Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

Chapter 1180 The Dilemma of Pound Sterling Diplomacy

July 25, 1883.

Royal Palace of the Netherlands, King's Office.

Bill Charles, Director of Royal Intelligence of the Netherlands, Mackay Sean, Director of National Intelligence of the Netherlands, and Wright, Director of MI8 of the Netherlands, sat on both sides of the lower head, with King William IV sitting in the middle.

Wright, the shortest follower of William IV, has been with him for more than 20 years. The other two were even old ministers of William IV when he was still the Crown Prince of the Netherlands.

Therefore, in every meeting, in addition to the etiquette of the king that must be respected, everyone spoke freely.

And William IV always asked the three of them to serve him as much as possible for the intelligence he needed and wanted.

These three also served him with all their strength.

"Your Majesty, this book contains the events that have occurred worldwide in the past seven months that you requested."

As the Director of International Intelligence, Mackay Sean is a well-known existence in the world. His words and deeds represent the direction of the Dutch hidden department. Unlike other countries that dare not expose him, as an intelligence worker, he actually walks between countries openly, which can be said to be very popular, making all intelligence chiefs of various countries envious. Of course, the national strength of the Netherlands is there, who dares to really touch them.

Every time this person visits abroad, he will cause a lot of chaos in the local area. After all, countries are afraid that the other party will deploy intelligence to monitor themselves in their own country and affect their rights.

William IV single-handedly promoted this. In the previous life, America often used its intelligence personnel as spokespersons for diplomacy, which can be said to be very cool.

After all, these people know a lot of internal information, and many of them are even top-secret information. As spokespersons, they always give people a feeling that such spokespersons know a lot of inside information.

William IV felt that the overlord of the previous life, America, could do it, and as one of the powerful countries in the world today, the Netherlands could naturally do so, not to mention that his people were still walking among the allies, which was still very safe.

However, it is still necessary to send more people for protection. After all, assassinating any of them would be a huge loss for him.

His eyes fell on the files of important global events provided by Mackay Sean.

Did the North start using the Tai Chi flag? This was the national flag used by the divided South. The two divided countries were fighting for it at the beginning, but the North gave up in the end.

Well, no wonder the South always says that they are the orthodox. Perhaps the victory in the battle for the national flag makes them feel that they are the heirs.

The second one also comes from North Asia. The Qing Dynasty there was a financial crisis after the rise of finance in the concession area, which was related to the interests of various countries there, and then began to affect the financial operation of the entire Qing Dynasty. William IV remembered that the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the Dutch Federal Reserve took action together at that time and made a fortune from the crisis.

Robert Koch discovered Vibrio cholerae.

Robert was selected for the Royal Netherlands Medical Award, which was already public. William IV knew about this.

Anthony Gaudí began to build the Sagrada Familia, which attracted attention, but there were both criticisms and praises.

Alas, these days, no matter what you do, there will always be people who are not satisfied. It is great to live well.

The famous Cardiff University was established in later generations. Well,

Not only it, but also the famous University of Texas at Austin was established in later generations, and the Woodward College was also established and successfully built.

Wagner College and Baltimore Institute of Technology were also established one after another. Even the famous industrial university Darmstadt University of Technology introduced the world's first electrical engineering program.

Suddenly, William IV's breath tightened because he saw a title that surprised him.

The devaluation of the pound sterling, London's wealthy accelerated the holding of Dutch guilders?

William IV asked with a slightly hurried breath: "Are the wealthy businessmen in London really doing this?"

He pointed at this question and looked directly at Mackay Sean.

The pound sterling is the most influential currency in the world today. This was determined by the rise of Britain in the early 17th century.

Spain and France were defeated by Britain at sea in turn, and the Netherlands was defeated miserably. It can be said that these three world maritime powers were dealt with by Britain one by one. The consumer currency they launched around the world also became the loser replaced by the British pound.

Britain then fully promoted globalization instead of operating on its own colonies as Spain, France, and the Netherlands did before.

In addition, Britain promoted industrial diplomacy around the world, using gunboats to open the tariff doors of various countries, so that the British pound was used in transactions including industrial products, and the pound became the world currency in one fell swoop.

For more than two hundred years, British currency has been circulated very frequently in Europe and even around the world, with large and wide volumes.

This also enabled Britain to be widely used by the world with its currency, allowing the British government to build a large-scale fleet of warships with loans, and the payers were not only domestic investors, but also pound users around the world.

It is strong and profitable, so buy it!

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How confident is this in the pound!

Britain's policy for many years has been to maintain the balance of power diplomacy for the military and political aspects of Europe and to ensure that no powerful country will emerge in Europe. When Spain was strong, it joined forces with France to defeat Spain.

When Spain declined, France rose, and Britain and the Austrian Empire jointly suppressed France.

Then Austria was too cunning, and it actually maintained a balance with Britain in turn, and chose to unite with the Russian Empire to balance Britain, which really made Britain shoot itself in the foot.

So Britain was angry and supported Prussia, which wanted to rise.

Well, Britain was really angry at this time. After all, Prussia and Austria both belonged to the German Confederation. This was a direct poaching, and finally Britain really succeeded in worsening the public relationship between Prussia and Austria. In the end, Prussia even defeated the Austrian Empire and replaced it, becoming the leader of the German Confederation, establishing the German Empire, and the Austrian Empire was driven out of the German Confederation.

Britain then contributed money and effort, and continued to support Prussia in suppressing France. Later, even under the leadership of Bismarck, William I proclaimed himself emperor in Paris.

But Bismarck, William I and others were not so easy to fool. After they proclaimed themselves emperors in Paris, they pointed their guns at London and began to act as if they were on guard against Britain supporting France and other countries to suppress the newly established German Empire.

Bismarck cleverly maintained relations with the Russian Empire and a semi-friendly relationship with the Netherlands. At least the relationship did not deteriorate publicly, leaving room for improvement.

On the contrary, the German Empire sometimes had to push Britain and the Netherlands to become opponents so that it could benefit.

William IV sometimes had to admit that Bismarck and William IV were able to make Prussia the new overlord of Western Europe in just 21 years after they came to power in 1862. This political sense is really not simple.

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