the background is strong enough, there is no difficulty in being a cardinal.
Had it not been for Caesar Borgia who later 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 figure it out. Because, the next Pope Julius II is the sworn enemy of the Borgia family.
Marin has read history and knows that the pope behind Julius II is not the enemy of the Rovere family. Therefore, it is not impossible for the illegitimate son of himself and Felice to become the Pope.
In the absence of the mortal enemy of the Pope, coupled with the fact that Marin has a lot of money and wantonly bribed elections, it may not be impossible to be elected as the Pope in the future.
According to history, Julius II only had more than ten years of life left, and his own son would not be able to enjoy the direct benefits when he grew up. However, Marin can send a Mongolian doctor to help Julius II solve his health problems and try to let him live for a few more years.
Then, when the next pope takes over, Marin will provide the next pope with funds to bribe the next pope, just like the wealthy American tycoons funded all candidate campaigns. In this way, he can fully guarantee that his son will receive key training in the Holy See. When the son is middle-aged, the prestige is enough. When the Pope ran for another election, Marin slammed money and could promote his illegitimate son to the Pope's high position...
In this era, whether it is the election of the Holy Roman Emperor or the Pope, it is all about money, and hundreds of thousands of gold coins are often spent. For example, when Charles V ran for the Holy Roman Emperor, he spent a total of 850,000 Gulden gold coins and finally won the throne. The price of the Pope is not so high, because the Pope candidates did not have as many fief taxes as the Habsburg family before becoming Pope. Therefore, it is impossible for them to take out 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 gain more benefits, then this investment is worthwhile. Even, the pope can use his authority to forcibly award some colonies to himself... Just like the Spaniards shamelessly used the condition that Alexander VI was a Spaniard, let the pope award the huge America to himself... Alexander VI The whole world did not ask the opinions of other countries, and directly awarded half of the world to Spain...
Marin laughed triumphantly when he thought of the bright "prospect" of having a married child who would become the king and an illegitimate child who would become the pope. This also strengthened his determination to forcibly keep Felice as his mistress. After all, not to mention the issue of his illegitimate son becoming the pope, his future rise will need 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 no choice but to "reluctantly" accept his sister-in-law.
Although her sister-in-law Felice is not as good-looking as her wife Angela, she is not ugly either. Anyway, to use the words of a classmate in the previous life, to find a woman, as long as the woman can make my body respond. If it is so ugly that you can't even get hard, it will be a disaster, and it will give people the illusion that they are gay. It just so happened that Felice was able to do this, and it exceeded expectations, so Marin was reluctant...
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 a step and take a step, let him alone..." Marin simply stopped thinking.
As for the issue of his father-in-law interfering in this matter in the future, Marin also thought about it, but he was not worried. After all, Felice is the illegitimate daughter of Archbishop Rovere, so she is not allowed to appear on the stage. Bishop Rovere became the Pope, and he could not publicly ask Marin to return his illegitimate daughter to him, otherwise the Holy See would lose face. At that time, if you play tricks on yourself, even the Pope can't help it. Anyway, I won't treat Felice badly, and in the end, it must be nothing...