As a result, under the special historical conditions at that time, with Ferdinand's efforts and advocacy, the Reclamation Corps formed the ethics of "three disciplines and eight attentions", cultivated the spirit of "everyone is born a single dog", and the "Daogen Cross Flag" became the banner of the Reclamation Regiment, and the Reclamation Regiment received the nickname of "Single Dog Regiment".

Alonso Córdoba proudly said in his final conquest of North America in 1517: "In the past 24 years, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, the North American Reclamation Corps has done an excellent job, 95% of the soldiers have remained single until they leave the Reclamation Corps, dedicating all their youth and blood, not a single person in the Legion has contracted syphilis or other diseases, and all officers and men do not smoke...... The Cantonment Corps set an example for all Spanish armies. ”

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Now, the members of Columbus's fleet are discovering that the trip was not as rosy as they had imagined.

On November 5, Columbus left Dominica. On the 6th, Ferdinand, Alonso, Torquemada, and the guards and sailors of the "Pelican" celebrated Juana's birthday on the ship. Ferdinand's birthday gifts were much more modest than they were in Iberia, but they were all meaningful: ginger and brown sugar, which were common ingredients for colds and various skin diseases, infectious diseases, etc., cured Juana's cold in Canaria; Corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, tobacco—the four representative crops of the New World, of course, the last one, Ferdinand told Juana that he would burn it after reading it, and that he would not keep it himself, and that the government would restrict it in his own country, and of course it was none of his business to sell it to England and France; In addition, there is Ferdinand's own color geographical topographic map of the Americas, half the world, blue oceans, undulating seabed terrain, green plains and forests, brown Cordillera mountains, snow-white Greenland, scattered West Indies, vivid colors, clear and accurate. Good memory is his only golden finger.

Juana had a lingering interest in ginger but knew it was useful, and the brown sugar made her eyes pop up with little stars, and she ate corn and sweet potatoes with relish, and stayed away from chili peppers—but it was a good thing for the Reclamation Corps who remained in Manhattan and Newfoundland, and the tobacco was resolutely burned after reading: "It tastes strange." ”

But Juana's favorite is Ferdinand's map of the Americas: "It's beautiful, it's spectacular!" Half of Europe looks so small on the right. ”

"Well, promising!" Ferdinand was very satisfied with this, don't take Europe too seriously, and honestly open the copy of the Americas is the right way.

"According to the papal edict, this half of the world is the territory of Castile."

"That's great." Juana had not yet fully understood the strategic significance of the Americas, but she had already felt that her father's painting of this vast New World was of great value, dwarfing the whole of Europe. "It looks like the backbone of the world."

"Yes, the backbone of the world! Well summed up. "In later generations, the lower half of this backbone was a high paraplegic, but the United States was enough to dominate the world with a quarter of the normally developed Americas.

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"I said God told me, do you believe it?" Faced with Alonso and Father Torquemada, who were scorched by the "map cannon", Ferdinand did not have the same sense of urgency as before.

"So I'll be honest - from the Ming Empire's "Tianxia Zhufan Zhigong Tu", painted in 1418. Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming Emperor Zhu Di and his son sent Zheng He seven times to explore the Indian Ocean, eastern Africa, and the Arabian Seas, perhaps even to the land we have reached today. A copy came through the almost severed land trade routes, and I got one by chance. It's a great miracle. "Ferdinand really thought it was a great miracle that he drew all the outlines of the seven continents and five continents, and the Americas were still well drawn, at least the frame of the barbell was there.

"Don't make this public, don't tell anyone else, Her Majesty knows about it."

"That's nature, Your Majesty." Both Alonso and Torquemada were trustworthy people who served Spain until the very last moment and they realized a lot at once.

"Now you know it's the New World...... So if you are verbose again, you must keep it a secret. ”

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From then on, bad luck began. The Castilians arrived on an island east of Puerto Rico and encountered a fierce tribe of Indians, the Caribs, who were cannibals. At first, when the Caribs saw the Castillians, they fled into the mountains. More than a dozen people in Columbus's direct fleet went into the wilderness, and according to historical records, they were going to "rob", and they were brave enough.

It turned out unsurprisingly - they disappeared. Columbus had no choice but to send a few hundred men into four teams to find them.

"It's not that easy to survive in the wilderness." Ferdinand now took Juana and a few dozen soldiers to the coast, not inland, and the entire second detachment was honestly stranded on the coast.

A small river flows into the sea from the side, and there are green bamboo forests and palm trees dozens of meters away from the beach on the shore.

"The water must be boiled, don't be too troublesome." Together with the soldiers, Ferdinand used jars to fetch water and bring it back to boil. Giardia and Cryptosporidium can kill people here. In Columbus's direct fleet, there were already people who had become ill because they had drunk unclean water.

On the other side, the Castilians, searching for their missing compatriots, discovered the Carib camp, however, they found salted human legs, a fresh Indian head, and a mixture of human and parrot meat, ready to be put in the pot at any time. Everyone was horrified, and although they found that no white people had been killed, they believed that the missing Castilian people had become a delicious meal for the natives elsewhere. The same creepy thing is that the Caribbeans castrate the young men they capture, most likely to make the meat taste better.

Fortunately, perhaps faith in God really did have a little effect, and none of these Castilians died, and they ran to the mountains to light a fire in the hope that their companions would find themselves.

Under the guidance of the friendly old Indian woman, the cannibal Caribs were mortal enemies of the other peaceful Indians, so the Castilians could get help from them, and the Castilians were able to rendezvous and bring back thirty Indians who had been captured by the Caribs and were about to be killed, at least at the time the Indians were willing to leave with them, after all, their lives mattered.

"Cutting the stem or tip of the bamboo, cutting the leaves of the palm, you can get relatively clean ......water," Ferdinand showed the method, deciding not to start challenging the men at the top of the food chain for the time being, the "second detachment" concentrated 4/5 of the food of the entire fleet, and each person had twice as much food as Columbus's crew.

Soon after, several clashes broke out between the Castilians and the Caribs. The poisoned arrows of the Indians exerted great power. This is a poison that attacks the nervous system, and cannot be detoxified, and the person who is hit by the arrow will "go crazy and die......

"Poison dart frog...... It's not that scary, actually. "Some people take themselves out of context to scare themselves, in fact, all the venom of a poison dart frog can only kill 10~20 people, and it is also an experimental analogy with white mice. What's more, just a small part of the venom of a poison dart frog is hastily smeared on the arrow. The killing of prey and people is the result of a combination of toxins, bacterial infections, the location of the arrow, and the wounded themselves. In fact, most of the Castilians, who had better food and treatment, survived in the end.

"It's a pity I don't have that much food and medicine for you."

Anyway, it wasn't the people of the "second detachment" who had an accident, and Ferdinand didn't have any extra supplies for those who acted on their own, and his own fleet was also very short of supplies, and he insisted on a maximum of one year according to the current consumption and replenishment (Columbus insisted on half a year), of course, one year was enough time to take measures to improve the situation.

In the autumn and winter of 1493 in the West Indies, the sun was still shining and the temperature was mild, but the Castilian expedition fleet really felt the autumn wind and the cold winter.