CHAPTER XXVI
Ferdinand's scientific experiments, and even his insane piracy of literature and shameless music piracy, had three main purposes.
One purpose is to establish their own tall image, the iconic figure of the Renaissance, attract some scientific and humanistic talents, divert some of the wave of the Renaissance to Spain, and at the same time play a leading role in the country as a king, and can also establish some scientific institutions and universities to promote the development of science and literature in Spain. Literature can sometimes be used as a banner, as well as "national consciousness shaped by sound", which has also left a strong mark on the process of national independence and the development of national culture in the Czech Republic, Norway, Poland and Finland. Of course, it is not a big question whether it will work or not, and Catholicism has become a banner of Spain.
The second purpose is to pave the way for the future development of technology and scientific and technological progress, after all, you can't copy a copy of "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" out of thin air, he has already begun to prepare for plagiarism in the whole book, but the laws in it still need to be proved by experiments, just Newton himself mentioned in the book and he claimed to "can't remember" a lot of experiments. The other is to promote the spirit of experimentation. In short, the purpose is similar to the first one, not to sing a one-man show, but to let Spain form a scientific trend and promote sustainable development.
The third purpose is to set the Spanish standard! There are so many units in the history of science, such as those in the International System of Units, and almost none of them came from Spain. Every time Ferdinand did an experiment, he led to a weight, a unit, a standard. He took these units into his own hands and Spain, and introduced Spanish standards, weights and measures, and the like to the world. In the future, the standards for science and technology, culture, economy, and politics will be set by Spain, for example, let Malawi become the world currency, Spain's central bank will become the Federal Reserve, and the Nobel Prize will become the Spanish Prize.
He was already preparing international weights and measures, exchanging them by imperial units, formulating primitives by techniques from Florence and Venice, and then making his own name. It can't be helped, who said that historically the British and American standards were rampant, so only the foot-inch pound can leave the accurate and well-known units of conversion to meters and kilograms, and the Italian region is now the most elaborately made. There are only two elements that Ferdinand can create, one is mercury, Spain controls the rich resources, and the other is water.
A complete set of SI units, which has not yet been completed and has not been made public, will be discussed later. Speaking of the current atmospheric pressure experiment, Ferdinand has already begun to set the Spanish standard.
The unit of pressure was named "Pa", but instead of Pascal, it was "Parma", which was the site of the experiment, Palma Bay in Mallorca.
Ferdinand announced on the spot after the experiment that the atmospheric pressure at sea level in the Mediterranean, that is, the 760mm column of mercury, was used as the "standard atmospheric pressure" and "standard pressure", because it was the pressure of God, and showed that the mercury barometer made according to Torricelli's method could measure the air pressure at different altitudes.
A "standard atmospheric pressure" is defined as 101325 "Parma", which makes many scientists wonder why it is so troublesome. It was only after the introduction of the International System of Units that people suddenly realized.
For the determination of the International System of Units, pure water of 4 degrees Celsius is first required.
Then there will be no Celsius after that.
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Ferdinand said to do it, take a thin glass tube, add a third of the purest water possible, and seal it. It is then placed in boiling water, and after some time it is placed on a flame and immediately begins to boil, and then the water level is recorded.
Once it has cooled naturally, it is placed in a sink where the ice-water mixture is just beginning to melt.
In ancient times, saltpeter was used to make ice, so Ferdinand went to add a large amount of saltpeter to it, and the cost was not low.
After placing the tube in the sink, keep adding a little saltpeter to the trough to keep the freezing point constant.
Eventually make a note of the water level.
These experiments were carried out on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea in Barcelona when the wind was calm and the sun was shining.
In this way, Ferdinand got 100 degrees Celsius and zero degrees Celsius. After spending a long time evenly distributing 100 scales on the tube, the world's first thermometer was made, and it was according to the temperature standard that was later widely used.
"That's the Filth temperature scale."
"T(K)=273.15+t(Β°C) is the conversion formula, and 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water is marked as 'west', that is, the Spanish temperature scale."
The development of the International System of Units could then be arranged.
Ferdinand also arranged for craftsmen to make a simple air pump out of brass, which Otto Glick used for his research before he did the Magdeburg hemisphere experiments. At the same time, he arranged the study of mercury vacuum pumps according to the principle of Geisler's tube. The study will take at least a year or more, and the results will not be seen until he returns, but he will be out for two and a half years, so naturally there is no problem, there is enough mercury in Spain, and he can consume whatever he wants.
The purpose of the pump was to prepare for the Magdeburg hemispheric experiment and to extend the influence of previous atmospheric pressure experiments.
The Torricelli experiment, which predates the Magdeburgh hemisphere experiment, has already been mentioned, and the reason why it was not immediately recognized was that it did not intuitively β to be precise, not shocking enough β to show the power of atmospheric pressure, and Torricelli had no identity, so it was naturally suppressed by old-school academics.
Ferdinand's identity, no one dared to suppress him, and at that time, cardinals and papal representatives were present, and people from all walks of life were also observing, and in the mainstream academic circles, it has basically become a consensus. Many scientists who want to innovate have already begun to study atmospheric pressure further.
Alexander VI, who was not short of money, even built a small pool of mercury and erected 153 glass tubes to demonstrate the power of God. Of course, Ferdinand was immediately shocked when he found out, and quickly wrote to His Holiness the Pope, don't die, mercury vapor is not something that humans can bear, fortunately, Alexander VI did not have time to visit, but after immediately blocking the doors and windows leading to the mercury room, he came up with a new idea. That's for later.
On this matter, the church and scientists have a rare agreement. But some old-school professors and scientists, they eat Aristotle's bowl of rice, and they don't want Aristotle's theory to be impacted. There are also some clergy within the Church, who are not accustomed to the promiscuous life of the new pope, so they transfer their dissatisfaction to this matter, believing that the pope is nonsense, wantonly using the name of God, which is simply blasphemy against God. In addition, some civilians who were infected by rumors also felt that the mercury column was nothing extraordinary, and it seemed that it could not prove anything, so it still set off a lot of controversy in Italy.
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In order to dispel this controversy, Ferdinand decided to arrange another experiment.
Of course, he would not be so bored to go to such lengths for the claims of a few diehards and oppositionists, anyway, the more the truth is argued, the clearer it becomes. In fact, he was happy to see this phenomenon, and even instructed some people to express this suspicion in Castile and Aragon, openly and covertly, saying that the king's statement was wrong.
He wants to transfer some political opposition and discontent to the academic level, attract the attention of the public, and then suppress it, so that those opposition members will not be able to speak out, and at the same time brush up their prestige in front of scientists and ordinary people.
In fact, it is not him who needs to brush up his prestige the most, his prestige is okay, and what is urgently needed is Alexander VI.
As a Spaniard, Alexander VI spoke a little bit in the Italian Holy See, which is why he cherished his relationship with the Spanish motherland. His private life also caused him a lot of trouble, and coupled with the propaganda of the opposition, he had a bad reputation in the city of Rome, and he had little credibility, so he raised his hands in favor of the advice given by Ferdinand in the letter.
Let the opinions of those who are naysayers explode on the academic side. Politically, I don't dare to say that I am absolutely reasonable, and I did give birth to a few illegitimate children, which damaged my reputation, but this academic problem, the result must be that I am right and wrong, I win and you lose, but you have made a lot of publicity, and let the people know, so when the time comes, take a look in public to see who is right and who is wrong? This time you were slapped in the face for your own death, and the next time you speak, not so many people will believe you.
So, with careful planning on both sides, on October 12 and October 18, 1493, Madrid (designated by Ferdinand) and Rome carried out hemispheric experiments.
The reason why Madrid came first was not because of the papal humility. After all, he doesn't know much about academic issues, Aristotle's fame, even if he has seen the mercury column, he is still a little weak, what if I am really wrong?
October 12, 1493, was chosen precisely because Columbus set out a year ago today, and today he was going to witness the arrival of new discoveries in the field of science.
Ferdinand was not present, and by this time he had already arrived in the Canary Islands with the second voyage to the Americas. Although Ferdinand did a lot of DIY and experiments, he was a king, a politician, not a DIY enthusiast and a scientist, and what he wanted to do was to conquer the Americas, not to wear the crown of science, so he would not do similar things himself in the future. After the second voyage, the leisurely time was over, the chaos of the European continent and the expansion of the New World of America were in full swing, and the urgent tasks of expansion and development were piled up, and he no longer had time to live a month of insomnia for an invention.
The person present was Cardinal Mendoza. Dozens of meters in front of him, there were two brass hemispheres, which were filled with water, chimeed, and pumped out to form a vacuum.
Not far away, there were a large number of onlookers, looking at the copper balls that were chimerated in front of them.
"Diego, I've heard others say that this iron ball was put together by God's coercion, and it took sixteen horses to separate it."
"How is it possible, there is also a priest who told me that those are all nonsense of ungodly people, the copper balls are well placed there, at most they are chimeral, where I see any coercion, I look at a horse, and a dog can pull it away."
"Haha, no wonder you can't even build a gun, how can a horse pull?"
"Uh...... That's two, two for sure...... Hey, why did you bring eight horses at once? β
"What are you three talking about, it's not good to look at the bishop's circus......"
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"Let's go." Mendoza, ignoring the gossip, announced the start of the experiment.
Four grooms took eight sturdy horses, tied four on each side of the ball, and began to urge the horses to run.
"......" looked at the scene in front of him, Mendoza was also a little weak, at that time he only saw a pillar of mercury, but now he asked eight horses to pull it, although the king said that he made a custom copper ball after accurate calculations, and it was not possible to pull it apart from sixteen horses, but the king was gone, and it was himself who was present.
Let's hope that God will really send such a powerful coercion.
"Come on! Come on! Everyone shouted in unison, and at the same time watched carefully to see if anyone was releasing water.
A few minutes passed, and everyone was sweating profusely and panting, but the copper ball still didn't move.
The crowd of onlookers was suddenly shocked and exchanged their heads one after another.
"Diego, didn't you just say that two horses can pull apart?"
"Diego, didn't you say that God's coercion doesn't exist?"
"Diego, you blasphemed God, and you will go to hell when you die."
"Diego, don't wait for death, if God wills, I can crush you to pieces now!"
Diego's eyes widened and he trembled, and after a moment, his body suddenly swayed and he fell to the ground, unconscious. When everyone rushed to see it, they were already exhausted.
"Alas, this lad, I know that he is going to marry the widow next door to me, who is the sister of his ex-wife! God, Leviticus explicitly forbids this kind of behavior. Now he is blaspheming God again, and he is dying unjustly. β
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Mendoza breathed a sigh of relief and ordered four more horses to be brought in, two on each side and two on the left and two to continue pulling.
After twenty minutes, the man and the horse could no longer run, and the copper ball still did not move.
Mendoza did not give them time to rest and ordered the addition of four horses.
As a result, it was pulled for more than ten minutes, and it still did not pull away, and there were only sixteen horses on the scene, and there were no more.
Everyone is dumbfounded, it's different from the script? Gotta pull it away!
In fact, this is the script, and Mendoza and Ferdinand discussed it.
Originally, sixteen horses were able to pull away, but the previous twelve horses were exhausted, and Mendoza did not give them time to rest at all, how could they pull away?
Now it's time to perform.
"Before, there were some people who stubbornly denied the power of the Lord, ignored the Lord's coercion, and blasphemed the Lord's ......" Mendoza deliberately looked at the fallen civilian on his right, Diego, and improvized, "So the Lord was angry and sent down punishment, so that some of those who were already guilty but now their sins were even more punished......" Two or three more people trembled and fell as he spoke.
"There are people who need to pay for this, and they need to repent on the spot...... so the famous opponents who were invited, including several nobles and prodigals of the big nobles, fell into the trap in such a daze.
After persecuting the men to repent in public, Mendoza prayed again, and then breathed a sigh of relief, "Now the Lord is pleased." β
"Start over."
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Rome was just as lively, and Mendoza was instructed by Ferdinand that the experiment would be a success, so on the night of October 11, before the experiment began, the messenger who reported that the experiment had succeeded traveled from Madrid to Rome at a burning rate, and he had to cut time and run long distances, otherwise it would be bad for the Pope to see it.
The Pope was able to do so quickly, and to the detriment of a large number of opponents, including a cardinal and Giovanni Medici's brother, which contributed to the Florentine dissatisfaction with the Medici family.
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Although the aftermath of the atmospheric experiment reverberated until the end of 1493, from June onwards Ferdinand's main attention was not here, as he was king and should have turned his focus to territorial expansion and economic development.
Territorial expansion, he already has to do it himself. economic development, but he is more worried.
The European countries of Western Europe and the Mediterranean had the germ of capitalism at the beginning of the Renaissance, much earlier than the Celestial Empire. In the field of cotton textiles, it is the emergence of handicraft workshops.
At that time, the core of cotton weaving was in Flanders, that is, the Netherlands. Later, after the devastation of the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War, England accepted a large number of textile workers, and cotton weaving technology was also improved, so that the creation of handicraft workshops was greatly accelerated, and spread to villages and towns, which were carried out before the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, and together with the enclosure movement, the capitalist mode of production had taken shape within feudal society.
The artisanal workshops in Spain did not appear late, at the end of the 15th century, in the era in which Ferdinand is currently living. Artisanal workshops have appeared near Madrid, Toledo and Seville.
That's why the royal family hired handicraftsmen to establish the handicraft workshops run by the royal family before, because these handicraft workshops just began to appear in Spain, and the royal family recruited three workshops, all of which had just appeared, and even the equipment workers were bought from the factory owners. This is very easy, firstly, the price is high, secondly, the factory owners have no human rights, the princes and nobles are unwilling to let the rise of industrialists and merchants, and later the gold and silver of the Americas did not invest in the development of industry and commerce, which is also one of the reasons for the decline of Spain in the later period.
Now Ferdinand's attitude towards the factory owners is not as strict as before, and occasionally releases some encouraging remarks, but there is no incentive policy now, and the factories in Spain are still relatively primitive, and the number is small, and they have not formed a scale. Second, the people at the bottom are quite poor, and the gold and silver of the Americas are not available, and the market and purchasing power are also small. Third, the development of the Americas now requires immigration, and if too many people are absorbed into the factory, the shelves in the early days of the Americas will not be able to be built. It's not that factories aren't allowed to absorb labor, but now the productivity of those factories is one in the sky and one in the ground with their own new technologies, and it's not worth wasting labor. Fourth, he is ready to let the royal family take the lead and establish royal enterprises, that is, some state enterprises.
When it comes to the property of the Spanish royal family, there are still two brushes. Although he always lives a luxurious life and spends money, although he bankrupts the country, his small industry is still booming. Madrid's boom is where the Spanish royal family operates, and unlike the rest of Europe, Madrid's population is economically dependent on the royal family's own business. There was a time when Philip III built a royal palace in Valladolid and removed some of his estates, and then Madrid was tragic for a while.
Ferdinand had to develop this fine tradition and further develop it into a national enterprise.
Private individuals are not very reliable, and the artisanal workshops in Spain and Portugal are far less developed than those of other countries. Because at first it was incomparable, and then gold and silver came to America, and the Spaniards had money, so they began to buy better and cheaper cotton textiles in the Netherlands, France, and England, and "let foreigners work for the Spaniards", and the industrialists and merchants were forced to abandon the production of basic industrial products and turn to high-end products, so that the local and colonial markets were flooded with foreign merchants, and the Netherlands and England became the world's handicraft workshops.
Then let the royal family fill this hole! No profit? It doesn't matter, isn't the Spanish royal family particularly capable of deficit and bankruptcy? Anyway, there have been deficits and bankruptcies in history, and now they are bankrupt for the development of the country's cotton textile industry.
After the national enterprises fully occupy the local market, they will give the New World some special economic zones and other policies to push the industrial and commercial enterprises to North America. State enterprises will not be ossified, and when the time is ripe, the shareholding system will be reformed.
However, the royal family's industry must not be operated like those backward handicraft factories in Spain, otherwise it will not be able to compete with the cotton textile industry in Flanders and England.
Now he is ready to transform the royal family's handicraft workshop into a modern cotton textile factory.
However, the location of the first factory was a long time for Ferdinand to consider.
Barcelona is a thriving city, and all of Ferdinand's DIY so far has been achieved here.
But Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia. Historically, Ferdinand would have been assassinated by a performance artist in 1493, and this time it was impossible to happen because he was gone, but who knows what the performance artist could have done. Recently, he had already ordered the whole city to search for mentally abnormal people, and in December, other members of the royal family were here, such as Isabella, such as Prince Juan, and there were more targets.
In 1640, Portugal and Catalonia rebelled, and Portugal finally gained independence from Spain, and although Catalonia was suppressed and the Spanish army recaptured Barcelona, France intervened in the war, forcing Spain to cede to France the region of Roussillon, which is now the Franco-Spanish border on the Mediterranean coast.
So Ferdinand was determined to shift his goal.
Now he has identified two locations for the development of cotton textile factories.
The first location, Madrid. The future capital of Spain was developed by the royal family before the relocation of the capital and the development of the royal family after the relocation of the capital. Historically, the rise of Madrid's textile industry had a huge impact on the textile industry in the former capital, Toledo. This place is definitely going to be the center of the local textile industry.
The second location, Sardinia. The first resource conditions are, the second is its own experimental field and Mediterranean base, and the third is good secrecy.
The problem now is that he is about to leave his homeland, so he can only pick a place and set up his first cotton textile factory first.
After much consideration, Ferdinand finally decided that it would be in Sardinia.
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Ferdinand originally liked Madrid, but he suddenly remembered a serious technology leak between Britain and the United States.
In 1790, the American industrialist Samuel Slater imitated the new British spinning machine, which opened the prelude to the American Industrial Revolution.
However, this Samuel Scott is a high-level spinning skilled worker who defected from the water-powered spinning mill in Arkwright.
That's right, it was a defection, at that time the British government attached great importance to technical secrecy, legislated to restrict spinning skilled workers from going abroad, and especially did not want the United States to get the most advanced cotton textile technology in Britain, so the American spinning industry was waiting for a traitor on the other side, but I didn't expect it to come. One day, Slater saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a textile technician in the United States with a reward of Β£100. So he disguised himself as a peasant and defected from the country.
Ferdinand believes that the 25-year secrecy period must be necessary, and the cotton textile technology should be allowed to spread after the annexation of Portugal, although there were defectors in Britain in history, but they also kept it secret for 20 years, so in the early modern period of information blockage, it was inferior to the British, and it was too much of a failure. Moreover, military technology must not be leaked, and other countries cannot be informed about flintlock pistols before annexing Portugal, and after annexation, they will be allowed to tinker with their own technology, and they will not have the opportunity to steal technology. There will also be smelting steel, casting cannons and steam engines in the future, and the technology will not be allowed to leak.
So in the end, it was decided to keep it secret first, now Sardinia is tightly arranged, Isaac Abravanel expelled a large number of nobles who had opposing opinions, and directly controlled the management of a large number of serfs and a small number of peasants on the island, and the peasants were forbidden to leave the island if they did not apply in advance and had a reason to leave the island, fishermen strengthened examination and supervision, and officials had to be strictly scrutinized when they left, and the craftsmen recruited all moved their children, wives, parents, etc. to the island, and they were not allowed to leave the island, and the port of Bosa was directly militarized, which was better than that of Murano, the origin of Venetian glass mirrors. In addition, the garrison on the island has increased to 5,000 people, and a daily patrol system has been established, if the "Sardinian puppet kingdom" is regarded as a country, then it is definitely a closed Manchu government, a high-pressure and dictatorial police state.
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On the morning of September 22, 1493, in front of a cement factory on the banks of the Tiersso River, workers lined up in an orderly manner to enter the factory. Some craftsmen go in a different direction than they do. Several other women stood nearby and watched their husbands walk into the factory.
After more than half a year of factory construction and more than four months of personnel and equipment preparation, the first cotton textile factory run by the Spanish royal family was officially completed on the banks of the Tilso River near Orlistano. The factory has 131 craftsmen and 603 workers, who brought 3,048 family members.
Ferdinand instructed Isaac Abravanel to finance the construction of cottages for the workers, craftsmen and their families, with a working hours of 12 hours, no overtime, much better than the situation in other workshops at that time and for centuries to come, and gave them the treatment of weekends and Sundays, which restricted their personal freedom, and naturally compensated them. Rotate in two shifts a day, and ring the bell or bell on time every morning and afternoon to remind workers to rest. At 6 p.m. every day, the factory closes on time and stops production. Strict standardized management improves work efficiency.
Craftsmen are better paid, and they are responsible for learning and building new textile machines, as well as maintaining them.
The main equipment of the factory is the spindle worsted spinning machine, that is, the mule machine, which is nicknamed "the mule that loves to drink water" by the workers. There are also a small number of reel spinning machines, and hydraulic looms are also important equipment in the factory.
The families of the workers were also fully mobilized β women operated Isabella and Shuttle looms, and even children could operate Isabella spinning machines. They are charged on a piece-rate basis.
Sanitary conditions at the end of the fifteenth century were not much better, but at least there was more than one place for toilets.
In terms of management, Ferdinand established a manager's office, an accounting office and a concierge, and created an accounting system. He modeled himself on the draconian regulations of the British Industrial Revolution, and made changes in a few areas that were too harsh.
For example, there is absolutely no corporal punishment, the working hours are 12 hours if they are said to be 12 hours, the holidays will not be canceled, and voluntary overtime is paid but not doubled. There will be no supervisor to go to the toilet.
Also, if you don't delay your work and don't disturb others, you can still sing β although Ferdinand was puzzled by how workers could have such a hobby in the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
This was mainly due to the fact that the first generation of workers at that time were bankrupt artisans from the cities and landless peasants from the countryside, who had previously controlled their own time and were now not accustomed to this feeling of not being free.
Responsibility is two-fold, on the one hand, the workers themselves are not adapted. On the other hand, factory owners are also unruly, often making workers work 15-16 hours, not to mention processing money, and there is a possibility of deductions.
Ferdinand's solution was, first of all, that he followed the rules himself, and the rules and regulations were still more humane than others. Second, the workers he gathered were from the original manual workshop, and they were themselves familiar with collective labor and disciplined, so there was no resistance.
When the recruitment is gradually expanded in the future, old workers can be arranged to bring new workers, and new workers can be tried and trained to resolve resistance as much as possible.
Of course, discipline is also to be serious.
If there is no passive slacking, the worker can receive a salary of 500 Malawidi a month. Of course, they are all skilled workers, and the salary of the new workers will be lower, and then slowly rise.
Employee stock ownership is not considered for the time being, because the scale is not large enough. It is very troublesome to dilute the shares or greatly increase the proportion of employee shares in the future.
Ferdinand also had strict regulations regarding the quality of the products, and the standards were not set by him. Medieval guilds had strict rules about the quality of their products. The Flemish cotton textile industry is well developed, the handicraft workshops are thriving, and the quality requirements of the trade guilds are reasonable and of a high standard. Ferdinand set the Flemish standard as the minimum standard for the factory. It is better for the overseer to spend his energy on supervising the quality of the terminal, rather than acting as a hateful attractor to exacerbate the conflict. If it is below the standard, the worker will also be punished, and of course the damage to the textile machinery will also be fined.
As for who will manage it? Well, the core secret industry of the royal family can only be taken over by the inner court, and Ferdinand's inner court is really withering. Then he thought of his own treasurer, Luis de Sandonher, who was going to leave anyway, and the treasury might as well be taken care of by Isabella, and she would certainly not spend money indiscriminately. Besides, the height, ability and vision of his financial manager are there, but the problem is that this thing is not doing serious business now, so it is better to send it to Sardinia.
On 1 August, Ferdinand summoned the treasurer, who had just returned.
"Extremadura's poverty is already so poor, and the peasants there are very devout believers in God, and they will definitely go to heaven after death, so you should buy a few more indulgences for yourself." Looking at the manager with an embarrassed face, Ferdinand waved his hand, "Isn't it the last time you financed Columbus's voyage, you and that Genoese merchant gave out 2,000 ducats?" Just look for me, forget it, I'll pay you 1000 ducats, as for foreigners, I'm not so generous. β
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Seeing that Ferdinand was not to blame and was so generous, Santang Hel hurriedly expressed his gratitude.
"Well, it doesn't have to be like this, it's not something to boast about letting courtiers finance the royal family......" Ferdinand had now consulted Cardinal Mendoza (the bishop of Spain was chosen by Isabella, and the whole church was more incorruptible, much better than Rome), and asked the Pope's ambassador in Castile to convey the idea of stopping the sale of indulgences in Castile and Aragon, although the Spanish peasants were simple and pious enough not to be involved in the Protestant movement, but this behavior greatly weakened the purchasing power of the peasants, It is not conducive to the development of industry and commerce, and it also discredits the Catholic Church.
Unlike France, Spanish Catholicism is highly compatible with the king and has become an important tool of the king's rule, so Spain firmly supports Catholicism, as the famous Catholic double king, Ferdinand, who was born and died on the front line of Granada for many years, does not want the religion he fought for bloodily to become a laughing stock in the eyes of others and synonymous with corruption and degeneration.
"Louis, I need you to go to Sardinia to help Isaac manage the government, and there is a more important task to run the factory."
"Workshop?"
"No, it's not a factory, it's a factory, it's a new and efficient form of production organization...... In your work, you should pay attention to the workers and craftsmen...... The key is to keep it secret...... Combined with the innovation of Sardinian agriculture, the farmer was the first market for sales...... Ensure product quality and solicit farmers' experience and suggestions ......"
After the explanation, Ferdinand looked a little tired and waved his hand to Sandon Hull to leave, and Ferdinand drank a glass of wine and prepared to go to a good night's sleep. Greet the journey to the New World with an energetic and high-spirited attitude.