“Your Majesty, this time Portugal has expanded by approximately 110,000 square kilometers, with a population of 1.5 million in the new territory.
Your Majesty, we have many problems now, but the most important ones are three points. New regional planning, the arrangement of the indigenous population, and the economic planning of the new territory."
After the war ended, Tony, as the second prime minister and foreign minister, naturally returned to the business of national governance from his original diplomatic business.
Winning the war and expanding the territory is naturally a good thing, but it also brings with it many conflicts.
The newly expanded territory is 110,000 square kilometers, which far exceeds the 92,000 square kilometers of the Portuguese mainland. The division of the new territory must be carried out quickly.
Although the new territory is large, its population is only 1.5 million, which is much smaller than the 6 million people in mainland Portugal.
The small population in the new territory is actually good news for Portugal. The small population is easy to digest and does not require too much economic planning.
"Why is the population of the new territory so small? Is this a statistical error?" Pedro questioned the demographics of the new territory.
"How big is the new territory, and why is the population less than half of the mainland of Portugal? Did the Portuguese army do something in these territories? Or was it falsified during the statistical survey?"
Faced with His Majesty the Emperor's doubts, Tony quickly explained that this was not a fraud by the military or government departments. "Your Majesty, don't worry, there are no problems with the statistics in this survey. There were not many violations of military discipline in the army during the war, and neither did the statistical investigators."
They tortured and deceived, and they all moved with the army, occupying one place and counting the other."
"Your Majesty, the population of Spain before dissolution was not that large, just over 19 million. Although the original area of Spain was five times larger than that of Portugal, its population was only twice that of ours.
The Spanish areas we occupied, except Huelva, Seville, and Cadiz in Andalusia, are wealthy and populous areas, the rest of Spain is sparsely populated.
According to this census, Huelva, Seville, and Cadiz have a population of 700,000, Galicia has a population of 500,000, and Leon has a population of 300,000.”
After all, Pedro is not a real historian or demographer. He does not know that the population of the Imbilia Peninsula has always been small.
Historically, Spain only had more than 40.56 million people in one year.
During the same period, the population was 6 million in 1918, and by 2000, the population was 10.29 million.
Although Spain and Portugal are famous, they are not considered to be the most populous countries in Europe.
But in comparison, if we don’t count the history of this time and space, Spain will be much better than Portugal in the future.
After 2000, the gap widened even further. At that time, Portugal's economic growth was worse than that of Spain, and its population growth was also very weak. In 2021, it was still 10.29 million people. On the contrary, Spain's population reached 47.32 million in 2021. In 2020, the population
The growth rate exceeds 70% of the total population of Portugal.
“The total population of our Portuguese Empire, Brazil and Portugal is only 38 million, which is not a large population.
Tony, what is the approximate population of the world’s major powers now?”
"Your Majesty, according to the population data published by various countries, except for Italy and Ottoman Turkey, there are more people than us.
Among the world's major powers, Russia has 10,000 people, the United States has 98 million people, Germany has 67 million people, Japan has 54 million people, Austria-Hungary has 52 million people, the United Kingdom has 45.65 million people, France has 40 million people, Italy has 37 million people, and Turkey has 24.5 million people."
"It seems that our country's population is still too small and we need further population growth and family planning." Pedro said with a sigh.
"Forget it, let's ignore it for the time being. Now let's focus on the planning of the new territory."
"Yes, Your Majesty, the most important thing for us now is the arrangement of the new territory!" When Tony heard His Majesty the Emperor's faint disappointment, he didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only respond indifferently.
"Tony, I have an idea about expanding the territory, that is, the three regions of Galicia, Leon, and Andalusia must be broken up and reorganized."
"Your Majesty, it is indeed important to prevent problems before they occur. I wonder how you will arrange the new administrative district?"
Tony can still understand the behavior of His Majesty Pedro III. After all, this is a new territory, and it is indeed necessary to break it up and reorganize it.
"The Galicia region has the same roots as Portugal and has a deep relationship with Porto. This region can be merged with the Kingdom of Porto to form the Kingdom of Galicia-Porto, with Porto as its capital.
The Leon region must be reduced, and the new Kingdom of Leon is composed of the provinces of Leon, Zamora and Oviedo, with the capital of Leon.
The original city of Salamanca was annexed to the Royal State of Coimbra.
The original city of Cáceres was annexed to the Royal State of Santarém.
The original Badajoz, Andalucia's Huelva, Seville, and Cadiz were merged into the Principality of Algarve to form the Kingdom of Lusitalia-Algarve, and the capital was moved from Setubal to Belize.
elegant."
Tony looked at the map and found that under His Majesty the Emperor's operation, except for Leon and his capital in the original Spain, everything else was annexed by the neighboring Portuguese region.
Of course Tony understands this operation of annexation and assimilation, and doesn't think it's a problem.
However, after looking at the map for a long time, Tony still found something wrong, that is, the capital of the Kingdom of Lusitalia-Algarve was moved from the prosperous Setubal to the backward Beja area.
"Your Majesty, Beja's economy is too backward. I think he is not suitable to be the capital of the Kingdom of Lusitalia-Algarve."
"You are right. Beja is indeed a backward area and is not suitable as a capital.
However, now that Algarve has annexed Andalusia’s Huelva, Seville, Cadiz, and Leon’s Badajoz to form the Kingdom of Lusitalia-Algarve, Beja is geographically closer
They are considered an intermediate point.
Although Beja is backward, as the connection point of the three regions, and with the blessing of the great river Guadiara, as long as the empire invests here, it will be a very suitable integration point and can unite the place more powerfully.
"
"Some of the 1.5 million people in the new territory cannot be kept. All Castilians who have participated in the militia will be expelled.
However, even if these people are expelled, it is estimated that 1 million people can still be retained in the new territory. These three places in Andalusia were taken from Andalusia and do not belong to us in principle. Historically, they are not related to Lusitania.
We don't have a close relationship with the Suebi Kingdom, but they are close to the Mediterranean Sea, so we brought them here.
The Andalusians are not Galicians, they are not Leones. They have little connection with us Portuguese, and there are some differences in various aspects. However, it is not suitable for us to treat them like Castilians. If we do
Yes, this is not conducive to uniting the Imbilia Alliance.
Therefore, when treating people from these three places, we should treat them favorably and slowly assimilate them, and we should not treat them harshly."
The people in Huelva, Seville, and Cadiz in Andalusia are mainly Andalusians, and there are not many Castilians. Of course, we must treat them with gentle assimilation.
Fortunately, in the Imbilia Peninsula, except for the Basques of Navarre, there are actually language differences among other ethnic groups, but if they assimilate carefully, they can still become one.
In later generations of Spain, Catalans and Basques were mainly the ones seeking independence, while the rest were still subordinate to the Kingdom of Spain.
"Education, industry and urbanization are the best means of assimilation. I plan to establish Beja as a center of heavy industry, establish steel plants and other metallurgical industries here, and attract Huelva, Seville, and others with generous wages.
People from the Cadiz area come to work.
The three regions of Huelva, Seville, and Cadiz have a large number of plains, which are suitable for the development of agriculture. In the future, agriculture will be the main area here, and in terms of industry, only wine and food will be retained."
The power of industrialization has always been very strong. It can effectively eliminate the differences between people from different places and assimilate them into a whole.
Liverpool and Manchester City in England absorbed a large number of Irish people who fled the famine and slowly integrated them into England.
Northeast China, Daqing, Fushun, Anshan, Hegang and other heavy industry and resource cities were originally desolate places, but they have absorbed people from all over the world who are very different and integrated them into one.
"Your Majesty, it turns out that the Ang area has been merged with Castile for a long time. Many people think that they are Castilians. If they are expelled, there will be very few people there, which is not conducive to development." Tony was worried.
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“There were originally 300,000 people, so it doesn’t matter if they all leave.
The Laian area is rich in mineral resources and is suitable for industrial mining. Building a number of resource cities here can attract people.
Now that Portugal is implementing a large-scale agricultural mechanism, isn’t it just to drive people towards industry?
Those people in Leon who consider themselves Castilians are gone, and we, the Portuguese, are filling it up, so let us, the Portuguese, develop this place."
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