C2798 The Magic of Money 3 (1/2)

Gordon was a disciple of the Protestantism, and the British Orthodoxy was a branch of the Protestantism, the An Liu Gan Sect!

These believers of the Protestantism did not have a good impression of the Catholic Church at all. They still vividly remembered the wicked things the Church of the Central World had done.

When he was talking about the dark rule of the Middle Ages, Gordon was obviously very excited!

What is the Roman Church? It was just a group of bandits, the largest in the world, who carried the flag of the Holy Church and St. Peter!

How many innocent people have the heretics killed? How much of the cream of the people had been plundered? All the oppression in the world would eventually become resistance!

Luther's reforms had given people hope, but who was the biggest supporter of Protestantism's reforms? In fact, it was the earliest group of merchants, or rather, the most primitive capitalists!

Businessmen had money but no social status. They had been bullied for thousands of years. They had no power to fight back against the Church and the feudal lords.

In comparison, although the peasants were also oppressed, Pope and the feudal lords knew that the peasants were just too poor. They could not even search for oil and water, so the peasants could hide in the corners to escape this calamity.

Only these early capitalists had nowhere to run off to, only trembling as they prayed that these human emissaries of God would be able to take the money without killing them, or leave them with a little bit of business capital!

However, the sudden birth of the Lutheran Sect allowed these early capitalists to see a hope for survival, and they started to support the Protestantism without hesitation.

With money coming in and with great effort, they would either directly support the spread of the teachings of the Protestantism, or indirectly support those feudal lords who wanted to change their sect.

It was precisely because of this financial support that the feudal lords of Protestantism were able to survive the famous Thirty Years War in history!

It was also because the Thirty Years War had ended in a draw that made the Holy See realize that the Protestantism could no longer be suppressed by force, which was why they had no choice but to tacitly agree to the spread of the Protestantism.

The Thirty Years' War, after all, was the new bourgeoisie's challenge to the old emperors and the Holy See by taking advantage of the division of Catholicism!

As expected, power came out of the guns! The war had shattered the authority of the Holy See, the Renaissance had begun, and there was no more ransom to sell, no more Inquisition had rushed to your house to kill and loot.

Capitalism, at least, protected its interests in the presence of the Holy See. Since then, there had been no clerics to rob merchants of their capital.

But was the conflict really over? Of course not. The division of religion and the war did destroy the arrogance of the Holy See. However, this was an opportunity for the secular feudal lords to rise!

The king, the nobles, the feudal lords... These people controlled the land and the army. Without the restriction of the Church, it was difficult to fill the gaps in these people's desires.

The Charles I was actually a sacrifice in the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy!

Charles I's father, James I, had once forcefully closed the council because of a conflict between the council and the forced loan.

It happened that James I borrowed money because his son-in-law in the mainland, the Czech king, Fredriksson, had been defeated in the Thirty Years' War. The father-in-law had to lend money to his son-in-law to fight.

And who in the capitalists of England cares if your son-in-law lives or dies? Who would be the principal to guarantee their safety?

One didn't want to borrow, while the other wanted to borrow! At this point the monarchy began to prevail over the capitalists, and the king forced the Assembly to close down and then ordered direct borrowing of money from the treasury.

At that time, the capitalists were still very weak, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not fight against swords and sabers. Since the king had already raised his butcher's sabre, who would dare to oppose him?!