Tyranny of Steel
Chapter 452: Demonstration Of The 1422 Lightweight Mortar
The Pope sat in his Chair with a hopeless expression. Not only did the peasant ’s Crusade to Iberia fail miserably, but due to the massive supply of forces sent to the region, the Catholic world was undergoing an economic crisis and a massive famine. Roughly half a million peasants from across Europe lie dead in Iberia, their corpses rotting under the hot sun.
Because of this, there were substantially fewer people to work the fields. The Catholic Kingdoms were severely lacking in agricultural technology compared to the Kingdom of Austria. Since practically all work had to be done by hand; the overwhelming majority of the population in the Catholic World were forced to work on farms.
Now that half a million men lie dead in a foreign country, the populations of France, Hungary, Poland-Lithuania, England, and the German States were depleted. This had led to a massive food shortage that could not easily be overcome.
Meanwhile, Austria was overflowing with a food surplus; despite this fact, they outright refused to sell their excess agricultural products to the Catholic Kingdoms; what they did with this extra food, Julius did not know.
If he knew that the Austrians were preserving the excess food and selling it for a minimal price to their citizens in an attempt to ensure that they were all properly fed, he would probably gouge his eyes out from sure envy.
Thus he was in a state of crisis as more of his followers believed that the Papacy ’s obsession with hunting down and destroying the German Reformation had become a lost cause. If it were not for the rulers of these nations offering their support, then few men would volunteer for the Crusade against the Berengar Heresy.
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