Ferdinand not only surrendered his sights to the Kingdom of Naples, but also to Corsica.

Corsica has been a sacred territory of the Kingdom of Aragon since ancient times.

In 1276 he succeeded to the throne of his uncle in Mallorca and Montpellier. He once obeyed the edict of Pope Martin IV and fought with Philip III of France against his father ("dutiful son"...... ）。 In 1285 his father died and he succeeded to the throne of Sicily, and in 1291 his brother Alfonso III of Aragon died and he took over the kingdom of Aragon. In order to reconcile with the House of Anjou, he married the daughter of Charles II of Naples, and in 1295 he renounced Sicily. From then until 1409, the King of the Two Sicilies ceased to be the King of Aragon. As compensation, Pope Boniface VIII allowed him to conquer the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Republic of Dissa, but he did not occupy Sardinia until 1324. In 1311 the throne of Montpellier was passed to Sancho I, and from then until 1336 the lord of Montpellier was no longer held by the king of Aragon. After his death, the throne of Aragon was succeeded by his son Alfonso IV, who stabbed his brother and annexed Montpellier.

Then, in 1424, after more than a hundred years, Genoa annexed Corsica.

However, Genoa's power was insufficient to suppress the Corsican rebellion, so Genoa's dominance in Corsica was not enough. And the later French, and the Spaniards of their size, were capable of subduing Corsica.

And, obviously, Genoa's rule over Corsica was illegitimate! And the law is on the side of Aragon.

Although it has been 200 years since the Pope authorized the occupation of Corsica in 1295, the current Pope is a Spaniard! After Ferdinand sent 50,000 ducats, His Holiness the Pope happily reaffirmed the validity of the edict of that year.

As for the Genoese? Sorry, but they are now the target of the anti-French united front. It wasn't Ferdinand's instigation, it was the original history.

Let's not forget that the funds for Charles VIII's expedition were borrowed from Genoa. Then, the Genoese reaped the gratitude of the French - "borrowing", "garrisoning", "temporary", "fleet docking", ...... Wait, wait, you say tragedy is not tragedy?

But, like the treatment of Austria after the defeat of Germany, Genoa was not considered a victim by the countries of the anti-French united front, but as an accomplice of the French!

Without you, where did the money for the French war come from? Without you, who sent supplies to the French? Without you, where would the French fleet dock? Also, Venice and Genoa are commercial competitors. So, as mentioned earlier, the Venetian navy mercilessly blocked Genoa's sea transport! Of course, the Aragonese Mediterranean fleet did not fall either!

Therefore, the Genoese people can't get out of the boat now, they can't even struggle!

The French are being beaten!

Aragon occupies the law again!

So, what better opportunity could there be?

Also, the Genoese only regarded Corsica as a colony, otherwise they would not have sold it to the French when they could not suppress the rebellion, so it was also feasible for Aragon to take advantage of this opportunity to buy and sell by force.

So Aragon sent a note to Genoa, telling them that your country's occupation of Corsica is illegal, and that Corsica has been a sacred and inalienable territory of Aragon since ancient times since two hundred years ago - in Europe, two hundred years can indeed be said to be "since ancient times" - but in order to maintain friendly relations between the two countries, we want to buy your Corsica, bid 100,000 ducats, buy your broken island, and use the money to buy two fiefs, which is interesting enough. So be obedient. If your country refuses, I am sorry, but we will land on Corsica on July 1, 1495 and resume the exercise of sovereignty. However, my country hopes that the two countries will be able to transfer sovereignty over Corsica peacefully. Refuse to negotiate because sovereignty is not a negotiable issue, sovereignty is not a negotiable issue, and sovereignty is not a negotiable issue! Say the important thing three times!

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The Genoese said, "I have a saying that MMP doesn't know whether to say or not......

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However, no matter how entangled, sad, and grieved the Genoese were, Aragorn and Ferdinand could never budge.

This is the territory of Aragon!

This is the dignity of Aragon!

This is the honor of Aragon!

This is Aragon's national interest!

No country can trample on the territorial sovereignty of Aragon! Not even the French, and certainly not the Genoese!

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Ahem, after saying so many beautiful words, in fact, there is still a naked Leviathan behind it.

Sardinia is now rapidly becoming a cement island, an agricultural island, a base island, an industrial island, a military island, cement, grain, military installations, infrastructure, steelmaking, artillery and guns...... Although two years of development is far from saturating Sardinia's industry, with the development of the first scientific and technological revolution in Sardinia, five years, ten years, or longer, Sardinia's industry will definitely reach a bottleneck.

Of course, the first technological revolution had to spread to the Iberian Peninsula, which was Ferdinand's goal, but he had to prevent the technology tree from spreading too quickly.

Agriculture, he is not worried.

Military technology can be kept secret.

Coal and steel technology can also be kept secret.

Moreover, military technology and heavy industry of coal and steel do not have to be put on the mainland. Because the whole of southern Europe is already short of coal and iron.

However, Ferdinand also had to think about the proliferation of light industry! Especially advanced cotton textile technology. Ferdinand knew that it was impossible to keep it a secret forever, but he wanted to keep it secret for twenty or thirty years, or even forty or fifty years.

It's not impossible, the British did it in the 18th century.

Therefore, Ferdinand believes that it is only the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, and in terms of the situation of regional exchanges and intelligence acquisition in this era, the British can do it three hundred years later, and they should also be able to do it, otherwise it means that there is something wrong with their ability.

But Ferdinand still did not intend to put cotton textiles on the mainland immediately. He drew a line that in 1517 or 1518, after the victory in the war to annex Portugal, the first scientific and technological revolution would begin on a large scale in the Iberian Peninsula itself. At that time, no matter whether the technology tree spread or not, the two global colonial empires and Spain, which had the highest technology tree, were no longer something that European countries could challenge.

Of course, cotton weaving in the Iberian Peninsula does not mean that it has stopped for more than 20 years, but that it has not developed so fast. Ferdinand can invest money in the construction of the royal cotton textile industry, learn the methods of the British cotton textile industry to make a fortune, and introduce a large number of cotton textile workers from the Netherlands (Flanders), anyway, it is still a situation where Catholicism dominates the world, and the Italian war is fought, and the Holy Roman Empire will definitely levy taxes and levies in Flanders, and I believe that there will be no shortage of craftsmen who are willing to come to the Iberian Peninsula.

Therefore, Ferdinand planned to divide the industrial technology tree into three development directions in the next two decades.

The first direction is the further improvement of Sardinia's industrial system. This is my own job, and it is natural to be done.

The second direction is to drift the industrial technology tree across the ocean to develop in North America, such as Mobile, Birmingham, New York, the Great Lakes, Quebec, etc., etc., this work is more difficult, and the distance is far away, but first, the confidentiality is the highest, and second, this must be done! The development of industry in the Americas and the unification of the whole of America was an important pillar of Ferdinand's thousand-year-old imperial dream! If the whole of America, from the Arctic to the South Pole, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, were united under one nation, what other power on this earth could confront it?

The third direction is to find another base in Europe as soon as possible to accommodate the development and expansion of industrial and agricultural productive forces.

There are two targets at the base, one is Ireland and the other is Corsica. But Ireland will not be counted on in the next thirty or forty years, and it will be said by the time of the Anglo-Spanish war! Moreover, Ireland has been defeated, and it has to pacify the people and sweep away the remnants of the British, and even then, there is no way to ensure secrecy.

Then Ferdinand is eyeing Corsica, this place is relatively remote, and it is also a place with less contact with the outside world, Genoa has no foundation on the island at all, Aragon still has a legal principle, and the opportunity is now, who will you fight if you don't fight? As for the tactics that were taken by Genoa and the French afterwards and which were almost successful, after the defeat of the war was made, it was not successful because the Corsicans finally relented, and thus our Majesty Napoleon......

So what exactly is this strategy?

Ahem, this still needs to be asked, of course, it is with (flow) harmony (release) society (slaughter) will (kill)!