Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

How exactly Alexander II died? Many people believe that it was the work of internal rebels.

In fact, people familiar with the matter believed that this was a provocative assassination planned from Berlin.

In short, after Alexander II was assassinated in St. Petersburg, and Alexander III of the Russian Empire came to power, relations between Germany and Russia completely deteriorated. This is also the reason why the Tsarist Empire has been showing goodwill to the Netherlands recently. The purpose is to use the Netherlands to expand our circle of friends around the world.

Alexander II was the maternal nephew of William IV's grandmother, the Queen Mother Anna. Regardless of personal feelings or national interests, William IV hoped that Alexander II would live a long life. Alexander II had a good character, and was at least a staunch ally of the Netherlands. The Imperial Russian government under his leadership kept its credibility in many of the alliances it signed with the Netherlands.

To be honest, the reforms to abolish the serfdom system implemented by Alexander II in the 1860s allowed Dutch industrial products to expand their sales and markets in the Tsarist Russian Empire. Therefore, many consortium industrial interests in the Netherlands hope to see Alexander II's reforms continue. There is no real border between the Netherlands and the territory of the Tsarist Russia. Allies that pose no threat are the most durable and good allies. William IV couldn't help but think of the European history he had learned before. He found that when he traveled through the Netherlands, he was supposed to be struggling for survival. But in the good times of the late 1850s, the Russian Empire was licking its wounds due to the failure of the Crimean War. The friendship of the Netherlands was cherished by the Russian Empire, and the then Viscount Palmerston was very old and honest. Bismarck was still When France becomes ambassador, she is still five or six years away from becoming Prussia's prime minister, and 15 years away from being Germany's prime minister. At this point in time, who dares to say that the Netherlands cannot rise?

You must know that at this time, the Civil War of 1861 had not yet occurred in the United States. The Netherlands also used this wave to attract many Dutch people from there to return to the country and fill the gap in the Dutch population.

It was this point in time that allowed the Netherlands to take the opportunity to become the fastest-rising country in the world. In 24 years from 1857 to 1881, William IV went from 17 years old to 41 years old now. With more than a generation of hard work, the Netherlands has become one of the leading global powers, making even Britain look down upon it. With the golden finger support of William IV, could it not have achieved such an achievement in 24 years?

William IV feels funny just thinking about it.

The Southern Special Zone of my motherland in my previous life only took 30 years to cross the river by feeling the stones and become a top city in the world. William IV held a golden finger, and there were poor countries all over the world, absorbing their resources and population. Especially the so-called advanced countries in Europe do not pay enough attention to talents. The talents they cultivate have unknowingly become the treasure of the Netherlands.

Let me ask, it is strange that the Netherlands does not rise like this.

Therefore, those who question the rapid development of the Netherlands' comprehensive strength can look at history. Look at how post-war Japan became the second largest economy in 1860, look at how the Four Dragons became a powerful manufacturing economy in the 1980s, and look at how Germany after World War II On the ruins, it became the third economic power in the 1970s.

These are all living examples.

The demographic disadvantage of the Netherlands is that the Boers in South Africa had nearly 500,000 Dutch people in 1863. After the Anglo-Boer War, these people migrated to the Australian mainland of the Netherlands. Within a generation, the government encouraged and had more children. At that time, a family of four or five children, combined with medical conditions, was the best in Europe, and the survival rate was the highest. It is not normal to increase by 2.5 times in 18 years. There are 1.25 million Boer-Dutch descendants.

During the Civil War of the Confederate States of America, more than 1 million people immigrated to the Far East of the Netherlands. It makes sense that these people would further divide by 2.5 times to nearly 2.5 million in 20 years.

The Netherlands itself had nearly 7 million people at that time, and it was normal for the population to increase 2.5 times to 17.5 million.

These add up to 21.25 million people of Dutch origin.

Together with the successive immigrants from Europe and America and their descendants, there are nearly 8 million people, and now there are 29.25 million white Dutch people. There are nearly 10 million indigenous people in the Far East plus black labor immigrants from Africa. The population of the Netherlands in mainland Europe and the Far East reaches nearly 40 million.

There are more than 25 million black Africans and indigenous people from the Far East who immigrated in the past.

The previous population structure of the Netherlands is about to break. There are 35 million indigenous and black people, and nearly 30 million white people.

The survival rate of black and indigenous babies is very low, only one-third of the survival rate of white Dutch people. In other words, it only takes one generation for the number of white Dutch people to increase to 75 million. However, due to the low survival rate, the population of blacks and indigenous people will not double at most, reaching 7 million people. At that time, the Netherlands will have a population of 145 million, and the white Dutch will have the upper hand.

Of course, Dutch whites, blacks, and Far Eastern indigenous people are all consumers of Dutch industrial products and the domestic market. At present, even for black Africans and those Far Eastern indigenous people who rushed there, it is normal for people to consume plastic products.

In fact, the current domestic consumption level of the Netherlands is higher than that of Germany with a population of nearly 50 million and the Austro-Hungarian Empire with a population of 30 million, with a total population of 80 million. Even in some aspects, the 30 million white people in the Netherlands alone have much stronger consumption than these two countries.

For example, when it comes to bicycle consumption, every white Dutch household should have a bicycle, while in Germany and Austria it is only one for every three households. For example, when it comes to car consumption, every third household in the Netherlands should have a car. In Germany and Austria, there are only one car for 20 households.

This is a huge gap.

Naturally, the rise of the Netherlands is not limited to automobiles and bicycles. The Netherlands also far surpasses Germany in road and railway mileage. Every railway in the Australian continent is more than 3,000 kilometers long with each main line, three vertical and two horizontal. The construction of the railway mobilized more than 500,000 black and Far Eastern indigenous workers. The five main lines alone exceed 200 million kilometers, not to mention other branch lines.

Australia's continental railway lines alone exceed 60,000 kilometers.

The highways exceed 200,000 kilometers. The Dutch development in Australia is comprehensive. The docks are built based on the military docks of Europe’s first steam battleships. More than 400 large and small docks have been built along the coast of the Australian continent, including It can accommodate more than 50 docks for 5,000-ton steam battleships. There are more than 10 terminals with a capacity of over 10,000 tons.

The three major Dutch consortiums, the East India Group (formerly the East India Company), the Far East Group, and the United Group, have become the world's top consortiums and the most advanced layout players in the science and technology industry. It is also the company with the most invention patents in the world after 1865. The three major consortiums account for more than 70% of the world's new inventions. One consortium has invented more inventions than the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and France alone. It is truly a "rich country"