Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 714 51% vs. 49%?

Queen Victoria looked at the three of them, Crown Prince Edward, Prince Alfred, and Princess Beatrice, and suddenly frowned.

"Okay, what Beatrice said just now is right. In terms of your brothers' response to the Netherlands' assistance to North Chile in South America, trade policy, and increased attention to the larger issues in South America, the UK will not change much. , supporting southern Chile and providing Britain with competitiveness against the Netherlands are the common positions you just mentioned."

She said unhappily: "Although the foreign policy stance of the Dutch Liberal Party has changed, if more Christian parties that support hard-line isolationist policies against the UK are elected and come to power, the relationship between the UK and the Netherlands will become even more tense in the future. Of course, the three factions within the Netherlands will also have greater differences."

Prince Alfred's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Not to mention what my mother said, in the future the Dutch Christian Party will come to power and implement isolationism, which will worsen relations between countries, and may even cause the Dutch government and Congress to target the overall defense expenditure and More intense debates with South American countries, European Dutch allies, and even defense agreements with the United States have led to changes in the Netherlands' policies in the Americas and Europe."

Speaking of this, he reminded: "According to a report released by "European Times" this month, if the Dutch election ultimately results in the victory of the Christian Party and the Socialist Party, there will still be two months left before the 1880 mid-term election, and the Liberal Party will use Congress to To check and balance this alliance, even after the Liberal Party is out of office, it may use parliamentary power more frequently to block the policies of this alliance.”

He sarcastically said: "What the Christian Party and the Socialist Party are doing now, after these two parties come to power in the future, the Liberal Party may follow suit. They have learned how to go against them in power and issued a "premonition" to sing the opposite tune. The House Whip of the Liberal Party And the Senate whips stated earlier. The Christian Party and the Socialist Party won the general election, and they are prepared to strengthen their opposition votes in both houses of Parliament after February 2 next year.”

He pointed out: "The Netherlands currently has too much to take care of itself, so if we launch an attack on South America at this time, it will wake up the chaos within the Netherlands at this time. On the contrary, it will allow them to break away from the chaos and unite to deal with our enemy. The gain outweighs the loss." "

When Crown Prince Edward heard this, his face turned even darker.

He looked at the two younger brothers and sisters in front of him with a very ugly look on his face.

Among the brothers and sisters born to Queen Victoria, there are actually factions.

Crown Prince Edward is the eldest, and he has the closest relationship with his second daughter, Princess Alice, and third daughter, Princess Helena, and Prince Leopold, and the two of them are by far the best.

The Queen's second son, Prince Alfred, has the best relationship with her eldest daughters, Princess Victoria and Princess Beatrice.

The fourth daughter, Princess Louise, is more friendly with the third son, Prince Arthur.

Currently, Princess Alice joins the British Duke as his foreign aid to Crown Prince Edward. Princess Helena married to Denmark and became his key person to win over Denmark.

The youngest Prince Leopold is the link between him and his mother, Queen Victoria, because the latter is the most favored by her mother.

However, Prince Alfred in front of him was supported by his eldest sister, Princess Victoria, so he was very dissatisfied with this.He even didn’t know that historically, because of his hatred, he began to prepare for severe suppression of Germany, where Princess Victoria lived, after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, in 1901. Even before his death in 1910, he did not forget He urged his son George V, who succeeded him, to defeat the German Empire and prevent Princess Victoria's descendants from ever becoming kings.In fact, he did it in the end, because after George V defeated Germany in World War I, Wilhelm II ended up with nothing.The German royal family was destroyed.

Seeing Princess Beatrice in front of him, he flashed his eyes and secretly made a note of her details for future settlement.

Princess Beatrice didn't know that she was already resented by her eldest brother.

As the current private secretary of the Queen, she said: “At present, Argentina is leaning towards the British side, which means that the British will definitely be able to bargain more and make the Netherlands pay more concessions. However, I don’t think that the Dutch aid to northern Chile will happen too much. Big change"

Prince Alfred: “But in the Netherlands, the three Dutch parties are willing to provide large-scale support for Northern Chile. This will actually provide additional political chips for the Netherlands. This will in disguise enhance our Prime Minister Creston’s implementation of the plan. The cost of Dutch policy. In the final analysis, the foreign policy elites of the three parties of the Liberal Party, the Christian Party, and the Socialist Party of the Netherlands may believe that supporting southern and northern Chile is in the best interests of the Netherlands."

After Queen Victoria was silent for a while, she nodded in agreement and said: "The Christian Party and the Socialist Party won the election, and they will not significantly reduce or stop aid to Northern Chile, but they will update the previous foreign policy of the Liberal Party, and the Liberal Party will become The new government will impose exchange rate restrictions after the opposition party, such as restricting the scale of funding, etc.”

She took a deep breath and said: "Perhaps, the Liberal Party can only make a last-ditch effort. The outcome can be predicted. After all, it is better than doing nothing."

Crown Prince Edward didn't know it at this time, but unknowingly, his mother still chose to side with Alfred. He seemed to be helpless. When he saw Princess Beatrice, he couldn't help but feel a little... I miss the time when Alice and Helena were together. At that time, I was always the loudest voice in family meetings, but now, I seem to be a loner.

The Dutch general election on December 1878, 12 had entered the last two days of the final sprint, with more than 19% of the votes cast in almost every place.According to polls, in the current prime ministerial election, the Liberal Party candidate Jan von Lopek has a support rate of 80%, while the Christian Party leader Theo von Linden, who has withdrawn from the Christian Party together with the Socialist Party, has a support rate of 51%.
The difference between the two is only two percentage points.

By this time, everyone knows that the next two days will determine who will be the ruling party in the Netherlands for the next four years and who will be the prime minister.

Therefore, the two camps immediately stepped up their efforts to promote their own strengths and attack each other's weaknesses.

Jan von Lopek promised at the Liberal Party headquarters in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia: "If I become the new Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the future, I will support more ethnic minorities in the Netherlands to improve their living conditions in the Netherlands, and at the same time We will treat all people equally and support the political advancement of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands and become truly Dutch. Of course, we will not forget those who have migrated from the Netherlands. Your support will let you know that your vote was not wrong. , because I am with you.”

Naturally not to be outdone, Theo von Linden also declared at the Christian headquarters in Sydney, "We."

(End of this chapter)