Isabella and Ferdinand's daughter Juana are known as the "Crazy Juana", and in many later accounts of her, she is described as a crazy woman with a violent personality, hysteria, and even a serious mental illness.

But in Alexander's view, Juana's only fault was that she loved the wrong person.

Her love for Philip is single-minded and serious, and the only thing she desires is for Philip to love her as much as she does.

This was not too much to ask, but it became a luxury for Juana.

And her single-minded feelings are not understood by others, and people even think that she is making trouble unreasonably, or simply has something wrong with her brain.

Her husband, her parents, and everyone around her told her in the affirmative that she was wrong.

Over and over again, day after day, this denial of her feelings made Juana more and more suspicious.

But even so, she never doubted her feelings for Philip.

Juana is tragic, and her tragedy lies in her identity and in falling in love with someone who would not have deserved her affection in the first place.

Looking at the vigilant young woman in front of him, Alexander couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he knew how much he was doing to her, and at the same time, he knew that if this continued, her fate would be as miserable as in history.

But does he have any other way, Juana is a very solid stumbling block in front of him, whether from the legal theory or from reality, Juana has become an insurmountable obstacle because of its special status.

Emperor Maximian was an ambitious but unlucky man for the first half of his life, and he tried several times to forge a powerful alliance with his marriage but failed, so he eventually retreated to the pursuit of establishing a fairly stable blood dynasty with the marriage of his children in the second half of his life.

After years of hard work, Maximian got his wish, and the Habsburgs gradually built up a dynasty that was slowly influencing the entire European continent.

Getting his son Philip to marry Juana was an important move, so Alexander knew that even if Ferdinand had not placed Juana under house arrest and then controlled Castile, Philip would have a firm grip on his wife, and then after the death of the short-lived Austrian prince, his son Charles V would continue to imprison Juana in the castle until she finally left the world.

Juana is one such tragic woman, who has been used all her life by her father, husband, and son, who have mercilessly tormented her mentally and physically, and the only spiritual pillar that survives is her almost obsessive love for Philip.

"As I said, at least I can make the prince less miserable."

Alexander had made such a promise, and his words immediately relieved Juana, who seemed still a little skeptical, but who clearly thought it should be good news.

"I remember your duke, I saw you in Vallidord," because of Alexander's promise, Juana immediately had a good impression of him, this unintentional attitude made Alexander secretly ashamed, but he knew that as long as the heir to the throne of Castile, Juana's life was destined not to be peaceful and unharmed, as long as Maximia sent people to Castile more than once after Philip's death, The demand for a public declaration as soon as possible that his grandson was the rightful heir of Castile shows how hot Juana was in their minds.

"Can I know what you are going to do to cure the Prince's illness?" Juana asked a little uneasily, since Philip fell ill, she had found many doctors, but no matter what kind of method and how skilled the doctor, they were at a loss for this terrible strange disease, which made Juana gradually lose hope, and now the duke, suddenly told her that she could cure the prince's illness, which made Juana feel happy and uneasy.

"It may be a little painful, but at least it's better than it is now," Alexander followed Juana upstairs, and when they came to the door of a room they stopped, listening to the groans of pain coming from the room, Alexander whispered to Juana, "I can make the prince feel better, but you decide what happens next." ”

"What are you going me to do?" Juana was somewhat wary of Alexander and had not been so upset over the years that she had been so focused on her husband that she had completely forgotten what she had learned, and she soon realized what the man was clearly proposing.

"You are in Toledo now, so it is the Council of Nobles that has made a condition for you, I just need you to talk to them calmly, and as for the Prince, you can rest assured that I will try to minimize his pain."

"Just to reduce the pain?" A hint of disappointment flashed across Juana's face, "Those people, I mean the Toledo, they promised to cure Philip's illness, and because of this I agreed to come here with them, and now you tell me that it can only make him less miserable, how can I trust you?" ”

Alexander did not answer, his eyes looked at the closed door, and listening to Philip's voice of pain coming from inside, he looked at Juana again silently.

Juana's face showed despair, she was obviously frightened by the groans of pain inside, and she clenched her ears with her hands and shook her head helplessly, as if this way she could avoid facing the terrible scene.

Alexander raised his hand slightly, tentatively pulling Juana's hands away from her ears, and he reached out and pushed the door open, despite the princess's stunned expression at the offense.

There was a large bed in the middle of the room, and the thick curtains tightly surrounded the bed, and around the bed were a lot of choking spices, but these precious spices could not hide the stench that still smelled sick.

Alexander walked directly to the bed and lifted the curtain, and then saw the inhuman body on the bed.

Or rather, it was just a rotting shell, and the handsome and beautiful face was completely invisible, and the liquid that slowly flowed out of an ugly hole in the middle of the face flowed down the cheeks to the pillow, which was originally a tall and straight nose, but now there was nothing to be seen except for a raised nasal bone in the middle wrapped in rotten flesh.

"He's in a lot of pain, as long as it makes him feel better." Huanna picked up a towel and carefully wiped the abscesses from Philip's face, then she picked up a cup from the side and carefully poured the water into her husband's scarred lips.

"Let my people take care of him, they know what to do, and all you have to do is make the council happy."

Alexander reminded Juana very clearly, and when he saw Don Juliomando who was following behind, standing at the doorway and looking inside, Alexander gestured to him slightly.

Don Juliomando walked in at once, saluted Juana, and then began to eagerly tell her everything he asked her to do.

During this time, Juana's eyes did not take off Philip on the bed, and she interrupted the chief senator more than once, just to ask Alexander if he could immediately treat the prince.

Alexander asked his men to come and show Philip, who looked like a doctor and was indeed a medical officer among the Balkans, but most of his skills were done by amputating limbs and stopping the bleeding with red-hot strips, and in the course of his medical career, he had cut off the limbs of his patients no less than his comrades who had fought the enemy on the battlefield.

However, this time he didn't need the medical officer to show his skills, he just had to stir some of the medicinal powder that he had prepared before, along with honey and purple onion juice, and then pour it into the patient's mouth.

"What's that?" Juana was disturbed, the potion smelled very bad, and she noticed that Philip, who was already very bad, suddenly became more rapid in breathing after taking the potion.

"He's normal like this now, he'll sleep a little bit later."

Alexander stopped Juana and looked at Philip's body on the bed and trembled slightly, his demeanor so calm that it was completely impossible to see that he was also nervous.

In this era, there is no cure for syphilis, and those who survive are actually only relying on their stronger body or stronger immunity than others, although there are doctors who claim to have found a cure for this amorous disease many years later, but until there is really an effective method, syphilis has been an incurable terminal disease.

Alexander used to wonder how Caesar survived this terrible disease, but when he found out that Giovanni also contracted this terrible disease and eventually died because of an assassination rather than a virus attack, he could only sigh that the Borgia family was really of excellent blood.

But Philip apparently did not have such a strong physique, so the virus spread rapidly throughout his body after he was infected, and Alexander even remembered that some of the doctors who wrote about the prince's illness later wrote: "We do not know what kind of disease it is, and we have never seen such a terrible appearance, so when they saw the princess kissing the prince's rotten smelling sores, many people even secretly vomited." ”

However, Alexander knew that there were still ways to temporarily delay the spread of syphilis in the human body in this era, although it was not completely curable, and it was more harmful to the patient, but it was enough for them now.

Arsenic is a terrible poison, but the ancients knew very early on that taking a very small amount of arsenic can effectively curb some malignant diseases.

In Europe, arsenic was also used in the early days to treat people, although nine out of ten people would hang up in this way, but with the experience of using arsenic dosage, this unreliable method sometimes worked.

Especially when there is no need to take into account the greater harm that may be caused to the patient subsequently, the treatment with trace amounts of arsenic is more useful.

This was the case for Don Juliomando, who only needed Juana's obedient cooperation, and as for Philip, for the nobles of Toledo, it was probably better for the Austrian prince to die.

Looking at the pile of documents brought by the chief patriarch, Juana only hesitated for a short time before picking up the pen, and she signed her name carefully one by one, but her eyes never left her husband lying on the bed.

The use of arsenic can cause a certain amount of pain to the patient, which is why Alexander has a large amount of tranquilizer added to the powder.

The Balkan doctor didn't know what he was doing, he just had to mix the potions together as the Duke had instructed, and add some of the condiments he thought he needed.

To Juana's surprise, I don't know if it was a delusion, she felt that her husband's face had become a little red after drinking the potion, and the skin that had looked so terrible seemed to have regained a little vitality, which made her kneel on the ground and thank God for the gift, and then she stretched out her hands to Alexander, clasping them to show her gratitude.

Looking at the joyful look on his "cousin's" counten, Alexander sighed secretly, he saw Don Juliomando impatiently casting colors at him, knowing that he should have gotten what he wanted, and although the matter of having Juana personally attend the coronation had not yet been decided, it was enough to satisfy the chief senator with the documents she had autographed.

After leaving the Balkan doctor in the house, Alexander left Juana's house with Don Juliomando, and looking back at the small stone building that looked solid, Alexander suddenly let out a soft sigh: "This is a poor woman, isn't it?" ”

"She's the princess of Castiria." Don Julio Mando just glanced back and ignored it, he clutched the leather bag containing the authorization documents signed by Juana in his hand, and his face was full of excitement: "We have mastered Juana, and now we can make conditions to Barriariddo together with Don Bavi of Andalusia." ”

At this point, the Chief Senator glanced at Alexander, and he suddenly felt that the previous plan of the Council of Nobles to support Enrique's daughter Juana alone must have made a mistake, which made them almost offend Alexander VI.

Fortunately, they quickly changed their minds and bridged the rift that had arisen with the Pope, and now that they had mastered Juana and formed an alliance with Don Bavi, the couple would not have been so terrible if they had the support of the Pope and another Juana, who was far away in Portugal.

The thought made the Chief Patriarch feel high, and he was even a little eager to show Isabella what they were capable of immediately.

It was only at this time that a piece of news that overwhelmed the nobles of Toledo shattered their dreams.

Don Bavi suddenly announced that he was willing to accept Queen Isabella's previous proposal for negotiations, and he had already sent several important Andalusian nobles to Barriariddo to negotiate.

This news was not only a surprise to the nobles of Toledo, but it was not an exaggeration to say that it was even a bolt from the blue.

From the beginning of the Andalusian aristocracy to form a coalition to carry out rebellions, the nobles of Toledo have expressed their support for them, and the noble council is even more unabashedly on the side of the coalition, and some people have directly and publicly denounced all this because of the violation of the rights of Isabella and his wife on the traditional nobility.

Suddenly, however, the Andalusians abandoned them, and without warning, Don Bavi announced his willingness to negotiate with Isabella, a change that instantly stunned Don Juliomando, who had previously thought that the situation was all right.

In fact, even Isabella never understood why Don Bavi chose to accept negotiations in such a favorable situation, although this was an inevitable outcome in the long run, but Isabella vaguely felt that he would make this decision because something had happened that forced him to make such a change.

Alexander, of course, knew what the reason for Don Bavi's change was.

Don Bavi should have known about Sister Alft's disappearance, and for him, whoever had taken Sister Alft would have found out what he was trying to do.

At the same time, the disappearance of Sister Alfurt also means that he has lost his biggest trump card, which is undoubtedly a fatal blow to Tang Bawi.

Even if he didn't think about marrying that nun in the future and seeking the throne, just such a bargaining chip with the right to inherit before Juana was enough for Donbawi to take a huge initiative, and he could bargain with Isabella with it, and he also believed that when Isabella learned of Sister Alfth's existence, she would inevitably have some scruples about him.

But now that the bargaining chip was gone, he should know how unwise it was to be an enemy of the queen, who had great prestige.

At least the Andalusian nobles had never thought of overthrowing Isabella's rule, and now, because he had lost his most important bargaining chip, Tang Bavi had to consider détente with Isabella.

"But it's not good for you, is it?" In the rooms of the Gant's Palace, the Pope, who had sent away the servants, asked Alexander, "That Don Bavi, if he surrenders, will only make Isabella's prestige even greater." ”

"In fact, I never considered Don Bavi's rebellion, and you know that the Castilian nobles will also be my enemies in the future." Alexander said disapprovingly, "And why do you think the shipping route between Sicily and Aragon was suddenly attacked by pirates at this time?" ”

Seeing that the Pope seemed to have come to his senses, Alexander nodded: "Your Majesty, there is no coincidence in the world, and if there is, it is only because no one has yet discovered the subtlety. ”

In October 1501, the Aragon fleet set sail for the northern shores of Africa.

Almost at the same time, Josa, who had just returned to Naples, received a secret letter from Iberia.

There was only a short sentence in the letter: "My dear sister, Sicily has opened its arms to you. ”