Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 93

Former Belgian Prime Minister Orbon gave a high score of 85 for the overall performance of his cabinet team in his speech to the Belgian Parliament on April 5 last year.

However, this self-assessment aroused the questioning of the opposition Catholic party Melante, and the two sides launched a war of words.

Even in this Belgian local election and the Prime Minister's election, there are many people from the opposition to express their dissatisfaction.

Especially in the recent scandal about the Alban family, the Catholic Party is chasing after the victory, and the firepower is full, so that Alban has no chance to deny it in the face of the truth.

With the ouster of Alban, Leopold I directly served as prime minister, ignoring the demands of the Catholic Party and the Liberal Party for early national elections.

Leopold I believed that the date of the general election could not be decided by the two parties alone, and the royal king held the final decision.

As a result, the original two-party dispute turned into a disagreement between the two parties and the royal family on this issue, and they refused to give in to each other.

In the past half a month, when the two parties are arguing with each other, in fact, the professional departments of the government departments and non-governmental organizations have warned. In order to pay special attention to this warning.

It was not until the heavy rainfall caused flooding in the low-lying land in the northern part of the southern Belgian kingdom, and the southern part of the country was flooded successively in four directions from north, south, east, west, etc., due to the lack of water conservancy, that everyone became aware of the serious situation.

But it was already too late, because the flood on December 18, 1861 soared, and nearly half of the Belgian provinces became victims of the flood. The quality and the information of the newspapers made everyone realize that the Kingdom of Belgium has become the country with the worst flood disaster in Europe.

The first wave of flooding in the Flemish region in the north has not been eliminated, and most of the Walloon region in the south began to rain heavily for several days, and in early December 1861 began to cause a second wave of floods.

The disaster area stretched eastward from Hainaut in the Walloon region to Liege, and the affected area did not gradually improve with the reduction of rainfall until after February 5, 1862.

In the past, the season of heavy rain was glaring at this time of year. This year, the situation is obviously different, and the rainfall is more than 20% higher than before.

According to news reports, at the end of January this year, 2,300 people were killed and 600 were missing from the flood. The total number of flood victims exceeded 200,000, and 15,000 of them have returned to their homes for reconstruction.

"Is it a natural disaster or a **?"

On April 19, with the title of an article in the Standard, it criticized the ineffectiveness and neglect of the Belgian cabinet authorities in disaster relief directly on the front page.

As other newspapers keep up, almost all influential newspapers in Belgium, including Flemish and Wallonia, are standing on a united front, and their guns are aimed at the group formed by former Prime Minister Alban. Cabinet members, with the resignation of Alban, these newspapers are vaguely pointing their finger at Leopold I, who now accepts the leadership of the cabinet.

April 20, 1862, this date is destined to become a chapter that may be recorded in European history textbooks.

Paris, the capital of the French Empire, is holding a four-nation conference of two old European powers, a medium-sized country, and an emerging power. The content of their discussions is enough to change the course of European development, and will have an immeasurable impact on other countries that did not participate in the conference.

If the negotiation is done, then some other European country can continue the current situation. If the negotiation breaks down, then Europe will be shaken. The Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy prepared by the United Kingdom will be the three countries of France and Hopp. facing opponent. From now on, the life of the Three Kingdoms will not be so easy.

However, this meeting is destined to be unsettled, and events that grab their focus are frequent occurrences.

On the 17th, the Horizon alliance caused a shock in Europe. This has already made people feel that the Dutch king, who could only sit on the edge of the table before this quartet meeting, has increased his weight with the Horizon alliance, and he is actually stable on this quartet table. occupied one side, making Tolbek, the Dutch Prime Minister, on an equal footing with other Prime Ministers.

This can be known as long as the French reception has given Tolbeck a welcome ceremony according to Bismarck's specifications.

This meeting started on the morning of the 20th and did not stop until noon. The main negotiation this morning was the confrontation between the Republic of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in South Africa and the British ** team. After a morning negotiations, but there is no compromise.

Just as they were preparing to continue the negotiation in the afternoon after the rest, news came from Belgium in the north that made all parties discolored.

The appearance of this news broke the atmosphere of the talks and made several leaders of the talks suddenly change their color.

"Leopold I was actually shot to death?"

On April 20, 1862, when Leopold I, the founding king of Belgium and Queen Victoria's uncle, was in Brussels during a public visit to the crowd suffering from the flood, he was taken out by a man who had suffered heavy losses due to the flood. The revolver hidden in the body shot a headshot, and a generation of Belgian founding kings fell.

He did many things that had a huge impact on later generations, the establishment of the Kingdom of Belgium, helped to build the first railway in Europe from Brussels and to Mechelen, which opened to traffic in 1835

In 1840 he brokered the marriage of his niece Queen Victoria and nephew Prince Albert. In 1842 he gave a speech on labor laws controlling women and children.

He actually died at the age of 72.

As the news spread from Belgium to the entire continent and the Atlantic Ocean, Queen Victoria was furious, and other countries condemned the atrocities of the perpetrators and condemned his crimes everywhere.

Unfortunately, after the man shot and killed Leopold I, he directly swallowed the gun and committed suicide. In the end, the Belgian royal family could only be angry and have nowhere to go, looking for the corpse to be taken back to prepare for future generations.

However, before that, the Belgian parliament formally passed the appointment draft, with Crown Prince Leopold as the new king, known as Leopold II, to take over the cabinet.

As a result, conspiracy theories began to spread in Belgium again, and UU read www. uukanshu.com can't stop the news that Leopold II was the murderer of his father.

At this time, a large number of people in the Flemish region of Belgium were dissatisfied with the implementation of the disaster relief work, so on 21, 1862, almost all the northern provinces asked the cabinet to punish those who did not do well in disaster relief, and at the same time asked the cabinet to pay 1,000 pounds. financial support to the affected people.

Is this worth it?

The chirping birds eat the worms.

The southern provinces of Wallonia were naturally unwilling to lag behind, so they also proposed that because the disaster was wider than the northern eyes, the cabinet in Brussels was asked to provide more than 20 million pounds.

Belgium's finances have just been in surplus these years, but it's just right. Where can there be so much financial support? So the Ministry of Finance is naturally poor.

Although Leopold II had learned to govern the country with Leopold I before, how could he understand the truth that he was not in his place and did not understand the truth.

So after becoming the king, he discovered the difficulty of the king and the difficulty of finances, so he also acquiesced to the cry of the Ministry of Finance.

When the time came to April 25, 1862, without seeing even a penny, the people in the two places started to make trouble. Finally, on April 28, in Paris, the talks were extended again and again because of the inability to negotiate.

When Leopold II had not yet fully grasped the Belgian military and political power.

In the Walloon Region and the Flemish Region, a small number of people demanded to break away from the unscrupulous rule of Brussels at the same time, and demanded to establish their own country or join the demonstrations in the Netherlands or France. The slogan was simply two words: self-help!

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