"Honey, why are you so depressed?"
A week ago, Anna, a mother who gave birth again, found her husband in a depressed mood and came over with the baby in his arms.
Francisco looked up at his wife who cared about him, and said with a helpless smile: "I feel that Portugal is really hopeless!"
“The Portuguese Republicans shouted loud slogans, but now that they are actually in power, what they have done has made the country a mess.
If Manuel II does not wake up and indulges the Republican Party without any bottom line, the Kingdom of Portugal will soon be destroyed. By then, it will only be more difficult for this group of people who have no scruples to tolerate the Republican Party. "
Francisco was really disappointed with his nephew, the king.
Manuel II, the Portuguese king, was even more difficult than his father Carlos, who was already in bad shape.
At least Carlos knew how to side with the aristocratic forces and reuse the aristocrats to fight against the Republicans. He never betrayed his own class from beginning to end.
When Manuel II came to power, he disbanded the aristocratic forces, dissolved the royal cabinet, and allowed Republicans to form the cabinet.
Manuel II's move disgusted many nobles and resented him. However, many nobles still believed that he was preparing to retreat and let the Republican cabinet lose enough people and then deal with them.
As a result, the Republican cabinet has changed one after another, and they have made enough fools of themselves in the struggle for power, but the hopeful nobles have not yet waited for the results they expected. Now the Portuguese nobles have understood that Manuel II really gave up and stood on the side of the Republican Party. As the largest noble, he has completely abandoned his class.
“My dear, there is no solution to the Portuguese problem now.
Manuel II, as long as he stands with the Republican Party, the country is destined to be in trouble. Poor Manuel, doesn’t he know that after the Republican Party takes care of the nobles, he will be next? "
Although Anna is not interested in politics, she still has basic political literacy. The King of Portugal betrayed his class and sided with the Republican Party, but the Republican Party did not regard him as one of its own. This was the result of Manuel II's repeated compromises. In the end, everything is destined to be lost.
The Republicans are not constitutionalists. They do not support the monarchy. After the Portuguese nobles are dispersed by them, Manuel II will definitely be the next to overthrow the Kingdom of Portugal and establish the Portuguese Republic under their own control.
"After several assassinations by nobles, Manuel II no longer trusts the nobles at all, and the Republicans have gained an absolute advantage." Anna sighed.
The Portuguese nobles are not lambs to be slaughtered. They clearly understand that the king is the fault of the kingdom. As long as the king is killed, Francisco will take over. With Francisco's talents, it is very possible to crush the Republican Party and reshape the Kingdom of Portugal.
To the nobles, no matter how bad Francisco was, he was still much better than the current Manuel II.
Therefore, some nobles carried out several assassination operations, but they all failed.
After the failed assassination, although there was no major settlement, Manuel II had no good impression of the nobles at all. The status of the Republicans was already unshakable, and the nobles completely lost the right to hold power and form a cabinet.
Because the assassination was carried out by the nobles, and their goal was to put Francisco in power, this made Francisco, who had always stayed out of the world, completely pushed to the forefront regardless of whether he was willing to participate in politics or not.
"My dear, you are now the only pillar of the nobility and the last target of the Portuguese Republican Party. What are you going to do next?"
Anna is well aware of her husband's current situation, which is quite dangerous. Now the last person the Republican Party wants to defeat is him.
The reason Francisco and Ana left Portugal and lived among Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, and Germany was actually to avoid the Republicans.
Now they don't even dare to live in the Algarve because the couple is afraid of being assassinated.
The Republicans have taken control of Portugal. Although Algarve has a high degree of autonomy, it is connected to Portugal and it is difficult to prevent infiltration.
When it comes to assassinations, the Republican Party is a professional, not the level of aristocracy. If they don't live abroad and live in Portugal, sooner or later something will happen to the two of them.
"I have nothing to do with the Republican Party. They hold the power and the moral high ground."
Even if the Republicans engaged in terrorist violence in the Algarve and disclosed their disgusting behavior, the current situation would not help. "
The Republican Party has taken over and the king is their puppet. What can Francisco do?
Is there a civil war?
Whoever started the civil war will take the blame? They will all be nailed to the pillar of historical shame. If Francisco dares to take the initiative, it is rebellion.
The civil war did not start in a day or two. Even if Francisco, who had no legal basis, won, it would not be easy to heal the divisions between the country's people after the war.
“The only thing I can do now is draw a red line for Republicans.
I have made it clear to them that I will not get involved in politics and warned them that if they mess with me again, I will probably take the Algarve out of Portugal. "
Francisco didn't want to take this step unless he had to.
"The Algarve is the last place recovered by the Portuguese Restoration Movement. Unless I have to, I really don't want to be the culprit of the division of the country."
Algarve's independence from Portugal actually has a legal basis.
Although the Algarve is the mainland of Portugal, it is only one of the Portuguese unions, just like Brazil before.
Portugal and the Kingdom of Algarve, Algarve really wants to follow Brazil. As long as the local people in the Algarve are willing and European countries do not object, it is really not difficult to become independent.
Realistically speaking, if the Algarve wants to be independent, there are not many people in Europe who oppose it. Spain may be the one to add to the obstruction. As for Portugal launching a war, given the current situation in Portugal, it simply does not have the capital.
As for the name of the people, the Algarve used to be a backward place for Portugal. Now there are more than two million people in the Algarve, and the Portuguese aborigines only account for 1 million. And these 1 million people have not benefited from Portugal before. They Everything now comes from Archduke Francisco.
Without Francisco, the Algarve is just a backwater. Now the residents of the Algarve understand what those people in Lisbon are?
Those bastards in Lisbon persecute the Grand Duke and want to tax the Algarve. They want to completely control and exploit the wealth of the Algarve.
What is the level of the Republicans in Lisbon? What is Portugal like under their governance? The Algarve are not blind.
It can be said that as long as Francisco is determined to separate Algarve from the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarve and form a truly independent country, it can really be done.
Moreover, when the Algarve separates from Portugal, all Portuguese colonies will be separated. It is hard to say how many colonies Lisbon will control by then.
Portugal's Republican Party is jumping up and down, and the monarchists in other European countries are not fond of them.
King Manuel II of Portugal is mentally retarded and is now being manipulated by the Republican Party. European countries' interference in Portugal is an intrusion into Portugal's internal affairs, and the gains outweigh the losses.
No country wants to get involved in the mudflat of Portugal, or it will fall into it.
However, if Portugal splits, it will have little impact on Europe. This will hit the Portuguese Republican Party, and European monarchies will not object.
"Francisco, will the Portuguese Republican Party, which is now in power, really stop taking action because of your intimidation?" Anna did not believe that the Portuguese Republican Party did nothing.
The Portuguese Republican Party is now the most aggressive in Europe, and its attitude is very arrogant and domineering.
The Republicans have already taken down countless nobles, and now only Francisco is left. With their addictive energy, can they stop the car?
"Hopefully God will wake up those Republicans. These Republicans have gotten a lot and it's time to wake up."
What else is the Portuguese Republican Party not satisfied with? They've obviously gotten more, so why can't they stop?
"Everything in the Algarve now is what I brought to them. It has nothing to do with the Portuguese royal family and them. Have they ever governed this place one day?
Algarve has the basis for independence. Don’t force me, otherwise it will cause the country to split, which will not be good for anyone. "
