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"The strength is heavy, the responsibility is heavy for a long time, and the weakness will not be enough!"

At the northwestern tip of Newfoundland, at the foot of the Long Ridge Mountains, Fonseca stood on the meadows of Laneoz, still covered in snow and hoarfrost, with a lonely face and a deep contemplation with his back to the early spring morning light. After a long time, I sighed and couldn't help but chant two lines of poetry.

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Fonseca's exclamation has a lot to do with John Capote, who is far away in England.

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He received a charter from the King of England, but John Capote's family was still very thin, with only two seagoing ships in total.

Henry VIII's charter is unashamed, saying that John Capote was authorized to lead five ships to sea, but in fact, John Capote's entire family was only one ship, and it was made up with a loan [PS: Therefore, the previous text is not in line with historical facts and has been corrected].

Now there are two ships because his merchant friend John Day gave him two ships, so John Capote should be glad about the situation, and he himself thought so.

However, the following facts come to mind -

John Day was a key member of the England branch of Nidhogg.

Well, these two ships have a big mystery.

First of all, it has to do with Ferdinand's perception of John Capote.

According to historical data, Ferdinand had to admit that this guy was indeed cautious...... Or is it? Is it just afraid of death? That's not quite right, daring to sail across the Atlantic is not something that people who are afraid of death can do. Then let's say better, be brave and resourceful, and don't make unnecessary sacrifices...... Ahem.

Specifically, John Capote landed only once during the voyage, and did not exceed the "shooting distance of the crossbow" - this is specifically emphasized in the source sources, and it is conceivable that John Capote was ready to run away at any time when attacked by the natives, which was still a little worse than Columbus's "fearless spirit".

If you compare it with the crew, it shows some gaps, because Columbus's crew is still a little less martial than Columbus, the leader, and Columbus needs to take the lead and actively agitate.

John Capote himself had only landed once, and that time he was in a safe area to run away at any time, but while the guy hid on the ship, the crew stayed on land and ventured out to find the natives, discovering the remains of fire, human tracks, fishing nets, and wooden tools until all the fresh water was gone.

This makes John Capote a little bit of a compromised, and the resentment in the crew's hearts is understandable, so when going deep into the icy sea area, the crew members who were shocked by the huge drifting icebergs from Greenland threatened to riot, which is normal, after all, how many times have you, the captain, taken it from your heart, and you are not allowed to do it once?

Either way, this was a problem for Ferdinand's plan, after all, Ferdinand wanted to kill John Capote cleanly, what if this thing ran too neatly, what if he was caught up in the ambush and let him get on the boat and escape?

Let's be reasonable, as long as the location is estimated accurately, this guy really doesn't have much chance to escape! Can a crossbow compare to a Mushtec arquebus or even a flintlock pistol? Can a captain and a sailor compare with a cavalryman, a sword, a shieldman, or a warrior on the shore? As for the sea, over-the-horizon tracking and encirclement can be carried out through telescopes, and the speed of the Galen ship and the flying shear Galen ship is also faster than John Capote's sea ship, and the firepower is not comparable......

However, in this era when the transportation conditions were far behind those of later generations, there were many accidents that could arise in ambushing and robbing a ship in the New World across the Atlantic, whose location was only determined by historical records.

Even this historical record is a mess, such as John Capote's arrival on the American continent and exploration of large stretches of coastline from the United States to Canada. Although it was of little use at the time and since......

However, because this voyage was "of great significance, it was the first time that Europeans reached the American continent (the Viking barbarians have no human rights, you will die), and the first contact between European civilization and North American civilization opened a new era in the history of North America and even the Americas, profoundly influenced and changed the course of history on both sides of the Atlantic, and played an immeasurable role in promoting the development and exchange of civilizations in the whole world, and made a very great contribution to the history of the world"......

As a result, different regions are vying for this "honor", with Cape Bonavista and St. John's in Newfoundland in Britain/Canada, Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Labrador in Canada and Maine in the United States, with disputes spanning more than a dozen latitudes...... Newfoundland was even more favored by the government, and was designated by the Canadian and British governments as the "officially certified" landing site of John Capote, and even the Italian government coveted the site, and the queen presented a replica of the ship that had sailed across the sea, marking the unanimous research decision of the three governments. Of course, Maine in the United States is naturally unconvinced, and the beacon of mankind is more qualified to be the window of the first contact between European and American civilizations!

This fully shows that the "window of XX civilization", "XX cultural capital", "XX exchange bridge", "XX birthplace" and so on are by no means the characteristics of a large East Asian country.

Therefore, when Ferdinand thought of the position of the "bridge between European and American civilizations" that spanned more than a dozen planes in historical materials, he sat silently for a long time, his eyes were blank, and finally he reluctantly spit out a Chinese character ...... "Damn!" ”

Fortunately, because of the outstanding contribution of Comrade John Day, later generations can determine that John Capote reached the northernmost point of Newfoundland, which is about the location of the Lanceoz Meadows, but it is also possible that in Cape Breton Island, a little norther, Comrade Newfoundland got half of the votes, plus the British and Italian governments, it seems that the status of "bridge between European and American civilizations" cannot run. The monument to the Cape of Bonavista, a symbol of the eternal glory bestowed by the emperor......

Of course, Ferdinand could not follow the example of the queen in practice, and the northern tip of Newfoundland and Cape Breton needed to be manned to prepare the nets, so the uncertainty increased a lot......

In the end, Ferdinand came up with the most violent and effective method by combining various historical sources and his own analysis.

Four words, silver bullet offensive!

Two words, throw money!

One word, money $_$!

Since John Capote is short of money to a certain level, and his financiers are basically the bosses of Niederhogg, in fact, the poor navigator is completely unqualified to decide who should be included in his team, after all, the ship was given by Niederhogg, and the sailors were also invited by Niederhogg, not to mention that most of them were directly allocated to John Capote by John Day......

Well, in fact, even the sailors are mostly members of Niederhogg...... Especially the second ship, from the captain to the seafarers, without exception, was all Nidhogg. On the ship that John Capote himself was on, there were only three or four friends, two or three ordinary sailors, and the rest were also in the service of Niederhogg, not that these sailors were all Niederhogg's spies, but they all ate Niederhogg's food, or John Day's food, plus the well-trained intelligence officers among them, John Capote was basically equivalent to walking with Niederhogg......