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Thus, on Christmas Day 1495, the report of the complete conquest of Hispaniola reached Ferdinand.

In the wake of this incident, Hispaniola has imposed stricter controls and eliminated any form of private arming.

"Your Majesty, I propose that an edict should be issued to take this opportunity to expressly prohibit all private armed and armed vessels in the Western Territories without the permission of the king."

The Viceroy of Canada, Fonseca, who had just returned from Newfoundland, made such a suggestion to Ferdinand after sharing the "good news" of the report.

"Yes, so be it! Soon I officially issued the order. Also, I've recently received requests from some nobles and wealthy businessmen for permission from the royal family to colonize the area, and I have to say that they are really ......creative," Ferdinand nodded, and complained about the behavior of some nobles.

"Those requests are frozen, too! After the coastal strongholds were stabilized, some licenses could be issued to the nobility in South America, but the number was to be controlled, the management was to be strict, and private arming was not allowed. This is the western territory of the royal family, and loyalty to the order of the royal family must be guaranteed! …… As for Canada and the United States, I will have a formal bill later. ”

"Your Majesty, I still have an idea I would like to say, which was first proposed by a few priests." Fonseca made another interesting suggestion.

It was the clergy who had come to the New World, especially those in Newfoundland and Greenland, who shivered with cold when they first came to this bitter cold place, especially in Gotthobna, Greenland.

But then they discovered that this newfound wilderness was a heavenly place for the missionary work of the clergy!

The natives are too easy to deceive!

By Christmas 1495, the missionary work of the priests in North America was enough to shine in the annals of history.

Forty thousand Beotuks from Newfoundland converted to Catholicism in the spring of 1493.

More than 1,500 Indians near Quebec converted to Catholicism in the summer and autumn of 1495.

Delaware Indians (near New York), 1493~1495, about 1,000 people converted to Catholicism.

About 2,000 Inuit near Gotthob, Greenland, converted to Catholicism in the autumn and winter of 1495 (they were the main inhabitants of Gotthob).

Due to the invasion of the Labrador "Cosmic Tribe", Fonseca seized the opportunity to launch an unplanned war to conquer the Labrador Peninsula to deter the small and medium-sized tribes.

In the autumn and winter of 1495, Labrador was annexed to Castile and Aragon, and the territory of influence and control extended from the interior to the mouth of the Quebec River.

More than 40,000 indigenous Indians of Labrador were converted to Catholicism.

Nearly 90,000 people in North America (the Americas north of the Rio Grande, excluding the West Indies, Panama, and Brazil) have been fooled into becoming Christians. At this time, Spain also sent nearly 10,000 cantonment troops.

As a result, the clergy were able to fool hundreds of Indians to convert to Catholicism every day, and they felt that their lives had meaning and that their value was increasing!

Fortunately, the Spanish clergy, to say that in the Papal States, the Catholic clergy at the feet of God have become corrupt.

In the winter of 1495, the clergymen of the Reclamation Corps, on the basis of information from the Iberian Peninsula, decided to go deep into the St. Lawrence River valley and along the shores of Hudson Bay the next year.

Moreover, they proposed to convert all Indians to Catholicism by means of continuous evangelism, and to convert all Indians to Catholicism by means of continuous evangelism, and that those captured Indians should not be blindly enslaved and killed, but should be proselytized to convert them to God, repent of their sins, and develop them into Christians.

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Although Fonseca considered such an idea to be too idealistic, he thought it useful to suppress indigenous revolts in Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and other places, and to convert the captured natives to Catholicism, especially some of the top tribal figures and even the chiefs themselves, which would dampen the indigenous revolt and hopefully reduce the resistance of the indigenous people after the massacre (after the massacre...... The conquered lands gradually reached "peaceful coexistence".

For example, the father and daughter of the chieftain of the Magana tribe, who were captured by the Cantonment Corps near Port-au-Prince in later generations, were shackled and sent to Barcelona along with reports of the conquest of Hispaniola. Now, you can use the chief for an experiment.

"Good idea, but ......" Ferdinand smiled and shook his head.

"The horizon is not broad enough, and the goal is not ambitious enough. I have long had plans to promote the Light on a large scale...... Missionary causes. ”

The Light is not afraid, it is afraid of organization.

"Isabella and I have already discussed, and today she will announce the establishment of the Holy Angels' Society!"

Hey? How is it a congregation of nuns?

Well, the Jesuit will show (?????) It's not time for my big boss to appear, so let's warm up first, how about it? Good steel has to be prepared for a little longer, and Ferdinand is already brewing. In 1497, we will make a glorious debut!

The establishment of the Holy Angels Society has a long-term foundation. It is not Ferdinand's promotion in recent years, but an organization that Queen Isabella has been supporting since she ascended the throne - the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception. It was not established at that time.

As the Catholic queen who regained the kingdom of Granada, she not only saw herself and her family as defenders of the interests of Christ, but also was very enthusiastic about improving the status of the Virgin Mary. For example, in an oil painting commissioned by Queen Isabella, the resurrected Jesus appears to the Virgin Mary in front of a house covered with a Castilian coat of arms.

According to the New Testament of the Bible, although Jesus Christ appeared six or seven times in front of more than five hundred people, there is no explicit statement that he will appear before the Virgin Mary after death, but Isabella paints this non-canonical story and hopes that the exalted status of the Virgin Mary will be recognized by the entire Christian world.

That is, the Virgin Mary is great because she is herself, not because she is the mother of Jesus.

Theologically, it is the Immaculate Conception.

Until the early Middle Ages, it was generally believed that the Virgin Mary was also tainted by original sin, and then in 1472, the then pope wrote a book in support of the Immaculate Conception, which led to a rift within the Catholic Church, and finally the pope was very angry and issued an edict "too serious", stating that "you guys are too badly torn, give me a stop".

Queen Isabella's support for the Immaculate Conception had an impact on the Church at the time, and the Catholic Church increasingly leaned towards the Immaculate Conception. However, the Orthodox Church and almost all Protestants still believe that Our Lady is also tainted by original sin. The Pope finally established the Immaculate Conception as one of the doctrines in the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of 8 December 1854.

As a materialist, Ferdinand first laughed at the tearing of all sides, further strengthening his materialism. After all, not everyone understands why the Great Schism in the East and West churches is caused by the Eucharist Rite of Communion (which of course is not the root cause).

It is worth mentioning that Ferdinand liked to eat bread for the sacrament in his heart, of course he couldn't say it, otherwise he would be so angry that Pope Alexander VI stamped his feet and told him to go to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, but Constantinople had fallen, and the Ecumenical Patriarch would not smile because of the personal interest of the King of Spain.

Thus, until hundreds of years later, the Immaculate Conception remains one of the major divisions between Catholicism and other Christian religions......

Secondly, if Ferdinand is forced to pretend to be a Catholic (in fact, he has been pretending to be 500 years), he still agrees with the Immaculate Conception on the grounds of personal three views, support for his wife, etc.

In addition, Ferdinand's desire was to promote the creation of a serious, honest order. In addition, there are some personal reflections on the Catholic Reformation.

The Congregation of the Holy Angels was originally founded in 1535 as a congregation of nuns, and together with the Congregation of Ursula, it is one of the congregations of nuns in the world.

Seeing that Isabella was interested in promoting the Sisters and missionary causes, Ferdinand proposed to replace the "Congregation of the Immaculate Conception" with the "Society of the Holy Angels", and not only believed in the Immaculate Conception, but also spread the Christian faith to the New World and even the world......

The author has investigated a little bit in depth on the matter of the Holy Light, and found that there are still a lot of "love and hatred" behind it, and the Holy Light Bacteria still has a story.

However, this was a good thing for Ferdinand, and in general, it would strengthen Ferdinand's power in the New World.

(Also, if you observe carefully, you will find a big news in the first volume: the full name of the future country of Spain has one more word, and there is a great mystery in this, you can realize two words...... ）

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"Your Majesty, the chief of Margana and his daughter, who have been escorted back this time, as well as two hundred and forty-eight Indians of the tribe, have also been escorted to the port of Barcelona."

"So much?" Ferdinand was a little surprised, but then he reacted that it was already too little! Sometimes there are cases where four or five hundred people are sent over.

"In Hispaniola, the Reclamation Corps enforce my policy, right? I'm not just talking about it today. Ferdinand asked.

"Your Majesty, as far as I know, is well executed. The policy of "attaching equal importance to grace and power, and combining rigidity and softness" with the ethnic minorities in Spain that you mentioned is indeed a great, glorious, and correct governance strategy for us to rule the New World. ”

Fonseca's discourse has begun to habitually use the word Spanish, indicating that Fonseca and his family are already moving closer to Ferdinand's position on the future relationship between Castile and Aragon. (The Fonseca family was one of the greater nobles of Castile)

This deception must have pleased Ferdinand more than any other compliment.

"That's right," Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction, "as long as we are in the New World, in Granada, in Andalusia, in Catalonia, and all over the world ruled by Spain in the future, as long as we adhere to the national policy of [Equal Emphasis on Grace and Power, Strength and Softness], our great Spanish royal family, people and army will be invincible and invincible, and let the Spanish flag be planted in every corner of the world!" ”

It's not Ferdinand's boasting, the so-called [equal emphasis on grace and power, both rigidity and softness], this minority policy, which has a deep meaning! It's not as simple as it seems at first glance.

First of all, there are so many Indians in the New World! At this time, the Inca Empire alone had 20 million Indians (meow?) The author bacteria are a little skeptical)! How can this be said to be a minority? This is not a prerequisite for the implementation of the policy!

So, we need to take steps to make the Indians a minority.

Then, implement the strategy of "attaching equal importance to grace and power, and combining rigidity and softness" to them......

Moreover, it was not that the imperial court "honored the Yellow Religion", but that it wanted to "spread the gospel" and convert those remaining Indians to Catholicism.

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On the island of Hispaniola, the Reclamation Corps adopted two different approaches to the island's Indians in accordance with this policy:

(1) For an Indian, well, first of all, whether you are a "good" or "bad" Indian, you have to "live". "Alive" understands? It's a very esoteric word, and you could write a book.

You have to be alive before you can talk about how to deal with it.

(2) If you are a captive, most of the time you will become a slave first, or you will also have the opportunity, if you are lucky, to throw yourself into the arms of the Holy Light in advance.

If that doesn't happen, you'll have to force hard labor for a period of time, maybe a month to three months, or even half a year.

Then, if you are willing to convert to Catholicism, you can basically go and be baptized in the Light. If you don't want to, then happily work as a laborer. Starting in three years, the maximum is lifelong.

If you do something irrational, you have to accept the death penalty.

It doesn't have to be a captive to be treated like this. The tribes of the Indians who resisted the Spanish army fiercely, such as Magua, are talking about you guys, and I will all be slaves, of course, if you are willing to convert, or work for a while to turn your heart to God, then forget it.

(2) If you live to see this, then you are lucky enough to be baptized by the Light. Your big brothers and sisters will take care of you kindly. (below)

According to the original history, in the middle of the 16th century, the Catholic congregations expanded around the world.

The revival of the congregation is of great significance.

For example, Catholicism has always claimed justification by deeds, but under the east wind of the Renaissance, the Pope of Rome slapped itself in the face. It's embarrassing.

Just like "This Thing Sounds in the World" to Station B, the major religious orders at that time can be said to have single-handedly raised the height of the entire ghost animal area in Europe and saved the image and morality of Catholicism.

Second, the major religious orders, with their well-organized and noble spirit, expanded throughout the world, which was difficult for early Protestantism to do. The major religious orders active in South Asia, the Americas, Africa, India, and all over the world, when the authority of the Pope was dealt a heavy blow to Europe, expanded the Catholic Church to the whole world, and expanded the stage of religious "reform" to the whole world, so that the Catholic Church regained strong support and held its ground.

Ferdinand was about to be founded by four major orders.

Congregation of the Holy Angels (Sisters).

Ursula Congregation (Congregation of Sisters).

(Admire these nuns who have the perseverance to run around the world)

The Society of Jesus (a gathering place for missionary leaders).

The Light will be different from the previous one.

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In the case of Indians, there are four categories of semi-Indians that will be treated more gently. Those who are willing to convert, those who are more moderate (those who have not resisted or who are not fierce, and who believe that there is still hope for reform, such as the surrendered Hispaniola Indians and Labrador Innu), close allies (such as Beotuk and Inuit), and collaborators (such as the Delaware Indians). The other half is a group of women and children.

For close allies, like the Inuit, they were completely crippled by the light as soon as they came up, and now that they are lame, there is no other way to start building, and Gothob is built with Inuit settlements and labor. Like the level of alliance has reached the Beotuk people - mixed, covenant, co-governance, sharing and co-building, flickering is almost the same, just continue to flicker, for the time being...... It's also completely fooled and lame.

This kind of good thing is not universal. More commonly are tribes that have been subdued by force or directly conquered by force.

For example, the Labrador Peninsula was subdued by force, but the Spanish did not have enough coercive power in Labrador, so they sent inspectors (to monitor their tribute and all kinds of behavior) and missionaries to station the tribe together to spread the Light.

In the case of the conquered tribes on the island of Hispaniola, then the army was to be stationed and the people of these tribes, as well as those who were willing to convert from the captives and recalcitrant tribes, as well as some women and children who were not in such categories, were gathered in a few villages, towns and villages, and taught them how to cultivate (the land was still theirs, and the human body was still basically free), baptized, converted to Christianity, preached the doctrine and Castilian or Araganese (Spanish had not yet been formed), collected tithes, and so on.

As an Indian, this is not bad.

Of course, if there is any riot, to do irrational acts against the big brothers and sisters (especially the Holy Angels, who will increase in number) will be burned and slaughtered.

…… (To be continued)

The update was late. I'm sorry.

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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!

The Pope's initiative to grant the priesthood was 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 and culture of China are higher than that of Jesus!

Ferdinand was able to gain greater control of the Catholic Church in the country and to obtain legitimate official control, which would be strengthened in the future, and Caesar and Christ would no longer be confronted by Pilate's court.

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 undertook to set up a dedicated Crown Appropriations and Estate Management Committee (part of the committee created below) -

In practice, the special royal appropriation and the estate management committee also meant strict restrictions on the ownership of overseas estates by the Church and the Congregation (although the current 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 was thus able to obtain an official identity on the surface - the Sixth Office of the Conscience and Order Leadership Council.

As king, Ferdinand was elected chairman. The night before, on Christmas Eve, when the preparatory meeting of the Committee was secretly convened, he concluded with the following words: "Do not forget your original intention, strengthen the country and enrich the people, the glory of God, and the gospel of 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 clergy, nobles and commoners throughout the country, and a historical event with His Majesty King Ferdinand and the chairman of the royal family and the committee as the core uniting and leading the clergy, nobles and commoners of the whole 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 and the chairman of the committee 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 intention, strengthening the country and enriching the people, the glory of God, and the gospel of all people" of the royal family and the committee, and condense wisdom and strength to achieve the goals and tasks set by the royal family and the committee. The spirit of "Prosperity of the Country, Glory of God, and Gospel of All Nations" came into effect in Niedhog and in Sicily.

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PS: Today, I went to four other discordant Spanish travel novels to sweep the graves, and none of them were updated, which is quite sad after the death of (T_T) the predecessors......

At a time when Ferdinand's idea of imperialism with Spanish characteristics in the new era was widely supported, enthusiastically responded to, actively supported, and implemented by Niedhogg's intelligence officers, the proposer of this great idea and theory had to be busy dealing with various practical problems.

"Alas...... It's been an eventful Christmas this year! ”

The day after Christmas, on December 26, 1495, Ferdinand and Queen Isabella received bad news.

A change from across the Mediterranean.

"The Berbers of the Vatas dynasty in Morocco sent troops to attack the city of Melilla......" Queen Isabella was not in a very good mood when she got the news.

"The good news is that the garrison there withstood the first offensive of the Moroccans. The bad news is that they have suffered heavy casualties, with only 866 able-bodied soldiers left and 180 alive wounded......" Ferdinand shook his head and sighed.

"If there are no strong reinforcements, Melilla will be lost!" Queen Isabella once again recalls the pacifist nightmare that haunted her since she was a child, against which she has fought all her life, and now it seems that this struggle is far from over.

The crumbling city of Melilla is a sign that the threat of pacifism has never been far from Spain.

"Looks like we're going to have to send more troops to Melilla! Fortunately, the French have been beaten to the point where they have no power to recover......" Ferdinand mused.

"This time I transferred 3,000 people from Sardinia to the city of Melilla! We must strengthen enough troops to deal a severe blow to the Berbers! This stronghold will not allow them to be intruded! ”

The city of Melilla was captured in 1492 by the Spanish kings after completely conquering the Kingdom of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar and fighting the Vatas dynasty of Morocco.

Later Ferdinand inadvertently investigated the time of the Spanish conquest of Melilla, and the first data he obtained was in 1492 – that is, a collateral follow-up to the Spanish expulsion of the Moors from the country.

In the current timeline, Ferdinand sent the Aragonese fleet to Tunisia's doorstep in 1493, forcing the Khafs dynasty of Tunisia to become a vassal state, which was seen as a follow-up to the Reconquista.

Of course, the main purpose of Ferdinand's action was to obtain phosphate rock. But it is undeniable that Tunisia, which is across the sea from Sicily and Malta, is also an important bulwark against pirates supported by the pacifist world, especially the Ottoman Turkish Empire and its fleet.

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However, in an article about Spanish operations in North Africa, this date is shown as 1497. However, if the Spanish army had only captured Melilla in 1497, Queen Isabella would not have been able to allow the French to use one of the bases in North Africa in a letter to Charles VIII during the First Italian War.

One possible explanation is that during the First Italian War, the Moroccan Wattas dynasty re-attacked the city of Melilla and captured it. After the First Italian War, the Spanish army recaptured the city of Melilla, which it occupies to this day.

The news received now confirms Ferdinand's speculation in later generations.

Now, thanks to the active involvement of the Aragonese army in the war, Sardinia has built a strong military-agricultural base, and the garrison of Castile and Aragon in the city of Melilla has increased—after all, Ferdinand has certainly strengthened the defense of Melilla, since he has this suspicion, the Spaniards have barely resisted the surprise attack of the Moroccans.

But it was really reluctant, counting the wounded, there were only more than a thousand soldiers left.

However, the casualties of such a strong attack by the Moroccans were not small. As the Spaniards were armed with more and more advanced Mushtec arquebuses, Moroccan casualties amounted to five thousand four hundred, three times that of the Spanish army. Again, this was due to the fact that the equipment of the Spanish army was not improved and strengthened more fully.

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The Berber world of Northwest Africa, historically linked to the pacifists of the Iberian Peninsula in Southwest Europe, after the Arab Empire conquered Northwest Africa, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and destroyed the Visigothic kingdom and ruled the Iberian Peninsula. The Strait of Gibraltar was not a political boundary for hundreds of years.

The Moors of Spain and the Berbers of Northwest Africa are basically the same people.

Immediately after the elimination of the Moorish regime in the Iberian Peninsula, the Spanish kings also launched an attack on the Berber world. The historical timeline of the offensive is –

In 1492, the first capture of Melilla.

In 1497, Melilla was completely occupied.

In 1505, the port of Kebir was occupied.

In 1508, the Belez battery was captured.

In 1509, Oran was occupied.

In 1510, it captured Mustaganeim, Teremsen, Tenais, and the future Algerian capital, Algiers.

This war, which had a certain continuity, can be called the "Berber War".

Ferdinand's request to the Pope for the right to confer the priesthood was therefore justified, since the Spaniards did not stop at the occupation of Granada, but considered themselves heroes of the Catholic world, and they were still taking one stronghold after another from the Berbers of Northwest Africa.

The seizure of the Eastern Mediterranean, the reconquest of Jerusalem, or the invasion of Egypt are all unrealistic pipe dreams...... Of course, it is a pity that Ferdinand and Isabella in history, and even Charles V later, had such illusions.

Ferdinand was completely hopeless about such fantasies, and he had no intention of interfering in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. But his attitude towards Northwest Africa is different. Because Northwest Africa is the gateway to the Western Mediterranean, and Spain itself is located in the Western Mediterranean. The coastline of Aragon is located on the west coast of the western Mediterranean.

What's more, Sardinia, the "pearl of modern times" in Ferdinand's hands, which took three years to build, floats on the sea surface of the western Mediterranean, and Corsica, a potential base in the north, is also the darling of the western Mediterranean. All their connection to Aragon is inseparable from the Western Mediterranean, and Sicily and Malta are simply the boundary and gateway between the Eastern and Western Mediterraneans.

Therefore, Ferdinand had to ensure that the sea power in the western Mediterranean was firmly in the hands of Spain.

At the time, the Spanish duo were facing a great opportunity that would never happen again in history. The Berbers, who were able to thwart the Mongol Empire's westward expedition at Ainzarut (of course, it was only by striking more and fighting less) are now in decline and decaying.

The three Maghreb countries are entangled in each other's wars, and their domestic problems are becoming more and more serious.

The Wattas dynasty still had a certain amount of force, and the Zayanid dynasty and the Hafs dynasty, which ruled Algeria and Tunisia, had declined to the extreme after many French invasions and raids in Aragon.

The Hafs dynasty, decades ahead of its history, became a vassal state of Aragon.

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However, Ferdinand's good (lucky) wishes (heart) and hope (reason) were hit by reality. The Moroccans attacked so uninterestingly, and without self-control, that Ferdinand was so annoyed that even the turkey of the box day was tasteless.

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"Alas...... Despite the acceptance of Tunisia as a protectorate, I did not want to be an enemy of the Wattas dynasty. And yet......" Ferdinand shook his head helplessly.

“…… Now it's time to teach them a lesson! ”

As for the handling of Northwest Africa, Ferdinand was a little undecided.

For Spain, the conquest of the Maghreb region of north-west Africa seemed like a "geographical mission" for the Iberian Peninsula, yet at the same time it peered into Italy and the Americas.

The development of things has changed from quantitative to qualitative. From 1492 to 1510, in terms of historical performance, Spain's strategic actions, under the leadership of Ferdinand's original lord, were fairly decent, forming many points and lines from Melilla to Algiers.

At this time, the number of strongholds and lines of defense accumulated to a certain extent, and it reached a "critical state".

Both the colonies and the occupied territories should be able to provide raw materials, capital, and markets to the local population, and even if they are poor, they should also be able to obtain supplies from the local area to feed the war. And this requires the colony to form a certain size, just as arable land is better concentrated and contiguous, so that it can be developed on a large scale and produce satisfactory results.

It was not that North Africa was without an economic base, and it was not that it was unable to support the Spanish garrison, but Spain in North Africa at that time had only points and lines separating each other and scattered along the coast, and those strongholds and fortresses were separated from the vast towns and villages of the peaceful inhabitants, and Spain only captured a fortress, a port, and even a fort, but ignored the vast hinterland around it.

This hinterland does not refer to the uninhabited Sahara Desert in southern Algeria, but to a belt of urban-rural distribution along the coastline to a depth of 200 kilometers inland. North Africa's people, wealth, towns, villages, livestock, and pastures are all distributed among them, constituting a relatively complete North African agricultural society.

In terms of history, before and after, if Spain had been based on these important strongholds......

“…… If we muster enough forces to destroy the two Maghreb dynasties east of Morocco, Spain will be able to form a deep strip of North African territory along the coast of Northwest Africa, along the city of Melilla to Tripoli......" Ferdinand looked at the map of the Maghreb coast, contemplating this method that was admired by later historians.

In the case of the Western Mediterranean, such a solution is certainly an excellent and timely idea!

If, in the form of a continuum of "Spanish North Africa", as in French North Africa, ruled Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripolitania, then Spain would rule a stable colonial society, and the Spanish crown would replace the Berber sultans who had occupied the area, impose taxes, and provide the army with local provisions, as the Ottoman Empire later did in Algeria and Tunisia.

As for stability, you know, the biggest threat to peace is not that it exists alone, but that it is mixed with something else.

Take, for example, the Russian Empire, including its successor, the Soviet Union, and what is now the former Soviet Union. In Central Asia, the Russians, who were advancing rapidly, and the pacifist peoples of Central Asia who were conquered, actually lived in "two worlds", and the Russians and the Central Asian peoples each had their own vast and historical settlements, and there was no deep intersection in the past.

The education of the pacifists was still carried out by their mullahs, and the Russians did only a few things to strengthen the central rule and increase revenues - railways, cotton planting, the abolition of slavery, taxes, governors. That's all.

The conquerors and the conquered have not changed from each other, they actually live in different worlds separated by barriers of language, religion and customs.

As a result, there has been little clamor for the religious conversion of indigenous peoples, and not many holy warriors have chanted for Allahu Akbar.

The mixed situation in the Caucasus is quite different. The same is true of Andalusia and Granada, where the fierce clash between Christianity and peace religion, between European peoples and Asian and African peoples, is full of blood and hatred.

For the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa, the combination of geographically separated but not moat-bounded Mediterranean and historically and culturally close but not inextricably linked, is like Russia's relationship with Central Asia.

Historical events have also confirmed that there is no need for fierce religious struggles and vendettas in North Africa - the Maghreb under the Spanish monarchy is a land of tranquility and vicissitudes. It is possible to realize this kind of thinking.

The timing was also critical. Of course, personal struggle is inseparable from the itinerary of history.

The phrase "no more good time" refers not only to the decline of the three Maghreb states, but also to a brief period of weakness for the Ottoman Empire, especially at sea.

At that time, the Venetian fleet was able to compete with the fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks were far away from Northwest Africa, Istanbul could not interfere with the affairs of the Maghreb, and the nomadic Berber tribes of the Maghreb did not know much about and admired the Turkic peoples who had emerged in Asia Minor.

Egypt is in the middle. There are also Rhodes, the Ionian Islands, Thessaloniki and Cyprus, which Christendom retains as a stubborn stronghold in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The discipline of the French had not yet completely collapsed to the point of alliance with the Turks, at least the Sultan's naval Pasha could not command the Turkish fleet to visit the port of Toulon in a grand manner.

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One by one, Spain uprooted the important cities of the Berbers. The victories of 1509 to 1510 were particularly exciting, but after the easy defeat of Algiers, which he was never able to capture, Ferdinand's energy was drawn to the Italian wars – and he died in the middle of the war, welcoming His Majesty Charles V, who had tied Spain to the death of the Holy Roman Empire and the war between the Continental Europe......

At the same time, the Spaniards believed that America was easier to conquer than North Africa, and that Milan was more worthy of protection than Tunisia, so the conquest plan for North Africa fell through.

With no contiguous colonies, only scattered discontinuous strongholds surrounded by hostilities, these fortresses were threatened but unable to get supplies from the surrounding areas, and maintaining them was a huge burden on the homeland.

The Turks became stronger, they welcomed Barbarossa, who had defected to the Turks, they sent troops to capture Penon, Algiers and other places were lost one after another, the expelled Moors and Moriscos, the earlier Berber fishermen and pirates, the Italian apostates, and the Turks behind the scenes, and the local wavering indigenous chiefs, all these forces combined to threaten Spain, and the result was not only the complete collapse of the garrison border in Northwest Africa, but also the sea power and maritime power in the Western Mediterranean, The damage to property was severe, contributing to the bankruptcy of the Spanish government, and the gold and silver shipped from the Americas were not unscathed.

And those reasons for abandoning North Africa are ridiculous. As far as the Americas and North Africa are concerned, Ferdinand undoubtedly attaches more importance to the Americas than anyone else, but he knows that there is no contradiction between the two, because until 1510 Spain only occupied scattered strongholds, and did not organize large-scale expeditions, and during the same period, the exploration of the Americas made very few achievements, almost stopped, and there is no doubt that this is the pot that Ferdinand himself did not attach importance to the Americas, and could not let the Americas or North Africa carry it. If you really pay attention to the Americas, as Ferdinand is doing now, by 1510 the basic situation of the Americas was stable, and it was not difficult to fight a North African kingdom.

As for the covetousness of northern Italy, Ferdinand had nothing to say, it can only be said that it was the consequence of Spain being tied to the chariot by the Holy Roman Empire, and he would not carry this pot.

So, Ferdinand came up with his long-term plan -

“…… This brought me to the idea that our long-term goal should be to establish a flank position in the Western Mediterranean, the Spanish Maghreb. Ferdinand proposed this grand plan to Isabella.

"I also deeply agree, both for the safety of Castile and Aragone, and for the fulfillment of the mission given by God."

"But," Ferdinand said, "this is not our focus now, my focus has always been on the development of the New World, and I will not do anything more than 3,000 troops in North Africa next year, because we have more than 20,000 men waiting to land on the other side of the Atlantic, which will cost us most of our transport ships in the Bay of Biscay and Valencia, and at least half of our armed merchant ships, and there is no room for action in North Africa." ”

"That's right, not to mention that the French are still entrenched in Naples." Queen Isabella also felt the limitations of Spain's strength, frowning slightly, the current plate duck is at a critical moment in history, and it is easy to drop the chain everywhere.

A more positive attitude collides with a heavier task. Stronger power meets bigger plans. History seems to have been neutralized again.

"So we're still going to wait until 1497?" Ferdinand's inexplicable emotion made the queen a little incomprehensible.

"It wasn't a friendly vintage......

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Ferdinand's strategy for North Africa was another truly bold and imaginative plan put forward by the Christian countries of Europe to the pacifistic world after the defeat of the Crusades - to establish the rule of European Christian monarchs on a vast land of millions of square kilometers and stretching for more than 1,000 kilometers. Unlike the short-lived Latin Kingdom, this would lay the groundwork for the establishment of a permanent Spanish territory in North Africa.

Now, however, Ferdinand could not take direct revenge on the Moroccan Wattas dynasty. Not even in 1497.

If it were true, even if it was an expedition to the New World, Ferdinand was able to teach the Moroccans a profound lesson in 1496, but what was the purpose? What's in it?

Overthrowing the Moroccan Wattas dynasty? Ruling the land of Morocco?

Spain does not intend to do so, at least not for 30 years. The Moroccans can still take advantage of it, they can add trouble to the Portuguese. And the occupation of Moroccan territory has no other benefit than apatite, and from Tunisia, Spain has also received rich apatite resources. Western Sahara, a sparsely populated land, also has easy access to apatite.

The Berbers of Morocco are not so easy to rule than Algeria and Tunisia, they are more numerous and more stubborn than their compatriots in the east.

There are such easy-to-pinch persimmons as the Hafs dynasty of Tunisia and the Zayanid dynasty of Algeria, and there is no need to fight to the death with Morocco, just guarantee the city of Melilla.

And then there was the problem of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which could not be allowed to take advantage of the situation and annex Tunisia and Algeria, and then the Spanish garrison in North Africa would collapse - these are the consequences of history. By 1707, even the city of Oran was swallowed up by the Ottomans, and at that time, Britain and France could already slap this former peaceful empire in the face.

However, the fact that he could not do it also made Ferdinand very uncomfortable, and of course, he would not take irrational measures just because he was uncomfortable. But this time, he found an excellent object for imperialist aggression.

As the first imperialist country in the history of mankind in the future, how can Spain be worthy of the modifier of imperialism if it does not invade and expand everywhere? Especially in the case of being provoked on its own initiative.

Russia suffered a loss in the Crimean War, and in a turn it annexed more than one million square kilometers of territory of the Qing Empire, and obtained the territory of the Heilongjiang River basin and the good port of Vladivostok in the Far East.

Now that Spain has been attacked by the Berbers in the city of Melilla, which has caused the surprise of its friends, the impact is very bad, and it is natural to take some measures to compensate for the losses and recover the field.

At the same time, it can also allow some surplus goods in Sardinia to obtain a suitable dumping channel. It also allows Spain's civilian-reformed civil service in Sardinia, Sicily and even Valencia to shine in a wider world......

So, Tunisia, was lucky enough to win the lottery!

It was time for Spain to establish a garrison in Tunisia as well as a colony, and build a strong fortress to protect against possible attacks by the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the future.

"Well, let's do it first. Send more troops to Melilla, and then the Aragonese army will move troops from Sicily, force the Tunisians, and allow us to enter the region of Ragulit! "Ferdinand has only used such simple tactics against the Berbers of Northwest Africa for now. His main focus was also on the development of the New World.

The Spanish (Aragonese) army gathered troops from Valencia, Sardinia and the Kingdom of Sicily, and concentrated more than 80 transports and warships, including 60 new Galen ships.

Since Aragon became the suzerainty of Tunisia, Nidhog had a growing intelligence network in Tunisia, and the Spanish side collected all kinds of military intelligence from Tunisia and decided to make a surprise attack directly on the capital of Tunisia.

On February 8, 1495, the Spanish Mediterranean Fleet carried 2,500 men from Sicily and brazenly shelled the outer port of Lagulet, the capital of Tunisia, and then landed at the port of Lagulet and captured the port area.

The Spanish army attacked in a big way, crushing the resistance of the Tunisians and besieging the royal palace.

Tunisia's Hafs dynasty has been frightened, and now there is no one to help it, and it is much weaker than the Moroccan Vatas dynasty, and Spain can even destroy the country by sending a few thousand soldiers. Occupying Lagulat and then seizing the capital is not a problem.

Subsequently, Spain added 1,500 troops to repel a counterattack by a small number of Tunisian troops.

For the trembling King of Tunisia, this confirmed the gloomy predictions of him and his ministers, who had long felt that it was impossible for the Christian armies of Aragon to be mobilized for a mediocre ore. Now, "indeed" the Christians have shown their hideous faces and are beginning to covet the land of Tunisia.

But Tunisia could not afford to refuse Aragon's demands, and Spain had besieged the king of Tunisia in his palace and was about to send him to a prisoner of war camp.

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In the first half of 1496, the Aragonese army, with a total of 8,000 men, landed in the area of Raghulet and began to garrison. Ferdinand would not follow the same path as history, and he murderously intimidated the Tunisians to force them to agree to supply the Spanish army. Since they agreed, the Spanish army would also graciously provide compensation of 15% of the total military expenditure.

During the war and negotiations, Spain held the king hostage, dictated orders, and extended its control. In March, Spanish troops made a forced landing at Bizerte, and in April they occupied Annaba and Tripoli.

On May 6, 2,000 Spanish people landed on Djerba. The island was still sparsely populated and peaceful, not the sad place where pirates gathered decades later, leaving Spain unable to conquer for a long time and suffering heavy casualties.

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During the negotiations, Spain made a large number of unreasonable demands, and the king of Tunisia expressed his protest, but the Spanish negotiators did not feel guilty and rebuked Tunisia for indulging the hostile attitude and hostile behavior of its bureaucrats and people towards Spain, which surprised and caused great harm to the friendly countries.

Spain, in turn, forced Tunisia to recognize the occupied territories controlled by Spanish troops and set up its own "concessions" in Tripoli to conduct commerce.

In view of the tragic death of his father (frightened to death by the Aragonese people), the new king could only sign the humiliating peace treaty.

The Treaty of Lagulaite was signed on July 12, 1496, with 13 articles, the main contents of which were:

The end of the war was declared. Relations between the two countries have changed from a state of war to a state of peace.

The two countries each released the other's military and civilians.

The Tunisian government opened Annaba, Bizerte and La Qulaat as treaty ports, allowed Aragonese ("Spain" to be referred to in the treaty) as consuls, and allowed Western merchants and their families to live freely.

Monetzing. The island of Djerba, the Gulf of Gabbès, and Tripolitania were ceded to Aragon, and the Spanish army withdrew from the cities and ports of Tunis, Annaba, and Bizerte. But Tunisia has designated a 60-square-kilometre area of La Gulaat as a permanent garrison for Spanish troops.

As "compensation", Spain "reluctantly" increased the proportion of compensation for Tunisian supplies to 45 percent, a "burdensome" figure, and the Tunisian king was "very grateful" and "very enthusiastically invited" the Spanish adviser Fonseca (another member of the Fonseca family) to help manage their customs, and Spanish civil servants began to "help" the Tunisians to keep their customs in order.

The taxes to be paid by Western merchants on the import and export of goods must be agreed between Tunisia and Spain; Tunisia's tariff autonomy began to be lost......

Naturally, there is a very favourable tariff rate of 5 per cent on Spanish goods. Of course, fat sheep should not be slaughtered too thinly, and the Spaniards suggested that Tunisians raise Tunisia's universal import tax on other countries from 15% to 25% and then to 50%...... Furthermore, the Tunisian commodity market was completely monopolized by Spain!

The modern cotton textile factories in Sardinia produced a large number of high-quality cotton cloths, which were digested in Sardinia and supplied to the army to make military uniforms, quilts, tents, etc., and these products then entered Aragon and Sicily. Then there is Castile. It is also sold in European countries.

This brought Ferdinand a lot of profits, but overseas markets could also be lucrative, and it could also help prevent leaks (better than nothing).

Tunisia and other places, which are not places with developed handicraft industries, have to be imported from Europe and the Middle East. Soon, Sardinia's cotton yarn flooded the Tunisian market, and men's and women's robes, women's veils, etc., could be marked "made in Spain".

In the case of civil litigation between the two countries, Western merchants shall be at the expense of Spain; Tunisia's judicial sovereignty began to be violated.

The consular jurisdiction granted by Spain in Tunisia in the Treaty of Lagulet raised the eyebrows of Christians and strengthened Spanish suzerainty. In addition to commercial dumping, the Spanish Church also sent a large number of clergy to establish churches in Tunisia, Bizerte, Annaba, Tripoli, and Gabès to promote the missionary cause, and many Tunisians converted to Christianity through coercion and semi-coercion within the Spanish land and concessions.

Although the Peace Religion in North Africa did not prevent Spanish rule in North Africa, and at some stage the stable pacifist population was conducive to the stability of Spanish rule, attempts to promote Christianity in some areas were still to be carried out. It would be best if, fifty years later, the whole of Northwest Africa could be Christianized. Fifty years is not enough, but it can take a hundred years to implement it......

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Back at the end of 1495, for Ferdinand at the time, the matter was still a matter of story. He is also working on some technical research......