Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On August 25, 1881, the British Treasury announced the issuance of 10 million pounds of national debt to support the bottom class of society and factories to survive the economic crisis.

At the same time, the British Department of Commerce emphasized that the government will require factories to continue operating so that workers can continue to receive wages to support their families.

After all, Britain persisted for 10 years starting in 1871, but could no longer stand it.

This is the lament of economists in the UK.

A press release issued by the Ministry of Commerce on August 25, 1881 showed that among the 35 million people in the UK, more than 4 million people are currently unemployed, which means that the unemployment rate accounts for 10% of the total population.

If the adult population is 28 million, the unemployment rate is over 14%.

Although this is normal in other countries, for countries with advanced economies such as the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, it is a big economic danger signal.

As a result, Queen Victoria's idea of ​​attracting talents from all over the world for her own use naturally came to nothing.

At the same time, in order to show that the German Empire was different from the United Kingdom, the German government issued a German economic report, showing that the German unemployment rate was below the 5% warning line.

At the same time, Germany currently does not have a fiscal revenue deficit.

The German government also expressed its willingness to increase its emphasis on education.

The release of these measures immediately made Berlin the most desirable place on the European continent for the lower classes of society.

On September 1, 1881, Germany announced that following the introduction of primary education in 1863, the German Empire officially announced that starting from the next school year, the German Empire would follow the Kingdom of the Netherlands and implement nine years in total, including three years of elementary and middle school. compulsory education.

The Netherlands began to implement six years of primary education and three years of junior high school in 1870. There are even rumors that the Dutch Ministry of Education will prepare to implement twelve years of compulsory education. The Dutch government issued a decree stipulating that parents must enroll their children in school for education. , such as reading, blood transfusion and other courses, otherwise they will be punished. After 1875, laws were added to cancel primary and junior high school tuition fees, further promoting the popularization of education.

Countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and France have also followed suit. At present, the literacy rates of these countries are at the forefront of Europe.

In fact, at the beginning of 18763, the establishment of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands began to mark the Netherlands' entry into a period of rapid educational development. Especially after that, the slogan of the Netherlands was borrowed from the slogan of the University of Berlin, advocating academic freedom in the Netherlands and The comprehensive development of teaching and scientific research has made a huge contribution to the training of people in the Netherlands.

After the Netherlands moved its capital to the Far East, the government further improved the education system. The Dutch education system has cultivated a large number of high-quality talents for the Netherlands and is an important boost to the development of the Dutch industry.

With sufficient talents in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has paid more attention to science and technology in the past ten or twenty years.

William IV remembered that the chief designer once pointed out that science and technology are the primary productive forces. The Netherlands, led by King William IV, attaches great importance to the development of science and technology and has introduced policies to actively encourage it. This is why the Netherlands has been able to rapidly develop various invention majors in recent years. That's because the Netherlands has created a good R\u0026D environment for these people, plus the software, hardware, talents, and materials needed for high-industrial technology R\u0026D.

The Dutch manufacturing industry provides the strongest foundation for these R\u0026D.

The three major groups in the Netherlands exist in a competitive relationship. The three major consortiums have made large investments in everything from bicycles, motorcycles, cars, to plastic products, to clothing and cloth, etc. This has brought great benefits to the Netherlands. Plenty of jobs.

At present, because the Netherlands has replaced many European markets in the UK, the unemployment rate of Dutch whites is only less than 2%, and most of these people are waiting for employment because they are changing jobs or looking for a job for the first time.

As for blacks and indigenous peoples in the Far East and Europe, the unemployment rate for this group of people is below 15%, which is very low in the world. It is good for people of color to have a job in this era, not to mention indigenous and black- People, so these people didn't make much of a fuss about applying.

Of course, they are actually unemployed. Mainly because the Dutch railway construction has recently entered the final stage. In the Australian continent alone, in the past 15 years from the beginning of railway construction in 1865 to 1881, the Dutch Australian continent has built 80,000 square kilometers of railways, and the East India in the north The archipelago covers more than 15,000 square kilometers, and the European territory of the Netherlands reaches 15,000 square kilometers. Including the 2,000 kilometers of the Alaska Peninsula, 8,000 kilometers of New Guinea, and 5,000 square kilometers of Madagascar. These Dutch rail journeys alone cover more than 125,000 square kilometres.

This does not include Africa, where construction of two railways across Congo and Tanzania is currently underway, as well as branch lines in the direction of Kenya and northern Mozambique.

Calculating the entire journey, the Dutch railways in Africa cover no less than 20,000 square kilometers. These two railways will be completed and opened to traffic in 1890.

In other words, the Netherlands will have more than 145,000 square kilometers of railways in the 1990s (nine years from now).

It can be said that rapid transportation has made the Dutch economic market more unified and made products that were originally restricted by geography more convenient.

The current internal combustion engine in the German Empire was learned from the Netherlands. Among them, Werner Siemens (the founder of Siemens) proposed the working principle of the generator in 1867, which was derived from the principle of the Dutch Edison generator. Later, Siemens imitated Edison's invention. The dynamo (reverse engineering) made Prussia the first country after the Netherlands to have a dynamo.

This made the United States, an emerging industrial power, extremely anxious. British industrial spies even stayed in Berlin and Melbourne for several years before obtaining some useful information.

Germany seems to have caught up with the Netherlands in industry. In 1869, Siemens also obtained the DC generator invented by Edison in the Netherlands from special channels. In 1871, it invented the first independently developed DC generator in the German Empire.

In addition, in order to catch up with the Netherlands' leading position in the electrical age, the German government headed by Bismarck fully supported the capital consortium headed by Siemens to compete with Dutch capital. As a result, Siemens electrical technology supported by the German government was often immediately commercialized and put into the German Empire market. , or apply it as an accessory to new products.

In short, what the Netherlands has, the German Empire must have. For example, the United Netherlands Group invented and applied the tram in 1871, and Siemens of the German Empire took two years to openly run it on the streets of Berlin.

Unwilling to be resigned, the Dutch United Group developed a trolleybus in 1874 and operated it that year. Siemens also operated a similar product on the streets of Berlin three years later in 1877.

The Dutch Far East Group developed an elevator in 1874, and the German industrial consortium also invented this type of product in 1879. Even when the Dutch East India Group developed an electric train in 1876, Siemens actually followed suit in Berlin in 1879. A trial run was staged.

It can be said that the pattern of chasing each other between the two countries has left other countries in the world dumbfounded.

Ironically, what William IV felt most deeply was that electric cars, which did not begin to develop until the end of the 20th century in his previous life, were actually also played out between the Netherlands and Siemens. If William IV remembers the history correctly, in fact, electric cars It should have been first invented by Siemens in 1898, but electricity is still not as easy to use as diesel and gasoline, so it is considered a useless invention.

In short, German industry has begun to rise since it was led by Werner Siemens. Although it seems to be 3 to 10 years behind the Netherlands in terms of industrial technology, the categories are very complete. It must be said that at this time The German Empire is indeed the third largest industrial power in the world, but the Americans of later generations are still too young.