It is a very remote town, and the proudest thing for the people of this town is that there was an auxiliary deacon of the diocese a long time ago.

There is a church in the town, but there is no priest, and the people have to confess until the first few days of the month, when the itinerant priest from Behring stays in the town for half a day, and it can be said that the whole town is the busiest time, and the people will put on their best clothes and respectfully wait for the priest to arrive, and after offering the few eggs they have in their homes or the fish caught before dawn, they will line up into the church to confide their secrets to the traveling priest.

And there are no taverns in this town, and everyone will use the local method to brew a little bit of it if they want to drink, and they have never thought of making money from it.

But now, the people of this town have made a small fortune, because an army has suddenly entered this town.

But it was a foreign army they had never seen before, and it spoke a language they didn't understand.

In addition, the army was quite brutal when they first arrived, and they didn't seem to want to stay in the town for long.

That is, until another Castilian army arrives, and the two sides take up a fight outside the town.

However, no one knew what happened next, and instead of a fierce battle, the two sides chose to take the town as the boundary and set up their own camps on both sides of the town.

The town then became a place where the soldiers of both armies had nothing to do.

In this remote place, the little liquor that was brewed in almost every household in the town became the best luxury, and the soldiers of the French army, who were already known to the townspeople, would come to the town and buy a little from the locals, apparently paying the young commander of the Castilian army.

And the young nobleman himself would have come to the town for a drink.

Alexander chose to stay in this remote town, not very far from the Portuguese city of Behring, because he had finally received a letter from France.

Ulius was clearly a good mixer in the castles of the Loire Valley, and he even met Louis XII directly.

Louis XII was surprised to see Ulliu in his castle.

The French king had a clearer understanding of this Moorish than anyone else, which of course came from Charlon's description of the important people around Alexander, but more importantly, with the war with Rome and Thesia, the truce, and now the seemingly fragile alliance, Louis XII's understanding of Alexander has also changed again and again, including those around him, of course.

However, Ulliu's frankly and somewhat straightforward audience made Louis XII stunned for a long time, and finally understood what kind of news the Moors had brought him.

It was the beginning of February 1502 when Alexander received letters from France over the Pyrenees and then through Navarre and part of Castile.

In the south, Don Bavi, who had returned to Andalusia, unsurprisingly raised the banner of rebellion again, and this time with a resolute and resolute attitude, revealing his greatest trump card to all of Castile before anyone could understand what was happening.

Ferdinand's appearance surprised Ferdinand, as Don Bavi claimed, knowing that the girl who had suddenly appeared was Maria's twin sister, but it did not give him any relief, for he knew that a daughter who was not under his control was no different from an enemy.

In the north, Alexander led the Castilian army all the way after the French, but stopped not far from the city of Belin, where the Castilian generals did not know his intentions, but when they heard that the Castilian fleet had suffered a defeat at sea, they finally understood Alexander's intentions.

Manuel, having received the report of the victory at sea, sent a letter requesting an armistice to the Castilian army, which was confronting the Portuguese army on the other side of the Coa Valley, and the Castilian people reacted to the Portuguese king's doomed request for an armistice at this time, and immediately sent this strange demand to Vallaridot as soon as possible.

Even the most mindless knew that the Portuguese's offer of an armistice, having achieved the advantage of victory at sea, must have had their purpose.

Sure enough, Manuel was quick to offer his terms, Castiria had to recognize the Azores as fully owned by Portugal, and Portugal would recognize Castile-Aragon the right to use the route through the Azores.

On land, the condition was a truce between the two sides.

Manuel's proposal was very realistic, it was impossible to completely block Spain's access to the new colonies through the Azores, and as the new colonies discovered more and more territory, the geographical location of the Azores became more and more important, and if this sea artery between Spain and the new colonies was completely cut off, a more fierce war might break out.

Although Alexander's description of the New World is very tempting, after all, too many resources have been invested in the opening of new routes in the East, and if you take care of both routes, it will be too much pressure for Portugal.

So until it was determined whether the New World was worth the near-all-out battle with Spain for maritime supremacy, Manuel did not want to provoke a naval war that would be like a gamble on the fortunes of both sides.

For Ferdinand, the call for an armistice could not have come at a better time.

The succession of bad news had brought Ferdinand to the brink of collapse, and he couldn't imagine why the bad news had just followed after Isabella's death, and any of the bad news would have been a merciless blow to him, not to mention that it had come almost at the same time, and Ferdinand even thought it was God's punishment for him.

Therefore, when Manuel's proposal was sent to Barriariddod, despite his anger at the outcome of the Battle of the Azores, Ferdinand conscientiously summoned his ministers to discuss the terms of the armistice proposed by Portugal.

In fact, the people of Castile knew that accepting Manuel's armistice conditions was the only option at this time, and that the rebellion in the south had to be quelled as soon as possible, not only because of the damage caused by the rebellion and the huge losses caused by the severance of ties with Seville, but more importantly, Don Bavi's claim to possess another heir of Isabella's blood was like a terrible greatsword hanging over Castilian's head.

Although no one has ever seen the girl who is said to be the twin sister of Mary, many people have secretly believed that this is true.

After all, it is known to everyone that Maria's twin sister died as soon as she was born, and anyone with a little common sense knows that it is common for twin sisters to be extremely similar in appearance, and unless Don Bavi really has the ability to find someone who is exactly like him, he will not be able to maintain a lie.

As for the possibility of finding someone who did not look the same, it was almost ignored by everyone, because everyone knew that it would not pose any threat if that was the case, and even if the girl was really Maria's twin sister, Barriaridotus could deny this fact outright.

So the only possibility is that the girl who was pushed out by Don Bavi is indeed the sister of Maria, who has already been declared dead, that is, she is likely to be Isabella's daughter.

Thinking of this, the court of Barriaridud sensed the seriousness of the matter.

"Let Gonzalo do whatever it takes to quell the rebellion in the south as soon as possible." At this point, even if he hated Gonzalo's arrogance and arrogance, Ferdinand could not care about that, he only hoped that the counterinsurgency war in the south would end as soon as possible, and the best result would be that Don Bavi and the girl, whether real or not, would die in the war.

Thinking about Juana's worrying state of mind, it could even be said that even if the girl named Alfurt was captured, it would be a big trouble.

Not necessarily no one would take the opportunity to propose that Juana's eligibility for the throne be reconsidered because of her mental problems.

And a Juana who is completely involuntary in a trance is much easier to deal with than a strange daughter who doesn't know if she can master it.

It was for this reason that Ferdinand decided to accept Manuel's proposal for an armistice without hesitation.

He ordered the Castilian army, which was confronting the Portuguese, to stand by and not clash with the Portuguese, and at the same time decided to appoint the royal treasurer, Don Maclosbein, as a special envoy to Lisbon to negotiate with Manuel.

The appointment of Don Macrosbein as a special envoy was a good opportunity for Ferdinand to take advantage of the opportunity to kick this person away from him, and as for Isabella's private treasury, Manuel felt that it was better not to force it to cause unnecessary trouble for the time being, and wait until Juana's mood stabilized, and then find a way to get control of the private treasury from her.

These arrangements were more of a reluctant decision for Ferdinand.

He knew he had to buy time and prepare for the worst that could happen before people could fully recover from the grief of Isabella's death.

But perhaps February was a really bad month for Ferdinand, as the first time the Queen of Sicily, Josa Cosenza Astamara, sent an emissary to Aragon, also at the beginning of February.

On the mission was Elliot of Taranto.

Having succeeded in convincing Sophia, Jossa seems to have discovered Elliott's diplomatic talents, and now the heir to the Count of Taranto is running in the direction of a career diplomat.

In announcing her succession to the Sicilian crown, she condemned the "atrocities" of the Astamarse Sicilian lineage, and in her unusually harshly worded letter, she pointed out that the bloody night was a tragedy caused by the cruelty of the officials of the Kingdom of Aragon in Sicily, and that Aragonese had subsequently imposed a "cold and outrageous" brutal rule on the Sicilians.

At the end of the letter, he warned the Aragonese royal family in very formal terms: "Do not try to provoke another war between the two blood-related kingdoms, do not let the blood of the innocent be shed more, or I will start a great war with Aragon as the queen of the united and powerful Kingdom of Sicily and the leader of the free trade alliance, and I can assure you that if this war breaks out, it will not stop in Sicily or in the Mediterranean, but the whole of Aragon will face my wrath and punishment. Don't be preemptive here. ”

The letter had just landed in Dabalencia, carried by Elliot, and its contents had already been copied and sent to Barriaridotus.

So Ferdinand saw this letter much earlier than the emissary.

No one can tell for sure what the look on Ferdinand's face was indicative of his inner feelings, except that the king looked at the copy of the letter repeatedly, and for a moment he paused to take a moment's breath.

It was then a long time before Ferdinand went to see another diplomatic letter in the name of the Archduchess of Wallachia, which was attached to his credentials.

In this letter, the Archduchess of Wallachia demanded that Aragon guarantee the safe navigation of Wallachian merchant ships in the waters within Aragon and that the Strait of Gibraltar be navigated smoothly.

Ferdinand finally felt an unspeakable fear.

He suddenly felt as if he had fallen into a cobweb that was becoming more and more difficult to get rid of during this time, whether it was around him or people who were so far away that he might not know where he was for the rest of his life, he felt an indescribable fear, as if an invisible black hand had been secretly weaving a large web against him from the beginning.

Now it seems that this net is finally about to be closed, and it is completely enveloped in him.

Alexander had been waiting patiently, he knew that he had waited so long that he didn't care about the short time, these days in Galicia were a rare leisure time after he came to Iberia, he could even go to the town with Scheer for a drink, and he was often greeted by a few Frenchmen.

The Portuguese had already embarked on their expedition to the New World at sea, and according to his previous description and inspiration, the Portuguese were far larger than they knew about the New World, believing that from the Azores, large areas of land could also be discovered along parallel dimensions rather than south, as the Dutch discovered about 30 years later.

Alexander did not think that he could stop the British or Dutch from exploring the New World, it was an unstoppable tide and trend, and the enthusiasm of Europeans for ocean exploration would never be interrupted by the prevention of a single person or even a country.

Spain would soon find a larger continent and eventually conquer the Aztecs in what is now north, which would not be long, but it would be enough to give Alexander more opportunities to make arrangements.

Historically, the North American continent will be gradually divided into several large colonial territories with the arrival of Spain, the British and the Dutch, but during this period, the Portuguese have not been able to set foot in the North American continent on a large scale for various reasons, so that with the competition of maritime power, the expansion of the Portuguese will be gradually constrained in the South American continent, and then the Spaniards will start an endless competition.

Alexander did not want to see this, he wanted the Portuguese to join in the North American dispute, and even wanted them to have a close rivalry with the British, which Portugal was clearly capable of today.

Sitting on a stone wall, Alexander leaned comfortably against the trunk of a tree close to the stone wall, the fragrance of flowers and trees in early spring made people feel a kind of intoxicated confusion, Alexander's eyes had already cast into the distance that could not be seen.

"Schelle, if one day you are asked to go to the sea, I mean to go to the other side of the sea, not the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean is like a bathtub compared to the Atlantic," Alexander asked the chief guard on the side with a smile, "There are all kinds of risks on the sea, but once you cross those risks, you can go to a completely strange place with endless wealth." Tell me are you willing to take the risk? ”

Schell thought about it, he didn't seem to expect the Duke to ask him such a question, which made Schell a little confused, and then he asked cautiously: "You mean you can get rich?" ”

"What are you going to do if you can get a wealth that you have never dreamed of in your life," Alexander said with a smile as he looked at the Balkans who seemed to be weighing up, "where you can have more authority than a king, but the price you have to pay is just as great, because you must be prepared to give up everything in front of you?" ”

The Balkan licked his tongue, although the Duke's words sounded like a joke, but Alexander's seductive tone made Scheer involuntarily feel that it might not be just casual talk, and after following Alexander for so long, Scheer had seen too many miracles created by the Duke, which made him not doubt at all that the Duke's description might be the real world.

"To tell you the truth, I don't know," Schell finally replied honestly, "I have seen so many things that I have never seen before since I came out of the mountains, and some of them I have never dreamed of, so I believe you that there is so much wealth, but if I am asked to leave you, I will not want to, because I don't know what I can do after leaving you." ”

Alexander looked at Schel's somewhat dazed expression and nodded slightly, he knew that Scheer was serious, although this dazedness might soon fade as he gradually got used to leaving him, but at least for Schel for now, the wealth was a little too illusory compared to staying with him.

"You'll see all that, Schel," Alexander patted Sher on the shoulder, "one day I'll go to sea, and I'll take you with me, and then it's up to you to decide what you choose in the future." ”

As he spoke, Alexander's gaze fell on the man who was walking towards them in the distance led by a hunter.

When the man walked to a stop under the stone wall, and then looked up at Alexander, who was sitting on it and looked down at him, a strange look appeared on the man's face.

The two men looked at each other silently, and after a while the man bowed to Alexander: "Your Royal Highness, I finally see you again." ”

"yes, long time no see." Alexander said, looking at Cleion.