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In Valencia, Ferdinand also inspected the state of agriculture in the region. Discover the animal husbandry of Aragon - the "mesta" of the noble landowners has also begun to grow in the countryside.

In Aragon, however, the situation is not as serious as in Castile. After all, Valencia is a rice-producing area since ancient times, and if you say that you will herd sheep? The Basic Law doesn't allow it!

However, in the province of Aragon, sheep farming is also expanding in the area of Zaragoza. There, the expansion of the Mesta was more obvious, and of course, compared to Castile, the whole of Aragon was still ashamed of itself.

However, Spain, despite the rapid expansion of the sheep industry, was not the same as England, where sheep ate people, but the result was the establishment of capitalist farms, and then the landless peasants provided free labor for light industry, and then British cotton textiles and various industrial products were sold to Europe and all over the world.

"We in Spain are coming the other way around." Ferdinand could only laugh at himself about this. The peasants of Spain, when they lost their land, ...... There is no then, tenant farmers, who make a living, or ...... Peasant uprising. The feudal aristocracy of Spain did not have the consciousness to improve efficiency and engage in capitalist farms. In England, there was an "enclosure movement", and in Spain, peasants (fortunately no law had yet been enacted) were forbidden to put fences on the land, and the nobility did not add to it – the sheep could trample on it at will, and the scale was supported by the unbridled destruction of the land, and there was no basic law to speak of.

As a result, Spanish agriculture will begin to embark on the path of destruction under this devastation.

As for how the factory owner felt about this, the cotton textile owner said, clams? As for the woolen owners...... All they can say is hehe. Because...... Spanish wool was not for the Spaniards to be processed, but to the countries of Western Europe - England, France, Flanders, etc. Then the sweaters and blankets were sold back to the Spaniards. Spain's level of productivity is insufficient, but there are a lot of resources and financial resources, according to the character of the Spaniards and the general nature of businessmen and farmers, it is natural to make a lot of money and buy bargains.

Ferdinand had a modern industry in Sardinia, but it was cotton weaving...... Spain's traditional light industry is wool wool – Spanish wool is constantly exported to Western Europe, but the country's businessmen and industry never get enough raw material......

So, the people need generals! Strong leadership is needed! Reverse the current signs of danger.

As the curtain was about to come to an end on the play "......The People", His Majesty King Ferdinand sighed in the audience.

The industrialists and merchants of Spain, however, were very unpopular, and when the king was short of money, he had to come to them to collect taxes.

The Spanish king took a feudal stance (well, he was a feudal monarch by nature) and constantly imposed "Alcabara" taxes, and if Ferdinand had not changed as a person, heavy taxes would have been a nightmare for Spanish businessmen until the 16th century.

However, after all, Ferdinand is in a good era, and there are three good things at the moment, the first is that at present, the Spanish royal family is still courting the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie, because the recovery movement has just been completed, and the war has been fought for more than ten years without interruption, and the national strength is huge, and the confrontation with the French, Berbers, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire has occurred one after another, and it is not a matter of taxation to solve it, so some policies to support the development of industry and commerce have been adopted, in addition, the attitude towards the peasants is also relatively tolerant, after all, the royal family still has to brush up on prestige, Otherwise, how could Queen Isabella make so many Castilian civilians remember her well?

Not...... The latter few are not good, except for Charles V, who was a little powerful when he first came to power (but Castile did not fully support him), and the monarch will not want it more and more in the future, no way, no money.

If you don't have money, you have to pay taxes. So the second good news is that Aragon is not Castile, the peasants and businessmen are a bit richer, and the tax rate is not as high.

Therefore, if you want to pull up national industry and commerce now, there is still a chance!

No, it is not only national industry and commerce that needs to be pulled, but also national agriculture.

The third good thing is that although Aragon itself is smaller than Castile, with less area and population than Castile, and Catalonia as a problem, it is not bad as a whole, that is, it has always been an Aragon kingdom in history, fighting to the south, and marrying Catalonia in the east to form the current kingdom, instead of Castile as Castile, León and Granada (in addition to Asturias, Basque, etc.).

There are only three provinces in the whole territory of Aragon, and Ferdinand found that Aragon, like the rest of Spain, had its own interpretation of the laws of each province, but after all, there were only three provinces, and he could grasp them one by one, and it was still possible to implement them uniformly.

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Ferdinand ends up at the Municipal Palace in Valencia. The word "palace" is used because it is also the seat of the provincial government of the entire province of Valencia.

The appearance of the Municipal Palace in sight suddenly gave Ferdinand a feeling of returning to modern times-

Not because of how tall the Municipal Palace is (and it is, of course), but five hundred years later, the arrow bamboo has not changed much - the classical Gothic style, the square courtyard, the arched columns, which were built when Ferdinand was still a prince.

The government palace is divided into the King's Chamber and the Council Chamber, although the King has not been permanently present in Valencia. The King's Palace represents more of a government empowered by the king.

In fact, there is one more Golden Room missing, a splendid building built in the 16th century during Spain's Golden Age. Now is not the time to have a lot of money, naturally there is no Golden Hall, and there is nothing wrong with simplicity.

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His Majesty King Ferdinand, I have come here to talk and laugh with the members of the Valencian City Council, and to bring them warmth.

Ahem...... Don't have bad thoughts. Although it is true that the mood of the parliamentarians in Valencia is not much better. Ferdinand wrote to the Parliament in Spanish with a wicked sense of humor, saying that I would come and talk to you and have a good time, using this idiom directly......

This was not the first time that the king of Aragon had a good conversation with the Parliament. Congress can still have some restraint on the king, and city councils, especially in Spain, are really very easy to destroy! His Majesty the King and the landed feudal aristocracy, which naturally constituted the vast majority in Spain, were quite contemptuous and marginalized by the industrialists and merchants of the city councils, because of the natural conflict of interests between the two sides. Therefore, the original lord of Ferdinand issued several decrees to cancel many of the autonomous privileges of the city, as well as the privileges and rights of the councillors, and in another fifty years, these autonomous cities in the Middle Ages will really be unified with the system of the motherland after fifty years, as the Basic Law says.

Moreover, Ferdinand had used the "Soldiers' Petition Group" to deal with the "glorious deeds" of the Congress of Aragon before, and he still maintained great restraint on the Congress, if he wanted to cut some meat and add some taxes from Valencia, the Assembly might not be able to fight back......