Vol 7 Chapter 27: Who is the murderer

Prince Miguel is dead.
The 2-year-old is the only child of Manuel and Isabella of Aragon. If there is nothing unexpected, he will be the future king of Portugal.
But now when he was 2 years old, the little prince died suddenly, which shocked the entire Kingdom of Portugal.
Various speculations, various rumors and rumors raged in Lisbon, and then spread to other parts of the Kingdom at an alarming rate. Among the rumors, the most noticeable keywords are: Queen, Food and Crown Prince.
As the eldest son, Miguel is the natural heir to the crown prince. As long as Miguel is in one day, the children of Queen Mary are destined to miss the throne. Now that Prince Miguel has suddenly died, then even if Maria has no boy in the future, she will The 1-year-old daughter will also be the heir to the throne, and according to some rumors, Prince Miguel suddenly fell ill after eating the food seen by Queen Mary, and then exposed the news of the Prince's poisoning.
Everything seemed to be clear at once, poor prince, jealous stepmother, greed for the throne, and possibly even the grudges between the sisters who were still in the Aragonese court in the early years, all kinds of speculations have gradually covered up to know what is true Needs, or people never want to know what the facts are, they just want to get what they want to see and hear.
The Lisbon court was shaken, and the ministers became more cautious than ever, even though they were talking. People knew that the death of the prince was an extraordinary blow to Manuel I. This blow even made the spirit of the king collapse. He Refusing to talk to anyone, but shutting himself in the prince's room and watching the empty bed for a few hours.
And Manuel also refused to see the queen. Although he was not angry, he directly let the guards block the maid sent by the queen to him. This signal was very obvious, which made Maria very angry, she Decided to see Manuel in person, but when she was about to walk outside Prince Miguel's room, Mary hesitated when she saw the guard standing at the door.
She was worried that Manuel would simply order the soldiers to block her driving. If that was the case, her face would be completely stomped on the feet by the public. She dared not take the risk.
So after hesitating for a while, Mary turned away.
Rumors are still circulating everywhere, and there is an intensifying trend. I do n’t know when someone started to call out the slogan
Queen of Dethroning
. Although the slogan was only a few people boldly shouted at the beginning, when they found out that there was no one After talking about how to treat them, these people's courage grows bigger and bigger.
Maria has been Queen of Portugal for 2 years. Compared with her sister Isabella of Aragon, Maria obviously has a firmer personality and a more suitable sense of responsibility as a queen. This was originally a good thing, but this character Some are too firm, and the sense of responsibility is too strong, and her background is destined to be hostile in Portugal.
So in fact, her sister is more suitable for the status of Queen of Portugal. At least in Isabella ’s short two-year queen career, it is obvious that the Portuguese have been hostile to her and eased her attitude.
But Maria has always refused to compromise with those nobles. She stubbornly believes that she has come to Portugal as a wife with a firm belief and a mission to change the relationship between the two countries. This made her from the beginning. It is in constant hostility with all Portuguese including her husband.
If Prince Miguel did not suddenly die, if Manuel did not have a strong interest in the new colony, or simply say that if Alexandria did not appear, Maria would not have encountered these changes, she would be with Manuel After giving birth to 7 children, he was seriously ill and died of an accidental cold, and then Manuel would miss her as she missed her, while marrying her daughter of another sister, Juana, who was only then 13-year-old niece.
But this is all if, for a reason she absolutely can't imagine, the status of Maria's Queen of Portugal is in jeopardy.
When he heard the news of Prince Miguel ’s sudden death, Alexander was discussing some details with Da Gama about the voyage. Although Manuel seemed hesitant again at a critical moment, they all knew whether to proceed. The Atlantic expedition is actually not up to the king.
The temptation of huge interests and the huge investment that has been invested have made Lisbon people crazy. Whether it is a high-weight aristocrat or a rich businessman, people ’s eyes are now fixed on those two that can make them richer. On the new route.
The route to India brought gold, ivory, gems and pepper, and the mysterious new colony is said to have more rare treasures that have never been seen before, which is enough to make anyone who has the conditions to participate in it forget about it. .
So even knowing that Manuel is still a bit cramped at the last minute, this does not affect the strong adventure of the adventurers.
The news came from Ferdinand Magellan, the student of Don Antonio at the nautical firm.
When he heard that Prince Miguel suddenly died, Da Gama exclaimed unexpectedly. Although Miguel was too small, the identity of the king's eldest son naturally attracted him much attention.
Now the prince was suddenly killed, which can't help but shock everyone.
Alexander was also accidental, and this accident was even more than Da Gama.
Alexander knew that the future king of Portugal in history was the son of Mary and not Prince Mirgo, but it was not clear when the prince died.
Suddenly hearing this news now, Alexander felt a strange feeling floating in his heart.
Elliot Don Antonio is coming soon, and he looks a bit strange. After arbitrarily greeting Da Gama, he motioned to talk to Alexander separately, and then left as soon as Da Gama , He suddenly pulled out his short sword and pointed at Alexander!
"Is this what you did ?!" Don Antonio trembled panting, his gray beard trembling with anger and excitement, the tip of the sword in his hand was shaking "You just proposed Let that Juana become queen, Prince Miguel died, and now everyone is saying that the murderer is Mary, is this your plan? Assassinate the prince and then push the crime to the queen, so that you can do it all at once Two obstacles have been removed, isn't it? "
Seeing Don Antonio suppress his voice as much as he could, he couldn't help but roar, and Alexander stretched out his hand to signal that he shouldn't be excited, and darkened his glance at Sher who had stood at the door with a musket behind his back. .
"This is not my job, I can swear to God," Alexander said slowly, and he sat down and looked at Don Antonio. "I do have a plan to make Juana the queen, but you said it was for this murder. 2-year-old child, this is an insult to me. "
"But the prince was poisoned and died, he is the future king of Portugal!" Don Antonio stepped angrily, and the blade of the dagger almost touched Alexander's chest.
"So you think I did it? First murdered a prince, and then planted the crime on his stepmother. When his stepmother was deposed or even imprisoned because of this, he could push the one I supported to the throne of the queen, This will not only eliminate Maria, but may also allow Juana ’s children to inherit the Portuguese throne in the future. This is indeed the best plan. "
"Sure enough, you did it!" Listening to Alexander's words, Don Antonio was suddenly excited. He stepped forward and tried to grab Alexander's chest, but then he was hugged from behind and then fell hard. on the ground.
"Sir, I think you are so excited," Alexander looked at Don Antonio, who was pressed to the ground by several hunting guards, and shook his head. He crouched down to look at the old man, and then he suddenly smiled again. "Or you actually I also know that this is not my job, otherwise why would you come alone to see someone who murdered the prince, or else, you really do n’t care about this matter? "
It was said that Alexander waved to the hunting guards to let them go of Don Antonio.
Don Antonio slowly got up from the ground, his eyes fixed on Alexandria, and then straightened the chair that was knocked down by him to sit opposite Alexandria.
"So tell me who it is," Don Antonio asked dullly.
"I don't know," Alexander shook his head a little helplessly. "We all know that although the death of the prince is indeed a very unexpected and sad thing, is this really good for us?"
Don Antonio's eyes narrowed.
As Alexander said, he would come alone to see the murderer in his mouth, just because although he was surprised and shocked by the death of Prince Miguel, there was actually a voice deep in his heart that kept saying that this was actually Not bad.
Miguel is the son of Sister Maria and the grandson of Queen Isabella. In this regard, regardless of whether the children of the sisters and their successors have the same meaning to Portugal.
For the Portuguese nobles such as Elliot Don Antonio, they always hope that Portugal will be able to get rid of the threat and influence from the couple of the kings.
Because of this, although the death of Prince Miguel shocked the whole kingdom, but I don't know why, in many people's minds, there is an inexplicable ease and release.
The prince with the double-king blood is dead, and the queen with the same blood is suspected, which makes many Portuguese vaguely feel that things don't seem so bad.
Of course, this kind of thinking can never be made public, so Elliot Don Antonio uses such an anger to disguise the true thoughts in his heart.
Only now, he also felt that there was no need to hide anything.
"But after all, there is no forgiveness to do this," Don Antonio looked at Alexander. "The prince is still a child after all, and it is no longer the kind of era in which the royal family could be arbitrarily murdered. This is a terrible crime."
"I'll say it again, I didn't do it." Alexander shook his head. He didn't want Don Antonio to believe that he was just murdering a child who was only 2 years old. Even if no one really cared, Alexander still didn't want to let himself bear this. The accusation "Maybe I will find the murderer in the future, but now we should not talk about this."
Don Antonio was silent, and finally nodded: "Indeed, we should talk about what to do next."
Maria sat stunned in front of the semi-circular convex bay window in the corner of her room. This is her favorite place. From here, you can see a small mountain in the distance of Lisbon. If the weather is good, You can see the shallow lake further away.
Maria likes to sit in front of the window and look outside, which is also a time when she rarely makes herself look like her mother so deliberately.
But today her expression was blank, and she stared blankly out the window, but she seemed to see nothing.
Throughout the night, Maria didn't close her eyes. She stood beside Miguel, watching the doctor diagnose him, watching her stepson and nephew groaning painfully.
Mary prayed to God, to Christ and the Virgin, and to all the divine beings she knew.
At this moment she is an aunt and mother, it can be said that at least for a while, she did not think too much.
But in the early morning, Mary was told that Prince Miguel had left the world and went to heaven.
At the same time, what she didn't think was that Manuel did not let her look at the poor prince again, but told her to "go back to her room".
At that time, Manuel was terrible. Mary vowed that she had never seen such a king. Mary, who had originally refused like usual, finally chose to compromise. She knew that she could not anger Manuel at this time.
But even so, Mary still just thought it was just a father who lost her beloved son because she was too sad, so she planned to wait until Manuel calmed down before comforting her.
And after calming down a bit, Maria's mind inevitably thought of the question of the succession of the Portuguese throne after losing Miguel.
Although she repeatedly told herself that she should not think about it, at least not so quickly, but she was still somewhat vaguely excited by Miguel's death.
But the excitement hidden in my heart soon became panic. As a servant reported to her the next day with terrifying rumors that were circulating inside and outside the palace, Maria finally realized that she had fallen into one. In a huge conspiracy.
Only then did she panic discover that she had been put under house arrest, her armed entourage did not know when they had been replaced, the guard outside the door was strange and hostile, and when she insisted on going out of the room to meet her husband, The guard immediately blocked her back politely.
Maria was completely panicked. She didn't know how things became like this. She didn't even understand what went wrong.
Her anger at the guards was only indifferent and ignored. Just when she was burnt with anger because of nothing, some people around her were forcibly taken away for questioning.
Maria felt that the whole world seemed to collapse, and she began to ask the officials to ask them to speak to the king, but the Portuguese who were usually humble and respectful to her just answered her in a seemingly polite, but rather cold tone. "Your Majesty is sad for Prince Miguel's death, so please forgive the minister for being unreasonable, and I can't convey your request for you."
By this time, Maria knew she was really in danger.
Manuel refused to see her, which was a very dangerous signal.
If she can meet, Maria believes that she can still defend herself, but Manuel's attitude makes her aware of the real danger.
At this time she had realized that she was caught in a huge conspiracy, and Manuel's actions made her more afraid.
Mary may not be as good as her mother, but she is after all the daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand II, and is a descendant of the Mastarama family.
Although the rumors outside were bad for her, Maria did not think she had the opportunity to clarify everything to prove her innocence, but Manuel did not give her the opportunity to meet her, which made Maria realize that Man Noel did not want to see her because she was suspicious, but more like "want" to believe that she was the mastermind of murdering Prince Miguel.
The thought of these Marys could not help but feel cold all over her body, of course she knew that Manuel could not murder his own only son, but he didn't seem to mind using it to attribute all the crimes to her.
Maria had never thought that her husband would hate her so much, or that Manuel would dare to strike her.
But this time, because of a too unexpected and too special reason, Manuel was given a rare opportunity.
Miguel is not just the Portuguese prince, he is also the only child of the eldest daughter of the Spanish kings, and their grandson.
This identity alone is enough to make the couple face a dilemma in facing this matter.
His daughter's alleged murder of her grandson, which would put the couple in embarrassment no matter what, no matter what kind of response they seem to be inappropriate.
The door behind him opened, and a low but fierce quarrel came from the outside room. Maria moved around and looked back at the maid standing behind her: "What happened?"
"Your Majesty, they will take Dr. Hudoka away." The maid whispered, seeing Maria's expression of anger, the maid whispered again, "They brought several soldiers."
Maria closed her eyes slightly. She tried to calm down the anger that broke out in her chest, and waved her hand after thinking about it: "Let Dr. Hudoka go with them, I want everyone to know that I am innocent . "
The appearance of the maid changed slightly, and Dr. Hudoka was Maria ’s personal physician. The death of Isabela in Aragon made the couple grief and worried that Mary would also suffer the same fate, so they specially arranged A superb private doctor followed her to the Portuguese court.
Mary trusts this doctor Hudoka very much. He is not only her physician but also her counselor and close associate.
It was only the servants who were taken away before, but now when they heard that the Portuguese were going to take Dr. Hudoka, the people around Mary panicked.
They know that it is likely that they will be taken away. As fellow Iberians with similar customs and experiences, these people know very well what the Portuguese will do with them.
Maria could feel the panic of the people around her, but she had no choice at this time.
She tentatively hoped to find someone in the court who could help her, but she couldn't know what was happening outside now, which made her in a daze.
In fact, there are still some people who support Maria in the court, and many of them either have a strong relationship with Castilla or Aragon, or because they fear that they may cause a strong reaction from a strong neighbor. Strongly opposed to the queen of house arrest, he also asked Manuel to find "the real murderer" as soon as possible.
Such remarks that excluded Mary from the murderer from the beginning caused a lot of anger, and a fierce debate broke out throughout the Lisbon court.
Alexandria was the new palace entered at this time.
As the Pope's messenger, his arrival immediately attracted people's attention. Many people tried to preemptively explain their views to the Duke of Rome, which led to the Alexandria being surrounded as soon as he appeared.
But Manuel apparently thought of this, so when the king's substitute attendant appeared, people had to watch Alexander be introduced into the king's room.
Don Antonio stayed outside. He first walked to the most reliable nobles and whispered. After getting everyone's approval, these people began to connect in series.
Don Antonio ’s actions certainly could not conceal others, so the nobles who supported the queen immediately acted,
Everyone wants to hold people passing by as far as possible to express their views to the other party, hoping to get the support of the other party, whispering and bargaining everywhere in the court for a time.
Alexander was a little surprised when he saw Manuel. It was only two days later. Manuel seemed to be much older. His face was unhealthy gray, and his eyes were cloudy. When looking at Alexander, he His eyes didn't respond at all, and it seemed that he was awake until Alexander greeted him in a low voice.
"The Duke asked you to tell me, if I were to divorce, how would the Holy See react?"
As soon as Manuel opened his mouth, Alexander was surprised. Originally, he thought that there would be some frustrating plans, but it seemed that because of Manuel's words, it became very easy.
It's just that Alexander knows that he can't act rashly at this time ~ EbookFREE.me ~ He answered carefully: "Your Majesty, I can't answer your question, but I can ask you the Vatican."
Manuel nodded silently, and then he turned to look at the bed, and had put on a gorgeous robe, but no alive son.
Alexander stood there looking at the king's back for a long time, then he bowed silently and exited the room.
Alexander, who came out of the new palace, frowned at a cloud of clouds floating overhead. As he told Don Antonio, Prince Miguel was indeed not killed by him.
Alexander could do this to the father and son of Frederick in Naples, but he could not do such a thing to a child who was only 2 years old.
But who actually murdered Prince Miguel, and why did it happen at this time?
Alexander bought Yun and returned to his residence, and then the servant sent him a letter.
There was only one sentence in the letter: "Want to know who killed the prince?"