Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

When the news from the Far East returned to London on May 11, 1878, it was indeed as Hutfield thought. It caused a huge shock in the British military and political circles, and then spread in the UK. Many people among the people were concerned about Hutfield. Turfield is proud of his approach.

As Prime Minister, Creston naturally became one of the objects of praise.

Queen Victoria has also become the subject of discussion. In short, the whole of Britain seems to be immersed in the fantasy that this is a classic case of the Dutch-British maritime confrontation in which less prevailed over more.

But Queen Victoria was not confused by this.

She summoned Prime Minister Creston for this purpose.

"The whole of the UK is now in a state of excitement. Your Excellency, Prime Minister, do you think what happened this time is really that good for the UK?"

Queen Victoria frowned and said worriedly: "My right eye keeps beating. Is this a bad sign?"

Queen Victoria also studied Eastern metaphysics, so she even used metaphysical colors for calculations on many new buildings of the British royal family.

She also believed in the most famous saying in the Far East that when one's left eye jumps to make money, the right eye jumps to bring disaster.

Before grandma launched the Crow-Pian War against the Far Eastern countries in 1840, he began to understand the object. At that time, she was very interested in the metaphysics of the Far East.

So she was deeply involved in it as soon as she started studying. Now she seemed to have a bad premonition, so she hurriedly summoned Prime Minister Creston to learn more and see if there was anything she had overlooked. .

Creston was not surprised by this. He was a very talented and conceited man. Otherwise, he would not have become the second successor to the Tory Party at a young age, after the already famous Diss. Raleigh.

It was precisely because of his pride that when he saw that the Whigs were in decline and the Tories were at odds with his political views, he led a group of people in 1859 under the inducement of Viscount Palmerston and Russell. The ally who advocated free trade quit the Tory Party and joined the Whig Party, which immediately caused a sensation in the British political arena and successfully became the Whig Party's first leader.

From then on, the dragon traveled across the sea and competed with Disraeli for the prime ministership in the British political arena.

But because of this, it has become the best evidence of the division in British politics.

He smiled bitterly and said: "The current atmosphere in the UK is bad. Even if we say anything that is not conducive to the atmosphere, it will only have the opposite effect. Her Majesty, the only thing we can do now is to appease the Netherlands and at the same time do our best." to prepare ourselves in case the Netherlands attacks us."

Although Queen Victoria was still uneasy, she had to admit in her heart that Prime Minister Creston's statement was not bad.

You can't guard against thieves for a thousand days.

This is all that can be done at the moment. But she didn't know why, she still seemed so uneasy.

At this moment, Crown Prince Edward hurriedly walked in, and the two of them saw an expression of disbelief on his face.

Seeing this, Creston immediately recalled what Queen Victoria had just said.

Queen Victoria was even more uneasy.

I saw the 35-year-old Crown Prince Edward walking in quickly, and then said angrily: "Mother, after a day, the Netherlands finally couldn't bear it anymore."

Queen Victoria and Creston looked at each other, and the latter asked: "Your Royal Highness, what does the Netherlands say?"

Crown Prince Edward said angrily: "Just now, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a press conference in Melbourne. At the meeting, Dutch Foreign Minister Hesbert von strongly condemned the British Navy's presence on the Nicobar Islands in Dutch territory. He expressed dissatisfaction with the lawless and unruly exercise of sovereignty that undermined sovereignty. He even suggested that the United Kingdom was the world's largest disruptor of peace and asked the United Kingdom not to undermine peace in the Far East again.

At the same time, he also announced that more than 168 of the 200 naval soldiers of the Silent-class sailing battleship Silence in the Netherlands had been salvaged, and 32 were still missing. However, he announced that the Netherlands would not give up the salvage activities and stated that the survivors would be seen. See the corpse if you die.

Haysbet von also announced that due to the complex terrain, in order to better facilitate salvage activities, he announced that the Netherlands had deployed more than 10 warships to the nearby port of Banda Aceh on Sumatra Island, and at the same time blocked the Nicobar Islands to facilitate Searching for life, he also announced that he would salvage the sunken warship. The Dutch Foreign Minister also announced that the blockade would last for 20 years."

Blockade of Nicobar Islands for 20 years for salvage?

Queen Victoria was stunned.

Creston was even more surprised.

They had thought of thousands of Dutch counterattacks before, but they never expected that the Netherlands would choose to respond in this way.

Suddenly they couldn't help but be stunned.

Crown Prince Edward lamented: "The Netherlands is obviously making a fuss about this incident and clearly wants to occupy the Nicobar Islands. This is a major challenge to Britain's maritime status."

He raised his head and said resolutely: "Mother, Prime Minister, we cannot let the Dutch conspiracy succeed, otherwise, our future status in the Far East will be shaken because of this matter, and we may even cause various diplomacy to think that we are Eating tofu in North Holland”

Queen Victoria sighed and said: "But we have become the bad guys first. News of Major General Hutfield's victory over the Netherlands has spread throughout the UK and Europe. Our British warships rammed and sank the Dutch warships. This is something we cannot do now." Negating the fact, this has caused us to be unreasonable. Now the Netherlands is doing a blockade in the name of salvage. This has already taken the moral high ground. How can we stop it?"

Prince Edward said: "We can participate in the salvage activities in the Nicobar Islands in the name of joint search and rescue. In that case, we can shatter William IV's idea."

After years of training, Crown Prince Edward is no longer an unscrupulous and ignorant heir to the British throne. He has become a standard heir, so his sensitivity is not bad.

Queen Victoria's eyes lit up, but she still shook her head, and finally denied: "The Netherlands has now occupied the moral high ground. People can directly worry that we will not sincerely support the reasons, so we have been rescued. What's more, the Netherlands still has You can use this to win allies into the game.”

Creston also said: "Since the Netherlands has formulated this plan, they will not easily let us intervene to interrupt them."

He sighed and said: "I think what we should be more worried about now is that the Nicobar Islands have become one of the Dutch blockade islands. After losing it, how will the British warships enter the Malay Peninsula and how will they continue to deal with the dispute between the Netherlands and us in the Strait of Malacca?"

He said worriedly: "What I'm more worried about is, does Holland have any other tricks?"

Unfortunately, he was right. Holland really had a back-up plan, and it was very violent.