Ferdinand's sudden edict can be regarded as the first clear-cut and obvious national policy in Europe to protect and develop the country's national industry and commerce, and the increase in import tax rates on industrial and agricultural products, the increase in export tariffs on industrial raw materials, the consumption of foreign capital at home, and the strict restriction of the outflow of gold and silver are all typical mercantilist policies.

Since Ferdinand also embarked on a major breakthrough in industrial production, it is said to be "heavy businessism".

Of course, this policy inevitably harmed the interests of the "Mesta" sheep group, but Ferdinand had to suppress it to a certain extent. It is not too much of a problem to only suppress the sheep lords of Aragon, after all, the industrial and commercial cities of Aragon are now allies of the king, and they will definitely support His Majesty the king-

You never dreamed of having such a policy today, did you? If you don't help me, if you don't give me money, guns, and people to scare those big nobles, and I shrink back, won't you be a tragedy?

As a result, the industrial and commercial city of Aragon and most of the industrial and commercial people are now tied to Ferdinand.

Of course, His Majesty King Ferdinand did not do this expecting others to help him succeed, he already had the confidence to suppress the nobles - after all, if the nobles were to fight a civil war now, and there were only the nobles of the Aragon Mesta sheep lords, I can't think of how they could win, after all, although there are many big nobles involved in the sheep industry, it can't be said that the vast majority, at most half at the moment, these people will do it with the king in order to raise the export tariff to 5%? I'm afraid everyone knows who died.

Of course, the so-called undercurrent is surging, but it is not something that can be ignored, and Ferdinand still has to be appeased, and the government's purchase of wool is the simplest and most crude but also the most feasible and effective way. Anyway, you can find a buyer, it doesn't matter who you sell to.

In the long run, the dependence of the nobles of the sheep lord group on the government will also increase.

As for why Ferdinand was able to play like this, it was because he had money and could do whatever he wanted...... However, it is not all, it can be said that there is power, money and productivity, a three-pronged approach.

Because there is money, it is possible to start reform strongly. Because there is money, wool can be purchased as a pacification. But if there is no productivity, which is inextricable for the historical Spanish government, you buy wool, that is, the rhythm of losing money in vain, even if it is resold to businessmen, it is a limited consumption, which means that His Majesty is really bleeding to feed the nobility and the state...... Ferdinand was not worried, but it was Sardinia's light industry that was in urgent need of raw materials:

The demand for cotton has increased threefold compared to the beginning of the development of the mill in 1494, and by the next year the demand will increase sevenfold compared to 1494, that is, the pace of doubling every year. Some looms are used to produce woolen wool wool without any problems, just to alleviate the shortage of cotton supply.

Now the aristocrats and peasants who grow cotton in Castile and Aragon are all day long! I don't know why, the royal family purchased cotton from the whole country on a large scale, starting from the beginning of 1493, and then grew rapidly, in 1495 there was no place in the country where cotton could not be sold, and cotton exports also declined rapidly.

Cotton growers across the country were dumbfounded. The royal family has not bought some cotton before, and the Spanish and French royal families have their own handicraft industries, but the cotton textile industry of the Spanish royal family is not very profitable, and there was no scale before, but in the past four years, it has grown explosively.

After all, not everyone can understand the astonishing efficiency of cotton textile production during the Industrial Revolution that increased the production rate by more than 80 times......

Now, when it comes to cotton farming, Ferdinand takes a strong attitude of encouragement and support! Every month, the nobles and peasants should be encouraged to plant cotton, anyway, you can grow cotton, and the king will buy as much as you produce, and there is absolutely no possibility that you can't eat it.

For the cotton textile industry...... The cotton mills that began to develop in Spain, Ferdinand stimulated their development by placing orders, just as the war broke out, the state ordered, and I bought all the output.

There is no problem with money. Ferdinand could increase the amount of wheat and buckwheat sold to the country, and he could easily earn it back. Cotton textiles can also be sold in the market, or engage in some poverty alleviation projects to brush up on the prestige of the people. Anyway, the king has spare money to tinker with this.

To cover up the situation, the new agricultural area of the Mediterranean is now a rather mysterious topic in Aragon, and no one knows the exact situation, and the guys who spying on the royal land have all been caught by Niderhogg - sadly they did not run to the right place at all, who knows that His Majesty's main base will be Sardinia, which is not the territory of Aragon, but a territory in the Italian region.

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When it comes to the development of agriculture, an important school of thought in Western Europe is the Physiocrats, which was born in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. In successive reforms and dynastic wars, French mercantilism suffered serious setbacks and exposed very serious flaws. It gave birth to the idea of physiocratism and the school of physiocrats.

They believe that agriculture is the source of pure products and that the state should protect agriculture, not industry and commerce. Because modern agriculture at that time was already close to the capitalist large-scale farm operation, the French tenant farmers developed rapidly, because capitalist agriculture provided the raw materials for capitalist industry and commerce, and physiocratism advocated a single tax, laissez-faire and other policies close to the economic ideas in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", so in fact it opened the way for capitalist industry and commerce.

Even the physiocrats themselves were not aware of this, and they believed that their emphasis on agriculture was of course intended to compensate for the improvement and improvement of feudal society. Most of their advocates were vested interests in feudal society and were closely associated with the Bourbons. They do not realize at all that they are advocating an idealized capitalist society that is alien to the existing society and can only be achieved by overthrowing the existing feudal society.

Physiocratism was the first to analyze capitalist production, but it was also a reproduction of the bourgeoisie that was ruled by feudalism and land property. Feudalism is explained from the point of view of bourgeois production, while capitalism is developed with the assumption that great agriculture will transform the feudal system. In this way, feudalism took on a bourgeois character, and bourgeois society acquired the appearance of feudalism.

Therefore, physiocratism and China's heavy agriculture and suppression of business are completely different things, in fact, it promotes the development of capitalist agriculture and industry and commerce at the same time.

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