With a muffled "bang", the heavy gangplank landed on the dock.

People who had been waiting impatiently began to flock to disembark.

A young man in a black travel coat walked through the crowd, looking a little tired, and like most people who don't like life at sea, the bumps in the sea were almost exhausting.

Fortunately, there were two attendants by his side who carried his luggage for him, which made him a lot easier.

Walking on the springboard, the young man's body instinctively swayed back and forth with the vibration of the springboard, and he spread his arms in order to maintain balance, which looked ridiculous.

The young man's funny appearance caused the prostitutes waiting on the dock to laugh, and they kept laughing and waving to the young man, which made the young man a little more nervous.

The attendant who followed him immediately gave up his hand to support his master, so that the young man could continue on his way until his feet were on the ground, and then he breathed a sigh.

The young man standing on the dock looked around with some curiosity, this was the first time he had been far away from home and in such a distant place, whether it was the way people dressed or the unique style of building the houses, it was completely different from everything he was used to, which made him a little nervous.

Those prostitutes came over like him, and their rich experience made them the best money for a rich young master like them, who was uprooted and unfamiliar with life, and sometimes he obviously needed the personal care of a "broad-minded" woman, so he should not refuse their kindness.

But before the prostitutes had even reached the young man's side, his two attendants were already in front of him.

They looked at the prostitutes with wary eyes, and did not seem to relax just because they were women.

This made the prostitutes realize that the young man did not seem to be a good business partner, so they wisely stayed where they were, just looking at him and waiting for his response.

The young man looked at the prostitutes twice, then greeted the attendants and walked out of the docks, much to the displeasure of the prostitutes, but seeing that the attendants were holding the hilt of their short knives even when they left, the women cleverly swallowed back their complaints.

"Don't be too nervous, it will make us look more visible."

That's what the young man commanded, but he couldn't go anywhere on his own, after all, it was his first real journey, and he had to face something he had never experienced before.

By the time Ofleiil set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, the middle of September had passed.

He arrived late because he did not go directly to his post after leaving Pisa, but made a detour to Sicily before taking a boat to Iberia.

In Sicily, Ofleiil hurriedly inspected the Sicilian army remaining in Sicily, and after listening to reports of some wounded officers and soldiers returning from Castile, he also had a rough impression of the army that was about to take command.

The Castilian army was an armed force full of contradictions, this army had both the shadow of the new army and the traces of the old army, which is why the Castilian people often fought bravely at the same time, but inevitably exposed the fatal weaknesses of the old army.

Ofleiil felt that this was a real challenge, so he had been imagining how to train and transform the existing Castilian armament since he left Pisa, and the reports he had heard from the Sicilians had given him some ideas.

But in order to reorganize, train, and nurture such an army exactly as he did not want it, it was necessary to have Alexander's full support.

At the same time, Ofleiyi also knows deeply that his duty is the head of an army and not the commander of the army, so he must clearly understand what he is responsible for and what he cannot touch.

This made it somewhat difficult for Ofleiuil, after all, unlike the Roman Tescian army, Alexander was the direct commander of the Roman Tescian army, and both he and Gompati were only Alexander's deputies in the army.

The Castilian army was different, strictly speaking, as a courtier, Ofleiil was only in charge of the court like Alexander, and in the army his chief officer was Gonzalo.

In other words, in terms of grand strategy, he could do exactly what Alexander intended, but when it came to specific military affairs, Ofreil had no right to contact Alexander through Gonzalo.

No army will tolerate an officer who likes to skip the ranks, no matter how deep his background, and for such a person, once this taboo is violated, no one will continue to cooperate.

Ofleiyi knew that such a situation would make him somewhat embarrassed in the army, and he was worried about Gonzalo's ability to work happily with him.

However, he also knew that because of all these problems, Alexander had to travel thousands of miles to transfer him from Italy to Castile, and even did not hesitate to withdraw him from the Po River defense line for this reason.

The thought of this was somewhat melancholy, and in fact, after crossing the Po and Mincho rivers, although Ofleiuil's own actions were somewhat hesitant, he was ready to attack Venice with Gompati.

He had even drawn up a rather aggressive plan for this, and he had already begun to make logistical preparations for it, and once everything was in place with Gompati, he was even sure that it would not be long before he could launch a large-scale annihilating attack into the heart of the Veneto region.

Perhaps then the attitude of the two sides sitting at the negotiating table will change dramatically, and perhaps the only thing the Venetians will be able to keep is their poor island on the lake.

It's just that such a grand plan can only stay on paper, which makes the chief of staff, who has secretly named this plan "Oflaiyi Plan", somewhat disappointed.

A carriage approached slowly, and the flag on it caught the attention of Oflei, who vaguely remembered seeing the badge on it, but for a moment he couldn't remember it.

The carriage that made Ofleiyi sell for the sake of the bazaar stopped next to him, which aroused the alarm of him and his entourage, but the man who got out of the carriage immediately relieved Oflei, who had just arrived in your land.

Tyegor looked at Ofleiil with some emotion, the two of them had not seen each other for a long time.

Consider that the young man had been a shy soldier when they had last met, but now he had become chief of staff of the army of the Duchy of Rome and Thesia.

And his own identity has changed a lot.

Valencia was now in a strange state, and the strange thing was that the local officials had announced that the merchant Tiego was wanted according to the order he had just received from the king.

He was accused of colluding with foreign hostile forces and plotting to overthrow the royal family of Aragon.

Such a serious accusation was enough to make Tiego's head fall at any time, and it frightened a large number of nobles and merchants who did business with Tiego, large and small.

In particular, in the silk market in Valencia, all kinds of rumors were rife for a while, so that both the merchants who stocked up on finished silk in large quantities and the brokers who bought low and sold high among them were all panicked for a while, which also caused the prices in the silk market to rise day by day.

And it soon became clear that the "Valencia Office of the East India Company", which had been a thriving business in the city, had closed its doors, and that another "Catalan Defense Company" had long since been empty.

However, in this situation, in the territory of Gandino, less than 20 fats from Valencia, María de Luna suddenly and openly held a grand banquet for Tiego.

At the banquet, Maria de Luna kissed Tiego for the first time in full view of the public, and she even had one of her sons and daughters hug Tiergo and call him "the new father of my children".

The move caused an uproar in the Valencia region.

While one was surprised by Maria de Luna's public declaration of being the mistress of others, they were surprised by the Borgia family's almost undisguised opposition to Ferdinand.

What makes people even more puzzled is that the officials in Valencia maintain an eerie silence about it.

This makes many people with flexible brains vaguely aware of the anomaly.

Later, a group of nobles led by the Archbishop of Valencia went to visit the Dukedom of Gantino, which also made people finally taste a different taste from this weirdness.

Prices in the silk market gradually began to fall, but no one noticed that just a few days before the Valencian officials announced the wanted warrants, strange brokers who had suddenly appeared in the market ate large quantities of low-priced silk.

Then they sold the silk in large numbers because of rumors that the price of silk was almost flying to the sky, and soon after, the banquet in the territory of Gandino was held.

The city of Valencia seems to have returned to its original state, but a little careful person will find that I don't know when the number of Catalans in the city increased, and it can be seen from the clothing of these people that these people should not be engaged in farming and labor.

The owner of the "Catalan Defense Company" is not wanted to abandon their business, but in a farm not far from the city, groups of Catalans are busy coming and going.

Most of them went in with hope on their faces, and when they came out, their pockets became bulging, and the hands holding the fellows became powerful.

And all this is happening under the noses of the Valencian officials who count the money with cramps in their hands.

Thiego was in Maria de Luna's carriage to greet Ofleiuil, and the coat of arms of the Duke of Gandino was unobstructed in Valencia, and even if it was known who was in the car, the guards guarding the checkpoint had no intention of stopping it.

"Remember, friend, this is Valencia, and the Borgia is here to be placed alongside all the saints."

Evengo's words surprised Ofleiuil, he never expected the merchant to dare to say such arrogant words, but he soon realized that Tygo was right, not even the slightest exaggeration.

In many places along the way, he saw arrest warrants for the traitor merchant Tiego, and even saw a portrait or two of them that were rather cool, but even then the carriage continued to pass through the streets and alleys unimpeded, and finally passed through the seemingly heavily guarded city gates and drove onto the road leading to the farms outside the city.

"Do the Valencians have a bad relationship with the Aragon royal family?" Oflaiyi asked with some curiosity.

"No, you should say that Valencia belongs to the Kingdom of Aragon." Tiego looked at the golden fields outside, and his eyes flashed with melancholy, and then he suddenly turned back and asked Ofleiil, "What do you think the Duke would do if he became King of Aragon one day?" ”

Offrey was stunned, admitting that he hadn't really thought about it, and he was surprised that Tiego had such great ambitions.

Then he realized that this was not Thieg's ambition.

"Sir, do I mean Your Highness wants to be the King of Aragon?" Ofleigh asked cautiously, feeling that he was really naïve in such matters, whether it was the merchant in front of him or Ullius or Machiavelli, they were far more aware of Alexander's intentions than he was in this regard.

"I just say if," replied Tiegor slyly, "don't listen to my nonsense, and don't be influenced by me because of this, knowing that even the struggle for the throne was challenged by Her Majesty the Queen Ferdinand, there is no doubt about it." ”

Ofleiyi wanted to say something, but when he saw Tygo looking at him with a meaningful look, he swallowed his words back, and at the same time, as he recalled the meaning of Tiergo's words, Oflaiyi suddenly felt a slight chill on his body.

The carriage suddenly became quiet, and neither of them spoke again, looking out the window at the fields that swept by, each thinking about his own thoughts.

The Duchy of Rome and the Kingdom of Sicily, the two countries are closely bound together by a pair of half-siblings, who are natural allies and the founders of the behemoth of creating the Free Trade Alliance, and their brother and sister are so affectionate that they sometimes feel more like a couple.

But this is only a matter of two people after all, and now behind them are two, or more, countries.

The Duke of Rome Thesia will become King of Colora, and the Queen of Sicily will also be expected to be the Monarch of Aragon, which seems to be a promising prospect for everyone.

But if one of them is not satisfied with just getting what they have now, then the kingdom of Aragon is likely to become the fuse of the great conflict between the two siblings and the two countries, and even the split.

It is very different for a country to be ruled by a husband and wife and brother and sister, and neither the era nor the faith can make Castile and Aragon solve this dilemma as ancient Egypt did.

As the situation changed, Alexander's men had come to realize that the future might be unavoidable, and they believed that there was no one among the Sicilians who thought the same way.

So will there be another inevitable "Iberian civil war" in the future?

Offrey glanced at Tiego, knowing that the merchant was close to Josa, and remembering the armies he had seen in Sicily.

In Ofleiuil's view, Sicilians, like Castilians, still retain the strong traces of old-fashioned armies, but the grenadier regiment directly under the queen has taken on a new look, both in terms of training and more importantly.

This army was more like a condensed or even upgraded version of the current Roman Thescian army, which used to feel refreshing to him, but now he couldn't help but start worrying.

He wondered what it would be like to fight such an army one day, or what would happen if Rome or Castile fought against such an enemy when most of the Sicilian army had already undergone a grenadier transformation.

The habit of being a soldier forced Oflaiyi to make such assumptions, and the result was that he felt that it was really not optimistic.

This made Ofleiil even more eager to see the Duke, and he had a new understanding of how to carry out drastic reforms of the Castilian army.

"When can I leave?" "Your Highness wants me to see Vallaridot as soon as possible." ”

"Don't worry about it, friend," said Tiego, "you may not believe it, but the situation in Valencia is very delicate right now, and maybe something unexpected will happen in the next moment." ”

Seeing Ofleiuil's puzzled look, Tiego explained to him: "Of course, Ferdinand would not be willing to allow Valencia to flout his orders so much, so he should be making all kinds of preparations at this time, even if he can't use force at this time, but he won't give up so easily." ”

"So?" Ofleiyi took a deep breath, making her tone sound as calm as possible.

"So you might want to stay here for a while, maybe we need your help." Tiego said and glanced at Oflei, noticing the undisguised wariness in Ofleiyi's eyes, and smiled at him, "Don't worry, I won't detain you, after all, who can say many things clearly in the future?" ”

Offrey didn't say anything more, although he had just set foot on this Iberian trip, the series of accidents had already made him realize that perhaps something had happened on this trip that he had not experienced in his life for more than 20 years.

I wonder how Your Highness is doing now?!

Ofreil couldn't help but think of Alexander, who had already heard that Josa was marching towards Ariaridotus with the Sicilian army.

If it was before, he would have been overjoyed to hear this, but now he felt a trace of gloom in his heart.

What will happen in the future?

Ofleiyi was confused, as a soldier he was really not good at thinking about these issues, which made him even more confused.

And in the palace of the Babiaridot king, Zhisa was asking Alexander the same question: "What shall we do in the future?" ”

Looking at the stern eyes of Josha, Alexander had to try to take his eyes off something that he should not look at as a brother, and then he said in an equally serious tone: "I asked you to come to Barriaridot in such a hurry for our future, don't you think you need an heir now?" ”

Alexander's words made Josha's eyebrows slightly raised, bending into two beautiful arcs, and then she smiled softly, and slowly retreated to the bedroom door behind her as she looked at Alexander, "Then, let me have an heir." ”