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Chapter 102: Part One of the Portuguese Succession Battle: Lisbon Cathedral

Bogler, Qitade's father-in-law (father of the concubine Abahai), formerly adopted son of Datai Jizamuyang of Heshuo Special tribe,

Cossack was born and served as the commander of the Marine Brigade in Egypt. Unfortunately, he was poisoned by his subordinates. After being rescued, his health was worse than before. He was transferred to a civilian. Now he is the ambassador of the Truqin Empire to the Kingdom of Portugal.

Baogler is forty years old this year, looks like a typical Slav, with golden hair, adopted by Zamuyang

When he was a gypsy, he was still an orphan who wandered around. After being adopted, he had the dual colors of Orthodox and Lamaism.

After being absorbed into Truchen School, especially after studying intelligence at the Military and Political School, he transferred to the Marine Corps. It was originally a promising future, but unfortunately a serious illness made all this a bubble.

However, after moving to the ambassador position, he seemed to be regaining his glory.

The multiple identity background made him keenly realize that although the country is just a small country in Europe, its importance is no less than that of a big country like France and Spain.

After Queen Maria's family was shipwrecked, he immediately received a telegram from Chitard himself, which made him more aware that his chance had come again.

The last major earthquake almost flattened Lisbon. After receiving the support of Truchen's one million silver coins, the decades of reconstruction work finally ended perfectly, but the Porto earthquake also affected here. Although it was not as good as the last time, it was also seriously damaged.

However, the Lisbon Cathedral built by the Truchens still stands in the city in a flawless posture, which makes the Portuguese look at Truchen's engineering technology again.

Nowadays, a fierce debate about the inheritance of the Portuguese throne is being held here, and those participating in the debate are all important figures in the Kingdom.

They are:

Former Prime Minister Sebastian, Marquis of Pompal, is 81 years old this year. His wife is the daughter of Austrian famous general Dawn.

The current Prime Minister, Marquis of Braga, Malik, is fifty years old and also serves as the Landing Marshal.

The Marshal of the Navy, Cardillo, who was a civilian from the age of 60, served as the governor of the Far East (India, Macau, Timor Island Colony) and was named Viscount Visseu by José I.

Cardillo was a seaman and made great contributions to the East African colonies of Portugal. Later, with the assistance of the Truchens, he stabilized the situation in Diu Port and laid a solid foundation for the final victory of Gujarat, the entire West India state of Gujarat.

Since Portugal gave Goa as a dowry to Truchen, Gujarat became Portugal's only colony in India.

Due to the weak power of the Portuguese primary school, without the assistance of the Truchens, it would be obvious that they would not stand firm under the siege of the British, Marathas, and Gujarat kings. Not to mention taking Gujarat, it would not be easy to stabilize the status of Diu Port.

After taking Gujarat, he was named viscount for his merits and became the governor of the Far East in one fell swoop. After Jose I's death, he returned to the country and became the marshal of the navy.

Malik is a Porto native, and his sphere of influence is also in the Porto area. However, Porto is now shattered by earthquakes and tsunamis. Many of his people have died. If you want to gain a foothold in Portugal, you must rebuild Porto, but where does the money come from?

The elderly Sebastian's sphere of influence is in the Lisbon area, and he relies on African colonies, where almost all the people are his confidants.

What's more, when Sebastian served as prime minister, his main move was to abolish slavery, but obviously only abolish local slavery, and overseas are not listed. However, his move obviously violated the interests of more than 100 local nobles, all kinds of people.

According to his reform, after the abolition of slavery, each noble who owned the castle could only retain one-third of the farmers who supported them, and all the remaining ones were abolished and unified into the state management, and the army would also be selected from these civilians.

This made the interests of the nobles weakened again. Nowadays, it was the era of great colonialism. According to the previous practice, the Portuguese nobles could expand everywhere with their knights, as long as they claimed to be the territory of the King of Portugal, but now they cannot.

The large decrease in serfs means that the knights also decrease in a large number. The reduced knights either enter the army or enter the urban administrative system, but in fact they become kings directly. With the remaining knights alone, the nobles naturally cannot expand to the outside world.

However, in Africa, the Portuguese still had the largest number of colonies, and the climax of dividing Africa would have to wait until the 19th century. Now it was still when the Portuguese were still in the dominance, and most of the generals of all sizes there were appointed by Sebastian when he was in power.

The lords of all sizes under the governor were Lisbon nobles before the reform, so they naturally had no sense of Sebastian's reform, because they had already gained vested interests - slaves, minerals, gold, port supplies and other benefits, which had already made them profit.

Cardillo's sphere of influence is obviously the Governor of the Far East. By the way, the current Governor of the Far East is not only Gujarat, Macau, Timor Island, but also Mindanao given by the Truchens.

As for the fattest Brazil, it was naturally held by the king himself.

The shipwreck just reached Lisbon. Facing the critical juncture of the king's termination, Cardillo immediately realized that if he wanted to continue to become a noble family in Portugal, he had to hold on to Truchen.

So, he reported it to Baogler as soon as possible.

This news will sooner or later reach Spain, France, and Austria, but it is much slower than the Truqins' telegrams, so the Truqins can take measures first.

Although he is a viscount or a marshal, it is still a humble existence for Sebastian and Malik, which has been passed down for hundreds of years. If Cardillo had not always shown his relationship with Truchen intentionally or unintentionally, such a secret meeting would have obviously not been allowed to attend.

In addition to these three people, there is another important person, namely the Archbishop of Lisbon, Joao, for him, rebuilding the Porto Cathedral is more important than anything else, because in his opinion, without the cathedral, his congregation will be farther from God.

Joao is also a member of the royal family. Although he is a side branch, he must be on the side of the Bragansa family.

For Malik, without Porto, he had to catch Prince Henry. At present, Prince Henry is the governor of Africa. Although Africa is the sphere of influence of old Sebastian, the governor was appointed by Maria I.

He wanted to make money from the Truchens, but he didn't want the children born to Quitad and Princess Anna, and Princess Benetita to inherit the throne. This is what he was extremely worried about.

What is beneficial to him was that the major nobles in the territory really hoped that Prince Henry would return to power and restore the Avis dynasty. That was the golden age of these nobles.

For Sebastian, it is natural to welcome Prince Jose, Brazil to succeed the king. Jose is a trivial descendant. If Jose is welcomed back, Brazil can be nationalized, which will greatly enhance the strength of the kingdom.

However, Sebastian also knew Jose's sick look very well, not to mention that he has no children at the moment.

Although Sebastian presided over the reform, he was an old-school nobleman. He was very uneasy about the influence of the Truchens on the kingdom, especially when he saw the dome of the Lisbon Cathedral, which was once a large Qing Dynasty mosque in the Arab Empire.

From this cathedral, he thought of the Arabs who invaded hundreds of years ago, and then the Truchens who were also pagans.

"We must not break the European Catholic tradition"

In this case, due to his wife's relationship, he prefers Austria. As for the Spaniards, they are actually more qualified. However, the hundreds of years of struggle in the war of succession to the throne made both sides actually hate each other. Moreover, they have only been independent from the Spanish rule for more than a hundred years. How can they repeat the same mistake?

He presided over the reform at that time, on the one hand, naturally to strengthen national strength and free the country from its dependence on aristocrats. He also had no intention of not getting rid of the "Spanish" country.

Because in the eyes of Europeans, Spain and Portugal are almost all old and stupid empires. If you want to reverse this impression, you must do something different from the Spanish.

Sebastian, Malik and Joao fought for a long time, only Cardillo remained silent.

However, the three of them seemed to not take him seriously and ignored him. After all, Sebastian was old and weak. After arguing for a while, he finally got tired. He asked for water from his followers in the distance. Only then did he notice Cardillo sitting in the corner.

Perhaps to ease the tense and intense atmosphere, or perhaps to condom the Truchens' tone, Sebastian said: "Cardillo, why don't you speak?"

Cardillo then said, "I have nothing to say, but I need to remind you"

"First, the news of the death of Her Majesty the Queen's family will soon be spread. According to the temperament of Carlos III, Joseph II, Louis XVI, as soon as you hear this news, the warships will be sent in three days, and the Spaniards will even send large troops by land."

"Instead of discussing aimlessly, it is better to think about how to deal with these foreign forces first"

"Secondly, the country has been robbed again. Hundreds of thousands of people have no place to live, no food, and a large number of corpses are not buried. Calamities may be caused at any time, and you also need to find a way to deal with them."

"At present, our country has only one army, and is still scattered throughout the country, with only one small fleet of sail warships, and there are only ten ships in total"

"Whether it is Spain or Austria, once they come with their troops, they will not come in politely, but will talk about the issue of inheritance of the throne after taking advantage of the situation. The battle of inheritance of the Polish throne, the battle of inheritance of the Austrian throne, and the battle of inheritance of the German kings all illustrate this point"

"Especially Spain, the treasure ship they returned from Peru last year was robbed by the Nordic pirates in the North Sea, and it was when the national treasury was empty"
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