Back on January 2, 1495, shortly after the capture of the Papal States, Ferdinand was writing a letter to King Charles VIII of France in Burgosti, mainly proposing one last time that he abandon the attack on Naples and join forces against the Ottoman Empire.

Truth be told, Ferdinand wished that Charles VIII would have entered Naples in one day, and then accept a unified siege by the European powers, while laying the groundwork for the annexation of the Kingdom of Naples by the Spanish. And more than once to get "help" from the French on this issue.

But the scene still has to be said.

"We are ready to assist you, and we promise to allow the French army to use the city of Melilla, which we have occupied in North Africa, in order to storm the Holy Land.

"This is a great time to go on the offensive. Now the Moors are weakened by hunger and pestilence.

"For the glory of God, for the suppression of the infidels ......"

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The letter was sent and received no positive reply, but news came from Italy. Jem is dead.

This is not a good thing for Christian Europe.

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Sultan Mehmed II, known as the "conqueror" of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, established the rules of succession to the throne of the Ottoman Empire and made this rule of fratricidal killing into law -

"Whoever of my sons succeeds to the throne of the Sultan, for the sake of the world order, he should put his brother to death. This is accepted by the majority of jurists and will be implemented accordingly in the future. ”

Mehmed II died in May 1481, though he was most likely poisoned. He originally wanted to pass on to the prince Jem, but Cem was defeated in the civil war with Bayezid. To avoid being executed, Cem sought refuge in Bodrum, one of the few remaining fortresses in Europe off the Turkish coast. Jem was transported to Rhode Island, which at the time was still the home of the Knights Hospitaller.

In the end, Jem was sent to Rome and became a guest of Pope Innocent VIII, but was also a prisoner.

Cem always felt a threat to his throne in Bayezid's mind in Europe, so he was not yet willing to make a large-scale invasion of Europe (except in the Balkan land direction). But after Charles VIII's invasion of Rome, Jem was taken to Naples, perhaps poisoned by Bayezid II, perhaps because of his own overindulgence and unrestrained diet, and perhaps even because Pope Alexander VI decided not to give the French cheap, and Jem died mysteriously anyway.

Now Bayezid II can prepare to invade Europe with impunity, and the vested interests of the main war faction in China who support him to come to power have repeatedly urged him to attack Europe.

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In fact, long before that, the Ottoman Turkish Empire's attacks on Europe had never stopped, and it was just a matter of size.

In 1480, the Ottoman Turkish Empire occupied the Kingdom of Naples, Otranto, which seriously threatened Aragon's interests. Subsequently, however, due to the imperial civil war following the death of Mehmed II, the Neapolitans regained Otranto with the aid of Aragon, Castile, Portugal and Hungary.

But then the Ottoman Turkish Empire began to expand again, marching into North Africa by the Mamluk dynasty in an attempt to conquer Egypt.

The second direction is the Balkans. In 1490, the death of the valiant Hungarian king Matthias I created an opportunity for the Ottoman Turks to advance into the Balkans.

In 1492, just as the Kingdom of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula was finally overthrown, the Ottoman Turks began an attack on the Kingdom of Hungary. It was mainly raids and raids. In 1493, the Ottoman Turks launched another attack on Croatia and Nizhny Styriak, and on 9 September 1493, the Croatian nobility was almost wiped out in the Battle of Kelbowo near Adebina, and 7,000 Croatian soldiers were killed. Large numbers of Croatian refugees fled to the coasts of Austria and Italy.

When Ferdinand heard the news, it was only 10 days before he began his voyage to the New World. However, he didn't care much about it, and it was none of his business to live or die in the Balkans anyway.

But the appetite of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was too great, and they were in the other direction the Kingdom of Naples and the Mediterranean islands in southern Italy! This is something that Ferdinand could not tolerate! Because the extremely important islands of Sicily and Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean were under the rule of the Kingdom of Sicily at this time, and Ferdinand was the king of Sicily, which meant that the territory of Spain was already threatened.

In 1480, the Ottoman Turkish Empire occupied Otranto, Kingdom of Naples. The Kingdom of Naples is now a relative and ally of Spain, and in the future it is Spanish territory! In other words, the Ottoman Empire was not just a superficial threat, it was indeed a naked threat to Spain's national security, sphere of influence, and territorial integrity.

Fortunately, the Ottoman Empire did not accept the request of the Kingdom of Granada before 1492, otherwise God knows what the Iberian Peninsula would be like today.

However, Spain's own pacifist religion, the Moors, is still alive and well. Historically, Spain's expulsion of the Moors and erasure of the religion of peace was completed by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand in the years after 1500.

The intelligence service, Nidhogg, had been closely monitoring the situation in Granada and Andalusia, not in order to contain future rebellions, but to control the pace of rebellions, and even Ferdinand had no idea of controlling the scale of the rebellion.

Although there was a turmoil after the Moorish rebellion in history, even the state apparatus of the Kingdom of Granada was shattered, they had no strength to attack the city, they could only sweep the countryside, in order to obtain food, the Moors wantonly plundered Castilian villages, massacred Castilian civilians and prisoners of war, and even Marshal Gonzalo's brother Alonso · Cordoba was killed, and of course he wouldn't be in that way now, because the others were still in New York.

Then the Moorish rebellion spread to Andalusia, where the Spanish aristocracy had the greatest power and the most land, and it was not a political and economic center, but the aristocracy was too powerful. Having lost their lands and estates, these nobles wanted to negotiate a solution and send the Moors to North Africa.

As a result, the Spanish king actually accepted this opinion! They have already fought a deep hatred in the sea of blood, and they actually sent them to North Africa! As a result, it is conceivable that the ranks of the pirate leader Hayreddin began to swell massively from this time, and a large number of Moors with hatred for Spain provided a large personnel base for the North African pirates.

Therefore, according to Ferdinand's decision, the larger the scale of the rebellion, the better, and to make Andalusia the main rebel area, so that the local aristocracy will suffer a decisive blow, so that they will never recover, as for the Moors, after they have used this sword, if they do not want to die under the swords and guns of the Castilian army, the only option is to jump into the Strait of Gibraltar, maybe you can swim over? Oh, and you can't swim past it, opposite is the Portuguese fortress of Ceuta......

"Peace teaches my heart to die!" Ferdinand was not joking because of the seriousness of the situation, and by 1499 the Castilian and Ottoman armies were about to pass through the competition.