Chapter 240: Analysis of the Classes in Spain

Spanish businessmen want to take shares?

Many technicians of the Hantang Group burst out laughing - So, why are they Spaniards so awesome? Do they think they are from the second generation of officials or the second generation of red?

As soon as Chairman Wu Dapeng saw that the discussion on the Internet was about to be crooked, he immediately jumped out -- this is a business matter, but don't make a patriotic thief or something -- they want to buy shares, but they just think that it is good for us, and it is the right way to take advantage of the situation -- the situation in the Kingdom of Spain has been put on the table by everyone.

This information is compiled by the current secretary of Yang Youxing, and there is already ready-made information, but the people of the Hantang Group are not allowed to use it, so he has to be sorted out - as a liberal arts student, in a group of science and engineering men, Secretary Yang Youxing is often miserable.

As a result, a report with a certain tendency was issued.

In the 16th century, Secretary Yang wrote that there was hardly a European country that did not tremble in the face of its deterrence.

The Kingdom of Spain has become a rich and powerful country in Europe, and if its GDP is calculated, it is already the second largest country in the world. Of course, its level at that time was still not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty.

The 16th century is therefore known as the century of the Kingdom of Spain. However, the good times were short-lived, and by the seventeenth century, the Kingdom of Spain had fallen from the pinnacle of power to become the poorest country in Western Europe. This is rare in the history of the world.

There are many reasons for this.

For example, its economic backwardness was emphasized: its rulers neglected their own industrial production, the Spanish fanatical pursuit of gold, and a large number of people moved to the new university6.

All of this is reasonable, but none of them can be said to be the root cause, not the source of the problem.

If Spain's economic conditions were suitable for the survival of the people, the government policy encouraged production, and the religious policy was more tolerant and allowed different opinions to be saved, then the Kingdom of Spain, like England and France, would attract European inhabitants to live there.

That would not only replenish the emigration, but would also increase the population of Spain.

Therefore, the various reasons for Spain's backwardness analyzed by our Hantang Group must be traced back to its origin and their root causes must be analyzed.

The following content is stated by Yang Youxing himself, if you have different opinions, please do not abuse.

The main problem is that its political structure is rigid and its political system is primitive.

At present, it is the most primitive, the most first-class, and the most aristocratic feudal system of European feudal kingship, and naturally the most hostile to the bourgeoisie.

The power of the state was highly concentrated in the unbreakable system of feudal aristocracy, with the king as the king, which was naturally exclusive, but also characterized by stability and rigidity.

They exercised oppressive rule over the whole country at home, carried out feudal tenancy of land in their own country, profited from the exploitation of peasant output, and hated the production and processing industry; Externally, it was mainly operated by owning slave plantations in the colonies. Both internally and externally, they all express their complex of infatuation with the land level.

At the same time, they are all complete ** political systems in various local governments, and they implement high-pressure management over the society, with the main purpose of maintaining stability, and effectively suppress the threat of various urban forces to the ** royal power.

They are particularly afraid of all kinds of groups, and they are disgusted with all kinds of alliances, even the trade organizations of craftsmen, and they are especially fond of dividing their citizens into separate individuals, so that their citizens always maintain a sense of fear of the regime.

Second, the cultural structure is primitive and homogeneous.

Catholicism is the only faith in the country and is supreme. All other ideas are heretical, all evil hostile forces, all invincible opposition—all of which must be ruthlessly eradicated.

Catholicism played a leading role in the fight against Arab aggression, bringing all of Spain together - led by Catholicism, which finally drove out the Arab invaders victoriously.

Without Catholicism, there would be no Kingdom of New Spain! Catholicism and the king are the great saviors of the Spanish nationals!

It is precisely because of this that the Inquisition on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain is the most powerful and powerful religious organization in the world.

In order to maintain the pure land of the Kingdom of Spain, the Spanish regime established the strictest censorship of words and thoughts, supervising discussions, burning **, strangling infidels, and even those who did not like to eat pork were regarded as infidels.

All kinds of public opinion guides and supervisors are filled with all walks of life across the country...... Wumao and Zigan Wu completely occupied the position of cultural public opinion.

In this way, the Kingdom of Spain maintained the unity of national speech and cultural purity, and the country was stable.

In modern Western European countries, humanism spread widely, the Reformation surged, and various old and new ideas, religions, and cultures coexisted and competed with each other.

However, the Kingdom of Spain has always been dominated by Catholicism, and it has not prospered.

The Spanish people sincerely believe that without Catholicism, we would be oppressed by pagans!

Not only did they completely eliminate the Jews, Moors, and other infidels in its territory, but they also successfully led the Spanish people to block the infiltration of foreign hostile forces such as Protestants into Spain, and unearthed the agents of foreign hostile forces in Spain.

This green dam was so effective that in the half century of 155o-16oo, only 325 suspects with Protestant views were censored in Spain, and in one fell swoop the infiltration of hostile forces from abroad!

Third, the economic structure is also primitive and homogeneous.

First of all, the industrial structure is single. The whole of Spain was largely dominated by animal husbandry, agriculture was extremely poor, and the industrialists and merchants were either pagans, Jews, or Jews who had converted to Christianity.

So, when the Inquisition began to vigorously investigate the hostile forces, a large number of Jews left the country with their goods and capital, and a large number of intellectuals followed - in the case of Barcelola, one of the most prosperous cities in Europe, now the market was depressed, and the whole industry and commerce were almost gone.

Although the Spanish people were undaunted and confident that under the leadership of the king, they were following a correct path with Spanish characteristics, but the laws of the economy still worked, and they could only flourish in animal husbandry, a large number of craftsmen gave up their crafts, and many university students went to build new villages together after graduation.

Second, the property rights structure is single. Feudal land ownership was dominant, and the vast majority of land property rights belonged to the monks and lay nobles, and the capitalist handicraft farms were insignificant.

The feudal nature of rural production relations remained, and Spain still retained the most oppressive feudal lordship system, and agriculture and industry and commerce were congenitally deficient and acquired. This extremely primitive and simple economic structure made the tax on livestock a major source of tax revenue for the Spanish kings.

This has given rise to tax disputes between the local and central governments. The royal power did not need to ask the nobles and burghers to approve his right to tax.

As a result, parliaments across Spain have long been insignificant and completely marginalized.

Immediately afterwards, the king of Spain, based on the minor nobles and the obedient church, destroyed the castles of all the great nobles, and completely bulldozed the separatist power of the great nobles.

In this civil war, the king took the opportunity to build a standing army of 40,000 men.

The Inquisition also played a major role in this process, helping the king to eliminate many of his political opponents. The church thus became the most powerful instrument of the government, and after dealing with the nobility, the king put the cities under their power, and they sent mayors to the cities.

These all-powerful servants of the ** monarch dominated the power of the city, and the autonomy of the city was abolished. Since then, no power in Spain has dared to challenge the crown.

Spain established the most dictatorial ** rule in Europe.

As a result, Spain became unprecedentedly rich and powerful, completed a great national revival, and became the greatest hegemon in Europe in the 16th century.

At this time, the Spanish crown was higher than a qiē.

And this royal power was very faithful to the ideals of Catholicism. From the time of the official emergence of the Spanish state, kings were crowned with the laurels of Catholic kings. The second and third generations of the Spanish aristocracy also grew up in centuries-long struggles against the infidels, and many of them had their relatives killed by the pagans, so that in Spain, whether it was the king, the nobles, or the general population, religious fanaticism reached its extreme.

King Philip II of Spain once openly declared that in order to defend the orthodox faith of Catholicism, he could burn hundreds of thousands of people, and even have his son burned by executioners.

Without the Catholic faith, there would be no dictatorial power, and family affection is nothing in the face of power.

Spain thus became the gendarme of the Catholic Church, the natural defender of the truth of the universe. It can provide free assistance to foreign countries and wage war free of charge.

Spain was not stupid enough to shut itself off, it had opened its doors to trade, and it received a lot of wealth from its overseas colonies every year.

However, in the case of Spain's extremely primitive social structure, the strict closure of ideas and speech, and the strict consolidation of the movement of all social strata, neither the opening up nor the wealth injected from outside could shake the social structure of Spain.

External causes can only work through internal causes, and Spain itself does not have the internal conditions for the transformation into a modern society, in which case the flow of material energy from outside and the unity of the people at home can make it strong for a while, but it is impossible to change its social structure. After a period of prosperity, it will inevitably decline.

If the institutional structure does not change, every qiē is a hairy egg.

We can compare this with the United Kingdom at the same time.

Spain does not seem to lack the conditions for rural commercialization, and its Merino wool is known in Europe for its quality as good as that of England, and is widely sold in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe.

However, the result was the complete opposite of that of the British, and instead of changing the economic structure of the Spanish countryside, Spanish agriculture was devastated by sheep farming.

As a result, they had to import large quantities of grain from abroad to feed their citizens. The immediate cause of this outcome was the privilege granted to the shepherds by the royal power and the monopoly organization that the Mesta had established.

Meesta is the equivalent of the Spanish royal state-owned enterprise.

In England, sheep farming arose later, and at the time of its arise, the usufruct of land had already been widely distributed among all social strata, so that all rural residents who owned land or were entitled to public land could raise sheep, and sheep herding was widely distributed among all social strata according to this structure of land property rights and was not monopolized by the aristocracy.

Nobles and peasants sold wool, and peasants could also use it to spin wool for their own use or for sale.

In this way, the British countryside is bound to be commercialized, and handicrafts such as woollen spinning will naturally develop, which is a normal linear reaction, and it is not magical at all.

Spain is different.

The Kingdom of Spain was taken back from the Arabs, and the land was taken by the kings and nobles from the invaders and Arabs inch by inch, and the property rights were naturally theirs, and they were to be passed on to the second, third, and fourth generations, so how could it be distributed to the Spanish nationals?

Moreover, the characteristics of animal husbandry require the concentration of land, and the arable land cannot be dispersed as in agriculture, which inevitably leads to the concentration of property rights in the hands of the nobility of the shepherds, rather than among the rest of society.

The aristocracy, who owned large quantities of wool, had to sell it to meet their needs.

However, this only allowed them to get into commerce, not to bring the peasants into the market, and thus not to commercialize the Spanish countryside.

The large export of wool showed that Spain was able to open up to the outside world in order to absorb wealth, but this particular industrial structure and property structure of Spain meant that the material energy flow it absorbed could not be equalized, and could not be shared by all classes of society, as in England, but only by shepherds and kings.

A few take the lead in getting rich, and then make the many rich...... Again, this is a false proposition.

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