"Your Majesty, this will not work...... No, I mean it's not appropriate......" The accompanying courtiers panicked and sweated, for fear of angering His Majesty the King in front of him, who was full of the temperament of the middle two.

"Enough! I don't want to hear it! Charles VIII almost roared to get the obscure guy away, and then commanded, "Get the Pope for me...... Ahem...... I mean, 'please' the Pope's crown......"

Despite the lack of troops, ill-preparedness, and lack of supplies, Charles VIII's army had a smooth sailing in the early days, for the states of northern and central Italy did not put up serious resistance, not because they were frightened, much less because they were prepared to be obedient to France, but mainly because of three points.

First, they still had some illusions after all, hoping that Charles VIII would actually turn to attack the Ottoman Empire, as he claimed.

Second, they themselves can't defeat the French army, it is better to play dead first, and in the future, France will win World War II, Luxembourg will have zero casualties, and the current Italian countries will not resist the policy, this is the philosophy of pretending to be dead, the art of lying down to win.

Thirdly, they were convinced that the French army would fail!

France is now in an embarrassing period and bottleneck period of rising national strength, in a very embarrassing stage of "others beat me to kill you, I can't beat others to do it", Charles VIII patted his head this time to send troops, and the army led to fight Italy can sweep across the peninsula, but if you want to fight with Castile, Aragon, Switzerland, the Holy Roman Empire, England, Venice and other powers, these forces are not enough! What's more, he didn't even have winter clothes, tents, and supplies ready! What's more, there is a great catastrophe waiting for the French in Naples, and that is syphilis, which is quite deadly at this time! Naples will be the site of the first large-scale outbreak of syphilis in Europe!

One can imagine how miserable the fate of the French would be.

In 1493, Isabella ordered the Castilian army to launch a small offensive on the Atlantic side of the border, retaking from Charles VIII some of the Castilian territories that had been seized by France during the Civil War. At that time, Ferdinand didn't pay attention to it, and when he came back from the voyage to communicate with Queen Isabella about the recent situation in Europe, he learned that at the end of last year, it was actually a double happiness, not only Portugal softened, but the territory seized by the French was also recovered, which was also a reason for Portugal's concessions at that time, Queen Isabella's territorial recovery operation proved that the Castilian army was also strong in front of the French, and Portugal would definitely not be able to defeat the combined forces of Castile and Aragon.

Of course, if there was a real fight with Portugal at that time, Isabella would definitely have to compromise with France, cede part of the border territory, and encourage France to attack the Italian peninsula, sell Ferdinand's Neapolitan relatives, and let Charles VIII roll in the quagmire.

Fortunately, Castile has put Portugal down, and Charles VIII, a stupid boy, has fallen headlong into the quagmire of Italy.

Now the suffering of the French began, and they would henceforth fall into Spain, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papal States...... and so on, under siege by the European countries.

The most tragic thing is that due to Ferdinand's interference, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire will not unite. The result, then, is that France is still gloriously playing the role of being besieged by the European powers, acting as a millennium sandbag, constantly jumping out and being photographed until the fateful Thirty Years' War comes.

As for whether France will form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, even if it does, it will not be much better, and even if France and the Ottoman Turkish Empire signed the "Preferential Treaty", the European countries still occupied the side of France and jointly fought against the Charles Empire. And now? "The combination of the lily and the crescent moon of the sacred" will surely make the European countries spare no effort to crush France. At that time, the Spanish Empire, which had the most powerful navy and army in the whole of America and the world, would definitely not be afraid of the Ottoman Empire, and could easily beat it to the ground.

……

Throughout 1494 and early 1495, however, the situation was moving in favor of the French army.

In the absence of serious resistance, by December 31, 1494, Charles VIII had captured Rome and his army began to cross the entire territory of the Papal States.

Charles VIII, who was full of ambition, decided to "invite" Pope Alexander VI to come over and have a good talk with him, so there was the opening scene.

Pope Alexander VI was naturally frightened and trembled to hold a "friendly" meeting with Charles VIII.

Originally, Pope Alexander VI was also ready to say a few polite words, a few affectionate words, and talk about the long-standing friendship between the Pope and the French King, but I didn't expect that King Charles VIII of France would sneer at the Pope as soon as he came up, open his mouth to have an illegitimate son and shut up his illegitimate daughter, first talk about the bribery case and then talk about the father-daughter relationship, and expose all the disgusting things and black history of Pope Alexander VI, and splash countless pots of dog blood alive, Rao is Pope's face under the crown is thicker than the city wall, and now it is also hot!

Charles VIII then pressed Pope Alexander VI to recognize his right to occupy and rule Naples, and in January 1495 he issued a decree appointing King Charles VIII of France as King of Naples.

This edict is not to directly appoint Charles VIII as king, but to authorize him to appoint and approve the edict of clergy and clergy, this edict, if it is very useful, but when it comes to some rogue kings, it has no effect, for example, long before Ferdinand II finally annexed the Kingdom of Naples, the king of Aragon occupied Naples many times, and even the church was excommunicated, and even the excommunication was excommunicated, but it did not play any role, Aragon occupied Naples, and later took the initiative to reconcile with the pope and withdrew, It also ceded Sicily from the Kingdom of Naples, and was authorized by the Pope to occupy Sardinia and the unoccupied island of Corsica, which Genoa then occupied, but Genoa was now an ally of Aragon and remained an important ally of the Spanish Empire for the next two hundred years, and Genoese bankers were always generous when Spain was short of money.

However, this time the Genoese were burned, and Charles VIII's expedition was lent to him by the Bank of Genoa, and as a result, the French army and navy were the first to be stationed in Genoa. This happened in every subsequent Italian war, where the French first occupied Genoa, and of course Spain had to rescue him.

Charles VIII's only advantage was that the kings or dictators of the Italian countries were usually tyrants, brutal, incompetent and cowardly, so the local people wanted the French to "liberate" them—only once, and after this time, all the Italian people understood what the French were worth.

But now they still don't understand that Ferdinand's Neapolitan relative, King Ferrante, who is actually "King Ferdinand", saw the French army approaching Naples, and immediately became invincible, fled in the wilderness, seeking refuge in Aragon and Castile, Ferdinand shook his head in anger, too embarrassed to give the name Ferdinand!

On February 22, 1495, King Charles VIII of France entered Naples in the presence of citizens.

……