/kloc-After the opening of the new sea route in the 6th century, the main trade routes and trade centers in Europe moved from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast, which promoted the rapid development of British industry and commerce, especially wool textile industry. In Britain, due to the rapid development of wool textile industry, the demand for wool has greatly increased, leading to the rising price of wool.
Raising sheep requires much less labor than farming, and the shepherd's salary is the lowest, so raising sheep is very profitable. The income of ten acres of pasture exceeds twenty acres of cultivated land. In order to pursue profits, many aristocratic landlords began to use violence to drive away farmers, burn down villages and withdraw tenants. At the same time, they occupied grasslands, forests and swamps shared by farmers, eradicated the boundaries of fields, and fenced off large areas of land so that they could grow pasture and raise sheep.
Farmers lost their land to support their families, support the elderly and take care of the young, wandered to strange places and struggled on the hunger line. In Utopia, Thomas Moore angrily denounced the phenomenon of enclosure for profit. He said, "Sheep used to be docile, and it was enough to eat a little grass, but now they are said to be greedy and arrogant, and even want to eat people ...".
This is the bloody history of British capitalism and the "enclosure movement" of "sheep eating people" in the world. Those nobles who started from the enclosure movement became bourgeois new noble. The enclosure movement increased the land and monetary income of the upstarts, and farmers lost the means of production. Persecuted by the bloody legislation of the British government, they had to go to handicraft workshops to hire workers and were exploited by capitalists, which provided the necessary conditions for capitalist production.
The above is the main content of the "enclosure movement" of "sheep eating people", and I hope it will help everyone.