Although France began to emancipate serfs in the 12th and 13th centuries, there are still many remnants of French serfdom. Historically, it was not until the middle of the 16th century that France basically completed the emancipation of serfs. However, there are still a large number of remnants. Until the outbreak of the French Revolution, there were still millions of serfs in France.

Of course, most of the remaining serfs of the French Revolution came from the lands that Lorraine, Alsace, and Franche-Comté had taken back from Germany. After all, serfdom was not resolved until the 19th century in Germany.

But now, in addition to the three unacquired areas mentioned above, there are also many remnants of serfdom in other regions. And the beginning of the 16th century was the last struggle of serfdom. However, this final struggle and return to the light is extremely resistant.

For example, those feudal lords in France, who are willing to emancipate their own serfs? After all, the vast majority of the land income was one's own, and the serfs were only required to be given very limited food and other means of subsistence. And if you hire a peasant to work, not only will you have to take a lot of shares, but the peasant who has a free body is not under the command of the lord. People can do it if they want to, and if they don't want to do it, they will just leave.

In this regard, the French feudal aristocracy was naturally very unhappy. However, due to the law, they could not force the peasants to make them serfs.

Moreover, because of the low level of education, the rural aristocracy of France really could not think of any conspiracy against the peasants.

But ancient China is different, and ancient China has been full of intrigues and intrigues since the Warring States period. After that, most of the big landlords were literati with bad stomachs. These people are smart and good at using the rules to persecute farmers and rob their fields within the limits of the law. The Europeans of the same period clearly lacked such wisdom. It was not until the 18th century that intrigue became popular in Europe.

But now, Marin introduced these intrigues to these greedy French feudal nobles three hundred years in advance, and suddenly aroused their admiration and pursuit. Then, the two sides hit it off.

Subsequently, those greedy nobles of northeastern France privately went in tandem to unify lending methods and profits. For farmers, the monthly interest rate of 15% is adopted, and the starting point is 12 months, that is, the annual interest rate is 5.35 times.

Even the bishops and abbots of the local Church were co-opted by them to form a united front for the exploitation of the peasants.

Then, a mysterious merchant organization called the "Paris Chamber of Commerce" (in fact, it was created by the Paris branch of the North Sea Society), united most of the landed nobles and abbots in the disaster areas of northeastern France, and began to provide usury to local farmers without collateral. Moreover, the attitude is very good. Not only is the monthly interest rate low, but also the affected farmers who have taken out loans do not have to rush to repay their ......

Soon, a Jewish merchant in the Ardennes who was also a loan shark discovered the truth about the money lending alliance's profiteering. So, he said it in public. But the next day, the Jewish merchant's entire family was killed, and the family's grain for lending money was looted. Subsequently, the local judge hastily closed the case, declaring that the family had been killed by a hungry mob......

After this happened, no businessman dared to stand up and accuse the money lender alliance. Even businessmen who were also engaged in the money lending business in the past, who had no background, chose to flee the disaster area. Because, they realized that if they mixed it in, they might die......

In ancient times, natural disasters were generally the same as the time of high incidence of criminal cases. Even if you stutter, you can die anytime and anywhere. Moreover, it is also very difficult to investigate cases at this time, and many cases are closed. This is because, during the period of disaster, the population movement is extremely large, and it is extremely difficult to investigate cases......

In ancient times, there were no professional criminal police, let alone DNA firming and fingerprint recognition technology. In ancient times, the investigation of cases was generally carried out first for habitual offenders, and then for the floating population. At the same time, look for eyewitnesses. However, during the famine period, the population flow was extremely large, and the ancient police's ability to handle cases was extremely low, and even many ancient policemen were gangsters recruited by the sheriff, so naturally nothing could be found. After all, they are not professional enough.

This chaotic period was naturally left to the free roof of the powerful aristocracy. Soon, most of the victims were fooled into borrowing food and seeds. And the small number of people who didn't borrow it were quietly reminded by someone who cares. After all, some smart people who see the problem dare not speak out, but they must quietly remind their relatives and friends.

But this could not affect the overall situation, most of the local farmers did not know the number, and no one dared to remind them, so naturally they all jumped into the pit one after another, unable to extricate themselves.

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In fact, Marin did it not only in France, but also in Italy......

Previously, Marin had always looked down on Italians and did not want to accept Italian immigrants. However, since Felice became pregnant and demanded the title of Count of Uruguay for her unborn child, she opened a window for Marin by expressing her intention to emigrate from Italy......

That's right, the Italians of later generations are indeed unreliable. However, that is due to Italian culture. If a colonial state with Italians as the main body is established, it is of course unreliable. But what if we create a country with a predominantly German culture and some Italians......

In those days, there was little nationalism in Europe. As for the Italian region, the Italians themselves are used to being divided, and they don't think that Italy wants to be unified or anything.

In fact, in this era, not only did the Italians not have a unified national consciousness, but even in the German regions, no one felt that Germany should be unified or anything. Only an ambitious monarch like Maximilian I had the ambition to unify Germany.

So, even if the Italians are unreliable, it's a big deal, just let the German culture replace their original culture. The first generation of Italian immigrants is not good, and after school education, the second generation of Italian immigrants should always be okay. After several generations of indoctrination, the Italians were Germanized, so it was not so funny.

In the final analysis, whether it is the teasing of the Italians in later generations or the various unreliability of the black uncles in the later generations, it is also determined by their unreliable cultural atmosphere. Just like the famous black president Oba Niu, who grew up in a private school that cultivated elites in the United States, he was obviously much more rational than the average black man. It is clear that Comrade Obama was not influenced by the unreliable black culture, which is why he was able to achieve that.

In the same way, Italians are not stupid, they are just timid because of cultural problems. But when it comes to literacy, Italians are actually no worse than the rest of Europe. What really makes them funny is that they fight wars, not technology.

You know, Italy's technology is actually very good. Not to mention luxury cars such as Ferraris in later generations, just Li Yunlong's sentence "Second battalion commander, what about your mother's Italian cannon?" "It shows that Italy's level of science and technology is still good.

It may not be possible to let the Italians go to war, but the Italians are not bad at farming and engaging in technology and culture......