Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 758 Alexander II nearly died

It was 1879:8 in the morning on August 3, 8.

Denmark, Copenhagen, Danish Prime Minister's Office.

The current Prime Minister of Denmark, Skaviness, frowned and looked at his predecessor, Christine. Both of them are key members of the founding party of the National Land Party. Christine is the leader of the party and the speaker of the Danish Parliament.

Christine said: "Now the Conservative Party is attacking us in public opinion, saying that when we have used His Majesty's support over the years to vigorously provide convenience for the new nobles, we have actually promoted a large number of new nobles into government departments, and also slandered Our National Land Party is suppressing the conservative old aristocratic forces. This seems to have stung a hornet's nest. Those old aristocrats in Copenhagen are crazy to be wary of us. Although we control the cabinet government, we are unable to move forward in the House of Lords. After all, , they control more than 60% of the seats in the House of Lords."

Skaviness said dissatisfied: "It's all my fault that this time in the UK, the fight between the new aristocrats and the old aristocrats actually created such a big spark that burned to the European side."

Christine nodded and said: "If you want to blame it, it's the Netherlands. If it weren't for their support, how could these newspapers put all these things on the stage?"

Compared to the UK, parliamentary elections in Denmark are less democratic and representative.The elections in each municipality are manipulated by oligarchs who publish books. There are very few voters in each county constituency. The largest counties do not even have more than 1000 people, and other counties only have less than 100-1000 people. .

Denmark is good enough. In the eastern German Empire, to be honest, there are fewer voters in the constituencies. It's not that there are fewer people, but that there are even fewer people who have the right to vote. Only big capital and aristocrats have the votes.

As for ordinary people, they can only resign themselves to fate and see the results.

Sweden is no better.

In the past, in Europe, only France could compare with the United Kingdom in terms of electoral system. Later, the United States and later the Netherlands were added.

When the two of them thought of this, they couldn't help but show their annoyance.

The New York Times in the United States naturally does not spread this fire to the United States. After all, the electoral system there is one of the most complete countries, and it is a federal system. Although there are capital oligarchs, there are no aristocrats.

You can sit down and watch the show.

France is divided into the French Second Empire in the north and the French Third Republic. The south is naturally safe and sound, but the French Second Empire in the north under Napoleon III is a bit in doubt. After all, they are in the south of the English Channel.

But in recent years, in order to compete with the French Third Republic in the south for talents, the north has also carried out a lot of reforms, but they are not comparable to other European countries.

What dissatisfied the two most was the Netherlands.

Originally, the status of the Netherlands and Denmark was similar. However, after a series of reforms started 20 years ago, the national strength and systems of the two countries became more and more distant. Until now, the Netherlands has become a big country, while Denmark is still struggling as a medium-sized country. , I have to sigh.

This is why Denmark began to work with Sweden in 1870 to win over Spain to balance the influence of the Netherlands.

Suddenly the phone rang (was the telephone introduced in Melbourne in 1877, a few years earlier than history)?

Prime Minister Scavinis picked up the ancient simple telephone and asked gentlemanly: "Hello?"

Christian suddenly saw Scavinis's face changed drastically, and he couldn't help but feel a bad feeling in his heart.

After Scavinis put down the phone, he hurriedly asked: "What happened?" Scavinis nodded and said angrily: "Those dogs in the UK =niang-raised"

Christine asked in confusion: "England?"

Scavinis said angrily: “Newspapers all over the UK now report on the distribution of the nobility in Denmark and Sweden, and the strength structure of each party is also printed on the newspapers in a clearly visible picture format.

Now, not only in Stockholm, but also in Copenhagen, many people responded to the bottom of society in the UK and began to march on the streets.Even in order to oppose the rule of the Danish Conservative Party and our National Land Party, they actually established an emerging political party, the Danish Power Party, headed by bourgeois capital and including the bottom of society, in the propaganda department outside the royal gate. The slogan is to break our two-party monopoly and demand that Denmark should also learn from the Netherlands to implement a coalition cabinet government system.When I called just now, the number of members of this new political party has reached 9200."

Christine took a breath of air-conditioning after hearing this. You must know that currently there are only 8 members of their National Land Party and only 6.5 members of the opposition Conservative Party. However, this new political party, the Danish Power Party, has nearly [-] members just after it was established. Given time, it will definitely threaten the two current parties. As the leader of the National Land Party, he knows that the Danish political scene is really going to change this time.

On August 1879, 8, shortly after Dutch and American newspapers attacked the new and old British aristocrats for controlling seats in the House of Commons, influential British newspapers such as the London Times, Financial Times, and Times Attacks on the internal power structure of European countries began to take turns. This wave of attacks unexpectedly made European countries who originally looked at the British joke unprepared and won the bid one after another. At this point, the internal forces of each country were unwilling to be left alone and competed to carry out internal attacks.

Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, and Spain were the most violent. Although the German Empire was suppressed by William I and Bismarck, dissatisfaction also occurred in various places, especially in the original Kingdom of Hanover, the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Saxony, and Baden. The old aristocrats of the Principality, the Principality of Battenberg, and other countries that were annexed by Prussia all showed their strength in this incident and made demands for power to the top leaders of each country.

Even the 59-year-old Alexander II of Tsarist Russia was confused by this. It is said that on August 1879, 8, Alexander II was hit by a bomb on his way back to the Winter Palace after a military parade in St. Petersburg. If not for Immediate treatment was needed. His life was in danger, but one toe on his right foot was blown off.

The entire Tsarist Russian Empire strengthened its internal military operations. It is said that at least 1000 people related to this incident died in the Tsarist Russian Empire before it calmed down.

But in other places, as the news spread, royal members of various countries made everyone feel in danger, and the number of security personnel around them more than doubled.

Melbourne, Australia.

Theo von Linden, Prime Minister of the Netherlands: "I didn't expect that Britain's use of force to fight made it so amazing. The entire European continent was brought into chaos by him."

William IV smiled and said: "Isn't this very good? Britain has become the bad guy we were originally here to do, and only caused hatred. Look at the current Tsarist Russian Empire. I almost go crazy when I hear the word "Britain"

Theo von Linden immediately laughed when he heard this.

Theo von Linden asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do now?"

William IV: "Heroes emerge from troubled times. We must not only look at them, but also try to deflect them, and try to seize the greatest benefits."

Theo von Linden: "?"

William IV: "What the Netherlands lacks most at this time is European capital, technology and talents. Be careful to guard against the United States and prevent them from cutting off our fruits as much as possible."

When Theo von Linden heard this, he naturally understood.

He couldn't help but secretly mourn for his European colleagues: "You will be unlucky when you meet our Majesty."

(End of this chapter)