While the Santa Fe Accords were still talking, Ferdinand's eyes had been temporarily taken away from Columbus, and he had a tricky matter in front of him.

Back on January 5, 1492, when the white-bearded court scholar was rolled his eyes at Columbus, Ferdinand was discussing with Isabella about the persecution of the Jews by the Inquisition that would soon take place in history.

Truth be told, the Inquisition in Spain as a whole was far less dark than later generations believed, and the rumors of darkness were the slander and criticism of Spain by Protestants and expelled Jews during the Protestant Reformation. This is because the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century did not make any progress in Spain and Latin America, especially in Spain. Why? For the Church Reformation under Isabella had eradicated many of the worst ills of the Catholic Church long before the Counter-Reformation began. In other words, Isabella's pursuit in this regard is the same as that of the Protestant Reformers, and you should not scold her even if you don't praise her. But the ass decides the head, the interests of the Protestant reformers and the Jews (the latter accusations have some basis) are damaged, I don't care if you do good or not, you are the dark and cruel religious rule! Speaking of which, Ferdinand felt that his predecessor had disgraced himself, in history, the big factory that created unjust, false and wrongful convictions was not Castile but Aragon, and under the greedy leadership of Ferdinand's lack of moral principles, the Inquisition became a tool for Ferdinand to deprive Aragonese of the so-called heretical property, and there were countless murders and unjust cases, which attracted continuous opposition from the people. Fortunately, perhaps unfortunately, in 1485 a religious judge was assassinated while praying by a converted Jew who could not bear the persecution of the Aragonese Inquisition, and was considered a saint. As a result, mainstream public opinion in Aragon turned in favor of the Inquisition.

The controversy was the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Moors in 1502, the latter of which did a good job, and in Europe the fewer pacifists the better, and the pacifists were not useless, but it was better not to mix with the native Europeans, who have provided valuable lessons for the opposite.

But Ferdinand was troubled by the imminent March 1492 decree that Jews who did not convert to Christianity must leave the country. Before 1492, Jews who professed their Jewish faith were not persecuted, but many converts were censored to suspect whether they had pretended to convert (which was not uncommon), but many of the converted Jews occupied an important position in the Spanish treasury, from the queen's financial advisers to the tax collectors in small towns, many of which were converted Jews, and at one time one-tenth of the converted Jews in Guadalupe were converted.

Jews were not enough to shake the foundations of Spain, but! Ferdinand feared their threat to the colonies of the Americas! Historically, the Spanish American colonies were largely firmly controlled by the Spanish government, with little Jewish influence, but this was premised on the expulsion of almost all non-converted Jews from Castile and Aragon in 1492. Although the historical expulsion of Jews and Moors took a toll on Spain's economy, from Isabella's point of view, it resolved the country's religious strife (the conflict between Christians and converted Jews had already been revealed, and the country had fallen into religious fanaticism) and forged a unified religious state. Religious tolerance is not a universal concept. Spain thus formed a strong unified force and laid a solid foundation for the development of the American colonies.

If Ferdinand only wants to preserve Latin America in history, then he doesn't care about the Jews, those guys in South America can't turn the sky upside down, but Ferdinand values North America the most! It's America and Canada! He's going to conquer all of America! What if we could occupy the entire territory of the continental United States and make it a territory, even if we could abandon the whole of Latin America! Once you control the fertile mainland of the United States, which stretches from the Great Lakes to California, 8 million square kilometers, combined with Spain's world-leading military power in the 16th century, you will be a superpower forever! Forever! With the U.S. mainland serving as a source of great resources, large farms and ranches and a future industrial base, and the Iberian Peninsula providing strategic bases and military and demographic superiority, which country could challenge Spain? Besides, Ferdinand was going to conquer all of America!

However, the environment in North America was different from that in Latin America, and Ferdinand would have learned the lessons of Britain in history, and he was ready to stay away from the wars in Europe and concentrate on merging the Americas into territories. It was the Catholic Spaniards who would have gone to North America, and with a policy of territorialization rather than colonization, he was sure that North America would become a solid rear territory like Russia's Siberia, rather than an unreliable colony. But the Jews ...... If they had entered North America, would they have formed a historical Jewish consortium? Then North America will be unstable.

"Jews were difficult in America at first. In the early days of the United States, there were some European Jews who came to beg for a living. However, the number was very small, mostly Jews from Spain and Portugal. Most of them are not highly educated and do not know how to do business. Later, in the 18th century, many German Jewish immigrants came, but they didn't have much money. Like us Wenzhou people in China, we first walked the streets and alleys and did small business. Later, I saved some money and opened some grocery stores, tailors, textiles and clothes. But these people value education and have a high level of education. So the development is relatively fast.

Jews are not smarter than the Chinese, but they have built a networked social structure first through religion and later through economic interests and culture. This makes them infighting, but in general they can still help each other. The persecution of them by anti-Semitic forces has in some ways made them more united. This spirit of mutual assistance is only comparable to Wenzhou people and Chaozhou people.

Later, Eastern Europe was anti-Semitic, and many Jews fled to the United States. Although these Eastern European Jews were very different from the Jewish immigrants who arrived earlier in terms of language, appearance, and even doctrine, the old Jewish immigrants still spontaneously contributed money and effort to settle them. German Jewish immigrants who engaged in petty business hired Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe to help them find a bowl of food. At that time, such a group of small owners and young men were not qualified to carry shoes for WASP.

Later, some hawkers and shopkeepers changed their careers and opened banks. Now it sounds a little incredible. However, at that time, the threshold of the bank was very low, and relatives and friends could open it with some money, which was easier than the current Zhejiang people to raise money to speculate in houses and build small hydropower and small coal kilns. At that time, many so-called banks were in bankers' backpacks, similar to today's leather bag companies. The Lyman brothers, who were selling cotton at the time, moved from the south to New York and opened a bank. And the clothing sellers Leber and Goldman Sachs were also forced to move to New York to open a bank out of fear of catching up with the fashionable wives. Afraid of his wife and afraid of two banking families, it is also a good story. Their bank's main customers are basically the petty traders as well. Because the threshold for banks was low at that time, there were many failures. Jewish banks were not in the United States at the time.

In the thirties of the 19th century, the United States was engaged in infrastructure construction as much as China is doing now. But the United States was poor at that time and needed to borrow money from European banks. At that time, the position of the United States in the world was the same as that of China in the eighties and nineties of the last century, and it was a place with relatively high investment risks. Most European banks are on the sidelines. German Jewish bankers and native German Jewish immigrant "bankers" saw an opportunity to support the construction of railroads and canals in the United States. The result, of course, is very profitable. Auguste Belmont, Joseph Seligman and Philip Lehman of the New York branch of Rothschild Bank and Lyman Brothers, Jules Beck and Marcus Goldman of Goldman Sachs, as well as Kuhn, Loeb & Goldman of Goldman Sachs, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; Company) was a major player in this investment, or rather speculation [xiv]. These Jews and Jewish banks were launched in this wave of investment. Although some of these people were on the periphery of the Rothschild family, and some were born as small merchants, it is said that these families formed a life-and-death alliance in this extremely risky investment, and they have been fighting together ever since.

Then the Civil War broke out, and the Jew Judah P. Benjamin became Secretary of War and then Secretary of State[xv]. Naturally, these families would not give up such a good opportunity, and they all made a fortune soon. In all fairness, the war money from these banks is not too black. And Rockefeller, Morgan and others, who rose through this war, simply robbed the national wealth of the two governments of the North and the South. After another partnership, Goldman Sachs and other Jews became more closely connected, and like most alliances, they naturally married each other to strengthen their relationship, eventually forming a vast Jewish network. This ever-expanding alliance of chaebol families is called Ourcrowd. (The text in the quotation marks is from the Tianya community)

Carefully recalling the history of the development of the Jews in North America, oh, Ferdinand understood, I am afraid that the more he deportes the Jews to the rest of the world, the easier it will be for them to run to the Americas after being looted and poor, and a handful of rich Jewish businessmen have no power to turn the sky upside down, you see! Isn't this self-inflicted? In the beginning, most of them were Jews from Spain and Portugal? It seems that if you don't drive them, the common people will not run to the Americas happily! Moreover, the rise of the Jews in the United States was not dominated by the Portuguese Jews, and the Jews took advantage of the historical opportunity of infrastructure construction and war, and they would not give the Jews such an opportunity! Recalling the scenes of the Jews leaving Spain in tears and tears, and the loss of merchants and craftsmen in Spain, Ferdinand made a decision, of course, that there were some measures to be taken.

"Isabella, I don't think it's necessary to expel the Jews from Spain, the pacifists are the main destabilizing factor that threatens Castile and Aragon, and since we can all tolerate them, we need not be so anxious to expel them, right?" At the time of Granada's surrender, the Muslims agreed with Castile that Jews in the south who had not converted to Christianity had to convert within three years or leave for North Africa or elsewhere. This clause is somewhat bizarre, Isabella was sometimes tolerant and sometimes cruel in her treatment of Jews and certain so-called heretics, her advisors and priests were also different, and Isabella herself was also vacillating, it is worth mentioning that Ferdinand once united with the three clergy to persuade her to take a tougher approach to heresy and conversion to the Jews.

Isabella was so devout to the Catholic faith that she ordered the construction of a hospital for pilgrims with the 1 million malawedi confiscated from Guadalupe, and that she would pay for the project with another 1 million malawedi herself. Alas, it adds up to just enough for Columbus to sail away, and if you don't spend this money, as for selling jewelry?

"I know you may feel like your whole way of life is at stake, and only the most ruthless tactics can help Christian Castile survive the Turkish onslaught...... But in fact, we, our country, and our subjects are not facing as terrible threats as you think, the Ottomans were very strong in the Mediterranean, but this strength has no future, their power is still rising, but it is about to reach its peak, and then slowly fall. The Ottomans were the powerful conquerors of the old era, but we, the Christian countries of the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal that are opening new routes and Castile that is about to reach the New World, we are leading the trend of Europe and the world, we represent a new era, the power of the era is strong, the monster that is essentially part of the past can defeat us for a while, but will eventually be defeated by us or our descendants! "Ferdinand said it clearly," ...... If we expel all the Jews who have not been converted...... Even women who have never done evil, children who are ignorant of the world, and commoners who are barely supported by poverty are contrary to the principles and spirit of Christianity, and it is not in accordance with the Lord's will, even in the kingdom of the Pope, Jews who have not done evil do not have to be treated in this way...... In fact, the happiest will be the Ottoman Sultan, who will send his fleet to pick up the Jews we have deported, treat them leniently, and make them provide the pacifists with more advanced science and technology, such as the printing press...... Then the Sultan may triumphantly write us a letter that mocks us for harming our own interests, but helps him to grow in strength! ”

“…… My dear, you have a point...... "Sure enough, Isabella was a little vacillating in this regard, and now she really came to her senses a little, and she also felt that what she had done was not appropriate, and tolerance once again prevailed.

Alas, seeing Isabella's apparently aroused sympathy, Ferdinand was quite helpless, and the plans for the New World would probably be inevitably disputed.

Let's talk about the Jews first! Of course, this does not mean that they should be left alone, but a decree should be issued that the tax rate on non-converted Jews with an annual income of more than 10,000 Malawidi, should be increased gradually, from 50 per cent to 80 per cent! It also forbade unconverted Jews from entering the New World territories, which was added after Columbus's return. Unconverted Jews are not allowed to hold any administrative positions. Converted Jews who are found to be secretly practicing Judaism should be punished by the Inquisition with a penalty up to burning at the stake. ”

"I couldn't agree more." Isabella agreed, and it seemed that Ferdinand's greed for money had not changed.

Ferdinand was wronged this time, and his main purpose was to suppress the possible future of Jewish capital, and to ensure that the power of Jewish capital would never play an important role in North America.

"Don't post it directly, we can ...... it like this" Ferdinand revealed his bad idea to his wife and the plate.

The two discussed until late at night.