"Lord Faris, it's a pleasure to be welcomed by you!"

"My Lord Duke, you have done so much for England, and it is only natural that I have come to welcome you!"

Today, the Duke of Somerset had just returned to London and was about to go into the Privy Council to deal with things. Alexander stood in front of the Privy Council and greeted him.

Farris. Alexander was a commoner and was promoted to the position of secretary of the Privy Council by Henry VIII after studying at Oxford University.

He was a very good learner and a beautiful person, and it happened that Henry VIII was also a person who loved to learn, so he quickly became a hot political star in the Privy Council.

By the time of Henry VIII's death, he was already the Speaker of the Privy Council and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, one of the leaders of the Privy Council.

How to say it! The Privy Council during the Tudor period was equivalent to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty at that time, it had legislative power, executive power, as well as judicial power, foreign affairs, military and other powers, and it can be said that during the time of Henry VIII, he was the most powerful government agency in England.

And what we need to make clear is that the Privy Council is just a general term, just like our State Council, and there are various committees under it to exercise power.

For example, the Treasury Department, the Keeper of the Seals, the Secretary of State, and so on. And the funny thing is that the cabinet that emerged in Britain is now only a small body of the Privy Council.

In the fifteenth century, a committee of the Privy Council had the power to impose any penalty up to the death penalty on a prisoner without the need for evidence. During the reign of Henry VIII, he could even declare legislation into force by merely consulting the Privy Council, without the consent of Parliament.

It was not until after the death of Henry VIII that the Parliament of England regained control of the legislature and fully grasped the legislative power.

Since the Royal Privy Council still has considerable legislative and judicial responsibility, it has become a very important administrative body.

However, the large number of members of the Privy Council, such as in 1553, had 40 members, making it difficult for it to play its advisory role.

Of course, this was also a ploy of the King of England, who could not allow one person to fully control this powerful government institution.

The two walked into the office of the Privy Council, and the secretaries of various colors came and went busily, and the ministers also signed with quill pens from time to time, and the whole Privy Council seemed particularly noisy and busy.

"So! My Lord Duke, do you know what is the matter with your coming to the Privy Council today? ”

Sitting in his seat, Farris asked the Duke of Edward, who had come here, curiously.

After all, usually any major matters are said at the Regency Council, and usually the Duke will not come to the Privy Council.

"My Chancellor of the Exchequer, before I get down to business, let me tell you one thing!"

"Okay! You say, I'll listen carefully! Farris casually agreed.

"On my way back, I saw a group of ragged homeless people walking aimlessly along the road!"

"Among them are crying babies and old people walking in a hurry!"

"Their eyes are full of sadness and despair for life!"

"So! My Excellency, how do you say they came to be like this? ”

Duke Edward stared at Faris, said very deeply and seriously, the whole person looked like a hungry wolf, and the stared Faris's body shivered.

"I think maybe they're too lazy! This leads to wandering! Farris's voice was a little weak, not as full of air as he always was, and I'm afraid he didn't quite believe it himself.

In fact, it is ironic that the view that the entire English society at that time had always had a disdain for the begging homeless and regarded the homeless as the lazy people in the countryside.

"Huh! My Minister, in your position, will you believe that this is a reason? Duke Edward smiled contemptuously.

"This? I think about it! There was some hesitation in Farris's words.

"Your Excellency, let me say it directly, these are mainly caused by local gentlemen and nobles!"

Duke Edward mercilessly pierced through the fog that concealed the facts, and his tone was full of hardness.

"So?" Farris's thick eyebrows jumped, and he asked with some speculation.

"That's why I'm here today because of the restriction of enclosures, hoping to get your support!"

Duke Edward occupied the moral high ground and spat directly at Faris.

"But! Your Excellency, the local gentlemen and nobles are all potential opponents! ”

Farris explained weakly, as if to remind Duke Edward that there was a lot of resistance.

"Don't worry! My Excellency, this matter has been supported by Bishop Thomas, and I think that the local clergy will certainly support us! ”

Duke Edward's tone was full of confidence, and he also said a word of reassuring news for Faris.

"Besides, we can be regarded as carrying out the will of the previous king! There's nothing to pick! ”

Duke Edward still seemed to feel Farris's inner uneasiness, and used Henry VIII as a shield to try to eliminate his uneasiness.

Before the rise of the market economy in Britain, the village community was in the form of landlord land-peasant leases, which was customary, and formed a de facto tenant to use the land for a long time.

But with the rise of the market economy, this old lease has been hit by the "high price takes", some people (such as sheep farmers) are willing to pay more, and landlords are willing to rent to them. But the original tenants did not agree, and they were violently evicted.

The bloody violence of the so-called "sheep eating people" only applies to this kind of enclosure that breaks the lease. Of course, whether the scope and extent of the violence is as severe as we usually say is another matter.

In medieval Europe, the open land system was largely prevalent in the vast plains stretching from England in the west, to the Ural Mountains in the east, to the Pyrenees and Alps in the south, and to Denmark and southern Sweden in the north.

The so-called open land system, which originated in the agrarian form of the rural commune. Every year after the harvest, the farms of the manor and the church and the peasants are removed from their respective fences and fences and opened to the public pastures.

The public land outside the open land is called the owner of the manor, and it is actually owned by the peasants. The dispersion of fields has brought many inconveniences to farmers' cultivation and management.

The enclosure movement was the repossession of land by the gentry and aristocrats who were nominally collective, but which in fact were peasants.

And they represent the collective. Just like in ancient China, it was spread that all the land was nominally owned by the emperor, but in fact this is possible?

So they can use the name to drive out the peasants who cultivate the land in an open and honest way, and fence off those lands.

and declared that the land was theirs, and that no one was allowed to cultivate it.