Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 779 Redrawing the World
"Due to the rapid rise of the Netherlands and the intimidation of Britain, it is inevitable that world politics will become divided into camps and military alliances.

For more than ten years, the United Kingdom, which has violently stepped on the situation on the Eurasian continent, maintained a balance of power on the continent, and enlisted the Netherlands to contain the European continent. In order to contain the Netherlands, it has become the vanguard of the reversal and containment of the Eurasian continent. On the surface, it looks like a fluttering flag. , it’s really in disarray.

It has increasingly evolved into a situation where the enemies of the British Empire are self-contained, while Britain's original allies are gradually breaking up, forming multiple centers of power.

The most impressive reshaping force was that Prussia successfully evolved into the German Empire.

Although the United States of America in North America was not unified with a population of 13 million in 1400 southern states due to the obstruction of the United Kingdom, its national strength is not what it used to be. With a population of 3000 million and the fourth largest economy in the world (after the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany), the United States has strengthened its influence in North America. The unique environment makes it unique in the Americas and cannot be compared with Brazil and Argentina.

Secondly, Spain has been hard on Britain for many years, and now it has close relations with Sweden and Denmark in Northern Europe. Spain seems to want to regain its glory for many years, but I don’t know if Britain will allow it. After all, Britain has an unshirkable responsibility for Spain’s decline. responsibility.

Isn't Britain worried about retaliation from Spain?Who knows.

Because the Austrian Empire was kicked out of the German Empire, it had no choice but to form the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Hungary. Joseph Franz I was not a good person. He was still ambitious and would not give in.

Finally, the Tsarist Emperor Alexander II, who had been assassinated many times recently, was feeling disgraced, but Tsarist Russia's troops stationed in Serbia made the situation there feel strangely calm.

It seems that no one is willing to take the lead and become the trigger.

Alexander II seemed to be aware of these points, so he unscrupulously refreshed Tsarist Russia's presence in the Balkans.

Furthermore, in the east, Japan, which Britain has been wooing over the past few years, has become a bit swollen recently. It no longer bows its head to Qing, but also has ambitions towards Qing's subordinate country Korea, trying to rely on Britain's support. Support, while provoking qing-country many times, he even further supported Britain for the sake of Britain. When he knew that Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Jules Danetang was visiting qing-country, he also made rude remarks about the visit many times. Today_Ben There is no doubt that there is serious dissatisfaction with the Netherlands, the Pacific hegemon.

It is foreseeable that in the future, under the instigation of Britain, Japan and the Netherlands will have a battle over the issue of sphere of influence in the Pacific.

As for Qing-guo, one monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, three monks...

William IV shook his head with a wry smile.

The power of the internal power-institutions of the Qing-country is too scattered. In the current world where powerful countries are rising one after another, the Qing-country is huge and rich in resources, but there are too many mountains. Two queen mothers and a small emperor are not yet emperors. Prince Gong, who is the biological daughter of the Queen Mothers, is not compatible with them in appearance and heart. Li Zhongzhang is also a traitor. He has always been suppressed by the people in front of him. He has too many worries and too much baggage in his heart. It is difficult to realize his ambitions. In the end, everything comes to nothing. Later generations only left a solid foundation.

Their different interests hindered the slightest chance of the Qing Dynasty, a feudal dynasty, finally rising.

Therefore, in the current world, the doctrine and politics of protecting one's own economy are once again rampant, which will inevitably lead to the shrinkage of global economic, trade and political peace. If it were the original historical process, it is destined that there will be no winner among the European powers. Instead, it will be the United States on the other side of the Atlantic. It will probably not participate in the internal war. In the end, the United States, which relied on selling weapons, became a country with the same status as Britain after World War I. It can be said that it is the envy of others, and Japan also defeated Europe in the Far East because it was far away from Europe. The powerful Tsarist Empire, and finally with the support of Britain, completed the transformation of a medium-sized country into a regional power.

"Japan must be suppressed, but" William IV suddenly thought deeply for a moment, and murmured to himself confidently with his pearls of wisdom in hand: "But we can let Japan defeat Tsarist Russia in the Far East to repeat itself. After that, slowly Slowly clean up the little day-Ben”

"However, before that, we can also borrow the strength of Qing-country and naturally it will not consume the potential of Japan. Yes, let's do it."

“When Queen Victoria and I attended the marriage of Crown Prince Frederic of Greece (brother of the protagonist and the Queen’s 1871th son-in-law) in 4, I thought she explained the Netherlands’ willingness to work with Britain to create an ocean to contain the world island of Eurasia. , the queen also agreed."

William IV smiled bitterly and said to himself: "It seems that the Netherlands is moving a little too fast this time, which makes the whole of Britain a little breathless, especially the battle for the Malacca Strait, which caused the Netherlands and Britain to completely fall out. In addition, In South America, in Chile, the British lost to the Netherlands by one move. In the end, the Queen could not bear it anymore and announced that Britain and the Netherlands would sever diplomatic relations and recall each other's ambassadors. The tragedy shocked the world."

"The UK was originally regarded as a natural promoter of import and export trade by virtue of its industrial advantages. In the past, it liked to open its doors to each other for trade exchanges with backward countries.

However, the rise of the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany has allowed the United Kingdom to only think about international trade and investment based on the traditional concept of comparative advantage and efficiency, and now it has turned to pay more attention to its own country's actual security and risk variables."

On the contrary, the Netherlands, as a bottom-line thinking, is deeply involved in the reconstruction of global supply chains and transnational economic governance planning in the Dutch industry around the world.

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are in a competitive relationship in the global arms trade supply chain. However, the two countries have always maintained a distance in order to maintain a safe thinking and gain a dominant position. With the trade war and military confrontations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the two countries' This confrontation will inevitably cause European countries to choose among themselves, and even the European trade and political structure will become increasingly decoupled.

Now, with the Pacific countries (mainly referring to the Far East Netherlands, Qing Dynasty, Kingdom of Siam, Japan, Korea, and the Persian Empire) and American countries, their status in the world structure has risen overall.

If the world economy and politics are divided into three major sectors: the Far East, America, and Europe, the proportion of Britain's total domestic industrial output in the world has declined. With the rise of Germany, Europe has made up for the gap in Britain's decline. Europe is still the strongest economy, politically. Same global dominance.

However, with the rise of the Netherlands, it moved from Europe to the Far East, Australia, the mainland, the Dutch East Indies, etc., and its total output even equaled that of the United Kingdom, the world's strongest economic power, surpassing the third-ranked Germany by 20%, and the fourth-ranked United States by 25%. , 30% more than the combined total of north, west and north of Fifth France.

For the first time, the Netherlands' industrial share accounted for 30% of the world's total, and Britain's industrial dominance was on the verge of collapse.

Britain's accelerated decline is a foregone conclusion.The United States and Brazil in the Americas, Argentina and the Netherlands in the Far East, Japan and the rising Qing Dynasty are three pillars. In particular, the Netherlands, Japan and the United States will join the field and replace the United Kingdom's position soon.

The American era and the Asian era are about to come.

William II sighed: "In the Pacific Age, because I led the Netherlands to the Australian continent, it finally rose 150 years ahead of schedule."

(End of this chapter)