Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

In just one hour between 16:00 and 17:00 on December 29, 1881, a large Dutch party that had been in power for nearly 70 years was split in this way.

This shocked everyone in the Netherlands.

Not only people from the Liberal Party, but even more than 90% of the people in the Socialist Party could not believe it. The accuracy of this news was only confirmed after being informed by the party.

But after reacting, there was a burst of ecstasy.

With the support of the old faction of the Christian Party, the Socialist Party can take a step forward and become one step closer to becoming the largest party in power.

Within the Socialist Party,

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Leader of the Socialist Party, Jules Danetant, held up champagne and saluted the Minister of Education and the Socialist Senatorial Whip. Philip touched it lightly and said, "Cheers to win the city."

Others, such as the Socialist Parliament Chairman and Foreign Minister Joseph Beit, the Mines and Energy Minister and the Socialist Whip of the House of Representatives, together formed a four-person group also attended the small gathering.

Jourda Netang: "The teacher said many years ago that in order to win the election, we should break the opponent's will from within. Are we successful now?"

Mari Philippe: “The layout started five years ago. From that time on, the fate of the Christian Party was doomed.”

Both Joseph Beit and Hester were greatly shocked.

At that time, when everyone was happy and excited that the Socialist Party could cooperate with the Christian Party, the second largest party, who could have imagined that the two people in front of them actually had a big plan. The Christian Party actually started to cooperate five years ago. Being calculated.

Joseph Beit: "The easiest way to defeat the enemy and replace him is to cause internal chaos, and then take the opportunity to break the opponent's will and give up resistance. Now after four years, the Socialist Party has possessed the Christian Party like a leech, sucking the nutrients from the Christian Party. Four years have allowed us to grow into adults, and the Christian Party has not much nutrients to absorb and has become as thin as a stick. In this case, it is better to cripple it now and make use of its waste to win over the old factions who are dissatisfied with Lyndon. What a good idea to choose.”

Jules Danetang smiled and said: "It's more than that."

Bait looked at him doubtfully.

Jules Danetang: "Linden called just half an hour ago."

Energy and Minerals Minister Hester: "He called to express his dissatisfaction?"

Jules Danetang shook his head, "You are wrong. Lyndon is a gentleman and would not do this."

Beit speculated: "He is willing to support us, but expels the old faction that suppresses the Christian party led by Rasha?"

"You are worthy of being my opponent in Belgium." Jules Danetang secretly praised in his heart, then nodded and said: "Yes, since you can't resist, why not benefit from it?"

"Linden wants to take over the Socialist Party posts we had when we worked with them."

Bait: "You agreed?"

Jules Danetang: "I'm stupid. I just agreed that apart from the Foreign Minister and the Finance Minister, the remaining Ministers of Education, Energy and Transport will share the pork between the two major factions. As for the outcome, it depends. This time it will be decided by the number of parliamentary seats they win."

There are always surprises in everything. Starting from 17:00 on December 29, 1881, the hearts of the whole country were in a state of shock, and all kinds of strange things happened one after another.

In Queensland, because the Hall family has become a presence that everyone wants to beat, the Liberal Party has begun to worry about the election situation. The Socialist Party took the opportunity to absorb voters in large numbers and became bullish. However, the Liberal Party has been operating there for more than 16 years and is deeply entrenched. It is still difficult for the Socialist Party to take the opportunity to uproot it. So will Queensland become a fortress of the Liberal Party or will it become a province where the two parties continue to swing?

We won't know the result until tomorrow.

Elections in 39 provinces and municipalities in the Netherlands are about to take place. At 18:30 that day, the province of New Zealand, which is governed by the Socialist Party, suddenly discovered that the contents of the speech that the candidate for the provincial House of Representatives gave at a campaign rally were revealed to be scripted. He was suspected of insulting members of the Dutch royal family. The candidate of the Liberal Party directly criticized the other party for disrespecting the royal family and asked him to withdraw from the Senate election.

As the situation expanded, it spread directly from New Zealand to the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands. In the end, even the Socialist Party held a meeting to discuss it. Naturally, the Liberal Party would not miss the opportunity to attack its opponents, so while investigating whether it was true, the other side continued to stir up trouble.

However, at 19:00 that night, the Socialist Senatorial candidate Sharon publicly retorted in the form of a radio broadcast that he had been in contact with the New Zealand police since the afternoon and promised to appear in court for questioning on the morning of tomorrow's election day. Cooperate with the police investigation.

Sharon was arrested in Wellington at 5 a.m. on the day of the general election on December 30 and charged with sedition on suspicion of insulting the royal family, which attracted attention. Although Sharon had sent a letter to the Melbourne Palace to apologize to the royal family, he did not plead guilty when he was questioned at 9 a.m., which attracted criticism. He even emphasized in court that the apology was based on Dutch etiquette and respect for the royal family.

Sharon's identity was quickly revealed.

It turned out that he was an immigrant from the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866. He was dissatisfied with Prussian rule at that time, so he began to immigrate to New Zealand, which was ruled by the Dutch in the Far East.

After 5 years of immigration, he automatically became a Dutch citizen, and after 10 years he could run for public office and parliamentary seats. In 1871, he became the first batch of immigrant members recruited by the Socialist Party, and also became a member of the Socialist Party's favored immigrant status. After that, he began to be gradually promoted, and in 1873 He became the party leader of the New Zealand Socialist Party branch in 1875. He participated in the parliamentary election for the first time in 1875 and became a member of Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city. In 1879, he became the mayor of the city. This time he challenged the senator. If successful, you can be officially promoted to an official position in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Unfortunately, there is a possibility of dismounting this time.

On December 30, 1881, at 9:50 a.m., Prince Albert, the temporary supervisor of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, called on the Dutch people to live in harmony and not to slander each other. This was seen as the Dutch royal ruler's support for the two parties not to discuss this issue again. Continue to expand and use the topic of the royal family as capital for your candidacy.

It was only then that everyone noticed that it seemed that from the beginning, everyone had entered a misunderstanding about who was driving the development of the whole thing. The answer soon appeared in their minds, and that was the Liberal Party.

A dog that doesn't bark will bite. The Liberal Party has always been low-key and pragmatic.

The choice to attack this time was to tamper with the speech script, and it also happened in front of the two-party campaign meeting in a speech contest. It can be said that it is official and vicious without saying anything, and it is also lamentable that the method is direct and straightforward, hitting the heart with one blow, which is a good method. .

At this moment, even Mari Philip exclaimed: "The Liberal Party is indeed our biggest opponent. This loss reminds us not to be complacent. Challenges are still ahead. There are three days to vote in the general election. What are these three days? Everything happens."