Vol 7 Chapter 17: Portuguese court

What makes Alexander miss the Moors more strongly than his wife, lover and sister is not because of any special orientation and hobbies, but purely because he remembered Uliu ’s sharp-minded mind and ability to mix into every fish. The corner, to get everything he wants to know when it won't be noticed at all.
However, Alexander also knew that this ability of the Moors might be able to be played to the fullest in Italy, but in Iberia, he may not only be unable to move, he may be thrown into prison or simply walk on the street for no reason. Killed on the street.
The Iberian hatred of the Moors is the result of fierce centuries, and even generations have been deeply etched in their bones.
It seems that Uliu is no longer expected here, and Alexander can only rely on himself.
Fortunately, the news from Montina is not bad. Barenti has completely adapted to her status as the Duchess of Romantísia, and her rigorous and fair attitude allows the Duchy officials who are worried about the Duke's absence. With the public, her performance slowly let go of her heart.
In fact, before the marriage, Barendi had replaced Alexander as his fiancée, but at that time it was different from today. Barendi has become their righteous lord wife, which has made many people meet again. To her, it has a completely different feeling.
Uliu is very busy now. He is the chief of the court of Pisa, the former official of Montina, the former messenger recognized by Zuosha, and the liaison officer with Cardinal Masimo in Rome. This series of The identity gave Uliu almost no time to stop and rest, and he also had to pay close attention to the news from the Balkans.
The conflict between the Croatian King Helva and the exiled Ruva broke out again, but this time he Ruwa seems to have prepared enough and received sufficient support from Ottoman or elsewhere, so From the beginning when they landed on the Croatian coast with the Ottoman navy ship, Royau displayed a strong offensive posture, and he did indeed make Hurva suffer from the fierce offensive for some time later.
Hurva ’s plan was disrupted. Alexander learned from the Balkans sent by Uliu that the contradiction between Hurva and Wallachia ended up in Hurva and his niece in Bucharest Studying in the name, acquiesced in the end of the captivity of Aloxia made by Wallachia, which also proves that Hurva has realized that it is obviously unwise to conflict with Kanyola and Wallachia at the same time. The king finally decided to temporarily fold up his already inflated ambitions to face reality, just not to wait for him to take advantage of the relaxation of relations with Wallachia and withdraw troops from the eastern border, and then prepare to transfer to the west to Grand Duke Karl of Caniora Under pressure, Roy's invasion again came.
And what disturbed Helva was that this time Rowa not only learned the lessons of the last defeat on the battlefield, but also clearly realized the importance of diplomacy.
He used the Ottomans ’control of the southern Adriatic Sea to attack the coast of Croatia frequently, while sending a large number of emissaries. These people rushed to Canola, Wallachia and South Bosnia. Bringing their promises and requests to the monarchs of these countries, in order to regain the title of King of Bosnia, Roy ?? made huge concessions and heavy promises to everyone.
In this way, a civil war to fight for the crown of North Bosnia was launched near the southwest coast of the Balkan Peninsula. Because of the direct support of Ottomans and South Bosnia, Royte was for a while, and he was forced to go north to Zagre Cloth momentum.
All this made Alexander lament that the Balkan was one of the most turbulent places in Europe, while speculating on how Hurva would respond to such a crisis. Now it seems that he has only one way to go.
Sure enough, Hurva, who realized that the situation was not good, also sent messengers to other countries to mediate, while writing a letter of assistance to Ladislas II in Prague.
Some of the businessmen in Zagreb were very enthusiastic about telling what they heard that they are now rooted in Prato in the Balkans. According to Prato, Hurva is sending out help to Ladislas II And asked him to send troops to help himself as the leader of the Balkan countries.
Knowing this, Alexander couldn't help but shook his head slightly for the idea that Hrva still couldn't give up ambition. Obviously, he would rather admit afterwards that Ladislas II had sovereignty over Croatia, and he didn't want to give up his dream of establishing his future status in the Balkan, at least Probably in his view, it was far simpler to appoint Bohemian and Hungarian kings as empire electors than to have to promise to give up territorial expansion in the Balkans.
The situation in the Balkans is changing, and at sea, the Ottoman fleet tried to march north along the Adriatic Sea after defeating the Venetian fleet, which had already suffered low morale due to successive losses. This not only terrified Venice People have also terrified many cities on the Italian peninsula along the Adriatic Sea. The father and son of Earl Huson of Taranto sent several messengers to Naples in succession. After the strong request of the earl, Ruosha had to make it difficult. A part of the Naples army and her Cosenza Grenadier Company were sent into the Aragonese Castle in Taranto, preparing to work with the Taranto to resist threats from the sea.
Regarding the letter from Rusha, who was also sent by Uliu, Alexander was very cautious this time and did not reply immediately to make suggestions, but after reading the letter repeatedly for a long time, he took the pen to start writing. .
Moreover, in the letter, he was also extremely cautious and did not tell Ruo Sha in a confident manner that he must believe his judgment.
He would be so careful because over time, Alexander discovered that history was slowly turning towards another path that he was not familiar with.
Perhaps this shift is not so obvious now, but even so many things have changed dramatically. Alexander knows that he can no longer use historical trajectory as a reference when he makes judgments on some important things, at least according to Historical development, although the Ottoman navy did indeed become the master of the Mediterranean for a long time because it captured the last colony of the Venetians in the Mediterranean, but because Bayestet II is still healthy, he is strongly pushing him in the Balkans. The cannibalism policy on the peninsula, so Ottomans pay more attention to land rather than sea.
Now that the Sultan was seriously wounded in Bucharest, the ambition of the Ottoman Empire to invade the European continent was frustrated, but this instead made their navy hope to recover the loss on land through victory at sea.
Therefore, although it was known that the Ottomans had penetrated into the Adriatic Sea once in history, but for various reasons, they never launched landing operations on the Italian peninsula, but now he cannot be so sure.
There are indeed too many things that have changed. Even in front of Alexander, when he heard that Manuel actually summoned Dagama three times a week, he couldn't help but be surprised by Manuel's enthusiasm for the New World.
In the impression of Alexandria, the Portuguese officially explored and occupied the new continent more than ten years later. Although some expeditions have been sent before, they may include Manuel I ’s The Portuguese inside are more concerned about the African route to India, but with the spread of speculation that the new colony is actually an undiscovered new world, Portuguese talents have increased their exploration of the new continent.
Now that Manuel has clearly shown interest in the new colony in advance, the king and his wife from some palaces can be guessed because of the fierce quarrel in the new colony.
Of course Maria did n’t want Manuel ’s eagerness to get involved in the new colony ’s actions, which caused her husband and parents to clash. She tried to dissuade Manuel, but her unflattering personality quickly angered Manuel. After a quarrel, the king accused Mary of being angry for her parents rather than her husband and the future king of Portugal, which made Maria, who was already very annoyed, even more angry.
She ignored the face of the servant and flew away immediately, even if Manuel stopped loudly in the back.
But it is no wonder that Maria will be so angry, because Manuel's words accidentally stabbed a sensitive pain in Maria's heart.
Maria's sister, Isabella of Aragon, left a son Miguel after her dystocia 2 years ago.
According to the inheritance law, although it has not yet been established as the crown prince, as the eldest son Miguel will undoubtedly become the king of Portugal in the future.
And Maria has now given birth to a daughter. Although she is young and healthy and pretty, she is not worried about having more children with Manuel in the future, but the crown of the Portuguese king looks Come will not fall on her child's head.
Although Maria has never shown any strange things, but it can not prevent people from having all kinds of speculations about this kind of thing, especially when it comes to the throne, this kind of speculation becomes too natural.
Some people even speculate that Maria will be so obsessed with insisting on building the Lisbon Cathedral that she will not hesitate to spend one-fifth of the annual income of the treasury to build this grand scale, and it is destined to cost a lot of manpower and material resources and will not be shaken for a long time. Perhaps it is because the future king cannot be her child, so she has absolutely no need to save for others.
In fact, such a rumor has already reached Maria's ears. Now, Manuel's words made Mary immediately stimulated. She completely withdrew from the court in disregard of etiquette, and even did not even consider the face of the king.
Manuel was completely angry, he felt that his wife had let him lose people, and even let him lose his dignity as a king, and the quarrel had also proved the things that many people suspected.
The king's husband and wife seem to have diverged and contradicted the candidates for the future heir to the throne.
There was a lot of talk in the city of Lisbon for a while, from nobles to civilians, everyone realized that a major event might happen.
Since Isabela ’s death in Aragon, she and Manuel ’s son Miguel have been carefully cared for. Manuel is very concerned about this son, and her sister appears to be compared with Maria He is much gentler, which is why Manuel never misses his first wife.
Now, with the conflict with Maria, Manuel suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake before, that is, he had not established the crown prince's move, and it seemed to give Maria a wrong signal.
Maria may indeed love the children left by her sister, but the affection in front of the throne is too fragile, and Manuel began to worry, thinking about how his mother Queen Isabella treated her same father. Mother's brother and his daughter, Manuel, suddenly felt that they might have made a major mistake.
On the fourth day after quarreling with the queen, Manuel suddenly sent someone to invite the Archbishop of Lisbon to the Castle of São Jorge, which immediately caught the attention of many people.
People have speculated about the reason why the king suddenly invited the archbishop on such an ordinary day, and as Archbishop Bruzong, who had been in close talk with the king for a long time, left the castle, a news swept the whole Lisbon like a tornado on the sea. Crown Prince!
The news almost boiled the entire Lisbon in an instant, but for Maria, the news was like a slap in the face of her face.
For the sister ’s child, Maria ’s mood is indeed complicated. This is her nephew and her own son. If she lives longer than Manuel in the future, she may become her king because of this. In the face of Prince Milger, Aaliyah's heart was incomprehensible, so she rarely saw the child.
But she never had any mistreatment of the child, but now whether it is Manuel ’s behavior or the attitude of the Lisbonans, she has a kind of vicious stepmother, ready to murder the poor orphans left by her ex-wife anytime, anywhere , And now that poor child finally got his head out.
Maria ’s anger and uncontrollable anger made her wish to find someone to vent immediately, but she knew that if that might soon lead to worse rumors, she not only tried to restrain her feelings but also could not bear it. Anger, but also had to pretend to calmly participate in the commemorative ceremony of the Advent of the Virgin for several days.
It's just that when she appeared in front of everyone, Maria clearly felt that people faced her subtle changes. It seems that everyone is intentionally or unconsciously keeping a little distance from her, even those who usually compliment her. , Seems to show a little restraint and alienation.
Maria wore a half-mask inlaid with gemstones to block most of her expression, but even her tight lips betrayed her.
When she finally persevered to the end and stood up stiffly with Manuel and left the throne and walked into the corridor not far away, Maria quickly accelerated her pace, she completely ignored the servants and followers next to her with surprise. The stern expression ~ EbookFREE.me ~ directly throws Manuel behind him, and walks away quickly from her husband.
Maria walked blindly in the palace until a figure appeared in front of her not far away.
Maria looked at Alexander, who seemed to be waiting for her, unexpectedly, and then there was a cold layer on her face.
She does n’t have any favors for the special envoy from the Holy See. To her knowledge, it was a navigator beside this person who encouraged Manuel to explore the new colony, and the duke also had a lot of contacts with Juana. It was enough to make her hostile to this person.
"Your Majesty, I have just received a letter from Sicily here," Alexander handed a letter to Maria. "Although this is inappropriate for me, I can't help but think about what this may bring. Consequences, even the relationship between Castile and Aragon and the Holy See. "
"What is it?" Maria received the letter suspiciously. When she opened it, she only looked at it for a few moments, and her look instantly changed. "Is this written by Gonzalo?"
"Yes, it is clear that General Gonzalo is considering reconciliation with the Ottomans."