"The court scholars told me that the distance to the west to India was far greater than Columbus estimated, so it was impossible for him to reach India and China in the east, in fact, the court scholars were not wrong, in a way, Columbus was a great liar, but he was a greatest liar!"

"The Greatest ...... Swindler? Prince Juan interjected coldly. These two words don't seem to be very compatible?

Ferdinand stared at Prince Juan for a while, this highly-anticipated crown prince is not very talented, but very popular, but his health has always been very bad, his jaw is "delicate", his diet must be carefully regulated to maintain physical strength, he has spent many years in illness, contrary to his father Ferdinand's strong physique, he died peacefully and unexplained, even Baidu search failed to bring Ferdinand useful information, according to the most information he knew, Juan died of tuberculosis, and there was no cure.

Tuberculosis is still very uncomfortable in modern times, and there are a lot of Chinese medicine remedies on the Internet, but they are not very useful, especially in ancient times. Besides, the new shipping route has not yet been opened, and he can't make a home remedy, so he asked him to send a fleet around the Cape of Good Hope to China for Prince Juan's illness? I don't know how much international dispute it will cause, Portugal will definitely not give up, and the exploration of the New World will also be affected, the cost is too great, if Isabella needs him, he may give it a try, but others, although they are close relatives, compared to his hundred-year-old empire and half the world's vast domain, it is still not enough to make him tempted. Politics is indeed cruel, and family affection is often treated as a traded commodity.

It seems that his children are not going to end well! A son and a daughter (the daughter was not even named, she was born on the day she was born) had already died, and the crown prince probably did not survive himself and Isabella, even if they did not marry, and the ministers were aware of this. And Princess Isabella, although it is a difficult birth and the blow of forced marriage by widowhood, but her own extreme fasting and often extremely simple living habits are deeply ingrained (or maybe it is only after the loss of her husband?). But Ferdinand will not help the Portuguese crown prince to live longer for this, and he can't help him), it is also difficult to live a long life, and it is also difficult to live by himself. Juan and Princess Isabella died in 1497 and 1498, and Ferdinand found himself likely to watch them die...... It involves marriage, history, and his life is not long, so he can't make up his mind to interfere. For example, Princess Isabella, if she is no longer married, there will be a rift in the relationship between Spain and Portugal, and it will affect a big layout of Queen Isabella: in the early 90s of the 15th century, a series of changes in the Portuguese court showed that Manuel became the king of Portugal, and the sick body of Prince Juan of Spain showed the possibility of Princess Isabella becoming the heir to the throne, and when Princess Isabella went to Portugal for the first time, Manuel was fascinated by her beauty and dancing, Manuel was Isabella's second husband, and after the loss of Princess Isabella, Queen Isabella pressured her to remarry after the loss of Princess Isabella...... Queen Isabella may have wanted to divide the earth into two halves, with one half for herself and the other half for her daughter's offspring, and then when Princess Isabella gave birth to a son, Spain and Portugal, the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere, Iberia and the whole world, were united in the hands of her descendants...... It was a big picture, and it was almost successful, and despite Princess Isabella's difficult birth, she gave birth to a son who inherited his father's succession to the throne of Portugal and his mother's succession to the throne of Castile and Aragon, and was expected to dominate the Iberian Peninsula and their overseas empires. Unfortunately, the son died.

However...... Although it's a bit callous to say that...... Ferdinand had to say that he had died in infancy! Even Princess Isabella would be in great trouble for him if she didn't die in childbirth! If there is no such tragedy, one can imagine what kind of influence Portugal will have in Castile, and if Portugal and Aragon compete for the leadership of Castile, will Spain have a future? Can there still be a unified Spain? Can there still be a large Spanish American colony? It's not too late for me to die! It was not until 1516, and because of indulgence, excessive sexual intercourse (with his remarried wife), and indescribable drugs (at the persuasion of his remarried wife, he was a remarried wife), he could even live until the middle of the 16th century! And as a time-traveler with ideals, abilities and status, Spain, America, and even Iberia must be under their own complete leadership, and if anyone can rule with them, only Queen Isabella! Or Juana (next to that). Queen Isabella's layout may be right, but if Ferdinand becomes a time-traveler who has the ability to understand history and love science, it will be absolutely wrong (although a bit narcissistic, but it is). Ferdinand and his daughter, the first in line to the throne of Castile and Aragon, with the support of some of the Portuguese and Castilian nobility, for Castile dominance, and even with his grandson, the future or already enthroned King of Portugal, the rightful heir to the throne of Castile and Aragon, while he had only the status of the "widow" of the King of Aragon and the late Queen of Castile (a status that does not support any claim), It will be quite unfavorable to himself, and Philip, the beautiful man who has taken Juana hostage in history, has almost forced himself out of Castile (which is also related to Ferdinand's misdeeds after Queen Isabella's death, and his behavior seriously insulted the queen who is loved by the people), if the above two situations are replaced, Ferdinand can be said to have trouble sleeping. Politics is such a big whirlpool, swallowing flesh and blood deep into it, Ferdinand's life is very good, Queen Isabella, all her life respects and even deliberately strengthens his power, such as in discussing the marriage of his daughter and the letters of Castile foreign affairs and domestic decrees, Ferdinand did not intervene at all, but her letters have always added his name, and Ferdinand's name is before her (Castilian affairs, Isabella can act alone). If Catherine was Queen of Castile, Ferdinand wouldn't know how she died?!

The third in line to the throne is Queen Juana, the "madwoman", her longest-living daughter, she is actually a good princess, the so-called mental illness is the result of an unhappy marriage and a rough life and her own psychological shadow, a quarter of which was forced out of Isabella after her death by her father Ferdinand and her husband Philip, a quarter of it was "created" by artificial fabrication and court judgment at the time, and the last quarter was later spread by word of mouth due to discrimination against female rulers and various other reasons" Sing it."

In other words, so-called schizophrenia may exist, but at most only half of what is thought, and in 1492, when Juana was only 13 years old, psychosis would never have existed. When Juana and Philip returned to Castile after Isabella's death, "a storm blew them into England on the way, and King Henry VII met them and stayed for some time." Philip and his attendants tried their best to prove that Juana was mentally ill, and desperately tried to convince the English court that she was a madman. Henry VII privately told his courtiers that he felt that Juana was completely normal. People from other countries who traveled with the fleet also said that Juana behaved amiably and decently, and that she was calm and calm when others were caught off guard in the storm.

Ferdinand felt that he could make Juana queen of Castile and enjoy co-governance for himself, so as to fill the power vacuum in Castile after Isabella's death. Juana's personality and the concept at the time made her reluctant to take on the responsibility of leading the country, so she decided that her way of ruling was not to rule at all, so in history, after Philip's death, Ferdinand completely overthrew her to rule Spain alone, which was very beneficial to Ferdinand who crossed over! With the exception of Isabella, he does not want anyone else to have the right to stand up to him, because his ambition and inner ambition require him to hold the supreme power.

And Ferdinand knew that his second daughter was a manufacturable material, as long as she cultivated it well, she could become a figure like Queen Victoria! Long enough to maintain rational judgment and make decisions in favor of the state despite not learning any statecraft (on 18 December 1506 she signed a decree revoking all the rights and lands in Castile that Philip had given to his friends. ）。 She is not as madly in love as in the movies, Philip treats her badly and controls her all the time, and Juana refuses to use the word "love" in the letter that Philip writes asking her to hand over her rights, and she harbors a mixed feeling.

If Ferdinand had cultivated Juana seriously, Juana's ability to govern the country would have improved a lot, and her "no rule at all" method of ruling was similar to that of Queen Victoria. Ferdinand felt that if he could make Juana the Victoria of Spain and the Prince Albert of Spain himself (just referring to political relations, he wanted to face the wall), and he would make Spain an eternal sunset! As for Isabella's idea of dividing the two halves of the earth and then merging them into one, huh! How can Portugal rule half the world! Especially the Eastern Hemisphere! Spain and Portugal, of course, will merge into one, but not by a common heir, that unity has no cohesion, he wants to learn from Philip II and Prime Minister Cole, annex Portugal, and then assimilate it politically, economically, culturally, and shape a culturally approximately unified Iberia, like England and Scotland, no, it's not enough, like the relationship between England and Wales!

The last two daughters, Maria, married to Portugal and died in 1517, only a year after Ferdinand, and this time and space was afraid that the white-haired people would send the black-haired people again.

The youngest daughter, Catherine of Aragon (16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536), Infanta Catalinade Aragóny Castilla, whose name can also be spelled Katherine or Katharine, was the first queen of King Henry VIII of England and his sister-in-law.

Catherine was born into the Spanish royal family, her father was King Ferdinand II of Spain, and her mother was Queen Isabella I of Castile. Catherine's first marriage was a political one, and she married Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII, earning her the title Princess of Wales. But within a few months of their marriage, Prince Arthur died of illness, but most British historians believe that he died of poisoning, which is why the old king forced his second son, Henry VIII, to marry Catherine.

After Prince Arthur "died of illness", when Spain and France were at odds, Catherine's father-in-law Henry VII in order to get in touch with the Spanish royal family, put Catherine under house arrest, did not let her return home, and beat her, tortured her, abused her, and humiliated her, she also refused to return to that terrible motherland, because she would definitely die of political conspiracy if she went back, and finally, in order to save her life, Catherine had to pretend to give in, promised Henry VII, and married Henry VII's second son Henry (later Henry VIII).

At that time, papal permission was required to eliminate affinity. But Catherine declared that her first marriage had not been consummated, so she did not need the Pope's permission to declare the first marriage null and void. Later, both the British and Spanish royal families agreed that papal charter was still necessary to avoid questions about the legitimacy of Catherine and Henry's marriage. Later, at the request of Catherine's mother, Isabella I, the Pope agreed in the form of a papalbull decree. Fourteen months after her first husband's death, 18-year-old Catherine became engaged to her brother-in-law, Henry VIII, who was only 12 at the time.

However, in 1505, King Henry VII lost interest in the alliance with Spain, and Henry VII announced that he had not agreed to the marriage. Diplomatic mediation continued until the death of Henry VII in 1509. After the death of Henry VII, his second son at the age of 17 ascended the throne as Henry VIII, and Catherine married Henry VIII on June 11, 1509, and the two were crowned at Westminster Abbey on June 24 of the same year, and Catherine officially became Queen of England again.

Queen Catherine and Henry VIII were married for 24 years, during which time she was loved by the people of England. Henry VIII had wanted a son who would succeed to the throne since he succeeded to the throne, but all six of Queen Catherine's children, with the exception of her daughter, Princess Mary, died young.

Henry VIII tried to annul the marriage, but Pope Clemon VII was slow to accede to Henry VIII's request, because Catherine's nephew was the most powerful monarch in Europe at the time, Emperor Charles V of the Spanish Empire. And Catherine always believed that her marriage was legal and did not agree to divorce.

At this time, Henry VIII's lover and chamberlain Anne Boleyn was pregnant, so in January 1533, Henry VIII first married Anne Boleyn secretly, and then manipulated the English Parliament to pass a bill declaring it out of the control of the Holy See and nullifying the marriage with Queen Catherine. Queen Catherine's only surviving daughter, Princess Mary, was imprisoned in the Tower of London as an illegitimate daughter, and has been kind and tolerant to endure the persecution of her stepmother and ministers, as well as the rudeness of her servants.

Until the end of Catherine's life, she insisted that she was the only legitimate wife of Henry VIII and the only legitimate queen of England, as her servants always called her. Henry gave her nothing but the status of Dowager Princess of Wales (his brother's widow).

Catherine lived at The Morecastle in the winter of 1531-1532. In 1535 she was transferred to Kimbolton Castle, the residence of Kimbolton, where she remained in a room except for Mass, where St. Francis ordered her to wear a HairShirt (a garment full of stiff fur as a means of punishment) and fasted, and she was only allowed to see occasional visitors, nor to see her daughter Mary, who forbade her to correspond with others, but some of her sympathizers secretly helped her deliver letters. Henry told them that they would get better shelter and treatment if they recognized Anne as his new queen, but they refused. At the end of 1535, Catherine had a premonition that she was no longer in order, so she wrote her will, to give it to her nephew, Emperor Charles V, to take care of her daughter. She finally wrote to Henry, saying "my dear emperor and husband". The letter clearly forgave Henry for everything and begged him to take care of his daughter. Finally, Catherine died at Kimbolton House in 1536. Their daughter was the Bloody Mary of England.

Hehe, if England treats Catherine like this this time, Ferdinand is worried that there is no excuse, when the time comes, he will raise troops to kill England, so that the British Isles will forever fall into the division of England, Scotland, Ireland and even Wales, and deal a heavy blow to England's national strength and military strength, England will no longer be able to threaten the hegemony of Spain!