Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 670
The Viceroyalty of Brazil is the largest overseas colony of Portugal and one of the longest colonies of Portugal.

Its colonial history can be traced back to the 13th year of Ming Hongzhi.

How long is this history?

Behind Hongzhi is Zhengde, behind Zhengde is Jiajing, behind Jiajing is Longqing, behind Longqing is Wanli, and after Wanli is Taichang.

In other words, Portugal had colonized Brazil for more than 100 years by the Taichang period of the Ming Dynasty.

Over the past [-] years, Portugal has built more than a dozen cities in the Brazilian colony, migrated a large number of civilians, and established a stable colonial system with feudal lords as the main body and agriculture as the foundation.

Therefore, although other colonial robbers in continental Europe, including Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France coveted this colony and tried to do it one after another, they still failed to take this huge piece of fat from Portugal.

Unfortunately, in the eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese royal family made a joke about an illegitimate son who wanted to inherit the king.

As a result, as the orthodox grandson of the original Portuguese King Manuel I, Spanish King Felipe II seized the throne of Portuguese King in one fell swoop by virtue of his strong military strength, and Portugal was annexed by Spain!

Can a country annex another country like this?

What's all this mess?

There's no way, there's such a mess among the nobles of the European countries at the moment.

If you want to talk about their kinship, it is really dazzling.

Just like King Felipe II of Spain who annexed Portugal, his biological mother was the daughter of King Manuel I of Portugal, his first wife was the daughter of King Joao III of Portugal, and his second wife It is still Queen Mary I of England, and his third wife is the daughter of King Henry II of France!

As a result, he annexed Portugal and dealt with England and France, both of which joined the anti-Habsburg coalition.

It's nothing, they fought back and forth like this, but it didn't seem to affect them at all.

As a result, King Louis XIII of France married the granddaughter of Felipe II, the sister of the current King Felipe IV of Spain, and the Sun King Louis XIV was the nephew of Felipe IV.

The problem is that France and Spain are still fighting like mortal enemies year after year. The Sun King Louis XIV caught his uncle, the Lord of the Earth, Felipe IV, and beat him up!
This relationship is messed up, it's just a mess.

In short, because of such chaos among the nobles of the European countries, there are many examples of seemingly powerful empires and kingdoms being annexed by people using blood ties.

The most famous of these is that the Sun King Louis XIV asked his son to marry the daughter of his uncle Felipe IV. As a result, his grandson became the king of Spain by virtue of his blood relationship, which made the Spanish Habsburg dynasty directly conquered by France. The Punjab Dynasty was replaced.

This may be the reason why mercenaries or civilians like Deshaela are at a loss.

It is very possible that they repelled the enemy and defended the territory desperately. As a result, their king became the son or grandson of the king of the enemy country!
The Portuguese at this time were so wronged.

They too had fought off the Spanish invasion so desperately that, in the blink of an eye, their king had become the King of Spain!

There is no way, the nobles of the European countries are so chaotic.

At this moment, the Governor-General of Brazil has also been infected by the source of chaos in Europe, and the chaos has become a mess.

The grandmother of the current Governor of Brazil, the Duke of Braganza, is the granddaughter of King Manuel I of Portugal and the cousin of King Felipe II of Spain.

In other words, he is a distant cousin of the current Spanish King Felipe IV, so Felipe IV made him the governor of Brazil.

Originally, he was a very good governor.

Because the land adjacent to the Brazilian Governor's District is all Spanish colonies, Portugal is now a vassal state of Spain, and the Spanish army will naturally not attack them from land.

On the east coastline, wherever there is a port, there are basically castles and fortresses guarding it. It is unlikely that the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom want to fight from the sea.

Of course, this impossibility refers to the fact that it is difficult for France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to fight from the sea and land in the Brazilian colony with the strength of a single country.

Unfortunately, this time it was the coalition forces of the anti-Habsburg alliance.

Prince Condé of France, Governor Minuit of the Netherlands, and Earl Black of England were fooled by Daming, and actually encouraged France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to form a coalition and attack the colonies on the South American continent.

The combined strength of these three countries cannot be compared by a single country.

Because the French army is powerful, and the Dutch have a lot of warships and armed merchant ships, the so-called navy and army from British pirates are also experts in robbing houses.

It can be said that the coalition forces formed by these three countries have a few tricks no matter whether they are fighting naval or land warfare, whether they are facing the enemy head-on or playing tricks behind their backs. It is impossible to be the opponent of Prince Condé, a famous European general.

As a result, the so-called indestructible Brazilian coast defense was quickly sieved by the Habsburg Alliance army.

Seeing that he was invincible, the Duke of Braganza hurriedly asked his cousin Felipe IV for help, but after Felipe IV sent him more than 1 Portuguese servants, he still couldn't bear it.

What else can we do in this situation, is it possible to send real Spanish army elites to support them.

If there's nothing wrong with Europe right now, it's okay to bring the real Spanish army elite to support.

The problem is, Europe is in a war right now.

Spain is at war with the anti-Habsburg coalition.

The anti-Habsburg alliance is not limited to France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Denmark, Sweden, and Tsarist Russia are also European powers at that time. It is impossible for Spain to transfer the real elite army to overseas colonies for support.

After much deliberation, Philip IV could only use the Ming Empire to repel the anti-Habsburg alliance army.

Therefore, he issued a strange appointment, appointing the civilian count Carlinio to succeed the governor of Brazil, and gave him nearly a year to prepare.

This is obviously to ask people to ask for help from the Ming Empire!
Carlinio didn't know it was a trick, so he really went to the Ming Empire to ask for help.

Of course Taichang knew that Felipe IV of Spain wanted to use Ming Dynasty to repel the anti-Habsburg alliance army, and it was impossible for him to be fooled in this way.

Because Prince Condé, Minuit and Black were tricked by him to attack the South American colonies.

His purpose is to let the anti-Habsburg alliance army and Spain consume each other. How could he be fooled by the Spanish king and go to help Spain consume the anti-Habsburg alliance army?
However, Daming's steam engine was stolen by others. France, Holland and Britain seemed to be about to master the steam engine technology. If they were allowed to obtain the resources of the Brazilian colony, it would be a big trouble.

Taichang had no choice but to personally lead the army to deal with these guys.

However, he did not intend to fight desperately with the army of the anti-Habsburg alliance.

Because he didn't need to fight desperately with others, his purpose was just to prevent them from obtaining the resources of the Brazilian colony.

This is actually not difficult.

As the saying goes, "Victory in a hundred battles is not a good man; a soldier who defeats others without fighting is a good man.".

He has a lot of ways to prevent others from obtaining resources, and he will fall behind if he works hard with others.

What Daming wants to do is to be a fisherman, not a snipe and a clam.

The Spanish snipe and clam want to be a fisherman, but there is no way!

(End of this chapter)