"Portugal is quite chaotic. What has my father been doing these years?"
Tangning still cares about her father very much, and he is not nervous at all about Portugal.
In Portugal's current situation, the biggest problem is Manuel II, which can be easily solved.
Two years later, there will be a republican coup in Portugal, in which Manuel II is secretly killed. At that time, Braganza will eliminate the Republicans together with regicide and treason, and completely restore the family's rule in Portugal. .
Portugal has republicans who are fighting for power and there is also a weakling Manuel II. These insects are obviously unable to govern the country.
Only the Braganza royal family of Miguel's lineage can save the fallen Portugal, restore the glorious Kingdom of Portugal-Brazil-Algarve, and make the Portuguese Empire great again.
Helen said sadly: "Father, life has been very difficult recently, and the Republicans are targeting him."
“What do these people want to do with my father?
My father is not the king of Portugal, and he has neither deep connections with the monarchists nor the republicans. Just like this, is it difficult for him? "
His father, Francisco, is not as ambitious as Tangning. He is very satisfied with the status quo and rarely gets involved in Portuguese party politics.
Francisco, Duke of Braganza, in addition to accompanying his relatives, is dedicated to benefiting his own Greater Algarve, and also helping the Kingdom of Portugal within his ability.
“Those republicans have always believed that my father was an important support force for Manuel II, so they were very wary of rejecting him.
My father's reputation was very good in the Kingdom of Portugal, which made many people have a favorable impression of him. They still had expectations for the power of the monarchs and nobles, and were hesitant about the actions of the republicans and could not fully support them. "
Helen explained to Tangning why these republicans targeted her father, Francisco.
"What's more, Portugal now owes us a large sum of money as collateral compensation, and many colonies are in our hands.
These colonies, under the governance of our Miguel Braganza family, have developed very well, but the colonies that Portugal can now control have developed very poorly. This makes them very unbalanced and they want to take back some colonies.
But they didn't want to pay the price to get the colony back. "
"Hmph! These republicans are really pushing their limits. If they can't do it themselves, they are jealous of others."
Tangning was really outraged by the shameless behavior of those Republicans.
You people are fighting among yourselves, fighting for power and gain, the country is in a mess in your hands, and you have other things in mind.
"If I remember correctly, they dumped the trouble on us.
The Portuguese government pledged its far-flung, sometimes rebellious, weakly controlled colonies of Mozambique and the Far East to us as debt relief.
Now that we have developed these areas well, why should they take it back with nothing? If they want to take it back, they have to spend the corresponding money.
If you don’t pay anything and just want benefits, how can there be so many good things in the world? "
The negative assets that were once thrown away were turned into positive assets by the Braganza family, which continuously created wealth. Now they want to get them back at any cost. How shameless!
These shameless republicans were all spoiled by the useless King of Portugal!
“Aren’t Angola, Portuguese Congo, Portuguese Guinea and other Atlantic African colonies in their hands?
Such a short distance, such good land, obviously can be managed well, but I didn't find out where they operate. Angola has always been exploited by rebels.
We fish all day long, never thinking deeply, and now we are still thinking about our things. We really think that we in Braganza are weaklings, with the same virtue as the King of Portugal! "
The Portuguese Republicans, these scum, must be cleaned out when Miguel's Braganza royal family returns to power in Portugal.
So arrogant, give them a notebook now, and spit it out with profits later.
"Brother, they are so shameless."
Helen thought of the shameless behavior of those republicans before she left Portugal, and she cursed in anger.
"Before I left Portugal, these people actually wanted to give them some of the Little Sunda Islands in the East Indies that our family had just acquired from the Dutch."
"Little Sunda Islands, where are they?"
Tang Ning was not a geography expert, but she didn't know that this place was so tiny.
"The Lesser Sunda Islands, located north of Australia.
The specific location is a series of small islands from Bali east of Java in the Dutch East Indies to the Portuguese Timor Island controlled by our family. "
It turned out to be Bali and Timor!
Bali, a famous tourist destination in the world, is the place with the longest Hindu culture in the Indonesian archipelago.
This small island has charming scenery and magnificent scenery. It is a scenic spot. It was very popular in his era. Tangning had been there and it was indeed very good.
As for Timor Island, East Timor on the island is very famous in Asia. It is the last independent Asian country and was bullied miserably by Indonesia.
However, Kang Ning was familiar with these two islands, but he did not expect that these two actually belonged to the same island group.
"Alas! My father is not the kind of person who likes to expand colonies. How did he get so many small islands from the Dutch?"
Tangning knew her father well. His father was not a man with a strong desire for expansion.
"Hey! Of course it's not my father's fault. The Dutch took the initiative to sell it to us. They sold it very cheaply. My father accepted it out of friendship with the Dutch royal family."
"What happened to the Helan people when they sold it to us? It can't be so unprovoked."
The Netherlands, being an old capitalist country, cannot sell things for no reason.
"The Dutch caused big trouble in Bali and have a very bad reputation in Europe."
"What did you do!"
“Bali is a small independent island country famous in Europe for its very unique Indian culture.
The people on the island have very nice local customs and are very friendly to Europeans. It is considered a well-known area in Europe and has a very good reputation. "
Helen recalled the criticism and insults against the Dutch government in the newspapers at that time, with some gloating.
“The Dutch, they always thought that the East Indies belonged to them.
But they had nothing to do with the British. They could only expand everywhere in other places and try to capture all the islands.
Bali was so famous, of course they remembered it, so they sent troops to occupy it.
However, this caused serious trouble. The Balinese people did not resist with force, but silently protested. A group of nobles on the island committed collective suicide, which shocked Europe.
After this incident happened, the Dutch's bottomless expansion and rough behavior were focused on the European media. "
Not resisting with force?
A group of nobles committed suicide?
"This, is this non-violent non-cooperation?"
Isn’t this the non-violent non-cooperation of Gandhi? Did Gandhi learn from this?
After all, they are all from Hinduism!
However, although this model is strange, it has scratched the itch of Europeans and impressed a certain moral outlook in Europe, and the effect is outstanding.
"The Dutch have stepped on shit, so they will feel better!"
Tangning thought about Gandhi and said with a smile: "No wonder the Dutch want to sell the islands!"
“Helen, why did Holland sell it to us?
I remember that Germany was expanding everywhere and wanted land. The Netherlands could sell it to them at a high price! "
Charlotte asked with some confusion.
“Charlotte, I don’t know this either.
The Germans originally wanted to buy it, but the Netherlands did not sell it to them. In the end, they sold Bali and other small islands to us for 10,000 pounds. "
"Master, do you know why?"
Of course Tangning knew who was behind the operation of why the Netherlands was not sold to Germany.
"It should be the British and the French who did a good job.
Now Germany is getting stronger and stronger, and William II is so arrogant, always clamoring for sunshine and land.
Germany has been attacking Britain and France and wants to expand its colonies. Of course they want to buy Dutch land to add more territory.
Under such circumstances, how could Britain and France allow Germany to expand and buy islands?
But they didn’t want to use a place like Bali. After much deliberation, they could only give these small islands to Portugal. "
