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William did not want this to happen, and in Holland he had been fighting with the republicans for a long time.

So William put pressure on the British Parliament to declare him and Mary kings.

"Both kings", that is, William III and Mary are both kings of England, and William did not become kings because of his marital relationship with Mary. His position and power did not need to be attached, and after Mary's death, he remained the unchanging King of England.

Moreover, William further made two demands:

(1) William's royal power is higher than Mary's royal power, and Mary's decision cannot take effect without William's consent, consent, and recognition, and William's decision power is greater than Mary's.

(2) No succession to the throne occurs until both co-kings die. In other words, after Mary's death, William ruled England alone, and Mary's sister Queen Anne could not inherit the throne until after William's death.

When the Reichstag disagreed at first, William threatened: Since you don't agree with me being a veritable king, and I don't want to be a puppet, I won't play with you at all, and I will lead the army back to Holland! With the current state of affairs and military strength in your country, if James II and Louis XIV come to war, you can ask for more blessings! Ireland and Scotland are still porceling James II!

The British Parliament was scared.

At this time, Mary did not object to William's conditions of bullying.

Not only did she not object, but she even expressed her strong preference for William's conditions. said that if William was not king, she would not be queen either.

Ahem, how do you say that? ……

Refer to William and Mary's marriage experience -

Political marriage, the husband has no feelings for his wife, he keeps a lover, the wife is loyal and infatuated, and the husband regrets it after the death of the wife, thinking that the wife is the best woman......

William is really a master of SM sadomasochism!

So, William succeeded in seizing the throne of England and became the real king of England, and in exchange, he also accepted the Bill of Rights, after all, he still had the base and barracks of the Netherlands, and the king was not allowed to maintain a standing army without the consent of Parliament? Hehe, I still have the Dutch army, can the British parliament watch the Dutch military surpass the British? Watching Louis XIV dominate the Atlantic and the Mediterranean? William refused to maintain the army, and Congress was still in a hurry......

Therefore, when the Bill of Rights was passed, the British Parliament also paid the price, and the king was not a puppet at all.

William III, the master of sadomasochism, gave Ferdinand a good experience to learn from. Later, after overthrowing the heretical Henry VIII, who tried to betray Catholicism, he could use his tricks to demand that the British Parliament recognize himself as the same king as Mary.

Of course, the more recent application object may be his son who inherited the throne of Castile, and of course it is possible to be a grandson, depending on the situation of everyone's life...... Of course, Ferdinand didn't want to apply SM to his son or granddaughter to destroy their minds, he just had to guarantee power.

Ferdinand also did not demand that his royal power be higher than that of Castile's son and England's granddaughter, which was a bully, he only demanded that he become the co-king of Castile and England. As for the actual power, it is more powerful than the power, and in fact, of course, Ferdinand has more power, and there is no need to say this explicitly. After all, he doesn't have the special fetishes of the SM sadomasochistic master.

To get the nobles of Castile to agree to such conditions, Ferdinand could throw out a number of other conditions.

Economically, you Castilian nobles demand zero tariff on wool and free export, for the sake of the throne, Ferdinand can compromise, anyway, now Ferdinand's mercantilist policy is limited to the Kingdom of Aragon, and the industry in modern eastern Spain is also quite developed, so as long as he builds Sardinia, Corsica, Valencia Province, the three major modern bridgeheads, and then develops the entire industry and agriculture in Aragon, Spain will not worry about falling behind the historical trend.

Sometimes, for the sake of power and stability, it is also beneficial to make necessary concessions to the old powers.

Moreover, Ferdinand could also pay for the wool and livestock of the Shepherd's Guild (i.e., the Mesta Keepers' Regiment, which would be more appropriate to be called the Shepherd's Guild in the future)!

You don't have to sell it to foreigners, I, King of Aragon and Regent of Castile, am obligated to take most of your wool in good quantities! Not only wool, but also lamb I need!

What did Ferdinand want lamb for?

The role is great - to supply the army.

What did the Spanish army eat when it went to war? In many cases, it relies on the meat products of livestock native to the Iberian Peninsula.

Although the Mediterranean region, with Spain as the typical livestock belt, is thriving in wool exports, and the woolen industry is also promoting it (although not in Spain), in terms of meat products, cattle and horses are in short supply.

Cattle in the Mediterranean tend to be skinny, and sheep are not fat.

So, when an army feeds on mutton, thousands of sheep can be wiped out! For example, in 1577, the army under the command of General Montmorency ate 8,000 sheep brought from the entire Lower Languedoc in one go! Of course, compared to the millions of herds in Castile, the supply of these sheep is not a problem.

The average weight of these sheep, which might scare you to say, is only 26 Castilian pounds each – which translates to 11.96 kilograms in today's unit of measurement. This is a very sad thing for sheep in the Mediterranean, for the people who raise them, and for the people who eat them.

What's more, mutton can't afford to sell at a price, and a coin can buy 4 catties of mutton, which is worth a little more than one sheep......

Similarly, cattle in the Mediterranean, and especially in Castile, are very miserable, with the 2,302 cattle slaughtered in Valladolid over the course of half a year yielding an average of 322 kilograms of Castilian beef – equivalent to 148.12 kilograms of meat – each.

Therefore, it is not surprising that a Spanish legion swallowed 8,000 sheep, which is equivalent to 96 tons of meat.

Therefore, buying mutton in large quantities, for Ferdinand, not only met the needs of the army, but also did not cost too much money, who called mutton so cheap, the shepherd wished that they were all wool wool balls, so that they could be sold more expensive.

But when it comes to livestock, the condition of another kind of livestock, horses, worries Ferdinand.

How strong can a horse be if the meat of a cow is less than 150 kilograms?

Ferdinand knew that there were many kinds of horses in Spain and even in the Mediterranean, very beautiful, and they were good runners, running faster than Hong Kong journalists, such as Turkish horses, Neapolitan ponies, Andalusian horses, Berber horses...... But these were agile, fast horses, and by the 16th century, with the popularity of tall horses, donkeys, and mules in northern Europe, these agile, fast horses were good companions for light cavalry, but for stagecoaches, wagons, and wagons, as well as artillerymen, who needed to pull their horses and pull cannons, the endurance of livestock was paramount.

Why did things turn out like this? Ferdinand learned that an important reason was that he did not eat well. Not to mention that in 1496, even in the first half of the 16th century, oats had just appeared in many parts of Castile, and in many more places, people had to compete with livestock for a share of the barley. As for why don't people eat wheat? Ferdinand's Sardinia was clearly not at the average level that could be achieved in this era, and the average peasant did not eat wheat very often, almost a question of the type "why not eat minced meat".

In addition, Spanish horses often have barley and can only eat short wheat straw, which is really unlucky for the horse to the grandmother's house. It is said that once the well-fed French horses crossed the Spanish border and were exported to Spain, they would neigh loudly to express their displeasure when they saw that they could only eat boring short wheat straw!