Christopher Columbus was at the peak of his life, discovering India, gaining wealth, fame, and status not previously obtained by explorers, and gaining the favor of the Catholic kings. Many people believe that he is Prince Enrique of Castile, the pride and hero of Castile and Aragon.

At the same time, the Iberian Peninsula was in a frenzy of exploration, with navigators eager to make their mark on the great discoveries to the East. The great nobles and wealthy merchants were looking forward to a piece of the feast of new territories and new trade in the East. Officials were thinking about how to use the taxes and trade proceeds from their new territories to ease Castile's current staggering treasury. Civilians who have a bad life, some people who yearn for adventure, and bold speculators, also want to try their luck in the new land of the East.

When people talk about sailing to the East, no one suggests that they are actually sailing west, so could it be that they have actually discovered new land?

After receiving Columbus, King João II of Portugal consulted closely with his ministers, navigators, and court scholars, analyzed every detail they knew in detail, and finally came up with a brilliant answer: judging from Columbus's account and experience, the local natives did not look like the Orientals who created silk, gunpowder, printing and the compass, but seemed to be relatives of the intellectually worrisome Uncle Black, so India was still waiting to be discovered in the East, and what Columbus discovered was nothing more than a new landmass.

The King of Portugal, believing that he had analyzed everything, decided to ignore Columbus and the wild lands of the West, and sailed in the established direction of the East.

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In any case, in the land of Castile, Columbus carried the hopes of too many people, and thus took on great responsibilities.

His second voyage would be accompanied by 17 ships and 1,500 men, including a large number of officials and nobles.

And so on, there were also the kings of Aragon, Ferdinand and Princess Juana, in a strange boat, loaded with a lot of artillery, and agile. But wouldn't it be too cold for such a small ship to be a ship?

Columbus soon learned that this was not at all, for Ferdinand gave him 33 ships, 800 sailors, 50 craftsmen, 13 priests, 200 medical personnel, and 1,900 soldiers, plus 37 men of the King's Throne. In total, 51 boats and 4,500 people took part in the voyage! The number of people and ships is three times higher than that of the same period in history, and the food reserves are five times that of the same period in history to prevent historical food shortages. It's worth mentioning that I brought some glassware, handicrafts, toys, dyes, wine and even a little silk that were stored separately, mainly for the purchase of Manhattan Island, specifically to fool the silly Indian buddies.

The 3,000 people selected by Ferdinand are highly guaranteed in character and integrity. Craftsmen, medical staff, and clergy are naturally selective. There is nothing to say about the King's Throne: 1 King Ferdinand, 1 Princess Juana, 1 King Confessor Mr. Torquemada, and Gonzalo Córdoba's brother Alonso Córdoba temporarily served as military attachés, and the 13 palace guards and 20 royal sailors carefully screened were all die-hard fans and the existence of a character breakthrough in the sky.

The other sailors and soldiers were first and foremost drawn from the royal guard and the "bridal fleet", and the fleet to send Juana and meet Margaret was extremely large, and had been preparing since the end of the war in Granada. The fleet was very large, and the quality of the crew was very good, because in Flanders, most of the crew had froze to death and starved to death in the cold winter of more than three months, miserable, unattended, and Philip's intelligence at that time was so worrying that he really did not send anyone to watch them—was he not afraid that these more than 10,000 sailors and soldiers, mainly soldiers, would "enjoy life" in the port? But in the end, no one really did this, so they "obediently" froze and starved to death, and they were really soldiers of the people with noble character······ At that time, if those people had patronized the brothel and then had some drink and some business, they would have had a lot of fun.

So after Ferdinand picked some elites from the royal guard, he adopted a robbery policy on the marrying fleet: recruit one to review one, intercept one by one, intercept one by one, and intercept one for a year, 2441 people were extracted, which confused the ambassadors of the Holy Roman Empire, and seriously doubted the execution of the governments of Castile and Aragon. A few random people who jump out to report are all bad actors? In fact, it was because the good people were left behind by Ferdinand.

Ferdinand had to make sure that most of the men he added were able to follow his orders to colonize, and not run around like Columbus's men, or catch some unusual illness overnight.

Thus, although the fleet was grouped together to "India", it was administratively separated, and Ferdinand's additional 34 ships were commanded by a vice-captain, who, after the entire fleet had reached Hispaniola and established a colonial stronghold, would lead the fleet to split up with Columbus's troops at the king's behest, and then head north and south. He rejoined Columbus in 1496 on the island of Hispaniola and returned to Spain with the last one. As for Columbus's history, 17 ships and more than 1,000 people who had encountered a lot of trouble and died by themselves, after arriving at Hispaniola and establishing a colonial stronghold early, Ferdinand let it go, anyway, I can't control it, and you don't respect yourself, so whatever.

Columbus should be proud. Never before had any European country undertaken a maritime expedition of this magnitude.

But Columbus was a little depressed. He found that Her Majesty seemed to be interested in sending more people to the New World, led by other navigators. This is contrary to the agreement they signed.

This was not because Ferdinand was in the way, as Isabella knew the significance of the discovery as soon as Columbus returned. It was imperative to make sure that the new land belonged entirely to Castile, so that before Columbus arrived in Barcelona, her messenger had already traveled to Rome to seek the papal supreme ruling. The second point is that the new territory must not be monopolized by private individuals, even if it is her friend Columbus. The third point is to colonize the New World as soon as possible. Despite their small population, the Spanish colonized overseas more efficiently than both Britain and France. The government regularly arranged for fleets to transport migrants to the New World. So to this day, Spanish America, including parts of the southwestern United States, is a Spanish-speaking native Hispanic native, and the local aristocracy is in common with the native Spanish nobility, and the titles are mixed with each other, and if there is no discrimination, they consider themselves Spaniards. British immigration to the thirteen states on the east coast of North America did not guarantee overwhelming purity, perhaps with the general character of the English Puritans or the English. However, Britain later carried out a very successful colonization activity similar to the Spanish royal family, that is, criminals immigrated to Australia, although they came to the criminals, resulting in the fierce customs of the Australian people, but until the decline of British national power after World War I, so that in 1931, before the British Parliament passed the Westminster Act, Australia has been a loyal territory of the United Kingdom. It seems that a sense of national identity is important, and if the Americans do not consider them to belong to the British, it will be difficult to suppress them.

In addition, Columbus felt that his prestige and power had been weakened, and that all the nobles who came were nobles, and even the sailors were nobles, and he was not very willing to obey him, a foreigner and a "commoner nouveau riche". What's even more serious is that His Majesty the King also came, which he never expected. His Majesty brought with him 34 ships and four times the grain reserves of his own small fleet. But he simply declared that he had absolute decision-making power over the fleet, calling it the 'Second Detachment', which was commanded by Juan de la Cosa, and that Amerigo, the Florentine navigator who had gone to Spain to try his luck, was also called in as his deputy, so that he did not have to fight for his chances with the usual rhetoric in history.

This meant that the king's fleet was only walking with himself and was not bound by himself.

To add insult to injury, Fonseca, who had always been unpleasant in his own fleet, was appointed by the king as his personal representative, and was to accompany the king's fleet if necessary.