Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 922: The Union of South America expands into the Group of 13

Faced with the alliance between Germany and Austria, which expressed increased influence in South America and the intention to form a joint fleet to deploy naval forces in Latin America, various forces and camps in Latin America expressed different opinions.

1881年6月10日上午11点30分。

Argentina expressed its welcome to the German and Austrian ambassadors to the two countries, Shi, who was received by Argentinian President Miret in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital. Argentina welcomed the two countries to increase their presence in Latin America. The anti-Dutch president, who resented the uneven distribution of spoils among his allies, the Netherlands, and turned to the United Kingdom, said, "Argentina does not want only one extra-regional country in Latin America to dominate here. We are willing to contact more European powers besides the United Kingdom. , of course, our relationship with the United States is also good. In short, we are willing to balance the current one-sided situation in Latin America and improve it."

At 1881:6 pm on June 10, 16, Pedro II of the Brazilian Empire, who was visiting Sao Paulo, said, "The Brazilian emperor does not want to see the disputes in Europe leading to Latin America, because this will sooner or later lead to Latin America. The catastrophe of the war has come, but in the face of some ambitious countries step by step to attract Latin American countries to fall into this layout, we found that grandma dreamed that it was unshirkable.

Therefore, on the issue of the German-Austrian Alliance, the Brazilian Empire has no objections, but we are willing to sit down and negotiate with all parties to solve how to maintain the security here from being destroyed."

The Brazilian emperor also said, "Brazil has urgently communicated in detail with the President of the Commonwealth of the United States, Stephen Douglas, and my cousin, King Louis I of Portugal, on this matter. Our three countries have unanimously decided that when facing opponents, we We will firmly safeguard our interests."

His statement made the idea of ​​an alliance between Brazil, the United States, and Portugal become an intelligence collection point on secret documents of various countries. If these three countries also form an alliance, then both sides of the Atlantic will be more interesting. This is what many people idea.

When London, England saw this scene happening, they were immediately ecstatic. Obviously, the circle of allies established by the Netherlands in the world has always been something that Britain and France and other major powers were wary of. Now that the German-Austrian alliance has been established, although Britain feels a bit of a crisis, But most of them are happy that Germany, Austria and the Netherlands should keep their distance.

Now if Argentina favors the United Kingdom and continues to oppose the Netherlands, and then the Brazilian Empire forms an alliance with the United States and Portugal, it will definitely be good news for the United Kingdom.

Even Queen Victoria in Buckingham Palace, who was frowning because of the German-Austrian alliance during this period, smiled because of the news of the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II's stance.

In Berlin, it is said that Bismarck, William IV, and Moltke Lao held an emergency diplomatic and military meeting for this purpose, and seemed to be formulating policies for the next step in the German Empire's foreign strategy.

However, all this was shocked at 1881 a.m. on the second day, June 6, 12, when the South American Union Summit announced the agreement reached on June 9.

Countries once again had to overturn their previous emotions and plans and start over.

On June 1881, 6, the South American Union Summit was held at 12 a.m. 9 speakers from 17 countries, including member states, observer states and partner states, attended the press conference. The person who released the news was Guado President Moreno announced at the meeting that he would accept Mexico and the five Central American federations (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua) as new members of the South American Union.The six countries will be the same as the previous member countries of the Netherlands, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. These six countries have also automatically taken effect at the same time. They will officially open their doors and become free trade countries, accepting the trade policies among member countries. At the same time, there can be no restrictions on accepting investment from member countries.

At the same time, President Moreno also announced that the seven-nation South American coalition was renamed the 13-nation Latin American coalition.

The headquarters of this organization is still located in Ecuador, and its military bases are in Puerto Montt, Santiago, Tierra del Fuego, Chile (Argentina was expelled by the Netherlands in 1879, so Tierra del Fuego is no longer half-divided between Argentina and Chile), and Santiago; Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Lima, Peru; Panama, Urivia, Colombia; Sucre, Venezuela; Lepanto, Costa Rica; Managua, Nicaragua; Honduras; San Jose, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala ; Caye Caulker, Belize; Puerto Altamira, Veracruz, Pochutela, La Paz, Mexico, etc.

At the same time, President Moreno announced that the current 5 troops are far from enough to cope with the increase in these garrison troops. After all, the number of garrison bases has increased from 4 to 19 now.

In order to deal with possible crises, the 13 countries unanimously agreed to increase the strength of the coalition forces from the current 5 troops to 10.

改变后的军队兵力来源为：荷兰3万、墨西哥1.5万、哥伦比亚1.5万、委内瑞拉1.5万、智利1万、中美洲联邦五国1万、玻利维亚5000人、秘鲁5000人、厄瓜多尔5000人.
And various countries have always elected Helan as the organization's secretary-general, the leading country, that is, the leader.

As this piece of news flew around the world, not to mention Brazil, Argentina and the United States, the three countries in the Americas that had just revealed that they wanted to form an alliance, were stunned. Even Germany and Austria-Hungary, a pair of alliance countries that had already signed an alliance treaty, were stunned. I was also extremely shocked.

Countries such as the Netherlands actually went in the opposite direction. Not only were they not afraid of the German-Austrian Alliance or the tripartite alliance between the United States, Portugal, and Brazil, they actually directly added 6 member states. You must know that there were only 7 member states before, and now they have almost increased by nearly half. This is definitely a slap in the face.

The United Kingdom, where Buckingham Palace is located, was even more surprised by this. At the same time, there was some excitement, but more of it was fear of the expansion of the Dutch territory.

Yes, together with the five Central American Federations and Mexico, the Dutch influence currently extends to the southern border of the British-supported Confederate States of America.If you look carefully, you can see that the entire Latin America is connected from south to north.And the technology is almost always on the Pacific side.The Netherlands happens to be the overlord in the Pacific region.For Britain and other powerful countries, it is definitely more difficult than ever to challenge the Netherlands.

Unless several big countries join forces to break the power of the Netherlands, are other countries willing to do this?
The Russian Empire and other countries are also partners there. Will these countries intervene?

Many people in the UK suddenly had a headache.

(End of this chapter)