Chapter 101 New Era Part 33: El Salvador (Part 1)
El Salvador, the Portuguese word for "savior", is now the capital of the Kingdom of Brazil.
Located on a hill in the southeast corner of Santos Bay, the city walls are tall and sturdy, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The Brazilian colony of Portugal was constantly eroded by Britain, the Netherlands, France and Spain. When its native king changed hands, José II, who was regarded as the true successor of the Braganza dynasty, became the king of Brazil.
If it is not the queen, the erosion of these countries will become more and more serious.
Although the Netherlands is extremely weak, the West Indian company is still somewhat powerful.
Fortunately, the Truchen Empire recognized Jose I's rule in Brazil. After hundreds of years of immigration, Brazil has already had millions of white people, and the mixed-race descendants of whites and indigenous people, which is probably three million.
It's so great that even if other countries want to erode such strength, they cannot achieve it overnight.
When Truchen enters, the erosion stops temporarily.
Jose II was born in the most bizarre Jose I family. His mother was Jose I's eldest daughter, but his father was Jose I's younger brother!
So, how did Jose II call this person?
Of course, what is even more bizarre is that without Truchen's intervention, he would marry his aunt Benetita, the woman who first married Timur and later married Qitad.
Such a background led to his weakness and illness since childhood. After marrying a woman from the Ruoze family, it should be his cousin's woman. On the surface, it seems that she is kinship, but in fact it cuts off his birthday.
The possibility of any healthy offspring.
His princess was obviously also a product of intimate marriage. She died of illness shortly after she married him.
Strangely, since his mother Maria I and his princess died one after another, no one cares about him, so he simply married a mixed-race Indian woman. This time he was lucky and successfully gave birth to a son.
But his good luck ended here, just last year he got smallpox!
After learning this news, from the perspective of Qitad, if the only heir of the Jose family (in the eyes of Europeans) died, he would be able to take over Brazil as Jose's son-in-law, but in the end he could hold it back.
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People's hearts are not enough, and they both have Long and look forward to Shu. Moreover, there are still two million white people in Brazil who firmly support the Jose family, quasi-white people!
What's more, once this happens, the Truqin Empire will truly become the target of public criticism of the whole of Europe. No matter how you move, it will probably not work, because at least the Pope will not allow it.
He is not afraid of the new Crusade, but the more land the better, although the temptation of this land in Brazil is indeed too great.
Instead of taking Brazil, it is better to seize another more suitable land from Spain, which has controlled the entire South America besides Brazil.
In the end, he decided to treat Jose II. Among the only Truchenist in the world who mastered the technology of conquering smallpox virus, Jose II was miraculously rescued.
Although he was puzzled by the sudden death of his mother and other relatives, and was also dissatisfied with his cousin William's inheritance of the King of Portugal, he still held back.
Without Truchen, he would have died long ago.
His Indian wife successfully gave birth to a son for him also changed his attitude towards the Indians in the country, believing that they were sent by God to save him.
Therefore, Brazil was still good for the Indians at this time and did not massacre like in history.
Without Indians, a large number of black slaves captured by Portugal in various African colonies were affected. Black slaves did not obey their master's instructions completely and honestly. There was also a great black slave uprising in the last century.
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However, as the pagans took control of the land, some Portuguese nobles brought their families to Brazil. Jose II divided them into key places one by one, and the whites in the past barely stabilized the situation.
For Jose II, the Truqins can only be considered half of the savior, and the biggest savior is naturally the Indians, because if he died, the Truqins would definitely take advantage of the situation. Now it is different.
The Christian descendants of the Duke of Braganza were born.
God will protect Him.
The city of Salvador is built on the mountain to resist attacks from pirates and other European countries. On the inner city and at the foot of the mountain are outer cities built on the foot of the stone mountain. This is a strange existence in the European colonial world. At first glance, I thought Japan
The Tianshou Pavilion is highlighted in the Americas.
Although he was rescued, Jose II, who was twenty-three years old this year, was still sick. He obviously could not control the huge Brazilian kingdom, so he could only transfer the power to his ministers.
After the Braganza dynasty came to power, it married three major aristocratic families in Portugal, namely the Suarez family, the Guimarez family, and the Alves family.
After taking control of Brazil, since the population there was almost the same as the local area, all three major families were granted to Brazil to assist the prince of Brazil. After Jose II arrived, he could only rely on the three major families to rule.
Nowadays, Guimaraes is the one who serves as prime minister, Suarez is the Field Marshal and Alves is the Marshal of the Navy.
Three other famous cities in Brazil: Recife, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo are the fiefs of these three.
In fact, with the loss of the local area, it doesn't matter whether the Jose family is king. If it weren't for the strong support of the Truchens, it would be possible that these three major families would have divided Brazilians.
Therefore, although he was extremely disgusted with the pagan Qitad family in his heart, when he learned that Truchen's steam fleet was heading south on its first large scale, José II dragged his sick body to greet them in El Salvador.
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Obviously, although Jose II's mental state is not good and he is usually sick, he finally retains a hint of Qingming Festival on the spiritual platform.
Of course, another surviving adult of the Jose family, former Archbishop Joao resigned from his position in Portugal and his care and suggestions for his nephew and grandson after he changed to the archbishop of Brazil were also one of the reasons.
Naturally, El Salvador also has Truchen's store, which is nominally a store specializing in purchasing mahogany. In fact, it is also a communication station, and it also carries the task of storing coal, fresh water, grain and vegetables.
When they learned from their mouth that the fleet was about to arrive in the next two days, Jose II's excitement and expectation still prevailed.
Now, when the first wisp of black smoke appeared on the sea, he came down with the help of his servant to the wall of the mountain city near the sea.
In order to welcome the Truqin fleet, he also recruited all three major families who seemed to be becoming more domineering in recent years. It was obviously because he wanted the Truqins to support him.
Slowly, the fleet's figure became clearer and the black smoke over the sea became thicker. With a long sound, the fleet gradually approached the exit of Santos Bay.
Looking at this huge fleet, standing next to Jose II, Joao, who had seen the iron-clad fleet, looked very complicated, but he quickly returned to normal.
Chapter completed!