Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On August 15, 1862, the Dutch government officially announced that it had completed the takeover of mainland Australia and the whole of Tasmania from Britain.

In order to facilitate management, the Netherlands announced that from now on, the Australian mainland will be divided into 6 administrative provinces,

They are Western Australia in the west, Palau, the capital; Adelaide, the capital of South Australia;

New South Wales, the capital city of Sydney;

Brisbane, the capital of Queensland.

The Northern Territory was renamed the Province of North Australia, with the capital Darwin;

Tasmania is Australia's sixth province - Tasmania, the capital of Hobart.

In addition, the Dutch government also announced that the southern Australian state of Victoria, which was originally under British rule, was changed to William Province.

Melbourne, the largest city in the province of William, has become the administrative center of the Dutch Royal Palace in the Far East, and has also been selected by the Kingdom of the Netherlands as the sub-capital area of ​​the Dutch Royal Palace.

The Tolbeck cabinet will, at the government level, promote the immigration of 300,000 Dutch natives to Australia in the remaining four months of this year, and plans to emigrate more than 1 million people next year.

And the Dutch government requires Dutch nationals to implement a multi-birth policy, and the corresponding multi-birth policy will be followed by the gradual promulgation of various benefits.

In short, the ultimate purpose of this wave of actions by the Dutch government is to let you have more children.

Beginning on August 20, scenes of wonders appeared in the Netherlands. There were hordes of immigrants everywhere. Those with families began to sit on many low-level families headed by the Netherlands from Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and joined the migration army. in.

A reporter directly interviewed a large family with a population of 8 who migrated.

"Why do you support this government's migration?"

"Why don't you move? Although I also want to live in the Netherlands, there are too many capitalists here. They have been passed down from generation to generation. The fertile land here has already been divided up. How can we have our share?

Now it's different in Australia. According to what the newspapers say now, although it is desolate, the land is fertile and easy to cultivate. The place where we migrate this time is Queensland in the east.

It is said that there is plenty of water there, the climate is similar to ours, and each person has 10 acres of land, and the 8 of us are 80 acres. Thinking about it, we drool.

Even if our family does not have the brains to do business, relying on 80 acres, it is enough to support us, and even make us become landlords and ranchers. Such a good thing, why give up, not participating is a fool. "

Many people know that the Dutch government has described the benefits of reclaiming wasteland, for example, each immigrant can get 10 acres of land, but these data are pale and there is no apt description.

However, after the above-mentioned reporters reported the reasons for the family's immigration, especially after the newspaper also specially circled the words such as landlord and rancher, all those who read or heard about it were moved, yes, anyway. The government subsidizes the ferry tickets, and the land is sent. Where can there be such a good thing?

So, another wave of migration came.

By the end of September, just one and a half months had passed, and more than 150,000 Dutch people had set off by sea for Australia. This should be an easy task for 300,000 immigrants to be completed in four months.

And the Dutch government seems to have come up again, because now Europe has entered the autumn, and in two months, it will enter the cold winter.

And the government propaganda is that the climate in Australia is exactly the opposite of that here in Europe, where spring is only now beginning, and it is a good time to cultivate wasteland.

Many people think that in the winter in Europe, they still need to stay at home when they can't go out. It is better to go to the southern hemisphere to make a fortune. Even if they lose, it can be regarded as a long-distance travel.

There are many people who think this way.

In short, the Dutch government has tried its best this time, and the purpose is to get Australia on the right track quickly.

At this time, Africa was entering the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Far East, and it was chaotic.

From the beginning of August, after a period of confrontation between the four countries of South Africa, the Imperium and Portugal in Southern Rhodesia, as the British completed the elimination of the Zulu Kingdom in the south, the Zulu Kingdom was officially swept into history.

However, Kai Chiwayo, the actual controller of the Zulu Kingdom, disappeared with him. Some people say that he fled to North Africa.

Some people of French and German also got on the boat returning to the mainland because of negotiations between France, Prussia, Austria, etc., and Kaizhiwayo also followed the makeup and left for France or Prussia.

Others, however, say he went to Dutch territories such as Congo and Tanzania.

Some even believe that he ran to hide in neighboring Portuguese-ruled Mozambique, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback.

South Africa thus ended the six-month war.

With the fall of the Zulu Kingdom, the pressure on the other three kingdoms increased, especially the Kingdom of Portugal.

Because the colonial Mozambique has a long and narrow terrain and runs from north to south, it is all coastal areas. From Maputo near the Zulu Kingdom in the south to Beira in the middle to Mozambique in the north, the coastline is not much less than that of South Africa. It can be seen that the threat from the sea is actually For Mozambique, the threat is much more serious than on land.

It is precisely because of this that the coastal areas of Mozambique have ushered in the threat of British fleet travel.

British warships demonstrate outside Maputo almost every day.

To this end, Portugal issued a protest to the United Kingdom and London, asking the United Kingdom not to provoke disputes between the two countries.

But for some unknown reason, on August 16th, a British warship made many provocative actions while cruising the Mozambique Strait, so the coastal defense artillery in the port of Beira on the shore suddenly fired in response. Immortal, it hit this tier 6 sailing battleship. Not long after the 180 people on the battleship sent the telegram, everyone sank into the Mozambique Strait with the battleship.

It's worth it!

The shot was so accurate that everyone in South Africa was stunned.

Among them are the British Governor of South Africa Jobon, the Netherlands Leon Booker, the Prince of Prussia Frederick Karl, and the Portuguese Governor of Mozambique Felipe Neuss.

Especially the latter, it is even more terrifying.

Because he was secretly scolding the person who didn't know the problem caused him trouble, he also thought of serious consequences.

Sure enough, it didn’t take long for London, England to send a warning with a deadline to Lisbon, Portugal, demanding that Portugal hand over the murderer and pay more than 1 million pounds in compensation. Otherwise, if the United Kingdom does not get a satisfactory answer before September 1, it will Will retaliate against Portugal.

This shocking news was reported by European newspapers on August 20th~www.readwn.com~ People from all over Europe were stunned and looked at the country in the upper and western part of the Iberian Peninsula in the southwest.

"Portugal dared to provoke Britain, and dared to directly sink a British warship?"

"Did Louis I get kicked in the head by a donkey?"

"I think the Portuguese kingdom is crazy. They must have seen the Netherlands, which is almost the same size. The idea of ​​​​taking the throne on the giant, but William IV in 1840 and Louis I in 1838, do you really think that he is not much different in age from William IV, and that he has the same ability?"

"Portugal can withstand the wrath of the UK, let's talk about it"

On August 25, 1862, the British First Fleet set out from the southern naval port of Portsmouth and proceeded to the southwest.

At the same time, in the port of Gibraltar

The Mediterranean Squadron also sailed northwest.

The rain is about to come, and all Europeans are holding their breaths, ready to see how the Anglo-Portuguese dispute will develop.