Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2094, Spanish Civil War
In a noble manor in Spain, many Spanish nobles gathered to discuss the overthrow of Charles V.

"He is simply the most greedy person in history. He actually wants to confiscate the territory that has been passed down from generation to generation. I will never agree!"

Duke Alfonso said angrily.

"I will never allow such a thing to happen, and now he is forcing us to do it."

The Duke of Santos also said firmly.

In fact, everyone was very supportive of Charles V, because Charles V's policy has been in line with the interests of the great nobles.

Charles V supported Spain in importing goods and exporting raw materials. This is naturally the best for the nobles, because the nobles often have huge territories, and they can live a comfortable life relying on the output of the territories without hard work at all. It is hard to develop handicrafts and the like.

The policies of Charles V are beneficial to them, so they also support Charles V. When Charles V first came to the throne, everyone has contributed a lot.

However, now, Charles V has proposed a new reform plan, following the example of the Ming Empire to carry out reforms in many aspects, including the implementation of the provincial system, the abolition of the existing state system, and the division of all states into provinces. Appoint officials to manage.

Abolish the nobles' right to taxation and conscription, and transfer these two powers to the king, who will directly appoint tax officials to collect taxes everywhere.

This is undoubtedly the heaviest blow to the great nobles like them, and seriously violated the interests of the great nobles like them. Naturally, they would not agree and agree.

"I think it's time for us to elect a new king, a king who respects all our nobles."

Duke Felipe also said firmly.

On the European side, lords and nobles have great power, but royal power is weak. This has always been a tradition, and it is also one of the cultural characteristics of Europe.

The princes and sons are almost everywhere here, mainly because the city-states in Europe have fallen into the hair of a cow, and even a big place can become a country.

Now Charles V wants to imitate the Ming Empire and establish a unified centralized empire, which is seriously not in the interests of the great nobles like them.

"Bland is an idiot, what benefits can he get from following Charles V?"

"Don't you know that once Charles V succeeds, his family's ancestral land will be confiscated?"

Alfonso looked at the nobles around him. Some nobles did not come to the party, apparently they had taken refuge in Charles V.

"He is the scum among the nobles."

Santos directly characterized Duke Brand.

"Well, it's pointless to say these things. What we need to do now is to gather troops to attack Charles V and overthrow his brutal rule."

Duke Felipe thought for a while and said.

"Hmm~"

"Let's go back to our respective territories, summon the knights, and recruit soldiers. It won't take long, and we will be able to completely defeat Charles V soon."

"The reason why Charles V dared to snatch our land is mainly because he has [-] royal guards in his hands. I heard that he secretly organized a royal army of [-] people."

"If we want to defeat Charles V, we must at least arm an army of more than [-] people."

"I have a good relationship with the Governor of Hong Kong. As long as I have money, I can buy enough arms and weapons from the Governor of Hong Kong."

"The quality of Ming's arms and weapons is very good, but the price is really very expensive. Where did Charles V get the money to train the new Royal Army?"

"I don't know where his money came from, maybe it was borrowed from Daming people."

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Many great nobles are constantly discussing, discussing the matter of gathering troops to overthrow the rule of Charles V.

However, Charles V has already prepared for it.

Charles V has been preparing for this since the end of last year. First, he assigned his confidants to important positions in the Spanish army, and instantly took charge of the Spanish navy and army.

Then, with the help of the money earned from reselling penicillin during the epidemic, the Royal Army was secretly formed, and a large number of arms and weapons of the Ming Empire were purchased.

Holding the army in his hands, Charles V was also very confident, and he also made careful deployment and planning for this.

When Charles V officially announced the abolition of the state system and the implementation of the provincial system, many states were abolished and changed to provinces. At the same time, the governors of the provinces were appointed to rotate and transfer the great nobles and lords in various places.

Charles V's army had already been deployed, and he was waiting for nobles everywhere to rebel, taking this opportunity to completely weaken and attack the power of these nobles.

At the same time, they can also take advantage of this opportunity to reduce these big nobles on a large scale, and confiscate the territories and properties of the big nobles into their own pockets.

When Duke Alfonso led an army of 3 assembled from his own territory, he was marching towards the Spanish capital under the leadership of many knights.

Duke Alfonso was ambushed by the new Spanish army led by Alfred. Under the attack of the Ming Empire's weapons and weapons, Duke Alfonso's army was defeated.

Duke Alfonso was captured alive, and most of the others decisively chose to surrender.

For these soldiers, they don't know who they are fighting for, they only care about whether they have enough military pay and food, only those noble knights, they know why they are fighting.

However, after all, knights have eliminated backward products. Facing powerful firearms and a strictly trained army, they have no power to fight back.

Duke Alfonso was captured alive, and Charles V publicly tried him, sentenced Duke Alfonso to death for treason, treason, etc., and officially revoked the title of Duke Alfonso, announcing the confiscation of Duke Alfonso All the land and property under his name were set up as provinces, counties were divided, and new officials were appointed to manage and collect taxes.

Charles V quickly and neatly cleaned up the most powerful Duke Alfonso, and then quickly attacked Duke Santos and Duke Felipe with lightning speed.

Relying on its own strong military power, it easily held Duke Santos and Duke Felipe with almost no effort.

The two dukes were directly executed, the land and property were confiscated, their states were abolished, provinces and counties were set up, and officials were appointed to govern and collect taxes.

The three major dukes were quickly defeated by Charles V one after another. Not only was the duke himself killed, his territory and property were confiscated, but even the state was abolished. This greatly shocked the nobles of all sizes in Spain.

Soon, a large number of nobles expressed their loyalty to Charles V, and were willing to accept Charles V's reform plan and hand over their states that had been passed down from generation to generation.

There is no way, it is better to live than to lose their heads, not to mention that even if they have no territory, they are still nobles and have huge property. Charles V also cannot do without them when he governs the country.

Charles V easily cleaned up these big nobles, but did not kill all these small nobles.

As long as the nobles who are willing to accept its reform plan can still retain the income from their own land, they will only have to pay taxes to the king in the future, and at the same time cancel the nobles' right to conscription, jurisdiction, and taxation.

They are more like the nobles of the Ming Empire, they only have the right to benefit and ownership of the land, they can obtain the benefits of the land, and they can also buy and sell the land, but the jurisdiction over the land, taxation rights, etc. will belong to the king.

Under such operations, more nobles gave up resistance, gradually accepted Charles V's reform plan, and were willing to give up the states and territories passed down from generation to generation.

For these nobles, as long as the income from the land is still in their own hands, that's fine, as long as it doesn't affect their own enjoyment. As for other things, it doesn't seem to be very important to most nobles.

In less than a month, from the beginning of the undercurrent surging, swords drawn, and gunpowder filled with smoke, it quickly calmed down in the blink of an eye.

The young Charles V showed the courage, skill and wisdom of a generation of great emperors.

In a very short period of time, these nobles and ministers in Spain were tidied up, which greatly consolidated the royal power and brought a lot of power into their own hands.

In the Spanish royal palace.

Alfred, Pelos, Torres and many other young nobles who supported Charles V gathered together and were reporting the latest results to Charles V with smiles on their faces.

"Your Majesty, we have counted the assets of Duke Alfonso, Duke Santos, and Duke Felipe. The total value of the wealth seized by the three Dukes this time exceeds [-] million taels of silver!"

Alfred took out a detailed search list and submitted it to Charles V.

The three major dukes are the richest dukes in Spain, and also the dukes with the largest territories. This time, they were all killed and confiscated. In doing this, Alfred made full use of what he had learned in the Ming Empire, It was a copy of the Ming Dynasty's method of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan, and copied the underpants of the three Dukes.

"Fifty million taels of silver?"

When Charles V heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows.

With this money, I can continue to form a stronger army. Many princes and nobles of the Holy Roman Empire have united to announce the abolition of their position as the Holy Roman Emperor. Now they are electing new emperor.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Charles V. If he wants to unify Europe, the first thing to do is to unify Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Only after integrating the power of these two major countries can it be said that the whole of Europe can be said to be unified.

(End of this chapter)