Conquer the Dawn of Heaven

Sitting on the rocks by the river can feel the obvious coldness. The weather in November is already very cold at this time.

It is time to find a way to popularize the cultivation of winter wheat everywhere. Alexander thought so. At this time, his thoughts have drifted from the battlefield to a wider place, or he is no longer thinking about the gains and losses of the current war, but future development.

The unique environment of the Mediterranean region allows Europe to rely on even if it is facing increasingly severe climate change. This cannot but make people enviable that Europa is indeed protected by God.

But even so, the situation across Europe is still very serious, because more and more farmers with poor harvests are forced to leave their lands, escape famine or enter big cities to make a living.

This has had a profound impact on this country.

More and more people are flocking to cities, which forces many cities that were originally established purely for military defense purposes to expand.

The population is larger and the city is bigger. This brings huge business opportunities as well as all kinds of troubles.

The handicraft industry that has continued from the Middle Ages is no longer enough to support these cities to support so many residents. A large number of people who quickly become poor because of no work have become a huge hidden danger, and the rapidly expanding urban slums have become. A malignant tumor generally exists.

Increasing job opportunities, establishing concentrated and large factories, developing and manufacturing machines and technologies that are sufficient to put more people into work, are now in front of Alexander.

Alexander felt that he should allocate a large sum of money to all the schools in the area under his control, headed by the University of Bologna, because only in this way can more people enter the school and at the same time allow more people to use their talents. .

The beginning of the 16th century was a very peculiar era. The darkness of the Middle Ages lasted for hundreds of years. When the Black Death ravaged all of Europe, the churches and nobles were at a loss or even unable to protect themselves. This gave their rule a vicious record. Slapped.

The prestige of the church quickly collapsed, and the nobles are not much better. More and more people are beginning to wonder what they can bring to themselves. Although many artists are forced by their vitality to still depend on the church and the nobles, they are still in their hearts. Among them, they have regarded themselves as having nothing to do with the first two.

Many artists of this era are also part-time engineers, architects, and even weapons experts. Some of their whimsical ideas may seem inconceivable in later generations, but some of them do have an epoch-making impact today.

Compared with these industries that are more popular in this era, the development of chemistry and biology is also incomparable in the past hundreds of years.

Some alchemists who have been identified as heretics by the church have received secret funding from the nobles, so that they can have a safe environment and generous funds to continue their research. There are even some people in the church who also secretly support those heretics. This is why Copernicus has so far been able to study his heliocentric theory at the University of Bologna at ease.

As for medicine, the Pavia School of Medicine has now taken root in Florence. Thanks to Lucrezia's asylum, the Pavia School of Medicine can boldly continue their various studies.

None of this seems to have much to do with the future, but Alexander knows how important these things are for the future.

The promotion of winter wheat will allow people to have more food or even surplus food, so that more people can have free time to get in touch with new jobs.

The enormous power that broke out of the factory that got rid of workshop-style production is terrible, and all this requires a lot of manpower and skilled workers.

More professional machinery, more professional workers and more mature factory management methods will become the cornerstone of the future development of the "Alexander Empire".

It sounds great to everything, but it is not so easy to achieve.

In this process, the interests of many people will undoubtedly be violated, just as the destruction caused by the British enclosure movement is by no means as simple as ordinary civilians. The old aristocracy faced resistance from this new industrial movement. It is stronger than civilians.

But everything can't compete with huge profits and powerful forces, especially when this force is clearly aware that doing so can get enough returns, it will form an unstoppable whirlwind sweeping all the places it can reach.

Agriculture, handicrafts, maritime trade, and because all these developments have reached a certain critical point, they will inevitably explode in foreign expansion. This is an unavoidable path that the Spanish Empire will face in the future for dozens or even hundreds of years.

Alexander has already seen where this road will go, rising, brilliance, peak, and decline. This is indeed the inevitable fate of an empire.

But Alexander felt that he might be able to make this process longer, or that the country could still maintain its due position for a long time in the future.

This reminded him of Britain.

Alexander always felt that the future kingdom should follow the British road rather than the old Spanish road, because history has proved that that road ultimately prevented Spain from being able to stick to it. Instead, it had to shrink from the corner of the historical stage in Europe’s future against the magnificent era. I looked sadly at the waves of European storms that the enemies or allies in the past set off, but I could only complain about myself.

And it must be admitted that Spain’s colonial rule in the New World was brutal and even criminal and blood-stained.

The most important thing is that both Spain and Portugal have mastered such a huge advantage in the New World, but they still don’t know how to take advantage of the opportunity given to them by God, so that these two countries waste this time and time again. Grace, they only have wealth in their eyes, not long-term, so that in the future they will all taste the bitter fruits of their own.

There will be no colonies in the future, this is what Alexander has been reminding himself.

This is not because of the morals and concepts of later generations, and he knows very well that if the land is purely used as a colony, then it is bound to follow the old Spanish path.

And according to his plan, the future New World Kingdom and Spain will form more of a form that is more in line with the interests of both parties, such as the "Alexander Empire Federation". This idea may seem a little unrealistic, but in fact The embryonic form of the "Federation" of Italy is already looming.

There is still too much work to do. Alexander obviously feels that his time is so urgent. Sometimes he even feels that sleeping and eating seem to be wasting his time, but he also knows that all of this will not happen overnight. Things, maybe more than ten years or even decades later, everything he conceived may have a real embryonic form.

Or even when he passed away, all of this would still have no results. By then, perhaps his empire would really fall apart behind him like another Alexander. If that only shows that history does have its own choices or it is. Inertia, not something that one person can change.

There was a sound of stepping on a stone. Alexander turned his head and saw Schell and Uliu walking with one foot and one foot. When Alexander looked at them, Uliu stopped and bowed on the spot, then continued. Come over.

"Master, Ferdinand's convoy has arrived," Uliu respectfully reported. "According to your order, they were escorted by the chasing guards all the way after entering the territory of Gahel, so the road went smoothly."

Alexander nodded silently. He was waiting for Ferdinand. After sending Uliu several times, Ferdinand finally agreed to negotiate directly with Alexander.

On this day, Alexander waited for nearly 6 years.

Ferdinand entered the city of Gail at noon.

Looking at this familiar city, Ferdinand was full of emotion.

It was here that he once thought that he had a chance to defeat or even eliminate the sudden appearance, but it happened to be his biggest enemy so far, but it was also here that he knew that he had nothing.

Now coming back to the city of Ghaal, he is still the king of Aragon, but he is no longer the master of this city, and it is very likely that he will also lose the rule of many places outside this city forever.

Seeing Alexander again, perhaps because of a psychological effect, Ferdinand felt a different change from before.

There is no arrogance of a winner, but it is no longer different from the beginning. Ferdinand feels that he has seen something from this person that others don't.

"I think God must have taken care of you, otherwise all of this will not make sense at all. You seem to know how many things will develop, and everything is under your control. If this is not God’s favor, then I will be even more Can't tolerate it, because as a king, unless God abandons me, you will not succeed."

To Ferdinand’s opening remarks, Alexander could only answer with a silent smile.

Then he leaned slightly and made an invitation gesture. After Ferdinand watched him silent for a short while, the two walked side by side into a room that had been prepared.

On November 5, 1502, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and the regent of Castile, Alexander I, the heir to the throne, negotiated in the small Aragonese city of Gail.

Also at the beginning of this month, in two other places along the Mediterranean coast, two events that had never happened before occurred in history.

The Grand Duke of Wallachia Sophia I, the Queen of Greece, Alexandra IV, suddenly invaded Northern Bosnia. At the same time, her army crossed the occupied southern mining area of ​​Hungary according to the previous plan, and the Bohemian army separately The north and south ends attacked Budapest.

And just two days ago, in the city of Genchi in the inland region of south-central Ottoman, Kaderon, who claimed to be the only son of Jem, declared his independence as a Sudan with the support of the Safavid army and some tribal troops.

Once this news spread, it shocked the entire Ottoman Empire, and as the news spread more widely, its impact became greater and greater.

Selim is a cruel monarch, but also a devout believer. He strictly follows the canon and prays every day, and never has any special status because of his identity. This kind of piety is even his father Bayezette II. I also praised it when I was alive.

But it was such a pious person. After hearing that Kaderon announced his independence in Genchi City, he left the prayer hall directly due to accident and anger, which almost caused an uproar.

But Selim didn’t care if this would have any bad influence on his reputation. He immediately summoned all the generals still in Constantinople to discuss countermeasures, and at the same time ordered the whole city to be searched for anything against that so-called Sudan expresses sympathy and support for people.

Someone tried to prevent him from making such a radical move, but Selim did not listen to any dissuasion.

In fact, he knew very well that doing so would make him unpopular, but his reason told him that he must do everything possible to eliminate the trouble that might be caused in the bud.

There are now three "sultans" in the Ottoman Empire, which makes many people realize that perhaps a protracted civil war is coming.

On the shore of the Black Sea, an Ottoman nobleman is sitting in a villa near the coast, facing the cold wind blowing from the sea, drinking hot coffee.

A warm current poured in from his throat, making the freezing body much more comfortable, and the former Northern Bosnia Elup made a comfortable hum.

Since the failed expedition to Europe, as Bayezette II became seriously ill and gradually lost power, Elup, who was originally highly valued by the Sudan, also lost power.

It was not that Selim had not thought of recruiting him, but Elup declined politely.

So he was driven out of Constantinople.

In Selim's view, since this desert nobleman is so ignorant of admiration, as long as he doesn't cause trouble, he can go wherever he likes.

So Elupu, who was free all at once, chose a small coastal town called Zayel on the shore of the Black Sea as his exile. As the chief executive here, Elup lived a leisurely life.

On the far sea, several large ships swaying around attracted Elup’s attention. He walked to the platform and looked at the ships carefully, pondering their weight and the depth of the waterline. To estimate how much you can make this trip.

Elup had friends in Europe, and through friends of friends of friends, he got in touch with the Kingdom of Naples in Italy.

After meaningful bargaining, the two parties finally reached a long-term trade contract.

It was his brother, Ashulk, the Ottoman envoy who has now settled in Rome, to bridge the big deal, and Raphael's good friend Prato is the one who runs errands back and forth.

Today, Prato has long since stopped doing small businesses that can earn hundreds of gold coins every minute. He has almost all of his business to others, and the "branches" he has established throughout the Balkans have also It was handed over to his hands to take care of it. Now Prato is the general agent of the "Mainland Development Corporation" in the East, and it is common for him to talk and laugh with those kings or princes.

But even so, there is a business of Prato that must be done by yourself, and that is the business of arms and weapons shipped from Italy to the East.

It is no longer possible to send Safavid Persian arms directly from the Mediterranean through Egypt or other ports. Therefore, starting from Italy, passing through the Balkans, and then passing through the Black Sea to reach this small Black Sea port called Zayel, and then finally reaching the small port through here. Asia has become a very important transportation route.

This route is obviously not easy to follow, especially in Northern Bosnia, because the King Herva has become a big threat.

Elup frowned slightly when he looked at the ships, and he found that the hulls of the ships seemed to be higher than he thought, which meant that the cargo on the ships was not as good as he thought. many.

After seeing Prato, his conjecture was confirmed.

"Your Excellency, you know that this road is not easy to walk," Prato poured bitterness to Elup. "You know that I have to pay a part of the protection fee. I mean that part of this batch of goods has been started by Valla. The Grand Duke of Guinea stayed."

Speaking of Sophia, Prato couldn't help but shiver secretly. The shadow that Sophia left in his heart has been difficult to eliminate, so for him this route will have to suffer both physical and mental torture: "These days Making money is not easy."

"Is the grand duke leaving the arms to invade Hungary?" Elup asked casually, but he was not interested in this anymore. For him, making money was the most important thing.

"It seems that it's not just Hungary," Prato thought for a while and shook his head. "Who can think of it. Such a small woman has such great ambitions. I think she might be targeting Northern Bosnia."

Elup was stunned for a moment. Although he thought he no longer cared about these things, he was still shocked by Prato's words.

Then he said with some emotion: "It sounds the same, maybe your business will be more prosperous in the future, at least you can make more money here."

Prato looked back at the busy pier that was about to unload the ship, nodded thoughtfully, and then asked with a little doubt: "My lord, then do you think this war, I mean this war will be fought here. how long?"

Hearing Prato’s deliberately aggravated "here", Elup looked towards the west, and then replied in a vague tone to himself: "Who knows, who knows..."

Elup's words gave Prato a look of excitement. U U Reading www.uukanshu.com

He remembered the scene when he fell to Rome with Raphael a few years ago, and the tragic situation where he was almost desperate because of investment failure.

Now all of this is in the past. In the past few years, the fate of both people has changed dramatically.

Raphael has become famous. It is said that the "Baptized" portrait he painted for Estreis, the Duchess of Pisa, has become one of the most beloved collections of the Duke of Rome Thesia, and it is precisely because of that painting that Raphael has become famous. , Became a well-known master.

However, it is Prato himself who has changed even more. Today, he does not even know how far the wealth he owns has reached. However, people are always insatisfied. Now Prato is eager to obtain more wealth and build Belongs to his own kingdom of wealth.

"I hope to fight for a few more years, not the Governor, I hope to fight for a few more years." Prato said with a smile.

Hearing what the European said, Elup showed a complicated expression on his face, but in the end he didn't say anything, just hummed again vaguely.