Marin was also taken aback by the surging public opinion in Europe, because he had also thought of using smallpox to harm hostile countries. I did not expect the Holy See and the countries to react so strongly to this.

If he did this and was discovered, it is estimated that he would be cold......

Thinking of the end of being hostile to all of Europe, Marin not only shuddered. However, the smallpox outbreak is a rare opportunity, and Marin doesn't want to let it go......

After much thought, Marin finally made a decision - he couldn't do it himself, but he could trick others into doing it......

So Marin sent very reliable spies, and they were smallpox spies, to the Naples region of Italy, and secretly encouraged the Spaniards to spread smallpox to France. If possible, it is also hoped that the French will use this trick against Spain. After all, France and Spain, Marin is even more afraid of Spain, a maritime power that owns India's spice trade.

However, Marin also knew that the Spanish controlled the sea power in the Mediterranean west of the Apennine Peninsula, and that it would be difficult for the French to spread smallpox to Spain. The Spaniards, on the other hand, controlled the sea power, but could easily do so.

But what Marin didn't expect was that before he could put it into action, the Venetians did it for him......

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Under pressure from all over Europe, the Venetian authorities finally decided to severely punish Toleni, the governor of Dalmatia, who privately spread smallpox. However, for the sake of official Venetian face, the Doge and the Council of Venice decided to let Toleni commit suicide. In this way, it will avoid the humiliation of going to Rome to be tried, and to a certain extent, it will also make the Venetian officials less embarrassed.

Toleni knew that he was going to die, and he was all lost. However, in order to protect his family from ending up after his death, he made a private deal with the Venetian Parliament......

The deal was simple – Toleni hoped that after his death, the council would take good care of his seven-year-old son, Tony, and protect Toleni's family from being bullied and divided.

In return, Toleni decided to make a last-ditch effort before he died, despite the infamy and pressure, to send someone to spread smallpox to Spain itself!

In any case, Toleni was the governor of the Venetian province of Dalmatia until his bad luck and had no small amount of power. Although Spain controlled the sea power west of the Apennine Peninsula, the French could not use the sea route at all. But the Venetians are not within this limit, because Venice is confident!

Although Spain is a maritime power, there is still a certain gap compared with Venice, an old maritime power. At least, in the Mediterranean, if the Venetians were mad, the Spaniards would not be able to bear it.

After all, the Mediterranean Sea is different from the Atlantic Ocean, where sails are the main driving force, but in the Mediterranean, because the wind is small and sometimes windless, galleys are the mainstream. It just so happens that Venice is the country with the most galleys. If it were to clash on a windy ocean, Spain might have some confidence. But in the Mediterranean conflict, the Venetians will have the upper hand.

In addition, in order to blockade the southern coast of France, most of the Spanish warships were sent to the Mediterranean coast of France, and they did not have a strong control over the sea area in the south near the African coast.

Toleni's solution was simple – send a few ships along the coast of North Africa to quietly spread smallpox to Spain proper......

Anyway, Toleni's infamy has already been renowned, and he is about to commit suicide by poisoning. Therefore, it is better to make a fight against Venice's sworn enemy, Spain, before he dies.

The Venetian parliament finally agreed to Toleni's approach, after all, they hated Spain too. The spice trade, which is a matter of millions of gold coins every year, has been robbed by Spain and Portugal, and how can the Venetians not resent it?

The Portuguese were far away in the Atlantic, and with the Strait of Gibraltar blocking them, the Venetians could not retaliate. However, to take revenge on the Spaniards, the Venetians were still happy to do so.

What's more, Toleni, a mortal man, is willing to bear all his sins, and they don't take risks, so why not?

After the two sides agreed, Toleni openly drank the poison that had been prepared long ago in front of the governor's palace in Split, the capital of the Dalmatian province, and cursed loudly the enemies of the Venetians, Spain and Portugal, before taking the poison, and claimed that even if he died, he would pull the Spaniards on his back...... This is clearly a hint that he is going to deal with Spain and Portugal......

In fact, Toleni did send five ships to Spain, and one to Portugal, which he also wanted to try, and to be able to shadow Portugal, another sworn enemy of the Venetians......

As a result, the Portuguese naturally did not get cloudy. Because, that ship was stopped by Spanish warships in the Strait of Gibraltar. But three of the five clippers sent to Spain managed to reach the coast of Spain and spread smallpox......

Their method of spreading smallpox was simple - send men ashore to catch a few Spanish locals, and let the smallpox patients kiss these people and hold them together for a long time...... Then, naturally, these people contracted smallpox......

And these hapless Spaniards, who were infected with smallpox, still couldn't figure out what was going on, and thought they had encountered a pervert. Because, those smallpox patients are even close to men......

How did they know that the Venetians considered kissing to be an important means of syphilis transmission. Index, a smallpox patient sent by Toleni, after receiving a large sum of money at home, was willing to act as a death squad and go to Spain to kiss people everywhere.

The most important thing is that they probably also know that the old, weak, sick and disabled are more likely to be infected with diseases, so they specially select the old, weak, sick and disabled to kiss. Many old men were "murdered" and kissed enough by these smallpox patients. Also, many Spanish women were also kissed. However, these women only thought that they had encountered a pervert, but did not know that they had been infected with smallpox......

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Marin also heard about Toleni's dispatch of ships to Spain to infect smallpox before his death. After all, Toleni took the blame on himself, but he publicly said that he would "pull the Spaniards back", and the Venetian did not keep it a secret. Therefore, the spies of the North Sea Kingdom in Venice soon learned of this information. Moreover, the North Sea State spy also stumbled upon the inside story of the news - Toleni had made a request to the Venetian parliament before his death......

With a simple thought, Marin understood Toleni's plan. Anyway, he is dead, so it is better to do something one last time before he dies, help Venice to get Spain, and in exchange for the Venetian parliamentarians to take care of the Conse family.

After thinking about this, Marin realized that the Spaniards were going to be out of luck......

However, the light made the Spaniards unlucky, and Marin was not happy. If only Spain was unlucky, and France was not unlucky, wouldn't the French want to suppress Spain and take away the Kingdom of Naples?

If France had stabilized the control of the volcanic ash in Naples, agriculture would have exploded, and the consequences would have been severe!

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to send someone to inform the spy Langton, who had been sent to Italy, to tell the Spaniards that Toleni, the governor of Dalmatia in Venice, had sent a ship to spread the smallpox virus to Spain proper, under the influence of the French. Spain was unlucky, but if smallpox had been spread to France by the same means, then the French would not have been able to prevail in the war......