February 2, London, 10 Downing Street.
After Francisco announced his declaration of succession to the Portuguese throne, Britain, as Portugal's traditional ally, attached great importance to it, and Herbert, as the British Prime Minister, was very concerned about it.
"George, Archduke Francisco is going to become the King of Portugal. How can we win over him and improve Anglo-Portuguese relations?"
Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith asked his chancellor, the next Liberal leader David Lloyd George.
Portugal used to be a staunch ally of Britain. Now, this is a very big question mark.
Portugal and the United Kingdom have a long-standing alliance, which lasts for more than 500 years. This kind of national relationship is also very rare for the United Kingdom.
However, it is said that they are allies for a century. At first, Portugal and the United Kingdom could be regarded as allies. However, as time went by, Portugal became more like a follower of the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom became more and more contemptuous of Portugal.
Portugal has always been very friendly to Britain, and Britain also knows that Portugal attaches great importance to this alliance, so it often uses this as a way to coerce Portugal.
Portugal is now very resentful and dissatisfied with Britain. This resentment is not limited to the lower class people. This anti-British sentiment is also widespread among the Portuguese aristocracy.
The Portuguese people believe that Britain violated its alliance, ignored Portugal's pink map power, trampled on traditional European rules, and used force to force Portugal to cede large areas of territory. This is extremely insulting to the Portuguese.
The Portuguese nobles also believed that Britain had betrayed their friendship, and they were resentful and gnashing their teeth at the British's use of force to threaten Lisbon and force the Kingdom of Portugal to give up the pink map.
Moreover, the nobles also believed that it was Britain's various insults to its allies that led to the subsequent misfortune of the kingdom.
In fact, this is also true. Britain's bullying of Portugal did bring great disaster to the country.
The pink map is an important national policy of Portugal. After it was crushed by the British, it caused a series of negative consequences. The relationship between the upper and lower classes in Portugal deteriorated, the power of the monarchy declined, and the power of the republic grew.
The Portuguese nobles were despised and disgusted by the Portuguese people. They no longer respected them, and they began to lean towards the republicans.
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After the pink map was shattered, the Republicans took advantage of the opportunity and gained a huge advantage, and launched a fierce offensive against the monarchists. They used all kinds of open and covert swords, public opinion wars, assassinations and other traditional revolutionary republican virtue tactics to face the monarchists. Come all.
The monarchists were unable to deal with the republicans, and many powerful figures from the monarchists were killed as national traitors. In the end, the king and the crown prince were assassinated.
The Portuguese monarchists had no choice but to support themselves in the face of the righteous republicans. Manuel II was completely discouraged and surrendered to the republicans after witnessing the death of his father and brother in an assassination.
In the real history without Tangning's time travel, the Portuguese monarchists were completely defeated by the republicans.
But now, due to the butterfly effect, history has undergone major changes. After the monarchy gained a new leader, Duke Francisco, they have been holding on until now, and now they have a chance to make a comeback.
Grand Duke Francisco, as the orthodox heir of the Braganza royal family in Portugal, after the death of Manuel II, he was the well-deserved orthodox heir to the monarch of the Kingdom of Portugal.
Republicans, this front is extremely bad from every aspect. The king died, the prime minister died, and those who participated in the coup were severely punished.
Europe is still dominated by monarchists. Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Francisco, who is known as a staunch supporter of the monarchy, can imagine what he will do next.
Portugal is destined to experience a bloody storm, but after the storm is washed away, Portugal's royal power will be stabilized to a great extent.
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Britain, after Francisco issued the edict, could naturally foresee the next situation in Portugal.
Originally, if Francisco succeeded as King of Portugal, Britain would pay attention to it, but that was it. But his son was Pedro III, Emperor of Brazil. In this case, his importance increased sharply.
Francisco has three children, one boy and two girls, namely Downing, Pedro, Helen, and Christine, who was born not long ago.
Francisco and Downing Pedro, father and son, are the most orthodox successors to the Braganza royal family. The reunification of Portugal and Brazil has become a general trend.
Although Francisco's declaration edict did not mention the union and merger of Brazil and Portugal into one country, it did declare that his successor was his son Tangning Pedro.
In other words, the crown prince of King Francisco of Portugal is the Brazilian Emperor Pedro III.
If Francisco abdicates early and Pedro III comes to power, the historical United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarve will directly reappear in its place. And this reappeared country will be even better, it will be online as the United Empire.
Brazil plus Portugal, although in Europe, the influence is only rising in the direction of southern Europe, but its influence on the world is not small. Reorganized in situ, it can reach the level of Austria-Hungary. If it is further developed over time, , that will be the new America.
Although the Portuguese Empire has reappeared, it is still at the level of the United States. It is still a younger brother to Britain, France, Germany and Russia, but it is superior to other countries, especially the old enemy Spain, which is the least friendly.
In today's world, it's all about group confrontation and one vs one, which is no longer popular.
The United Empire of Portugal and Brazil, this heavyweight player equivalent to Austria-Hungary, needs to win over the two major groups in the world, the Entente and the Alliance.
According to historical tradition, Britain has the most advantage. I think it is because of the pink map that Britain is now the most passive.
“Herbert, Britain and Portugal were originally allies, and now it’s the Conservative Party’s fault.
The mistakes made by Robert Cecil and Cecil John Rhodes were so great that it will not be easy for us in the Liberal Party to mend these. "
Lloyd George hated the rival Conservatives very much, and now he had to wipe their butts for them, which really made him extremely angry.
"In the current situation, we in the UK are very passive.
Although we have a good relationship with Francisco, at the national level, the relationship between Britain and Portugal is very discordant, and the anti-British sentiment in Portugal is too serious.
The best way to mend ties with Portugal is to return their pink map.
But the pink map territory that Portugal lost is now an important part of our Two K Plan, and it has become Rhodesia and Bechuanaland, which are already British territories.
The people would not understand if we gave away the huge territories of Rhodesia and Bechuanaland in order to repair relations with Portugal.
In the eyes of the people, Portugal is a small country. Even if Brazil is included, it may not be as good as Italy. The weight of Portugal is neither Germany nor France. The glorious and great British Empire does not need to compromise at all when faced with it. "
Portugal's role in Europe has never been very good. It is not one of the six major powers in Europe, and it is not comparable to Spain. Its status is even lower than that of the Netherlands.
Portugal's position in Europe is stronger than that of the small countries in the Balkans, and its overall level is that of Northern Europe.
Although Brazil is currently developing in full swing, in the eyes of the European public, it is stronger than Spain, and is above and below Italy.
The public's vision is often not high, and the European elites see things further than they do.
In the eyes of European elites, Portugal and Brazil combined have great potential, and their strength is definitely better than Italy, but in their imagination, it is positioned at the level of the United States.
