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Christmas 1494 had one of the best gifts.

This day is a historic moment of great significance for Castile and Aragon. On this day, the French army finally withdrew from the north of Perpignan, completing the treaty signed a few months earlier.

"Our territory is back!" Ferdinand couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Territory is one of the two most precious things of a country – the other is the people. The lost territory of Spain, many people know Gibraltar, but in fact it is more tortuous and sad to find the northeastern part of Spain, which today has long belonged to Roussillon and Perpignan in France.

Roussillon and Perpignan are the northern parts of Catalonia, and every loss is due to the Catalan Civil War. Finally, in 1659, Spain conquered Catalonia again, but was defeated by France in northern Catalonia, and Roussillon and Perpignan were ceded to France once again and for the last time, and have remained French territory ever since. Now Ferdinand won't let that happen again.

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It's too much to say, and on Christmas Day, Ferdinand and Isabella's family mainly indulge in a turkey meal, which is now the first of its kind in Europe. Some turkeys had already been brought back from the Americas to be raised, and Ferdinand planned to introduce them to the tables of his "Spanish Restaurant" branches, so that the turkeys could improve the food of the Spanish people. A group of royal chefs are currently working on how turkeys can be made even better.

However, while eating turkey, Ferdinand heard bad news that King Ferrante, who had fled the capital, fell ill and died of illness before he could leave the borders of Naples. According to Nidhogg's intelligence, most likely it was ...... Syphilis.

Now his son Alfonso II is ready to return to the city of Naples to take the throne, but there are only a little more than two months left before the fall of Naples, and Charles VIII's army is crossing the territory of the Papal States. At present, neither Castile nor Aragon has any intention of sending troops to intervene immediately, after all, they have just signed a treaty with the French, and it will take time to turn around.

"And we don't have to jump out," Ferdinand, who was deeply disappointed with his Neapolitan relatives, shook his head.

"Let Maximilian and the Pope propose them first, and when they organize a 'Holy Alliance', we will join in and bring Henry VII with us."

Such unsuccessful relatives are not worthy of Ferdinand sticking a knife in their ribs, waiting for all the European powers to stand up, and everyone will attack at the same time, and then beat the French to the ground.

"Don't think about that! Let's try the ham from Granada! ”

Ferdinand had great disrespect for the customs of the pacifist people, and strongly advocated – Granada was a good place to develop – that Granada's pig and ham industries were not steamed at all, which was too bad.

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Ferdinand had wanted to have a good Christmas and then relax for a while, but his Neapolitan relatives kept making trouble for him, and he was full of ugliness.

Alfonso II, this guy is completely the Song Huizong of Europe! Seeing Charles VIII's army heading south, he immediately did not want to be king, passed the throne to his son, and fled from Naples himself. His son was also on the throne, and he was King Ferdinand II of Naples!

King Ferdinand II of Naples did not stay for a few days and ran away, and his last order before leaving was - urge his subjects to surrender!

"Oh my God!" Ferdinand was utterly disgusted, he was also Ferdinand II, and now this unworthy relative and impostor really ruined the reputation of the Aragon royal family.

With such a king, it is not difficult to understand why Charles VIII entered the city on February 22, 1495, to the cheers of the citizens. Everyone is really fed up with the corrupt rule of the Neapolitan royal family!

Although he was disappointed in his Neapolitan relatives, he was a relative after all, and Ferdinand couldn't ignore it. The two kings, father and son in exile, also knew this, and crossed the Strait of Messina to Sicily, a dependency of Aragon.

Ferdinand had no choice but to ask the ministers of the Kingdom of Sicily to treat his two exiled relatives favorably and arrange a palace for them to live in.

The father and son could not change their habit of arrogance and indulgence in Sicily, and soon the spies of Niderhogg sent a report, using the title "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" with great misfortune.

At the same time, the combined action of the Aragon courtiers and the exiled Neapolitan royal family began to lead to the spread of syphilis in Sicily.

Upon learning of this, Ferdinand immediately ordered the closure of all brothels in Sicily! If you dare to resist the obstruction, your property will be confiscated!

This policy was first proposed by King Henry VIII of England, who suffered from syphilis and had a syphilis attack on his nervous system, and was so distressed that he ordered the closure of all brothels in England in an attempt to prevent the spread of syphilis.

According to historians, Henry VIII's abuse of his wife, Catherine, and his subsequent wives, was affected by neurosyphilis. It seems that Henry VIII was also a poor man.

However, Ferdinand will not forgive him for his unscrupulous abuse and bullying of his youngest daughter Catherine, and the ass decides the head, not only Ferdinand cannot forgive Henry VIII, but also Catholicism cannot forgive the betrayer, and most importantly, Spain cannot forgive England!

However, the closure of brothels is still a very naïve and rudimentary approach, and it is unlikely to solve the problem at all. And at the moment it can only be played locally, in a corner of Sicily. Still, Ferdinand had the idea that one day all brothels in Spain would be outlawed!

Far from it, the thing to consider now is to try to stop the spread of syphilis.

"Well, condoms can come out!" The first condoms were made from sheep's cecum and ribbons to prevent the spread of syphilis, and Ferdinand made samples and sent courtiers to Sicily and Aragon to promote them with a strange look. He doesn't need it himself, and he won't mess around like the original owner anyway.

But the ass decides the head, and as the king of Aragon, Ferdinand must say that syphilis is a disease that has come at a good time, and it will soon be a severe blow to the undisciplined French army.

Ferdinand II is also preparing to use arsenic compounds to try to see if he can make the first special drug for syphilis in advance, although it is certainly not as good as penicillin, but at present, it is better than nothing.

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Ferdinand II calculated the time, and when Castile was torn apart from Aragon and France, the wheat harvest in Sardinia had been completed, just in time to provide sufficient rations for the Castilian expeditionary force, and the 18-pounder Kofilin cannons used on land and at sea would also be mass-produced at more than 1,000 each!

Castile and Aragon were slowly gathering strength.

At this time, the countries of northern and central Italy also began to stir up against France.

At the same time, the whole of Europe, and even the pacifistic world, began to be affected and affected by this war, and a long-term collision between the European powers, as well as between the pacifist world and Christendom, was about to begin for more than a hundred years.

Italy, has almost become its specialty.

At the time of the sudden change in Italy, Ferdinand still lived a life of "poverty and luxury", of course, just a joke, he was much better than his Neapolitan relatives.

"Hmm," Ferdinand said with relish, enjoying the gastronomic mash-up from the Old and New Worlds.

"Turkey, mashed potatoes, pasta, it was so delicious!"

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