Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

Kingdom of the Netherlands, November 20, 1882.

Inside the University of Sydney in Sydney, the largest city.

William IV was quietly listening to the lecture, and there were only a few people around him, including the president of the school, Herman Van Perron.

"Since the British Empire's rule, Sydney's status in Australia is second only to the capital Melbourne.

Since our Dutch rule, especially after the Dutch capital moved from Amsterdam to Melbourne, the whole of Australia has entered a stage of rapid development.

Melbourne has formed the political center of the entire Netherlands, while Sydney has become the economic center of the Netherlands. After taking over the British rule, after 20 years of development, it has become the first city in the Netherlands and even in the world with a population of one million.

In terms of population, it may not be as good as the capital of the Qing Dynasty, or even Kyoto in Japan, but in terms of GDP of cities in the East, it is definitely the first in the East."

Huawei is a second-generation immigrant from the northern Qing Dynasty. His father was originally an ordinary official of the Qing Dynasty, but that was 5 years ago.

Since four years ago, with the help of his uncle's family, their family also left the Qing Dynasty's G government and came to Sydney.

With his excellent high school grades and hard work in Rotterdam, he was admitted to the University of Sydney, the world's most famous university, two years ago.

After 20 years of promotion by the Dutch government, the University of Sydney now has 18 disciplines in three colleges, with a very wide range of courses to choose from, and many courses are flexible and variable in the college structure.

In this world's top university, you can choose the courses you want to study according to your interests, from popular accounting to niche indigenous studies, from mechanical science to criminal law, from marine research to music, and from humanities to Chinese and Japanese.

The University of Sydney is currently the university with the most disciplines in the world. It has dozens of disciplines and majors such as economics, business, machinery, humanities and arts, education, psychology, sociology, medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, law, engineering technology, etc.

As a first-generation Australian citizen, Warwick is very satisfied with his current life.

Especially when his parents are still around.

"Warwick, if you become the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, what would you want to do first?" Peter, a university politics teacher in Class 3, Grade 2 of Sydney University, was teaching a politics class on the podium. He was just telling the story of the various achievements of the Netherlands in developing Australia after it took over Australia from Britain. However, he found that Warwick, who always listened carefully in class and was very interested in politics in Peter's opinion, was not in good shape today, which puzzled Peter.

He was also annoyed that he was distracted in his course, which was really wrong. You know, not many people could go to university in 1882.

What's more, there was not only Sydney President Van Perron sitting next to him, but also King William IV of the Netherlands. With such an opportunity to show off, Warwick was actually wandering in his course, which was definitely very annoying for him.

William IV saw the change in Peter's face, and he understood his feelings in his heart.

The penetration rate in the Netherlands is a little higher, but in other countries, especially the Pacific coast, going to university is definitely the best of the best. You should know that at this time in the Qing Dynasty, the real college level was the Imperial College students, and then the overseas students.

Historically, the quality of the late Qing Dynasty and the constant oppression of Western powers made it increasingly difficult for the Qing Dynasty to maintain. In order to reverse the situation at that time, it could only rely on advanced technology to industrialize the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, under the suggestion of Rong Hong, the action of learning from the barbarians and using their skills to control the barbarians was officially approved and put on the itinerary, which was implemented with the support of Zeng Guopan and Li Hongzhang.

Many people may not know Rong Hong, but he was the first overseas student in the United States in Chinese history. He graduated from Yale University in the United States and was called the father of overseas students in China.

Rong Hong, the father of overseas students in the Qing Dynasty, did two things that were worthy of being recorded in history. The first was to create the earliest and most complete machine factory in the Qing Dynasty, bringing the Qing Dynasty into the process of industrialization.

The second thing was to propose and organize the first batch of publicly funded overseas students in Qing Dynasty, which had a crucial impact on the fate of Qing Dynasty later.

Now and in the past, Qing Dynasty also sent young children to study abroad with the support of Rong Hong at a very young age.

In this era, people aged 16 or 17 start to get married and have children. They are already adults. Their vision has begun to slow down and their energy is scattered.

So according to the history books of the previous life, the reason why Rong Hong sent younger overseas students was that the younger they were, the better they would concentrate on learning Western knowledge.

So the Qing government required that the age of these children should be between 10 and 16 years old. After the final selection was completed, the age was limited to about 12 years old.

William IV gave a look to the person next to him.

So Herman Van Perron next to him explained softly:

"This is an overseas student from our strategic partner country Qing."

William IV looked at Van Perron with a fake question, as if waiting for the latter's further explanation.

As the president of the University of Sydney, Herman van Perron was very impressed by Warwick, especially his serious attitude towards learning.

"Warwick comes from the list of students from the Qing Dynasty's study abroad program a few years ago. Let's put it this way. The earliest overseas students from the Qing Dynasty who were sent to the United States were required to be talented. I don't mean to say that everyone is a prodigy. At least they are smarter than the average child. Smart, the entire study abroad program lasts for fifteen years, which means that these children will have to stay in a foreign country for fifteen years, and they will not be able to return to the Qing Dynasty across the Pacific. "

Fan Peilong said: "In the study abroad plan, the Qing Dynasty will send 500 people to our Kingdom of the Netherlands in each phase. So far, a total of 5,000 people have been studying in our Kingdom of the Netherlands for more than 10 years."

"For these outstanding children selected from the private sector, Rong Hong was the principal of the preparatory school before they studied in the Qing Dynasty. He taught the children language classes in various countries. He waited until the children passed the exam before they were sent to study abroad in other countries. "

William IV understood and nodded in agreement.

After all, they are all children, and they don’t understand the language on the other side of the sea. If they don’t lay a solid foundation in language in the Qing Dynasty, they will not understand anything when they study abroad in other countries, and they will definitely learn nothing or nothing.

"However, the Qing Dynasty should not be responsible for these international students in terms of safety!"

Herman Van Peilong nodded and said: "Your Majesty is right. The Qing Dynasty is not responsible for the overseas safety of overseas students."

When William IV heard this, he also understood in his heart that the Qing Dynasty was helpless and had no choice. In fact, the Qing Dynasty was in a period of weakness, and the Western powers would not give him much face.

William IV could not see Warwick, which he relied on far away. These foreign students may be the hope for the rise of the Qing Dynasty.