Xinshun 1730

Chapter 832 Sino-Dutch Friendship

"What happened in The Hague, exactly?"

The unbearable Anthony no longer wanted to say any diplomatic rhetoric, and asked in a very straightforward tone.After all, he had been the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and he still had to consider something for the Netherlands. If the Netherlands were to be dismembered into four provinces of the Orange faction and three provinces of the Parliamentary faction, and even a civil war between the Parliamentary faction and the Regency faction broke out at this juncture, Holland is completely over.

Now this kind of sign has emerged, this is the United Province, if we can't live together, then let's leave.

Facing Anthony's questioning, Kang Busha showed a good upbringing, and asked back with a look of astonishment: "For what? Of course it is for livelihood. The British blocked the fishing routes of those fishermen and expelled the Dutch fishing boats. Wouldn't it be right for them to fish for a living and ask their consuls to look to England for a diplomatic solution?"

Even if this incident happens, many people will know that this group of Chinese must be behind the instigation.But this kind of thing cannot be admitted.

What he said was quite reasonable, indeed, for the sake of livelihood.

But this answer is not what Anthony wants to know.

"Sir, you Chinese have got everything you want, everything you can want. Trade from Japan, spices from Southeast Asia, cinnamon from Ceylon, access to India...everything."

"The Netherlands can't be messed up now!"

Kang is not lazy but tit for tat.

"The Netherlands is in chaos now!"

"At this time of national crisis, someone should stand up to save the Netherlands. William of Orange has proved that he is incapable of saving the Netherlands. At this time, someone with responsibility, foresight, and strength needs to stand up. Just like the Olympic As William of Lange drove us out, and declared war on France."

"As the former Great Speaker, you should stand up at this time! Just like those heroes in our history, when the whole country is in danger, you should take the initiative to stand up and take the world as your responsibility!"

Anthony, who was already angry when he heard this, sat down on the chair, his whole body seemed drained, and said helplessly: "The Dutch can't save the Netherlands. Only the Empress of Russia and the Bank of England can save the Netherlands."

A deep sense of powerlessness made him sober.Whether the French can retreat depends only on whether the Bank of England and British financiers continue to support the war, and only on when the Russian mercenaries can reach the Rhine.

The Netherlands itself is powerless to save the Netherlands itself, this sentence is wrong.

It should be said that the ruling class of the Netherlands is powerless to save the Netherlands.

There are also guild militias in the Netherlands, but if you want them to bleed, you must agree to their conditions: the heads of the guild militias in each city can only be elected by the citizens themselves, and refuse to obey the arrangements of the city regent and the provincial assembly.

The Dutch people still have some patriotic enthusiasm, but if you want them to bleed, you must agree to their conditions: abolish the tax system, reform the tax system, suppress the power of urban oligarchs, expand public expenditure, and increase inheritance and property taxes.

Therefore, the Netherlands does not lack organized armed forces and patriotic enthusiasm, at least not completely dissipated for the time being.

But organizing people to fight requires money.

Some people, their demands are definitely opposed by the rich, and that is digging their roots.

And if it’s really like this, what’s the deal?
When the emotions at the bottom are aroused, the gentlemen above their heads are often hung up first. Amsterdam was the first city in Europe to set up a large number of street lights.

Once the leaders of the guild militia are directly elected, cooperate with the demands of the people, and the anger at the bottom will evolve, the ruling class in the Netherlands knows clearly what will happen.

Facing Anthony's slump, Kang smiled and said, "I know what you are afraid of. Just like William of Orange, he never took the initiative to seek the position of consul because he was afraid of promises. So only in Prussia He dared to seize the consul's throne only after the news came that the people had withdrawn from the war."

"What you regents are worried about is nothing more than the current mess in the Netherlands. You can't clean it up. Whoever will be the speaker of the great parliament will end his political future. Are you really worried about the fate of the Netherlands? Europa countries still pay attention to 'immortality' at this time country, never cease to worship'."

"Obviously you are only worried about the future of your own faction, but you say that it is useless for anyone to stand up at this time. I think you have been deceiving yourself for too long."

Full of sarcasm, it didn't make Anthony angry.

Rather, it was from Kang Bushao's words that "William of Orange dared to become consul only when he knew that the Prussians had withdrawn from the war", and he had a keen sense of something.

He remained calm, and did not pretend to be angry, but thought quickly in his brain, why did Dashun do this?
It's just that he couldn't understand this truth.

The relationship between the Orange family and the United Kingdom made it necessary for Liu Yu to let the Netherlands push the Orange faction before the war of the Austrian succession.

As long as the Orange faction is still there, it is impossible for the Dutch armed forces to be neutral and to abolish the Anglo-Dutch alliance treaty.

William of Orange, not long to live.It's not that Liu Yu discriminates against the disabled, but the medical level of this era, it is doomed that a person who is born with a spinal disease and a bunch of recessive inheritance from the intermarriage of nobles will hardly live for too long.

If he is going to die, his wife is the eldest princess of England, and he is in power hereditary, so the regent consul must be his wife.

Will the eldest princess of England meet her father in battle and abolish the Anglo-Dutch alliance treaty?Moreover, the eldest princess is notoriously discriminating against Dutch culture.

She only wanted to be a queen, but she couldn't find a suitable one in a bunch of Protestant countries at that time, and she couldn't find someone from a Catholic country, so she married William IV, who she said "looks like a baboon", for Grabbed the right to claim the British throne for future generations, and went to the UK when she was falsely pregnant. The child must be born in the UK to have the line of succession.

Because there is a basic law of British succession to the throne.

Article [-] of the Basic Law clearly stipulates that anyone who marries a Roman Catholic shall be disqualified from inheritance in accordance with the circumstances stipulated and confirmed in the preceding decree.

And the third article clearly stipulates that no one born in England, Scotland or Ireland has the right to inherit.

It is inconceivable that such a woman who is so devoted to thinking about the aristocrat's declaring thoughts can expect her to be able to do such a great cause as the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War.

A woman whose mind is obviously stopped in the Middle Ages is not suitable for doing great things in the turbulent era in Europe.

Moreover, the basic base of the Orange family is the "reactionary" faction in the Netherlands.The guilds, small peasants, and nobles, they envisioned the Netherlands as returning to the anti-epochal thinking of the rule of three generations, and returning to the late Middle Ages.

What Dashun wants to cooperate with is the Dutch big bourgeoisie, big financiers, and big merchants, who want to destroy all the remnants of the Middle Ages.

Compared with those "reactionary" factions, they are not the opposite progressives, but conservatives - this kind of power is considered progressive in Dashun; in the present Netherlands, they are conservatives; in the Netherlands 100 years later, 48 years , is a reactionary.

The social base is different, and the identity is also different.

The Netherlands now has only these two forces on the table, and the progressives in this sense have no influence at all.

The basic background of the Orange family meant that Dashun could only choose the Regent faction whose basic background was financiers and big businessmen.

Moreover, looking at the whole of Europe, the Netherlands is the only country where the handicraft industry has died.

That being the case, it would have no choice but to get a Holland to die.

Anthony can't understand the logic of industrial capital and commercial capital that Liu Yu and his group think about problems, and they don't have the correct three views to recognize the truth of the world. Naturally, they can't imagine what kind of purpose Dashun is here for. Three times Twice, I did some things in the Netherlands that seemed to be idle, pushed up and pulled down.

But now, he probably heard Kang Bushao's hint.

The current situation is very similar to the situation when the Orange faction came to power: the faction leaders did not want to take responsibility, but the external environment made them profitable.

It was Frederick the Great of Prussia who could push the Orange faction to power and withdraw from the war.

The one who can push the Regency to power can only be France giving up its occupation of the Netherlands.

As for the death of a dozen people in The Hague, that's a trivial matter.

The people in Dashun can only ride the tide of the times, but they cannot have the mighty power to create the tide.

Did the people in Dashun get some inside information from France?France knows that the Russian army is about to enter the war, so it is going to retreat?

Anthony thought about it, and asked cautiously: "Even if someone stood up at this time, assumed the responsibility, and fulfilled the patriotic obligation. However, it only saved the dying state, and many problems still cannot be solved."

"What about the future? Where is the future of the Netherlands?"

"I could still make do with it, but the East India Company was bankrupted by your country. Do you know that the East India Company has more than 2 employees, more than 1 hired soldiers, sailors, and store employees. And it is closely related Spices, flowers, trade, ports, banks, re-exports, private ships, transportation and other industries, add up to nearly 20 people who directly or indirectly depend on the East India Company for their lives. And women do not work, if they are human , at least 50 Dutch people were affected by the bankruptcy of the East India Company.”

"The Netherlands, a small country. The 50 people in the Netherlands are equivalent to 1000 million or even 2000 million people in your country. As you can imagine, the two provinces of your country have suffered major disasters, and they are still irrecoverable. For example, the land has completely become Can such disasters continue to be planted in the desert instead of next year, will it have an impact on your country?"

Kang Buxin said that what you said is serious. The 50 people can be up to [-] to [-], which really has a serious impact.The rest, that is, affected by some, the income is reduced.

Anthony said again: "Even if the temporary crisis is resolved, the impact of the subsequent series of events will still be the crisis of the rulers. I don't think anyone in the Netherlands can solve these problems."

"You may be right. All factions don't want to stand up at this time, worrying about their own political future. Including William of the Orange family, who is already sitting on the throne, must be like ants on the pot."

"Perhaps, the ancient wisdom of China can point out a bright future for the Netherlands? Sir, do you have any opinions or ideas?"

(End of this chapter)