The most famous prodigal son in the Gorebral Flower Dynasty is the "Lord without Land" John . During his reign, the Prague dynasty lost almost all the territory on the European continent. In the British folk, this prodigal son is synonymous with incompetence. It is the boss behind the villains in the Robin Hood story, which is in sharp contrast with his powerful brother Richard. But the landless king John actually has good tactics and is a bit clever, and even has the most financial literacy among the kings of all dynasties in Britain. But it was this financial literacy that caused him to be scolded by the British for thousands of years.
Although John was famous for his lack of fief before he threw away French real estate, he made great gains in the sidelines between him and his father and Richard. After Richard took office, although John was only given the title of Earl of Motan, his wife, Isabel, Earl of Gloucester, was one of the largest feudal lords in Britain. John was one of the best feudal lords in Britain during the Richard era. After Richard's death, John began his own performance. Although his series of operations in France failed and was slapped in the face by Pope Innocent III, his wealth in his small vault was extremely high. In 1212, he stored up to 200,000 marks (100,000 pounds) of private wealth in the castles of Bristol and Nottingham , and the entire feudal land rent income in the 12th and 13th centuries was only more than 70,000 pounds per year. , John is an authentic rich country. This is not all he earns. According to the information of the Church of England, the British church was plundered by him for a hundred thousand pounds of "floating wealth", and in 1210 alone, he paid a fine of 40,000 marks to him. It is true that John paid a fine of more than 30,000 pounds to the Pope, but the church still lost a lot.
John lost to the French King Philip. He collected the "shield money" of the knights for 13 consecutive years for "revenge", and raised the standard to 3 pounds per knight a year. This money was not a small amount in the early 13th century. The value of the English and Scottish knights was more than 20 pounds. In 1203, when prices soared, a cow was only 7 shillings, and a sheep was only 10p. Near Oxford The annual income of a small manor is only 5 pounds (the British call a manor less than 500 acres a small manor, and at that time, the currency was very small, and most of the income from the manor was agricultural products). John collected money for many years, but stayed in Britain for many years and did not fight (he only spent six months in his life on the European continent), and the British knights who paid the money every year were depressed and vomited blood.
John even regarded the vulnerable groups in China Jewish and noble widows as leeks. The Jews were forced to pay 65,000 marks of tax to them in October 1210, and they dared not to pay it. The envoy of the Wang family imprisoned their leader and smashed a tooth for a day. They were vividly remembered (the unlucky guy paid 10,000 yuan. mark). All widows in England were also cared about by John, and they could only sell their money and avoid being forced to marry by John.
Also the nobles and filial sons were also concerned about by John. In the past, the nobles and filial sons had to pay the income of the fief for two years as inheritance tax, and John raised it to three years. This is just the theoretical price. John is very concerned about the dish. Some filial sons of nobles were forced to pay him an inheritance tax equivalent to the annual income of fiefdom for seven years or even the price of fiefdom.
John regarded all the tyrants and nobles in Britain as leeks, so he naturally bears the anger of these people. With the promotion of the church and the French royal family, John looked back and found that his enemies were everywhere in Britain. After John's death, the church and the nobles were still unwilling to give up and compiled stories such as Robin Hood and werewolf to arrange them.
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