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"Hmmm! Now that the procedure is complete, write a letter to Maximilian I. ”

After completing the legal process of taking over Roman legitimacy, Ferdinand settled the exiled royal family of the Eastern Roman Empire and wrote a letter to the Holy Roman Emperor, the heir to the Western Empire, hoping to recognize each other's thrones.

"The people of Germany are aware of the common will of the German people, and they all respect the present German King Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor, and are willing to enshrine him with the supreme and complete sovereignty of the state. His Majesty, Pope Alexander VI, called on the emperor to come to the throne. Emperor Stealing Wei was ordered to mix the whole world, and he would raise things with the most benevolent people, and he would also make a decision on the merit of the gods and martial arts.

"Oriental China's "Book" cloud: one person has a celebration, and Zhaomin relies on it. "Poem" said: Yan and Huangtian, Kechang Queen. Gai Wei should be obedient to the sky, and the husband is to return to the sky and the sky.

"Dating back to the fall of Rome, the people were in turmoil, appealed for recklessness, and the collapse was successful. When the gods inherit the unification, they will inevitably fall apart, sin against themselves and the people do not conceive, and the generals will not be martial.

"The Holy See is in exile, and the monarch is dead. The state religion is divided, and wars are frequent. The smoke is thousands of miles, and the people are not happy.

"As soon as the Habsburgs came out, the thin sea view was from, the rebels were reformed, the obedient were deadly, and the country was about to fall, and the Habsburgs were really safe.

The German princes harbored evil intentions, the party used things in vain, they were not their own people, the emperor of the people's hearts, there was nothing to trust, the Habsburgs were overthrown by Germany, they were far away, and they went to the violence and returned to the benevolent, if the water went down, the people who were left alone, but the Habsburg saints were really resting.

"Today, the Lord Jing is destined to gather in the Holy Monarch. I wish Your Majesty to inherit the heavens, the early righteousness, the crown, the South and the Pope, the princes of the North Town, the great treasure to the herd of the people, the supreme and the economy 6 together, the heavens and the pole, the eternal generation! Now paganism is rampant, Junbao has fallen, and the city of Dongluo has been completely destroyed. Exiled to the royal family, entrusted with my life, despicable and untalented, ashamed of the law of Dongluo, hoping to be the shield of God, to protect my great rivers and mountains, he struck the Sultan one day, restored the holy city, in order to atone for the original sin. We are willing to encourage each other, recognize each other, continue orthodoxy, and work together to wait for the world to be peaceful. ”

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"Ahem, ahem......" After reading the letter by Maximilian I in Vienna, the emperor, whose skin was already thick enough, still blushed.

"Ferdinand is really, isn't it just to recognize each other's names, and the last paragraph is enough, as for so many touting words earlier? In his early years, he didn't know that the world was difficult, and he could blow him like this when he spoke wildly......"

"Alas! I've heard a lot of this kind of talk, and I always like to listen to people pat on the back in the future, or say a few big words, what should I do! Remembering that he wanted to unify Germany, Maximilian couldn't help but shake his head, bragging about it for a while, and after it was cool, it would be troublesome! Now the German princes were very unfriendly to him, knowing that the emperor wanted to unify them, and now they tried to empty the emperor's power in the empire and prevent the emperor's reforms. Moreover, Pope Alexander VI has not yet given the emperor a membership.

And it's not the toughest time yet, when Maximilian hits Switzerland and rolls over, that's when the big news happens.

Having said that, as for the question of the emperor's name that Ferdinand said, of course Maximilian would not refuse. Now the news of the transfer of the Eastern Roman throne and the legal system to the Spanish king has spread in Europe. As a large European power with marriage and alliance relations, the emperor is still quite interested in continuing to cooperate with the Spanish kings to deal with the magic demons, which is also conducive to consolidating his throne.

In addition, as the situation in Hungary and the Balkans changed, the Ottoman Empire's dominance of Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean began to appear. Sultan Bayezid II not only used troops in the Balkans, but also began to recruit sailors after the Italian Wars had killed Cem, a Roman sultan's rival, and began to recruit sailors. In the future, the Emperor of the HRE and the two kings of Spain also had the possibility of cooperating against the Ottomans.

Now that the in-laws have spoken, it is naturally impossible for Maximilian to engage in mutual recognition with the Eastern European pagan barbarian Muscovy.

However, Ferdinand did not let Maximilian recognize each other with him now. After all, Maximilian's throne has not yet been officially recognized by the Pope, and it is a bit of a contempt for Alexander VI to do this now - to be honest, the most hated term for the Pope is probably "Roman Emperor", and this term is too powerful to suppress the Pope: Archbishop of Rome, how can you call yourself the Holy See?

The two sides exchanged letters and privately acknowledged each other. Wait for Maximilian to be crowned, and then officially recognize each other.

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May 6, 1496.

This day is a special day for the Gulf of Gabès, on the southern coast of Tunisia.

A fleet of 60 three-masted galleons, large and small, appeared at the mouth of the bay.

This is the fleet of the Kingdom of Aragon.

Their goal is to be a pearl in the Bay of Gabès. Djerba.

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As a bay in the south of the Tunisian coastline that recess inland, Gabès is not only a relatively prosperous and wealthy area in Tunisia, but also located in the central gap of the northern African coastline, echoing the island strongholds of Sicily and Malta in the north......

Therefore, at present, the strategic position of the Gulf of Gabes and the islands in the Gulf of Gabes is very ......

Very average.

After all, geography ultimately works through people. Tunisia is a coveted place of great interest for any major country on the Mediterranean coast. But is Tunisia itself? The decaying Hafs dynasty has really reached the end of its rope.

Without Ferdinand's intervention, in a dozen years, the kingdom would have been enslaved by Spain, the most powerful overlord of Christians (Catholics), and the Ottomans, the great empire of the pacifist religion of the same religion, and a large number of people in the occupied territories of Spain would have been required to convert to Catholicism.

But when the Spanish troops stationed in the port area of Porto Lagulet were able to fire shells at the palace of the pacifists, an island that had long since been alienated from the de facto control of the Hafs dynasty would be a mortal wound of shame and blood loss for Spain in the Mediterranean.

This is the island of Djerba, which is still calm and calm.

Charles V said that it was too painful, the dignified generation of the emperor, carrying the magic demon, beating the Sultan, François was captured, but the Spanish legion of more than 5,000 people fell on such an island! And again and again. And the loss of Spanish territory and wealth caused by this island is no less than the loss of troops and honor!

Djerba Island is a typical example of the island's small demon wind. In the ancient world, the demon wind of the Mediterranean Sea was definitely earth-shattering and crying ghosts and gods, and the evaluation of the calm waves or something was absolutely miserable! As a result, the island of Djerba, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Gabès, near the mainland of Tunisia, became a necessary route and an important base for navigation along the coast of North Africa. The narrow waterway between the islands, which is only two kilometers wide, is a safe route for ships.

So, 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.