Win the Ding 1617

Chapter 488 Selling the Field of the Old Wang Family Next Door

Looking at the three women Yan Meier and Meishan Shilin in the hall, and Ao Lei Yilan who was laughing and running in the yard with two jade doll-like younger siblings, Dahao and Xiaohao, Li Huaxuan felt a sudden feeling in his heart for no reason. A sense of warmth.

In the hall, Yan Meier led a group of maids and sisters Meishan Shilin to pack the clothes and various items for the third son to go out, and kept explaining, when should this dress be worn, which one? Snacks are what San'er likes to eat since he was a child.

Mother hands line, wandering clothing.

According to the family rules of the Li family, all children, no matter if they are born of a famous wife, or those children of orchids and maidservants who are used by guards to solve physical problems on a whim, no matter in which field they come from, the seeds will always be born. It was sown from Shou Han.After weaning, they will all be sent to Yanmeier and enjoy the same living treatment and standard of distribution.

Li Huaxuan grew up in front of Yan Meier.For Yan Meier, like the other children, he sincerely called "Mother!"

"Mom! Don't make too many things. Look, I have something for my second brother. I'll let the boat turn around and go to Guangxi to read my second brother's top-point-novels."

The second elder brother Huaxuan mentioned is Li Huabao, who is building roads in Guangxi now. Because he accidentally offended the Shou Han's Ni Lin, he was "assigned" to Guangxi to build roads. There was news of the suppression of the chieftain's rebellion.People also saw the proud and joyful smile on Uncle's face when he mentioned the second son on different occasions.

Hearing San'er say this, his biological mother, aunt Meishan Shilin and sisters were quite appreciative.However, Yan Meier, the mother, smiled and reprimanded him who was sitting in the yard drinking tea and playing with his younger siblings: "You bastard! Your father asked you to recruit soldiers in the Japanese country. You don't want to do the job well, but What are you thinking about going to Guangxi to see your second brother, this trip will take at least half a month. Are you afraid of delaying your mission and your father getting angry and skinning you?"

His mouth reprimanded, but his face was full of joy.

"Mom, I won't delay my mission. 2 people! Why is it so easy to recruit? Tell Qingbei and the others to contact the Tokugawa family first, and distribute the soldiers. I will just go to pick up the soldiers when the time comes." Yes! And ah! I posted a message to my father. I said that I plan to go to Guangxi to learn Buddhist scriptures. See how my second brother builds roads there, and ask him to borrow some experienced people. This is not public or private. Got it all?"

"Ma'am, Your Highness is right! We are going to learn from His Highness the Second Highness!"

Needless to say, from this weird and stiff accent, but from the short stature of the speaker alone.Hair that has just grown in on the head.The big toe in the pair of sandals on the foot is very wide apart.Yan Mei'er knew that the leader of the soldiers standing next to San'er was from the Wa country.

"Are you from Japan? Japanese?"

Nowadays, there are too many soldiers of various ethnic groups in the Southern Guangdong Army. People have become accustomed to analyzing where soldiers come from from various details such as their strange accents, skin color, face, bones, gait, etc.

"Returning to Madam. It is true that we are from Japan, but thanks to His Royal Highness's kindness, he has already transferred his subordinates to listen to him, and the lord has also rewarded him with a household registration. This time, his subordinates are going back to Japan to help His Highness recruit [-] soldiers from Japan. Ma Tingyong. By the way, bring your wife and children to Hue!"

Hearing that this guy is the leader of the personal army who just arrived at her son's side, Mei Shan hastily ordered the maid to reward him with tea and snacks. "May I have your name?"

"Returning to Madam, the little one's original name was Jingkou Qingbingwei. The Third Highness thought it was ugly, so he changed the villain's name and gave me a Chinese surname. Now the little one is called Qin Bingwei!"

"How much do you want to borrow this time?"

In another courtyard of Uncle Ningyuan's mansion, the atmosphere was not so harmonious.

The colonel of the National Restoration Army, Bai Sawyer, was wearing a resplendent military uniform, but he stood under the eaves like a little daughter-in-law who came to the landlord's house to borrow food.

Trembling, he took out a loan document from the purse in his hand, and handed it to Officer Chengqi at the side with both hands.Through Cheng Qiguan's back, Bai Suoya looked eagerly at Li Shouhan, Li Peilin and other giants sitting behind the table opposite the door.

"Change the name of a small place and give it to us. How can we manage it tens of thousands of miles away? Just relying on this, you plan to borrow 100 million yuan?"

Shou Han shook the loan document presented by the Portuguese Restoration Army in a somewhat sullen voice.

His own trick was exposed, and Baisuoya shivered all over and turned into a piece of jelly.

The idea of ​​handing over Gibraltar to the Southern Guangdong Army headed by Li Shouhan has the meaning of using the powerful combat effectiveness of the Southern Guangdong Army to protect itself.As for how many loans can be exchanged for Gibraltar, this is secondary.

Speaking of this, we have to talk about the situation faced by Gonzalez and others.

In one go, they threw the Spanish flag flying over Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean. When they turned around, they found that the neighbors around them were more careful about guarding against the flag of the Portuguese Restoration Army than the Spaniards. army.

No wonder.

Although Portugal said that based on the continuous domestic riots in Evora and Algarve and the Catalan uprising, the Portuguese nobles planned a conspiracy in November 1640 and won the Duke of Braganza. Ang's formal support. On December 11, the nobles occupied the Royal Palace of Lisbon, executed the Minister of State, forced the Spanish garrison to surrender, deposed King Philip IV of Spain, and made Joao, Duke of Braganza, the new king, called Joao IV.It was officially announced that it would break away from the rule of the Spanish Empire and complete the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal.Moreover, Portugal and all overseas territories except Ceuta declared their allegiance to the new King Joao IV.And established diplomatic relations with Britain, France, Netherlands and other countries.

But in fact, the relationship between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Spanish Empire is still unclear, and private exchanges between the two parties continue.Don't talk about others, it is the new Portuguese King Joao IV himself. His mother and wife are Spanish noble ladies.Do you think such a person can completely break with the Spanish Empire?Does his mother and daughter-in-law agree?If this kind of thing can be done, Comrade Jianfeng's tiger fighting campaign in Shanghai will be successful.

Thus.Such an embarrassing situation has formed within the Kingdom of Portugal: the lower class people support the new king, and they hope to gain the opportunity to change their economic and political status through the war to drive away Spain.Many nobles are hesitant because of their family relationship with Spain (including King Joao IV.) (it is not good to fight too hard with relatives!), only some nobles are firmly on the side of Joao IV and advocate the relationship with Spain Complete break.Most of the bureaucrats in the government agencies support Joao IV, but there are also a large number of people who, after giving impassioned patriotic speeches in public during the day, quietly write a letter of loyalty to the Spanish emperor at night, explaining that they were killed by those people. Hacked by the mob.The bourgeoisie developed through trade mostly remained neutral and waited and watched.The church system was also divided into two distinct factions, the Jesuits supported Joao IV, and the Inquisition sided with Spain.

The emergence of this situation is inseparable from the continuous marriage combination between European royal families for hundreds of years.

From the Habsburg family to the Capet family, there are continuous marriages and inheritances among major families.There are also branches on the trunk of the family.There are other collaterals on the branch.

Take the Capet-Anjou family that currently rules Spain as an example. Although it is only a collateral line, the intricate relationship is enough to make people dazzled.

So, the war between European royal families.It is a battle between a group of cousins, uncles, uncles, nephews, sons-in-law, nephews, uncles, father-in-law, and younger uncles.Finished and tired.Or everyone felt that there was no benefit in continuing the fight, and one or more relatives would come out to smooth things over, and everyone would drink, hunt and dance together.After signing a treaty, the world will be peaceful again. The unlucky ones are the ordinary soldiers who fell on the battlefield.

This kind of war is a bit like playing mahjong between relatives during the holidays. Winning or losing is all about the money.No matter who loses, everyone will eat together in the end.

However, if a wild boy from the next village suddenly comes and says he is a relative of your family, sits at the mahjong table and has a game of Tianhe, and then wants to take the money and leave, you say, the person playing cards on the table and the crowd watching What would you think?

Today, the Portuguese Restoration Army is the wild boy.They have nothing to do with European royal families at all.However, relying on the army that can fight and fight hard, peace came abruptly.Immediately let the European royal families who fought hard, especially the Spanish and Portuguese nobles, pay attention to it.

Everyone wants to see what this guy who came out of the wild is going to do.

Under the watchful eyes of the Spanish, French, Portuguese nobles, and the Ottoman Empire not far away, the leadership of the Zionist Army felt like they were naked among wolves.

After a brief consultation, everyone unanimously decided, first, we must expand outward quickly, and we must not let the people around us react. We must first expand the territory!Second, ask His Royal Highness for help as soon as possible, we want money!Want guns!Want all kinds of supplies!Third, after several battles, the Fuguo Army has discovered the benefits of this group of Japanese volunteers. They are really good things with high quality and low price!It's just that there are only a few thousand people on hand. If you want to complete the great cause of restoring the country and give everyone a title of nobility, you need at least 1 people.

However, if you want to achieve this goal, you have to find a way to impress the Earl's heart.

"Your Highness, in addition to sincerely dedicating to you the territory we occupied, Gibraltar, there are also ten Moorish female slaves and five Spanish noble female captives, please watch."

Suddenly, Baisuoya thought of the gifts he had brought, and stammered to present them to Shou Han.

Um?African Moorish slave girls?Shou Han couldn't help raising his eyebrows a few times.

"Let's put these aside for the time being," Youdao said that officials don't send gifts, let alone gifts that are popular. "Let me ask you, apart from giving this Gibraltar, which was the target of public criticism, to Li Jiakou and gave it to Uncle Ben, do you have any other collateral?" Shou Han's tone softened a lot.

Seeing that His Royal Highness's tone eased a lot, Baisuoya's psychological pressure was relieved a lot, and his mind became more flexible and clear.

"We are willing to completely hand over the colonies of the Kingdom of Portugal in South America to Your Royal Highness, as a reward for your selfless support for our sacred restoration!"

On the other hand, Colonel Baizoa had taken a map of South America from the guards.It is marked with large and small color blocks, and the name is written in Latin. The densely packed text occupies a large area on the map, probably about the construction period, population, military strength, and production of those colonial strongholds.

Administrative regions can be divided, and countries can be established, but the direction of the mountains and rivers on the map cannot be changed by human behavior.

From the location of the colonial stronghold marked on the map, and the nearby rivers and mountains, Shouhan easily recognized the country that in his memory was famous for its samba dance, football, and production of a large amount of iron ore and timber. Oh, and there seems to be a famous crow's mouth.

"These places belong to your Kingdom of Portugal?"

Shou Han pointed at the big and small strongholds above with his fingers.

Grit your teeth.Regardless of the fact that a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.Colonel Baisoya burst out a few words through his teeth.

"Oh, of course, right now, indeed. Yes! It's ours!"

I can hear Baisoya's words.Satisfied, Shou Han leaned back.Sit your body more comfortably.In Shou Han's impression, the Americas, from Mexico to South America, are mostly Latin-speaking countries.Basically all Spanish and Portuguese colonies.Especially Brazil, the relationship between this land and Portugal has continued until World War II.So much so that the Portuguese were able to use the hundreds of thousands of Japanese in Brazil as bargaining chips to blackmail the crazy devils and use them to keep their special status in Macau.

(Oh, but it seems that Peru, another Latin-speaking country, has a devil who became president!)

"We plan to use these strongholds all over the American continent, as well as the rich silver mines, vast forests, and fertile land, to borrow 500 million silver dollars from His Royal Highness the Count to complete our sacred restoration. Our Kingdom of Portugal, It is a country established on the Iberian Peninsula."

"Five million yuan? Too much?"

Li Peilin, who was silent for a long time, looked coldly at the sweat on Colonel Baissoya's forehead and his slightly trembling hands, and suddenly said this sentence.

"Do those lands and cities belong to the Portuguese? Are there still Spanish flags hanging there? You sold us the fields of the old Wang's next door?!" Li Peilin's voice raised an octave, and he was shocked. The expressions of all the people present changed.

so close!Be cheated of millions of silver by this guy!

Baisuoya, who had been dismantled through the diorama, was even more limp on the ground, allowing several soldiers to pick him up from the ground like a dead dog and throw him into the corner, and put two long knives on his neck.

The main worrying minister humiliated the master and humiliated the minister to death. In anger, several guard leaders kept punching and kicking to greet Colonel Baisuoya in front of him.

"stop!"

After fighting for a while, the evil fire of being deceived in Shou Han's heart subsided a little, Li Peilin whispered something in his ear again, the two discussed in a low voice for a while, and then ordered the guards to stop .

For the current Portugal, Shou Han's not too rich historical knowledge is almost blank.The sense of existence of this country is too low.

I just know that although Joao IV became the king of Portugal after independence, he was officially recognized by various European countries. It was only after decades of his son Alfonso VI defeated Spain during his reign that he was gradually recognized by various countries. admit.During the reign of João IV, the Portuguese Empire was plagued by disasters and diplomatic setbacks.The domestic economy is very depressed, and there have been several riots.

Prior to this, although Portugal continued to release goodwill to neighboring countries and powerful countries around it.But no matter how weak the strength is, people don't even look at it.

For the Netherlands, Portugal made a good-faith request for reconciliation.But the peace between the two countries is limited to Europe, and the competition for overseas territories has never stopped.Finally, in 1661, Portugal made a concession in desperation, giving up the overseas territories occupied by the Netherlands at that time, and granting Dutch merchants similar trading privileges to British merchants in Portuguese territories.Until this time, the Netherlands did not recognize the Kingdom of Portugal, and at this time the Netherlands had been abused by the protector for a long time.

The coachmen ignored the Portuguese, and the Gallic rooster didn't care about Joao IV at all.

At the beginning of independence in 1641, in order to ease the huge pressure on them from Spain, Portugal proposed to France to formally establish a multinational alliance against Spain; but the French ignored it.Portugal later lowered the bar to a formal union (i.e., if Spain did not make peace with Portugal, France would also not make peace with Spain);Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War, Portugal, Spain's enemy, demanded a seat in the final peace talks in order to obtain Spain's recognition of its independence and avoid further wars; France, however, did not accept Portugal.The final Treaty of Westphalia (October 30) had nothing to do with Portugal.Even in the Pyrenees Treaty (1648) signed separately by France and Spain, it was clearly stipulated that France did not support Portugal's peace talks with Spain.Portugal has become a bargaining chip in the game of interests among major powers. (Oh, does it look familiar? This kind of plot has been staged countless times in Wei Guangzheng's Republic of China era. It's just that the ones who were rounded were all the Republic of China, and what was changed was just a different attack.)

The diplomacy with Yingyi is even more funny. After Charles I put on two shirts, Joao IV wanted to stay neutral and see what happened, but a group of royalists in the UK used the long-standing alliance between the two countries As an excuse, he led a fleet loyal to the king to anchor in the port of Lisbon, and used this as a base to attack Cromwell's fleet.Frustrated, Cromwell sent a fleet to blockade the port of Lisbon, cutting off the sea channel for Portugal's foreign trade.I wanted to please both ends, but instead got cut at both ends.

In exchange for peace and the support of the British, Portugal was forced to sign an agreement with Lord Protector Cromwell in 1654, opening the trading territories of the Americas, Africa and the East to Britain, offering preferential tariff rates, and even stipulating When Portugal needs to rent foreign ships, it can only rent British ships.Britain also demanded that British merchants in Portugal be allowed to practice their own religion.This is unacceptable for Portugal, a traditionally Catholic country.So Cromwell sailed to Lisbon with the navy to force Portugal to agree to the terms. In 1660, after the end of the Thirty Years War, Spain concentrated its efforts on dealing with Portugal, so Portugal had to seek assistance from Britain again.Tangier in North Africa was given to the British; and if the British could take back those areas in the Indian Ocean that were occupied by the Dutch, those areas would be given to the British; Just split the island's cinnamon trade with the British.In exchange, Britain sent two regiments of cavalry and two regiments of infantry to Portugal; when necessary, Britain would send a fleet to assist Portugal.From then until the period of the First Portuguese Republic, the British had always had diplomatic privileges in Portugal and carried out pervasive economic infiltration.

The more important point is that at this time Portugal has no colonies under its own name in South America at all. (Don’t tell me about Brazil, Brazil is decades later.) Just now Colonel Baissoya represented the Portuguese Restoration Army The transfers were all Spanish colonies, typical of the generosity of others!Brazil, Madeira, etc. were all the territories of the Spanish Empire at that time, bathed in the glory of the emperor. (to be continued..)

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