Back in August 1492, Ferdinand returned to Barcelona to join Isabella after singing with the monks in Rabida (1492 Conquest of Paradise), and unlike history, Isabella had to deal with the backlog of government affairs during the war alone, and even had to take care of the affairs of Aragon, because Ferdinand was scavenging for materials to do DIY wheel lighters and even flintlock pistols. The two monarchs would stay here until Columbus returned from his voyage, and until December 1493, when Ferdinand was stabbed in the back of the neck by a knife-wielding and dancing performance artist, Queen Isabella's first thought was that it was a sign of a rebellion by the Catalan nobility – and that they were not fuel-efficient lamps! And then her actions were—first to ensure Prince Juan's safety, to order him to take refuge quickly on a ship moored on the shore, and only then to find our poor Ferdinand......

They learned that Ferdinand was still alive...... Still alive? Ahem, what kind of attitude is this......

And then Isabella ...... Send messages to allies in France, Spain, and Italy to reassure them...... This guy won't die for a while......

And then ......

She and her daughters came to Ferdinand......

Ferdinand had a high fever for 50 days, and it seems that his life is still quite hard......

In order for God to bless Ferdinand, Isabella swore an oath......

She does not wear hoop skirts made of "brocade or silk......??!?

Ferdinand recovered......

So Isabella didn't think there was any need to keep her vows......

So I started preparing for my daughter's wedding......

Prepare gorgeous clothes for everyone......

Shouldn't Ferdinand, who suffered such a misfortune, be sympathetic?

The standard answer is – you deserve it!

Why?

……

Now let's turn the lens to Columbus.

West of the northwest coast of Africa, three galleons led by Columbus sailed towards the Canary Islands, an overseas territory of Castile.

Columbus and Barcelona have a love-hate relationship that is cut and unorganized.

Half a year later, Columbus would meet Isabella and Ferdinand here, where he would receive a generous reward and warm praise.

Five hundred years later, Columbus brought Messi to Barcelona.

But after Columbus came to Barcelona for the first time, and before Messi came to Barcelona for the first time, Columbus brought another thing to Barcelona -

…… Syphilis......

It began in April 1493 when the city was still celebrating.

It is worth mentioning that Ferdinand most likely also contracted syphilis.

It is likely that this statement indicates controversy, but the point is not whether Ferdinand was infected with this indescribable disease or not, but -

Since historians have been able to argue about whether Ferdinand contracted syphilis, and have come to the conclusion that it is possible, very likely, that the kind is, that ......

This fact is universally recognized......

Ferdinand, it's been 1493 or 1494, how long have you been married? Still messing around here??!

And it's certainly not with any serious person......

Columbus may have had it himself......

Therefore, SM's charges are undoubtedly conclusive.

…… Well, the topic has been crooked, and the reason why it has been crooked so much is that the title of this chapter is not really much to expand, and the voyage to the Canary Islands is smooth sailing......

Located in the subtropical Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, the indigenous people of the Canary Islands are known as the Guanches. It was reached by ancient Western Europeans by sea, and in the early 15th century, Castile and Portuguese began to explore the area, and armed conflicts broke out. The Treaty of Alcasovas in 1479 gave the Canary Islands to Castile, but in return, Portugal acquired all of the newly discovered lands off the coast of West Africa, as well as the Cape Verde Islands. Isabella established a colony in Gran Canaria in 1480 and soon established the Canary Islands as a thriving colony, providing a base for further exploration.

Therefore, without a new route, Castile would not have been able to compete with Portugal. So it's not surprising that Isabella would be interested in the unverifiable route to the West, otherwise you wouldn't have a place to go.

Another point is that Columbus also had a certain amount of luck in Spain, which only had a colony in the Atlantic Ocean, the Canary Islands, and Columbus could only use it as a base. If Portugal had sponsored Columbus's voyage, Columbus would probably have chosen the Azores, which is the deepest in the Atlantic, and then encountered the headwinds and currents of the Azores latitude zone, and it is difficult to say whether he would have come back alive...... Of course, with Columbus's character and pursuits, it may be better to die like that than to come back alive......

How to determine longitude when sailing is a very profound question, whether it is a sailing clock or the distance of the moon, it is not something that people of this era can imagine. This will belong to Ferdinand's great mission, he will start the great historical process of conquering the longitude, but first he has to incarnate Newton, otherwise he can't determine the lunar distance, that is to say, he has to do it with the Pope, then he must wait until 1517: that year the Protestant movement broke out, and the ninety-five theses smashed the Pope dizzy, at this time Spain is an important ally of Catholicism, as long as Ferdinand firmly supports Catholicism, the Pope doesn't care whether you are incarnated Newton or not, you just support Bruno and his old man doesn't care, Isn't it geocentrism? Isn't it just a slap in the face? What is it to abandon a doctrine compared to the pain of the life-and-death struggle between the Church and the Holy See in the whole of Central and Northern Europe, plus the Church in England that is about to move? Moreover, Ferdinand also prepared a new doctrine for the Pope - "The Big Bang is when God said, 'Let there be light'"! Pius XII declared that the Big Bang was in line with the Catholic concept of creation (time and space were born at the beginning, so some people may think that God said there should be light, and then it ...... There was no light at the moment of the Big Bang, but then it was filled with extremely dense photons, and it really looked like God said that there should be a rhythm of light) People Francis I also said that God is responsible for the Big Bang...... Sounds a little weird......

From Ferdinand's point of view, the connection between God and the Big Bang is believed only by people with IQ problems or unsound personalities, of course, people in the early 16th century were more religious, and perhaps Ferdinand's eyes would be quite numerous.

Of course, if the Pope really doesn't give face, he has to fight against Ferdinand, who is afraid of whom! After decades of work by Isabella and Ferdinand, Spanish Catholicism was already in the hands of the king, and Isabella's elected archbishop was pious and simple, and the church had no extravagance, so it was not affected by Protestantism. Because Protestantism is fundamentally two points, one is the conflict of interests between the nation-state and the universal church, the ruler represents a country with a growing national consciousness, and controls religion in his own hands, the most direct and classic is England, there is not even a treaty and negotiation, and there is a supreme bill directly. The second point is the oppression of the people by the Catholic Church. Of these two points, the most fundamental can actually be said to be the first point, you see that the princes of southern Germany also tended to Protestantism at first, and later the spread of Protestantism triggered the pursuit of rights by the peasants in southern Germany, and the princes immediately firmly turned to Catholicism, and today southern Germany is still Catholic. Spain had solved both points, and naturally Protestantism was difficult to penetrate, supplemented by political repression, and became a deep-rooted fortress of Catholicism. So, Ferdinand is not afraid of any awkward trouble from the Pope at all, how many divisions does he have? Do you still want the Papal States?

Dancing with the Pope with knives and guns? What's going on? Ferdinand didn't do such a thing without identity or taste. We are all literate and highly educated people, aren't we? Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, etc., and so on, and so on, and without saying a word, threw a copy (of the mathematical principles of natural philosophy) and kept it for Leo X to understand what natural philosophy was......

Now Columbus could only measure latitude, so his solution was to always sail along the 28th parallel, using the Canary Islands as a base and starting deep into the Atlantic.

On September 6, 1492, three sailing ships left the Canary Islands to sail westward, and the land finally disappeared, and the most feared and fascinating voyage of the era for adventure lovers - the invisible land voyage began.

From now on, they truly sail into the unknown.

The road ahead is vast and stormy......