1918.11.1 St. Paul, royal dairy farm.
"Your Highness Tangning, thank you to the Braganza family for their continued support of our Minas Gina state."
Wearing a blue denim suit, with a big beard and full white hair, the middle-aged man with many vicissitudes of life was expressing his gratitude to Tangning while angrily expressing his resentment towards the upper class in Rio de Janeiro.
“Those parrots in Rio de Janeiro are just too much.
On the surface, these people sing high-pitched words, but on the inside they only care about themselves and have no sense of national responsibility. For the sake of profit, they block the agricultural and animal husbandry transportation and exports of our inland states and squeeze the trade of our inland states.
Thanks to Braganza, the Belo Horizonte-São Paulo railway, which took three years to build, helped open the foreign trade channel for our state of Minas Gerais. "
As Tang Ning listened, this middle-aged man, who was only forty years old but showed signs of aging, kept talking about the difficulties of the inland states and his resentment towards the capital and coastal states. There was no emotion in her heart, and she even wanted to laugh.
However, as a qualified political creature, Tangning managed her expressions quite well and would agree with him from time to time.
"Mr. Page, what you say makes sense. Rio de Janeiro is sucking the blood of Brazil and using all the resources of Brazil to support itself."
Minas Gerais, as the most populous state in the interior, is the leader of the interior states, so it has always been dissatisfied with the capital and wants to dominate the discourse.
Although the state's population is not as large as that of Rio de Janeiro, its land area is more than ten times that of Rio de Janeiro, so it has always regarded itself very highly and believed that it had capital.
However, my heart is higher than the sky and my life is thinner than paper.
Minas Gerais is mainly engaged in animal husbandry and also has mining operations, but its exports are very few and it is too far from Europe. The British and French have great businesses and many colonies, so they are not interested in it.
In fact, the agricultural planting industry in Minas Gerais is also very impressive. The output and area of coffee are not much worse than those in Rio de Janeiro. However, many farms in the state belong to the upper class of Rio de Janeiro, the capital, and the output also belongs to them.
As a landlocked state, the local power of Minas Gerais is mainly based on animal husbandry, but Brazil is mainly based on the coffee export industry.
On the one hand, this situation was created deliberately by the capital, which took advantage of the coastal states to prioritize the export of coffee and deliberately blocked the export of livestock. On the other hand, Britain and France first preferred Argentina when it came to importing livestock and looked down upon rice. Product of Nas Gerais.
Since the kingdom was replaced by the Republic, the state of Minas Gerais has challenged the Rio de Janeiro gang several times politically, but has failed many times and rarely succeeded, and the successes included spies.
The reason is very simple. Brazil is actually very divided geographically, especially the coastal and inland areas.
Minas Gerais wants to export and accumulate capital, which is directly restricted by the coastal states.
Although Rio de Janeiro is small, it still has the support of several die-hard coastal states. They formed the Rio de Janeiro Gang. Before Braganza dominated the state of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo was also one of them.
Although these states are small, they have developed economies, with Minas Gerais being the first inland state to be ten blocks away.
Minas Gerais, in fact, does not rank among the top four coastal states in Brazil in terms of comprehensive strength. Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, and the newly promoted state of Sao Paulo are among the four coastal states. None of them can compare to him. Apart from these four, there are one or two who are even equal to him.
Although Minas Gerais is not as powerful as Rio de Janeiro, it is the oldest inland state and has considerable power. It is also naturally anti-capital. It has long wanted to overthrow Rio de Janeiro, so it keeps trying.
Later, the capital of Brazil moved from Rio de Janeiro on the coast to Brasilia, and then moved inland from the coast, with Minas Gerais making great efforts.
Tang Ning wants to restore the Brazilian royal family, and Minas Gerais is a natural ally, each getting what it needs.
As early as Downing, when he was still in Europe, the Braganza family began to contact the forces of Minas Gerais, and the Belo Horizonte-São Paulo railway was the result of cooperation.
Railways in this era are definitely a powerful tool for developing inland areas. In fact, they are also used in modern times.
However, although Minas Gerais can export resources only with railways, unfortunately it is not that good. Britain and France have already had partners, and there are many people who are willing to be dogs. Minas Gerais, a remote inland state, is not qualified.
After the railway was repaired, the large ranchers in Minas Gerais suddenly discovered that they were still expelled and there was no room for them to survive. In the end, the Braganza family turned into angels and came to purchase their products. .
It can be said now that Minas Gerais cannot do without Braganza, because only the Braganza family can bring them benefits, and they have been tied to the warship.
"Your Highness, you are so right. Rio de Janeiro is sucking the blood of all Brazil and entrusting the country's backbone to coffee. This is simply a shame for Brazil.
Brazil has a vast territory and rich resources, with more than 8 million square kilometers of land and a population of 30 million. It actually depends on coffee to support the country.
In Rio de Janeiro, those republicans overthrew the kingdom, and as a result, people's lives became worse and worse.
It’s really heaven’s punishment for you, a national thief! "
Page, as one of the representatives of local forces in Minas Gerais and a famous rancher, can be said to have been screwed by the Republic.
When the kingdom was overthrown, the large ranchers actually had little to say. They originally supported the king. After all, they were not free republicans, nor were they farmers dependent on serfs. They opposed the king's abolition of slavery and the development of industries other than planting, agriculture and animal husbandry. Karma is not exclusive.
The reason why he didn't come out when the king was in danger was because he was temporarily trapped by the pie drawn by those people.
As a result, the consequences are disastrous.
Those who stand to benefit will say one thing and do another after they come to power.
The country has no decent development plan at all. The good-sounding plans in the past have been completely ruined. This has directly led Brazil to the evil path of coffee cultivation, almost all the way to the end.
Moreover, these people are evil and restrict the development of the inland. Minas Gerais is the first state to bear the brunt. External transportation is severely restricted. When the king is here, they develop the inland. These people go directly in the opposite direction. How can the inland states be allowed to develop? It's not easy, why did you come here?
"Mr. Page, the liberal republicans and large farmers are absolutely to blame for the country's development. Land annexation and oppression of the people have simply become their agenda."
Before taking the stage, he was a warrior, but after taking the stage, he became a dragon slayer!
Of course, there is also a possibility that they were originally evil dragons, but the king, an evil dragon, could not bring them much benefit, so as dragon cubs, they rebelled.
“Since the founding of the Republic, life for farmers has become increasingly miserable, with farmers occupying an even larger area than during the Kingdom.
Mr. Page, we have a data that can reflect this.
These 461 large landowner estates, which account for 0.1% of the production units, occupy more than 27 million hectares of land.
The 464,000 small and medium-sized agricultural production units, which account for 71.5% of the production units, only have 15.7 million hectares of land.
More than 50% of farmers have no land or lack of land. "
When Tangning talked about the data, Page was dumbfounded. It had never thought that the farmers were so miserable and that there were so many landless farmers?
This is unimaginable for Page in Minas Gerais.
Brazil has 8 million square kilometers of land. Excluding the tropical rainforest, the entire Brazilian plateau, coastal plains, and southern lowland hills still have at least 3 million square kilometers of usable land. There is no shortage of land for land development. Why are so many farmers now without land?
"Your Highness Tangning, Brazil is so big, how come there are so many landless peasants? Is it unbelievable?"
Faced with this data, Page couldn't believe it.
"Mr. Page, are there coffee plantations in Minas Gerais?"
Minas Gerais, a sparsely populated state with a large area, has of course coffee plantations.
"There are many, but most of these coffee plantations belong to Rio de Janeiro."
How old is Rio de Janeiro? In addition to some other coastal states, although the land is not small, the huge coffee export volume still requires more land for cultivation. Mizhou has a lot of fertile land, so it is targeted.
Tangning then asked: "There are many Brazilian farmers in the coffee gardens, right? Do these farmers have land? And where do the countless poor people in the city come from?"
Page fell silent and no longer had any doubts about Tangning's words.
Of course he understood what Tang Ning meant. He also understood that when the data on landless farmers came, it was too easy to estimate.
