Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

Chapter 937 Top Secret: There is a secret agreement between Britain and the Netherlands

"The problem with isolating Brazil and Argentina is that the consequences are detrimental to Latin America and the world. It makes hatred of the Netherlands prevalent in Brazil. Don't forget, we don't have allies in Brazil."

William IV meant something.

Next to him is his eldest son, Prince Albert, 16-year-old Crown Prince of the Netherlands.

“Brazil is currently wary of the Netherlands, implying that it does not dare to directly confront us, so I have two sides to the topic of the Netherlands in Brazil.

However, Prime Minister Fonseca will not easily follow Pedro II’s wishes and deepen relations with Portugal, causing Fonseca himself to fall into a dilemma of being trapped in power.”

Prince Albert: "What does my father mean to say that now facing Brazil, the Netherlands can put it aside and use all its strength to deal with the 'traitor' Argentina?"

William IV asked, "How do you know that Argentina is a traitor to our Netherlands?"

Prince Albert: "My father's question is so strange. Everyone around the world knows that Argentine President Miter witnessed us supporting the Chilean coup in 1878, and then he did not hand over Chile to Argentina, which successfully overthrew the previous Chilean government. Instead, It was the Netherlands that organized the seven-nation coalition and stationed it there for a long time. After Argentina did not get the expected benefits, it couldn't help but become angry and fell out with the Netherlands.

We even directly ordered the British troops who fled from Chile to renovate in the Chubut Province of Argentina. You must know that this was the southern base of the Argentine Navy that had the same dimensions as the southern Chilean government army and the British Navy stationed in Puerto Montt, Chile. Obviously, Miter is betraying us and defecting to Britain."

"If you think so, you are wrong," William IV said with a slightly disappointed tone: "You can't just look at the surface. How do you know that Argentina under the leadership of Mitre is not acting?"

What!

Prince Albert stared at his father in disbelief. Seeing William IV's unmoved look, he thought to himself: "Is it true that Mitre is acting? So, who is the real actor in this play? The protagonist? What role does Mitre play in it? What is the role of a father?"

A lot of questions suddenly came to mind following William IV's words.

William IV stood up, walked to him and patted his strong shoulder, saying: "Look, this is politics, you, there are still many things to learn?"

After saying that, William IV went directly to Prince Albert's study, and the conversation between the father and son just now ended. However, Prince Albert is still thinking about the conversation just now.

He murmured to himself: "Did my father just mean that Argentine President Miter was really acting when he was shouting abuse with the Netherlands for the past three or four years? Why, who is acting like this? ?UK?

Also, if this is true, does it mean that there are other cases in which the same strategy was used in Dutch diplomacy under the control of my father? Is Stephen Douglas, the most popular current president of the Democratic Party of the United States recently called the most popular, also putting on a show for others to see? rIf so, then my father played this game of chess really fiercely.

If not, how should the father cope with the upcoming election in the Commonwealth of America? "

Also, the timing of the alliance between the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is too coincidental. There may not be a side to this that we know. Is the German-Austrian Alliance competing for Latin America with the Netherlands also deliberately done for the British to see? Where is Bismarck? Wouldn’t the German Empire also have close contact with the Netherlands in private? Is it to paralyze the UK and make it unwilling to attack these two countries alone, so that the speed and mileage of its rise will be longer? "

It has to be said that Prince Albert, as the Crown Prince of the Netherlands in recent years, can be said to have considered very comprehensive things, although not all of them are not far from the city of Modan.

While Prince Albert continued his reverie, William IV answered in his private study.

There were more than 10 soldiers guarding the whole room within 10 meters in one shift, and another round within 30 meters of the surrounding area, doubling the number of people.

It can be seen how well-defended the study of William IV was.

At this time, William IV held three agreements in his hands.

The first one said Miter, President of the Argentine Republic, the second one said Thiers, the President of the Third French Republic, and the third one also had the name of a character, but it was written in the name of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

It’s just that there is also a treaty on the global maritime alliance between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom at the back! And note the top secret wording.

The date written on the back is October 16, 1869, followed by the signatures and seals of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and King William IV of the Netherlands.

This is clearly an agreement. A treaty between the Netherlands and Britain to share global maritime power.

This agreement has been exposed in the East China Sea. I believe that the relations between Germany and Britain and the relations between Germany and the Netherlands will directly go back 10 years.

As the shrinking British doglegs such as Portugal and Belgium will try their best to fill the Netherlands.

As for the Netherlands, the UK can use it to network with people in the Netherlands who are friendly to the UK.

"If people around the world know about it, the UK and the Netherlands will become a threat to other major countries. However, only a few people know about this agreement except the two of us. The ambiguous relationship between the Netherlands and the UK must not be exposed to other countries now." The country knows”

“The UK and the Netherlands are both staunch defenders of the maritime power era, and the current disputes between the two countries are mainly over issues such as who leads and who comes second.

Neither country allows others to lead their countries.

Therefore, Britain and the Netherlands will continue to fight until there is a winner, and the losing country will follow the other side."

Like William IV, Queen Victoria was alone and carefully looked at the King's Agreement signed in 1869.

Both countries declared their support for sea power in the agreement, but what dissatisfied Queen Victoria was that the Netherlands actually had the ambition to resist Britain and seize Britain's global maritime hegemony.

At that time, the position was not very clear, but now it is very clear that William IV has such far-reaching plans that he has fallen into the trap created step by step by the Netherlands since 1869. For example, Britain supported France and Germany in the war. However, he did not intervene directly and just watched the fight. In the end, France became two countries. When France was useless and could not stop its enemies from Europe, France was divided into two. Britain was ecstatic in its heart.

Therefore, Germany's Bismarck was shocked to find that he seemed to be part of the other party's plan.

"William IV made a secret agreement with the United Kingdom. He may have forgotten it. However, according to the secret agreement, the Netherlands seems to be sure that Britain will launch a war against the Netherlands. Will the United Kingdom break the oath and launch its own attack on the Netherlands? , knocking William IV so he doesn’t go too far.”