C2798 The Magic of Money 3

Gordon was a disciple of the Protestantism, and the British Orthodoxy was a branch of the Protestantism, the An Liu Gan Sect!

These believers of the Protestantism did not have a good impression of the Catholic Church at all. They still vividly remembered the wicked things the Church of the Central World had done.

When he was talking about the dark rule of the Middle Ages, Gordon was obviously very excited!

What is the Roman Church? It was just a group of bandits, the largest in the world, who carried the flag of the Holy Church and St. Peter!

How many innocent people have the heretics killed? How much of the cream of the people had been plundered? All the oppression in the world would eventually become resistance!

Luther's reforms had given people hope, but who was the biggest supporter of Protestantism's reforms? In fact, it was the earliest group of merchants, or rather, the most primitive capitalists!

Businessmen had money but no social status. They had been bullied for thousands of years. They had no power to fight back against the Church and the feudal lords.

In comparison, although the peasants were also oppressed, Pope and the feudal lords knew that the peasants were just too poor. They could not even search for oil and water, so the peasants could hide in the corners to escape this calamity.

Only these early capitalists had nowhere to run off to, only trembling as they prayed that these human emissaries of God would be able to take the money without killing them, or leave them with a little bit of business capital!

However, the sudden birth of the Lutheran Sect allowed these early capitalists to see a hope for survival, and they started to support the Protestantism without hesitation.

With money coming in and with great effort, they would either directly support the spread of the teachings of the Protestantism, or indirectly support those feudal lords who wanted to change their sect.

It was precisely because of this financial support that the feudal lords of Protestantism were able to survive the famous Thirty Years War in history!

It was also because the Thirty Years War had ended in a draw that made the Holy See realize that the Protestantism could no longer be suppressed by force, which was why they had no choice but to tacitly agree to the spread of the Protestantism.

The Thirty Years' War, after all, was the new bourgeoisie's challenge to the old emperors and the Holy See by taking advantage of the division of Catholicism!

As expected, power came out of the guns! The war had shattered the authority of the Holy See, the Renaissance had begun, and there was no more ransom to sell, no more Inquisition had rushed to your house to kill and loot.

Capitalism, at least, protected its interests in the presence of the Holy See. Since then, there had been no clerics to rob merchants of their capital.

But was the conflict really over? Of course not. The division of religion and the war did destroy the arrogance of the Holy See. However, this was an opportunity for the secular feudal lords to rise!

The king, the nobles, the feudal lords... These people controlled the land and the army. Without the restriction of the Church, it was difficult to fill the gaps in these people's desires.

The Charles I was actually a sacrifice in the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy!

Charles I's father, James I, had once forcefully closed the council because of a conflict between the council and the forced loan.

It happened that James I borrowed money because his son-in-law in the mainland, the Czech king, Fredriksson, had been defeated in the Thirty Years' War. The father-in-law had to lend money to his son-in-law to fight.

And who in the capitalists of England cares if your son-in-law lives or dies? Who would be the principal to guarantee their safety?

One didn't want to borrow, while the other wanted to borrow! At this point the monarchy began to prevail over the capitalists, and the king forced the Assembly to close down and then ordered direct borrowing of money from the treasury.

At that time, the capitalists were still very weak, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not fight against swords and sabers. Since the king had already raised his butcher's sabre, who would dare to oppose him?!

Amidst all the cursing, James still managed to lend his son-in-law quite a bit of money. However, this son-in-law was truly disappointing and still suffered consecutive defeats. He had finally lost his capital!

It could be that his son-in-law was too darned. In the end, before the war ended, James I fell ill and died.

At this time, the famous Charles I would go up on stage!

The Charles I, who had just come to power, chose to reconcile with the council, reopened the council, and amiably consulted with the bourgeoisie council members. After all, the state was still going to operate, so it was impossible for the treasury to not have money!

Do you want to stop issuing bonds? All of you capitalists, buy some. In the future, I won't learn to treat you better from my old man … It was precisely by this kind of deception that Charles I did have a good reputation during his early years on the throne.

But he could not hide his fox tail. Four years later, the Charles I and the council had completely broken off!

The Charles I forced the citizens whose annual income exceeded 40 pounds to pay the taxes of the Knights!

After that, he levied a tonnage tax on his goods!

Charles I's army had even casually entered the citizens' houses and taken over their nests!

The contradictions between atrocities, the first uprisings by the Scottish Highlands, and the subsequent special taxes imposed by the Charles I in an effort to quell the uprising in Scotland have become fire and water.

By then the capitalists had lost their dark medieval cowardice, and their influence had grown as their assets increased.

They were no longer sheep to be slaughtered. In order to survive, these capitalists had chosen to fight by force. Capital had finally begun to arm itself.

The capitalists were going to control the swords!

In the British Civil War, the Armoured Cavalry and Model Army trained by Ke Lunweier became the biggest supporters of capitalism. All of the British capitalists stood by Ke Lunweier's side.

After the short and bloody civil war, the Charles I was beheaded and the bloody heads announced to the entire world that the capitalists were not to be bullied nor humiliated, let alone killed!

Money was no longer afraid of imperial power! Anyone who tried to plunder or kill the capitalists would end up like the Charles I!

It was precisely this kind of brutal struggle that allowed capitalism to gain a foothold. If their reputations were not on the battlefield, how could they have the result of a glorious revolution?

Without the death of the Charles I, how could there be 'The wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter!' Where was the famous quote?

Private property is sacred and inviolable, and this is the greatest legacy of the British Revolution to the world! This is how the capital-driven system of capitalism will emerge.

After more than two hundred years of struggle, the capitalists had completed their own evolution. From being a sheep that was slaughtered by others, they evolved into a goat with horns, then into a wild wolf, and finally into a lion and tiger!

He had lost a lot of blood along the way! These people grew up in the midst of a brutal war, so how could these people give up their rights?

The capitalist controls the world by relying on money, and the ultimate object of money is naturally gold!

"Your Majesty! Do you understand now? "The Queen doesn't even have the right to raise taxes. Can she still control the pricing power of gold?"

"Don't ask anymore, this power is too huge and too mysterious!"