Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On December 30, 1881, after Prime Minister Linden stated that he would not run for the election, the campaign meeting immediately disqualified him from being nominated for re-election as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He originally thought it was an overly safe thing, but unexpectedly, a protest broke out at the Christian Party headquarters that night. Demonstration action.

More than 200,000 people took to the streets of Sydney to express their dissatisfaction with Lyndon's withdrawal from the election. They were also dissatisfied with the campaign committee's direct disqualification of re-election without retaining him.

“What we don’t understand is why a sitting prime minister is still being attacked since he has already said he will not run for office, and there is not even some comforting words.

Linden will not run for the election, and there are still more than two months until February 20th. If not enough respect is given, then the caretaker government of Prime Minister Linden will become a turbulent period before the new Dutch government comes to power, which will be very harmful to the Netherlands. Said it was a very dangerous thing. Therefore, we cannot ignore the Linden caretaker government after the Christian Party does not participate in the election. After all, the alliance between Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary is eyeing the Netherlands, and Austria-Hungary is also launching a war of aggression to occupy territory in Mexico, an ally of the Netherlands. At this time, everyone in the Netherlands should stand up and hold a peaceful election, instead of just going back and forth between you and me. Launch personal attacks and family accusations against opponents. ""

Catini, dean of the School of History at the University of The Hague, is a special contributor to the weekly "Echo" and is also a staunch ally of the New Christian Party. He publicly accused everyone in the Dutch political arena of having too strong an idea of ​​facing power. The responsibility for power is ignored. Therefore, he participated in the demonstration, but not to support the Christian party Linden, but because after the Linden government became a weakling, the Dutch government's domestic and foreign policies could not continue to have the initial turbulence and influence.

Voting in the prime minister election is still a mess, and the future of the Netherlands is full of fog

The laughter of William IV could be heard from a distance in the Royal Palace of the Netherlands.

If people from the outside world hear this, they will definitely be very puzzled by this. After all, the Netherlands is currently on the verge of civil strife due to the general election, but this Dutchman can still laugh, and he laughs so happily.

"Garfield is worthy of the fact that we have trained him for many years. The resignation of Stephen Douglas will eventually make Berlin understand that the United States still has the final say, not the German Empire."

"We finally won the election. We will not abandon our ally the Netherlands. My cabinet government will discuss with the Netherlands to increase trade between the two countries. We do not even rule out the formation of an industrial alliance between the two countries. I will work with the new prime minister and even William Your Majesty the Fourth, start negotiations. I will ask the Netherlands to grant most-favored-nation trade access to the United States and allow American Chicago agricultural products to be supplied to the Netherlands and put on the tables of the Dutch people. In addition, we will also ask the Netherlands to increase technology to the United States. Transfer, such as the recent East India Company's DC generators, thermal power stations, hydropower stations, etc.?

I will lead the domestic transportation giants to learn from the Netherlands in developing the bicycle industry while also developing the world's leading Dutch automobile industry. By the way, we also need to order more of the world's most advanced second-generation submarines and steam battleships from the Netherlands, because we Whether we are on the Pacific side or the Atlantic side, we are all facing the risk of invasion by the old European powers, just like what is happening tragically in Mexico now. In short, in the next four years of our term, we will work hard to promote the United States. Comprehensively restore relations with the Netherlands and even develop them further, because looking around the world, the Netherlands is the best ally choice for the United States."

While the Dutch election was fiercely underway, the Federal Republic of the United States elected a new president, and that person was Garfield, who was close to the Dutch Republican Party.

The newly elected man held a victory declaration just outside Washington Square. In the main part of the diplomacy, he focused on his future new government's deepening of relations with the Netherlands, whether it is economic, military, political, etc. The series is like this,

The current president of the Democratic Party, Stephen Douglas, like Prime Minister Linden of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, has become a lame duck and can only serve as the leader of the government for one term.

For a time, countries around the world sent various congratulatory messages to this North American power, expressing their hope to cooperate with the new Republican Garfield government.

Of course, these words are mostly polite, but it is not clear what he thinks in his heart.

The country that is most dissatisfied is naturally the German Empire.

Originally, the German Empire had the best relationship with Stephen Douglas in the government, so good that President Stephen distanced himself from the Netherlands and almost formed an alliance with Germany. Successfully won over the Americans who were anti-Dutch and pro-German.

Although in the end, because the influence of the Dutch in the United States was too strong, President Stephen had to make a compromise and did not dare to openly oppose the Netherlands. However, he was also labeled as not being too close to Dutch-American cooperation. On the contrary, Germany relies on the existence of 6 million Germans, and the Germans grow barbarically.

Nowadays, Germany's presence in the United States is almost the same as that of the Netherlands. It is almost a high-end talent and financial conglomerate. After all, the Netherlands only has 2 million Dutch people in the United States, only one-third of the Germans. However, the Germans do not say that they are very welcome. Seeing Prussia's rule in the German Confederation, it was just disunity. However, after more than ten years of infiltration and integration, Bismarck has weakened this resistance a lot.

I believe that in ten or eight years at most, after the unification of the German Empire, a common belief will be formed, no worse than that of the citizens of the French Empire.

At that time, the Germans will be able to fully compete for influence with the Netherlands in the Commonwealth of America.

At present, it is lagging behind.

Garfield came to power with the support of Dutch people.

The Republican Party is even the largest stronghold of the Dutch. Although the Dutch are also influential in the Democratic Party, now with the support of Stephen, the Germans can also fight against the Dutch, but they are evenly matched. Stephen's support was before Overwhelmed the Netherlands, which is why the Democratic Party government issued a number of policies that are unfavorable to the Netherlands.

"There is some chaos in the internal elections in the Netherlands. This could have increased our penetration in the Americas, but now Garfield's victory in the election is a new check and balance for us. Stephen Douglas is really useless. lost”

Kaiser Wilhelm I was extremely dissatisfied.

You must know that Germany spent a lot of energy on Stephen Douglas, using influence everywhere to pave the way for him. Even this time, while using the power of Germans, it also invested the invisible forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the United Kingdom. , but the unsatisfactory result in the end made him almost faint.

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