After finishing his secret meeting with Desai and returning to the luxurious hotel arranged by the city hall, Marquis Deulkiho's expression was always worried, which made the Changsun Boas, who had not yet returned to his room, feel very strange, so he asked casually.

"I don't know very well," said Marquis de Urkiho, shaking his head and saying: "The negotiations with His Highness tonight seem to be too smooth, which makes me feel very uneasy." This is the old man's unique political intuition. For many years, in the turbulent Madrid, this innate perception has helped Marquis de Urkiho escape crises again and again by the three monarchs.

In response, Boas believed that his grandfather's concerns seemed too redundant. The young man said in a affirmative tone: "Either he is a monarch or aristocrat, he cannot violate the contract that both parties have reached. On the Iberian Peninsula, the failure of the British was inevitable; similarly, His Highness, the prince, is about to go to Warsaw to crown the noble title of his Polish king."

"I hope so." The old man murmured. After Boas left, he was still lying in bed tossing and turning day and night. It was not until dawn that Marquis de Urkiho could barely fall asleep for 3 or 4 hours.

At 10:20 am, the Madrid Mission represented by Marquis de Urkiho and the Lisbon nobles headed by Marquis de Bierro officially started in the city hall. As European diplomats expected, during the first day of negotiations, the two sides fought verbally and held their own opinions, and the focus of their disputes was mainly on the military's stationing and taxation rights.

During this period, Andrew Desai, the de facto ruler of Lisbon, disappeared. On the day of negotiations, he returned to the northern suburbs military camp again. Until the morning of the third day, the two marquises representing their respective positions came to visit the conquerors. A few hours later, under Desai's mediation, Madrid and Lisbon had to compromise with each other and finally reached a peace agreement.

The main clauses include: the Portuguese left-behind parliament will officially recognize the Spanish king Joseph Bonaparte as the Portuguese king; in terms of taxation rights, the exercise of power belongs to the Portuguese parliament, but it requires the approval of the Madrid Parliament and the Portuguese Governor stationed by His Majesty Joseph; Madrid can set up a Portuguese Governor in the city of Barrelu, opposite Lisbon, and station a Spanish army of no more than 5,000 people in the city, and the military expenses shall be borne by Madrid; in addition, the Spanish army shall not enter Lisbon without the consent of the Lisbon Parliament; at the same time, the Portuguese parliament will reorganize a 30,000 National Self-Defense Force to maintain the public order in central cities such as Lisbon, Faro, Bey, and Setubal.

This is a peace agreement that neither side is very satisfied but reluctantly accepted. After the agreement was signed, only the Paris ambassador to Lisbon supported the agreement in public in a legal manner among the envoys of Lisbon. However, diplomats from London, Cadiz, Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, and Copenhagen in Lisbon refused to recognize Joseph Bonaparte as the King of Portugal, and they all expressed that they would not relegate the (embassy) embassy to the Consulate General after the New Year.

Despite repeated criticism, the Marquis of Deulkijo, who had signed the treaty, finally felt relieved. Desay still kept his promise and eventually led to the merger of Spain and Portugal. In addition, in Evora, General Delney was handing over defense to the Spanish army loyal to His Majesty Joseph. The only requirement was to place a large area east of the Guadillo River, originally belonging to Portugal, including Porter, Mora, Morran, and Selber and other towns as a black reserve, valid for 10 years.

As a representative of the Lisbon nobles, Marquis Biyero also thanked Desai for adhering to the neutral position and retaining most of the interests of the nobles. In fact, this peace agreement was much more just and enlightened than the Protocol for the Merger of Portugal and Spanish drafted by General Juno in Lisbon in 1807 and Marshal Sirte in Porto in 1808. At least, it did not dismember Portugal into three parts, but continued to exist as a whole, just by accident, and succumbing to several years of rule in Madrid.

As for the many diplomats in Lisbon in European countries, they adhered to the opinions of their monarchs and the parliamentary cabinet and made a public shouting. Whether to continue to maintain the Lisbon embassy or lower the diplomatic level to the consulate is a matter of decision-making by senior government officials, and diplomatic ambassadors are unwilling to worry too much about Andrew Desay, except for the British side.

Since the mid-17th century, the Kingdom of Portugal, which had just escaped from the Spanish rule, was in a serious decline because its national strength was in a process of severe decline. As a last resort, Lisbon signed an agreement with the British "protective" Cromwell, which allowed Britain to obtain trade rights for Portugal and overseas colonies. In fact, Portugal has gradually become a protector of the British Empire.

For more than a hundred years, British merchants could unscrupulously dump bulk cotton and wool industrial products into Portugal and its vast colonies as long as they paid very little tariffs, and could also obtain cheap industrial raw materials and grain crops from the latter, including wheat, rye, corn, cotton, flax, leather, wine, oak barrels, gold and diamonds.

Once the Portuguese market is missing, British businessmen will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, after learning that the Merger Treaty between Portugal and Spanish countries was signed, Henry Wellesley, who served as the British Empire's ambassador to Lisbon, could not help but feel resentment. He drove to the military camp in the northern suburbs of Lisbon to visit Desay just to raise a solemn protest on behalf of the London cabinet.

The British minister waited outside the barracks for an hour before being allowed to enter the headquarters by the military police. Along the way, Henry found that soldiers from the Desay army were checking their weapons and packing their luggage, as if they were about to prepare to set off again, which made the British secretly complain.

When he arrived at the busy command post, Henry found that the surrounding area of ​​Desay was full of adjutants and commanders. They usually turned around and left in a hurry after receiving the order signed by the Supreme Commander. During this period, no one seemed to notice the sudden visit of the British minister. The latter was also a little bored, so he found a comfortable position and sat down quietly to wait.

When the last adjutant left the headquarters with the documents, Desai threw away the ink pen in his hand. He raised his head and turned his eyes to the British minister who had been sitting on the soft chair of gold stripes.

"Mr. I don't have much time, please tell me quickly!" Desai emphasized.

Henry stood up from the soft chair and gave a standard aristocratic etiquette to the foreign king. He immediately said: "Dear Prince, I am on behalf of the British Empire and strongly protesting to you on the merger agreement between Portugal and Spain. We believe that this move violates the package of gentlemen's agreement reached by the London Cabinet and you two months ago..."

"Enough, Mr. Minister!" Desai interrupted the British's complaint with impatient and tough tone. "In fact, the gentleman's agreement between you and me is limited to the treatment of wounded soldiers, has nothing to do with political diplomacy, and is not signed with the new Treaty of Amiens. Besides, the merger between Portugal and Spain only involves the bilateral sides of Madrid and Lisbon, and has nothing to do with me. Therefore, if you find the wrong candidate for your protest, Marquis of Deulkiho or Marquis of Biyero will accept your protest letter."

Henry's heart sank, and he subconsciously threatened: "Your Highness, you are sure to continue to be enemies of the British Empire."

Desai was afraid of the case and glared at the British minister in front of him. A guard leaned over to patrol, but was scolded by the marshal. Russia, Desai laughed again and said, "But in fact, we have been in a state of war."

After saying that, he took out one of the documents from a large stack of documents placed on the table, indicating that the British minister could take them to read. This was the intelligence collected by the Military Intelligence Agency from Lisbon not long ago. The document showed that the spy ordered by the British Foreign Secretary was supporting the anti-French nobles in Portugal, secretly planning a series of riots in Lisbon, Setubal and other places.

Desai continued: "Most of the participants in the above conspiracy were arrested by the military police and were currently in prisons near the barracks. According to the practice of the occupying forces, I can shoot or hang them immediately. But out of personal kindness and expectation of peace, the death penalty of these people has been suspended for several days. So, please do not challenge my patience again."

Looking at the secret report in his hand, Henry was stunned and stood still. The British minister was sure that Desay was right, because many people on the list did play for his brothers and actively cooperated with Wellington's United Expeditionary Force. The fact that Desay did not make his plot public at least shows that he was still unwilling to turn against London completely, but his mentality became a problem.

Henry Wellesley decided to apologize to Andrew Desai. He not only took back his previous harsh words, but also tried to restore the talks to the previous harmonious atmosphere, but this was obviously unlikely because Desai's determination to start a war against the British Expeditionary Force was determined.

A few minutes later, the British minister walked out of the French barracks in anger. When he returned to the carriage, he looked at his briefcase with a frustration, which contained a secret letter from Prince Desai to the British Foreign Minister, or an ultimatum. The above records that Desai made several requirements to end the Portuguese war, including that the British Expeditionary Force had to leave Portugal unconditionally and pay 10 million pounds of war compensation to the French army.
Chapter completed!