Chapter 145: Visigothic Orthodoxy, Eastern Roman Barbarians (continued)

So, Andrés foolishly gave Alexander VI the money Ferdinand had paid him for the crown, along with his royal family's funds, more than 20,000 ducats, and then waited for good news.

However, the result was...... Disappear off the face of the earth!

To be reasonable, although Alexander VI deliberately wanted to pit Andrés' money to satisfy his own profligacy and the organization and operation of the Holy See.

However, even if Alexander VI had done his best and died, according to the experience of the Fourth Crusade, he could not do anything without money - and more than 20,000 ducats were only enough for Alexander VI to buy half a fief for his illegitimate children in Spain...... For half the proceeds of the fiefdoms, you still want to call for a crusade for the entire European Catholic world? I'm afraid I'm living in a dream!

"Uh-huh...... For half the proceeds of the fiefdoms, you still want to call for a crusade for the entire European Catholic world? I'm afraid I'm living in a dream! ”

Alexander VI was originally a pit for people's money, and he never thought of helping heretical Christians to restore the country and make a wave of peace in the world, for the exiled emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Pope Alexander VI was polite on the surface, but in fact he was called a contempt in his heart!

"Dong Luo is a dog!"

"Back then, I sat and watched the fall of Rome, did I have a little C number in my heart!"

"I was beaten by a group of Orientals and pacifists next to me all day long, and I hid in Constantinople all day long, like a turtle with a shrunken head, and now look - even Constantinople is lost!"

"I don't even use the Latin language of my ancestors, what Greek language do I use!"

"Garbage Greece is embarrassed to call itself Roman emperor! Dare to treat Rome as a bishopric, how dare you despise the Holy See! ”

"Faith in what? Heretical Christianity in the East! (Although both Thomas Palaiologos and Andrés Palaiologos converted to Catholicism)

"I signed a treaty with the Huns, and betrayed the pope with non-aggression, if it weren't for the Holy See's strength and persuasion of Attila, I don't know if I can still stay in Rome today!"

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These are the words that Pope Alexander VI often muttered sarcastically in private...... If Andrés knew that His Holiness the Pope, who was holding his own loan, was so contemptuous of the Eastern Roman Empire, he would definitely spit out a mouthful of old blood......

In short, just like that, the ducats that were obtained from the sale of the crown in 1494 were already missing after only two years...... His Holiness is used to spending more than 20,000 ducats, what a big deal! The baby daughter was spoiled in bed for a while, and the loving father promised to buy her a fief like his son, and with one hand spent all the money of Andrés Palaiologos......

Faced with this situation, the emperor-in-exile of Andrés Palaiologas was already disheartened and no longer wanted to revive the dream of the Eastern Roman Empire. I just want to spend my old age in peace.

As a result, the Eastern Roman Empire's throne and its territorial succession were of almost zero significance to Andres. The final value is to exchange it for some Ducat.

As a result, the exiled emperor decided to sell the throne and territorial succession of the Eastern Roman Empire.

But to whom should this throne be sold?

Naturally, Andrés Palaiologos, thought of the Spanish couple. After all, Ferdinand had previously bought the crown of the Eastern Roman Empire with 10,000 ducats from him, and he was a very wealthy buyer.

Even if you don't have the happy business of the last time, this is only suitable for selling the throne to the Spanish kings. France was pitted against most of the European powers, Andrés, who lived in Italy, could not be sold, and Emperor HRE – at this time de jure only a German king, because he had not been officially crowned – was too far away and not a tyrant enough.

In 1481, Aragon participated in the battle to help Neapolitan relatives retake Otranto from the Ottoman Empire, and in 1492 the peninsular army destroyed the Moorish kingdom of Granada, and in 1496, Ferdinand's Aragonese army launched a large-scale attack on the Hafs dynasty in Tunisia, North Africa, seizing large tracts of pagan land, and 18-pounder cannonballs from Hongyi cannons entered the palace of the Peace Church in Lagulet. The Hafs dynasty was completely reduced to the exclusive younger brother of Aragon. So far, at least, Ferdinand was more of a devout Catholic fighter than his original owner, after all, the original Ferdinand had not been able to occupy a large part of the territory of the Pacifist Kingdom in North Africa.

Therefore, in the eyes of many Europeans at the time, the couple seemed to be the vanguard of European Christianity against peace religion. Some Spanish fans and trolls boasted that "the queen of Castile and the king of Aragon had seized more territory from the pacifists than the Sultan had occupied the Christian lands", which is not bad if Granada, Melilla, and Tripolitania were as rich as Anatolia, Constantinople, and the Peloponnese......

According to the analysis of later historians, Isabella did have a lot of complexes to defend Catholicism and oppose peace religions, and Ferdinand may also have this complex and corresponding territorial ambitions......

But what about the current situation...... Isabella was indeed willing to fight against the Peace Religion, but Ferdinand's attitude...... I can only say that you will die!

What the? Didn't Ferdinand, you ask, constantly fight against the North African pacifists? Didn't you have a plan to rule North Africa and find a way to change the beliefs of the Berbers in the future?

But that's for defense, not offense. Moreover, the key thing is that at this time, Ferdinand's conquest of North Africa was limited to the scope of Northwest Africa, and he had no intention of Egypt, Jerusalem and other places at all. At this time, it was not difficult to attack Northwest Africa, where there were only three decaying Berber dynasties, the Ottoman hand was far from reaching, and the Barbary pirates, who posed a great threat to Spanish land and shipping, did not sprout and grow.

As long as we occupy Northwest Africa first, unite all the territories along the Tyrrhenian Sea into a relatively closed military defense circle, and send troops to defend the sea lane between Sicily and Tunisia, Spain's Mediterranean coastline will be far away from the invasion of the Ottoman Empire in the future, and the Ottomans will not be able to fight the crooked brains of the Western Mediterranean and even Spain itself. So you can concentrate on going north to beat Vienna and carry Venice hard, then it has nothing to do with Spain, the army does not need to be sent, it is enough to ask the Knights Hospitaller to stay in Malta, at most when the Sultan dies and wants to break through the Sicilian-Malta-Tunisian line with a large number of warships, use the Mediterranean fleet to train the Sultan's galleys, so that he can understand why the sea is so blue......