Why did the British send a fleet to blockade the port of Lisbon?

In fact, this is the bitter result of King João IV's illness, who sent messengers everywhere to ask for help, only the British responded and expressed their willingness to help them.

At first, he was still excited, he thought that he had finally found a savior, and as a result, the emissary sent by the British put the conditions open, and he immediately regretted it, because the British conditions were too outrageous, not only all overseas colonies should be opened to them, but also to share their interests, but also sent out a few colonies to them, if they were invited to send troops to help recover the original Portuguese colony, the most important thing is to be stationed in Lisbon!

Britain is to make Portugal their vassal ah, Portugal has been difficult to get rid of the Spanish rule, but also to become a vassal of England, this is simply to escape the tiger mouth, and fell into the wolf's nest ah.

Such a condition, João IV, was naturally unwilling to accept, so he wrote letters and ordered Vera to seek the help of the Daming Empire.

Unexpectedly, the Daming Empire has not yet made an answer, the British and so impatient, the British naturally do not really want to help them, but fake help, really annex!

Their calculation was to allow Portugal to maintain its nominal independence in order to block the mouths of the other European powers, but in fact controlled all the Portuguese colonies in order to obtain profiteering.

Portugal in their eyes is a piece of fat, such a large piece of fat, they naturally rushed into their mouths, if not some time ago, Britain is busy with the civil war, I am afraid it will have been shot.

Now the civil war was finally over, and the protector, Oliver Cromwell, led the army to defeat the royalist army, executed King Charles I, took power, became head of state, and soon after he came to power, he quickly opened his mouth and bit the fat of Portugal.

His strategy was simple: to seal off the port of Lisbon, to sever Portugal and all overseas colonies, and to force João IV to sign a contract to become a vassal of Britain.

The excuse he was looking for was simple, that was, that João IV had taken in the royalists and even helped the royalists to attack his fleet!

This is really the sin that is to be added to the crime, João IV is incontrovertible, so he is blocked in Lisbon and cannot move.

Of course, this is only an excuse for the British, even if he did nothing Cromwell will also send a fleet to block the port of Lisbon, this year who is the big fist is the reason, Portugal is not the British opponent, so they must listen to the British!

Historically, it was this rogue method that Britain forced João IV to sign an unequal treaty, which gained most of the gains of the Portuguese colony, and thus rapidly rose up to become the new maritime hegemon.

However, at this moment, their abacus is afraid that it will not start, because Zhang Bin is coming!

The battle outside the port of Lisbon soon ended, and the Teju River was instantly changed into the mouth of the sea, and Zhang Bin arranged for a hundred Weiyuan battleships and a hundred town-to-town cruisers to seal the entrance of the Tehu River and to the port of Lisbon with even the remaining warships.

The port of Lisbon is about twenty miles from the mouth of the Tehuo River, and the city of Lisbon is farther from the sea, so the battle at the mouth of the sea has not caused any disturbance in the port and the city of Lisbon, everyone has heard the roar of artillery, but no one thought that the British fleet was destroyed, and everyone thought that the British were bullying the passing merchant ships.

The British did not know whether it was too arrogant or did not dare to resist, they only blocked the Tehu River into the sea, they did not block the port of Lisbon, the port of Portuguese merchant ships and fishing boats can still travel freely, but they can only travel freely in the Tehu River basin, and it is impossible to think of the sea.

When the huge Da Ming Shuishi fleet appeared outside Lisbon port, everyone was terrified, and they thought that the Spanish Armada had come, because Spain had organized such a large fleet in the history of the European continent, so that everyone would subconsciously think that this was the Spanish.

This guy, so many warships stuck outside the harbor, it's just horrible!

The port of Lisbon was almost instantly messed up, and there were desperate escapes from the dock by discarding ships, and there were also desperate to get on board, ready to get on board and escape, and the whole port was full of chaotic ships and people.

Zhang Bin looked at the chaos of the port with his telescope, and couldn't help but frown: "Schwara, these merchant ships and fishing boats are your Portuguese, they are scurrying around the port, how can we get in?"

Schweil said, embarrassed: "This, duke, or I will go in first to find out the situation, if possible, I will let them clear the port as soon as possible."But there may be an English army in it, and the duke's Highness may be asked to send some men to protect me."

Zhang Bin heard the words, faintly saying: “How many people do you need?”

Schweil estimated, "A thousand should be enough."

Zhang Bin nodded, and then said to Zheng successfully behind him: "Successful, order a thousand garrison, take 50 light iron armored ships, escort Governor Schweil to the port dock."

Zheng successfully excitedly obeyed the command, even if he quickly climbed down from the rope ladder on the side, summoned the guard and the corrugated iron armored ship to go.

Soon, he came to the handsome side with fifty light iron-armed ships with a thousand garritains.

Schweil did not use Zhang Bin to order, and soon took his followers to climb down the rope ladder, boarded the light iron armored ship, and went straight to the port dock.

This light iron armor ship relative to the Weiyuan battleship and the town far cruiser is small, but compared to ordinary merchant ships and fishing boats is not inferior, such a bunch of war ships swarmed, the port of the merchant ships and fishing boats are naturally desperately dodging, soon, Schweira in the protection of Zheng successfully boarded the dock, do not know who he found, soon, the port of the merchant ships and fishing boats began to slowly leave the port, along the water flow, along the direction of Zhangbin.The entire port was cleared.

Zhang Bin scanned a circle of the port with a telescope, saw that there was no difference, and then ordered: "The order was ordered to lead the Fuguang Army to land and control the area near the port."

Soon, hundreds of town far cruisers lined up into a long dragon slowly approaching the port dock, the 50,000-plus generals of the Guangjun general from the warship as the running water came down from the warship, rushed to the port around, and in less than half an hour, the 50,000-forth generals will be the whole port of the strict and solid, and even all the Portuguese civilians have been driven away.

Zhang Bin also used his telescope to look at the situation near the port, and then ordered the handsome ship and a few port cruisers carrying the guard to close to the port dock and prepare for landing.

He could not be blamed for being careful, it was the territory of Portugal, and it seemed that Portugal was now facing an invasion by England.

However, it is strange that the entrance to the sea has been so broken, and the port is so moving, the king of Portugal and the British have no reaction at all, what is the matter?