The Lesser Governor of Liberty Island was not surprised by the arrival of the Christian Church...... This is an inevitable phenomenon, and he has long been mentally prepared for it.

Earlier, the ambassador of the Confederate Empire to the New Business District of London had written to him in advance before the Church of Christ came.

Transport and communication between London's new business district and Liberty Island have long been completely smooth...... English merchants were so enthusiastic that they could sometimes help carry goods.

In his view, the coexistence of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England would be of the greatest benefit to Liberty Island, and both sides vied to deliver coal, iron ore, and lead ore and, of course, more labour.

After satisfying the needs of Liberty Island, they can continue to transfer to the Nankai area.

The Governor was completely assured that sooner or later, the silver coins they put in would be transferred back to the hands of the Federal Empire in another form, and in the process, the Liberty Island islands would be able to take root in Europe.

Nothing of gold or silver, they are definitely not real wealth...... The Governor of the Second Junior Governor had a deep understanding of this.

He then set his sights on the western continent of Europe.

There are only a few million people on the islands of England...... It is on the western continent of Europe that there is an abundance of labor.

When it comes to the western regions of Europe, we have to talk about the Frankish Empire first.

The history here is complicated and must be told bit by bit.

As early as the 5th century AD, the Germanic barbarians of Northern Europe moved south, and they destroyed the Roman Empire, and since then Europe has entered the first 200-year Dark Age!

At that time, the old states collapsed, new ones were not formed, and the entire European civilization regressed to the level before the Roman Empire.

At this time, no nation could practice feudalism in such a chaotic society.

In the 7th century, the Franks rose to establish the Frankish Empire...... Feudal society officially began in the western part of Europe.

By the ninth century, the Frankish Empire had been divided into three parts, just like the three divisions in the history of the Eastern world.

East Francia became a German region and began to fall apart until Otto the Great established the Holy Roman Empire.

Middle Francia became an Italian region, under direct papal control.

West Francia became the current Kingdom of France, inheriting the Carolingian bloodline and becoming the orthodox feudal royal family in Europe, becoming the oldest and most complete country in western Europe.

At this time, the population of the Kingdom of France was growing, wealth was gathered, cities were developed, education was revitalized, and its territory was expanding.

In fact, this is just the basic situation that the Governor of the Second Junior Governor saw from the information he brought...... His main family, Zhang Anguo, only gave him these basic information.

Zhang Anguo, the main family, once said to him that the national conditions of the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England are very different, no matter what the real situation is, as long as it is in line with the two principles of benefiting the merchants among the citizens of the empire and the development of commerce and trade in the empire, everything can be done cheaply and not be constrained.

The position of Governor inherently has absolute military and administrative power over a region!

King Zhang Anguo also knew some information, which he did not write down in the information sent to the Governor of Xiaoer.

If we consider the intake of meat, eggs and milk, physical development, etc., it seems that the common people in Europe are not only better off than during the Roman Empire, but even higher than the standard of living of the masses in the early days of the Industrial Revolution!

Of course, in terms of scientific progress, great engineering, urban construction and cleaning, they are still inferior to the time of the Roman Empire.

At this time, most of the taxes were only paid to the church, and the king and even the state did not collect taxes.

It was agreed that a good king should "feed himself", that is, rely on the income of the local owner of his land to support himself rather than receive money from his people.

The king's collection of money from territories other than his own was mainly from pagans, such as the Jews.

So, the reason why the Magna Carta of Liberty appeared in the Kingdom of England more than a hundred years ago...... There's a reason for that.

King Zhang Anguo believed that the European people at this time still had a certain amount of consumption power and could consume some commercial products of the Federal Empire.

Of course, more importantly, it is a kind of advance layout.

However, now, after various large-scale wars, many kings have come to believe that the state has the right to levy taxes on civilians and merchants for the sake of national wars.

The countryside of the Kingdom of France today is gradually forming villages and fiefs.

After they gradually quelled the foreign invasions, agriculture and commerce developed in the Kingdom of France, and the dukes encouraged periodic fairs between villages.

For example, the Champagne region became one of the largest fairs in Europe under the auspices of its counts.

The Paris Basin in the northern part of the Kingdom of France became an important agricultural region for the cultivation and export of cereals, and the developed textile industry in the Flanders region led to a thriving local business.

When the Capetian dynasty came to power, it devoted itself to establishing its center of rule, Île-de-France.

Although Île-de-France is surrounded by rivers, Île-de-France is not really an island.

Capet was called queen, and the area he ruled over was what was known as Île-de-France.

Philip II was the seventh monarch of the Capetian dynasty, which had preceded him for nearly 200 years, but the king was trapped like a prisoner on the "Île-de-France", helpless by the ocean around him.

The actual extent that the King of France was able to effectively control included the narrow strip of land in the middle reaches of the Seine and Loire, centered on Paris and Orleans, which covered only about 1/15 of the territory of France.

Outside the "island", there are many princes who are more powerful than the royal family, such as the Duchy of Normandy, the Duchy of Burgundy, and the Duchy of Aquitaine.

Even within the "island", there are many castle owners who do not obey the rules.

Philip II's grandfather, Louis VI, and his father, Louis VII, began efforts to strengthen the royal power, but with little success.

Before Philip II, the Kingdom of France did not establish the principle of hereditary succession.

Therefore, during the reign of successive kings, their sons were crowned before their deaths, in case the aristocratic group elected someone else to be king.

From Philip II onwards, this redundant form was abolished as the royal family was strong enough.

From then on, the formality of the princes electing the king came to an end.

But the transformation of the Kingdom of France from a feudal state to a centralized nation-state will still be a long process of quantitative change!

In his long career as a king for more than 40 years, Philip II, who was young and scheming, fought wits and courage with all kinds of opponents at home and abroad, and finally turned the French royal power from weak to strong, and the royal territory was tripled, so that France took the most crucial step towards centralization and avoided falling into a long-term situation of princely division and endless wars like the German region.

The early kings of the Capetian dynasty had been oscillating between Paris and Orleans.

Philip II was active in the construction of the city of Paris, building roads and walls, and the municipal appearance of Paris was completely renewed during his reign, and the famous Louvre was built by him, mainly for the purpose of defending the city.

Philip II also actively supported the University of Paris, for example by granting its faculty and students tax exemptions and independent civil and criminal adjudication rights.

From the time of Philip II, the status of Paris as the capital was unshakable.

More crucially, he tripled the scope of his royal control and gained access to the Seine to the Channel of England......

By the time of Philip IV, who is now known as a beautiful man, the population of Paris has reached 200,000, surpassing the powerful Italian city-states such as Milan and Venice, and becoming one of the largest metropolises in Europe.

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