"My dear Majesty Edward, I am about to marry your uncle Baron Thomas Seymour on the third of May, and I hope that you will be able to come to Castle Hewdry in Gloucestershire to attend our wedding - Love, Catherine Parr!" The mixed feelings in Edward's heart when he saw this letter made him feel uncomfortable even though his mind had already anticipated it.
It's like if your dad married you a stepmom, and when your dad died, your stepmom married your uncle, which makes Edward a little awkward.
Thomas Seymour was Edward's uncle, a son of John? Seymour, son of Sir John Seymour. He was also the brother of Edward's mother, Queen Jane Seymour, and Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.
Taking advantage of Queen Seymour's influence, Thomas Seymour also successfully became the commander of the English Channel Fleet in the year. When Edward came to the throne, in order to thank Queen Seymour for her kindness, he made him a baronet.
Seeing that he had been mixed up in the navy, Edward, after consulting with the Duke of Seymour, made him Secretary of the Navy again, and also put him into the Privy Council.
In fact, Edward reckoned that this second uncle of his was still married to Queen Catherine, not only because of an old love affair, but possibly for the sake of her enormous dowry.
She had been married, at the age of , to Edward Borrow, 2nd Baron Borrow of Gainesboro. And Edward died in the spring of that year.
And in years she married John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer of Snape in North Yorkshire. John Neville died in the year.
When you think about the estates of two noblemen, plus what she's accumulated over her years as queen, a conservative estimate would be a dowry of at least 30,000 pounds.
And it was at the home of Princess Mary (later Mary I), daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, that Catherine Parr caught the king's eye. After the passing of her second husband, the wealthy widow developed an affair with Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Hewdley, brother of Queen Jane Seymour.
But the king was so fond of her that she had to accept his love and marry Henry VIII.
As a matter of fact, marrying rich widows was a very popular and developed way among the nobles. This behavior of Thomas Seymour will not only not be laughed at, but will even make the nobles envious and jealous.
Frequent wars in the late Middle Ages and the deaths of noble men, together with the short average life expectancy of the people of that time, led to a rather frequent succession of feudal domains and a significant increase in the number of heiresses.
It was customary for a noble family with only one legitimate daughter to allow her to inherit the family estate and title alone. If there were many daughters, one of them would inherit the title, but the family property would be divided equally.
Those who had no legitimate children returned their territories to the monarch or lord. And for the nobles, who have always valued property and gentry, the estates of heiresses or widows are more attractive than affection and poise.
None was more typical than Henry IV's year-old cousin, who ludicrously married a year-old duchess in order to get a title and a fiefdom.
For this marriage Edward was not looking forward to, a marriage built on money was doomed to unhappiness.
It's April 28th of the year, and they're getting married on May 3rd, eek! It's not the right time!
Edward remembered that historically they seemed to get married six months after Henry VIII's death, how come it was earlier? Was this the butterfly effect?
After going through it in detail, Edward figures out a common result in traveling - the butterfly effect.
Whatever, what's coming, will come! Edward put his heart on the line, covered himself with the covers, and huffed and puffed!
The next day, just after breakfast, Edward hoofed it to the Badlands, where the regular work of clearing the land was being done with great fervor.
By the time Edward arrived, the entire wilderness had been set ablaze, and the burning weeds, thorns, and dead leaves of the wasteland danced rapidly in the flames that would be the first fertilizer for the land.
The serfs then tied the curved plows made yesterday to the shoulders of the heavy-drawn horses, and in groups of two, with one holding the reins of the horse and the other holding the plow, they slowly began the road to cultivation.
It was the day of the expansion and growth of the estate, and Steward Howard had arrived early and was supervising the serfs at work, and indeed there was little to supervise, for old Jack was helping.
When Edward saw this, he couldn't help but ask Howard, who was on the sidelines.
"My dear Mr. Steward, why don't you use oxen to clear the land?"
"Your Majesty, you don't realize that cattle are not easy to tame, especially bulls. To get them to plow the land properly is no less than getting the northern barbarians to learn manners!" Steward Howard came up with a figurative analogy to illustrate the stubbornness of bulls.
And the barbarians of the north were the Scots located in the north of England. At that time, because England often fought the Scots, this was a contemptuous term used by the English for the Scots.
The large-scale use of horse plowing in Europe came later in the century.
The fact is that it costs more to raise a horse than a cow. The opinion of the agronomists of the century was that "horses ate more oats, and horses had to be nailed to the palm, whereas cows did not have to be nailed to the palm. Therefore, it cost twice as much to raise horses as cattle. Cattle were more docile and could be sold to butchers for beef in their old age, whereas horses could only be sold for their skins, and for a time they were not even allowed to be slaughtered. So the horse has a greater depreciation charge on its value, whereas the cow retains its value more."
In addition, the Monkey King's Butterfly Horse Warmer profession comes from the same place as raising horses. As we all know, the horse is a delicate animal, it is more prone to disease, according to our agricultural books, the monkey tethered to the horse circle to disturb it, is a measure to prevent disease.
That's why Mr. Wu Cheng'en gave the monkey-headed Sun Wukong the official title of "Pil Ma Wen".
But the horse's advantages also stand out, first of all it is versatile, cameling, riding, pulling, civilian and military. In terms of speed and ostentatious amusement, the horse also has an advantage over the ox. Speed is even more of a horse's specialty, and French agriculturists of the century highly praised horse plowing, "A horse can do twice as much work in a day as an ox, or even twice as much". For the farmer, it was certainly good to get the land plowed quickly.
But for an estate owner like Edward, it was certainly more expensive to keep horses than cattle, and it was not cost-effective to keep horses.
But the assertion that horse plowing is faster than oxen plowing is not exactly the same answer in different societies. Tilling the land is a collaborative labor between humans and animals, and the ultimate efficiency is the result of the combined efforts of the two, not something that can be determined by a single horse or human.
In the twentieth century, the Soviet writer Ilyin, in his "The Story of the Five-Year Plan," said, "The horse is the most voracious and gluttonous of all machines. It chews up half of what the farmer produces in his fields. In the steppe places of the Ukraine, a peasant spends fifty gold pounds a year for his horse - as much as he spends for his whole family."
So Edward gave them another trick to subdue the bull - piercing the bull's nose.