Gordon is a Protestant, and the official religion of England is a branch of Protestantism, Anglicanism!
These Protestant believers have no good impression of the Catholic Church at all, and they all still have fresh memories of the evil things done by the Holy See in the Middle Ages.
When talking about the dark reign of the Middle Ages, Gordon became obviously excited!
What is the Roman Church? They are just a group of the biggest thieves and robbers in the world under the banner of the Holy Church and St. Peter!
How many innocent people were killed during the Inquisition? How much people's fat and anointing have been plundered from the indulgences? All oppression in the world will eventually turn into resistance!
Luther's reforms gave people hope, but who was the biggest supporter of the Protestant Reformation? In fact, they were the earliest businessmen, or the most primitive capitalists!
Merchants had money but no social status. They had been the target of oppression for thousands of years. They were unable to resist the exploitation of the Holy See and feudal lords.
In comparison, although the peasants were also oppressed, the pope and the feudal lords also knew that the peasants were too poor and could not get much oil and water at all, so they could hide in corners and escape.
Only these early capitalists had nowhere to escape. They could only tremble and pray to these human messengers of God to take money instead of killing people, or to leave some business capital behind!
The emergence of Lutheranism gave these early capitalists the hope of survival, and they began to support Protestantism without hesitation.
The rich contributed money and the powerful contributed. They either directly supported the spread of Protestant doctrines, or indirectly supported the feudal lords who changed their families.
It was precisely because of the support of these financial resources that the feudal lords who believed in Protestantism were able to survive the famous Thirty Years' War in history!
It was precisely because the Thirty Years' War ended in a draw that the Holy See realized that Protestantism could no longer be suppressed by force, so it had no choice but to acquiesce in the spread of Protestantism.
In the final analysis, the Thirty Years' War was the emerging bourgeoisie's use of the opportunity of the Catholic split to challenge the old emperor and the Holy See!
Sure enough, political power comes from the barrel of a gun! The war completely shattered the authority of the Holy See, and the Renaissance era began. There were no more indulgences to sell in the world, and there was no more Inquisition to rush into your home, burn, kill, and loot.
The capitalist forces at least protected their interests in front of the Holy See. From then on, no clergy could rob businessmen of their capital at will.
But is the conflict really over? Of course not. Religious divisions and wars did destroy the arrogance of the Holy See. However, taking advantage of this opportunity, the secular feudal aristocracy rose up!
Kings, nobles, feudal lords... these people control the land and the army. Without the constraints of the Holy See, these people's desires have become difficult to satisfy.
Charles I was actually a victim of the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the royal power!
Charles I's father, James I, once had a conflict with Parliament over the issue of forced borrowing and even forced the closure of Parliament.
Coincidentally, the reason why James I borrowed money was because his son-in-law, King Frederick of the Czech Republic, on the mainland, suffered consecutive defeats in the Thirty Years' War. The father-in-law had to lend money to his son-in-law to fight the war.
As for the British capitalists, who cares about the life and death of your son-in-law? What if you lose the war after lending the money? Who will ensure the safety of the principal?
One doesn’t want to borrow, the other insists on borrowing! At this time, the royal power began to override the capitalists. The king forcibly closed the parliament and then ordered to borrow money directly from the treasury.
At that time, the power of the capitalists was still very weak, and flesh and blood could not resist the sword. The king's butcher knife was raised, and anyone who dared to object would be beheaded!
In the midst of the rage, James I still borrowed a lot of money from his son-in-law, but the son-in-law really failed to live up to expectations. He continued to lose consecutive battles and finally lost his principal!
Maybe the son-in-law was too cheating. In the end, James I died of illness before the war was over. Maybe he was so angry!
At this time, the famous Charles I will come to power!
Charles I, who had just come to power, chose to reconcile with Parliament, reopened Parliament, and discussed with the bourgeois MPs in a friendly manner. After all, the country still needs to run, and the treasury cannot do it without money!
Should we no longer issue bonds? You capitalists, all subscribe, and I will be nicer to you if I don’t follow my father’s example... It was because of this kind of deception that Charles I had a very good reputation in the first few years after he ascended the throne.
But the fox's tail could not be hidden, and four years later Charles I completely broke with Parliament!
Charles I forced people with an annual income of more than 40 pounds to pay a knight's tax!
Then he imposed a tonnage tax on commodities!
Charles I's troops also entered people's houses at will to occupy the magpie's nest!
Various atrocities aroused public dissatisfaction. The people of the Scottish Highlands took the lead in uprising. Later, Charles I added several special taxes to suppress the Scottish uprising. These contradictions have become a fire and water.
At that time, the capitalists no longer had the cowardice of the Dark Middle Ages. As their assets grew, the influence of these capitalists also grew.
They are no longer sheep to be slaughtered. In order to survive, these capitalists chose to fight with force. Capital finally began to arm themselves.
The capitalists are going to take control of the sword!
During the British Civil War, the cavalry and model troops trained by Cromwell became the biggest backer of capitalism. All capitalists in the UK sided with Cromwell. Capitalism finally declared war on feudalism!
After the bloody and short civil war, Charles I was beheaded and his bloody head told the world that capitalists could no longer be bullied, humiliated, or killed!
Money is no longer afraid of imperial power! Anyone who attempts to plunder and massacre capitalists will suffer the same fate as Charles I!
It was this kind of cruel struggle that allowed capitalism to gain a firm foothold. If it were not for the reputation gained on the battlefield, how could there be the result of the Glorious Revolution?
Without the death of Charles I, how could there be "the wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter!" 'What about the famous saying?
Private property is sacred and inviolable. This is the greatest legacy that the British Revolution brought to the world! Only then will a capitalist system emerge that uses capital as its governing program.
After more than two hundred years of struggle, the capitalists have completed their own evolution, evolving from little sheep left to be slaughtered to goats with horns, then to wild wolves, and finally to ligers!
How much blood has been shed along the way! These people have grown up in a cruel war, so how can these people give up their rights!
Capitalists control the world by money, and the ultimate object of money is naturally gold!
"Dear Your Majesty! Do you understand now? The Queen doesn't even have the right to raise taxes. Can she still control the pricing of gold?"
"Stop asking, this force is too huge and too mysterious!"
