In the summer of 1495, the war in Italy was in full swing, and the changes in the New World were just beginning. While Italy, the Italian states, and the Holy Roman Empire were defeating the French, Spain began to make new breakthroughs in the New World that it had monopolized.

On the island of Newfoundland off the northern coast of North America, after successfully quelling the chaos caused by the "Cosmic Horde" in early July, the reinforced Newfoundland detachment of the Spanish Reclamation Corps reached a total of 520 men - which still seems small, but they are enough to give Cortés and Pizarro to conquer both the Aztec and Inca empires!

For the indigenous Indians, who were in the era of slash-and-burn farming, and there weren't even enough knives, the Spanish infantry, armed with Mushtec arquebuses, which were advanced even in Spain – and of course the most advanced firearms were brown besses flintlock pistols. Moreover, the Spaniards also have more than 40,000 Beotuks on the island of Newfoundland as allies/cannon fodder.

In this case, Fonseca, the head of Newfoundland affairs, began to plan two important operations, one of which was to deal with the British.

Kill them!

Previously, Ferdinand had not completely shaken off the mentality of secondary two, and had not yet fully accepted the ideological baptism of materialist burlesque. At one time, he wanted to leave a letter to the British to send abroad.

Alas! The beautiful natural scenery can always cultivate sentiments, and when His Majesty the King was exploring the Americas, even his heart was sublimated, and he even had a trace of compassion for the British-stirring stick.

When he returned to the old continent of intrigue and intrigue, and personally participated in the intrigues of the Italian war, Ferdinand finally fully realized the cruelty of this world and became a complete materialist comic!

The British better die! As soon as they set foot on the meadows of Lanseco, they were going to be dealt with! Not a single person or a boat can be left!

Now it's time to start laying out the ambush.

Another important initiative is the Canada Plan. Now, Spain is about to make its first exploration of mainland Canada. The first target of this expedition was the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

According to the charts left by Ferdinand and the guidance of some Beotucs who had traveled to and from the mainland, the Spanish fleet would actually enter the Gulf of St. Lawrence and explore the "St. Lawrence River" as pointed out by His Majesty and the natives.

For this voyage, 4 large boats, several small boats and canoes were used, and 300 people were employed. Led by Amerigo.

In the early morning of 17 July, the fleet set out from the Ranseoz Meadows, crossed the Belle Isle Strait with the Labrador Peninsula, and turned southwest into the northern shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

On 20 July, the flotilla approached the south coast of the Labrador Peninsula and entered the Jacques Caltier Strait.

On 23 July the fleet sailed out of the gorge, and as His Majesty had said, they then reached the mouth of a great river, the St. Lawrence, the great river in North America, second only to the Mississippi and the Mackenzia, with a wide mouth and abundant water.

"Let's drop anchor on the left bank of the estuary." Amerigo said, looking ahead with a telescope.

The flotilla slowly approached the land, and then anchored on the shore south of the mouth of the Sagunlai River, a tributary of the left bank of the estuary, and the small team soon spotted the indigenous Indians operating in the area. Like the Indians they met in New York, the local Indians were amazed by the visiting fleet. Like the first French visitors in history, the Spaniards were warmly welcomed by the Indians.

The St. Lawrence River is far north but still warm in the summer, and Amerigo noticed that the locals could grow corn here, a crop of the New World that had recently been discovered by Ferdinand. The fact that both the Iroquois and the Huron cultivated corn may have spread to the peoples along the St. Lawrence River. Of course, their farming techniques are very primitive and far from bringing out the characteristics of high-yielding crops.

"We went further west from here, and heard that there was a kingdom of Sagun...... Our village here is called 'Canada'......"

“Canada？” Amerigo and the others were a little surprised, but they didn't expect this place to be really called Canada. The Indians here, not knowing what to think, tried to invent and exaggerate the beautiful legends about the interior of Canada to the visiting Europeans—or perhaps they themselves thought so—and then fooled the French further inland, eventually encompassing the eastern part of present-day Canada, and then the French continued to expand westward and southward, thus creating New France, which once occupied three-fifths of North America, but unfortunately ended up cheapening the British and Americans. Otherwise, France today might be a superpower.

As for the legend of the kingdom of Saguinlai. Well, a lot of historical countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia have a lot of names, and even in the eyes of Europeans, even China has several different names. As for India, there are more than 1,000 of the names of those states. This is very deceitful, and the person who does not know the inside story, especially if he is still on a mission to India/China, is likely to think that this is India/China, which the French first came to the coast of Canada to China, and then came to the same place and planned to find India. At this time, Western Europe could not even distinguish the main differences between China and India......

The Spanish team did not immediately venture deeper into the bay – because of the wide mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the open brackish water of the estuary-bay area went all the way southwest and deep inland until Quebec – but set up camp at the mouth of the river. The Indian villages provided them with a lot of convenience, ensuring a supply of food, such as corn, fatty fish, and turkey meat.

In the next two days, Amerigo and others had extensive communication with the Indian villages in this area, and the Spaniards and Indians established relatively good relations. The Spaniards bartered with the Indians with ironware, glassware, and liquor, and the priests spread the Christian faith.

America also held an occupation ceremony and erected a cross to officially declare Spain's sovereignty over "Canada" – theoretically, Spain had already gained sovereignty over the entire New World west of the Papal Meridian, and was the first to discover the New World, which naturally included Canada. But in fact, the French, as an adversary of Spain, did not care whether the Pope had assigned the land to Spain when they later claimed sovereignty over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Where you can't reach it, others won't pay attention to your mouth.

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The next chapter, the founding of Quebec City.