Chapter One Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty-Four: For the sake of the Lord, let it go!
"Boss Bruno, the steward's response has arrived!..."
"Quick! Show it to me!..."
Following Columbus's shameless shouting, the port that was originally crowded with people is now even more crowded. The news of the new shipping route stimulates the atmosphere of the scene and arouses the greed and desire for wealth in everyone's heart. The crowd watching the excitement is probably
Thousands of them!
Facing this "rogue bastard" who always makes things bigger, Bruno couldn't take action directly and arrest or drive him away without authorization. He immediately sent someone to ask for instructions from Manager Nuno, and now, the manager's reply has finally arrived!
"Your Majesty is very unhappy."
There were only two sentences in the steward's souvenir. The first sentence made Bruno's heart tremble. The second sentence was concise and concise, with only six words.
"Give him a mount and let him go!..."
After receiving such approval and endorsement, Bruno's eyes sharpened, and he looked at Columbus, who was still shouting loudly, with a somewhat ferocious expression. Then, he looked at his close associates on the left and right, and gave instructions.
"Call the port patrol and the naval soldiers in the tavern! Bring your spears and clubs and clear the place for me!..."
"Confiscate some donkeys and give them to this sailing scoundrel and drive him away!..."
"Wait a minute! I want to personally lead the team and slap this troublemaking scoundrel twice!..."
"Yes! Boss!..."
Soon, with the emergence of Portuguese official force, the Lisbon port, which was originally bustling with laughter and laughter, just like celebrating Easter, quickly fell into silence. The citizens watching the excitement ran away skillfully, and the booing sailor gangsters were knocked down by the guards, and
Merchants from various countries returned to their ships and continued to watch on the merchant ships.
"Greetings! Merchant Steward!…"
"Okay! Okay! You guys are busy first, don't worry about me..."
At the end, Eleazar, the big businessman and general manager of the Venetian Chamber of Commerce, was smiling. Under the protection of Slavic bodyguards, and amid the greetings of the port patrol, he watched Bruno slap Columbus twice and throw away the reins of six donkeys and mules.
, scolded.
"Columbus! You are simply the scum of seafaring captains and a disgrace to all navigators! The Lord actually allowed someone like you to come back alive from the waters of Sipangu... Get on these donkeys and mules and get out of Lisbon!
…”
"Merda! I am a noble of Castile, how dare you hit me? I want to!... Why is it you again?"
Columbus's hair was disheveled, he covered his face, and looked at this damn Portuguese officer. A year and a half ago, he was caught in the port, and it was this Portuguese officer who boarded the ship! The gold he hid and the cargo on the ship must have been
It was snatched away by this shameless guy!
"Damn it! Give me back my gold! Give me back my belongings! Give me back my money!!..."
"clang!…"
Columbus was about to step forward to make a fuss, but he saw a row of naval soldiers pulling out their scimitars, and the Portuguese officer directly pulled out his noble sword. He bit his lip hard, feeling the humiliation of being slapped in the face, and the gold
He was heartbroken at being robbed, and his face turned red with anger!
But he also saw the donkeys and mules sent by the Portuguese, tested the Portuguese official's attitude, and made the news of his release from prison known to everyone in Lisbon.
Moreover, in these short two hours, he also used the so-called "New Oriental Route" and "the location of Sipan in ancient India" to deceive... no, he got two horses, two donkeys and mules, two
A pair of decent clothes, a basket of food and wine. Now, plus the donkeys given by the Portuguese, it is enough for him to go on the road. When he returns to Castile, he can sell all these animals and make some money.
…
"Humph! For the sake of God, I won't argue with you!...Dracosa, let's go!..."
Columbus gritted his teeth, turned over and mounted a pack horse. Dracosa lowered his head and mounted another old horse. Other sailors cringed and mounted donkeys and mules. A group of Castilians led the pack horse.
After receiving the money and food, he quickly ran out of the city.
"Haha! The Port of Lisbon has not been so lively for a long time! Dear Captain Bruno, congratulations on your promotion to Baron!..."
The Jewish businessman Eleazar smiled and watched Columbus flee. Then he looked at the aggressive Bruno and greeted with a smile.
"I don't know, do I have the honor to invite the future Baron to my home as a guest to drink a glass of the newly arrived wine produced in Bordeaux, France?..."
"Ahem! Dear Director of the Venice Chamber of Commerce... I can't spare time these days, it's inconvenient. When the ceremony for promotion to baron is completed and everything is settled... I will definitely come to visit you personally!..."
Facing this Jewish businessman who had done many private trades and whose house was about to be confiscated, Bruno smiled and politely declined the other party's invitation.
Eleazar's eyes flashed, and he instantly thought of many aristocratic struggles within the Kingdom of Portugal. However, he did not realize how dangerous and desperate this so-called "personal visit" contained!
"Oh! That's okay, that's okay! Then I'll prepare the wine in advance and wait for your arrival!"
"God bless you! Thank you for your generosity! I will definitely come!"
The setting sun shines on the port of Lisbon, leaving a brilliant red glow. The two decent people are chatting and laughing, creating a harmonious scene that masks all danger and murderous intent.
At the same time, the disgraceful Columbus rode a packhorse, a donkey and a mule, and ran faster than anyone else! He ran for his life, day and night, as if someone really wanted to harm him behind!
"Holy Mother! Go quickly! Go quickly! The Portuguese are jealous of my outstanding navigation skills and will definitely send people to harm me!... Quick! De La Cosa, run quickly! We can't stop!..."
Without stopping, Columbus first escaped four hundred miles east to Badajoz, the aristocratic territory that Portugal and Castile had repeatedly competed for. Then here, he encountered a patrolling group of Portuguese cavalry and was frightened.
My liver and gallbladder were split apart, I thought Portugal’s killer move had finally arrived!
As a result, the patrolling cavalry only interrogated for a while, looked at the trembling and frightened Columbus with surprise, and de la Cosa who responded, and then let this shabby "Castilian noble team" go.
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Then, the group of people went east again, desperately escaping for 120 miles, and then arrived at the territory of the Kingdom of Castile, the former capital of the Roman Empire's Lusitania province, "the most noble, ancient and loyal"
City”, Mérida!
"God bless me! I escaped. I finally escaped from the brutal Portuguese!..."
"Ah, the knights of the kingdom, the crusaders of the kingdom!...I am Don Christopher Columbus, the glorious nobleman of Castile, the queen's most trusted navigator! I discovered a new route in the Atlantic Ocean, but was killed by the despicable Portugal
He was detained by the navy and managed to escape with great difficulty..."
"I bring the top secrets of the kingdom and news of the new route to India and Sipangu! Please escort me! Escort me to the palace in Valladolid to meet the queen!..."
"..."
Facing Columbus's confident and sincere preaching and listening to the Castilian with an Italian accent, the stopped Castilian patrol cavalry looked at each other, unsure whether this guy was genuine or not.
Fortunately, Dracosa stood up in time, explained his identity, and also named several officers of the Kingdom's Knights. After identifying their identities, the Castilian knight who led the team finally nodded.
, agreed.
"Lord protect the queen! I will send a cavalry team of 30 people to escort you south to meet the queen! Those bankrupt knights and marauding crusaders along the way will stay away as long as they see the flag of the cavalry.
I won’t come to harass you.”
"Going south?"
"That's right! The Queen is not in the court in Valladolid. Instead, she and King Fernando took the palace caravan south to the Red Castle to escape the summer heat!..."
Soon, Columbus and his party, escorted by a small team of cavalry, marched toward the Red Castle in a mighty manner. Every time he visited a town, he would go to the market center with great fanfare and announce "the new discoveries discovered by the great navigator Columbus".
"Sea Route", tells about "the persecution of him by the Portuguese", and tells about "the return of the sailing hero"!
No matter whether the onlookers believe it or not, laugh or not, no matter how much De La Cosa covers his face in shame, Columbus is always confident and high-spirited, believes in himself from the bottom of his heart, and speaks loudly!
So, along the way, Columbus went from being a "prisoner released by the Portuguese" in Lisbon, to a "navigator persecuted and hunted by the Portuguese" when he fled along the way, to a "navigator who discovered new things" in Castile.
The seafaring hero of the sea route”…
Finally, he put on aristocratic clothes, and as "Admiral of Castile and the Queen's Great Navigator", he met with the "great" Queen Isabella at the Red Castle of Abraham Palace, and
The “wise” King Fernando!
By this time, his charges of sabotaging the Castilian exploration fleet, the royal butler Gutierrez, and the clerk Rodrigo were no longer relevant. The long imprisonment of the Portuguese directly helped him clean up everything.
, allowing him to completely turn over and become the "Castilian Navigation Hero" at this moment!
"Dear, holy, great, beautiful, heroic, God-blessed Queen! And the esteemed King... I, your great navigator, Don Christopher Columbus, will gloriously tell you in detail,
The specific route to the new sea route to the East, and the incomparable riches of ancient Japan and India in Sipan!…”
When Bruno kept his promise and brought fully armed naval soldiers, together with the religious inquisitor in black robes, to "visit" the frightened Jewish businessman Eleazar, Columbus also ushered in the peak of his life and ushered in
The most glorious moment!
Dressed in aristocratic attire, he stood in the beautiful Myrtle Courtyard of the Red Castle, telling the two kings and a group of Castilian nobles confidently and passionately about the great journey of discovering the new sea route, and "
Sipangu and the Amazing Wealth of India!
Next to Columbus in the center, de la Cosa was like a servant, helping to hang charts, move fleet markers, write estimated longitudes and latitudes, and indicate the locations of various islands. When he heard Columbus's "honest description
"When I heard those "gold spices, porcelain and silk" that I had never seen before, I couldn't help but twitch the corners of my mouth, and sweat poured down my back.
But Dra Cosa knew very well that only by exaggerating the wealth of "India Sipangu" and stimulating the ambitions of the kings and nobles could Columbus and his own wealth, power and future be achieved! At this point, he and Columbus
, have common interests and are grasshoppers on the same rope! No matter what, the new route must be extremely wealthy!…
"Dear Queen and King! Although the native kingdom of Sipangu is stubborn and barbaric, it cannot resist the kingdom's invincible jihadist army! As for the natives of the Indies, they are extremely weak and easy to conquer! Just give it to me
With a thousand navy, I can open up a vast Indian colony for the kingdom, conquer large islands thousands of miles away, and tens of thousands of savages!…”
"Witness the Lord! Please let me command a naval fleet again and go to sea for the kingdom! I will definitely spread the bright faith of the Lord to the lost natives for the sake of the Lord! I will also definitely bring back a new sea route for the kingdom.
The boundless wealth!…”
At this moment, after hearing Columbus's confident and impassioned request, the "wise" King Fernando looked at the "holy" Queen Isabella. In the queen's heroic eyes was the desire for "piety and victory". The king was deep and sharp.
In his eyes, there is greed for "land and wealth"...
"Isabella, I think what Columbus said is very good. The wealth of the new shipping route is what we urgently need... What do you think?..."
"Fernando, I agree with you. La conviccion firme trae consigo una fuerza inagotable. Firm belief brings inexhaustible power!"
Queen Isabella's response was always brief and full of power. Her eyes were burning with fire, she looked into Fernando's eyes as deep as the sea, and nodded.
"I believe that those natives from the east can also become the people of the Lord, just like the Moors!"
