British Empire, London, Buckingham Palace.

Prime Minister Disraeli said: "The Netherlands has completely occupied the southern advantage in the Indian Ocean, and it is a real challenge to British hegemony in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, I think the British Empire has to guard against it, so in this regard, Crown Prince Edward Your Highness's worries are worth paying attention to."

Queen Victoria said angrily: "His worry is more about how to deal with William IV, a rival in love, I don't understand, what's so good about Alexandra, so many men turn around her, now tense Five or six years later, Edward still hasn't forgotten her and is still jealous of her."

After a moment of embarrassment, Disraeli said: "At present, this Queen Alexandra is said to have been pregnant for another two months, married to William IV for six years, and has given birth to a prince and a princess, Now the third child has become the focus of the Dutch nationals."

Queen Victoria: 'It is normal to marry and have children'

Disraeli: "The strange thing is that William IV's trust in her has reached extremely high"

Queen Victoria: "?"

Disraeli: "The International Women's League, founded a few years ago and known all over the world, that His Majesty William IV directly has Alexandra to manage this international organization, this is a sensation all over the world, and strange thing, Alexandra Queen La is actually well-organized, and women from all over the world even love the queen even more than the female celebrities in their own countries.”

Taking a deep breath, Disraeli sighed to the darkened Queen Victoria: "Now in the British Empire. Many women worship Queen Alexandra. It is said that even Alice co-owner, now Agai The Duchess of Earl, and a follower of Queen Alexandra."

He raised his head, "It was rumored before that Princess Alice and Alexandra were both fans of William IV, and the two were jealous over this. In the end, after Queen Alexandra won, Princess Alice was still so admired, It can be seen how charming Queen Alexandra is, and I think it is worthy of Her Majesty's attention on this point."

Queen Victoria was in a very bad mood when she heard the words, but she did not refute it.

The second daughter, Alice, was full of affection for William IV. At the beginning, she was optimistic about using Alice to form an Anglo-Dutch marriage with William IV, and even planned to use Alice to win over the Netherlands and become her uncle Leopold I. Belgium formed the British satellite-star state in Western Europe to safeguard British interests on the European continent.

But things backfired, and the marriage failed in the end. William IV actually chose the daughter of Christian IX of the small country of Denmark. Even the always smart she is very puzzled by such a choice.

After that, the Netherlands began to form a three-nation alliance with France and Prussia, which greatly disappointed her. The colony formed by the three countries in Africa was even more shocking to the United Kingdom, and even the voices of protest had to be kept quiet.

She watched helplessly as the colonies originally favored by the United Kingdom were plundered by the Three Kingdoms in a short period of time, and instantly led the European countries to colonize Africa, which made her original plan to slowly encroach on the United Kingdom wasted.

Facing the three countries, Britain finally chose to follow the trend, and Africa was divided up like this.

Later, on the issue of South Africa, the tripartite alliance secretly supported the Boers, causing the British to suffer heavy losses, and at the same time, they lost all face. The British maritime hegemony seems to be unaffected, but in fact its influence has dropped a lot.

In the end, in order to reduce the losses and keep South Africa, Queen Victoria had to sell the Australian mainland at a high price with the lowest stop loss method in exchange for the Boers to leave South Africa completely, which successfully ended the British challenge in South Africa.

Everyone in the world knows that Britain is the most powerful country in the world. Her queen is the most powerful and influential king. She envy the world, but who knows that she is just a middle-aged widow with seven or eight children. She is just the daughter of her deceased husband who is struggling to maintain British rule. She doesn't want to intrigue every day, and she just wants to have fun with her grandson, but it's not up to you.

Thinking of her eldest son, Crown Prince Edward, setting up a potential strong enemy for a woman every day, she couldn't help but have a headache.

As for William IV of the Netherlands, she actually had a set of plans. After the original marriage was overwhelmed, she even thought of supporting the Netherlands to squeeze the strategic space between France and Prussia, which she had previously supported.

Edward and even Disraeli would not know that she and the former Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston had already made up their minds that Britain would support the Netherlands to build a wall between Prussia and France in Western Europe. In fact, only Russell, the former leader of the Tory Party and the current British Foreign Secretary, knows that she has retreated step by step. In fact, this is her method of advancing by retreating.

Make the Netherlands strong, break the alliance between France and Prussia, and make a gap between Prussia and the Netherlands. It is better for the three countries to fight for the hegemony of Central and Western Europe, that is even better. The role of the Netherlands and Belgium is the first guardrail for the United Kingdom to guard against France and Prussia. The planned France and Prussia are the second guardrail, and Austria-Hungary and Italy are the third guardrail for the United Kingdom. Even if Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the Persian Empire are counted, the Russian Empire, the largest power in Eurasia, was completely surrounded.

Coupled with the Japanese-Ben country that the UK is currently opening its door to, the most potential country of the Tsarist Russian Empire is surrounded.

However, she and the Viscount Palmerston had a lot of calculations, but they did not expect that the Netherlands would develop so rapidly, challenge the British industrial and technological hegemony economically, and even become a strong enemy with the United Kingdom in terms of scale, and also compete for weapons sales. international market. And arms sales have never been a single kind of business. It also derives political and military dependence, which deepens the reliance and dependence of the buying country on the selling country.

With its high-quality weapons that are comparable to those of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands has led a large number of emerging powers and small and medium-sized countries to become dependent on the Netherlands. Small and medium-sized countries that are wary of the United Kingdom, France and other big countries have frequently proposed to the Netherlands. The desire to buy weapons- Hope, the Netherlands is also responsive, and the Netherlands even made alliances with Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador in South America in the early days.

After the support of the French Empire was reduced, and under the vision of the Netherlands to develop the Australian mainland and the island of New Guinea, Peru also fell to the Netherlands in the southeast of the Pacific Ocean, and almost half of South America allied with the Netherlands.

In the American Civil War, ethnic groups within the Commonwealth of Millikin fought for power and profits. The British with the largest population chose to go to the south of the United States to form the United States of America, and the Germans, formed by the second most populous German Confederacy, launched the annexation of the German Confederation out of Austria because of Prussia. In other countries outside the country, German immigrants in other German Confederations were disgusted with Prussians, and other ethnic groups were wary of Prussian ambitions. Finally, in the election of the Commonwealth of America, opposition to Prussians became the consensus of everyone. .

Originally, the third Irish-born would be the largest common denominator, but Lincoln was assassinated and killed, and Lincoln's cabinet government chose to get too close to Prussia because of its revolt against the Dutch who made up the majority of the capital in the United States. In the end, the Irish-born In order to ease relations with the Dutch, the Irish can only support the fourth population of the Dutch.

Immigrants to Sweden-Norway, Denmark, etc. also have a favorable impression of the Netherlands. Coupled with the Nordic alliance formed by the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden in Europe, the votes flowed to the Dutch.

This constitutes the biggest force in Dutch American politics under the careful calculations of big capitalists and these various ethnic groups.

If William IV was here, he might have told Queen Victoria that the Dutch he supported was developed by the various means used by Jews in the United States in the future. It's far from the end, it's just the beginning.

Queen Victoria thought of the situation in North America and was speechless.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, do you think it would be too abrupt to ease the relationship between the UK and the Netherlands at this time?" Queen Victoria said: "Let's not talk about Alice's affairs for the time being. , is also a good choice, you know, in fact, I also planned to let a princess marry in the mainland before, to increase the localization of the royal family, Alice is too kind child, Louis is more suitable, because she is aggressive enough"

Aggressive enough?

Disraeli suddenly realized, and Alice also understood that her character might not be effective in fighting for the right to speak to the royal family when she married, just like Queen Victoria's eldest daughter who married into the Kingdom of Prussia and became the Crown Prince of Frederick. Like Princess Victoria~lightnovelpub.net~ in Prussia, she is currently being crushed by Bismarck and William I, and cannot move.

Queen Victoria said: "Prince Frederick lives in the shadow of the Crown Prince William IV all the year round. It is said that he has some opinions on William IV, but he is favored by William III, so William III and Tolbek were not on the right track. At that time, he resolutely took Prince Frederick to Luxembourg, ready to become the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Prince Frederick will inherit this title in the future."

Disraeli nodded and said, "" After that, the vacancy in the Kingdom of Greece allowed the father and son of William III and William IV to see an opportunity. William IV is said to want to bring Luxembourg under his banner and increase his power, while William III wants to find a bigger position for his younger son to inherit. In the end, under the repeated operation of the two, the wish came true. "

Disraeli said to Queen Victoria: "Princess Louise is strong and smart. I have also heard that it is the clearest choice for Princess Louise to marry into Greece. If she can win over her opinion on William IV The future monarch of Greece, Crown Prince Frederick, is also a boon for the British Empire."

Queen Victoria shook her head, "It's just one of them"

Disraeli's eyes narrowed and he asked, "Does the Queen have any other ideas?"

Queen Victoria said ruthlessly: "The Netherlands is too strong at the moment. Don't you think the Nassau-Orange family is too strong? I think it's time to split up?"

Disraeli was surprised, and nodded sharply: "The queen is right, but the family is a bit over the top."

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