1908.11.1 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, a middle-aged man with a big beard and full white hair, who has been through many vicissitudes of life, is expressing his gratitude to Tang Ning, while angrily expressing his resentment towards the upper class in Rio de Janeiro.
"Those parrots in Rio de Janeiro are really 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 very well and would agree with him from time to time.
"Mr. Page, what you said 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 there is also mining, but 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, Minas Gerais’ local power is mainly based on animal husbandry, but Brazil’s coffee export industry is the main industry.
On the one hand, this situation was created deliberately by the capital, which took advantage of the coastal states to give priority to 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, Minas Gerais has challenged the Rio de Janeiro gang several times politically, but has failed many times, with few successes, and the successes include 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, but it 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 ten streets away.
In fact, the comprehensive strength of Minas Gerais is not even among the top four in Brazil. 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 good 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.
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Later, the capital of Brazil moved from Rio de Janeiro on the coast to Brasilia, and then moved inland from the coast. Minas Gerais made great efforts.
Tangning 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 Minas Gerais forces, 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 its 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.<
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After the railway was repaired, the large farmers and 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.
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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 land and rich resources, with more than 8 million square kilometers of land and a population of 30 million, but 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 God’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 didn't say anything. They originally supported the king. After all, they were not free republicans, nor were they farmers who relied 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 I didn't come out when the king was in danger was because I was temporarily trapped by the pie drawn by those people.
As a result, the consequences are disastrous.
Those who stand to gain immediately say one thing and do another after coming to power.
The country does not have a decent development plan at all. The good-sounding plans in the past were all ruined, which directly led Brazil to the evil path of coffee planting, almost leading to darkness.
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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 are developing the inland. These people go directly in the opposite direction. How can the inland states be allowed to develop?
It’s hard, why did you come here!
"Mr. Page, the liberal republicans and large farmers are absolutely to blame for the development of the country like this. Land annexation and oppression of the people have simply become their program."
Before taking the stage, he was a warrior, but after taking the stage, the dragon slayer turned into a evil dragon!
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, farmers' lives have become increasingly miserable, and the area occupied by farmers is even greater 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 accounting for 71.5% of the production units only have 15.7 million hectares of land.
There are still more than 50% of farmers who have no land or lack of land."
When Tangning talked about the data, Page was dumbfounded. It never thought that 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?<
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"Your Highness Tangning, Brazil is so big, how come there are so many landless farmers? It's unbelievable?"
Facing this data, Page couldn't believe it.
"Mr. Page, are there coffee plantations in Minas Gerais?"
Minas Gerais has a sparse population and a large area, and of course there are 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.
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