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- Lisbon, Portugal.
With the rise of the colonial movement, trade with the East and other parts of the world has become increasingly closer. As the origin of early navigation, Lisbon has also achieved good development.
The port is very busy. Goods from all over the world are gathered here and then transferred to other places.
The largest number of these are goods and slaves from Portugal's colonies in the north and Africa. African gold, silver and ivory are the most popular items, especially ivory. The people of the Ming Dynasty are inexplicably obsessed with ivory. Every ivory can be Sold at a high price here in Ming Dynasty.
As for slaves, this is the most profitable business now.
The cost of acquiring a slave is often so low that it can be ignored, but as long as it is transported to Hong Kong in England or the West Island in the Mediterranean, and sold to the Ming people, these slaves can often be sold for a high price of more than ten or twenty Ming silver coins. .
Especially the white slaves from North Africa were the most popular and sought-after goods in the Ming Dynasty, and could often be sold at higher prices.
The slave trade and colonial wealth greatly stimulated the development of Lisbon, making it prosperous and lively, and also stimulated Portugal's continuous foreign colonization and plunder.
Having a colony overseas often means a steady stream of wealth.
This made the Portuguese, who had failed in both wars, pay more attention to external colonial activities. Without the wealth of the colonies, the Portuguese would have been drinking from the northwest wind.
In the royal palace of Lisbon, King Manuel I of Portugal, who was in the prime of his life, was looking at the world map and fell into deep thought.
Manuel I was an ambitious and accomplished monarch.
Since he ascended the throne of Portugal, he has vigorously supported foreign expansion and maritime colonization, and successively supported Vasco da Gama in opening a route to the Indian Ocean.
In 1500, Cabral discovered Brazil again and established a huge colony in Brazil; the following year, two brothers of the Colt family discovered Labrador.
A few years later, Portugal began to invade the mainland of Tianzhu, established the Goa colony in Tianzhu, and even blocked the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea for a time, monopolizing the spice trade, and obtained huge returns and profits.
It¡¯s just that the days that followed became sad.
First, the colonies in Tianzhu were snatched away by the Ming Dynasty. Not only did they lose the Goa area, but they also lost the spice trade, which was replaced by the Ming Dynasty.
??Then the colonies in South America were wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, and then the entire American continent was swallowed up by the Ming Dynasty.
Then the first war against Spain broke out. Portugal, England and France jointly sent troops to attack Spain.
It went smoothly at first, but Spain was about to be defeated. Who knew that the Ming Empire intervened again, and the powerful Ming fleet directly defeated the Portuguese fleet and bombarded Lisbon.
There was no way. Manuel I could only make peace with the Spanish and lost some colonies in West Africa when the conditions were relatively good.
Later, England, France and Portugal became jealous of the Spanish¡¯s exclusive trading rights with the Ming Empire, and acted as pirates to rob Spanish ships.
牺如 75zworg.com 牺如。The first war with Spain broke out. Once, seeing that they were about to win again, the Ming Empire intervened again, and the Three Kingdoms ended in failure again.
Si minus Si. Portugal not only lost some of its land bordering Spain, but almost all its overseas colonies. It even had to pay huge war reparations to Spain and the Ming Empire.
Fortunately, in the past two years, due to the Ottoman Empire's westward expansion, European countries had to put aside their conflicts to deal with the Ottoman Empire together.
In the end, the coalition forces won the Battle of Vienna, repelled the invasion of the Ottoman Empire, and defended Christendom.
This gives Portugal some breathing space.
Taking advantage of these two years, Portugal has also rapidly carried out colonial expansion overseas, expanding some new colonies and colonial points in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and other places in North Africa.
At the same time, it increased its colonial expansion and intensity in West Africa and regained some colonies.
Through means such as plundering and trading of colonies, it is alsoAfter Isabella's death, her sister Maria married Manuel I. After Maria's death, Maria's sister Juana's daughter Elio Reno married again. Given to Manuel I, it was very chaotic~~), one can imagine the anger in his heart.
Sao Tome Island is an important colony for Portugal to colonize West Africa, but what is even more infuriating is that Spain attacked the Portuguese fleet from behind, directly destroying the fleet that Portugal had assembled with all the efforts of the country. It can be said that the backbone of the Portuguese was instantly destroyed. interrupted.
However, Manuel I had not yet made any decision in anger.
Another minister hurriedly came to Manuel I and said: "Your Majesty, something big has happened~"
"The news just came that the Japanese from the East brazenly sent troops to invade our Portuguese cities of Lagos and Luanda, took away our two most important colonial sites in West Africa, and sold all the Portuguese in our colonies as slaves. To the people of Ming Dynasty."
Mi He Mi. "What?"
When Manuel I heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, looking unbelievable.
The Japanese actually attacked Portugal at this time. Forgetting they had robbed S?o Tom¨¦ Island earlier, they are now coming to rob Lagos and Andal. This is to force Portugal to its death
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