"The situation on Hispaniola is terrible."

This is the succinct conclusion of Asorin after witnessing firsthand what has been happening on the island for more than three months.

After Christmas 1493, the plague and hunger on the island intensified, and people died every day. The town of Isabella is full of dead bodies, stench, and haunted legends. It is said that the ghosts of the nobles who lost their lives would wander the streets at night, crying and wailing.

Soon after His Majesty left, conflict with the indigenous population broke out. Conflict was inevitable when the crews left behind by Columbus's first voyage began to plunder the women of the indigenous population.

The first trigger was the fact that the chief of the natives sent five natives at the request of the colonists to help three Castilian people cross a river, but the five natives slipped away very slippery, taking some of the Castilian clothes and parcels with them......

If this is the case, there may be a brawl, but then a small change has fatal consequences.

The natives regretted their escape, thinking that such a theft would be reprimanded by both their chieftains and colonists. They discussed this for a while.

"We give the stolen things to the chief so that the chief will protect us!"

Hehe, who said that natives are stupid? What kind of drama is this? The standard Feng Ting presents Han Shangdang and Zhao's routine!

If the routine is the same, then the result will naturally be the same.

……

Columbus's servant, the famous navigator and historian Alonso de Ojeda, arrested and imprisoned the natives, and he was so enraged that he ordered the ears of one of the thieves to be cut off, in accordance with the traditional punishment for thieves in Europe.

However, before his order could be carried out, Columbus's order arrived.

It is not forgiveness, Columbus has attracted a lot of criticism because of the last forgiveness of the native chiefs in the north of the island, and it is rumored in the roadside society that the king was already very dissatisfied with the affairs of the Admiral Oceans in the Canary Islands, and now he heard the complaints of the Aragonese nobles, and was even more angry, so that he left the island the next day of Christmas to open up what His Majesty called "New York".

And due to "weakness", food shortages, and raging epidemics, the supply of 1,500 people on 17 ships could no longer be guaranteed.

Columbus had to send most of his crew of about 1,000 men under the command of Torres to return from Hispaniola in 12 ships, and soon returned to Castile.

Columbus chose to be tough this time.

His order was, the death penalty.

……

Not done yet? If the routine is not deep enough, then the performance is not exciting enough.

Columbus, in the end, relented......

But what? It's late.

When the chieftain heard that Columbus had this idea, he was angry and attacked some of the other Castilians......

Soon after, the Castilian commander of the fortress of St. Thomas in a gold mine on the island of Hispaniola, the nobleman of Aragon, Mawson Pedro Magarita, who had previously been a frequent whistleblower to His Majesty, felt fed up and seized three ships and returned home without permission, reporting to Queen Isabella that Columbus was committing mischief there.

The sailors and soldiers left behind by Mawson were left unchecked, robbing and raping everywhere.

……

Larger conflicts took place.

Dozens of Castilian people were killed, and the fortress of St. Thomas was surrounded.

……

At the end of March, the Castilian invasion of the island of Hispaniola broke out.

……

"Alas!" Asorin shook his head and sighed, not for the sake of the disaster of the indigenous people, of course, but for the chaos of the island now.

In addition to blood, there is also that terrible disease - syphilis.

In the case of the Indians, syphilis was obviously not as harmful to them as the flu. The Indians were familiar with this, and they knew how to treat it.

But apparently the Europeans do not know. Some indigenous women were in love with Castilian sailors and soldiers, but mostly through an involuntary situation.

The first case of attempted rape was committed by Columbus's friend Michele de Cuneo. He asked Columbus for a Caribbean woman he had captured, Cuneo took her into the cabin and whipped her, the woman cried and cried out for help from the men around her, none of whom reached out to help.

How did it end up being an attempt?

Atholin couldn't stand it anymore. A punch knocked Cuneo to the ground.

Cuneo was angry and complained to Columbus. However, Columbus did not impose any punishment on Assolin, because Atholin was an officer under Fonseca, and Columbus had no authority to restrain him. And Asorin's background is not simple, he is the youngest son of a big nobleman in Seville.

Columbus knew that this was the Lord he could not provoke.

……

This woman is not bad, there is no syphilis, the hero saves the beauty, shouldn't something happen?

"Nothing really happened at the time...... Later, there was none. Knocking on the plank, dispelling the gossip of his colleagues, Asorin decided to go to sleep, and was really upset when he remembered the incident of the previous month.

In the early morning of the next day, there was a noise outside, and Atholin was woken up, and suddenly his heart moved, and he ran to inquire.

"It turns out that our commander-in-chief also wants to play with the indigenous girl......"

For some unknown reason, Atholin didn't go to see Righteous Courage this time.

He just kept it in his heart.

After a while, suddenly, an even louder noise came.

On 11 April, the king's fleet returned to the town of Isabella, east of Hispaniola.

When Columbus hurried to meet the king, he was visibly disheveled. The pants were not tidied up.

Ferdinand didn't speak, apparently knowing a lot and looking at him meaningfully.

Columbus and Ferdinand had the following conversation. If that's a conversation.

Columbus: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry I couldn't be there to greet ...... soon."

Ferdinand: "......"

Columbus: "Your Majesty, I was just ...... Journaling ......"

Ferdinand: "......"

Columbus: "Your Majesty, please listen to me, I didn't mean to ......"

Ferdinand: "......"

……

On 13 April 1494, Ferdinand left the town of Isabella after a short stay. Asorin was ordered to serve as an accompanying military attaché, leaving his grief-stricken colleagues to continue their surveillance duties on Hispaniola.

Asorin stood on the deck, looking out at the ocean ahead. In the vast Caribbean Sea, the tropical sea breeze is full of scorching heat, which makes people sweat and feel very uncomfortable. But compared to his life on Hispaniola, Atholin had to say that it was great to be able to leave there, he really didn't want to stay there for a moment, and the comrades who stayed there would be three minutes of silence for you.

During his time on the island, Atholin saw either bloody conflict or indulgence, which made him and his colleagues seem to be people of two worlds compared to the rest of the island, and they were unusually glaring.

Let's say they don't have syphilis.

Syphilis is a terrible thing. Asorin thought to herself. It's really like His Majesty said, it's not a single dog.

Unless the sexual partner has never been infected with the disease......

"Well, what's the fuss?" A pair of hands covered his eyes.

What are the women in the "second detachment"? ”

"Juana ......"

Atholin is also a peach blossom luck, and she actually soaked in the current princess, the future queen, and Her Royal Highness Princess Juana......

Ahem, what do you think? It's just the same name.

Atholin was a little depressed, his fiancée was his boss, and he was really ......

"Your Majesty, forget if you have a map, you actually have information on latitude and longitude?"

"Isn't that normal? Atholin, aren't you a lover of math? If math is good enough to ......"

"Well, Your Majesty, you are a genius." Ferdinand was obviously reluctant to tell the truth, and his subordinates had no choice but to admit it.

After leaving Hispaniola, the "second detachment" turned south and sailed to the heart of the American continent according to the incomparably detailed routes, charts, and longitudes and latitudes of destinations provided by Ferdinand.

Columbus was left on the island, very depressed, and His Majesty did not say anything to him, and Father Torquemada finally conveyed His Majesty's meaning to Columbus with a gloomy face.

"Whatever you do next, by November 11, 1495, we will meet and return from the town of Isabella."

"By Your Majesty's will." Columbus had a messy mind, but he couldn't think about it.

After the king and the brave Atholin left, Columbus found a nine-year-old Indian girl and vented it fiercely. He thinks it's a great way to relieve stress.

Of course, Columbus wasn't down to business. On April 24, Columbus left the town of Isabella with three ships to inspect Cuba. He was not the first to discover this time, because His Majesty had already discovered the existence of Cuba, even as far north. But the nature of a navigator made Columbus want to explore the unknown of the North. They surveyed the entire southwest coast of Cuba, and Columbus did not make any discoveries, he discovered the island of Jamaica, as well as the island that His Majesty had named Isla de la Juventud.

April was the most chaotic, darkest, and most desperate month in the town of Isabella, with the king coming and going, the commander-in-chief quietly leaving, food shortages, terrible wars, raging diseases, and half of the people dying, mostly due to syphilis.

……

The Caribbean Sea has not yet entered the realm of the equatorial windless zone, and the ships of the "second detachment" have not yet fallen to turtle speed, but the speed is still slow.

Either way, the destination is still in sight.

In the early morning of April 23, 1494, Ferdinand, who had come out for a walk on the deck, was so moved that he ran to a high place, raised his telescope and looked south, and the narrowest part of the end of the isthmus of Central America was revealed.

The third destination arrived.

Eastern Panama, one of the most unknown regions in the world.

It is also one of the most dangerous areas in the world.

Darién Graben.

A place full of legends.