How can a country like Spain fight for so many years with the countries of the European continent?

If you look at it geographically, Spain is also compared with France in Italy and Navarre, and after advancing to the Pyrenees in the northern part of the country, it can be said that there is a natural obstacle, and among European countries, the potential to watch the fire from across the shore can be said to be second only to England!

Because after the Habsburgs came to power, Charles V thought of himself more as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and regarded Spain as a strategic base for Siberia and Ukraine, so that Spain had no national interests of its own, and it was clear that it could play a balance, but what kind of religious war would it take to go deep into the interior to force the French king to convert to Catholicism? The two countries remain hostile.

It was too late to wait until Spain finally had independent national interests...... sat on a mountain of gold and silver, but the result was financially bankrupt...... When the Netherlands rises again, they can't stop the car at all......

In addition to the hapless marriage that tied Spain to the chariot, there was also the fact that Spain failed to realize what it had gained due to the limitations of the times and strategy.

"In the next 100 years, 200 or 300 years, European countries will not really realize what they have lost." Spain also didn't realize what they were getting. In fact, I think too flat of myself, always worried that France and the Ottomans will harm me, but I don't know that as long as I endure it for a hundred years, any European country will be scum.

In the words of the torrent, the Americas are the Hongmeng purple gas, the foundation of the avenue.

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Either way, Ferdinand had now decided to go to the Americas.

But with 11 months to go before Columbus' second voyage, Ferdinand didn't have to worry about it.

He now has a new idea.

"Juana, have you heard of the New World......

"None? What do you say, Dad? ”

"That's ......"

"Really?! …… Are you going to go to the New World in person? ”

Of course, Ferdinand didn't want to go through the jungle and climb the mountains and fight the natives to survive in the wilderness, he wanted to live longer. It was enough for him to stay on the ship, and at most he went to the coast and the colony he had set—the first stop on the voyage was the island of Hispaniola, the first future colony of Castile. Then he had to personally participate in the fleet to go north on Manhattan Island, otherwise Spain would never have been north of Florida in history, because he felt that it was worthless. And the Spaniards did not think that they could buy islands from the Indians.

In addition to urging the fleet to divide troops to go north to buy Manhattan, Panama also wants to go, after all, he also wants to see the style of the Pacific Ocean, it is too depressing to be in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean all day long, of course, this trip may be a little dangerous, but as long as you are careful, you will not get shot, right? He's going to the mountains, not in the rainforest all day.

Finally, there is the Pascual Mountains in Brazil, which is at the foot of the seaside mountains, with beautiful scenery and magnificent waves, and there is no danger.

Of course, if you are shipwrecked...... There's nothing you can do, is it possible that you're afraid of earthquakes, so you'll have to sleep in a tent all day?

After all, the four colonies that were scheduled before were definitely going to go.

"Juana, would you like to go along?"

"Huh? …… Can it really be? ”

Anyway, Isabella is watching in the country, and there is no problem, so take Juana out, first, to completely eliminate her possible relationship with the Holy Roman Empire-

This marriage arrangement was made before! Although no treaty has been formally signed, but the objects have been determined, and now you change your mind, although it is not impossible, and so many years in advance is enough to respect, but Maximilian I is definitely not happy, and that Philip, in fact, he has long been eager for the throne of Castile, and may not give up, of course, the latter's opinion is nothing to Ferdinand.

So let's just not be there.

"Of course, your mother has agreed."

Ferdinand agreed to go to Isabella, so it was not incomprehensible to bring Juana with him.

Juana was born in 1479 and lived until 1555! And in the first half of her life, she was persecuted and conspired by her husband, father, and son one after another, and the second half of her life has been spent in the dark behind bars. And so he lived to be 76 years old! Isabella and Ferdinand's children lived the longest. The courtiers at the time said, "Juana is in good health." It's not an empty phrase. And they said of Juan: "If he had lived to adulthood, Spain would have pleased the world." ”

Because Prince Juan was gentle and peaceful, he advocated peace with foreign countries, including France. Well, to put it simply, it's both love and non-offense.

Ferdinand was unimpressed.

"Spain is not what delights the world, it makes the world tremble!"

Privately, Ferdinand said this to Isabella.

In short, Juana has lived by herself, and it is still too late to cultivate her abilities.

Mentally ill? Ferdinand never believed that there was any gene that could perpetuate an optimistic and strong person by physiological influence alone, at least in 1504, and until 1506, Juana was still considered quite mild and normal by foreign courtiers, and was able to sign decrees, and what really seemed overly excited was her madness when she was dissatisfied with her husband's pleasure-seeking and her masochistic tendencies towards Philip......

So Ferdinand decided to let Juana see the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, the vast New World. The spectacle of nature is always exciting. Allowing Juana to broaden her horizons and horizons will have a certain effect on her future understanding of the big picture, the global outlook, and the importance of the New World.

In this world, Ferdinand believes that there are six truly magnificent scenes: the vast coniferous forests of Siberia, the vast steppes of North America, the vast and thin Pacific Ocean west of Panama, the endless Andes on the west side of South America, the towering Himalayas on the Qinghai-Tibet border, and the ice continent in the extreme south.

"If you see the mountains, the jungles, the tundra, the islands of the New World, you will know how small and insignificant the place where we live, this peninsula, this continent, the people here, the things here."

Mencius said: "I am good at nurturing my heroic spirit." ”

In the current world, only the United States, Russia, and China can compete on the stage of superpowers?

Europe? Forget it. When the Soviet Union existed, they did not necessarily dare to compete with it, how France was proud in 1914, how Poland performed miracles in 1920, how Germany was strong and fierce in 1939, and how Finland was brave and unyielding in 1940. Europeans remembered the trauma of war and the preciousness of peace, but lost the courage to conquer heaven. The Marne, the Somme, the Rhine, the Elbe, the Vistula, the Dnieper, the Volga, the sister rivers – the places that created the life and dignity of the modern state of Western Europe were not only meat grinders and slaughterhouses, but also monuments of national courage.

The USSR collapsed, but today a transfer of the Western Military District of Russia, a military exercise in the Crimea, a launch in Belarus, a transfer of the Northern Fleet, a lone aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, make the whole of Europe tremble in the shadow of the polar bear.

Open the atlas, add up the data of 6 countries in Western Europe, add up the data of 8 countries in Central Europe, and then look at the data of Russia, what is wrong with this world?

The French once said: "Moscow has 200 missiles that can destroy Paris 200 times." We have only 1, but it will be enough to destroy Moscow once. ”

If France had the courage of 1914, Germany the pride of 1941, and Britain the courage and perseverance of 1940, Italy ...... If there was only a little bit of courage left of the Roman Empire......

At least what it looked like when you jumped the Berlin Wall?

Then it is Russia that is trembling.

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"I want to go to the New World!"

"Good."

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Europe, Ferdinand sneered, but it was just a plaything in his hands.