Vol 7 Chapter 33: who are you

Prince Miguel ’s funeral took place on a slightly gloomy day, and the dark clouded sky blocked the sunlight. All the people attending the funeral looked gloomy on their faces, and the road where the funeral procession passed The people cried in a low voice, and many people knelt down slowly as the hearse passed by, and crossed silently in front of their chests.
Prince Miguel was only 2 years old when he died. He was too short to say that the two years of life flashed like electric flint had no effect on the Portuguese. In addition to Lisbon, many places do not even know Manuel There is such a son, or at least the name of the prince is unclear, so this child ’s death should not have caused any trouble, but when he died early, Portuguese talents found that the death of this 2-year-old child was not just The son of the king, but also the fate of this country.
As the eldest son of Manuel and the only son to date, Miguel is the natural first heir to the Portuguese throne. This may not have paid much attention when he was alive, but when he died suddenly, Portuguese talent consciousness To what kind of difficult situation they are facing.
The impact of Miguel ’s death was enormous. Queen Mary was suspected by the Portuguese nobles who were hostile to her, and in the public, the rumor that the prince was poisoned by a stepmother is no longer a secret. As for how many of them really think so, and how many of them just hope so, it is impossible to rely on textual research.
The prince's funeral was held in this humorous situation.
According to the arrangement before Manuel I, the coffin of Prince Miguel was temporarily placed in the large spiritual room of the auxiliary hall on the east side of the church of San Francisco in Evora. This small scale is a semi-circular ascending type The auxiliary hall has a typical Manuel-style round dome. The place connected to the wall under the dome is a circle of stained glass windows, which makes the entire auxiliary hall colorful, not because the coffin is parked. Gloomy and scary.
Manuel I stood in front of the sarcophagus that was about to be closed. Because no one thought that the prince would die suddenly, he could only make a new small sarcophagus and watch Prince Miguel lying in a sarcophagus like a toy. Manuel didn't make a single glance, which made the Archbishop Bruzong, who had just finished the requisition mass, a little embarrassed. He wanted to whisper to remind the king, but was stopped by Manuel's hand when he just stepped forward.
Manuel turned around and looked at the people standing below. After a moment of meditation, he finally said: "My son Miguel is my eldest son, and I thought I could inherit my kingdom and continue my career. Heir, but now lying here, he was brutally murdered, I do n’t know who is so cruel to such a poisonous hand against a child who is only 2 years old, but I know they will do this because of their cowardice and cowardice , They turned to murder my son because they could n’t strike me. They wanted to use this method to intimidate and stop me, because they knew what I was going to do, and they would shake their status if I did that. But today I ’m here to tell each of you, I ’ve made a decision and I will send my strongest fleet and the bravest sailors to explore new routes under the command of my best captain, I want to tell You, I have authorized my captains to have the right and obligation to declare the Kingdom of Portugal no matter what they have found in the deep parts of the Atlantic that have never been visited All people or countries that try to deny and these discoveries will be regarded as enemies of the Kingdom of Portugal. "
Manuel's voice echoed in the auxiliary hall, and then spread outside. His voice was full of anger, but there was an inexplicable excitement. At this moment, everyone has even ignored the sarcophagus behind him and this is actually At the funeral of a child, listening to a cheer, the look on the face of Count Don Luvigo, Castilian embassy in Portugal, became more and more ugly.
Like everyone else, Count Don Lugogo also noticed that Queen Maria did not attend the funeral, which is undoubtedly bad news for him. He had written a report on what happened in Lisbon and sent him back to Valladolid, but He did not expect that the situation would become so bad. Now it seems that Manuel I has determined that Queen Mary is the mastermind of murdering his son, and in view of the relationship between Prince Miguel and the Double Kings, Count Don Lugogo wanted to Imagine what kind of attitude the couple should treat this matter.
And what made the Earl pay more attention to the words of Manuel. He heard strong hostility and even provocation from it. This made Count Don Lugogo angry and surprised. He did not know what Manuel was. He would have said something like this, which made him wonder whether he should immediately see the king to find out, or write a letter now to report what happened to Queen Isabella.
Count Don Lugo is a very cautious person and one of Isabella's most trusted ministers, and because of this he is also one of the most familiar to the Queen's mind.
He knows exactly what Isabella wants to get. Whether it is in faith or in the world, Isabella actually has ambitions far exceeding her husband Ferdinand, which was also a lot when she was a princess. People are willing to follow her, and even willing to participate in the reason for overthrowing her brother Enrique.
Facts have proved that this adventure is worthwhile. After her final victory, all her followers have received generous rewards, and the queen seems to be more than satisfied. Her ambition makes many people really excited and worried because they From her actions, Isabella saw her astonishing ambitions.
Count Don Lugogo knew what he had to do. He wondered why he had such great confidence with Manuel. After all, although perhaps their power at sea could not be underestimated, if it really became a war between nations, then Portugal is clearly going to be the disadvantage.
Because of this, Count Don Lugogo finally decided to first listen to the tone from the king.
Earl Don Luvigo is a very cautious person. As a close associate of Isabella, he knows clearly the situation of the seemingly solid but fragile United Kingdom between Castile and Aragon, especially the two countries. The turbulent domestic situation among the nobles also made Count Don Lugogo feel more careful in his attitude towards Portugal.
Therefore, Count Don Lugogo made a request to Manuel when the king was stationed in Évora after the funeral. At the same time, he visited the dignitaries of the Lisbon court closely and tried to get more reliable news from them.
Alexander also attended Prince Miguel's funeral. When Manuel delivered the heated speech, he stood in a slightly remote place, but he always paid attention to not the king, but the cold sarcophagus behind him. .
When the sarcophagus' lid was finally closed with a dull rubbing sound, Alexander seemed to feel that something was also sealed inside the sarcophagus, and at that moment, he was slightly lost.
Then a servant-like man came over and whispered something to him. Alexander looked in the direction he signaled, and then saw Earl Modillo, who was standing far from the corner of the auxiliary hall.
To Alexander's surprise, the Earl was wearing a dirty and shabby clothes. The mud stains and messy hair on his face were almost unrecognizable. If he didn't look closely, he would never think of this as an ordinary civilian. The man would be the earl of Naples.
When Alexander looked at him, the count's eyes also turned, and after a glance, the count turned away.
In a slightly remote house in Évora, Alexander met Count Modillo again.
"I saw the guilt in your eyes," the earl pushed the wine glass in front of Alexander sitting opposite. "Maybe you felt guilty and uneasy about killing a 2-year-old child, so I will do it for you. "
There was a glimmer of gloom in Alexander's eyes: "Master, you don't know what I'm thinking."
"Oh, forget it, Qiao Ling, of course I know what you are thinking, and what you think is no more noble than mine, so you are not qualified to condemn me," Count Modillo waved his hands impatiently, and then he took The hand holding the wine glass paused, staring closely at Alexander ’s eyes.
But a king must be kind and upright. According to legend, Emperor Nero of Rome was a very brutal man. He could poison the enemy quietly at the banquet. , And then watched them calmly die in front of his own eyes, and he even laughed aside at the ugliness of those people before he died, which was very bad, which made him get a bad reputation and became The biggest tyrant ever, but is all this true? Did n’t Nero ’s bad reputation fall because of his cruelty to Peter and his followers? And those of his successors, who are better than Nero How much better, but many people have become heroes of Rome. As for Charlemagne, he is a savage monarch. Let ’s see what people say about him. "
Modillo said to raise his glass to Alexander, he took a sip, and only then did he look like the famous nobleman of Naples.
"Joe," Modillo stood up and walked around the table to the back of Alexander, reaching for his shoulders and putting a little pressure on his shoulder. "It's a little bit worse. I haven't prepared for so many years. I don't want to fail. I believe you are Do n’t want to fail, right? "
Alexander looked down at the red wine in the glass in front of him. He was slightly silent and then nodded, raised the glass and drank it.
Behind him, Modillo seemed to breathe slightly, and then the hand on his shoulder moved away.
"I have to know what you are going to do," Modillo returned to sit opposite, and he refilled the two of them, and then looked at Alexander with some curiosity. "I know you said that you want Portugal to contain Castile. , But I do n’t understand. Do you really think that competing for a new colony can attract Isabella ’s attention, or even cause even more changes, do you really think it ’s worth doing?

Looking at Count Modillo's confused expression, Alexander could only respond with a nod when he thought about it. He knew that even if it was explained at this time, no one would really believe so unreservedly, after all, in the eyes of others It's always just speculation.
Compared with the new route to the East of India, the overwhelming new world on the other side of the ocean is too amazing after all. Manuel, who has already decided to invest a lot of power, later revealed that "even if the new colony is just A large island is also worth the attitude.
Even Castile, who has paid more and more attention to the new colony, because of Columbus's previous assertion, held a purely predatory mentality about the existence of the new colony, but Alexander knew that this blindness would soon pass, when the new continent When the true face of the world is fully revealed, people will find out how insignificant the previous things are compared to this magical land.
"So many years have passed, I am old," the earl twisted the edge of the wine glass with his hand, and then his eyes were raised to look at Alexander. "But all this is worth it. I have prepared everything I can think of, Maybe many things that I thought were different now, but this is not important because there are still you. "
Earl Modillo said to push a thick leather bag aside to Alexander: "My hard work and hope, and everything I dreamed of, are now yours."
Alexander reached out and stroked gently on the surface of the rough leather bag. He knew that this should be the arrangement of Count Modillo in the lower left of Iberia over the years. This leather bag, like a Pandora box, may be in this continental peninsula once opened. A huge wave set off.
"But you have to be careful," said Count Modillo suddenly. "Some of the people here are not very good with it."
Alexander noticed a strange flash in Modillo's eyes as he said these words.
"Trust me, all you want is a crown, and some people want something that you are not interested in, so there is no need to offend those enemies that are not necessary for you." Count Modillo's voice was low, he looked at Alexander His eyes were a little complicated, as if to say something at this moment, but he finally swallowed back.
"Joe Modillo," said the count, standing with a strange smile on his face that seemed soothing and slightly ironic. "Tell me, do you love Ruosha?"
Alexander froze, then nodded silently.
"Love her like a sister, or like a woman?"
"Adult, is there a difference," Alexander asked quietly. "I used to write to her before. In the letter, I promised to give her the most special crown in the world. I think this is enough to prove everything. "
"That only proves that you don't want to owe her, as for saying love," Modillo glanced at Alexander with a ridiculous look. "I believe you must have written more than one such letter, so be careful, be careful of your name The curse it may bring, if you ca n’t make your dynasty continue, then even if you succeed when you are alive, what is waiting for you is just a fate of Alexander. "
Speaking of Modillo's open collar, he walked outside the door ~ EbookFREE.me ~ But when he reached the door, he stopped and turned around, and looked at Alexander for a while with strange eyes, and finally it was still I asked, "Can you tell me who you are?"
In response to the count's gaze, after a little silence, Alexander said, "The Duke of Rome Tesia, Alexander Julian Gombre."
Listening to the name, Count Modillo smirked and turned to open the door.
Subsequently, the figure of Count Modillo disappeared outside the closed door.
Throughout 1500, the European continent was still disturbed, but most people's attention was attracted to the doomed war on the Apennine peninsula.
So no one noticed that in the last few days of the year, a team of two huge sea ships that started off the Portuguese Tejo River shipyard and finally entered the port of Rotterdam in the lowlands.
No one knows that, almost at the same time, a team entered Castile from eastern Portugal.