Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On June 26, 1878, the Dutch United Industries Group, supported by the Dutch Socialist Party, announced at its Melbourne headquarters that its inventor Gram had invented the generator. At the same time, Gram and Debretz successfully invented the high-voltage transmission line. It was also announced that two coal power plants have been built in Melbourne, and electricity is now being used within the Dutch Industrial Consortium.

At the same time, the Dutch United Industry Group also announced that it had invented a water pump to irrigate farmland. It also claimed that the function of the water pump will reduce the chance of drought for all crops in Australia and even the Netherlands, which will have a major impact on the cultivation of world food. significance.

To this end, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences sent an expert team to visit the group. Finally, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences announced that it recognized several Dutch invention patents as valid and praised everyone for the inventions of the Netherlands United Industries Group.

Not only the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, but also scientists and politicians from all over the world have set their sights on Melbourne, the Netherlands.

Because of the generation of electricity and water pumps, no one would think that it was just a trivial matter, especially the British Empire. When they think that the Netherlands may get more food harvests due to solving the drought problem, and its strength will greatly increase, this is definitely not good news for the United Kingdom. .

At present, the three major political parties in the Netherlands, the Liberal Party, the Christian Party and the Socialist Party, are respectively bound to the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch Far East Group, and the Dutch United Industries Group. The rise of the Socialist Party surprised everyone, and the rise of the Netherlands United Industries Group is even more fierce. In this regard , the other two parties and the two major enterprises were naturally unwilling to do so.

On June 28, 1878, the inventor Edison, a subsidiary of the Dutch East India Company, announced that he had invented the electric light. He was currently preparing to conduct a large-scale test of electric lights in some parts of Sydney. If successful, it would be possible with sufficient power support. To bring the whole people into the era of electric light.

Well, the scientists in the Netherlands are so powerful. There was Gram before and Edison after. Is it possible that the Dutch Far East Group, an ally of the Liberal Party, also wants to come?

Sure enough, the Liberal Party ally the Dutch Far East Group announced important countermeasures of its own.

The Far East Group of the Netherlands announced that the group has achieved an increasing range of applications in driving conveyors to drive steamships, power machinery and engines. The key new things in mobility are the invention of machine equipment and power equipment. The former is manufacturing machines, steam hammers, pile drivers This type of power equipment frees eight people from heavy manual labor.

In other words, Far East Group began to use power to complete the innovation of many of the group's industrial machinery.

Mechanization seems to have reached the highest level of progress.

The founder of Far East Group in this field was Hit, a student of Henry Maudsley who invented the metal lathe.

Hit is currently the dynamic leader of the group.

The Dutch Far East Group invented the use of mechanical power to replace the arduous work of humans, which immediately made people feel lofty, but the Socialist Party would not let their hard-earned reputation be robbed by others.

On July 1, 1878, the Dutch United Industries Group announced that its inventor Sir Royle had invented the open-hearth steelmaking method, which immediately shocked the world.

The iron ore mining industry is mainly concentrated in Luxembourg-Lorraine, northern Spain, northern Sweden and Krivoy Rog in Ukraine, which contain iron ore.

The blower was continuously improved and eventually developed into the Bessemer converter built by Sir Henry Bessemer in Sheffield. The development of the steel age provided high-quality and low-cost steel for the railway age. Steel was also widely used in bridges, ships, and buildings. Architecture and weapons arsenal - fire.

Now the Netherlands has improved its steel forging, making the Netherlands a global leader in steel forging. This is a very meaningful thing. If this continues, the Netherlands' share of the world's steel industry will definitely increase significantly. You must know that after the invention of the blower, European countries began to have their own steel industries, including Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. They all have the most advanced steel industry. Now the Netherlands has taken the lead due to the emergence of the open-hearth steelmaking method. This is another major event for the Netherlands to break the world's industrial pattern.

Coupled with the fact that the Netherlands has just made several world-changing inventions, the Netherlands' leading global position in the electrical age seems to have been officially established.

Britain's steam revolution was well into the past.

The Netherlands instead?

Become a new leader in world economic change.

No one would think that the Netherlands was not up to the task. Even London, which was extremely proud, had been overwhelmed by a series of new inventions in the Netherlands in recent years. This time, led by Edison, Dutch electric lights and electricity replaced workers' mechanical work. Coupled with the emergence of high-voltage transmission lines, this combination was enough to give steam power its most powerful opponent.

And coupled with the telephone, telegraph, radio, etc., these are enough to show that the electrical age seems to have a more extensive role.

It is said that many countries such as the German Empire, the Commonwealth of America, Spain, and Sweden have begun to follow the footsteps of the Netherlands and have invested large-scale funds in the electrical industry. You must know that a country's finances are limited, and there are many here. There is less investment in the electrical industry, so the steam will decrease.

What countries are doing now is obviously more optimistic about the future potential of the Netherlands than the UK.

So for the UK, it has to face reality.

Who could have imagined that 20 years ago, the British Empire, which led the global economy, would be replaced by the Netherlands as the navigator of the global economy.

The Netherlands is now the most advanced economically developed country in the world. If it continues like this, no one knows how the Dutch economy will develop, but the UK will definitely be the first to face the impact.

Moreover, the Netherlands has squeezed Britain's original industrial products market to the extreme, which is absolutely unbearable for British domestic employment.

If left unchecked, Britain would soon be able to rely only on its own population and the colonized people in its overseas colonies to provide industrial products. In other words, the British industrial product market would become smaller, while the Dutch market would become larger.

As one goes and the other goes, Britain's strength will decline like a spiral.

This is absolutely something the British Empire, which is currently the world's largest country in terms of overall strength, does not want to see.

Rising in the east and falling in the west, Britain, as a conservative power, and the newly emerging Netherlands collided, and it seemed that they were about to collide in front of everyone.

All countries in the world seem to be afraid to blink, for fear that if the two countries start fighting in the blink of an eye, they will not have time to plan, escape, and stay out of the situation.

This includes the German Empire, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, etc., and even Argentina, which has had an alliance with the Netherlands for about 20 years, etc. What does everyone seem to be waiting for?