Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

"The war between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Mexico has occurred for the second time. The total death toll exceeds 20,000 people. This is already more than the death toll in the German-Austrian War of 1867, although it is not as good as the Franco-Prussian War."

All members of the new Dutch cabinet government that began on February 20, 1879 attended the Dutch Privy Council meeting. From the beginning, William IV set the direction on the Austro-Hungarian War. .

Prime Minister Theo von Linden (Christian Party), Chief Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jules Danetang (Socialist Party), Foreign Minister Joseph Beit (Socialist Party), Interior Minister David Blanc (Christian Party) Party), Defense Minister Fox (Christian Party), Industry Minister Joseph Lanka, Transport Minister Byers (Christian Party), Education Minister Mari Philip (Socialist Party), Energy Minister Hester (Socialist Party), Justice Robert. Cook (Christian Party), Speaker of the Privy Council and Speaker of the House of Commons, Baron Caslan (Christian Party), Lord Andrew Smith (Christian Party), Lord Privy Seal and Speaker of the House of Lords.

In addition, the leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Gerrit de Vries (the first two prime ministers from 1872 to 1879), also led several senators to attend the Privy Council meeting.

Gerrit De Vries: "Your Majesty, the Austro-Hungarian Empire will obviously not give up. Those towns will not satisfy their appetite and have lost more than 10,000 people. This is not a good thing for Franz Joseph I. Absolutely unacceptable, I know him as a person, Prime Minister Linden, what preparations do we have in the Netherlands now?"

As the largest party in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, although it lost the last general election, it was defeated by the Christian Party and the Socialist Party in a joint election. Therefore, the largest party is still the largest party. Currently, the Socialist Party and the Christian Party are still the largest party. There is no way to defeat the other party in a general election alone.

Therefore, the words of Gerrit de Vries, who continues to serve as the leader of the Liberal Party, are still very weighty.

Linden: "The Netherlands is already supplying weapons to Mexico"

The Group of Thirteen's low-end weapons support for Mexico is already known to the world, and it is not considered a military secret here.

Gerrit de Vries: "I don't think this can withstand the attack of the Austro-Hungarian Empire"

Most of the weapons supplied to Mexico by the Group of Thirteen are rifles and old-fashioned matchlocks, as well as some pistols. Although these firepowers against Mexico have increased a lot, many in the Austro-Hungarian Empire are actually using semi-automatic rifles with stronger firepower. Gerrit de Vries has served as Prime Minister for two terms. He understands that with this, it is It was difficult to prevent Austria-Hungary from continuing to send troops to Mexico.

Linden: "Then adding that will naturally not have much effect. However, what if the Thirteenth International Coalition currently led by us has secretly sent 20,000 troops to the border area with Mexico in northern Guatemala?"

Gerrit De Vries looked at Linden in surprise when he heard this, and then looked at His Majesty William IV. I saw His Majesty the old god sitting there.

Obviously, there was no admission that it was true, but there was no denying that Linden’s words were false.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

Since the Liberal Party resigned after ruling the Dutch cabinet for 16 years in 1879, it has been more than two years since the Liberal Party realized the helplessness of the opposition party.

A lot of information is sealed, and the same is true for the Liberal Party on the military. For example, in this military operation, he is not very clear about the role of the Netherlands in it. After all, key departments such as the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are restricted and controlled. Either the Christian Party or the Socialist Party. These two political parties, which used to be difficult to challenge the Liberal Party's ruling position, have now stepped on the Liberal Party's path to power.

Especially Jules Danetang, the deputy prime minister, finance minister and leader of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, who was silent and listening to the "confrontation" between him and Linden attentively next to Linden.

This guy is the most hateful, he looks honest, but in fact he is the most cunning.

In the past two years or so, the power of the Dutch Socialist Party has expanded very rapidly. Many county and city elections have given rise to the Socialist Party. For example, in Adelaide, South Australia, the stronghold of the Liberal Party, there are two county parliamentary speakers and a majority of seats. It fell into the hands of the Socialist Party, not to mention that the Socialist Party also won the seats of senior officials and provincial speaker of Western Australia some time ago and fully governed Western Australia. It can be said that this is the second province in mainland Australia that the Socialist Party has fully governed. The previous one It is the Province of William (originally called Victoria).

You must know that there are only six provinces in mainland Australia, namely South Australia, Queensland and the capital city of Melbourne, governed by the Liberal Party; New South Wales and Northern Australia (formerly known as the Northern Territory) governed by the Christian Party; the Socialist Party has been in power before William Province (formerly Victoria) won Western Australia in the general election.

Therefore, the Liberal Party feels more threatened by the Socialist Party than the Christian Party.

Gerrit de Vliet was very wary of Jules Danetang. After all, compared to the bold Prime Minister Linden, who was the first military-to-government leader in the history of the Netherlands and ascended to the position of Prime Minister, as the Netherlands had earlier arranged Belgium's political intelligence agent, the party leader and deputy prime minister Jules Danetang, and the chairman Joseph Beit, the current foreign minister of the Netherlands, are more difficult to deal with.

You must know that these two guys are like dragons in crossing the river. They successfully rose to power in Belgium and became the Prime Minister of Belgium and the Speaker of the Belgian Parliament. The first king of Belgium, Leopold I, was so angry that he died. After his son Leopold II succeeded to the throne, he was forced to retreat step by step, allowing these two people to take full power in Belgium. The Dutch were fully suppressed in Belgium. The French, and even the King of the Netherlands, finally took advantage of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and northern Belgium, where the majority of Dutch people were, returned to join the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Therefore, these two people have a very special status in the Netherlands. They can be said to be the biggest contributors to the country's return to Belgian territory, and it was a peaceful return.

In addition, when Belgium returned, the Dutch population had a population of more than 3 million. These people were all firm supporters of Jules Danetang and Joseph Baite when Belgium was in power.

Now more than half of the people here have also migrated to the Far East, especially in William Province (Victoria) and Western Australia, which are controlled by the Socialist Party. Many of them have even migrated to New South Wales, where the Christian Party is located. Currently, His Majesty Most of the nearly 400,000 people in Canberra, the second largest city in New South Wales that signed the agreement, are immigrants from the original Belgian Dutch.

It can be said that the pace of expansion of the Socialist Party is too fast. Even the Liberal Party feels that the greatest threat from returning to power is no longer the second largest party, the Christian Party, but the Socialist Party.

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