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"Let the guns slaughter them, let the law control them, let Christ influence them! Grace and power are equally important, and rigidity and softness are combined! ”

This is a brief summary of Ferdinand's policy towards the Indians and the indigenous peoples of other regions.

Not only for the indigenous peoples of the conquered lands, but also for the Moors of the Iberian Peninsula.

However, the dispute with the Moors, which was far more brutal, could not be easily "reconciled"—even if the Christians imposed the "reconciliation" of the past.

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However, it is necessary to return to the use of the Light.

The main point of strengthening the management and control of the Indians was to control their activities and eliminate their culture.

- Ferdinand

We need to transform the lives, bodies, spirits, and beliefs of the Indians.

- Ferdinand

Most [custom] Indians are not yet fully human; They are dogs when it comes to cannibalism and killing; They are pigs in their habits and in the way they treat others.

- Ferdinand

Albeit...... (with these egregious acts)...... We still have to be merciful in protecting the lives of the conquered indigenous tribes and most of the captives, because that would not only save their lives, but also allow the Christians to obtain enough crops to save both the Spaniards and the Indians from famine and death.

- Ferdinand

"It's a great undertaking, and it requires the joint efforts and cooperation of two sides – Caesar and Christ."

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Caesar and Christ have been the subject of two thousand years in the Western world. Christians in the Roman Empire went from obscurity and persecution to prosperity and domination of the empire. Christianity grew rapidly, but Rome was deprived of the tolerance of the universal empire.

The Roman Empire fell, but the Christian Church grew stronger. The barbarian tribes established states one after another, and all of them converted to Christianity. Despite the Great Schism of the Eastern and Western Churches in 1054, western Europe was completely shrouded in Catholic authority.

The feuds and feuds between the monarchies of Europe and the papacy have never ceased.

In Justinian's time, the Pope had to pay respectful respects to the Eastern Roman Emperor. At that time, Rome was only one of the five major dioceses of Christianity.

The relationship between the later Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope became entangled, and the Emperor needed the Pope to be crowned, but the Emperor also had the power to organize synods, elect and remove the Pope.

By the time of Henry IV, the emperor had already had to suffer the humiliation of Canossa. In 1080, Pope Gregory again excommunicated Henry IV, and in the same year Henry organized a synod voted by 19 bishops and archbishops to depose the pope again. In 1084, the Pope was besieged in Rome by Henry's army for seven months, and although Norman aid forced Henry to withdraw, Rome was sacked by the Normans, and the Pope died of illness the following year, reinstating everyone except Henry. And Henry seems to have (as one might have felt at the time) really affected and was assassinated by his own son in a coup d'état......

After this round, the emperor and the pope continued to tear apart, and then the next pope fought back...... On both sides of the Alps, the Germans have a complex relationship and affection for the living representatives of Christ to the south.

Aragon and the Pope were also entangled, and after the Sicilian Vespers of that year, Charles of Anjou was exiled. Pedro III annexed Naples, but Pope Martin IV of France excommunicated Pedro and gave Aragon the penalty of suspension of the sacraments, deposed him from the throne, and relieved his subjects of the oath of allegiance to him. He also gave the throne to the son of the French king, so the second word of the king of Aragon obeyed the pope's order to deal with the French king against his father......

And I, Grand France, am also the country that has been imprisoned by Avignon, and has given the Pope more than 70 years of humiliating memory......

Even Portugal had a disagreement with the Pope over the division of the earth, only to the extent of course. However, João II's deathbed request to the Pope for a charter for his illegitimate son to inherit the throne was rejected by the country's nobility (and Ferdinand's pleasing gaze), and he was also cheated by the Pope's crown.

Spain is currently the country with the best relations with the Pope. There was a friendship between the two Catholic kings and Pope Alexander VI -

The two private are the daily gifts of the Pope from Spain and Ferdinand.

The Three Princes, the conquest of Granada, the discovery of new territories to spread the Gospel, and the ongoing Berber Wars (to be discussed in the next chapter), Spain did make a remarkable contribution to Catholicism.

Considering that His Majesty Alexander VI was not unlucky or had been plotted to drink poisoned wine - in any case, Ferdinand had been reminded of Alexander VI and received high attention from the latter, and Ferdinand was planning to send a reliable Niederhogg spy to help His Majesty the Pope - the mission standard was that the Pope could not die before 1513, otherwise he would kill your entire family, which is so unreasonable......

By the time the next pope could begin to think about relations with the nations, the Reformation must have erupted.

When Christ's authority was greatly weakened, he had to turn to Caesar for help.

The Habsburgs, without the support of the vast world empire of the Kingdom of Spain, had Protestantism to the north, the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the south, and France to the west...... I really don't know how to handle it!

At that time, Spain will become the backbone of preventing the collapse of the Catholic position in Western Europe, especially the Catholic fortress with the center of gravity of Flanders!

The Pope is not very good at talking......

However, did Ferdinand have to get that time before he began to expand the power of "Caesar"?

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Christmas in 1495 was a long day, one after another, starting with the book-burning ceremony in the square in front of the Barcelona Cathedral, and then listening to the final report of the New World Isbagnola, and at the beginning of the afternoon, Queen Isabella also went to the Barcelona Cathedral to celebrate the founding of the Holy Angels.

The founding of the Order of the Holy Angels was the first initiative in the field of religion after Ferdinand joined the Demonic Factor, as it was the first religious order to take global mission as its mission.

The establishment of a global mission of the Religious Order is something that only Spain can do.

Portugal has been running in Africa for decades, how can the blacks be uneducated, and their own national strength is weak, they can only occupy points and lines, the land war is a mess, Morocco, which was abused by Spain, wants to abuse it easily, and the result is that the mission has achieved nothing (there will be Congo achievements later, but that is still far away), and there is no influential bishopric.

Portugal's missionary work did not enter the fast track until Brazil became a colony, which was obviously impossible at the moment when Ferdinand monopolized the American continent.

Therefore, the Portuguese can only continue to tragically plan points and lines. Anyway, it's all Spanish in the future.

In the four years that Spain had been in the Americas, and although only five or six churches had been built, the clergy's deception had been so successful that Ferdinand truthfully reported that 170,000 people had fallen into the embrace of Christianity under the papal crown (the vast majority of the more than 70,000 people on the island of Hispaniola had been converted, after all, life is always desirable).

And Spain did not organize any bishoprics at this time!

His Holiness is a delightful achievement!

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On Christmas night, Isabella suddenly remembered at dinner and asked Ferdinand, "Your request for priesthood conferring and ...... Did the Pope approve of the Commission's proposal? ”

"Well, it's going well, and our delegates have had a good time with His Holiness the Pope, who has indicated that he will grant the title of Catholic King at the same time as he promulgates it."

What Ferdinand said was his first step in expanding the power of "Caesar".

Fight for priesthood conferment!

The priesthood is a request from the Pope to give the Castilian and Aragon royal powers a broad mandate to appoint archbishops and clergy and to create new archdioceses!

You can even manage the country's religious affairs! Levy the tithes that are payable to the Catholics!

How does it sound, this kind of request is simply incredible, but His Majesty the Pope regarded the right to appoint archbishops and tithes as very important, and this was how he tore up with the HRE Emperor in Germany. Even if a Spaniard is a pope, everyone is a pope! You are not the emperor, why should you give this power to Ferdinand? Is it just because you're the king of Spain?

To this day, with a few exceptions such as our Greater China, the Pope still holds the authority to delegate.

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Well, it really was, and it did work at the time, just because I was the king of Spain!

Is the Pope's initiative to grant the priesthood a special treatment unique to Spain and Portugal?

It's very simple, first, the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula really don't have much oil and water, and they are poor! And it's a little too poor, the people are miserable, it's really poor, they can't even sell indulgences for too much money, it's not like Germany is the Pope's cow.

Second, because of the Reconquista, it assumed responsibility for the frontier of the Catholic world, and the king's autocratic power also expanded. As mentioned earlier, since Queen Isabella, the nomination and appointment of cardinals is actually the final say of the king of Spain - of course, there are various coincidental factors in this. In short, it is not easy to manipulate, and the king of Aragon is still alive and kicking after being excommunicated.

Third, these two countries are undertaking the task of opening up overseas! That's the main reason! Spain and Portugal, the Pope entrusted them with the task of opening up the whole earth, and it has to be said that the Pope is a bit of a temperance in the end, and indeed he is eager to spread the faith to the whole world. Dioceses were established all over the world.

Although the Church was the largest landowner in Western Europe, it was impossible to imagine that the Pope would send people across the ocean to establish an archdiocese at his own expense. Spain has "crossed" 170,000 people in the Americas, isn't it not even a bishopric?

In order to encourage these two countries to spread the faith throughout the world and at the same time continue to fight against pacifists, the Pope decided to give them this benefit.

Portugal began to colonize overseas very early, so in the seventies and eighties, it was already rewarded with the right to confer the priesthood of the pope. And with Spain's expulsion of the Moors, the advancement of the Berber Wars, and the discovery of new lands of "India", it was understandable that Spain would be given this power. As a Spanish pope, Alexander VI was already thinking about it. Not to mention the fact that Spain has converted 170,000 natives to Catholicism, and (and!) Helping the Pope drive out the French, His Majesty the Pope is understandable to agree.

At the same time, Ferdinand also proposed that the new land would allow the Spanish king to establish and lead an institution to administer the various archdioceses, both in the mainland and in the overseas territories, because of the size of the new land.

This institution is also certain to be licensed. For when Portugal had established a vast colony in Brazil and established an extensive base of commerce and trade in the East, it was granted permission by the Pope to establish such an institution. It's just that the Portuguese royal family didn't play well, and their own royal family was deeply brainwashed by the Jesuits, and after being brainwashed, it was merged with Spain, so it was a tragedy, and the church and the church had more and more estates in the colony, and they became more and more disobedient......

In Ferdinand's case, that would not have been the case.

Sure enough, considering that Spain had discovered vast lands and a huge number of teachable subjects - after all, India and China were said to be as big as all of Europe, though the exact number was unknown! And in fact, the American continent is four times larger than Europe...... The population is also not inferior to that of Europe......

Pope Alexander VI then acceded to this request.

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Unfortunately, the Pope did not understand Ferdinand's ambitions, which, of course, had little effect during his tenure.

With the memory of later generations of Chinese people, Ferdinand (as a Chinese) hated the Vatican's criminal act of using Catholicism to interfere in China's internal affairs and sabotage the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Thanks to the anti-imperialist patriotic movement of the Chinese Catholic Church, it was possible to establish a self-elected national church.

Ferdinand was adamantly opposed to the interference of outside forces in the religious affairs of a country, and it was directly above them. This kind of intervention is no different from the intervention of the Soviet Union, and to this day, does China still have a so-called "loyal church"? Loyal to the Pope? Are you first and foremost Chinese? At that time, the Pope was just a diocese of Christianity...... The history of China forced Jesus to go early!

Ferdinand was able to gain greater control of the Catholic Church in the country and to obtain the name of legitimate official control, and this control would be strengthened in the future, and Caesar and Christ would not be confronted at the court of Pilate.

From now on, Caesar held two swords in his hands, one of the sword of flame and the other of the sword of faith. Christ will be Caesar's weapon as Caesar's sword rather than as a companion.

The wave of the Reformation was stirred up around the time of the Northland, and Ferdinand was able to carry out a series of reforms to Catholicism in time to hold the Flemish position and prevent Lutheranism and Calvinism from penetrating further west. At the same time, Spanish science and technology flourished under the impetus of Ferdinand's catalysis. Both of these things may have a certain (limited, of course) conflict with the Pope, and at that time, Ferdinand did not want to run into too many stumbling blocks in his path.

According to the draft Mandate of Ecclesiastical Affairs, the King was given the power to appoint priests from the archbishop downward, to establish archdioceses, to collect tithes, and to promote the missionary cause and to aid and protect the activities of the Church. Ferdinand promised to set up a special royal grant – in effect, a royal grant that strictly restricted the ownership of overseas estates by the Church and the Congregation (although the Congregation was supported by Ferdinand), so that they could not financially break away from the crown and establish their own roots in the colony.

According to the drafted power of attorney, Ferdinand will set up a [Conscience and Order Leadership Committee] - this is not only as simple as the State Administration for Religious Affairs, pay attention to the word "conscience", it is also a universal thought control body, because it is normal to be criminalized for words (this is indeed to be restricted), and it is okay to be criminalized for thought! Something is wrong with your "conscience"!

Nidhogg thus protested and gained an official identity on the surface - the Sixth Office of the Conscience and Order Leadership Council.

As king, Ferdinand was elected chairman. And, when convening the preparatory meeting of the Committee, he concluded with the following words: "Do not forget the original intention, strengthen the country and enrich the people, the glory of God, and the gospel to all peoples!" ”

The audience gave a standing ovation.

The establishment of the commission, which has not yet been officially announced, has already received an enthusiastic response from intelligence agencies.

On December 25, 1495, a meeting of the leading cadres of the Niderhogg [Sixth Office of the Leadership Committee of the Conscience and Order] was held in Messina, Sicily, to convey the spirit of "not forgetting the original aspiration, strengthening the country and enriching the people, the glory of God, and the gospel of all peoples" of the royal family and the committee, and to make arrangements for the study, propaganda and implementation of the work.

The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Sixth Office of the Council of Conscience and Order, Minister of Supervision of the Kingdom of Sicily, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kings of Aragon and Sicily, Sisneros.

He stressed that the establishment of the [Conscience and Order Leadership Committee] is a major event in the political life of the royal family, the government, the intelligence agencies and the nobles and commoners of the whole country, and it is a historical event with His Majesty King Ferdinand as the core of the royal family and the committee to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to stride into a new era, which is of epoch-making and milestone significance in the history of the development of the royal family and the country.

Studying, publicizing and implementing the spirit of the royal family and the committee of "not forgetting the original aspiration, strengthening the country and enriching the people, the glory of God, and the gospel of all peoples" is the most important political task at present and in the future, which has a bearing on the overall work of the royal family and the state, the comprehensive construction of the intelligence agency, the comprehensive revitalization and development of the police state, and the national intelligence system in Europe.

We must closely unite around the royal family and the committee with His Majesty King Ferdinand as the core, firmly establish the "four consciousnesses", insist on arming our minds with Ferdinand's imperialist ideology with Spanish characteristics in the new era, guide practice, and promote work, and earnestly unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of "not forgetting the original aspiration, strengthening the country and enriching the people, the glory of God, and the gospel of all peoples" of the royal family and the committee, and gather wisdom and strength to achieve the goals and tasks set by the royal family and the committee. The spirit of "Glory of God, Gospel of All Nations" came into effect in Niedhog and in Sicily.