Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

At 16:00 on January 4, 1882, after a 24-hour fair and rigorous Dutch multi-party election committee in Queensland Province, the Queensland branch announced the results showing that the Socialist Party broke through the history of the Dutch rule of the Australian continent since 1863 and defeated the Dutch for the first time. It has been the Liberal Party's practice since the Liberal Party came to power in Queensland. In the mid-term election two years ago, the Socialist Party won one of the two senators in the province. It won again this time. At this point, the Socialist Party has full control of Queensland. With two senators representing the Dutch Senate, the Socialists are one step closer to taking control of the Senate.

The Queensland Provincial Campaign Committee announced directly to the national audience on the radio that the victory of Matthews, who was seeking to defeat the Liberal Party's senatorial candidate seeking re-election in Queensland Province, allowed the Liberal Party to finally mark Queensland Province as the Socialist Party on the Senate power map. Label.

In the House of Representatives election, the Socialist Party unexpectedly won 6 out of the 2 10 seats that needed to be re-elected. Including the 2 seats that were not re-elected before, the Socialist Party had a total of 8 seats, two votes short of the Liberal Party's 10 seats, and the other two One seat is held by the New Christian Party, and the other is an independent candidate without party affiliation.

At the same time, the results of New Zealand Province, which was among the first to vote together with Queensland Province, also came out. The Socialist Party consolidated one of its strongholds in New Zealand Province. The Socialist Party also successfully won the senatorial election. For members of the House of Representatives, the Socialist Party accounted for 70%, which is worthy of the vote. claims to control the power structure of the province.

So far, the Socialist Party has won parliamentary seats in two disputed provinces that were secretly contested between the Socialist Party and the Liberal Party some time ago. This has caused the Liberal Party's status in the Netherlands to further decline, while on the contrary, the Socialist Party has further risen.

With the addition of two senatorial seats, it is even possible that the Socialist Party will challenge its own ruling Dutch cabinet.

However, now that the old Christian Party has become the younger brother of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Party’s chances of winning have never been higher.

Control of the Dutch Senate depends on 37 provinces and cities, but in the end what is controversial is that a few key states are still counting votes. If the Socialist Party wins, it is expected to control the Dutch Senate.

In North Holland Province (Europe, the original mainland was divided into five provinces, East, West, South, North and Central + North Belgium Province, a total of six provinces), Northern Australia Province, Dutch East Indies Province, Congo Province, and Alaska Peninsula Province. The Christian Party was in power, and the latter now favored the Socialists, allowing the Socialists to easily win four of their provinces.

On the contrary, it is the provinces of New South Wales, New Guinea, East Holland and Congo that are ruled by the New Christian Party, because although the leader of the party, Linden, withdrew from the election, he did not express his support for anyone.

So among the current number of ballots, the result is undecided.

The Socialist Party's original provinces of North Belgium, South Holland, North Mozambique, Zambia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Western Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific, and William (formerly Victoria during the British Empire) plus the current In the Queensland province they just won, the Socialist Party has now won 12 provinces and 24 senatorial seats in the Republic. Including the old Christian Party's eight seats in four provinces, it now has 32 seats. There are still 7 seats short of more than half of the 78 seats.

In the two provinces of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and East Oman in the Middle East, the former is governed by the Socialist Party and the latter is governed by the Liberal Party.

However, the weakness of the Liberal Party has caused many people to take advantage of the situation, which has begun to have an effect in East Oman Province. The outcome of this election is unpredictable.

Masto, a senator from the Liberal Party who is seeking re-election, fell slightly behind Crasot, the challenger from the Socialist Party, in the number of votes. However, Crassot is generally expected to have insufficient stamina, and Mastow is still expected to catch up. However, the current battle between the two parties in Australia is , making Matos' hope of catching up become slim, and he felt faintly dissatisfied.

If the Socialist Party also wins the Senate seat in East Oman, it will only have 5 votes left to increase its control of the Senate. Because when there is a tie of 39 to 39 in the Senate vote, the prime minister who forms the cabinet government can use the deputy prime minister of his own party to cast the decisive vote. There is a 99% chance that this vote will be for his party.

In the Senate election of another key province, Dutch Guiana (also known as Suriname), Liberal Senator Walker and Socialist Party challenger Nock did not receive more than 50% of the votes, and a runoff must be held next Wednesday.

The "double attack" war will be staged in the province of Dutch Guiana (Suriname).

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on January 4, 1882, Emperor Franz Joseph I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire stated in Vienna that he made his first public speech on the Austro-Hungarian War in Mexico, and proposed to prepare a plan if the situation was not so smooth.

"We must strive for a quick resolution of the war at the minimum cost or even within a month. However, if it drags on, it may even expand to include Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands, or even Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the United Kingdom against Mexico, the Netherlands, Tsarist Russia, and the thirteen Latin American countries. alliance, and made Austria-Hungary face economic sanctions from Dutch allies around the world. We must anticipate such a worst-case scenario, and must be able to withstand it. If the war only lasts a few days, a month and a half, we have persisted. , well, if calculated in years in the future, the interests of the Austro-Hungarian Empire overseas will be greatly fluctuated. We need to be united to be able to fight. Once the war is prolonged, we will be in disarray because of disunity. , then we are not ready for that war."

He believed that the Austro-Hungarian Empire should do its best to shorten the war. By shortening it by one hour, the overall cost of the war would be reduced by one point.

Austria-Hungary must emerge as a global power, rather than as a regional power negotiating with a group represented by the Netherlands.

Franz Joseph I said, "We must have strong economic and military power to hold back our allies and friends around the world, and do not let the Netherlands rise above the united front that jointly implemented sanctions against the Second French Empire and the United Kingdom. We must It is necessary to ensure that the vast majority of countries in the world are neutral and that the overall external development pattern of the Austro-Hungarian Empire will not be disrupted by the outbreak of a major war. Even if it is shaken for a while, it can quickly recover."

The Austrian emperor believes that if Austria-Hungary can peacefully get what belongs to Mexico, then Austria-Hungary is willing to sit down and negotiate, but if hope completely disappears, Mexico will even go further to get Austria-Hungary's territory in the Caribbean Gulf. Sorry, we are passively launching a war. Austria-Hungary must be ready to strike quickly, fiercely, and ruthlessly, and strive for a quick conclusion of the war at the minimum cost.