Marin gave many suggestions and details. For example, he sent someone to Spain to spread rumors that Gonzalo de Cordoba was old and lost his ambition, and used the saying that "the older he lived, the less courage he was" to evaluate Gonzalo de Cordoba.
In fact, this evaluation is not a slander, but a fact. For Gonzalo de Cordoba, a 60-year-old veteran, the older he is, the more timid he is.
However, this is not a bad thing, but it is more secure. But the problem is that the European nobles of this era are not cunning enough, and they believe in and appreciate the spirit of courage. A mature and persistent approach like Gonzalo de Cordoba is not favored by the nobles. This is also the confidence of Marin to show the "counter-espionage plan". If it were in China where old foxes were everywhere in the same period, this counter-espionage plan might be ridiculous.
Of course, it is not enough to send people to spread rumors among the Spanish people. Because the people of this era have no say in the government and give them at most some spiritual pressure. But this spiritual pressure is useless to the scheming Gonzalo de Cordoba.
Therefore, if you want to deal with Gonzalo de Cordoba, you have to rely on the Spanish nobles. Marin remembers that in history, there is an allusion that "Liang Po is old and can still eat." It means that King Zhao regrets and wants to re-activate Lian Po, so he sent someone to see if Lian Po can come out to serve him again. However, Lian Po has a mortal enemy in the Zhao court. The man was named Guo Kai, and he was a famous treacherous minister of Zhao. This man not only framed Lian Po, but also framed Li Mu, which eventually led to Zhao's country.
The demise. When the King of Zhao sent someone to visit Lian Po in Wei, Guo opened a large sum of money to bribe the envoy and gave the envoy four hundred taels of gold to help him speak bad words about the enemy Lian Po. The envoy got the benefits, so he said bad words seven parts of the truth and three parts of the false - "Although General Lian is old, he still has a lot of appetite..." This is a fact... but the next light words were very fatal - "But my old general and the old general sat for a while, and General Lian went to the toilet and pulled shit three times..."
When King Zhao heard this, he was still alright - he had three times in a while, and it was obviously incontinence... Then, Lian Po was abandoned...
Marin's plan also had this trick - bribing the Spanish nobles with a lot of money to make them slander the two Spanish kings...
Gonzalo de Cordova was favored for many years and became the number one general in Spain. But for this reason, he blocked the rise of many nobles. After all, these days, the children of nobles could only join the army to seek titles and fiefs. Gonzalo de Cordova became the leader of the Spanish army. It would be strange if the children of nobles, especially the children of great nobles, were not jealous.
He has been a general for so many years and is so unique that he will not offend anyone. Therefore, Marin's strategy of "buying Gonzalo de Cordoba's hostile nobles slandered the two Spanish kings" is very feasible.
Moreover, Marin's plan was not just to belittle Gonzalo de Cordoba's timidity and old age. The young Juan III might be caught, but the cunning Ferdinand II would definitely not be caught.
But as a master of history, Marin understood very well that those smart and old monarchs were most afraid of was that their generals were too powerful...
If he is a prime monarch, he will naturally not worry about his generals. Because he is still young and has time to solve various people and things. But the old monarch is different. When people get older, they become more cautious and more worried.
For example, those old monarchs are easily worried that their generals will be respectful and will not obey the management of their children and grandchildren. This is most prominent in Zhu Yuanzhang. Because he was afraid that his grandson Zhu Yunwen could not suppress the generals in command, Zhu Yuanzhang eliminated all the famous generals including Lan Yu in one breath, so that Zhu Yunwen would no longer have the unstable factors of the army after he ascended the throne. But he did not attack his sons, so in the end, Zhu Yunwen was defeated by his own uncle. Of course, for Zhu Yuanzhang, this was a trivial matter. Because the meat was still rotten in the pot, the cheaper one was his family.
Although the situation in Europe is different from that in China, few generals with troops rebelled and relied on their own, there are also many generals with self-respecting troops and underestimating the monarch.
Of course, Europe was not without powerful ministers. For example, the palace prime minister of the Melovin dynasty of the Frankish Kingdom, "the dwarf Pippin", usurped the throne of the Melovin dynasty and established the Carolingian dynasty.
How did the dwarf Pippin usurp the throne? It was very simple. The dwarf Pippin sent troops to aid the Roman Catholic Church at that time, and conquered a large area of ​​land, gave it to the Vatican, and established the "Popular Kingdom". This incident was the famous "Pepin's offering of land". The pope reciprocates, publicly supports Pippin's usurpation of the throne and crowned it. As for the orthodox king of the Melovin dynasty, wherever he cools down...
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At that time, as long as the great Aragonese nobles who had received benefits frequently mentioned the dwarf Pippin in front of Ferdinand II, and then alluded to Gonzalo de Cordoba.
Moreover, many people can see his ambition to unify Italy now. For example, Julius II had great ideas about the Kingdom of Naples. If it weren't for its poor strength and could not defeat Spain and France, the Pope would have long wanted to send troops to annex the Kingdom of Naples, which was close to him.
In this case, the hostile nobles of Gonzalo de Cordoba only need to mention - Gonzalo de Cordoba only needs to present the Kingdom of Naples to the Pope, and the Pope will support him in usurping the throne of Spain...
This rumor is very powerful, because if Gonzalo de Cordoba really dared to do this, Pope Julius II would really support him in usurping the Spanish throne. Because all the monarchs of Europe could see Julius II's desire to unify Italy.
Therefore, this kind of rumors that are very likely to happen are the most fatal. For the old Ferdinand II, even if he still believes in Gonzalo de Cordoba, he has to guard against this situation. After all, Gonzalo de Cordoba is now too prestige in the Spanish army. Moreover, he now controls most of the Spanish army. As long as he thinks, with the death of Ferdinand II and usurping the throne, it is not very difficult...
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Therefore, the blueprint of the rumor given by Marin was - Gonzalo de Cordoba wanted to learn from the "dwarf Pippin" and dedicated the Kingdom of Naples to the Holy See in exchange for the opportunity to usurp the Spanish throne...
As for the reason why Gonzalo de Cordoba insists on confronting the French army, it is also rumored that "Gonzalo de Cordoba is now integrating the morale of the army and laying the foundation for usurping the throne in Spain in the future. Just when Ferdinand II dies, he will depose Juan III and seize the throne of the two kingdoms of Spain."
Chapter completed!