Pennsylvania was given to him by a good friend of Ben, and the word pennsylvania originally meant the woods of Ben, which is the fief of the Bin family. North and South Carolina was the territory granted by the king to thank the eight nobles who helped him ascend the throne. In fact, the original word of Carolina was na, which means Charles' land, and this Charles was the prince later king of the then prince.

However, compared to these, the one that has been forgotten and misinterpreted most should be New York. In terms of the meaning of the word, it means New York. However, this York was not a place name at first, but a person name, the Duke of York, the younger brother of the British king at that time.

However, when the king granted this land to his younger brother, it was called New Amsterdam, which was the territory of the Dutch. However, after the Duke of York brought his fleet over, it changed its name to New York overnight, which is New York.

Caitlin opened the book and explained to Zhou Ming one by one that they were in the cafe outside the Quincy branch of Harvard Library. After all, they needed to be absolutely quiet. Although they did not make noise in the library, Caitlin had to keep explaining and still had to speak. Therefore, in order to be less eye-catching, they left the library and came to the cafe after taking the necessary books.

Listening to Caitlin's words, Zhou Ming nodded constantly: Faced with a completely unfamiliar land, when the central government does not have enough power to control it, excluding the land in the name of rewards, which not only gives rewards, but also kicks the threat to oneself out of the center, and can even be used as a means of war, such as enfeoffing a territory that does not belong to oneself to another noble.

Zhou Ming then changed the subject: But the feudal system also has an absolute disadvantage, that is, when the fiefdoms develop, the ends will not be lost, and even turn the guns to target the central government. Our Chinese Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, and even the independence of the Thirteen State States, can well prove this.

Therefore, the so-called War of Independence is just a break between a group of feudal princes and the central government. Zhou Ming finally asked, "Do you want to tell me that the United States is a feudal country controlled by aristocrats."

According to his way of founding the country, this is certain. These nobles have discovered the power of wealth. Therefore, these nobles gradually transformed from the initial simple feudal lords to the consortium family. Through their plunder of this fiefdom, they became capitalists one by one. Caitlin said.

Zhou Ming breathed out: This was expected. After all, the revolutionary storm in Europe later told them that it would be impossible to be simple as in the past. The people are not slaves who are enslaved at will. Only transformation can lead to a way out. So Caitlin, you will say that to understand the outside world, you must first understand the United States, because the development process of the United States and the transformation of the feudal aristocrats in the middle are the microcosm of everything.

Caitlin smiled and nodded and said yes. Zhou Ming finally asked: So since the American nobles were all enfeoffed from England, who enfeoffed the European nobles? What organizational forces are controlling all this behind their backs, and who is the real master of the outside world?

In fact, with Zhou Ming’s wisdom, I think there should be an answer to this question, so why do you still ask me? Caitlin asked back.

Zhou Ming was stunned for a moment. Indeed, after he learned that an organization could control the wealth of almost the whole world, he vaguely thought of an answer in his mind. It was just that this was a bit too exaggerated, so Zhou Ming did not dare to believe it: Then, as Caitlin, you said that, is it really the Holy See of the Roman Church?

Zhou Ming, you are indeed very smart. The answer is the Roman Catholic Church. He is the hand that controls most of the world's wealth, enfeoffs all the nobles in Europe, and controls everything in the outside world. Almost all the consortium families, or European nobles, in the eyes of the church, are just the stewards of their wealth management. Caitlin said to Zhou Ming.

I admit that the Roman Catholic Church has a great influence. After all, there may be more than one billion believers in the world, but they are just religions after all, and they should not be so large. Zhou Ming felt very puzzled.

I know this may be a bit difficult for Zhou Ming, because in China, there is no religion that can surpass the imperial power, and religion must bow to power; but in the West, this is the case. I think Zhou Ming, you should know that no matter whether any king ascends the throne, he must be crowned by the church, otherwise his power will be incomplete. This is the power of the Roman Catholic Church overrides the kingdom.

Caitlin said it and thought about it and said: As for the wealth of the Holy See, have you heard of tithes taxes?

Zhou Ming shook his head and said he had never heard of it: Is this a tax collected by the Holy See outside the government?

Caitlin nodded and said: The initial Holy See was under the control of the Roman emperor, but with the fall of the Roman Empire, the Holy See gradually became independent and became a separate political force. In order to control its territory, the Holy See began to impose tithes on all believers according to the saying that one-tenth of any wealth in the Bible belongs to God.

No one knew when the Holy See began to collect tithes taxes, but it has been 1212 years since the Pope-baptized kings began to support tithes taxes this year. It was not until fifty-five years ago that Britain officially stopped collecting tithes specialized in the church.

Caitlin continued: In modern countries, although there is no feudal saying of tithes tax, other things such as church tax, tithes donations within the church, etc., have replaced the tithes. Although they are not as large as before, they still represent their existence and are also a huge wealth that cannot be underestimated.

At the end of the story, Caitlin asked: I think I said that, with Zhou Ming, your wisdom, you can already understand why the organization that controls the outside world is a church.

Hearing the number 1212, Zhou Ming couldn't help but breathe, because it's really terrible. You know, many banks can make a bank profit by relying on interest rates of 6 to 7 percentage points per year, and can make the bank grow into a giant. Then the church can't help but take away 10 percentage points of wealth every year.

More importantly, banks only make profits through funds and investments, and also bear the risks of investment failure or loan default. They cannot guarantee that the interest can be obtained 100%; but the church is different. Their tithes are not at all risk, or one-tenth of all wealth, whether it is wheat grown in the land, cattle and sheep raised in the backyard, etc.

Simply put, the church will take away one tenth of all the wealth that has grown in the church's jurisdiction and have been taking over for more than a thousand consecutive years. How huge is the wealth accumulation over such a long period of time? Zhou Ming can still calculate this simple math problem.

In addition to tithes taxes, the church also has a very important characteristic, which is tax exemption. Simply put, as long as the church is doing business, no tax is required. Caitlin continued to say that of course, the church will have expenses such as missionary and building churches, but this is insignificant compared to the income he receives. Therefore, there was a time in Europe that almost all the land was under the control of the church.

Zhou Ming expressed his understanding: This is normal. In fact, this is a kind of land annexation. So when the church has mastered the land and wealth, it began to control all European countries. Is it right?

Although at the beginning, the church had great wealth and influence and did not know how to use it, later with several crusades, the church gradually found its entry point through the Florence Chamber of Commerce through funding wars.

Caitlin said: From then on, the church has firmly grasped the entire Europe through wealth. All nobles, whether royal or families like our Harrusburg, have the power to rule their fiefdoms only after being recognized by the Holy See, and no matter how powerful the kingdom of the country is, they must be crowned by the church to truly be king.

So that is to say, although the fiefdom in the United States is separated from Rome by an Atlantic Ocean, the influence of the church has also reached Zhou Mingwen.

Since Zhou Ming, you asked this, I think you must have never heard of the Pope Meridian. Caitlin said.

Zhou Ming nodded and said that he had never heard of it. So Caitlin told Zhou Ming: This papal meridian was five hundred years ago. Spain and Portugal broke out in war due to the ownership of the New World and the newly discovered territory in Africa. In the end, the Pope had to draw the papal meridian for them, dividing America into two, Brazil was assigned to Spain to the west and Portugal to the east.

After listening to Caitlin's words, Zhou Ming smiled: This sounds ridiculous, but I think it is also because the military power of the two countries is actually in the hands of the Holy See, or the weapons and supplies of the two countries are provided by the Holy See, otherwise they would have no reason to give up the occupation of the new territory by listening to an outsider.

Indeed, if the Holy See loses the funding of the Holy See, the two countries will not even have the ability to continue the war, but they may not even have the ability to continue to discover the new world. After all, sailing requires a lot of cost. Caitlin said, then now, let’s talk about the United States, Zhou Ming, you know that the Mayflower is called the real beginning of the United States and the most famous ship for American immigration. So do you know who is on this ship?

The believer Zhou Ming gave the answer without hesitation.

So this is easy to understand. Caitlin said that it is undeniable that the first group of believers who came to the United States were Puritans who were persecuted by other sects in China. However, as the believers took root in the Thirteen States, various factions and consortiums within the Holy See also came to the New World one by one. These Holy See delegations not only had missionaries, but also brought the wealth of the Holy See.

The Puritans who first immigrated to the New World chose to immigrate because they could not survive in the country. Therefore, they were all very poor. The richest one who first followed these believers to the New World was the church.

Caitlin said, pointing to the teaching building not far away and said: Just like this oldest Harvard University, it was originally a school that the church opened to train clergy and preach. In addition to Harvard, other universities that were first opened on this land were also universities under the name of the Holy See. After all, other immigrants were very poor at that time, and the only one who could afford money was the church.

After the school, the church opened many companies according to their own factions. They seized the Indians as slaves to mine for them, planted cocoa sugarcane, and produced all goods that could be sold to Europe for wealth. In the end, these Holy See companies gradually formed a consortium.
Chapter completed!