Therefore, Henry IV was first under the control of the Pope, and gradually expanded his own strength, that is, strengthened his own army. Because in this process, not all nobles and commoners listened to the Pope, and many people also

He was frightened by the huge power of the Pope, and then compromised. However, the Pope also understood that his own power was powerful, so he changed his ways to defraud various countries of their money. All these measures of the Pope must have caused the previous

Those who compromise are even more dissatisfied.

Then there are the people who support the Pope as the Supreme God. In fact, they have basically obtained certain benefits from the various measures of the Pope. For example, the bishops in the German church are originally people sent by the Pope. They are trying to seize

The power of the German king can also obtain a large amount of money. Not all of this money is handed over to the Pope, but they can also obtain some benefits from it. However, since these benefits are so large, it means that they have exploited more civilians and even nobles.

In the end, these nobles and commoners who had been deprived of their interests had contacts with Henry IV secretly. They felt that Henry IV was right. In this way, this accelerated the expansion of Henry IV's army.

In the end, this led to Henry IV first using a very bloody method to massacre those who had benefited from the Pope and then supported the Pope. This was an absolutely bloody and violent war! And the Pope was still in Rome, so for

Even if things here are understood, it will take a long time. Therefore, Henry IV used the fastest method and then used the army to brutally massacre all Christian priests in Germany and even those who supported the Pope! Of course there were more

It is surrender. This is our human nature. To compromise with powerful forces, in fact, our civilian life can be summed up in two words, that is, compromise. Either compromise to this or compromise to that.

Now that everyone in Germany has become Henry IV's people, things will be easier to handle next. And it was only three years after Henry IV compromised and repented to the Pope, that is, in 1080

, by this time the Pope had completely understood that he had been deceived by Henry IV last time! So he immediately issued a document to excommunicate Henry IV again.

But Henry IV at this time was completely different from before, or in other words, Germany at this time was different from before. The whole of Germany had undergone a baptism of blood before. The current Germans do not accept the Pope's tricks.

They think this set of papal documents is simply useless paper without any meaning!

So Henry IV is now fully fledged, and he has once again announced: depose the pope! And this time Henry IV not only just said the words to depose the pope, but also directly led an army to suppress the situation, and simply surrounded the entire Rome.

It’s overwhelming! What kind of concept is this? Although the Pope was frightened at this time and immediately wanted to ask for help from various outside countries, but at present, the entire connection between the entire Rome and the outside world was cut off. Only then did the Pope completely

Realizing that he was really going to die this time.

So the Pope finally fled south in a hurry, but not long after, although Henry IV did not catch the Pope himself, the Pope himself died of illness on the way to escape.

From here it is not difficult to see that this time such a powerful pope, as the supreme being in the Christian world, is even the incarnation of God in our world, but in the struggle for hegemony among the people, the pope is still in Germany

King Henry IV suffered a stumble. We can also understand that this is a struggle between divine power and royal power. Obviously the final winner is the royal power! However, this kind of hegemony cannot end at once, because after the death of the Pope, there will be another

Two popes, if the second pope dies, there will still be a third one. As long as Christianity exists, the pope can be replaced at any time. After all, the pope is not the real God, he is just an ordinary man, just like us.

It's just human beings.

So let’s take a look at the game in another place, and it was also caused by the fact that the Holy Roman Empire was divided into three parts because of Louis’ three sons. This place is the United Kingdom. At present, we first divide the historical time

Moving forward about a hundred years or so, the last time the German king Henry IV killed the Pope by force, so Henry IV's subsequent life, or the life of Germany as a whole, was relatively good, but the good times did not last.

It’s only been a long time, and now the Pope has long been replaced.

Then we started to take a look at the game in another place: On the bank of the Thames 30 kilometers northwest of London, the British capital, stands the Windsor Castle. The castle is surrounded by green grass, and not far away is a large forest.

, the whole place looks like a wonderful fairy tale world.

In the early morning of June 15, 1215, a crisp sound of horse hooves broke the tranquility of the morning. A large group of nobles rode their horses to the fairy tale-like Windsor Castle, and then placed a picture

There were tables and a few chairs, and they stood here waiting quietly. And in the dense forest not far behind them, there were thousands of soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding sharp swords, which was a large number of sophisticated troops.

At nine o'clock in the morning, with a creak, the extremely heavy door of Windsor Castle slowly opened, and King John of England, accompanied by the Pope's envoy, the Archbishop of Cambury and the guards, slowly came to the table. At this time

The nobles saluted John together, and then John casually dismounted and sat on one of the chairs. The nobles sat opposite John, and at this time one of the nobles took out a book from his arms.

He handed the scroll to John and said: Your Majesty the King, please take a look at it.

John took it in his hand and looked at it casually, but the more he looked at it, the angrier he became, and his face immediately turned livid. The content on the parchment was: 1: The king respects the freedom of election of the church and is inviolable. 2: Return the lords that the king had occupied before.

Land, mortgages and deeds. Three: The king has no right to increase taxes and levy taxes without the consent of the lords' representative council. Four: Without the consent of the lords' court, the king cannot arbitrarily arrest nobles and exploit their land and property. Five

: To protect the fief inheritance rights of lords and knights. There are also supplementary provisions: twenty-five representatives are selected from the great feudal lords to form the Magna Carta Supervisors to supervise the king's implementation of the Magna Carta.

In fact, this is the nobles once again depriving the king of power with the help of the church and even force, thereby ensuring that the descendants of their nobles can be nobles forever, enjoy a life of extravagance, lust, and debauchery forever, and can also be exploited forever

Civilians, completely legalize all of this.

But this is just a disguised deprivation of King John's royal power. So what's the point of being such an emperor? He has no power at all, and he has to be bound by a group of nobles who are completely obsessed with luxury and lust. How can this be possible?

OK?

At this point, John slapped the parchment in his hand on the table with a bang! Then he stood up suddenly and roared loudly to the nobles: I am your king, do I still need to be treated by you?

Restrictions?

But the nobles did not flinch, because they had a large army behind them and the church supported them. At this point, one of the nobles stood up and said: Your Majesty, we are the representatives of all the nobles in the UK. The requirements on this parchment are our unanimous

It was proposed. You must accept it and sign it, otherwise we will no longer recognize you as our king.

John's face turned pale when he saw that the nobles were not flinching, and were even confronting each other tit for tat. His eyes were full of fear as he looked at the forest in the distance. He could vaguely see the shadows of swords and swords in the forest. Cold sweat suddenly broke out from him.

A flash of light appeared on his forehead, and looking at these nobles, they were completely prepared.

At this point, John slumped on the chair, knowing that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, not to mention that this is not a loss at all, but a direct loss of life. So John sighed longly, and then said: Okay, I promise you.

Conditions, agree to sign, as long as you recognize me as your king.

When the nobles heard this, they were immediately overjoyed, because they had originally made the worst plan to kill John. But this was the last resort. Killing the king was such a serious crime, and they didn't know whether the church would

Will protect them, after all, their nobles mainly seize power for themselves in the name of the church. But the current result is very good, because after King John signed it, it was the king's agreement to these conditions, and it was justifiable.

So one of the nobles quickly walked up to John and handed the king a quill. John took the pen, quickly signed on the parchment, and then slammed the quill on the

He sat on the table, stood up, mounted his horse, and returned to Windsor Castle without looking back. At this time, all the nobles held the parchment and let out bursts of cheers.

When we saw this, we immediately felt strange. Since the king is the king of a country and his status is extremely supreme, how could anyone dare to put forward conditions to the king? In fact, we must analyze this matter carefully, and then we will start from the beginning.

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King Henry II of England was old and frail and thought that he could no longer have any more sons, so he divided his land and property among his five sons. But what he didn't expect was that on Christmas Day 1167
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