PS: Ahem, as a reader of "The Rise of the Emperor of Europe" before, I saw the content written by Lao Niu about sails, and I felt so stressed, and I will write about whether this content will be imitated. So it was interrupted for a few days...... Thinking about it later, forget it, anyway, it's like that, and the old cow is also very high when he is irrigated now, and it doesn't matter if it is written like ('Δ ́)ゞ......

Ferdinand knew that for the Spanish army, the acquisition of this olive-rich island, which covers an area of more than 500 square kilometers, now does not seem worth the cost of so much capacity, will establish an important and strong stronghold in Northwest Africa, and the little blood shed can even water the land of the island's orchards.

Taking control of this so-called "land of forgetful fruits" will be the first to be taken in Tunisia and North Africa.

When the Aragonese fleet carried out an offensive operation against Djerba, their capacity was indeed quite tight.

Because, Ferdinand has gathered most of his country's ships and is ready to make a large-scale expedition to the Americas, spreading branches and playing a big wave.

It is worth mentioning that only a third of the warships of Ferdinand's mobilization were drawn from the Castile and Aragon fleets, namely the Atlantic Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet. That is, the combat capability in Europe was not affected much. Even if Portugal suddenly loses its mind and fights naval battles with Castile and Aragon, the Atlantic Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet are sure not to fall behind.

However, nearly half of the civilian and merchant ships of Castile and Aragon were recruited and hired by Ferdinand!

Is it difficult?

It is difficult, but it does not constitute a serious obstacle.

Because, historically, when Juana was sent to Flanders, it may have been because of maternal love, or it could have been because of the extravagance of the court - Isabella brought it, although she herself had been repentant and hypocritical for a long time, or she wanted to make a great power pomp and prestige...... I guess it's a bit of both. In short, it happened that Ferdinand had gritted his teeth many times before - and he was particularly unhappy with Philip -

"One hundred and ten ships, more than 10,000 people married, and the fleet gave the wedding incident".

As a result of the French invasion of Italy in order to seize Naples, wars raged across Europe and forced them to travel by sea, which until then was long and risky from Spain to Belgium. And the journey from Castile to Flanders passes through the French coast.

Isabella feared that Juana had been intercepted and captured by the French. So she organized a sizable fleet of 110 ships and about 10,000 soldiers and sailors to escort her daughter. They could not seek refuge in France in case of bad weather, which the French were desperate to catch, so they had to sail further west, deep into the Atlantic, and then try their way to England.

At that time, Isabella was full of sorrow and accompanied Juana to the port city of Laredo, on the north coast of Spain, where she stayed with her daughter for two nights on a ship. She was very sad to see her daughter leaving. When Juana finally left, Isabella stayed on the shore to watch the fleet sail out and wept for her daughter before returning to Burgos.

Of course, these ships could not all be combat warships, and if Castile had 110 warships and 10,000 naval officers and sailors in 1496, would there be room for Portugal to jump? The seas of Europe have long been completely flattened.

In other words, a large part of them were recruited and hired by Castile, and they were armed or simply ordinary civilian and merchant ships. The merchant fleets and shipowners in the various ports are estimated to have received quite a few commissions in this matter.

This incident proves that the centralization of power in Spain, or in Castile, is indeed very strong!

Four years ago, the treasury could still run horses, and the queen wanted the queen to sell jewelry for 90 people on three ships, but now after four years, a marriage can make a fleet of more than one-third of the size of Zheng He's fleet?

It seems that some Western countries can really scrape together enough money for Zheng He's fleet as long as they are willing. Considering that the population of Castile was only 5 million at the time, Aragon was only 1 million. The West's maritime superiority has begun to be established.

But in this case, the results are very disappointing. lost more than Zheng He went to the West!

The risk of navigation is no less than that of going to the Americas, after all, Columbus went to the Americas to sail in warm tropical and subtropical waters with ocean currents. And Columbus was a veteran, and he accurately predicted the date and weather conditions for the return of the marrying fleet.

At the same time, the time of Columbus's departure was in spring and March, or in August and September in summer and early autumn, and the time for the departure of the bridal fleet was just as winter was approaching.

The conditions for the sailors who had to stay in Flanders for the winter to wait for Margaret's departure to Spain were particularly difficult. Originally, after the fleet went, he would take Margaret back to Castile and marry Prince Juan, but this matter dragged on for a long time, and Philip ignored the Spanish sailors and soldiers, leaving them to solve the problem of wintering on their own in the bitter cold of the northern European coast. He did not make any preparations for their arrival or accommodation. In the months that followed, as many as 9,000 Spanish sailors and soldiers died of hunger and cold.

Very good, the street hit rate is as high as 90%!

The ship is not much to do, and so many people died first! This had a great impact on the nautical industry.

If the ship is gone, it can be rebuilt, and if the person is gone, it is difficult to regenerate.

At that time, for countries that had no money or resources (mainly timber), shipbuilding and the provision of seafaring talent were probably as important and difficult, or the former as the former.

However, for a country with money and resources on hand, sailors are more important than ships - whether the country realizes this or not, this is true.

For example, the Ottoman Empire, a stupid big tree, belonged to this kind of country, and the Ottomans themselves did not realize that for them people were more important than ships, but their enemy, Venice, clearly saw this.

It is often your enemies who know you best, and the Venetians believe that the abundance of high-quality timber supplied by the mountains of Anatolia, Lebanon, the Black Sea, and the Balkans could easily rearm the Ottoman galleys, and that after the Battle of Lepanto, wouldn't the Ottoman galleys quickly recover?

However, seafaring talent was not so easy for the Ottomans to obtain, so after the Battle of Lepanto, the Venetians, who had always been greedy for money, did not want to ransom and insisted on killing all the captives and reducing the Ottoman seafaring talent.

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So, it's understandable that Ferdinand always wanted to kill Philip and did it. Castile was of course at a loss after that incident, and the stagnation of the voyage to the Americas was probably also related to this heavy loss.

(To be continued)