Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On January 1, 1881, due to the deterioration of the foreign trade environment in the United Kingdom, an unemployment rate of 14% occurred in the United Kingdom, resulting in an economic crisis. The Ministry of Finance had to issue national debt to maintain growth, while other fiscal expenditures were forced to tighten.

Among them are the Ministry of Education’s education subsidies and the temporary suspension of free six-year education for students.

This caused the ruling Whig Party to face unprecedented pressure to govern, and the opposition parties began to instigate civilians to oppose the Whig Party's rule. At this time, the German Empire accelerated its efforts to pacify the country, and announced that it would become the second country in Europe after the Netherlands in 1870 to announce the implementation of nine years of free compulsory education covering three years of primary and secondary education.

The comparison between Britain and Germany shows how close the two countries are in terms of strength.

As the world's second-largest economic power after the Netherlands, the United Kingdom has finally felt the competitive pressure from the third largest economy in the world, the German Empire.

The changes in the education policies of the two countries brought the Whig Party to criticism in Britain from the private sector to the education and literary circles.

The British Tories even directly demanded that the Whigs not allow Britain's advantages to be eroded by Germany.

However, the Whigs stated that the suspension did not mean a permanent suspension, but only a suspension for one school year.

However, the public and the Tories did not buy it, and took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with this policy, and then held protests and demonstrations across the UK.

The British economic crisis coupled with the civil anti-government chaos has made the Dutch feel the benefits of maintaining rapid economic development in the Netherlands. It also appreciates the Netherlands' quiet rise in the Far East away from Europe.

However, is there really only Britain and Germany in this world?

Of course not. Different things happen in the world every day, but the ones that attract attention are almost all international events.

Especially as the Netherlands expands its global media and newspaper industry, even small peripheral countries, even in their own country, will receive a lot of information from distant countries. Of course, this has been filtered by the Dutch newspaper group.

But ordinary people in this era will not pay attention to these. Even the top leaders of the country will selectively read them. I will not completely deny it. Therefore, just like the Qing Dynasty and Goryeo during the movement, currently Dutch newspapers such as the Chinese version The "Australian Daily", "European Times", "Sydney Financial News", etc. are all selling well in these countries. In order to let the government departments understand the major events happening abroad, the Qing Dynasty seized the opportunities that emerged abroad. The government uses more than 20,000 taels of silver every year to help yamen at the county level and above purchase these newspapers for them to read. This is the first thing Li Hongzhang did after he succeeded as the general manager of the yamen. matter.

According to him, if you don't have a brain connected with Europe and the United States, how can you learn the other party's advanced technology?

As a result, many students in some county governments even read the Chinese-language newspapers of these foreign powers.

I am full of expectations for the outside world.

For example, the United Kingdom, which they regarded as their overlord in the past, experienced an economic crisis on September 1, 1881, and the uproar across the country dispelled many Qing people's fear of the other country. The German Empire implemented nine years of compulsory free education. It made students throughout the Qing Dynasty feel envious.

Especially when it was reported that 11 years ago, the Netherlands at that time implemented the education decree promulgated by Germany in 1870, the Qin State finally had a clear understanding of the development and advancement of the Netherlands, and also about the 1871 education law in the south of the Qing Dynasty. The behemoth who had just moved the capital here was treated with respect and awe.

At the same time, they also look down upon Britain, which has always regarded itself as a global hegemon.

After all, the current economic aggregate cannot match the Netherlands, the per capita income cannot match the Netherlands, the level of free education cannot match the Netherlands, most industrial technologies cannot match the Netherlands, the safety environment cannot match the Netherlands, the number of global allies cannot match the Netherlands, and the employment rate cannot match the Netherlands. Compared to the Netherlands.

Faced with a Britain that was different from what it thought in the past, the Netherlands took the place of Britain and was elevated to the top by them.

In addition, these newspapers in the Netherlands often quote the arguments of local experts, professors and other famous people, making it easier for this argument to gain the trust of other readers. Therefore, the Netherlands forces its own views into the minds of readers from all over the world.

For example, the same story about the rivalry between Britain and the Netherlands was filtered by Dutch newspapers and published from a neutral and impartial perspective. In fact, after reading it, I felt more familiar with the Netherlands, and instead developed a dislike and distrust of Britain. .

Then the next time I read a newspaper, I will look at reports and ambitions about Britain with suspicion from the beginning.

Therefore, many powerful countries around the world do not understand why the Dutch allies are so loyal to the Netherlands. Even if there is a change of government, countries still support developing relations with the Netherlands as always.

In fact, what they don’t know is that from the very beginning, the Netherlands has not placed all its eggs at the top of each country. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and intelligence agencies have long begun to infiltrate the internal affairs of each country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tried to open up the newspaper industry in each country. The Netherlands The Intelligence Bureau newspaper followed suit.

This is what the Netherlands secretly does in waves every day in countries around the world.

Therefore, the Netherlands has invisibly grasped the domestic and external perspectives of each country, and the Netherlands has the channels through which all allies can obtain information from the outside world.

The Netherlands is not just using its own power. In fact, many years ago, William IV began to imitate later generations and formed the Five Eyes Alliance organization in this world to form the International Intelligence Alliance.

The Five Eyes alliance in the previous life naturally refers to the intelligence sharing alliance formed by five English-speaking countries, with members including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Netherlands began to form the 7 Eyes Alliance as early as ten years ago.

The members of the 7 Eyes Intelligence Alliance include the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, the Kingdom of Siam, Spain, and Ecuador.

It was first formally established in 1863 by the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. After Spain joined, it became the Quadrilateral Alliance. Later, Ecuador, Greece, and the Kingdom of Siam were added one after another to become the current Seven Eyes Alliance.

These seven countries jointly signed a spy intelligence agreement, which aims to enable the seven national alliances to share intelligence and jointly intercept intelligence from enemy countries to spy on member states.

In fact, intelligence cooperation with the Seven Eyes Alliance has been ongoing for a long time. European and world powers such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Russia are aware of the organization's existence. However, what they do not know is that the alliance will not only collect intelligence on foreign governments. The alliance also conducts large-scale, organized, and indiscriminate intelligence collection, eavesdropping, and surveillance on companies and private scientific and technological talents in other countries. These are things that these countries are unaware of.

Sweden collects intelligence on the Russian Empire, Denmark collects intelligence on the German Empire, Spain collects intelligence on Britain, France and Portugal, Greece collects intelligence on the Ottoman Empire, Italy and Austria-Hungary, and the Kingdom of Siam is in Southeast Asia, like a radar, collecting the French colonial forces in the east and the French colonial army in the west. The British colonies and the Qing Dynasty's intelligence in the north and south were one of the pillars of the Dutch monitoring of southern Asia.

Ecuador is the intelligence collection center in Latin America, where the intelligence headquarters of the Netherlands' allies in the Thirteen Latin American Group are gathered. It is also the intelligence analysis headquarters for the Commonwealth of America, the Alliance of America, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and other countries.

After obtaining the analysis results, they are sent back to Melbourne, Netherlands.

It can be said that within a week, the Netherlands can get almost detailed information about every move in the world. Of course, this is a big event, not a secret matter.