Xinshun 1730

Chapter 761 Dutch Disaster Year ([-])

This is not only Liu Yu's self-recommendation, but also the emperor's intention.

It is necessary to be able to stand up to the scene, but also to be trusted by those businessmen with some credibility, and to deal with Westerners, and there is only one person with enough seniority in the court.

This is not a trivial matter. Judging from the accounts of the East India Company, this is definitely an important purse of the court.

If it is done well, the imperial court is not just the income of dry shares and dividends.With the influx of a large amount of silver, the imperial court can also levy seigniorage, abolish the two yuans, issue currency, and even issue some Yuan and Ming banknotes appropriately.

Even without considering these more complicated things, the income from Nanyang spices, indigo, coffee, etc. alone is a huge sum of money.

Not to mention going to Nanyang to ease the increasingly serious conflict between people and land in the south; and throwing a group of people to Nanyang after the waste of water and reforming the sea, so as not to cause trouble in the country.

According to the experience of the Song Dynasty, some young and strong men should be incorporated into the Xiang army.The young and strong are picked away, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled, how can they start a civil uprising?

The problems in Nanyang, in the long run, are related to the national destiny.

Now it is necessary to develop and stabilize the situation, and the emperor does not think there is a more suitable candidate.

It seems that many people in Nanyang are from Liu Yu's side, but the so-called raging fire cooks oil.In the future, when the situation in Nanyang improves, gradually these people will be brought back to the court.It's not a big problem to be knighted, or to be entrusted to the Privy Council for the elderly.

As long as the navy is still in the hands of the Li family, rebellion in Nanyang will be more difficult than rebellion in Shandong and Henan.

It is difficult to open up things, and when Nanyang settles down, there is no need for such capable people.As long as Xiao Guicao is ready.

If it is like in the time of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Zhongmou is far behind his father and brother. It is not good to open up Jiangdong, but he can keep his business, which is not bad.

It's just that the premise of all this is that the cooperation with the Dutch is successful.

If it is unsuccessful, the emperor can only choose to sell spices in Malacca. At that time, there is really no need for private capital to participate, as long as it monopolizes it like a monopoly on salt and iron.

The emperor thought for a while, and put the memorial aside again.

Thought this matter is good, but don't rush.There is no news from the Dutch. It is not known whether the Nanyang Company needs to be built or not.

Counting the time, the Netherlands should know the news that Nanyang was captured by the Chinese Empire, but how the Netherlands reacted?

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Thousands of miles away.

The response of the Netherlands was far more disastrous than the emperor could have imagined.

Amsterdam in summer is immersed in an atmosphere of extreme despair.

This is not just Dashun's influence.

April 4 this year.

Since Louis XIV, the French army, which has not won a big victory, has exploded with amazing fighting power under the leadership of a foreigner.

In the Battle of Fontenoy, the illegitimate son of the Elector of Saxony, the French foreign marshal Herman, defeated the Duke of Cumberland, the son of King George of England, who was only 24 years old and was the marshal of the coalition forces.

The Anglo-Dutch field force collapses in the Austrian Netherlands.

So far, basically, the Austrian Netherlands region can be regarded as falling into the hands of the French.

Just a matter of time.

The field troops were defeated, and the fall of those city fortresses was a matter of time, especially since France was the founder of the bastion siege method, and it was easy to attack the bastion of the Dutch system.

Many years later, Napoleon commented on this battle, saying that "this battle lasted another 30 years for the crumbling Bourbon dynasty".

This statement is true.

Louis XIV has been fighting for so long, but he has not won the Austrian Netherlands. Now it seems that this battle is almost guaranteed to win the Austrian Netherlands, which is enough to inspire the enthusiasm of the French people for war.

If this battle is defeated, the French revolution may be many years ahead of schedule.

With this victory, France can keep its colonies in North America, India, and the Caribbean in subsequent negotiations.

So far, the southern gate of the Netherlands has been completely opened.France had already begun preparations for the siege of Ostend and Brussels.

If France wants to enter Amsterdam, the only thing the Dutch can do is to dig the embankment again and use water instead of soldiers.

In this battle alone, the patriotic fanaticism instigated by the Orange family in the Dutch subsided again.

Rumors spread everywhere in the seven provinces that France was about to invade the Netherlands and force all the Protestants to convert back to Catholicism, and also arrested the Consul of the Provinces and the son-in-law of the King of England to dance at the Palace of Versailles.

The Dutch used to be patriotic.And the most patriotic in Europe.

The poor bear the highest tax rate and indirect tax in Europe, the rich bear the earliest inheritance tax in Europe, and groups of people wear military uniforms with enthusiasm for the motherland.

However, the Netherlands is a small country after all.

In places that are bigger, the population is relatively small compared to the big countries, and they often pull out 13, [-], and [-] troops; one or two hundred warships and tens of thousands of sailors.

Fighting with Spain, Portugal, Britain, and France, the bloodletting of these countries continued.

The Netherlands can't afford it.

The population is there.

The Netherlands has pulled out an army of 13, which is equivalent to a standard line army of 400 million in Dashun.

The ratio is horrific.

The blood of the Netherlands has long been shed, and those patriotic fanaticism have also dissipated, just like France after the First World War.

The disarmament of the Netherlands, the reduction of the Dutch fleet, and the absence of an inter-provincial consul in the Netherlands for 40 years are not only controlled by the oligarchs, but also because the Dutch people can no longer stand it.

It's just that time passed slowly.Memories of the bloodshed of the War of the Spanish Succession and the deaths of the previous Franco-Dutch War gradually dissipated, and the younger generation grew up forgetting the initial war-weariness.

With this kind of forgetting of the past, during his stay in Amsterdam, Liu Yu used despicable means to rekindle the patriotic passion of the Dutch people.

Relying on insults, disgust, and humiliation, the Dutch people pushed the Orangemen up, determined to let the Orangemen regain the glory of the golden age.

Originally, the issue of tribute could be big or small.Open one eye, close one eye, that's all.

Just like Portugal and the Netherlands, they are not paying tribute at all, but the court pretends that they do. Another example is Ryukyu. Many ministers in the court actually know that Ryukyu is controlled by Japan, but they pretend not to know.

It is said that it is an insult to the national dignity and detrimental to the national system, but the key lies in emotional guidance.

Liu Yu took advantage of the provocative power of the pornographic tabloids and reversed his efforts. Before he was about to leave the Netherlands, he put the matter of "tributary" on the line.

In addition, at that time Prussia had agreed to the mediation of Britain and withdrew from the war.

Big bargains are in sight, Austria, Netherlands, Britain and other countries, against France without the help of Prussia, isn't this a big bargain?

however……

The reputation of the Prussians is so cheap.

As Liu Yu analyzed with King Louis XV of France at the beginning, after France adopted a strategic defense, once the Austrians became stronger, Prussia would definitely go to war again.Because Prussia ate Silesia, if the Austrians win, they will be the next to die; but if the French make great strides, Prussia will take the initiative to withdraw from the war, because Prussia does not want to win Austria, and another one will be inserted into Shinra of France.

Sure enough, last year, when France began a strategic stalemate and the Austrians were marching forward, Prussia once again declared war on Austria and entered the Czech Republic.

What seemed like a big deal in the Netherlands at first turned into a quagmire in an instant.

Prussia invades Prague again.

The Allied Forces of the State Edict, which had originally launched a comprehensive counterattack against France, was instantly passive.The Austrian troops quickly retreated, directly opening the flanks of the Anglo-Dutch forces stationed in the Austrian Netherlands.

Then, the French army began to counterattack and invaded the Austrian Netherlands. In the Battle of Fontenoy, the Anglo-Dutch coalition forces were defeated.

The passion of the enthusiastic Dutch people gradually faded away.With such a big danger in sight, is it really necessary to fight the French to the end, flood Amsterdam with water instead of soldiers, and prevent being killed by others by committing suicide?
The shock of the bad news of the Battle of Fontenoy had only recently passed.

On April 4, the turmoil of the Battle of Fontenoy had begun to ferment in Amsterdam.

The Dashun envoy in The Hague suddenly submitted a letter of war to the inter-provincial consul: In view of the fact that the Netherlands rejected the exploration and cooperation trade, which made the Emperor insulted, Dashun officially declared war on the Dutch East India Company, and planned to completely eliminate the Dutch power from the Dutch East India Company. Southeast Asia drove away.

Because William IV dared not live in Amsterdam, which was still a province under the rule of financial capital and oligarchs, he, the consul, could only go to The Hague.

Dashun's side has obviously planned for a long time, which is a bit too obvious: before Liu Yu came to Europe, Dashun had already made a policy of going to Nanyang, otherwise it would be impossible to submit the letter of war in April.

Then, on August 8, the first ship to bring news from Southeast Asia brought the news of the fall of Batavia, Colombo, Jaffna, Cirebon, and the destruction of the entire fleet of the Dutch East India Company. Back to Amsterdam.

Meanwhile, not so long ago, news came that France would support the minor Stuart pretender to return to Scotland, where his return was awaited.In the Lingdingyang incident, a battleship personally supported by the Marquis of Dashun for his family has also been built in France and officially delivered.

The United Kingdom immediately recalled its troops in the Austrian Netherlands, and at the same time informed the Netherlands through its ambassador that it must fulfill the "British-Dutch Mutual Defense Treaty" and asked the Netherlands to send 6000 troops to Scotland.Because according to the provisions of the treaty, if there is a threat to Protestantism in the United Kingdom, a threat to the rule of the British orthodox throne, or a third-party landing attack, the Netherlands must send troops.

Even if the Netherlands does not send troops, and Britain recalls the troops stationed in the Austrian Netherlands, the Netherlands will die.It was originally the Anglo-Dutch coalition forces, and the Battle of Fontenoy was defeated by the French.The Austrians were too busy fighting Prussia to help.

All of a sudden, it was all messed up.

Liu Yu grasped the key point of 45 years, and with the help of the contradictions of European countries, punched down this set of punches, which instantly made William IV of Orange fall into extreme passivity.It also put the Netherlands in an instant of desperation.

(End of this chapter)