v3 Chapter 287： Tories come to power

In the first quarter of 1867, if we say that the major events that attracted the most attention in the world, there were actually many.

Among them, on January 8, the Dutch royal family announced that Queen Alexandra of the Netherlands was pregnant again.

This has allowed politicians and members of the royal family from all over the world to once again send their blessings to the new members of the Dutch royal family.

After that, the Netherlands held the Spring Cycling Open. More than 5,000 people from the Netherlands and the Far East participated in Sydney, Australia. In the end, on January 17, William IV personally went to Sydney, Australia to participate in the finals and personally handed over the championship trophy. Champion.

In addition, William IV also announced that an Open Cycling Race will be held in the Far East every spring in the future, while the autumn race will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

For a time, there was a bicycle boom in the whole country of the Netherlands.

At the same time, the bicycles under the William Group were manufactured to work overtime to popularize bicycles nationwide, and used the financial subsidies of the Netherlands to reduce the purchase price of bicycles in the Netherlands.

According to what William IV said, it is necessary to make the people affordable to buy and use bicycles, and let the people's life not be affected by the use of bicycles for transportation and goods.

In 1866, the per capita income of Dutch nationals was 100 pounds, an increase of more than 11% from the previous year's 90 pounds.

The price of bicycles owned by the William Group is only 10 pounds in the Netherlands, and 20 pounds abroad, that is to say, an adult worker can buy a bicycle in the Netherlands with one month's income. With the hype, this It is already a tool comparable to a horse, and it does not need to be kept. For the Dutch nationals, it is still a symbol of face. You are embarrassed to go out without a bicycle in your family.

So in just a few years, bicycles have become very popular in the Netherlands. Now, as roads have become a supporting infrastructure policy for bicycles, Dutch travel bicycles have become one of the necessary tools.

The Dutch cabinet government even passed a proposal in the Dutch lower house and the Senate, that is, a new cabinet position of the Dutch Minister of Transport was established to manage the transport affairs of the Netherlands.

When the two parliaments passed, William IV also signed his name.

With the rapid passage of the proposal and the appointment soon, the Dutch transportation development has entered a new fast channel. Unlike the previous announcement of only trains, carriages, horses, pedestrian paths, etc., this time the Netherlands has a nationwide presence. The range, now that a bike trimming lane has been added, is officially named after the road.

This puzzled many parts of the world, but after William Group's confidence in bicycles, front baskets and rear seats that can carry goods and other new structures appeared and applied for patents around the world, many parts of the world began to realize that the Netherlands actually planned to , use this pedal bicycle to complete the things that used to be done by carriages and horse tools.

As a result, European and American governments have also begun to study and judge in their respective countries, whether to learn the Dutch bicycle trend and reform the national transportation policy. However, when they think of the need to buy Dutch bicycles, many small countries are discouraged.

Even the UK and other industrial powers, Disraeli's cabinet is facing resistance from the Whig party, which is now in opposition. The reason is that it is a major investment. If it is to be implemented, it will be measured in hundreds of millions of pounds. British parliamentarians seem to be reluctant to pass the large sums of money for road construction. After all, these must be taxed domestically. In this way, it is the bottom of the society who benefit, but most of the upper class who pay taxes, so , this is harmful to their interests, which naturally makes the Whigs opposed, and even the majority of Tory MPs do not agree, so Disraeli stopped before starting the discussion.

This is the case in Britain, even in France, and the Tsarist Russian Empire cannot keep up with the economy, and naturally it cannot be implemented. It is not enough for Prussia, but it seems to be advancing under the joint efforts of Bismarck and William I. However, William IV should know that Prussia's After promoting the policy, I have to sigh, what a talent.

It turned out that in the Kingdom of Prussia, various localities actually implemented their own policies, and Prime Minister Bismarck actually adopted the policy of implementing the easy and then the difficult, and letting the principalities who wanted to implement bicycles as means of transportation make their own choices, which reduced the intensity of opposition, and then slowly figured it out. It also made William IV look up to him, as expected of an old fox.

Not as tactful as Olivier and Disraeli.

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However, to William IV's surprise, the Lincoln government even announced that the Commonwealth of Millikin would follow the implementation of the Dutch policy, which made William IV feel as uncomfortable as he had just swallowed a fly.

Alas, Millinut is really a future interest contender for the Netherlands, and he can't get rid of it.

On February 15, 1867, the Millician Civil War in North America officially came to an end.

However, the price was that Milliken was divided into two parts, and the Federation of Milliken controlled the north, occupying about two-thirds of the original territory of the original Milliken state.

The Confederate States of America, led by Davis, were the remaining third.

The two countries formally demarcated the border.

Seemingly influenced by both sides, Britain and the Commonwealth of America formally declared an armistice in North America on February 25, 1867.

The Commonwealth of Millikin will withdraw from all occupied Ontario territories of the Commonwealth of Eastern Millikin. As compensation, the United Kingdom is willing to sell British Columbia to Millikin for £5 million after the Commonwealth of Millikin agrees to withdraw from Alberta. Commonwealth.

Since then, the Commonwealth of America has officially blocked the British estuary in Canada in the west. In other words, in the North Pacific, Britain will never have a foothold.

This is very important for the subsequent great development of the Commonwealth of America in the west and to reduce British intrusion.

The United Kingdom had the opportunity to escape from North America, and could launch a new strategic deployment in the Far East and Europe to deal with France, France and the Russian Empire, and it would not be a pity to sell British Columbia.

Of course, Disraeli's new government is also in line with public opinion to reduce the Northern War, reduce the instability of the United Kingdom's backing to Canada's rear, and fully meet the challenges of Europe.

Therefore, the public opinion of the Tory Party in the country is also rising steadily. In addition, Crown Prince Edward and Disraeli have attended many occasions together, which has made the entire Tory Party cabinet government and the British royal family seem to be a little more relaxed and cracked. Rumors of a feud with the Tories during the nearly 28 years of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.

Many people speculate that the British royal family is rebalancing the previous pattern of the Whig party having the upper hand because of the support of the royal family.

Because of this, Disraeli chose to ease relations with the Russian Empire.

Alexander II also seems to have given Disraeli enough face, and even after winning northern Georgia and northern Azerbaijan in the Caucasus, he is willing to negotiate with the United Kingdom in Belgium again.

So the British Disraeli tried to press the Ottoman Empire to participate, and finally the two parties seemed to have news that they would soon be negotiating.

The Tories and the Whigs viewed Europe differently. The goodwill is also different from that of other countries.

In addition to being friendly with the Commonwealth of America and the Russian Empire, the Tories have the strongest relationship with Portugal.