"Alas, I only earned more than 600,000 ducats (the salt sold to Eastern Europe and Northern Europe is more profitable), I don't think it's enough!" Ferdinand was amazed to learn of the total income from the sale of salt in 1493 and early 1494. Unlike in a novel, this is not a time of high prices, and the profits from drying salt are not so frightening, less than one-twentieth of the profits of a year's wheat and buckwheat harvest in Sardinia.

Ferdinand was not showing off his wealth in reverse. When he said this, he also reflected the common suffering of European monarchs at that time, and there was no money.

Lack of money seems to be the main reason for the revolution. If you don't have money, you have to pay taxes, and if you don't have money, you have to quarrel with the parliament and the nobles. The aristocracy and the parliamentary power, such as England, made a revolution and played constitutionalism. The people were overwhelmed with passion, such as France, who killed a man's head.

The Spanish crown was so strong that it could tax as much as it wanted, and the parliament did not dare to say anything, and as a result, the Netherlands became independent, the country went bankrupt, the war was lost, and finally it fell like this......

More than 600,000 ducats are more than 80 percent of England's annual fiscal revenue, more than half of the French royal family's financial revenue.

However, you say that Ferdinand has this money and is considered to be a handout, then you are joking.

Pope Alexander VI, every time he raided his house, he copied more than 100,000 or 200,000 ducats, and his own property amounted to one million ducats, which could buy twenty fiefs.

The great nobles were rich, and this was the era when the nobles were richer than the king.

When Queen Isabella raised sailing ships for Columbus's voyage, the treasury was so empty that she wanted to extort a small town, and a great nobleman at the time, Duke Medina Sellly, said that he had three or four ships on standby, and could also provide his own port of Santa Maria as a base from which to send Columbus on offer, provided that he had a monopoly on trade and shipping in "India".

Isabella, of course, rejected him, she could not let the royal power be weakened by the power of the nobility, so she would rather sell jewelry than let the royal family monopolize the interests.

It's not that all feudal monarchs don't have money, Ferdinand, whether it's the current or the original owner, is a rich king.

The reason for this is that the original owner of Ferdinand put down his body, pulled down his skin, and acted as a great nobleman, fighting against the nobles or colluding with them, insidious, stingy, cunning, treacherous, scheming, and cunning......

The result was very satisfying, and now Ferdinand found that the small treasury left to him by the original owner alone was no less than when Pope Alexander VI was at his richest.

Speaking of these nobles, Ferdinand had another headache, the starting point of the second voyage, the port of Cádiz, was the port of the fief of the Grand Nobles of Castile, one of the richest men in Europe, who had a large fief in Andalusia, the Duke of Medina Sidonia. Even the capture of Melilla in 1492 relied on the power of the third duke, Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán. At the same time, the fiefdom of the Duke of Medina Selli was also in Andalusia.

For the Great Voyage, it was not a good thing to have so many rich nobles on the necessary departure base. Moreover, their abilities are also rubbish, the twelfth Duke of Medina Sidonia, as the commander of the "Invincible Armada", failed to land in Ireland, and before that, he was even attacked by the British army, and was once captured in the mainland port of Cádiz, and then attacked by the Dutch fleet at the Gibraltar anchorage, this man did not die until 1607, which is really sad for Spain.

"It seems that there will still be a Moorish rebellion," Ferdinand was talking to Cisneros again, this time more seriously, without knocking on the table.

"Don't suppress it, let it be, secretly you can also fuel the flames and let the rebellion sweep across the whole of Andalusia! In particular, he tried every means to let the army of the pacifists attack the territory of the nobles and plunder the wealth of the nobles. ”

"The time of the rebellion can also be extended, you don't have to worry about this, I have a simple solution."

Ferdinand smiled harmlessly, but his words were asymmetrical.

"We just have to be 'uncompromising' and will not allow them to retreat peacefully into North Africa, but force them to resist desperately, beat Andalusia to a river of blood, and finally have their bodies thrown down the Strait of Gibraltar by the kingdom's troops."

At the same time as the development of the salt industry, Ferdinand was also working hard to develop the Canary Islands, determined to make them an excellent agricultural production area, to provide local living material security for the islanders and garrisons, and to provide a supply transit base for westward expansion.

The volcanoes and volcanic ash of the Canary Islands provide good conditions for the development of agriculture and other industries, and are known as the "volcanic industry" by Ferdinand.

The evolution of volcanic ash over a long period of time has produced fertile soils that provide good conditions for agricultural production.

The island's fertile volcanic soil and mild climate lend itself to a wide variety of vegetation. In the case of Tenerife, for example, the land beyond the salt pans (0.5 km²) is planned, and bananas, date palms (popular in Europe in the Middle Ages) and sugar cane are produced in the coastal lowlands and plains; On higher ground, citrus, lemons and vegetables are mainly grown, and tomatoes are planned to be introduced in the future. In 1494, Ferdinand passed through the Canary Islands and introduced sweet potatoes and tobacco from the New World, which began to be promoted. There are also small amounts of wheat, barley, corn, peaches, apricots, and grapes. The mountains have preserved primeval forests, cattle and sheep and other animal husbandry have been developed, and the waters of the Canary Islands have strengthened support for fishermen and fisheries.

Wine making and linen weaving also began on the island, and the wine grapes from the Canary Islands are of excellent quality. From the second half of 1494, agricultural planning was cautiously extended to the surrounding islands such as El Hierro.

In 1494, with the bumper harvest of wheat in Sardinia, Tenerife also began to learn the "intensive farming" of Sardinia, the volcanic soil is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and there is no need for too much fertilization (such as applying phosphorus fertilizer), which saves costs, but due to the limitation of area and topography, the yield is obviously much lower than that of Sardinia, but it can already ensure the food self-sufficiency needs of the people on the island.

In addition, volcanic ash itself is an "important" industry. Mainly due to the cement wave on Sardinia, which was used in large quantities for the construction of docks and the small amount of smearing of ship hulls, the demand for volcanic ash increased significantly. The Canary Islands are volcanic archipelagos, and the entire archipelago is caught in the middle of a wave of ash mining.

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"Milk doesn't keep it fresh......," Ferdinand was speechless when he learned that the milk that the king and nobles drank was drunk less than an hour after it was squeezed out.

"Just boil it for a minute and drink it." Pasteurization can be tried, but boiling is now the easiest solution. "Milk boiled for a minute before drinking it is good for your health, Sisneros, you will do the same for me in the future."

Oh! Forgetting an important thing, not to mention that it will kill someone.

"Until the end of 1498, no one is to approach the foot of the Teyd volcano. The order was issued. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"And," said Ferdinand, with a serious face, "I will issue an edict!" ”

"Your Majesty, what?" Cisneros almost didn't fall.

"Don't be nervous, the edict reads: From January 1, 1730 to December 31, 1730, no one is allowed to land on Lanzarote!"

……

235 years later.

"Diego, why are you back? Isn't it good to live in the Canary Islands? ”

"Have you forgotten Ferdinand the Great's edict? This year, you will not be allowed to go to Lanzarote. I simply sold the vineyard there and came back. ”

"Well, although I don't know why, the Emperor's edict still has to be observed, and I heard that a large number of people are evacuating from there......"

After 5 months.

"Boom"......

On June 1, 1730, the title of the first report of a European newspaper was "The Magical Prophecy of the Emperor".