Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 10

"It seems that the Prince of Orange, no, it should be said that William IV is a good choice?" Queen Victoria asked.

"It is indeed a good choice," Viscount Palmerston nodded affirmatively.

"OK then"

"It is said that William IV is going to hold a marriage meeting in Amsterdam. At that time, there will be a meeting of royal family members of marriageable age from all over Europe. At that time, it will be a good opportunity."

Queen Victoria thought for a while and said, "That's it."

"Well, Princess Helena is also 16 years old, so she can also attend this meeting."

I, Queen Doria, didn't question any more this time, nodded and said, "Yeah."

William IV in Amsterdam did not know that the two most influential people in London were eyeing him. To be precise, they were eyeing the Netherlands under his jurisdiction. He has always been world-famous. Financial Services Business.

He is now continuing his Privy Council session.

I just mentioned Henry John Tapper, Viscount Palmerston, and William IV also told everyone to move lightly and accurately. Don't get the person's attention.

Because when this person was in his previous life, just reading the biography caused many netizens at that time to blow up the pot, causing a heated discussion.

Among them, the war that the Chinese people will never forget was launched by Henry John Tapper, who was the foreign secretary at that time, and caused the Chinese people to endure many vicissitudes of life.

"Only when a nation really stands up can it face up to and reflect on the humiliating history before her rise."

This is the source of the awakening of the Chinese people after the man-made disaster brought about by this man.

What most people, including William IV, regretted the most was that Lin Xu's heroic spirit in 1839, when he was in the south of the gunpowder and even turned the tide, moved him to serve the country with loyalty and loyalty because he knew he couldn't do it.

However, with Lin Xu's shrewdness and ability, it is a pity that at that time, the Chinese people's vision was limited to the domestic, and they did not even have a minimum understanding of the development of the overseas situation. Otherwise, Lin Xu would not have chosen to smoke guns in that year.

Those in power at the time, including Lin Xu, did not realize that their real opponents were not those cigarette dealers, but Queen Victoria in London and Henry John Tapper who steered her foreign policy.

After the establishment of the hegemony of the sea in Europe, the British Empire became their national policy to colonize outside Europe. They came from the east and directly broke the traditional power of the Indian subcontinent with naval guns, and then drove away Portugal, the Netherlands and France. The territory, a country has a single continent, which has further contributed to the power of the British Empire. After that, Li Cannon broke the gate of the Qing Dynasty, and it has become an inevitable event, because who will be satisfied with the present, there is no best, only better !

History is a combination of necessity and chance!

Those in power, including Gong Lin, accidentally chose the worst time to smoke gunpowder.

Because in this year, Henry John Tapper, the foreign minister of the British Empire, who was originally low-key, committed the most embarrassing event in the history of European diplomacy, and it had a very significant and far-reaching impact on the European situation. Because by means of his means, he created a new country.

The northeastern part of France and the southern part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were originally an invincible plain, and any hostile forces that controlled this place would put enormous pressure on the British Isles across the sea from the mainland of the British Empire, because it was the closest to the mainland except for the mainland of France. The place of the British Empire.

When the Holy Alliance initially fought against Napoleon I, the Duke of Wellington of the British Empire led the Holy Alliance to defeat Napoleon I in a positive form here, and relieved the greatest crisis since the founding of the British Empire.

Since then, ensuring that this country does not fall into the formidable opponents of the British Empire has become the most urgent goal of the British Empire.

When the Vienna System was established, the British Empire originally wanted to take it in, but other major powers opposed it, especially France and Austria, and the British Empire finally failed.

However, in order not to fall into the hands of other powers, the British Empire finally took the second place. After compromising with all parties, the land was given to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was already a second-rate country, and the British Empire was unwilling. At the end of the last century, there were four major wars, and other countries were obviously disgusting and had no ambitions for the British Empire to encroach on this territory.

This is a thorn in the heart of the British Empire, and many people are very unhappy about it.

It was at this time that Henry John Tapper became the new foreign secretary of the British Empire in 1830, and when others were helpless for more than ten years, he only took a short year to shock Europe. , the whole country rejoices in England because he accomplished what many Britons wanted to do.

He first created the outbreak of Dutch life in early 1830, and then lured other countries such as France, Prussia, Tsarist Russia, and Austria to gather troops, and he was about to join the financial capital of North and Central Europe to stop the riots.

Henry John Tapper finally knew that the time was right. He analyzed the method so that the British Empire would not need to participate in governance, but also become the bridgehead of the British Empire's European power once and for all.

He shrewdly calculated that as long as he does not allow this place to become a position against the British Empire, a springboard, and not become the territory of other powers to threaten the British Empire, then there is only one possibility, and that is to make it a separate place in the Netherlands. foreign countries.

And the crisis in the Netherlands is an opportunity, an opportunity he created!

So in order to accomplish this, he began to take this as a goal, running around all over the country, and connecting horizontally and vertically, and even sometimes used the navy to threaten demonstrations against France, Prussia, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. After 9 years of matching And lure, threat.

He succeeded, he became the creator of this miracle!

At the end of 1839, he finally completed this task. With the helpless consent of the European countries, including William II of the Netherlands, the Principality of Belgium broke away from the Kingdom of the Netherlands and established its own kingdom. King Leopold I was still Queen Victoria's uncle. He and it Also pro-English enough!

Of course, it was written in the signatories of the Belgian Convention at the time that Belgium was not allowed to favor any country, and would always be a neutral country. At the same time, without Belgium's consent, the armies of other signatory countries could not enter Belgium.

Netizens in previous lives discussed here.

If Mr. Lin had smoked before this matter, Henry John Tapper, who was fully involved in the affairs of Belgian statehood, would probably have no time to look east, and the naval fleet concentrated in the homeland would not be able to deploy troops at all. to the Far East.

And just after the 1839 Belgian Convention was signed, the whole of Europe heard of his fame, and all countries, especially small ones, were trembling.

The spread of gunpowder smoke from the Far East to Europe damaged his reputation. Naturally, this person would not compromise easily, so he ranted at the diplomatic conference that this was a matter of Queen Victoria's dignity, and he could not give in half a step, so there was a follow-up. A series of events developed.

It was this convention that created his prestige. In one fell swoop, the British Empire's policy of equalizing its power in the European continent was established, and the national interests of the British Empire became the justice and justice of the European continent.

Just like the human rights godfather of the United States in later generations, he just wanted to occupy the peak of morality, called thinking for the sake of the world, but in fact it was just a tool to safeguard his own national interests.

When the Franco-Prussian War was launched after Prussia, Gladstone, the Prime Minister of the British Empire at the time, postponed the agreement, and the warring parties could not violate the neutrality of Belgium. The warning of the British Empire was subconsciously obeyed by the two countries.

Since then, the style of maintaining the European Guardian Order has fallen into the hands of the United Kingdom. Gladstone is the direct descendant brought by Henry John Tapper, and he is also the leader of the Whig Party, succeeding Henry John Tapper.

Southern Europe, Portugal, Lisbon!

Aeneas Mackay, the ambassador of the Kingdom of Portugal in the Netherlands, also accompanied the Minister of the Admiralty to be received by the King of Portugal.

They are doing things that the outside world doesn't know about.

In short, in January 1862, the Netherlands carried out the work of the entire European countries, secretly as a second-class power, and carried out a middle-power balance of power diplomacy.

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