v3 Chapter 479： Are you still married to Greece?

On the morning of January 27, 1869, after negotiating with Isabel 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 1st in the second half of this year, starting from the customs union, through the implementation of the common market, the same big 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.

This 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, and 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 show any pity, because since childhood, he had no relationship with Princess Louise, but 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 William IV's visit some time ago, Princess Louise actually supported the marriage of William IV's brother, Prince Frederick of Greece, which made their brother-sister relationship even worse.

So this time, Crown Prince Edward wanted to use this to break up the marriage. Not only did William IV's unknown plan go to waste, but also to give his fourth sister, Princess Louise, eye drops, which would kill two birds with one stone.

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

Louise, who was born in 1847, is almost 22 years old this year. At this age, the royal family in Europe has already reached the time to talk about marriage.

The encounter with the second daughter Alice made Queen Victoria hesitate.

Actually speaking, 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.

That's why she has kept Princess Louise by her side 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 that?"

Princess Louise laughed, revealing her teeth: "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 His Highness the Crown Prince 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 became contemplative.

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, so he glared at Princess Louise dissatisfied.

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

"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."

However, the three children of William IV each ruled a country, which has become a good story.

(1) Jacobs Henriques Vantorff, a genius boy born in 1852 (August 30, 1852 - March 11, 1911), was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, died in Berlin, Germany, Dutch chemist In 1901, he became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his "discovery of the laws of chemical kinetics and osmotic pressure in solution and his contributions to the theory of stereochemistry and chemical equilibrium."

(2) Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890), also known as "Van Gogh" in Chinese, was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. Born into a Protestant priest family, Van Gogh was born in Zindert on March 30, 1853. In the early days, he cut off his ear to express his inner grief. Vincent van Gogh died on July 29, 1890, on the banks of the Oise-sur-Oise in France after a psychotic episode that had plagued him for years. He was a forerunner of Post-Impressionism and deeply influenced twentieth-century art, especially Fauvism and Expressionism.

In the early days, Van Gogh only used gray and dark colors to create, until he saw Japanese Ukiyo-e and met Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris, and integrated their bright colors and styles to create his unique personal style.

(3) Hendrik Anton Lorenz

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853~1928), Dutch physicist, mathematician, and founder of the theory of electrons.

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Zeeman in 1902.

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