Conquer the Dawn of Heaven

King Manuel walked out of the room with great interest.

He felt very fresh, and speaking of this was the first time he talked about life with a woman from the colony. This exotic style, completely different from the European woman he was already familiar with, fascinated him.

It ’s just that these women were sold from Castile. These slaves were brought back by Columbus and other expeditions called the West Indies. The slaves are very popular because they are different from African slaves. Today, this woman is a minister he is very proud of. one's gift.

Although I know that this exoticism may only be because of freshness, but Manuel is still interested, but his purpose is of course not only because of a few women, but because of the land.

He has made up his mind to start an expedition to the west of the Atlantic, and according to the description of Da Gama and Alexander, the mysterious land may be much larger than that of Columbus. The key point is that it has never been seen. Dabbled in places.

Manuel feels that this is indeed a great opportunity for Portugal that may herald a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and perhaps there will never be such a good opportunity again in the future.

Think about it, a magical land that has never been discovered since the birth of **** Christ. It seems that God specially created the gift to those lucky people who have been enlightened.

Manuel walked up to the statue of the Virgin on the side of the hallway to pray and pray, and then after kissing the cross on his chest, he continued to move forward, but saw Queen Mary approaching.

"Your Majesty, I see you praying. Is there anything you need to pray for?" Maria walked over and looked at Manuel quietly. She didn't know which woman the husband had just fooled with, and she didn't want to. Inquire, she is much smarter than her sister Juana in this respect. Reminiscing about the current situation of Juana in the letter written by her mother, Maria feels very uneasy. She did not expect that Juana now seems to be more and more crazy, even Vaguely, he has lost his mind.

"Some things, some national events." Manuel smiled politely at his wife. He still admired Maria's generosity, but it was only limited to their private lives. He knew that Maria tried to imitate her. 'S mother's interest in pursuing power is far greater than knowing who he just slept with.

"So can I know what it is all about?" Maria is still chasing after her, and she was a little caught off guard by the intensified exploration of a new colony in Lisbon. Originally, she thought that even if it had been proposed, it would really be put into practice. It may take several years or even a dozen years to implement, but somehow the sudden desire to open up new colonies rose.

It ’s not just Lisbon. From the farthest Viana do Castelo in the north to Porto, and then to Furu and Tavira in the Lagos Bay in the south, it seems that people everywhere are shouting the same sentence excitedly: Is coming! "

Big nautical, this is a new term that has suddenly appeared recently. At first glance, it seems that there is nothing special. Did n’t the Portuguese have been sailing all the time? Since ancient times, they lived on the coast and lived on the sea. This was originally nothing. In particular, even after Prince Enrique opened an era for Portugal to truly go to the ocean, it did not make people crazy at once.

But somehow, this time is very different from the past.

Even Maria was aware of this different place, and thinking about the grandeur when Columbus first returned from the new colony a few years ago and the tide brought by Da Gama ’s return from the east, Maria also felt that "The novelty term is really exciting.

It's just that when this inspiring conflict inevitably ran into her home country, Maria was a little confused and uneasy.

"Your Majesty, are you going to order the establishment of an expedition to the new colony?" Maria is very concerned about this, or is a bit worried. "I worry that this may eventually anger Castile, maybe wait again, you Knowing that I ’m not trying to stop you, but I hope you can take into account the troubles and risks that this may bring. Maybe you should hold on for a while, at least not so hasty. "

Maria tried to make her tone calm rather than show her indignity in front of her husband as before, but even so, maybe for a long time, she still tried to ease the tone of the tone but there was still a hint of threat. Suddenly, Manuel's already pretty good mood suddenly turned bad.

He stared at his wife seriously. After making sure that she was indeed serious, Manuel said slowly: "Madam, I think these words are not what you should say. As the queen of Portugal, you What should be considered is how to make this country stronger with me, rather than whether it will anger another country. Knowing whether it ’s Castile or Aragon, they ca n’t interfere with me to consider the interests of my country. It is absolutely intolerable. In fact, the dock in the Zitejo River has received my orders. They are starting to build ships. Those are the most powerful weapons. At sea, they can eliminate all enemies who provoke them. "

Maria listened to this rather obvious suggestion that her face turned blue. She did n’t care that Manuel and other women were together. Originally, their union was not because of love, and she was not Juana, but she could n’t accept Mannu. El clashed with her home country.

She tried to say something more, but the king was obviously impatient.

Manuel maintained the last point of patience and manners and turned to leave after a little nod to Mary. Behind him, Mary stared at her husband's back with an ugly face.

She did not hear Manuel whispering in a voice not heard even by the close servant next to him: "I've had enough."

There was a letter on the table in front of Alexander, which was sent by Tiegó from Aragon.

Tiego has been away from Lisbon for some days. Fortunately, he has not wasted time in Iberia in the past two years. At least from the many relationships he can have here, it can be seen that he is doing very well.

The letter was sent by a shipping merchant. These merchants who always do business along the coastal cities along the ocean ’s coastline have developed their trade routes from the North Sea to northern Africa. Along such a long maritime road, countless goods are sent by The round-trip transportation from north to south or from west to east is exchanged for the silent flow of massive wealth.

These businessmen also often work part-time as messengers, diplomats, and spies. This is a unique identity of this era. Even if everyone knows, they will not be prohibited from contacting them because of this.

Tiego has his own way, and the messengers he finds are very reliable. In fact, these businessmen have inextricable relations with the free trade union. Some of them made a fortune by doing business with the union, and some Then it is simply the "self" who has joined

But even so, Tiegeau was still very careful. In order to be safe, he used several different secret writing techniques in this letter to ensure that even if the letter fell in the hands of others, there was no way to decipher it.

In fact, Alexander ’s way of keeping secrets is very simple. He did n’t make a mysterious “Alexander password”. Apart from the communication with Ruosha, the connection between him and his men is often deciphered by a certain book. The root codebook, as to which book is specific each time, is to be found in another root password index that is not easy to detect.

There is only one purpose for this, which is to keep secret.

Especially as the content of the letter sent by Thiegó this time, Alexander felt that if it fell into the hands of outsiders, it would immediately cause an uproar, or at least it would cause a lot of trouble for his later plans.

Tiego left Lisbon and boarded the boat and went directly to Aragon. In the following days, he visited many people as a successful businessman, including aristocrats and rich merchants. He talked about a few profitable trades. , And then invested in 2 local farms that looked promising.

Everything in Thiegan is so natural, no one doubts that this businessman is here to make money, and he is indeed here to make money.

In this way, after half a month after conscientiously guarding the businessmen's business, one day Tiego went out to talk about business as usual.

He first visited a very ordinary wool trader and discussed a deal that was not a big deal. Then he visited several famous Zaragoza families, one of which was the former Sicilian palace Mrs. Gomez's family.

It ’s just that these visits do n’t seem to be very satisfying. Mrs. Gomez ’s family is not very happy now, perhaps because her husband died too much during the **** night in Sicily. Ferdinand II treated the family Obviously, there was a lot of neglect, and for some other reasons, the Gomez family is now struggling in Zaragoza's court.

This made the merchant Thiegos's business seem to be not so smooth, so he had to leave Zaragoza to try his luck elsewhere.

Arcinate is a small, small city located in the southwest of Valencia. Although it is not directly on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, it takes only 2 days to walk to the seaside. It is faster if you ride a horse or ride a car.

Because it was not too far from the Balearic Islands, Tiego wanted to go home first before entering the city, but it was really important to think about this errand, he decided to push back his plan to go back.

There is nothing special about the city of Archinette, the only slightly different one is that it is the seat of the court of the Duke of Gandino.

Giovanni Pogia's widow Maria de Luna is now living here.

After leaving Rome, Maria de Luna took her son back to the territory in Aragon, although after living in the luxury and luxury of Rome, she suddenly returned to the territory like the country to let Maria de Luna Nana herself and her children are not so accustomed to it, but at least think about avoiding so many troubles, Maria de Luna is finally relieved.

The territory of the Duke of Gandino was not very large. Giovanni did not stay here long after he inherited from his brother Luigi and his wife.

Although the days in the territory are still normal, and there is nothing to waste, but because of the lack of attention for a long time, when Maria de Luna returned with the children, it was still very embarrassing at first.

She had to temporarily leave her children in Valencia. After all, it was a big city. Even when Alexander VI was the archbishop of Valencia, it was already the territory of the Borgia family.

Then she began to sort out the rules and regulations in the territory. After a period of time, Maria de Luna managed to take care of the Duke of Gandino's territory.

It was at this time that Tiego came to Arsinette.

Like other businessmen who intend to do business with the nobles, Thiegos made a formal request to be summoned by the Duchess, and did not show any abnormalities when he submitted the referral letter, and even gave the door guard a little bribe.

It was just that when Maria de Luna saw the contents of the referral letter, her expression suddenly changed.

Even though she secretly reminded herself to calm down, and kept telling herself that it was Aragon, the territory of the Borgia family, she could not hide the panic in her heart.

She summoned Tiego calmly and pretended to be calm. After hearing that he had talked a lot about business, the Duchess of Gandino finally couldn't bear the trepidation in her heart and asked: "So in addition to business, Rome What did the Duke of Tesia let you do? "

Thiago looked at the lady secretly and curiously. He did n’t know what Alexandria was sure of. The Duchess would support him. After all, what he had to do was really difficult to say. The nobles knew it when they heard the tone there.

But now that he has stood in front of this woman, there is no other way.

"Master Duke hopes to get your help," Thiegos saluted Maria de Luna. "The Duke knows that your influence in the Zaragoza court should work."

Maria de Luna frowned secretly, if it were not for her personal love between Peloto Cardron and Caesar's entourage when she was in Rome, she would not escape from Rome in such a hurry. .

After all, it ’s really not a big deal to have a romantic relationship with Rome in this era, but it involves her husband Giovanni Borgia ’s death, which is completely different.

Maria de Luna originally thought that returning to Gandino's territory would leave her in trouble, but she obviously miscalculated Alexander, or simply Uliu's ability.

When she visited her in Ulliu, Rome, she showed her knowledge of her personal affair with Pelotto Cardron. Now it becomes a nightmare that makes Maria de Luna difficult to get rid of.

Although Uliu did not show any threat from the beginning to the end of the visit, Maria de Luna knew very well that if rumours about Giovanni ’s death spread to Rome, it would be for her It is undoubtedly a disaster.

Even if she can finally find a way to get rid of the murder of her husband, the character of Alexander VI will never let her go easily.

After being rushed back to her mother ’s house, the loss of custody of her children may still be light. It is likely that Alexander VI will exert pressure on her mother ’s family, or ask Ferdinand II to put her under house arrest.

The king obviously wouldn't risk offending the pope for her.

Maria de Luna thought about it, and finally came to the conclusion that no matter from what aspect, it seems that cooperation with Alexander is the only option.

"Tell me what the Duke sent you to do." Maria de Luna said in a low voice, she was a little helpless, but she knew what kind of trouble would be caused if she violated the Duke of Romatesia.

She knew she had only one choice, and the only thing she could expect was the other party's ability to keep the promise.

At this moment, Maria de Luna felt that Gombre was "really a Borgia".

In front of the apostle of Valencia Cathedral, several beggars were staring at the people who came out of it.

Today is the last day of the anniversary of the Virgin Mary Thanksgiving for a month in a row. It is said that the capital Zaragoza held a grand ceremony supported by the king himself. There were 100 cattle and sheep killed at the banquet after the ceremony alone There are also many, and as many chickens and ducks are innumerable.

The time of the Virgin Mary ’s Thanksgiving Day is actually very long. Like the time in Portugal, this festival will begin on the first Sunday of October every year and will continue for a full month. During this time, people are prohibited from doing many things. People think of extravagance and depravity.

So when the anniversary ends, people tend to revel because of the entire month of oppression.

This is also a good day for beggars. Rich people will not be stingy at this time. They will often generously give those beggars some charity to show their kindness.

The door of the apostle opened, and a group of brightly dressed nobles and wealthy businessmen came out of them. All of them were wearing unusually gorgeous costumes. When the sun shone on the glittering jewelry on them, they would always dazzle the others. .

The beggars immediately gathered around them, while they were chattering various blessings in their mouths, while reaching out to beg for some reward.

A rich man who seemed to be rich took out a few shiny silver coins from his pocket and threw them to the beggars in front of him. This unusual and generous move won a burst of cheers from the beggars, and then the rich man seemed to remember What, beckoning to the beggar closest to him.

"Want to make some money?"

"Generous master, please tell me ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ The beggar immediately said with a blush.

"Send me a letter, and then bring me the letter back from the recipient, and then you can get another silver coin."

Everything is so simple and ordinary, a generous rich man sends a beggar to run errands for him on Thanksgiving Day, and then gives some rewards. This is really common. No one will pay attention to the busy and busy No one in the "small business" under the apostle's door of the cathedral cared about what was written in the letter handed to the beggar.

The beggar took the letter that the rich man gave him with joy, trotting all the way to the owner of a boat docked at the Valencia dock at the address he was instructed.

Soon after the beggar left, the boat set sail immediately.

Five days later, as the ship docked at Lisbon ’s dock, the letter was placed on the table in front of Alexander.

The content of the letter is not very long, the key is only one sentence: "According to your command, the Duchess of Gandino Maria de Luna has already begun to act."