On December 26, 1493, the "Second Detachment" left the town of Isabella with 33 ships and more than 3,000 men to sail north.

The fleet arrived on a large island in the north, which would later be known as Cuba.

"This place, named Cuba."

It's a favorite trip for naming freaks, naming a place when you get there. You don't need to think about the name at all, just open the map of the Americas, divide the mainland of the United States into forty-nine parts - Maine, New York and so on, and then Canada in the north, Mexico in the south, Alaska in the northwest, Greenland in the northeast, and then mark the location of New York City and Newfoundland...... Do your best to determine the route. Vasco da Gama's feat made such a move plausible and feasible. This cargo ran directly from Portugal to the Cape Verde Islands, and then ran directly to the Cape of Good Hope without docking, which can be called a limit of 20,000 miles. In contrast, the proximity to the coast to New York is a small case.

The "second detachment" was lucky. It took them about seven days to get around the westernmost side of the island of Cuba. On 2 January 1494, the fleet stumbled north to the first islet. Apparently this is the southernmost part of the Florida Keys, the "home of the sunset", Key West.

“It-will-be-called-Key-West.” Everyone was helpless, but the people who gave the order were stubborn and insisted on naming it in the language of the remote kingdom of England, which gave the English a free honor, and they also needed to translate it into Castilian and record it on the map of Castile.

"I'm here to give King Henry VII a little comfort, you see that I started calculating people so early, and even knew where the people he sent would be, so it was really unkind to drive them back like this, and naming them in the language of their kingdom can be regarded as a kind of compensation."

In fact, there is a better compensation. Years later, the English could proudly claim the western continent as their territory, as they were part of the United Empire. There's an old joke about that? Never underestimate the Poles, whose territory also reached the Far East......

The fleet then continued north, reaching the southern tip of the Florida peninsula.

The "second detachment" continued to move forward, crossing the Florida peninsula. In mid-January, they arrived at Chesapeake Bay in the middle of the East Coast of the United States, stopped at Cape Henry at the southern end of the bay to recuperate, named the place Virginia "virgin land," denounced some people's deviant ideas, and then hurried north with the fleet. The end of the expedition to New York was not far off.

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New York at the end of January 1494 was still cold, and the snow on the continent was still deep. The Drava Indian tribe tracked the tracks of hares in the forest, and hunting was a constant part of their life for thousands of years.

Manhattan Island is a less-than-existent subjugation of the mainland's tribes, nestled between the Hudson and East rivers. The forest on the island is verdant, but there is still snow at this time, and it is white.

On the morning of January 28, an Indian boy snuck out to soak up the sun on the coast of Manhattan Island and look out to sea, but in the morning light he suddenly saw a wooden stick revealed, and then several small sticks and some flakes......

The boy hurried back to report to his parents, who were surprised and did not fully believe what he said, so they talked to other people in the vicinity, some of whom were curious and went to see what the boy had said, and others who reported to the chief, who happened to be in a good mood and was happy to visit the island...... There were not many permanent Indians on the island, and there were only dozens or hundreds, and everyone knew about it, so they came to the shore in pairs.

"Nothing......" everyone chattered, and the parents thought the little boy had lied and rebuked him harshly. The boy insisted that he must have seen something strange......

Recalling the computerized landscape map provided by the experts I had seen, it was basically determined that this was the winter Manhattan landscape between the two rivers - the king holding the telescope - the simple telescope made by the combination of glass balls and pumps This small invention was naturally completed a long time ago - more than 7,000 meters away, just at the end of the horizon that people can see, it was determined that the island was not in great danger, and the Indians were not in a state of imminent war. After advancing to a point about three kilometers offshore, and then thinking about letting the fleet go around again, I can now feel at ease.

The Indians gathered some, and it seems that someone happened to find out before, so it is good to save the trouble of finding people and communicating with each other.

"Approach the shore and find a suitable place to anchor." Juan de la Cossa gave the order after the king's confirmation, and he now had the noble king as his navigator and a chauffeur with Goto.

On January 28, 1494, the first ripples of history crossed the ocean and reached the vast and rich New World of North America.

"Woo woo ......"

Indigenous interpreters from Hispaniola, smiling high-quality soldiers, and pious priests holding crosses do boost their favorability, but it seems like a lot of work to figure out the language.

After a long time, after pictograms, meetings, instructions, and leaves...... After all these ways, the two sides were barely able to exchange meanings.

Of course, at the beginning, everyone naturally did not talk about such a serious issue of territorial sovereignty since ancient times, but had a party to eat and drink, what wheat, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers and the like, and inevitably to have a few hares and turkeys, this turkey used to be used as a "mythical beast" to feed, but around 1000 AD, due to the shortage of food, the Indians decisively began to "break the precepts" to eat turkey. So the turkey suddenly changed from a phoenix that would not nirvana to a chicken that was grilled on the fire......

The next day, after a feast of insufficient wine but sufficient food, the "Aragonese chieftains" sent representatives to negotiate with the representatives of the Drava Indians.

The Delaware Indians were informed of the following-

The chief of the Aragon tribe, whose name is fat belly, was born in a place called "Hepi Raccoon Dumb", when he was young, he married the female chief of the Castilian tribe, and he was in love with his sister and brother, and this chief had no courage, and was called by his wife, and it is said that he actually dropped furniture to express his dissatisfaction during a quarrel...... But this chief was very attentive, looking for women everywhere, making his wife half angry, and greedy for money, hoarding his own food, turkeys and the like, and making his wife sell jewelry......

"Aragonese chieftain" knocked angrily...... A plank, glaring at the Castilian negotiator in front of him, who was babbling a lot of truths—the other party, of course, understood what he was saying, and deliberately knocked on the table a few times.

"Your Majesty, didn't you say that the members of our group will not treat us badly, after you hang me, you will have to treat my family well......

Well, the members of the Nidhogg group, it's really hard, this translator volunteered to go to Newfoundland to stay, of course the "chief" can't really treat him, isn't it just gossip about himself, I'll just put up with it, let's knock on the plank and type the code with our little fingers......

"I've changed it a long time ago, okay, if I'm still like that, you dare to talk nonsense like this?"

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"Well, Chief Chief, this was a long time ago, and now the chieftains of Aragon are not as bad as they used to be."

"Oh, how is the chieftain of Aragon doing?"

"Not so long ago, probably from the last time the snow melted, ......" (Aragonese chieftain: "......")

"Now the chieftains of Aragon are good at everything, but they are more afraid of their wives...... To give three examples, first the chief gave half of the power of his clan to his wife...... And this time, the chieftain of Aragon made a contribution to buy this island with the nobles...... But all the places he bought, from you there are other places...... It all belongs to his wife, and this chief has no share...... He also said that he would not go back to see his wife if he couldn't complete the task, and he would stay here until the task was completed, and he was even ready not to go back alive......"

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“Hey！ You're just taking it out of context and piecing it together! These are obviously four different things! The starry wind and snow rain are not compatible! You know what the division of power is, you know what the reason for the division of land, why I said I want to stay here, why I said I might not be able to go back......"

"Your Majesty, this is called a negotiation strategy, the more pitiful you are, the easier it is to win the sympathy of the other party, the easier it is for them to sell the island to you, you say, the chief of the dignified chief was driven here by his wife and can't go back, isn't it very pitiful, why do you have to help it......"

“…… I regret teaching you guys the code...... If I don't knock with you, if I knock again, the plank will crack, and my hand will break......"

"No, no, you've knocked on it for a long time, and nothing ......"

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"Haha...... Woo hoo ......"

After the translators relayed the glorious deeds of the "Aragonese chieftain", the chieftain and others, who had been taken by the intelligence officers, laughed uncontrollably, despite the presence of the protagonist of the story.

After laughing, the negotiator was very conscious and sent someone to bring a box of delicate stained glass beads - this is a Venetian specialty, and it is really not cheap! Much better than the historical Dutch conscience!

Sure enough, the chief's eyes immediately straightened, not only because the things he bid for were exquisite, but also because he could exchange a lot of things for them!

Many people only know that the Indian buddies are stupid and take glass beads as treasures, but they don't take into account what the productivity level of the Indians is, can they make glass beads?

Since you can't make glass beads, and there are no more or less quantities of this thing, it's unanimously accepted that it's a pretty thing—so it can be used as a general equivalent! Glass beads can be exchanged between Indians! The Indians are not really stupid, it is just because of the disparity in productivity. For a hundred years, from the beginning of the 15th century to the early 16th century, glass beads were quite a stiff currency! Moreover, the "Chief of Aragon" has brought good fellows, and the stained glass beads can also be sold for a price in Europe at this time.

I have to say that the "tragic performance" of the intelligence officers still played a certain role, and the chief of the chief, with the sympathy and empathy of the same chief and the man, generously said: "No matter how you say it, you are all guests, you are so friendly, I can't let the chief of Aragon not dare to go back if he can't complete the task, so let's not only sell this island to you, but also give it to you on the small island next to it, which we call Long Island, so that the chief of Aragon can go back and explain to his wife...... Really, I also know that this feeling is very bad, and it can be regarded as helping the brothers in distress......"

"How can this be done, although I am from Castile, but the husband of our chief, I also understand, he is afraid that his wife is not fake, he is very face-loving, you give it to him like this, I am afraid that he will not agree, you see I have a few bottles of our special wine, oh, it is made by the chief of Aragon, give you ten bottles, so that everyone will be happy......"

"Well, well, you guys are the best guests I've ever met, much better than the Iroquois guys, they know how to fight and kill, and they are not polite at all, and they speak very politely......"

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"Uh-huh, am I that interesting in gossiping?" On the "Pelican", the chief of Aragon looked at the whole ship, including his daughter, and laughed like a flower, only Father Torquemada hid the microscopic movements at the corners of his mouth. Try to adjust your state and return to a normal context.

"If we weren't all acquaintances, my courtiers who could only pat on the back would dare to talk to me like this, and there would be a hundred ways for him to die a natural death! Even other people, like Christopher Columbus, can't say the same about me, you, you're a soldier who works hard, I'm so magnanimous, and I want me to stay in Newfoundland, my heart hangs. "Honestly, isn't it just gossiping? My spy style is better than 007......

"You have indeed made the chief of the Drabe very happy, poor man, best guest...... I bought the island and made one, so I was gossiped about in vain. The most wretched man is the most terrible, the kindest enemy is the most powerful, and the most civilized warrior is the most powerful! ”

"Alonso, have you counted the people who stayed?"

"Your Majesty, everything has been counted, the number of people in the past was not enough, and now some volunteers have been recruited, personnel and supplies have been assembled on the shore of Manhattan Island and are on standby, and the last person, the head of the regiment, Alonso Córdoba, will go later!"