Chapter 2990 The Secret of No Trace (Twenty-Two)

"Let's cause chaos!"

Peeves yelled in the kitchen and threw food everywhere.

The house elves and members of the Gourmet Club hid behind various "bunkers" to avoid accidental injuries.

The situation in the kitchen has actually happened before, but basically it happened after someone or a ghost made Peeves angry. He usually doesn't come to the kitchen to play pranks.

Pomona heard that the dementors in Azkaban can also capture things, and they provide food to prisoners, which means they are similar to Peeves.

At this time, Peeves suddenly felt something and focused his "firepower" on the door. Pomona and the house elves hid behind the door.

"What should we do? Call Bloody Balor here?" the house elf asked Pomona.

"Wait a minute," Pomona said, thinking.

There are many legends about Peeves. Some people say that he is the "Noisy Elf" who was born together with the house. Others say that he was once a human being who came back to tell the truth during the Giant War, but no one believed him.

He died in front of everyone, then became a ghost, and then became what he is now.

Peeves is quite annoying, but his pranks are still for fun, and his expression just now was very ferocious.

Even if the "infection" is still within the controllable range, it still has an impact on the castle, and it cannot be ignored just because it does not seem serious.

The key question now is not how to deal with Peeves, but to find the thing causing trouble in the castle. What is it?

"By the way, ghost." Pomona said. Although ghosts can't touch things, it might be different after being affected by the dark magic item.

So she left the chaotic kitchen, came to the foyer, and found Nick who was almost headless.

"Hi, Nick," Pomona said.

"Oh, hello, professor." Nick said politely, "Can I help you?"

"Have you noticed any ghosts that have suddenly become weird lately?" Pomona said.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean?" Nick said.

Pomona couldn't describe what the "weird" method was.

"Is this related to the recent strange things that happened in the school?" Nick asked. "Even the ghost felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere."

"I can't tell you much, it's my guess," Pomona said.

"I will pay attention." Nick said solemnly, "The ghost is also a member of this castle."

"You have to be careful, that mysterious power may also have an effect on ghosts." Pomona said.

"Don't worry, I will." Nick said coolly, and then floated away.

Pomona then walked upstairs.

Isidora once mentioned that she wanted to preserve her magic in some way, so Pomona was going to ask Sen Batal if he knew about this matter, maybe he could find some clues.

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The 15th century was an eventful century. At the beginning of this century, the Hundred Years War between England and France ended. At the end of the century, in 1493, the "discovery" of the New World created other disputes. Due to Portugal's active performance in the Restoration War, it was deeply loved by the Pope.

and the appreciation of the church. Therefore, in 1454, Pope Nicholas V issued an edict recognizing the sovereignty of the Portuguese territories discovered and occupied in Africa. All islands south of the Canary Islands were owned by Portugal, and no one could

Violate.

Portugal has a small land area, and developing overseas has become one of the ways to survive. Long before Columbus, there were other explorers traveling east along the coast of Africa, hoping to find a way to India without passing through Turkey.

During this period, the Portuguese accumulated rich navigation skills, and it was here that Columbus, a Genoese, learned how to become a captain.

There is another way, that is, marriage. Queen Isabella of Spain was once the princess of Castile. She had two choices at the time, one was to marry Alfonso V of Portugal, and the other was to marry Ala

Ferdinand of Aragon. Her father was more interested in Alfonso V, and Isabella fell in love with Ferdinand of Aragon. Her father was very angry when he found out, but Isabella still insisted on having her own way and married

Ferdinand of Aragon.

This marriage merged the territories of the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, but the King of Castile was not satisfied with his daughter's choice. He abolished Isabella's inheritance rights and made his second daughter Juana the heir to the throne.

And let him enter into a marriage contract with Alfonso V of Portugal.

This decision led to the War of Castilian Succession in 1475, which resulted in the victory of Isabella and Ferdinand, the loss of Juana's inheritance and the annulment of Alfonso V's engagement, among other things.

The Treaty of Akasovas was signed in 1479, which confirmed in writing that the land south of the Canary Islands was owned by Portugal.

In 1493, when Columbus was returning to Europe from the New World, he encountered a storm and his route deviated from his original destination of Spain. Due to damage to the ship and lack of supplies, he had to stop at the Azores Islands owned by Portugal.

This island is located south of the north-south dividing line. At that time, the Portuguese on the island thought that Columbus had gone to Africa and done something harmful to Portugal's interests, so they imprisoned him and his crew.

Before Columbus set out on his journey, he first sought out John II of Portugal, who was called the "perfect monarch" by Machiavelli. Compared with the conditions that Columbus set out to discover the New World like a lion's mouth, his estimated voyage route made

Mathematicians in the Portuguese court believed that this was a fraud. Columbus deliberately miscalculated the diameter and circumference of the earth in order to shorten the distance from Europe to the west to Asia and deceive the Portuguese into investing in Columbus's adventure.

No matter how the people believed that the earth was flat, many scholars in the court still believed that the earth was round. Later, Columbus found the twin kings of Cartier and Aragon, who did not receive state funding, but Queen Isabella.

Columbus was funded with his own private money.

Since the Portuguese officials in the Azores found no African goods on Columbus's ship, and there were no important people in the group, they were allowed to go. However, Columbus encountered a big storm again on the second voyage, and this time he still could not make it smoothly.

It arrived in Spain and docked in Lisbon, Portugal on March 5.

Columbus expected that John II would be very angry, so he wrote to the Spanish kings for help. At this time, the Portuguese boarded the ship, but it was not soldiers who came, but Diaz, who was also a navigator.

When Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope, John II did not reward him, but John II was not a "stingy" person. In short, Columbus was treated with courtesy and was invited to the court.

According to the records on the charts, the land discovered by Columbus happened to be at the latitude south of the Canary Islands. According to the treaty, it belonged to Portugal and did not belong to the Kingdom of Castile.

After receiving Columbus's letter, Spain initially hesitated. If Columbus died, Spain would not need to pay Columbus. However, Finance Minister Sanchez pointed out that if Columbus died, no one would prove that he was paid by the King of Spain.

The new lands discovered by Columbus would be taken over by Portugal.

In order to prove that the voyage was sponsored by Spain, Columbus's letter was printed in large quantities and copies can be seen everywhere in Barcelona.

It spread quickly, appearing on the table of the Medici family in late March, and on April 18th the Pope in Rome saw it. On August 10th, 1482, the Pope changed from Innocent VIII to Alexander

VI, the famous pope of the Borgia family, grew up in Spain. The Spaniards believed that he would arbitrate in favor of Spain, and then there was the Papal Meridian incident in May.

At this time, because of the Naples issue, French King Charles VIII gathered troops and planned to go south to Italy. Rome needed Spanish support, but it was the Pope who set this line.

Alexander VI was not without enemies in the church, even though it was said that he would use cantrera to destroy his enemies. So could the poison that killed Simonetta and her family be cantrera? Borgia in 1487

He had already "rivaled" the Medici in Florence, and that year coincided with the completion of "The Birth of Venus."

Pomona raised his head and looked at the warehouse outside the window. Old Bat was tinkering with his chemical equipment in the dark house again.

She pouted, were those things so interesting?

So she put down her pen and documents and crept over.

"Trick or treat", now she wants to be a "trick or treater".
Chapter completed!