Chapter 141 Ten Mile Mountain Road Does Not Change Shoulders (Big Chapter, Keep Daily Update)

PS: Try to restore the fourth bullet of the day more o(′ benefit')o......

[In the Chen Mei group, I promised a book friend to update a chapter of "Tsar Peter II", so I will take a leave of absence today, this chapter is two days ago]

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Cosime de Medici and the owner, Almagro, continued to talk about their business. Almagro said that his shop has been booming lately, because the number of boats in Aragon has increased and the demand for canvas, rigging and compasses has naturally increased considerably, and the demand for fishing nets has recently been unusually hot (mainly for the hunting of fish in Newfoundland and Sardinia), and it seems that a large number of fishermen who fish in the Mediterranean or more generously owners of a few sailing boats, and some through government orders from trade associations and municipal officials, seem to be able to generate a fortune.

Although they are treated as cows, although they are ostracized by society, although they are weak in force, although they are repeatedly expelled...... However, it has to be admitted that the exclusion of big businessmen, big financiers, middle and lower middle class Jews is still of great benefit to the promotion of commerce. The loss of all Jewish merchants in Barcelona, and indeed in Catalonia, and Spain, in 1492, had a great impact on the functioning of the economy. Because Catalonia, after a long civil war with the king of Aragon, had been severely damaged, the shipping industry began to decline.

At this time, the Italian region has not yet felt the pain brought about by the rise of the Atlantic, and the main force of Mediterranean shipping is still moving to Italy. After the loss of the adventurous Jews, Barcelona's shipowners, merchants, and financiers gradually became reluctant to engage in the unprofitable and risky maritime trade and turned to ......

Buying land......

Yes, like the Chinese landlords, the merchants also liked the land that was conservative in value......

Of course, the hearts of the Spanish merchants are only part of the heart, of course, it is impossible to be completely cowardly, but just after the heart, Catalonia began to enter a half-dead trough period, the historical opportunity is fleeting, the king and emperor of the Habsburg family are not related to the economic interests of Iberia in the Mediterranean, the economy and trade of the entire Kingdom of Aragon have shrunk sharply, although the economic privileges have not been taken back by the government, but the result of not paying attention to and not investing is waste, and the effect is not as good as after Bourbon controls Spain, The autonomy of the three provinces of Aragon was abolished, and the centralization of power was strengthened.

So, at this stage, Jewish businessmen are still a backbone for maintaining the vitality of Barcelona!

After all, the region of Barcelona/Catalonia is more tangled for Ferdinand, and this region currently belongs to the kind of situation where the mouth is suspicious and the body is honest, although he says no, and there is resentment in his heart, but objectively it is indeed always contributing to the cause of imperialism with Spanish characteristics.

Therefore, it seems that this region cannot be managed as a place of foundation, at least for now, anyway, Catalonia has centrifugal tendencies, and it is okay to have more Jews.

Now, though, the Jewish faith is indeed wavering. The shopkeeper said that another of his colleague, who had done a bigger business, had decided to convert to Catholicism after a long struggle. After all, not everyone can accept a hierarchical tax for their faith......

"That's good," laughed Cosime de Medici, "and he's coming into the bosom of God, and he's going to heaven later......"

"Heaven?" The shopkeeper looked thoughtful for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.

"There is no heaven or hell in our faith, only hell. There we are waiting for the Messiah to come! No swords or artillery fire could be heard there......"

on the island of Corsica.

Ferdinand wielded a big stick against the infiltration of the Valois dynasty in Corsica. The forces infiltrated by France were still too naïve, and they did not run fast enough, and gradually fell silent under the resolute attack and suppression of Aragon. In addition to drastic restrictions on the movement of people and property between Corsica and France, Aragon intensified its raids on French galleons off the coast of Corsica. The most ironic thing is that more than 40 captured French dhow speedboats, formed several patrols, day and night to search for and hunt down French dhow speedboats that dared to cruise to the coast of Corsica.

The big guy didn't have a chance to run into it, because the mighty Venetian navy and the Aragonese Mediterranean fleet had stared at the slightly larger French ships, and had also managed to sink a few times, and the French navy could only obediently huddle in the harbor and shiver. Even if there is a chance to move freely, it is too late to support the army red deer, how can there be a large battlefield that can be put on the table to send the battle in Corsica......

Not only that, but Ferdinand also began to implement a very "barbaric" "feudal autocracy" on the island of Corsica.

The full implementation of household organization and people. The scope of registration includes the citizen's name, date of birth, gender, marital status, tax status, guardianship, ethnicity, religious belief, nationality, occupation, etc...... and a very important resource of this era, land. In addition, a "person number" is also given, that is, an ID number. After the invention of Gutenberg's printing press, printing in Europe made great progress, giving Martin Luther the opportunity to expand his influence and making it easier for Ferdinand to compile a household registration.

At this time in Europe, there was no Chinese hukou. It is not possible to obtain detailed information about the name, date of birth, gender, marital status, tax status, guardianship, etc. of citizens. In this regard, Denmark, which started first in Europe, also had a history of more than 300 years after the Reformation, when Sweden was under the control of the church and had a population registration history of more than 300 years.

Wait, at this time, you will encounter the problem of Marin in "The Rise of the European Emperor", the farmers in the countryside and the mountain people in the highlands, there are many people who have the same name, incomplete names or even only nicknames, and it is difficult to register, there are dozens of "Giovanni" in a village......

In Sardinia, where the household was also regulated, the problem was resolved by the Miao Character Compulsory Order, which lasted for six months or even a year to require all the villagers to settle the question of their surnames and surnames, and to keep a record of them in the newly established public security and civil affairs departments, which had been fully completed by 1496.

To be reasonable, it is obviously unrealistic to want to implement this method in the face of frequent resistance by the Corsicans.

However, Ferdinand had no intention of reasoning with them anyway.

If you don't accept the truth, you give physics.

Die, all of you!

Therefore, under the pressure of arquebuses and longbows, swords, spears, and plate armor, most Corsicans still had to accept Ferdinand's "cruel oppression".

Then, it is necessary to sacrifice - the armor protection system, and the implementation of armor protection and sitting!

The basic form of the armor protection system implemented by Ferdinand is the 10-digit system - 10 households are A, 10 A is Bao, and more than 10 Bao is the township. In Sardinia it has been completed.

In practice, due to the different geographical, transportation, and economic conditions in different regions, a flexible method was adopted when implementing the armor protection system, stipulating that the establishment of the armor protection system is in principle 10 households and one class, but in fact it can fluctuate in the range of 6 to 15 households. The establishment of insurance is the same, in principle, ten of the first one insurance, in fact, also floating in the range of six to fifteen. Townships are still six to fifteen guaranteed as a township or a township.

Ferdinand set up a security office in the middle of the country, with a chief and deputy chief of security, and a civil affairs, security, economic, and cultural officer. In Sardinia, militia teams were organized, and the chief of the security team was also the captain of the national militia, and the military and government were integrated, but the township and town chiefs were only in charge of government affairs. In addition, the mayor of the township was appointed directly by the central government (the government of Sardinia) and, in 1496, by the governor directly, demonstrating a strong degree of centralized control. Unlike in the East, landlords and gentry serve as the chief of the armor and the head of the township. All the land in Sardinia belonged to the king, and the few landowners had long since been wiped out under absolute superiority and merciless repression, and now only yeoman farmers and serfs were engaged in agricultural production and served the king. Therefore, most of the Baojia chiefs are homesteaders. Abravanel faithfully carried out the task of strengthening the control at the grassroots level, striving to make every security chief capable of serving as a political policeman.

In the future, the hukou system will be extended throughout the country, while the system will be limited to Sardinia and Corsica, which are in fact equivalent to two production and construction corps. In addition, it can be implemented in some parts of the Americas and parts of Iberia on a limited basis, and cannot be extended to the whole country. That will be a great resistance, and it will not be conducive to the development and progress of large industries.

In this way, the Corsican mountain people, who had never tasted such an authoritarian iron fist, were completely unlucky. Then, the Aragonese army and the German mercenaries from the Black Forest resorted to the "iron wall" method of sweeping, forming a tight blockade of the Corsican mountains and encircling them with large forces.

The Corsican army only has cold weapons, and its will is completely inferior to that of the Eighth Road, and its strength and morale are declining rapidly.

There was a "poof" sound, and a Corsican mountain man was again pierced in the back by an arquebus. Hans were not in the mood to cheer the victory, and the German mercenaries advanced one after another, launching a final bloodthirsty assault on the rebels in the mountains and forests.

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In Sardinia, François is also approaching the end of his spy career, and indeed his entire life.

With almost half the speed of a HK reporter, François was not immediately captured by Nidhogg's men in the port area - so the good news is that he has now fled to the mainland and will not be caught anytime soon, and the bad news is that he does not know that he is on the most wanted list and that he is going deep into the interior and that he will most likely be shot.

Standing on high ground overlooking the port of Cagliari, François suddenly felt that it was not too simple!

There are many more batteries in this port than on the French coast! And along the surrounding coastline, there are fortresses all over the place, and the firepower is quite powerful!

The Aragonese installed so many bronze cannons, fortresses, and batteries on the port of the capital of Sardinia, and Marseille was unmatched.

It's too much money!

What a waste!

It's too tyrant!

Really rich......

Well, then, there was no then.

After all, François was not a brick businessman, he didn't know that the guns were made of steel, and even if he was a brick businessman, he couldn't analyze what the hard materials laid in the port were.

However, if François had been able to take a hot air balloon ride over Sardinia, he would have noticed the tightness of the entire Sardinian defenses and would have sensed some problems.

But after all, it was Ferdinand who was frantically climbing the tech tree here.

Although leaks, especially the proliferation of technology, are often difficult to stop completely. However, the problem is, if you want to spread, you have to be able to understand it!

For example, the cement thing, the thing laid in the port of Cagliari, who knows that it is pozzolanic cement! The transport roads on the Capitano Plains, who knew that the mix was three to one of clay and lime, and with a little aluminum? As for the things in the factory that da Vinci didn't necessarily have an epiphata, let alone expect to be remembered at a glance. Otherwise, the technical secrecy of Great Britain's advanced spinning machines would not have been maintained for so long. In the end, the United States still relied on bounty recruitment to make Britain defect, the father of the industrial revolution in the United States.

The tragedy is that in the American era, the spinning machine, the steam engine, all countries in Europe and the United States could understand. After all, the steam engine had been developed for more than 100 years in the early modern period, and the shuttle increased the weaving speed, which in turn formed the demand for a new type of textile machine in Britain, and the first breakthrough of the Jenny spinning machine was just a turn of thought.

But at the end of the 15th century, who could have imagined that some kind of coal-burning steam-powered machine was possible? Who would complain that weaving cloth is weaving too fast and cotton yarn is in short supply? Who knows what a planetary gear mechanism and a crank linkage are? There was a gap of 38 years between the printing of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 and the establishment of the first Ottoman printing press and printing agency in Istanbul by Hispanic Jews in 1493.

This inevitably made Ferdinand a little embarrassed - because Spain did not expel the Jews, it was now 1496, but the Ottoman Empire still did not know what the printing press was, which was very pitiful......

I couldn't see it, and François didn't plan to dig deeper, because he had planned to walk around and then slip away. Thus, François did not stay long, but went deep into the interior of Sardinia.

In the interior of Sardinia, the mountains stretch and at its highest point, the Nagentu peak, at 1,854 meters above sea level, shelters the villages at the foot of the mountain. François found something unusual – there seemed to be smoke everywhere between the hills. He didn't know it was a lime kiln firing lime.

As François was trekking along the mountain road, he saw a sturdy mountain man behind him carrying the wheat he had just bought. It was the winter wheat harvest, and this mountain man actually picked up wheat that looked heavier than this man!

In fact, there are also flat tans in Europe, which come from ancient Egypt. In "The Quiet Don", he was honored to show his face, but François was surprised not by this, but by -

This man actually picked up about 4-5 bushels of wheat!

Ahem, 1 bushel is equivalent to 0.035 cubic meters, which is 35 liters. Generally medium wheat, 0.76 kg per liter......

In other words, he is carrying at least 200 catties of wheat!

"Dude, what's the problem? Why do you keep looking at me? ”

The mountain people spoke......

"It's nothing, I'm just...... I'm surprised you have so much strength......" François replied cautiously.

"What's the ...... then," the mountain man smiled, "I go to the village every day, pick up two hundred catties of wheat and come back, and walk one mile of mountain road without changing shoulders...... It's a pity that even so, no girl in the village below has taken a fancy to me......"

"Are you sure? A mile? François couldn't help but question, feeling that it could not be interpreted with common sense at all, the unit of measurement converted in one mile of later generations was 5527.7 meters!

This buddy, a 5-kilometer mountain march with a weight of 100 kilograms without rest, is it within the limits of human beings?

"You doubt me?" The mountain people's eyes suddenly became serious and sharp!

"This little brother, your accent is dangerous, I suspect you ......"

Then, a flat pole smashed over, and together the grain bag and the flat pole knocked François to the ground and lost consciousness.

The mountain people put down their burdens, happily picked up the unconscious François, and turned back to the countryside of the plain. Feeling the weight and warmth of his shoulders, which symbolized talent and honor, he was so excited that he couldn't help but read out the verses that the commanders often recited.

"Waiting for leisure to know the east wind, thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring ......"