Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 511

Opening 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 511 The English Channel welcomes a villain?

Queen Victoria was also embarrassed, and said with some dissatisfaction: "According to your opinion, how should the UK deal with the so-called provocation from the Netherlands now?"

At this time, she still couldn't see where she was. After 10 years of development, the Netherlands, which was originally only her favorite, has become a country that the United Kingdom must look up to.

Britain no longer sent a local fleet at random to make the Netherlands tremble and let the British side see the benefits. Recalling that when he first inherited the British throne 34 years ago, William I, the great-grandfather of William IV, obediently gave in to Belgium. That scene seemed to make Queen Victoria unable to believe that the change would be so great. The Netherlands has completed a sharp change as a great country in just 30 years. Even the British Empire has to take the opinion of the Netherlands seriously. In 2008, Holland was almost stepping on the shoulders of Britain, which made her very angry.

She even made her want to cancel her marriage with Greece to express her dissatisfaction, but in the end, she thought of something, and finally suppressed this urge.

Just when the three were silent again, the queen's palace steward brought a telegram again. This telegram surprised the three and their expressions changed drastically.

The original telegram shows that a Dutch fleet has arrived in the northern part of the English Channel after setting sail from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is preparing to pass through the English Channel, and the fleet consists of the Dutch Rotterdam steam battleship and three second- and third-class sailing battleships to protect a total of four ships. battleship.

Queen Victoria saw that the two looked uneasy after reading the telegram they sent, and asked, "What should I do now?"

No one would think that the four Dutch warships came empty-handed. They all believed that the person escorting them should be the Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives Huntington, and the goal was to visit Spain.

This made Queen Victoria and Prime Minister Disraeli, Foreign Secretary Russell feel that things are very difficult.

Intercept? Many people in the United Kingdom have proposed this idea before, because with the strength of the British navy, interception is not a problem. Not to mention other things, the British mainland is right next to the English Channel.

Moreover, the naval fleet of the Netherlands is far inferior to that of the United Kingdom. This is the consensus of everyone. If the United Kingdom intercepts it, there is not much threat at present.

But what makes the three of them a headache is that if they are intercepted, it will represent a sharp deterioration in the relationship between the UK and the Netherlands. In that case, the relationship will be difficult to recover in the near future, and it will even worsen more and more. For the UK, it seems that Some are not in line with current interests. Even if Disraeli, who is extremely opposed to the Netherlands, has to admit that the quality of the relationship with the Netherlands has a great impact on the British environment.

Between the good and the bad, it's pretty remarkable for the UK's barometer.

Disraeli thought so, let alone pinching Queen Victoria and Russell.

For a while, the three fell into silence again, causing the room to fall into silence.

Prussia, Berlin.

"In the past few months, the prime ministers of the Russian Empire and the United Kingdom have been visiting your Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. The main purpose of Disraeli's visit is to win over the Ottoman Empire to continue to block the passage of the Russian Empire to the south, but also to cooperate with the United Kingdom. Preventing European countries from infiltrating the Indian Ocean through the Suyens Canal can also be regarded as a containment of Europe's eastward advance. It was planned to form a Middle East Anglo-Austrian alliance to cooperate with the British Eastern Mediterranean strategy. It was OK in the past, but recently it is difficult to continue to maintain it, and it is nothing.”

"The Russian Prime Minister Gorchakov attended the summit of the four kingdoms of the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire of Greece in Constantinople, intending to be warmed by the isolation led by Britain and France in the international community. It can cooperate with regional countries to balance the pressure role of the United Kingdom.

With the rise of the Netherlands and the Commonwealth of America, as well as our Prussia and other countries, the United Kingdom has failed miserably in other places in the past few years, so the energy invested in the Balkans is limited, so it has been strategically shrinking in recent years. Look at the Ottoman Empire in Yemen And on the Arabian Peninsula, Italy, Spain, France, our Prussia and the Netherlands are all taking the territory of the Ottoman Empire with the United Kingdom as their influence implanted there.

According to the past, the United Kingdom has long liked to enjoy it alone, where can we let us eat meat with it.

With the strategic contraction of the United Kingdom in recent years, the autonomy of large and small countries in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Italy and other regions has gradually increased. Facing the growing confidence of powerful countries such as Britain, Russia and France, the geopolitical pattern of the Middle East and Eastern Europe has shown new changes. Calm, but in fact turbulent.

In the era of the Crimean War that began in 1853, the Balkans was the focus of competition between the British, French, Ottoman and Tsarist Russia empires. After the defeat of the Tsarist Russia empire, Britain and France were the two dominant, once neutral Austrian empires. Together they dominate the affairs of other countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. However, after Metternich's death, the Austrian Empire began to be surpassed by Prussia. The two countries almost fought within the German Confederation, and finally occupied the north and south of the German Confederation. In the past few years, Prussia passed the unification of the German Confederation outside the early Austria. , This seriously impacted the situation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In addition, the United Kingdom gradually suffered defeats in North America and South Africa, which damaged the image of the United Kingdom and demolished its majesty. The British strategy was shifted to compete with the Netherlands and Fapu. The Middle East is gradually becoming lighter in weight.

After the war between Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the previous two years, the United Kingdom was forced to join the war, but the United Kingdom, which was unwilling to fight, was defeated by the Tsarist Russia Empire. .

However, the current situation has changed, and the inability of the British government represented by Disraeli to deal with the current situation, the ability of the United Kingdom has been demonstrated in the past, and the weakening of the British national strength has been exposed.

This is why, in the recent British diplomatic visits, the itinerary in various European countries seems to have made a mistake, so it has repeatedly kicked the iron plate. However, he was unwilling to recognize the status of the Confederate States of the South. As a result, before he returned to London, both countries announced the formation of dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Disraeli, and even caused local people to resent the British government's demonstrations and protests.

Disraeli exaggerated the threat of the Netherlands in North America all the way, and tried to create a plan for the resignation of the Dutch, but he was met with more anti-British influence within the Commonwealth of Millikin. In the end, Andrew Johnson continued to become the president of the United States, while the United Kingdom was the Became a scapegoat, and at the same time was coldly treated by all parties in the Commonwealth of Millikin. Even many American families have announced that they will not do business with the British.

Britain tried its best to win over Europe and Italy to maintain its influence in the Mediterranean, but it was publicly poured cold water by Inmanuel II, indicating that it did not intend to join the United Kingdom as a British chess piece to check and balance the European powers.

The United Kingdom urged Portugal to check and balance the influence of the Netherlands in South America, but after Louis I was defeated by the Netherlands in Africa, it was obviously difficult to take direct action against the Netherlands at present, and he was obviously keeping a low profile.

The United Kingdom strongly suggested the establishment of an alliance of maritime powers, but the countries were dissatisfied with the United Kingdom as the leading power and believed that the United Kingdom should not be dominant, so they were unwilling to support it, and eventually participated in the Pacific Partnership established by the Netherlands, which was advocated by the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom intends to win over Spain while the relations between Spain and France are at a standstill, but did not expect Spain to be more willing to be with the Netherlands, and even recently conducted the so-called Dutch House Speaker's visit to Spain and support for Spain's sovereignty over Gibraltar. The mutual disgust between the British and the Dutch and even the Spanish nationals is an odd move of the British government.

In short, according to the "European Times", the current image of the United Kingdom is too bad, which has caused a wave of public criticism. "

King William I of Prussia and Mo Qi quietly listened to Bismarck's analysis. As they listened to understand Bismarck's thoughts more and more deeply, they both felt that their hearts were beating faster and faster.

The decline of the United Kingdom means that opportunities for other countries are coming. The French Empire has been dragged in the Far East~www.mtlnovel.com~ It is unable to start a war in Europe again, and the favorability of various countries towards France has almost dropped below zero.

In this regard, Prussia is at least better. After all, compared with the blatant invasion of the Russian Empire, Prussia is an internal affair in the German Confederation.

At this time, the influence of the United Kingdom has declined, and for many countries, it is an opportunity for promotion. Can Prussia be promoted?

Thinking about it made them both tremble. His eyes were full of anticipation.

Bismarck also saw this familiar gaze, he was no stranger to it, he himself was like this.

"Don't let Britain interfere in our actions, and don't let the Netherlands, AustriHungary and Spain take advantage of it," Bismarck analyzed: "Only in this way can we get the largest share of the cake in the next war against France. , Your Majesty, we need to compromise with these countries"

'"How to compromise the law?" Bismarck said that William I was full of curiosity.

Having a good subordinate is different. Thinking that when Bismarck was brought under his banner, he was too tired to use his brains.

"If we want Prussia to complete the task and pay a lower price, then we have to make some concessions," Bismarck said. "For example, Belgium, which the Dutch have always valued, we should clearly support it."

"Public support? When will it start?" Mao Qi asked.

"Starting today, after our meeting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has started to support the other side by publishing its support for the Netherlands' interests in Belgium in newspapers. I think the Dutch government will understand our good intentions?"

"Will it be in a hurry?"

"No, this is what I want"+Add bookmark+

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