The time was from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century. With the opening of new shipping routes, overseas trade volume gradually increased. This meant that goods could be sold, so people outside and even those who owned wool

People, the demand for woolen fabrics is increasing day by day. Of course, this indirectly makes the woolen weaving industry begin to prosper. After all, there is demand in the market, so people who want to make money will do it. But as the woolen weaving industry becomes more and more

The more prosperous the country became, the greater the demand for wool, and the price of wool soared. In order to obtain high profits, more and more British nobles began to raise sheep.

The United Kingdom is an island country located in the Atlantic Ocean. It has a humid climate, abundant rainfall, and lush vegetation, so it is very suitable for livestock raising. At this time, some British nobles began to invest in sheep raising in order to earn high profits. However,

Raising sheep requires large areas of fertile grassland. The nobles first fenced off some uncultivated wasteland, forests, and even some swamps as pastures.

But gradually, the number of sheep flocks became larger and larger, and because the nobles who raised sheep made high profits, other nobles were very jealous, and other nobles also began to invest in raising sheep.

In the sheep industry, due to many factors, the number of sheep suddenly began to increase during this period, and the small land could not satisfy these huge sheep.

But at this time, the land generally belonged to the nobles, and the British high-level officials did not allocate it to the farmers. Therefore, the land cultivated by the farmers was rented from the nobles. For example, 50% or 60% of the annual grain output belonged to the nobles. The general situation is as follows

Like this. However, at this time, because the value of wool was too high and was still on a soaring trend, these sheep-raising nobles finally decided after thinking about it that they would rent the land to farmers for growing food.

The profits generated by not raising sheep were greater. At this point, these nobles believed that they no longer needed to rent the land to farmers, nor did they need farmers to cultivate food for them, so they drove away all the farmers and rented the land to farmers.

The land cultivated by farmers was now used to raise sheep.

How should we describe this matter? In fact, when we discussed the matter of chivalry before, we also mentioned some one-sided views on the so-called enfeoffment system in the UK. That is, the highest land ownership rights in the entire UK are

The royal family, and then the royal family would allocate land to ministers and generals with meritorious services, and then the generals would allocate some land to their subordinates in order to gain the loyalty of their subordinates. In short, the last class is the knights.

From here, it is not difficult to see that in fact, British farmers have no land ownership rights from the beginning. It gives me the feeling that these British farmers actually have no human rights at all.

At this point, the land owned by British farmers has at least been rented from knights and cultivated, or rented from other officials, even generals or lords. However, due to the rapid development of the navigation industry, the entire British

Not only can their own goods be sold to other countries, but goods from other countries can also be sold to Britain by sea. In the end, this resulted in these knights, even nobles or officials who originally owned land, knowing how to raise sheep.

The profits generated are far higher than those generated by growing food.

Let's take an example. For example, if a noble now owns ten acres of land, if he rents it all to farmers and uses it to grow food, he can split the food received by farmers in half in a year, or even get more than the noble.

, anyway, it’s like harvesting twenty bags of grain a year, and these twenty bags of grain are worth fifty gold coins. But if we are currently raising sheep, the wool produced by these ten acres of land in a year can be sold for two hundred gold coins.

, if you use these 200 gold coins to buy food from other countries, it will be four times as much as before. Therefore, these nobles, officials and even knights who have land rights will take back all the original land and use it to raise sheep.

Then rent it to farmers to grow crops.

However, this matter is still a legal matter in the UK, because the ownership of the land itself has nothing to do with the farmers. Currently, it is only the nobles, officials, knights or churches who own the land rights. They only take back the land that originally belonged to them.

That means you don't rent it to others, it's completely legal.

But for farmers who have lost their land, things are completely different. Although these farmers understand that nobles or lords do not rent land to them for cultivation, which is legal in itself, they are originally British people.

But they have no human rights, and everything they fight is their fault. Even if the country wins the war, the lives of their farmers are still the same. Even if this is the situation now, they don’t know where to go to reason.

, because they are legal.

And farmers are also very simple. They were born in the UK and then became tools of the higher-ups. It’s that simple. They can only rely on farming to maintain their own lives. As British citizens, everything they own is the land they cultivate.

, although the land is still rented and there are high taxes, this is the life of British farmers. Originally, these farmers accounted for about 90% of the total British population, but now it is different.

What's different now? These land-owning nobles, knights or even officials, not only took back the land originally leased to the farmers, but also took over the farmers' houses and even rural villages.

All of them were demolished, because the land used to build farmers' houses and even the village land belonged to the nobles. The ownership of these lands had nothing to do with the farmers.

Therefore, it eventually evolved to the point that after the farmers were completely driven away, all the land that was originally used to live in villages and other villages of farmers was fenced in to raise sheep. Suddenly, the entire British pastoral industry developed to a level that was simply appalling.

So at this time in Britain, you can see patches of grassland surrounded by wooden fences, hedges, ditches and even walls. This is the most famous enclosure movement in our human history.

These farmers who were legally driven out of their homes suddenly no longer knew how to survive. Although they begged the nobles who owned the land, the nobles believed that the benefits of their farming were too low, and it did not take much to raise sheep.

A large amount of labor force, so this ultimately led to these people who had no choice but to be homeless as British farmers. They no longer had land to cultivate and no home to return to. They could only carry out

Wandering. But wandering can't fill their stomachs? What's more, they are still raising a family. Is this a joke? They can't find jobs in the city because they can only farm. They have only learned how to farm in this life.

They have no craftsmanship and no cultural knowledge. Perhaps the only culture is belief in God! But God is obviously fictitious and is just a tool used to control them, so this fictitious God cannot save them. In the end,

They were unable to feed their families, and then many farmers had no choice but to take risks and became bandits, which indirectly led to the increasing chaos of British social order.

Why is this happening? In fact, it is not difficult for us to understand this. The total number of farmers in the UK accounts for about 90%. These farmers who have legally lost their land or even their homes now don’t even have enough to eat.

They couldn't find any jobs, so they couldn't support their families. More and more people became robbers, just to fill their stomachs and even feed their families. They just wanted to survive, but a large number of people became robbers, and suddenly the whole world

There are robberies and murders everywhere in the UK. Do we think that the army can suppress them? What a joke? If there is really a large-scale massacre, is it necessary to drive out all the landless farmers in the UK?

What? In this case, only the upper echelons and nobles, or some rich people, will survive in Britain.

So far, this kind of thing has caused a headache for the British king, but the king can't convince the land-owning nobles to let them re-lease the land to farmers for farming, because first of all, the profit hurdle cannot be passed, so this time the enclosure

The movement began in the 1570s and lasted until the end of the 18th century. Almost half of the land in the entire UK was turned into pasture. The British king did make an effort, and in the process of this land enclosure movement

In the 1970s, King Edward VI of England promulgated some decrees in an attempt to restrict the enclosure movement, but these decrees did not have much effect. The enclosure continued to become more and more intense. Many wealthy aristocrats ignored the law and did not care about the land at all.

Willing to stop.

In fact, this is the same concept as our businessmen today. When the profit component is twice as much, the businessman is likely to resort to violence. When the profit is more than five times, it is possible to kill people, but when the profit is more than ten times, it is possible to kill someone.

When the time comes, businessmen can completely eliminate human nature. In fact, the example I am comparing is our modern real estate industry today, but I am also guessing. This data is also my guess. It has not been calculated very accurately, but I also believe it.

, some businessmen can actually completely annihilate humanity when the profits are doubled, so this is not to mention the high profits generated by the current enclosure movements in the UK. So far, the nobles have not taken Edward VI's decree at all.

thing.

While restricting the land enclosure movement, the British king also understood that if he could not figure out a way to resettle these farmers, the entire United Kingdom would completely collapse. This is definitely not a joke, and this is definitely not a joke, because

The current concept is that 90% of the farmers in the UK will be deprived of food and clothing if they are not robbers, and then starve to death on the streets in large numbers. Therefore, the King of England knows the seriousness of the matter, and in order to expel these farmers

The farmers were quickly resettled, and a decree was issued to restrict homeless people. In fact, they wanted to drive all these displaced farmers into factories to work. Therefore, legal provisions were also made. The law stipulated that anyone with the ability to work
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