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- ¡°Lagos and Luanda were also lost?¡±
Manuel I¡¯s eyes were red, he grabbed the visitor and asked fiercely, like a wild beast that chooses people and devours them.
"Lost~"
"It was the Japanese who did it. Their two fleets attacked Lagos and Luanda. Our two most important Portuguese colonies on the Gold Coast were gone."
The minister nodded and replied, his heart bleeding.
Portugal¡¯s overseas colonization and overseas trade are generally supported by the royal family or big nobles and big businessmen. They all have shares in these overseas colonies.
Now that it has been robbed by the Japanese, it is equivalent to losing important property all at once.
"Japanese people~"
Manuel I quickly came to the map and found the location of the east, and soon found the location of the Japanese country.
¡°Forget about robbing us of Sao Tome Island, now they are robbing us of Lagos and Luanda, and they are also selling us Portuguese as slaves to the Ming Empire.¡±
"They made the stupidest decision, and I will definitely make you regret it!"
When Manuel I said this, he almost gritted his teeth with hatred.
Portugal has very few colonies left in West Africa. The remaining colonies and colonial points are the most important wealth in Portugal's hands.
All of a sudden, S?o Tom¨¦ Island disappeared and was occupied by the Spaniards, and then Lagos and Luanda disappeared and were occupied by the Japanese.
What is even more disgusting is that in the past, according to the Papal Meridian, the area east of this meridian belonged to the Portuguese colony, and the west belonged to Spain.
Now, everyone is flocking to the African continent to the east. Portugal, which is small and weak, cannot compete at all. It can only watch other countries' colonial strongholds and colonies blooming everywhere in West and North Africa. own colony and trading space.
Originally, Portugal could live a good life happily relying on overseas trade and overseas colonization. However, now, Portugal, which does not have any advantages, is in an increasingly difficult situation.
¡°Everyone, tell me, how can we take back our own colony?¡±
After the anger, Manuel I quickly regained his composure.
Anger has no effect. Only when you calm down can you find a way to take back everything that belongs to you.
"Your Majesty, for the present plan, the only way is to form a powerful maritime fleet as soon as possible. Without a powerful maritime fleet, we are not qualified to take a share of the golden coastline."
Duke Afonso thought for a while and said.
"Hmm~"
King Manuel I nodded solemnly, but when he thought about the cost of building a ship and the huge amount of money it took to build a fleet, he couldn't help but feel distressed.
Portugal is poor!
ãá minus 75¡¡zw. com ãá. At least Portugal during this period was really poor.
The previous two wars were defeated by Spain. Although the father-in-law did not embarrass Portugal too much for the sake of his son-in-law, he only gave some symbolic land and some compensation. If, like England, it faced huge war compensation, Portugal would Even worse.
But it was still a huge expenditure, which put huge pressure on Portugal. What's more, the cost of the two wars was very huge, and the military expenditure was not a small amount.
¡°There is not much money in Portugal right now. That is to say, we can make some money back through overseas colonization and overseas trade. Otherwise, if we want to build a new fleet, just dream.
"It is definitely necessary to form a new fleet~"
"Without a powerful fleet, we can only shout angrily on the Iberian Peninsula."
Manuel I thought for a moment and then said: "Since the Spaniards and the Japanese did not follow the rules and the principle of first come, first served, and arbitrarily attacked and seized other people's colonies and wealth, and they committed piracy first, then Don¡¯t blame us for being rude.¡±
"We have lost Lagos and Luanda, and we have several colonies here in West Africa. We have nothing to lose. In this case, let's just go ahead. If you don't follow principles, then we won't follow principles either."
"Contact me England and France, as well as the Netherlands and Denmark."
"If you eat our Portuguese food, I will make you spit it out twice as much."
"Your Majesty, you want to learn"
When Duke Afonso heard this, he immediately understood what Manuel I meant.
? ?nbsp; The disastrous defeats in two consecutive wars caused England to not only lose two important pieces of land, one to the Ming Dynasty and the other to Spain, but it also suffered heavy war reparations.
The annual war compensation of millions of taels is undoubtedly a heavy mountain for poor England.
For this reason, Henry VII had to ask the Holy See for help, borrowing money from the Holy See to form an army, and then using the domestic noble rebellion as an excuse to gradually clean up these large feudal nobles in the country and rob them of their Wealth can barely support it.
"But the nobles will always run out of loot. The key is to find ways to increase external income to support pirate robbery. This is England's long-standing cunning operation.
Now it would be better to form an alliance with Portugal, a maritime power.
In the wave of carving up the colonies in North Africa and West Africa, the English were lagging behind. There were only two pitiful colonies in West Africa.
¡°However, even the two colonies gave Henry VII a taste of the sweetness of plundering the wealth and population of the colonies, and he naturally would not let go of the opportunity now.
At the same time, Louis XII of France also received the Portuguese envoy at about the same time to discuss Portugal's proposal.
The French also expressed a strong interest and readily agreed to form a maritime robbery alliance with the Portuguese. They also agreed to cooperate in developing colonies in West Africa and North Africa, making joint efforts, sharing benefits, and sharing the proceeds equally.
As for the Danes and the Dutch, they readily agreed to the Portuguese proposal.
These two small countries are weak and unable to seize colonies and wealth overseas on their own. Now that someone is taking them, there is no reason to disagree.
Mi He Mi. So very quickly, in less than two months, a pirate alliance was quickly established, and soon they were ready to make a big deal
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