It was very late, two carriages filled with various luggage slowly drove into the Juan King's Gate in Zaragoza, from here along the avenue, and headed straight to the palace.

However, after walking for a while, the two carriages turned on a fork and drove up a small hill along a not-too-wide and somewhat bumpy road.

There is a residential area on the top of the mountain, and most of the people living here are businessmen, landlords and wealthy families with a decent life.

The two carriages stopped in front of a small house. With a loud noise, the two servants, with the help of the coachman, began to move on to the things in the carriage with ease.

There was a small tent in the carriage in front of me who could barely be two people, and then two women walked out of the shed.

It was a pair of masters and servants. The maid behind him was carrying two baskets in her hand, which seemed to be some of the hostess's important personal belongings.

The hostess in front was empty-handed, even in such cool weather, she wrapped herself tightly. When the wind blew, the hood on her head floated slightly, revealing a strand of brown hair below.

The master and servants stood in front of the house and stopped. They raised their heads and focused on the two-story building at the same time. Then the hostess said to herself with a sigh: "It seems that we will live here during this period."

"It looks pretty good, madam," said the maid to the master with a smile, "I just don't know how long we will live."

"Maybe it won't take too long." The hostess said, turning around and looking into the distance. It was the direction of the palace. There was a lower urban area between this hill and the palace. This way, standing here, you can clearly see the outline of the palace in the distance.

"So we will gather the girls here immediately?" The maid followed the master into the house and quickly found the mistress's room. Then, while she was familiar with the important things in the basket, she asked the mistress, "Maybe our business is pretty good here."

"Yes, the business we are going to do is not small this time," Mrs. Orgala found a chair and sat down. She looked at the maid who was busy like a top. "We have more important things to do, so you will start to work tonight."

That night, a small good news spread among the nobles in the city of Zaragoza, who always liked to seek flowers and willows. A woman who was said to be very famous in Valladod came to Zaragoza.

It is said that this woman is very beautiful and knows a lot of fun. What's more important is that she heard that she has a wide range of ways and can always find satisfactory girls. It is even said that she has girls sent from the East and the New Colonials in her hands, which is obviously a big temptation for those guests who like to try it out.

The news would spread so quickly, of course, it was related to the maid's hard work of holding exquisite handwritten greetings door to door. Those visitings were not only exquisitely crafted, but also had a thin piece of golden leaves mixed in each envelope.

This made many people feel interested in this woman who has not met yet but has taken such a generous move.

Mrs. Orgala was very quick, or she was still a real expert in this industry.

Compared with her professional approach, those women who have made some reputation but have made a single move to the world seem powerless to fight back.

On the second day after moving into the house, Mrs. Orgala took the maid to come to the women who supported the door alone. She provided them with generous rewards and promised that they would enter the aristocratic circles that they always wanted to contact but had no way out, but the only condition was that they had to belong to her.

"I can turn you from ordinary prostitutes to happy women who even noble ladies will be jealous of. Those nobles will flock to you, and you will become their favorites to please, but listen to me."

Mrs. Orgala's words made many women both excited and uneasy. They knew that this woman should be very powerful. If she did not obey her arrangements, perhaps her life in Zaragoza would be difficult in the future, and her promises did make them extremely long for her.

After consideration, some women decided to accept Mrs. Orgala's olive branch, and they closed their own doors and moved into the two-story building of Mrs. Orgala.

Then, under the personal training of Mrs. Orgala, I began to learn some real "professional knowledge".

Of course, the small waves of the romantic nobles in the circle of Zaragoza did not attract much attention. This is too many bad facts for Ferdinand, who is now in trouble.

Alexander VI's sudden disappearance was a good thing but a trouble for Ferdinand. What he was most worried about now was that he was intentionally or unintentionally accused of being the mastermind of the incident.

Although many people were secretly ecstatic about the Pope's disappearance, Ferdinand believed that if someone publicly pointed out who was the mastermind, everyone would spare no effort to accuse the murderer.

So Ferdinand knew that he could never take the blame, but he just told his archbishop from the beginning to everyone he met later that he seemed to tacitly believe that he was the mastermind.

This annoyed Ferdinand, and he also became more vigilant.

He knew that while he was actively preparing for another battle with Alexander, his opponent was obviously not idle either, which made him suspect that all this might be a conspiracy arranged by Alexander.

Another thing that made Ferdinand trouble was about his grandson.

Maximian's messenger clearly expressed his doubts about whether he could properly take care of Charlie and Elinor, which even obviously made Ferdinand almost furious.

Maximian was obviously worried that Ferdinand would hold Charlie and Elino as firmly as Juana. If so, then the previous efforts would have become meaningless for Maximian.

So Maximian Oak Ferdinand made a request that he was unacceptable to him, asking for his grandson to be sent to Vienna to be taken care of by himself, on the grounds that the current turbulent situation in Iberia seemed to be unsuitable for his grandson's growth.

Of course, what Ferdinand knew was actually Maximian's excuse, just as he tried his best to stop Juana and his wife from returning to Castilla as soon as possible. I am not the deep conflict between him and Philip due to objections to the way of rule in the lowlands. He will also prevent Juana and his wife from returning to Iberia.

Now he had his ideas on Charlie and Elinor again. Ferdinand could even imagine that if he really sent Charlie to Austria, perhaps when he came back, he might have forgotten that he had called Carlos.

Ferdinand expressed strong opposition to this, and he bluntly accused Maximian of being nonsense and then asked him to answer his promise as soon as possible about whether Austria would send troops to contain the Principality of Roman Thesia as soon as possible.

However, this time the messenger's answer not only disappointed Ferdinand, but also made him begin to doubt how sincere Maximian had to continue to maintain their alliance.

At this time, Ferdinand did not believe that Austria was facing any dilemma. He believed that Maximian was taking the opportunity to threaten it, so he angrily wrote a handwritten letter to Maximian.

He used some very harsh words to question whether the other party still remembered the covenant between the two parties, and at the same time harshly refuted Maximian's proposal to receive the tea ceremony siblings to Vienna.

All this was enough to make Ferdinand frustrated. These worries made him not have enough time to patronize his mistresses, so when someone pleased him and told him that a famous prostitute who was said to be famous in Valliedode, Ferdinand did not care too much about it.

Compared with Ferdinand's situation, the Zaragoza Church is not much better.

With the obvious sign of two completely different attitudes towards the disappearance of Alexander VI, the current Zaragoza Church is divided into two opposing factions.

Archbishop Zaragoza is cautious about the speculation that the pope may have been killed.

He was not eager to show his loyalty to the new pope who was likely to be born in the Vatican because of the disappearance of Alexander VI, but instead looked at this matter very carefully.

Especially because this is likely to involve Ferdinand, this makes the Archbishop more cautious.

In the archbishop's view, regardless of whether the pope has been killed or not, the Castile Regent cannot give up.

Then this is likely to eventually turn into a dispute between the two countries or even a direct war.

In fact, almost everyone knows that this war is destined to be inevitable. Although the Aragon church will inevitably be involved, the Archbishop still hopes that the reason for the war will not be borne by the terrible incident of the murder of the pope.

Not everyone agrees with the Archbishop's cautiousness and scruples.

Because of the arrival of Alexander VI, a group of church bishops who felt that their power was threatened were ecstatic about the disappearance of the pope.

If they hadn't been concerned that they might be called accomplice of the Pope's murder, these people would have celebrated publicly to vent their anger.

In the eyes of these people, although Alexander VI was born in Valencia, he did not show much affection and care for his hometown during his tenure.

And because of this, his family has always firmly controlled the many powers of Valencia from the church to the secular world, so they could only watch that Valencia was almost taken over by the Borgian family.

In contrast, a new pope who has no interest in them may be more acceptable, and since Alexander VI is likely to be no longer alive, it is very beneficial to the Aragorn Church and themselves to express goodwill to the Vatican as soon as possible.

Such a debate became increasingly fierce as Alexander VI was always speechless, and even the Archbishop gradually began to shake.

This forced him to consider the reaction he should have if the Pope had indeed been killed.

Especially when the new pope in the future is likely to be the father-in-law of the Regent Castile, the Archbishop couldn't help but sigh for Alexander's "No matter who you wins, I won't lose anyway."

But soon, the Archbishop felt glad for his caution.

The Sicilian army won the Battle of Seville, which complicated the Aragonese.

The "compatriots" won victory over the Castiles, which made the Aragonese happy, but on the other hand, it seemed like they were forced to be reminded that Sicily is no longer the rule of Aragon's monarch.

This inexplicably sad feeling made the Aragonese feel complicated for the Sicilian army.

The Aragonese were even more indescribable with the announcement of the Queen of Sicily to punish the enemies who offend the Pope.

However, this made Archbishop Zaragoza, who was undecided, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This is a war!

By this time no one doubted the war between the two countries, or that this was originally the result of the pursuit of both sides.

Just like Isabella and Juana, a battle for the throne is inevitable.

But this time the protagonist becomes Isabella's husband and Juana's half-brother.

The reinforcements from both sides also changed from Aragon and Portugal to Austria and Sicily.

Even at this time, many people still believe that as Charlie's grandfather, Maximian sent troops to support Aragon was an inevitable result.

Because of this, the Aragonese were not worried about the upcoming war with Castilla.

Some have even publicly claimed that they were either fighting directly with the enemy at the border, or sent by the king to Naples and Romanesia to attack the prince's territory with the Austrians.

Only when Ferdinand heard this, this made him feel even more dissatisfied with a lot of almost questioning words in his handwritten letter to Maximian.

"Dear Your Majesty, I have to ask again the question of when your army can launch an attack on Rometheia, I believe that this is not only related to Aragon, but also to your own interests. I have announced my support for you through my friends in the Vatican, and your delay in response has really puzzled me."

After writing such an impolite paragraph, Ferdinand was hesitant about whether the wording was too harsh, but in the end he decided not to modify a word.

Maximian's ambiguous attitude has caused his strong dissatisfaction. He has heard too much about the weakness of the Austrian army in the Lombardy region.

Recalling his crushing defeat in Switzerland not long ago, Ferdinand had to wonder whether the Austrians could still restrain their enemies in Italy for him.

Although war has not been declared publicly, according to the information intermittently from some merchants from Castilla, the Queen of Sicily has ordered a part of her army to advance to the area between Castilla and Aragon.

And this time, the Sicilian army's advance was allowed by Valyarido.

This was the first time Alexander negotiated with a foreign monarch as a regent, and Sicily was also the first country to formally recognize his identity.

Everything is so natural that it seems like it should be.

But the war did come like this, the key is that Ferdinand was not prepared!

Even though he knew that a battle with Alexander was inevitable, Ferdinand still hoped to officially fight Alexander after he had greater confidence.

To be precise, after Austria occupied Lombardy and launched an attack on Roman Thesia.

By then, Alexander would have to be exhausted to deal with the enemies on the battlefield.

Unlike fighting with the French, Ferdinand did not believe that anyone would risk offending two powerful countries at the same time in such a war.

Perhaps the French would work with him to deal with the Austrians in Italy, but that would certainly arouse strong opposition from the Italian city-state.

At least Venice will stand on Austria without hesitation, and Ferdinand is sure of this.

Next, war will become beneficial to oneself.
To be continued...