v3 Chapter 523： belgium in the netherlands

What if the most startling news in the first two months of February 21, 1869? So many people will definitely answer that it is the visit of the Dutch Speaker of the House of Representatives Huntington to Spain that triggered the diplomatic dispute between England, the Netherlands and Spain.

But what is the most shocking news for the world after February 22? So everyone's first answer is about Huntington, the Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives, but the reason is that the Dutch House of Representatives in charge of him announced that he will push the Dutch House Speaker to pass the "Our Belgium" bill and ask the Senate to pass it, Prime Minister Tolbeck and King Willem IV of the Netherlands signed the Act into force, formally recognizing Belgium as a Dutch territory.

The Spanish Speaker of the House of Representatives Julian even stood up to endorse Huntington, and pointed out that the Spanish House of Representatives supported Huntington's position.

This news raised a super storm like a tornado and hit the world, turning many people upside down.

Unexpectedly, the French Empire was the first to stand up against it, "We don't think the purpose of the Dutch announcement of such unrealistic territorial claims at this time, but we are very dissatisfied with the Dutch annexation of Belgium, don't forget , Walloon Brabant is our French-speaking region, where there are more than 200,000 French people, I don’t think the idea of ​​the Kingdom of the Netherlands annexing Belgium is wise.”

In this regard, Huntington, who was visiting Madrid, said with a smile when a reporter mentioned the French accusations: "The French seem to have forgotten one thing that in Belgium, there are currently more than 1.6 million Dutch people, and they are four of the French. times, in Belgium, and with the last French occupation of Hainaut, Namur, Luxembourg and half of Liège (half Liege with Prussia) three and a half Belgian provinces.

At present, in Belgium, the influence of France itself has dropped to the point where the male and the Dutch are competing against each other. I don’t know if the French can wear Aibiao’s majority in Belgium, but I know that the Dutch can, because the Dutch represent the total Belgian population. About 80% of the total population of 2 million people know what this data represents, which means that most of the word is already in the hands of our fellow Dutch.”

Huntington's rebuttal left Paris unable to refute.

In fact, it was precisely because of the last Belgian crisis that Leopold I maintained his royal status with the support of Britain in the four-nation game between England, France and Hoppel. The French, who were allied with the Netherlands and Prussia, were greedy enough to take it away. Three and a half Belgian provinces dominated by French.

The Netherlands has only taken the two northern provinces of Antwerp and Limburg. At present, the Kingdom of Belgium only has the remaining capital of mixed residence, Brussels, and the Dutch-dominated West Flanders, East Flanders, and Flemish provinces. - The province of Brabant, and the French-inhabited province of Walloon-Brabant, the latter of which is small in size and population.

It is precisely because of Huntington's promotion that people who know the situation in Belgium and those who don't know Belgium immediately despise and ridicule France.

At the same time, many people were amazed at the precise calculation of the Netherlands.

In the original Belgium, the Dutch accounted for about 55% of the population. Therefore, as long as the Dutch are attracted to part of the population, the demographic advantage of the Dutch will be broken. The French are not without a chance to turn over, at least when they get A balance will be created with the support of the royal family of Leopold. However, with the large-scale annexation of France, the balance of Belgium was broken by France itself, annexing the southern Belgian territory, but now David's influence on Belgium has shrunk.

And under the ebb and flow, the Netherlands has achieved amazing dominance.

Looking at the current structure of power in Belgium, the Prime Minister, the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court-President, etc. are all Dutch, and even the Prime Minister's cabinet is all Dutch.

This is actually what is different from a province in the Netherlands.

Looking at the various decrees and bills issued by Belgium in recent years, almost all of them follow the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The birth of Belgium like this was accomplished with the full push of the "pusher" from France.

France took three and a half Belgian provinces, but lost almost the entire Belgian influence, and the barrier between the north and the Netherlands was almost gone.

The Netherlands is an extra buffer country.

Belgium, which many people didn't care about at first, only found out after some investigation that it has become a follower of the Netherlands. This made many people look weird.

The high-profile opposition of the French Empire has actually triggered a wave of interest in Belgian power. It has to be said that the high-profile influence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Huntington is too great.

Many people couldn't help but turn their attention to the UK side, waiting for London's response.

With the understanding, everyone knows that London is the backing of the Belgian royal family Leopold family. Now the Netherlands is obviously ready to drive away the Leopold family. Will this give up for London?

Would Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the cousin of now King Leopold II of Belgium agree?

"We in the UK, like Paris, are strongly opposed to the ambitions of the Netherlands. We believe that the current regulation in Belgium is out of balance and needs to be adjusted, but this is only our opinion, and it does not mean that we will interfere in the internal governance of Belgium."

Russell, the British foreign secretary, hurriedly expressed his position, which is similar to what everyone guessed, that is, against the annexation of Belgium by the Netherlands.

However, because everyone knows it, the British opposition did not cause too much waves.

However, the interests of Britain, France and Belgium exist, so it is understandable, and Spain's position is obviously from the Speaker of the Huntington House of Representatives who supports Gibraltar belongs to Western Spain, you can know that this is similar to an exchange of interests, this is Spain mutual support with the Netherlands.

But one country shocked the world by standing up to support the Netherlands.

On February 24, 1869, the press conference from Berlin shocked the world. At the prime minister's press conference, Prime Minister Bismarck said that Prussia agreed with the Dutch point of view, and also believed that in the case of Dutch people occupying the majority of the population, it was even more supported by Dutch people. Under the opinion, Prussia believes that Belgium has no need to exist, because it is only deceiving itself.

Bismarck: "I think it's good for Belgium to return to the state it was in before it left the Netherlands in 1839. Don't forget that Belgium was still a Dutch territory internationally before it was recognized by the Netherlands in 1839. This is a period of history not long ago. It's time for Belgium to return to the arms of the Netherlands."

This truth is said, almost no one believes it is true? The reason was so far-fetched that everyone suspected that the Netherlands had reached some sort of agreement with Prussia.

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