Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

There is no completely sealed wall in the world. The UK has a large population at home and abroad, including South Africans. Canadians, Saxons, Hanoverians, etc. In fact, there are intelligence agents from many countries lurking inside the UK, observing the British operations every step of the way.

Of course, this is just an intelligence collection method for small and medium-sized countries.

For a big country like the Netherlands, I naturally have other methods. For example, William IV used the news channels that had taken refuge in his Rothschild family in the early years to observe every move of the United Kingdom and other European countries.

The members of the British royal family had just finished a family meeting on the Isle of Wight, a small island on the edge of the British Isles. Prince Edward hurried back to London to discuss the plan with Creston and Disraeli, and the number of participants was almost all The entire British House of Lords, for the Netherlands, which has a strong ability to collect intelligence, is tantamount to not giving away the intelligence that comes to their doorstep.

William IV held the contents of the intelligence, but his heart was extremely calm.

From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, Britain sent envoys to Myanmar many times. On the grounds that Myanmar suppressed the rebellion in the Arakan region, it required Myanmar to open up trade conditions and release the rebel forces in Arakan. It wanted to surrender to Myanmar. The French Empire used Burma's ports, and such an unequal treaty was categorically rejected by the French Empire. Seeing that Myanmar did not agree to its request, Britain openly supported the rebel forces in Arakan to stir up trouble in Myanmar. At the same time, the British took advantage of the fact that King Meng of Myanmar sent troops to quell the royal disputes in Manipur and Assam, and encouraged rebellion. The opposition's actions to split Myanmar are exactly the same as the British funding of separatist forces in some parts of the world in later generations.

Therefore, netizens in later generations said that Britain was not good at human rights. In fact, they began to use this trick hundreds of years ago to classify their opponents, weaken them, and then slowly launch invasion wars.

In 18822, in order to cope with the challenge from British forces, the King of Myanmar, Meng Ji, sent troops to the Assam region in an attempt to seize the strategic advantage. In 1823, some residents of the Chittagong area crossed the Neifu River on the Myanmar border and were beaten by the Myanmar border guards. hurt. The British immediately stationed themselves on Sima Piao Island in Myanmar under the pretext of protecting these residents. As a result, they were driven away by the Myanmar army led by General Bandura. This made Britain determined to formally declare war on Burma in 1824.

Many people are familiar with history to this point and know that this was a turning point for Myanmar. The decline in national power or even death began from this year.

Since William IV moved his capital to the Far East, he naturally had a comprehensive understanding of the history of the surrounding countries or states and vassal states in the Far East. Therefore, if he did not know the history of Myanmar thoroughly, at least he had a poor understanding of it.

The victory over the British made the Burmese people arrogant, but the Zigong dynasty was finally taught how to behave.

At this time, Meng Ji, the ruler of the Gonbang Dynasty, won the counter-insurgency war and drove away the British army. She began to be selfless. The fact that Britain had annexed the Indian Peninsula in the west a few years ago was giving a The British royal family gradually expressed their arrogance in the letter. They even claimed to attack the British mainland and make the British mainland a vassal state of Myanmar. They even arrogantly said that the crown prince should go to the UK and become the governor of the entire UK.

Such letters made the British laugh, thinking that the Burmese king might have said this after drinking. Even the British were spreading this joke, which used the arrogance of the Qing Dynasty, but at least it was a world power and East Asia is the leader, and its economy has been the world's number one for a long time. In 1824, the Qing Dynasty still had the world's largest GDP. But who do you think Myanmar is?

In terms of weapons and equipment, morale, training and organizational discipline, the lobster soldiers who fought all over the world are simply not comparable to the poor Burmese army, which is poor and short of gold and silver. The British army at that time was equipped with a sufficient number of high-quality guns and artillery. At that time, the most advanced gunboats and landing ships, as well as India and Bangladesh, could provide sufficient food and military supplies, while Myanmar only had some old-fashioned rifles and simple sailing ships.

Even though there was such a huge gap between the armies, Britain still made sufficient strategic and logistical arrangements for this war. , the British Governor-General of India dispatched a colonial army of 11,500 Madras Subba soldiers to cooperate with the naval fleet to assemble in the Andaman Islands, and attack Yangon, the city of famous shops. At the same time, the British captains stationed in Burma and the navy had lived in Burma for a long time and collected a large amount of domestic intelligence in Burma. They were almost familiar with Burma's national conditions, military conditions and troop mobilization. Before the war, the British Governor-General of India also spent great efforts to instigate peace. The Mon ethnic group, which is opposed by the Bamar ethnic group, has taken advantage of the anti-Burmese sentiment in the Assam and Manipur areas to its advantage.

William IV understood that this was Britain's best practice in waging invasion wars. In many wars launched by the United States in later generations, Britain's presence could be seen everywhere. The fighting methods learned by the United States actually came from the United Kingdom. Britain's balance-of-power diplomacy, Actually in the United States. , the same is true, except that the United Kingdom does not form alliances, while the United States forms alliances around the world, and uses allies to maintain its global influence and hegemony. The United Kingdom was similar to a lone wolf fighting back then, but it was not pedantic. See Germany formed an alliance, and it also formed an alliance with France and Russia to come to Germany.

What the Anglo-Saxons use now and in the future are to find poor countries when fighting, or countries with a single economy. As long as the balance is disturbed, it will be difficult to continue to maintain national order.

Iraq-Croatia, Afghanistan-Afghanistan, etc. are the best examples.

The method used by the Netherlands now actually comes from the United States. Although the Netherlands is a top country in the world, but compared to the status of the only superpower in the United States, the Netherlands needs to form alliances with more countries. But the Netherlands is different from the United States in that it needs It absorbs nutrients from all allies for its own use, but this is based on reciprocity, while the United States uses a model of blood transfusion from allies, so it can be regarded as a different way to maintain a stable alliance circle.

The UK is actually still following the model of a superpower in the world. Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Indian Peninsula, etc. are still the UK’s largest channels for delivering nutrients. In fact, these three places are one of the most critical to the prosperity of the UK. Australia It belongs to the Netherlands, and Canada is close to the United States. There is some danger that the invasion from the south will drag the United Kingdom into the war. This is the reason why the United Kingdom supports the division of the United States into the thirteen southern states. It is to surround North America and make it vulnerable to enemies from both sides, and it does not dare to fight against it. British Canada acted rashly.

Of course, now that the Netherlands has purchased Alaska from Russia, the United Kingdom does not dare to act rashly in Canada, fearing that the Netherlands will unite with the United States.

Unfortunately, Britain would not give up, so it encouraged Austria-Hungary to form an alliance with Germany, and then invaded Mexico, which had just joined the Dutch-led Thirteen Latin American Alliance.

A series of threats, counter-threats and threats, each country is involved in the calculation. Of course, these countries also have their own calculations. For example, Bismarck of Germany, no one knows the reason why he chose to intervene.