In Europe in the 19th century, if we were to select the most lazy and unenergetic country (nation), Portugal would definitely be the first, Spain could serve as the deputy squad leader, while Austria and Italy would participate in the competition for the third place.

In 1807, when General Juno commanded 30,000 French-army and joined forces with the Spaniards, who were still French ally at that time to besiege Portugal, Prince Joo (later Joo VI) in the palace of Lisbon, with the assistance of many princes and ministers, spent more than five months to study and draw a ridiculous and correct conclusion: the Portuguese army, mainly recruits, should not be able to defeat the elite French army that swept the European powers. Therefore, the royal family and aristocrats decided to move the capital to Brazil in South America.

It is also ridiculous that, after all members of the Braganchai family decided to take refuge in the Brazilian colony, Prince Joao and his mother, the elderly, weak and mentally ill Queen Maria, had not prepared any preparations for the voyage to take refuge in Brazil. It was not until November 27 that year when Juno's army was only a few miles away from Lisbon, that everyone was panicked.

The Portuguese royal family led government officials and thousands of nobles loyal to the Braganchai family gathered towards the port of the Tejo River, causing chaos during their hasty boarding. However, at this time, Prince Joao still had a mysterious fantasy in his mind. He hoped to receive the blessing of the Virgin Mary and let the fierce and uninvited French army be defeated without a fight due to a plague or some kind of catastrophe and leave his country.

As a result, many nobles on the sea boat wandered on the windy and waved Tejo River in an atmosphere of terror and uneasiness, and stayed for almost two days. When the French army blew the trumpet of entering the city, Prince Ruo's crazy and ridiculous thoughts were finally abandoned.

In fact, the Blaganchai family seemed to be grateful to General Juno for being able to escape from Lisbon. The French commander's ignorance and recklessness did not pay attention to the military discipline of the troops at all. He actually allowed soldiers to plunder privately near Lisbon. The slow-moving French army was in vain to delay the best opportunity to attack Lisbon and failed to capture the main members of the Blaganchai family in time.

Three years later, specifically, on the afternoon of August 3, 1810, less than two hours after the Desay Guards successfully captured the entire Monsanto Mountain Pass, the Lisbon nobles learned about the final loss of the defense line.

But this is just news, and there is no bad news at all.

This time, the left-behind government of the Kingdom of Portugal had already made full preparations. In addition to more than hundreds of people who were unwilling to become the rule of the French occupation forces, and boarded the ocean-going merchant ships in advance, the upper class in Lisbon unified their opinions and formulated a plan for peaceful surrender. After all, with the experience and lessons from three years ago, the efficiency of the lazy nobles has finally improved a lot.

According to the deployment of parliament and government, more than 3,000 British troops in the military camp outside Lisbon, who had no time to evacuate were sent out by gifts. These foreigners boarded the British fleet at the port of the Tejo River and left Lisbon. However, some British citizens who were doing business or engaged in government affairs here voluntarily stayed, including Wellington's younger brother, Henry Wellesley, the British Empire's ambassador to the Kingdom of Portugal. It is worth mentioning that due to some reasons within the family in his early years, Henry and his second brother Wellington seemed very bad; in addition, Henry, who had a diplomat, also extremely disgusted with his eldest brother Richard Wellesley, who put aside himself and asked Lisbon to take a series of economic sanctions against Catalonia Aragon.

Soon, a few days ago, those who had been captured by the coalition forces by cunningly, walked out of the prisoner-of-war camp. After regaining all the weapons and equipment, Captain Cedro led this small unit and actually became the first French army to enter Lisbon. Symbol of the Lisbon side's sincere intention, these French soldiers were allowed to line up through the Parliament Square and the Town Hall building, and then outside Lisbon, waiting for the arrival of the Duke of Khruna, the supreme commander of the Desay Division, outside Lisbon.

The next day, on the morning of August 4, the Lisbon delegation headed by Deputy Speaker Marquis Biyero entered the Monsanto Mountain Pass under the control of the French army and began to negotiate surrender with the new conquerors. Under the help of the agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau's intelligence station in Lisbon, Lieutenant Joseph Jacques, who had plenipotentiary representative of Duke Khruna, had secretly sneaked into Lisbon last night and met with Marquis Biyero and others, and had initially reached a package of bilateral agreements.

Among the main clauses, Duke Hruna will make a solemn promise: his French army will abide by military discipline, not illegal private plunder, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the nobles and civilians, respect the religious beliefs of the local people, do not offend the Catholic church, emphasize that personal private property will not be violated, and release the Portuguese officers and soldiers captured by war, etc.;

In return for the above clauses, the noble parliament will represent residents of Lisbon, Barrelu, Batussel and other places to give up resistance and actively submit to the French army. The army (police) of the Lisbon Parliament Government will, under the supervision and guidance of the Desay Division, ban and arrest any organizations and individuals who oppose the occupying army and suppress all irrational behaviors against the French army. In addition, while raising food and fodder for the Desay Division, the parliamentary government will also bear the huge taxes that the occupying army must enjoy...

In addition, the two sides also had an undisclosed secret agreement: Desai and his designated agents would secretly obtain certain public property belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal and the Braganchai family, and confiscate personal property of the resistance nobles and civilians.

As for whether Portugal merged into the Spanish Kingdom under Joseph Bonaparte, Desai was indifferent to this. He only told the Marquis of Biyero, "This should belong to the bilateral affairs between Lisbon and Madrid, and I am not convenient for me to intervene. But when necessary, I will express to Madrid and respect your political demands and interests. There is no rush at the moment!"

The experienced Marquis of Biyero understood the ambiguous statement of the conqueror. He knew that the greedy Duke of Hruna would not stand by the Lisbon nobles and speak for him before he gained enough benefits.

As part of the compromise, the parliament in Lisbon no longer opposed Portugal's surrender to Madrid's Spain, but it was to maintain the political situation on the surface and inform. Even the weakest and incompetent Portuguese aristocracy, no one wanted to be loyal to Joseph Bonaparte's autocratic governor and tax officials from Madrid, came to Lisbon to become his own emperor, and acted as his mighty and prosperous.

Therefore, the Lisbon Parliament and government officials will hope to put it on this conqueror. Because they know the personal conflict between Andrew Desay and Joseph Bonaparte, and the Duke of Hruna has no intention of becoming king in Lisbon, and will not stay in Portugal for too long. Perhaps three months or six months later, the young conqueror will lead his invincible lion to return to the emerging Catalonia-Aragorn Kingdom for the coronation ceremony, and then rush to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, thousands of miles away, to serve as the monarch.

Overall, the peaceful negotiations between Duke Hruna and Marquis Biyero were very frank, friendly and smooth. The two sides had a big dispute on only one content clause, which was the final opinion on the issue of black slaves.

Lisbon always hoped and hoped that the French commander would give up the "Declaration on the Liberation of Negro Slaves" so that the latter would return to the plantation and live happily and work happily under the whip of the slave owner. Desai flatly refused.

He accused loudly: "His Excellency Deputy Speaker, and all MPs, you must understand and believe that the blacks are Andrew Desay's most determined and selfless Allies, and I, both as an honest monarch who keeps my promises, and as a kind liberator on a humanitarian standpoint, must be responsible for their future lives, rather than re-submitting them to hell!"

After saying that, Desai turned around indignantly and left with his hands, leaving a room of Lisbon nobles looking at each other. The delegation members became a little flustered, but soon they turned their eyes to a corner of the room, Lieutenant Jacques, who was the private representative of the Duke of Hruna.

Twenty minutes later, Jacques caught up with Desay, who was walking not far away, and reported to the Duke the final result of the new round of negotiations. The intelligence officer said excitedly: "They have fully agreed to the compromise plan and invite Duke you to enter Lisbon today."

The so-called compromise plan is to the east of the Monsanto Mountain Pass, where the Lisbon Parliament acquiesced the black slavery and is being deposed; to the east, that is, the Lisbon region where it actively surrenders to the Desay Division, retains the current status of the black slavery system. In addition, the two sides will continue to negotiate on the black slavery issue, striving to obtain a satisfactory and decent solution from all parties before 1811.

Desai was not anxious about the invitation from the noble parliament to enter the city. Currently, there are only two troops around Desai, namely the Guards Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade. Due to a series of fierce battles, it suffered a considerable loss, with only more than 4,000 combat officers and soldiers. The above-mentioned forces are not enough to control large-scale occupied areas including Lisbon, Barrelu, Batussel and other cities.

At this time, 12,000 officers and soldiers from General Barbanegel's Third Infantry Brigade, General Bonai's Fifth Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Kerle's Artillery Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel's Engineer Regiment and other follow-up units were still on the way and were expected to arrive tomorrow morning.

So after signing the bilateral peace agreement, Desai informed the parliamentary delegation that he and his army would enter Lisbon at noon on August 5, but tonight, he would stay in the city of Barrelu, south of the Tejo River, across the banks of Lisbon.

Two hours later, Duke Hruna slowly drove into Barrelu in a luxuriously decorated four-wheeled convertible carriage provided by the Lisbon nobles, a beautiful town with unique scenery and fountains. The carriage was pulled by eight horses equipped with parade saddles and bridles, and was surrounded by thirty burly guards and cavalrymen. The guard brigades and cavalry soldiers who had entered the city in advance gathered along the streets, cheering in unison for their supreme commander, and the shouts were deafening, and they spread to the city of Lisbon on the opposite shore.

The city of Barrelu, with extremely abundant water resources, is the most wonderful thing for the cavalry who have endured all kinds of hunger after a long journey, is to wait for the inspection ceremony to run to the fountains on both sides of the streets. The soldiers happily drank the clear spring water that was gushing out, which was the spring water that could make them feel more refreshing and pleasant, and washed away the fatigue after the war.

In this regard, the military police team responsible for military discipline did not interfere much, but only asked the naked guys to return to the military camp after washing their butts. During the whole process, the French occupation forces did not harass the Portuguese citizens who were hiding in the house and not daring to go out.

At the same time, more than a dozen white canvas trucks loaded with gold and silver raised by the Lisbon noble parliament were unloaded one by one in the ferry on the Tejo River. They were driven and escorted by 300 French troops led by Captain Cedro, rumbling along the pebbled road surface, and finally stopped in the center of the square where the Duke of Hruna was staying.

When the division commander came over, the guards lifted the white canvas on all the big trucks, and Desai's eyes were immediately attracted by the silver light and golden silver ingots and gold bricks loaded with cars.

Although these damn dazzling objects had already stinged the conqueror's eyes, Desai was still staring. He hugged the good things in front of him one by one, and then had to put them back on the cart because they were too many and too heavy.

Captain Cedro, who was standing beside him, came forward and reported: "His Duke, this is worth 15 million francs of gold and silver. According to the peace agreement you reached with the noble parliament, the costs of the second batch of occupation forces will be handed over in Lisbon's city!"

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Chapter completed!