Chapter 81: We Are the Founders of Imperialism (Part II)
As soon as Philip died, although the inheritance rights of women in Salik's law were very low, they were ...... There's no one else!
So it was Marguerite who inherited Flanders.
This was beneficial to Ferdinand's conspiracy, so the change was ...... for Ferdinand
It has nothing to do with him, no, nothing at all!
Even after throwing away all the lower limits, Ferdinand ...... There can also be only 52% of the weight, and the other 48% is in the hands of Maximilian.
Who has more inheritance rights between grandfather and grandfather?
It should be grandpa.
This judgment is premised on:
When his grandson died, his grandfather was conspired by the princes to depose him;
At the same time, his grandfather suffered a major military defeat in Switzerland, and was forced by the princes to become a powerless hypocrite;
Grandpa's neighbor was also dead at this time;
My grandfather didn't solve the problem until six years later;
Then by this time, my grandfather's neighbor had already shared the spoils with my grandfather......
Every article here is basically inevitable, the contradiction between the princes and the emperor has reached the point of rapid intensification, and the Swiss pikemen are not vegetarians, as for the war between the princes and the emperor, it is impossible for the emperor to pacify the princes, and France's ambitions for Italy cannot wait for the HRE emperor to solve his own problems......
The real problem is that these things happened at the same time in more than half a year, which is really ......
Lucky?
It's also troublesome......
In order to ensure that this situation can still occur, while the balance of power and the course of history in the European countries have not changed much, Ferdinand needs to ...... Paddled......
Paddle is also very meaningful, in fact, in the end, isn't it only by paddling that Spain can become the world hegemon?
So, now go paddling!
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O Atlantic! You're all water!
…… Now let's turn our lens to the Atlantic Ocean again!
"We are the founders of imperialism", who are these founders?
Imperialism is about expansion all over the world!
Ferdinand himself must have been one of them, and he laid a solid foundation for the full-scale expansion of the New World! In 1495, the original Spain, which cannot be called Spain, should be said to be only Castile, was tormented on the island of Hispaniola, in chaos, either famine or syphilis.
Now, Spain has occupied Newfoundland, Quebec, New York, most of Hispaniola, the waist of Panama, and Puerto Segurú, Brazil, where Portugal would later land. More than 10,000 people worked hard to open up the land of the New World, and the east coast of the Americas was determined, and as for the west coast, with the help of the "Tribute Map of the Heavens"—in fact, the map was a rough shape at the level of a kindergarten, but Ferdinand insisted that the map of his later generations came from this thing—and the higher levels knew about it. Plans to bypass Tierra del Fuego have in fact been discussed, but it is clear that now is not the time to implement them, and the immediate priority is to expand Spanish control over the long coastline of eastern America, from Newfoundland to Segoursu.
In this regard, Columbus's contribution is indelible, after all, he rediscovered the New World of America in a real sense, and established the connection between Europe and the Americas. Leif Eriksson and others are just scratching the surface.
During this time, Columbus was in the New World of the Americas (and he's still there!). Ferdinand gave him detailed charts of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and asked Columbus to take a look around the area and gather some information about the Aztec Empire in preparation for future conquests.
Conquest of the Aztec Empire? It's tempting indeed, Mexico has huge silver deposits. But...... Now is not the time!
North America is still waiting to be sent away!
Latin America south of the Rio Grande is so easy to conquer that more than a hundred people can destroy an empire, pinch the head (Aztec Empire) and remove the tail (Inca Empire), and then engage in some massacres and fill them with immigrants, and it will be almost over......
But in this part of North America, if you don't pay attention, people will be empty!
Britain, France, and the Netherlands, that is nowhere to go, can only colonize North America, but Spain, a country that has conquered Latin America, if the development of North America is relaxed, people will run to South America......
And you don't develop enough, even if the immigrants don't run, what if the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands come here to intervene? Even if Ferdinand had taken over Flanders and had not considered the Netherlands, the Anglo-French immigrants would still seriously shake up Spanish rule.
The West Indies is a painful lesson in failure, originally historically, the Spanish immigrants in the West Indies at that time all went to the mainland, and even the governors of the islands went to the mainland to pan for gold! Each island is empty, and some islands are directly empty!
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But it's definitely necessary to find out.
Columbus traveled all over the Gulf of Mexico and the continental coast of the Caribbean Sea, and also communicated with some local indigenous Indian tribes in the Yucatan Peninsula, and the relationship was quite good. The Aztec Empire also had many enemies, and Columbus heard a lot of information about the Aztec Empire, as well as its contradictions and even wars with other tribes.
Of course, Columbus couldn't conquer the Aztec Empire, he still had a headache on Hispaniola, and his own syphilis had just been relieved, so he couldn't travel long distances overland. The good news is that Columbus has found more gold on the mainland, and it seems that "India" is really a mountain of gold and silver, and it is so big! Of course, this is what His Majesty has demonstrated.
Columbus now had the idea of expansion, and he had his sights on the island of Puerto Rico, along with plans to land on the island of Cuba.
His Majesty's plans for the island of Cuba are also on the attention of His Majesty, and it is an ideal place to grow sugar cane.
Speaking of planting, now the food supply on Hispaniola has finally improved, with more harvests of crops such as rice and sweet potatoes. In addition, there are people on the island who have cultivated land to develop livestock farming, such as pig farming......
There are such people, and it was there that Balboa cultivated the island of Hispaniola when he came to Hispaniola in 1500...... Then pigs are raised......
And then went bankrupt, which is normal!
So he had to go to Panama to open up new territory.
The exodus is not happening, except for those who have returned home without suffering...... As for the other new territories, they don't exist at this time, so if you don't like it, you can't run, and if you do, you're a hero, because you're a great pioneer for Spain!
As for the future, now that Ferdinand is using the cantonment corps system to directly open up new frontiers and reclaim new territories at the same time, I believe that he should be able to initially establish new territories that can operate effectively for a long time...... Right?