Chapter 2252: Fight without money!

The latest website: "Look at Yichen, if the Chinese want war, we will give them war!" Marquis Don Marco Asensio said fiercely.

"We must unite other countries, reorganize the combined fleet, and wage war against them! Defeat these heretics!" the gray-haired marquis shouted.

"Defeat them and send the heretics to hell!" Several voices immediately responded.

There are still many fans, especially some religious fanatics. They scold the Marquis of Don Van Bronckhorst, the Minister of State, and think that they are greedy for life and fear of death, and unexpectedly surrender to the heretics, and they will go to **** in the future!

But the Marquis of Don Van Bronckhorst received a very good boost, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Don Rodrigo sneered: "If you want to fight, be your pants!"

It is funny to say that the kingdom of Spain, which has the most silver in the world, is in financial trouble, which is simply absurd.

But this is true!

Spain in the 16th century was the object of envy and hatred of European monarchs. Through royal marriages, Spain's territory includes not only the Iberian Peninsula, but also a part of Central Europe, Sardinia in the Mediterranean, Sicily and the entire Italy south of Rome.

Of course, the vast American colonies are also a sacred and indivisible part of the empire.

America's gold and silver are rolling in, and the country is rich and vast. Spain must be the paradise on earth in Europe at that time? wrong! Spain is poor from top to bottom!

Spain’s poor soldiers, in addition to fighting the Ottoman Empire, they also fought with other European countries. They participated in almost all major wars in the sixteenth century to the seventeenth world. There was nothing to fight. If you want to fight, you have to fight. You can see that the two Chinese Yan Changwu fights more and more. Rich, and Spain’s problem is: lose more and lose less.

They spent money on religious export, and even triggered opposition from Japanese people in the Japanese country, which is tens of thousands of miles from the east of Spain!

Spain has not converted huge wealth into new productivity or used it for industrialization through financial markets. The massive increase in the money supply has caused prices to rise sharply, leading to a large amount of gold and silver flowing into other countries, mainly for the purchase of agricultural products and industrial products needed by the people.

They despise industry, and once a Spanish nobleman proudly declared: “Let London be satisfied with the production of fiber; let the Netherlands be satisfied with the production of striped cloth; let the West Indies be satisfied with the production of **** skins and workhorses; let Milan be satisfied with the production. Produce tapestry; the only thing that can be proved is that all the low countries are training skilled workers for Madrid, and Madrid is the queen of all parliaments, the whole world serves her, and she does not need to serve anyone."

Driven by this inexplicable sense of pride, the Spaniards began a life of desperate luxury and started the earliest purchase of luxury goods.

The luxury goods at that time were Chinese porcelain, silk and tea-so much silver flowed into China that the Spanish believed that the emperor of China used silver to make palaces!

And to provide the king with a luxurious life, build palaces and temples, and spend money like running water.

Now that Spain's treasury cannot make ends meet, how can it be possible to fight a big battle!

Count Don Rodrigo's series of statistics brought down the tune of religious fanatics, but they still insisted on fighting.

Finally, Felipe IV turned his gaze to a young minister and asked him: "Qing Gareth, what do you think?"

What was asked was Marquis Don Gareth Arrow, a lucky young man. He was the youngest son of former Prime Minister Don Arrow Bell. He looked very much like Arrow. After entering the royal court, he got The trust of Felipe IV.

Duke Don Aro Bell, was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain from 1643 to 1661. He was in power for nearly two decades. After his death, Felipe IV never appointed a new Prime Minister because the king felt that there was no one. The minister can compare with Arrow!

The attire of the Marquis of Don Gareth Arrow is heavy on the top and light on the bottom, in an inverted triangle shape. The upper body has majestic exaggerated shoulders, the sleeves and shoulders are stuffed with stuffing, and the lower body is tight-legged pants. The contours of the lower limbs will show vividly, revealing his long legs.

The materials are all high-quality woolen fabrics and satin, and a big hat and crocodile leather boots look magnificent, gorgeous, exaggerated, and religious. When he walks, he is full of vitality and rhythm, bringing a new atmosphere to the Wang court. People have to praise: "What a nobleman!"

He sonorously said: "The pagans in the East need war, then we will give them war!"

"We want to form a joint fleet to wage war against the infidels. We also want to assist Austria and let them march towards Constantinople!" It seems that the young man has a big plan.

"Where does the money come from?" asked Count Don Rodrigo, the chancellor of finance.

"You can borrow it!" Don Gareth pointed out: "There are a large number of bankers willing to lend us money to fund our holy war!"

"Go borrow it and pay it back!" Count Don Rodrigo said coldly: "Now half of our fiscal revenue is used to repay the loan. If we go down again, we can't afford it!"

Don Gareth said nonchalantly: "If you can't afford it, don't pay it back. Anyway, we haven't done this kind of thing!"

With such an idea, Count Don Rodrigo almost spit out old blood!

In order to balance expenditures, the King of Spain has repeatedly borrowed, mainly from major banker groups in Europe.

Borrowing is based on future earnings as collateral. As a result of profit rolling, Spain, as early as 1544, had 2/3 of its normal annual fiscal revenue used to repay loans.

Eight years later, the Spanish royal family could not even repay the debts, and simply announced that they would not repay the debts. This is commonly referred to as "national bankruptcy", similar to the debt repayments of Iceland and other countries during the financial crisis~www.wuxiaspot.com ~Since this bankruptcy, Spain has had 7 more royal bankruptcies in the nearly 100 years since then!

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain’s financial situation has been in crisis. In 1557, 1575, 1576, 1607, 1627 and 1647, the royal family had to repeatedly declare bankruptcy. During this period, it happened to be a year of considerable wealth from the Americas!

Therefore, if you don’t die, you won’t die. Now the Kingdom of Spain is once again on the verge of death. Count Don Rodrigo only feels gloomy. He already feels the sharp edge of the killer sent by the banker. !

Don Gareth rummaged, speaking of the need to safeguard the glory of Christ and resolutely resist the invasion of Eastern pagans. With the blessing of God, we will be able to reproduce the glory of defeating the Ottoman Empire in Lepanto's first battle. War history.

Felipe IV was moved by his words, he stood up, set aside his sword and shouted: "Go and gather our fleet and defeat the heretics!"

Suddenly, the cheers in the palace resounded through the sky!