The pointer of history is turned back to the beginning of 1496.

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Kingdom of England. London. It was a dimly lit afternoon, and the sky was overcast, which was very much in Spielberg's mood at this time.

Spielberg, the Spanish ambassador to England, was at the Spanish embassy (Castile to be exact, but the ambassadors of Castile and Aragon had been merged), reading a letter signed by Ferdinand and Isabella.

"Be wary of the interaction between the King of England and the seafaring people, and if it becomes known that any person proposes to the King of England to make an expedition similar to that of Columbus on his voyage to India, then warn and protest to the King of England that such an expedition is an infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of Spain and Portugal."

The letter also makes a very interesting reference to a man, John Capote.

In fact, Ferdinand could have avoided John Capote from England, because he had been to Spain before, and was still in the Kingdom of Aragon, where he had spent some time in Valencia and had proposed a plan to improve the local seaport, and had the deeper hope of gaining the king's support for the voyage.

Speaking of which, John Capote's fate was even worse than that of Columbus before the voyage, as he actually fled Venice as a bankrupt debtor, and also dragged his family with his wife, Matthen, and two children. At this point, if he wants to keep John Capote, Ferdinand can easily reach his goal.

However, John Capote's fate was almost exactly the same as in the original history, and his proposed plan to repair the harbor went unnoticed.

Well, in fact, Ferdinand got the news, and soon issued a plan to repair the port of Valencia, and recruit relevant talents from all over the country, and allocate sufficient royal budget - this is Ferdinand's scheduled mainland base, and it must be given preferential treatment.

But the task was not given to John Capote.

Ferdinand wanted to play a joke with history. Or to do a test, a test that doesn't cost much.

He wants to see if there will be any major deviations in the historical trajectory of John Capote.

After all, Ferdinand knew that although there was a royal edict issued by the Pope, in fact, although he did not say it, neither the then King of England, Henry VII, nor the future King of France, did not care about it in their hearts. The meridian that divides the world is in the eye.

After all, according to the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas and the papal edict, only the Spaniards and the Portuguese had the right to discover and occupy the lands of the infidels.

Therefore, one way or another, England will certainly try to stretch out its tentacles to the New World. If John Capote had been left in Spain, Henry VII might not have made the attempt in 1496, but what about 1497? What about 1498? Sooner or later, Henry VII will have to make a move, either a new navigator will nominate him, or Henry VII will find a candidate, or the port of Bristol will organize a voyage again-

The merchants of the Port of Bristol had long sponsored ocean explorations into the western depths of the Atlantic in an attempt to find the "mysterious islands of Brazil and the Antilles", but the ships returned without making any discoveries.

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Therefore, Ferdinand felt that it would be better to use this as a "test" and let John Capote follow the original trajectory of the British voyage to see if there would be any deviations. After all, a familiar "adversary" was better to deal with, and John Capote's voyage to Newfoundland was not accidental, but his way of thinking - sailing farther north, reducing the range and finding alternative routes to India and China. Moreover, if it was decided to serve England, such a route would not clash with the Spaniards and the Portuguese – at least not in his opinion. If someone more daring had been different, he might have come up with a plan to sail southwest and compete with the Spaniards and the Portuguese.

Even if John Capote managed to evade the Spaniards and sail back, so what? With the British's national power at this time and their careless attitude in the colonies, they could do nothing but make a claim that they were disgusting to the Spaniards. Ferdinand's hope of taking the entire Western Hemisphere with a treaty of paper was wishful thinking, but his opponents were worse than him, even though Britain claimed sovereignty over the North American continent, but for the next eighty-seven years they had nothing to do, not even a single criminal exiled, only fishermen who spontaneously went to Newfoundland to fish, and they did not settle at all. At this rate, I want to grab territory with Spain, naive!

So, Ferdinand watched coldly. At the beginning of 1494, John Capote, who had run into a wall, went to the seaport of Seville in Castile, and while avoiding the judicial documents sent by the Venetian creditors, he negotiated with the city council to build a stone bridge for five months, but on Christmas Eve of that year, the city council rejected the plan, and John Capote felt that there was no hope in Spain.

In 1495, it was a spring when John Cabote made a circle in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal......

Nothing was found, and the Portuguese, though regretting missing Columbus, still did not take John Capote.

After many setbacks, John Capote was not discouraged, he contacted a friend in Italy, received some financial aid, and decided to go to England, to Bristol Harbor, to try to impress Henry VII, in order to escape the debt collection of creditors and realize the dream of sailing.

"Except for Prince Enrique back then, these European monarchs and nobles are still too young in terms of nautical knowledge!" John Capote cheers himself on!

"As a veteran, I've been through a lot of battles and seen a lot! Which country in Western Asia I haven't been to? I have done business in the Levant, visited Mecca, talked and laughed with the governor of Egypt in Jerusalem, and admired spices from the East in Sinai! If you can go to the East, you will get endless riches! I will be richer than the King of England! ”

Of course, you can't say this in front of anyone. In April 1495, after returning to his temporary residence in Seville after another encounter in Lisbon, John Capote packed his bags and prepared to leave the Iberian Peninsula in search of his career in England with snowflakes of letters and paperwork.

John Capote's decision to target the wealthy merchants of Bristol Port as the first wave of lobbying opened a breakthrough for the king's interest. Although the Port of Bristol's previous ocean-going voyages were unsuccessful, the great lure of spices and gold still appealed to the greedy souls of merchants. In John Capote's view, England's ships were not bad, but they lacked veterans to lead them, and the previous failed attempts were only because they were too simple, and he was confident that he would lead the English rookies (at least in the ocean voyage) to discover the Northwest Passage to the East......