v3 Chapter 289： 2nd Hand Preparation for William IV

Kingdom of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, inside the Royal Palace of the Netherlands.

"William, Napoleon III must know that we have a series of sanctions against them in France. Will this trigger the retaliation of the French Empire against us? I worry that the south will face unrest in the face of French dissatisfaction."

Queen Alexandra's face was full of worry. Recently, the Netherlands has come to the forefront of Europe following the judgment of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Everyone knows that this time the Netherlands no longer seems to be afraid of France's anger.

This puzzled many people, and even Queen Sandra was worried about it.

No, just waiting for William IV to return from the weekly Privy Council meeting, taking advantage of her spare time, she expressed her worries.

William IV continued to tease his eldest son, Prince Albert, along the line of the future first heir to the king of the Netherlands. Although he was only over a year old, his face was already open, and he was extremely handsome. Obviously, he will be in Europe in the future. It would be quite popular among the female royals, thought William IV.

Seeing his wife's worry on his face.

William IV comforted: "Don't worry, have you seen something I'm not sure about and go back?"

The latter shook his head.

When Alexandra thought about it, she really searched for the king of William IV. It really never happened. Even when she was a child, especially when she thought about the incident when her husband went directly to Denmark and almost stole Andersen, she still remembers it deeply. It was the first time I met William.

After that, Alexandra, who has followed him over the years, seems to have witnessed William IV's almost unrepentant growth history.

Now, it has even brought the Netherlands to take advantage of it and dared to resist the French Empire, the hegemonic level of the European continent, and even took the initiative to impose sanctions on the French Empire. This is how self-confidence and how "daring", which makes Alexandra I am very proud of my husband.

In fact, William IV had already started planning with the Privy Council of Prime Minister Tolbeck when he was preparing to weaken the French Empire.

The time began in the middle of 1866.

Since this time, the embassies of the Netherlands in various countries in the world have already begun to carry out various foreshadowing actions, and finally began to take interests as the premise, and finally promoted the influence of the three major international organizations formed by the Netherlands step by step. The idea is triggered by the least number of members of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Those who take advantage of their disadvantages and who want to become famous in the first battle, take France as an example to kill chickens and monkeys.

The influence of the Netherlands was thoroughly launched, and the international status of the Netherlands was established.

Many people may ask, how can the Netherlands guarantee itself when countries such as Italy, Portugal and Spain are also in it.

When William IV was also in the Privy Council when he faced such questions from these cabinet members, he told them the answer directly.

Because the Netherlands has already drawn the South American countries in the layout, and also brought in the United States of America as allies, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, etc., these votes add up to even more than half, as long as some interest exchanges are added, the Netherlands will dominate The position is naturally established.

As long as the Far East develops in the future, the international status of the Netherlands will gradually become a reality. At that time, it was another method of operation.

Prepare these first hand.

Gu Han

Second-hand, in fact, the Dutch cabinet has been in communication with the Tories recently, and it can even be traced back to more than a year ago. William IV understood the transition between the Tories and the Whigs in history, so he began to command The Dutch cabinet secretly contacted the Tories, and even provided a lot of Whig information to help Disraeli get elected. In the end, the two parties actually began to ease the relationship, and even helped Disraeli this time to establish The cooperation between the two sides established the beginning of cooperation for the next four years of the British-Dutch cabinet relationship.

After the Tories came to power, Disraeli and Tolbeck made their first attempt at the goal of France.

This can be regarded as the opening of another mode of cooperation between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

As far as William IV knows, everything is going well at present. He secretly said: On the British side, it should start.

On April 5, 1867, the French Empire launched an attack on Cambodia in the Far East. This attack was even more violent than before. On the 8th, under the French Empire's 30,000 troops, it quickly won the forest in the northeast. Monolong and Longfa, although Crown Prince Chulalongkorn and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Siam fought hard to resist, they were not able to defend the two cities in the end.

Because France even sent French troops from Pleiku and Bangmeishu in Zhongyue to surprise them from the east. Yes, by surprise, the army of the Kingdom of Siam suffered heavy losses.

In the end, under the leadership of Crown Prince Chulalongkorn, they retreated westward to Stung Ding.

The defeat of the Kingdom of Siam was expected by European countries. If they were able to defeat the French Empire, a European power, one-on-one, then they would no longer need to sanction France.

On April 7, 1867, the major newspapers of the British Empire published an interview with Disraeli, who can only blame Disraeli for mentioning that Britain had made three requests to the French government to withdraw from the Kingdom of Siam, but Both were rejected by Napoleon III and the Olivier government. As one of the important partners of the Kingdom of Siam, Britain said that he fully agreed with the ruling made by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

He believed that the actions of the French Empire not only violated morals, but also violated international law, and harmed the economic and strategic interests of Britain in the Far East.

Therefore, he said, the British Empire Cabinet Government is evaluating whether to follow the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and impose the same sanctions on the French Empire.

The United Kingdom followed the members of the International Court of Justice in The Hague to sanction the French Empire, which shocked all countries in the world, and glanced in the direction of the British Isles inconceivably. All revealed incredible.

You must know that Britain itself is the biggest thief in aggression and invasion of other countries, but now some thieves call to catch thieves, which makes people feel funny and ironic, very ridiculous.

However, This is a major event that needs to be taken seriously in a strategic sense, because it means that the United Kingdom is no longer a loner, but is willing to join the Hague International, known as a club of small countries. Tribunal members cooperated, which led to some speculation in other countries.

Seeing the potential of the organization, does the UK want to join the organization?

This made other countries such as the Kingdom of Prussia and Tsarist Russia immediately panic.

However, the Kingdom of Prussia, Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary and other countries have vague positions, and none of them have expressed their opinions. Although most countries have responded, they are not big and choose to observe.

On the contrary, the Ottoman Empire was used to seeing the strong eat the weak, and the French Empire seemed to have aroused public outrage, and thought that France was the second most powerful country to support them during the Crimean War in 1853, but this time they chose not to declare war on Russia to support them, so they were not willing to declare war on Russia. France was dissatisfied.

The Ottoman Empire felt sympathy for the French invasion of the other Siam Kingdom, so they sympathized with the Siam Kingdom. In the end, the Ottoman Empire even followed the British side and announced that they would also evaluate each other's sanctions against France.

This brought tensions into the Mediterranean.