Update time: 2012-08-20

Before Wang Yi came to this era, two Opium Wars broke out. Although only Britain declared war on the Qing Dynasty and France later participated in the war, in fact, there were many powerful powers who took advantage of the situation at that time. It was at that time that Tsarist Russia invaded the Northeast through blackmail. Portugal was not willing to be later and forcibly bullied Macau's sovereignty, but it was rejected. For more than 20 years, they kept occupying villages and towns near Macau, and at the same time imported a large amount of opium into the Qing Dynasty, nearly three of which became smuggled.

Wang Yi did not make a big move for Portugal. He was initially powerless and powerless. After 1880, the Northeast began to rise, but because Wang Yi was planning a colony exchange with Portugal at that time, he always maintained a restrained state and did not show excessive hostility towards Portugal. This was also a forced compromise. Without mentioning the limited influence of Wang Yi's decision-making on the Qing court at that time, he could not give up his territory in Africa. Although he only exchanged colonies with Portugal and changed the territory from the area around the Niger River on the west bank of Africa to the current east coast of Africa, this seemingly simple process saved nearly 50% of the cost for the development of Africa in Northeast China.

However, after this, the relationship between the two sides began to deteriorate. The main reason was that Portugal instigated the former Portuguese people who remained in the Northeast African colonies to rebel and resist the rule of the Northeast. The chaos was quickly calmed down, but the relationship between Northeast and Portugal also took a sharp turn. Now that Macau is happening, the king's eyes are full of cold light.

Speaking of the Portuguese Empire, it is already the yellow flower of yesterday, no longer the domineering spirit it was before. But then again, a small country like Portugal can produce the rise of changing world history and entering the city. From this point of view, Wang Yi was also full of respect for the adventurous spirit of the Portuguese back then.

Portugal was located in the Iberian Peninsula. It was invaded by the Romans BC and became a province of the Roman Empire. In the 5th century, Germanic tribes invaded and were later expelled by the Visigoths. In 711, the Muslim Moors in North Africa invaded and the Visigoth dynasty was destroyed, leaving only Asturias in northern Portugal still in the hands of the Goths. Later, these Goth nobles launched a campaign to regain lost lands and fought against the Muslims in constant war. More than four hundred years later, the Portuguese finally founded the country, and the Portuguese border in modern history was completed in 1270 by King Alfonso III.

The Portuguese, who had suffered a lot, ushered in the glory of the empire in the fifty and sixteenth century. Some of the major geographical discoveries in the world were completed during this period. The Portuguese established a large number of colonies in Asia, Africa and the United States, which were far superior to other European countries in economic, political and cultural terms. The rise of Portugal deeply stimulated other European countries, and they began to catch up. By the end of the 16th century, Portugal's maritime hegemony began to gradually decline.

The most unlucky thing was around 1580. The former king Sebastian was instilled with the idea of ​​eliminating Muslims since he was a child. After the coup in Morocco, he led the expedition in person, but he was gone forever. And because the popular knight concept at that time emphasized that if your king died and you were still alive, you would be shameful, so many people who returned from the expedition were unwilling to tell the truth that the king was dead. So there was such a legend in Lisbon that the king would return on a foggy morning, which inexplicably became a ghost story.

Because Sebastian had not even married, he had no children, so everyone elected the former cardinal cardinal Enrique to inherit the throne. But the problem is that the new king was already sixty-six years old and had followed the former king for more than three years. Originally, he was a temporary slaughter, and everyone wanted him to solve this problem during his tenure, but the wish was not fulfilled. The king, who was named "pure" or was called an old virgin, did leave a suicide note, but he did not designate an heir.

At that time, there were three popular people who inherited the Portuguese throne, Catalina, Duchess of Bragansa, but unfortunately she was a woman. Antonio, the president of the Crato Monastery, was born in a bad family and had an illegitimate son. The remaining one was the current Spanish King Philip II. He was the most powerful and had the strongest naval "Invincible Fleet" at that time. In terms of origin, he was also the grandson of former king Manuelgen Hongmiaozheng.

The nobles tended to be the king of Spain. Firstly, he was strong enough to be considered to be able to resolve the increasingly sharp domestic contradictions in Portugal. Secondly, there was a problem with the spice trade that Portugal relied on for a living, while Spain was constantly transporting back real money and silver in Central America.

Although the process of succession went through some small twists and turns... Well, the illegitimate son, the monastic dean mentioned above, Antonio, ran back to Lisbon with his men to succeed him, while the five ruling ministers left by Enrique signed the throne to the Spanish king. The latter obviously disdained the former, especially when he held a huge army in his hand, so the illegitimate son was driven away, and the Spanish king also became the king of Portugal. In general, this Philip II did a good job in internal affairs. Even if the Invincible Armada was defeated by Britain, there was no big upsurge in Portugal.

In this way, the name Portugal disappeared for sixty years in history, until the Spanish Empire's silver mines in the Americas were exhausted and its national strength declined. The Portuguese nobles took action again and overthrew the rule of Spain. And this time, the king... said that it was also the thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi. The feng shui changed. It was the grandson of the first of the three previous heirs - the grandson of the Grand Duke of Bragansa, a figure who looked like Li Yuanhong in the Wuchang Uprising. His name was Ruo, and he was the current Duke of Bragansa. He was inexplicably entrusted to become king by a group of Portuguese uprisingers.

After that, the history of Portugal was a history of decline. The colonies were attacked by the Netherlands and Britain. The people lived in a difficult situation and began to immigrate to the colonies Brazil. The local population dropped sharply. The most unlucky one was the capital Lisbon. First, in 1755, a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred, and then a tsunami followed one after another, and then a fire broke out, and the entire Lisbon was razed to the ground. Fifty years later, Napoleon captured this place, which was endless and natural disasters, probably because of the evil deeds of the colonies.

However, the biggest blow to Portugal happened more than ten years later!

Previously, due to Napoleon's invasion, the entire Lisbon, even the king and the nobles, became immigrants. It was a bit far-fetched to say that Portugal was a European country, because the capital moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Portuguese aristocrats who were already overjoyed were having a happy life, but in 1820, the Liberal Revolution occurred in the local area. The primary requirement of the new government was to let King Joao VI and the nobles return to their country.


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