"I believe Mr. Page should be able to understand the population needed for animal husbandry and agriculture.
Although animal husbandry uses a lot of land, it is not sophisticated. Moreover, Brazil has a lot of land, and a lot of it is not suitable for agriculture at all, but for animal husbandry.
Herding cattle and sheep only requires a small number of people with herding dogs and some tools, but agricultural planting is a delicate job, which requires many people to work.
Those farmers don't have such good intentions. Many of their lands were deliberately annexed, and many farmers went bankrupt in this way.
King Pedro abolished slavery, but these liberals and planters welcomed them back, which is different from what they said!"
When Tang Ning said this, she had some meaningful words.
"Many farmers have lost their land, but farmers don't need so many people. They only need some people to run the estate.
The extra landless people have moved into the cities, but there are not so many jobs for them in the cities, so many poor farmers have become paupers, and then stay in harsh slums and live a hellish life.
These landless farmers want to enter the interior, but Mr. Page should also know how Rio de Janeiro deals with the interior states. They do not want the interior to have too many manpower to develop more resources.
Now in Rio de Janeiro, a city of nearly one million, more than half of the people live in slums. Can you imagine how ironic this is?
In the capital of a country, half of the people are living in dire straits, but what about the rest of Brazil?"
The answer is actually obvious.
The capital has become like this, what about other coastal cities?
Brazil is a country that specializes in coffee. How can there be any decent industry? Other industries cannot absorb too many people.
The tourism and service industries of later generations, let alone Brazil today, are almost nothing.
The tourism industry has no money, and the service industry has limited space. There are so many jobs for the landless and unemployed.
"This country is in a terrible state, but the military is tightly controlled by these upper-level officials, so what capital do the people have to resist?
I think the state of Minas Gerais should have a deep understanding of it. The people of Minas Gerais were the pioneers of the Portuguese to open up the interior of Brazil. They are full of martial virtue and their courage is respectable.
Logically speaking, Rio de Janeiro should respect Minas Gerais, but do they respect it?
Why don't they respect you? They are blatantly restricting the state of Minas Gerais. Mr. Page should know the reason, right?"
"Alas! Your Highness, we are indeed afraid of Rio de Janeiro, but we are not afraid of their people, but of their legal system and advanced weapons."
Minas Gerais, why can’t it beat Rio de Janeiro? Of course Page has a clear shot.
Being inland, exchanges with Britain, France and other countries are inherently limited, and since it is not a central government, its natural capital is limited.
Rio de Janeiro can provide everything Minas Gerais can provide, and Rio de Janeiro can provide what Minas Gerais cannot provide.
Moreover, Mizhou is not united. Although the pastoral industry is the main force, there are still many local coffee plantation owners, and these people are dependent on Rio de Janeiro.
Most of the coffee plantations in Mizhou are controlled by Rio de Janeiro, but there are still some locals. If the locals want to export coffee, they don’t have to look at the face of the capital, so they listen to them.
Want to buy advanced weapons? Give Mizhou strength.
There is no door. At most, you can smuggle a few guns, but that is nothing.
Rio de Janeiro is very strict about the armament of Minas Gerais. Although you may have some guns, you don't even think about cannons and the like.
Minas Gerais has a lot of weapons and equipment, even those from the Napoleonic period. How can this be the same as Rio de Janeiro?
"Mr. Page, what do you think of my manor's armaments?"
Seeing Paige being hurt and disappointed, Tangning suddenly asked a very mysterious question.
Many estates in Brazil have private armed forces, and Tangning is no exception.
Page has been in Sao Paulo state for a while and found that industry, commerce, and agriculture are very good here, and some private military forces, personnel and weapons are very good.
"His Royal Highness is very wealthy and his armed personnel are very well equipped.
I have never seen many weapons, but when I was hunting, I used them, and the performance was indeed very good, better than any weapon I have ever seen, including the army."
Tangning had not entertained Page in person before, but in order to show her hospitality, she asked her subordinates to take him around for sightseeing, including hunting.
Tangning did not respond to Peggy's compliment, but continued to ask a question.
"Mr. Page, how are the security company personnel of the Belo Horizonte-São Paulo Railway? Are there any robbers who dare to rob?"
Tangning's words clearly have some profound implications for Page.
"The whole journey I took by train to Sao Paulo was very safe. The railway company's security was very good."
Brazil is not a peaceful country at this time, especially after the actions of the republican government, there are landless and unemployed people everywhere, it is simply a small republic.
To live, one needs to eat!
Without land and jobs, the poor people can only take gray and black routes and embark on the road of crime.
The thieves, kidnappers, and gangsters in the city.
Horse thieves, bandits, thieves in the wild.
In some densely populated areas, some remote rural estates, and some traffic arteries, there are many gray and dark forces hovering, and it is difficult to live without a little hard land.
There are a lot of factories, farms, and pastures owned by the Braganza family, which require a lot of force to defend, and the railway company is an elite guard.
Railways in this era are actually mainly privately owned and rarely built by the state. It is very powerful to open a private railway company.
However, many private railway companies are pooled funds, but the railway built by Braganza connecting the Mibao capital Belo Horizonte to Sao Paulo is a rare sole proprietorship.
Since it is a wholly-owned private railway company, Tangning must be very secretive and very capable of hiding.
"Mr. Page, do you know how many people there are in the Brazilian Army?"
When Tang Ning said this, she was actually trying to reveal her true feelings for Sima Zhao.
When Paige heard this, her heart trembled, and she roughly understood Tangning's intention.
"The Brazilian Army has about 20,000 people!"
That’s right, a big country with an area of 8 million square kilometers.
The Brazilian Army only has so many people!
Since the fall of the Kingdom of Brazil, Brazil's army has been maintained at around 20,000 people, never exceeding 30,000 people. Even when it later participated in World War I, the army only expanded to 54,000 people, and there was still a lot of empty airspace.
Loud.
Unlike the Republican period, the army of the Kingdom of Brazil rarely fell below 50,000.
In particular, in the wars and armed conflicts between the Kingdom of Brazil and Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina, the Brazilian army has always suppressed them and rarely suffered losses.
In South America, Brazil is the natural father, and those small countries from Spanish colonies are sons.
Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, as long as they are neighbors of Brazil, which country dares to compete with Brazil on territory.
The Kingdom of Brazil, with its rich military virtues, fell into disrepair after becoming a republic. It was actually reduced from the boss to one of the three pillars, on the same level as Argentina and Chile.
After the founding of the Republic, in order to show goodwill to Britain and France and to show that it had no ambition for expansion, and to weaken the military's strength, the government carried out large-scale disarmament.
The effect of disarmament was very good. When the armies of other South American countries rebelled and established military governments, Brazil was still a republican government. Brazil's first military government would not be established until 1964, 20 years after World War II.
"Mr. Page, our armed force in Braganza in Brazil is no less than 30,000 people, and the railway company alone has 8,000 personnel."
"Hiss!" Page took a cold breath.
Braganza is so scary!
"We in Braganza have a very good relationship with the British royal family, and Portugal and the United Kingdom are long-term allies.
We will still do the coffee trade, and we will do it better than the Republican government."
Tangning just opened the window to speak out, started pulling people on board, and started telling some of her cards!
"Not just coffee.
We in Braganza will vigorously develop tea, cocoa, bananas, wheat, etc., and the traditional planting industry of spices and sugar cane will also be restored and supported. In short, we will expand the scope of agricultural planting.
In order to improve agricultural productivity, we have decided to develop the western region, allowing farmers to develop inland states, implementing land to the tiller, and benefiting everyone.
In addition to agriculture, animal husbandry will also develop, and woolen textiles, which are rarely developed, will also be processed, and these products will be imported into Europe through family channels."
Tang Ning only talked about agriculture and animal husbandry in a superficial way, and did not talk about other in-depth aspects such as industry, politics, and economy, and there is no need to talk about it.
"Mr. Page!
Do you think Brazil is better as a kingdom or as a republic?"