Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On the morning of January 27, 1869, after negotiating with Insabel II, Her Majesty was finally persuaded by William IV.

The two negotiated and signed an agreement that Spain and the Netherlands would start from July 1, the second half of this year, starting from the customs union, through the implementation of the common market, the same large market, and agreed on January 1, 1870. At the beginning, the free circulation of personnel, commodities, capital, and services will be implemented after simple remarks.

The news caused a global sensation following the joint statement of the two kings.

"Spain is a big country. Although it has declined in recent years, Spain's potential is still not small. The economic strength and technological strength of 11 million white Dutch people and the market of 20 million people in Spain form a market of 30 million people, which is enough to challenge France. Rivers, Prussia, even more than England, plus Sweden, Denmark, the United States, Greece, Tsarist Russia, South American countries, etc., the Dutch trade is getting wider and wider.”

"Her Majesty, I think we should suspend the marriage with Greece. Louise should no longer marry Greece in the form of a joint venture. This will make people think that our dignified British Empire will curry favor with the Netherlands at this time. Plus points for Holland, minus points for us, I suggest that the marriage should be abolished, and even as it has been said, Louise should stay in England, promising the wives of the inner nobles of our British Empire This will help deepen the relationship between the royal family and the British aristocracy, and ease their fear of other European royal families' involvement in the British royal bloodline."

Prince Edward looked at Princess Louise, who was a little pale next to him. Although he was his fourth sister, he didn't pity him because he was not related to Princess Louise since he was a child, but was the eldest princess Victoria. And the second princess, Princess Alice and even Princess Helena, are better than her.

What's more, after Alice's previous position as her mother Queen Victoria's former private secretary was robbed by Princess Louise, he had no one to speak for him by Her Majesty's side, which made their mother-son relationship worse and worse. , he couldn't be angry with Queen Victoria, so Princess Louise naturally became the object of his troubles.

After the visit of William IV some time ago, Princess Louise actually supported the marriage of William IV's younger brother, Prince Frederick, the Greek Crown Prince, which made their brother-sister relationship even worse.

So this time, Crown Prince Edward wanted to use this to break up this marriage, not only the unknown plan of William IV was in vain, but also to give his fourth sister Princess Louise some eye drops, which would kill two birds with one stone.

Queen Victoria looked at Louise calmly, and saw that she was indifferent, so she couldn't help asking: "Edward has a certain truth in saying that, Louise, what do you think?"

Louise, who was born in 1847, is almost 22 years old this year. At this age, the European royal family has already reached the period of talking about marriage.

What happened to the second daughter Alice made Queen Victoria hesitate.

In fact, like Edward, she didn't like the four daughters very much, but she did not deny that Louise's shrewdness was the best among all the children.

This is why she has been with Princess Louise as the king's private secretary for almost 4 years now.

Princess Louise heard Queen Victoria's question, and said smoothly: "On the contrary, I think marriage to Greece can make the British Empire in an invincible position."

Queen Victoria smiled and was curious.

But Prince Edward said disdainfully: "How do you say this?"

Princess Louise laughed, and her teeth revealed: "His Royal Highness is afraid that the growing Netherlands will threaten the interests of the British Empire, right?"

Edward nodded and said, "It goes without saying, just look at the influence of the British Empire in North America."

"But has the Crown Prince ever thought that no matter how powerful the Netherlands is, its homeland in Europe is still only so small. Does His Royal Highness think that the Netherlands has just launched a war against Britain, France and Prussia in Europe?"

Edward froze for a moment.

And Queen Victoria suddenly pondered.

Princess Louise continued to laugh: "I have been a private secretary by my mother's side for almost four years, and although the information from all over the world in my hands is not clear enough, I have a general understanding.

The current strength of the Netherlands is absolutely not capable of resisting the major powers in Europe. That is to say, as long as the Netherlands is attacked by the power of France, and other countries are not busy with their status, it is not difficult to destroy the country. As for the Far East, a There are no members of the royal family in the Netherlands in the Far East, do you still need any doubts? "

"What if William IV fled to the Far East before attacking in the Far East and then attacked?" Edward was almost diverted from the subject, so he glared at Princess Louise dissatisfied.

The latter smiled indifferently: "Is the Netherlands still the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe at that time?"

what!

Edward was down immediately.

Yeah, did the Netherlands at that time still threaten the UK's Netherlands? The answer is no.

There is no Netherlands in the mainland. No matter how fast the development in the Far East is, no one will think that the Netherlands in the Far East will dare to send warships to the North Atlantic to deal with countries such as Britain, France and Prussia. In that case, there will be no return.

Thinking of this, Edward raised his head to look at Louise who was still smiling, his mouth moved, and finally, gave up.

The whole process fell in the eyes of Queen Victoria, and she felt a little regret in her heart. It would be great if Princess Louise and Edward were in different places.

But she just thought about it.

Edward saw that the persuasion was useless, but was persuaded ~www.readwn.com~ left with a thought.

After Edward left, Queen Victoria stared at Princess Louise and warned: "Although I will not oppose your queen dream, I hope that the interests of the British Empire are not damaged by your means."

"Why does my mother say that? I care deeply about the British Empire, but I won't do anything bad for the British Empire. If there is, please punish me and my family."

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She secretly said in her heart, "At least that's how it was when you were alive, and after you're gone"

Queen Victoria sullenly said: "I hope you do what you say"

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"If you want to control Spain, you must control the central bank and currency issuance of a country in Spain, and then buy the country's core high-quality assets, and then control Spain's economic and financial lifeline to lead Spain's war and peace, and on this basis. According to the familiar historical cycle of making letter-cargo expansion and letter-cargo contraction, and continuously harvesting the leeks in Spain, this Rothschild family's usual play method can indeed be fully used in Spain, while allies are stabbed in the back , Holland relied on blood-sucking Spain to grow itself, and at that time it was difficult for Holland not to gain weight."

William IV thought to himself that the current situation in Spain is very strange, and the three parties of Britain, France and Russia are stirring up the storm. Well, the strength of the Netherlands can be a little reassuring.

In the afternoon, I have to meet with Inmanuel II of Italy, that old guy, but a full-fledged old fox, still be careful, don't be fooled by him.

Alas, who said that there is a system in time-travel, I have never seen a system, it is really hard work.