"Portugal is also in chaos. 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.
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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 against 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?"
Father Francisco, who is not as ambitious as Tangning, 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 vigilant about rejecting him.
My father's reputation is very good in the Kingdom of Portugal, which makes many people have a favorable impression of him. They still have expectations for the power of the monarch and the nobility. They are hesitant about the actions of the republicans and cannot fully support him."
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 feel very unbalanced and want to take back some colonies.
But they don’t want to pay the price to take back the colony.”
"Humph! These republicans are really pushing themselves too hard. They are not good at it themselves, and 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 will give us Mozambique and the Far East colonies, which are far away from Europe, have rebellions from time to time, and have weak control, as debt relief and mortgage them to us.
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 you 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, can obviously be managed well, but I didn't find out where they operate it. Angola has always been exploited by them.
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!"
Portuguese Republicans, these scum, will definitely be purged of these people when Miguel's Braganza royal family returns to power in Portugal.
They are so arrogant, give them a notebook now and spit it out with profits later.
"Brother, they are so shameless."
Helen thought about the shameless behavior of those republicans before she left Portugal, and she cursed with anger.
"Before I left Portugal, these people actually wanted to give them some of the Little Sunda Islands in East India that our family had just acquired from the Dutch."
"Little Sunda Islands, where are they?"
Tang Ning is not a geography expert, but she didn’t know that this place is so tiny.
"The Lesser Sunda Islands, located north of Australia.
The specific location is a series of small islands from Bali east of Java Island in Dutch East India to the Portuguese Timor Island controlled by our family."
It turns out to be Bali and Timor!
Bali, a famous tourist destination in the world, is the place with the oldest Hindu culture in the Indonesian archipelago.
This small island has charming scenery and magnificent scenery. It is a scenic spot and was very popular in his era. Tangning has been there and it is 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."
"Selling it to us, what happened to the Helan people? It can't be so unprovoked."
The Netherlands is an old capitalist country and cannot sell things for no reason.
"The trouble the Dutch caused in Bali has spread throughout Europe, and now they have a 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 have always believed that the East Indies belong to them.
But they had nothing to do with the British, so they could only expand in other places and try to capture all the islands.
Bali is 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 brutal behavior were focused on exporting by the European media."
Resist without 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 all come 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 remarkable.
"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 the Netherlands sell to us?
I remember that Germany was expanding everywhere and wanted land, and 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, Bali and other small islands were sold to us for 10,000 pounds."
"Master, do you know why?"
Why was the Netherlands not sold to Germany? Of course Tangning knew who was behind the operation.
"It should be the British and the French who have done a good job.
Now that Germany is getting stronger and stronger, Wilhelm II is also very arrogant because of this, 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 don’t want to use a place like Bali. After much deliberation, they can only give these small islands to Portugal.”
This chapter has been completed!