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On January 6, 1493, the camera returns to the Caribbean in the Americas.

The sea and the sky are colorful, the blue waves are vast, and the "Ninia", the dexterous "girl", sails alone on the road back to Iberia.

Columbus left the village of "Christmas" four days ago and left the island of Hispaniola. There was another reason for his departure that he was not able to tell others - he feared that Martin Alonso Pinzon, piloting the fastest "Pinta", would return to Spain before him, spreading the news that would slander him and compete with himself for the honor of discovering "India". His judgment was correct, and soon a theory spread that Hiramatsu was the first to discover land, and the public case sparked a six-year debate. The controversy would have continued, but on December 25, 1499, shortly after da Gama returned from his expedition to India, Ferdinand sent Isabella a letter to the Pope of Rome to declare with him that the land he had arrived in was the New World, and that its discoverer was Leif Eriksson, and that he was hereby canonized as a saint because of his devout belief in God and the discovery of the New World under the guidance of God and Christ, thus laying the foundation for the widespread dissemination of the Gospel of Christ and rescuing the shipwrecked Christians......

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Suddenly, on the left side of the sea, the distant shadow of the mast and the sail appeared.

Captain Pinamatsu took the Pinta with him and coincidentally rendezvoused with Columbus.

The meeting between the two of them was not very pleasant. Captain Hiramatsu tried to explain that his absence from saying goodbye was not intentional. But Columbus did not believe it at all, and he accused Pinzon of acting as a rebellion—disobeying the orders of the "Admiral of the Ocean"—which caused him to encounter a great crisis of confidence as he crossed the "blue" Sargasso Sea, and thanks to Ferdinand's send-off, he was not forced to promise to return after October 11; Hiramatsu collected a lot of gold for him and his men, which added to Columbus's anger. Similarly, Pinzon condemned Columbus for leaving behind 39 men as inappropriate, and the latter retorted that he would not have been compelled to do so if Pinzon's ship had not left without permission (although there were a dozen Indians on board the Ninia......

Everyone is noisily moving forward, but they don't know that their trip to the new continent may be because they are in too much hurry, and the number of ninety-nine is not complete, and it is difficult to regenerate......

On January 13, the wind stopped. The two ships came to an unsheltered natural harbor. Some sailors were sent ashore to collect sweet potatoes, but they encountered fierce Indian warriors with charcoal on their faces, cannibal tribes from the Caribbean, Columbus's idea that he could conquer the natives with fifty men was challenged, but not overturned, and interestingly, not counting himself, there were exactly fifty men left—of course, Captain Hiramatsu might not have worked for him—and the result was that the Spaniards were victorious, and the Indians with primitive bows and arrows were wounded two, but no one was captured, The rest fled back.

This was the first armed conflict between Europe and the native inhabitants of the New World, and in the future, many Spaniards fell under the swords and crossbows of the Indians, many more Indians would be killed by guns and diseases, and syphilis, the disease of the New World, would spread throughout the debauchery and indulgence of Europe.

This time, under the impetus of Ferdinand, the entire American continent will be plunged into an even greater war, and within a single sentence, from Alaska and Canada in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south, all the Indians will be baptized in blood, flintlock pistols, lined up to be shot, westward movements, reservations, military technology and expansionist policies ahead of the times, will make more people shed blood and tears.

"That's how it's supposed to be, isn't it?" Ferdinand muttered to himself, but full of confidence, "I'm at ease." Without me, there would be someone who would have done more ruthlessly than me, at least my Americas, without triangular trade. Thank me, Uncle Black! ”

Later textbooks always emphasize the figure that triangular trade has cost Africa nearly 100 million people of its elite labor force, as if to imply that with these 100 million people, the black uncles can do something earth-shattering.

With 100 million more black uncles, less corn and potatoes from the Americas, and the modern political system of the West, Ferdinand expressed considerable expectations for what is the mortality rate in Africa.

But he will not do things that harm others and are not beneficial to himself, and he will support Liberia, which is worth a few large sizes, and playing scissors is a balanced development strategy. Wait for other European countries to develop the rest of Africa into colonies, and when the time is ripe, they can stand up and shout, and the black uncles will turn over and become masters, and then the international arms market will be born.

As for the will of the Africans, in the forties of the nineteenth century, the Dahomey King said this:

The slave trade is my way of governing the country. This is the source and glory of wealth... When the mother lulls the child to sleep, she says that the enemy has been defeated and has become a slave...

In 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act prohibiting the slave trade. King Bonny (now Nigeria) was horrified by this:

We believe that this trade must continue. This is the judgment of the oracles and priests. They say that although your country is great, the trade that the gods themselves have set cannot be stopped.

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The conflict with the natives made Columbus even more anxious to return home. After repairing the boats, they returned with gold, food samples, parrots, and some indigenous people captured on the first few islands.

They encountered bad weather, and Pinamatsu's ship was blown to Galicia, after which it crossed the Portuguese coastline south and returned to its starting point in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. As for Columbus, he went straight to Portugal, claiming to be affected by an unstoppable storm, but this was certainly not the reason why he met with King João II of Portugal at least three times.

"Isabella...... João II clenched his fists in exasperation. I will take steps to protect Portugal's interests...... I will complain to the Pope......"

"I can't ask for it!" Ferdinand sneered, "Isabella, he must have pretended not to know that the Pope was Castilian......"

The natives brought by Columbus used peas to lay out the map of the "world", and Portugal lost the opportunity of history forever.

"This time, I want that dividing line, 100 nautical miles west of Cape Verde!" Ferdinand sneered, "Historically, I thought that we were in-laws, and your brother was still my son-in-law...... So stupidly conceded...... "Do you know the relationship between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty?" "The nephew can beat the uncle, and the father-in-law can certainly teach the son-in-law a lesson!"

"In 1493, it was a spring; There was a king, in the southwest of Europe, who drew a circle......"

A large circle that encompasses the Iberian Peninsula on the map. "Now is not the time, when I have settled the New World, Italy and France, it will be a great moment for the people of the Iberian Peninsula to restore the unity of the country!"

Rome recognized the independence of Portugal in 1179. But the former "Emperor of Spain" never officially recognized this fact.