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Chapter 1060 Queen Victoria’s Lament

Many people in the UK speculate that the Netherlands and Latin American countries have stepped up their efforts to unite on sensitive issues such as political stability and sovereignty. This is obviously aimed at the Anglo-German-Austrian Tripartite Alliance to prevent the three countries from threatening Latin American countries. The Netherlands also took the opportunity to obtain the Latin American Ten More support from both countries on the issue of Anglo-Dutch confrontation.

Even the British Crown Prince Edward believed that Jules Danetang expressed his willingness to help Latin American countries strengthen their protection capabilities. However, in terms of military capacity building in Latin American countries, it mainly focuses on training. Of course, it takes the lead in military training, but the Netherlands has not strengthened its leadership. Absolutely.

"The Netherlands cannot directly choose to station troops in various countries, but it needs an excuse to have the opportunity to station troops because of threats. In addition, the Netherlands will also sell high-end military equipment to these countries, but because of the high-end, it requires Dutch maintenance personnel to be there regularly. stationed there. In fact, these countries are used as experimental products for the Netherlands’ high-end military equipment. Therefore, I predict that the new Dutch government will not directly participate in the war between the Mexican government and Austria-Hungary in Mexico, but will instead sell more cutting-edge military equipment.”

The British Crown Prince also told hundreds of MPs in the House of Commons that the Netherlands is willing to help [-] Latin American countries strengthen law enforcement and defense capabilities. It is just a fake statement and supports countries to independently maintain regional security and other capabilities. In fact, it is a thorn in the side. , a soothing term.

Except for the Netherlands, other member states cannot defeat European powers one-on-one. Even Argentina, which currently ranks tenth in the global economy, and Brazil, which ranks eleventh, have a population of only 11 million. Even with a population of 500 million, we dare not say that we would be safe from the invasion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

It would be nice if you don’t lose.

Therefore, Edward asked the crown prince to express that the Netherlands still needs to use these excuses to maintain its legitimacy as an external military supporter in these countries.

To put it simply, the Netherlands is looking to intervene in the defense ministries of allied countries, increase its own influence there, and finally try to control the allied military forces.

"Aren't you afraid that William IV will fall out?"

Queen Victoria looked at her eldest son Edward and asked indifferently.

"Mother, if what you said is true, then Holland's anger proves that I was right." Edward shrugged innocently.

"You" Queen Victoria suddenly smiled: "But it's not bad for you to do this. It has stirred up a hornet's nest. Now it's really fun."

This time it was Crown Prince Edward's turn to be a little confused.

"Look, Jules Danetang is not a good person. The Netherlands will definitely make big moves in the future." After the queen finished laughing, she said solemnly.

The Netherlands has developed so fast in recent years that it is definitely unprecedented in the Queen's life. Britain entered the steam revolution in the early 19th century and then developed all the way. By the time she came to power in 1837, Britain had truly become the world's largest economy. It took more than 30 years for a powerful economic power to surpass France.

Three years after she became queen, she launched two Crow Wars in 3 and received a large amount of silver compensation and customs clearance trade treaties from the Qing Dynasty. From then on, Britain embarked on a faster development fast track. , began to leave France behind, and ride away from the dust.

After that, the Spanish, Portuguese and French colonists in the Indian Peninsula were driven away, and the Indian sub-peninsula was exclusively occupied.

The rich products of the Indian sub-peninsula and the market and labor force of 2 million people have made Britain truly the most powerful economic country and colonial master in the world.

It took nearly 50 years for Britain to lead the world in economy and maritime military affairs, as well as in politics.

The Netherlands was a second-rate European power before 1857. However, under the scrutiny of the European powers at that time, Britain, France, Tsarist Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, Bavaria, Hanover, Saxony and other kingdoms , there are other principalities, etc., the strength of the Netherlands is only between that of Portugal and Denmark.

Belonging to the middle and lower reaches, even Belgium, a principality of the Netherlands supported by the British, almost caught up with the other party.

The UK didn't care about it at first, but after 1857, it seemed to have received special care from God. It suddenly exerted its strength and rose rapidly. Whether it was economically, politically or militarily, it far surpassed all European countries. Development speed.

In 1860, the Dutch economy not only surpassed that of Portugal, but even surpassed that of the Kingdom of Italy. In the year 1863, the Netherlands surpassed Spain and became No. 6 in Europe.

In 1865 it advanced one place, surpassing the Austrian Empire.

In 1868, it favored Prussia and the Russian Empire and became the third.

In 1870, it surpassed France and once again surpassed Prussia, which had just surpassed France that year, and became the second largest economy in the world.

However, Britain was too powerful. The Netherlands pursued and pursued. After pursuing for six years, it officially surpassed the United Kingdom in 6 and became the world's largest economy.

From 1857 to now, it has taken 19 years, much faster than the UK.

After all, it took the UK 30 years to surpass France from the second economy to become the first.

Now, since 1876, the Netherlands has not slowed down and continues to develop. After another period of

After 6 years of development, the current economic aggregate of the Netherlands has reached 1.6 times that of the United Kingdom.

Although this only counts the 3800 million white population in the UK, the Netherlands also includes the 6000 million black and indigenous population.But this illustrates one point, that is, the Netherlands has equalized blacks and indigenous people. This does not mean that if the 3100 million blacks and indigenous people are eliminated, then the income will be only one-fifth of the white people. Transferred back to the 5 million white people, then these people also exceed the total number of British people.

Queen Victoria couldn't help but secretly ask herself, if she were in William IV's position, could she do better than him?

The final result frustrated her. She couldn't do it, and even half of it was considered a success.

Therefore, now that she was faced with the boastful eldest son, her unknown worries increased. Although she didn't know the reason, she relied on this intuition to successfully avoid disasters again and again over the years.

"Edward, it is not appropriate for Britain to intervene in the Mexican War at the moment." The Queen thought for a while, and then said: "Let the Austro-Hungarian Empire continue to toss there. Berlin has not taken action yet?"

Edward agreed with this.

Berlin likes to reap the benefits every time, so naturally London cannot let them do so.

When a country becomes strong, it will no longer only care about immediate interests, but also needs long-term planning.

This is what Britain should be like, and Germany's Bismarck is the leader.

Therefore, Crown Prince Edward believed that he was no less intelligent than Bismarck, so he chose to be as good as Bismarck and continue watching the show.

What the Queen said happened to be true, and he agreed.

(End of this chapter)