William Hendrick recalled the public opinion during this period and was extremely satisfied with his operation results.

"From the late 16th century, the Netherlands established a global trade market with the rapid rise of the Dutch naval power, and accompanied by cultural exports.

This period is known as the Golden Age of the Netherlands.

However, in the four European maritime hegemony wars with Britain, the Netherlands had the tragic victory in the second and third game, while Britain won both sides.

It was found that the French Empire helped Britain's own fisherman to benefit, and after defeating the Netherlands on land, he gained the dominant position on land.

On the contrary, the loser's overseas colonies began to shrink, leaving only the Dutch East India and Aruba in the Caribbean.

In addition, there are the Netherlands Antilles Islands and Suriname in South America.

Especially after the Duchy of Belgium was supported by the British Empire, it became independent in 1830.

The influence and strength of the Kingdom of Dutch in Europe were declining sharply.

Your Majesty, I wonder how you will lead our entire Netherlands to move forward in the face of such a Dutch dilemma?"

The Netherlands, Amsterdam, the palace.

January 6, 1862.

The 21-year-old new king William Hendrick had his first conversation with Prime Minister John Rudolph Thorbeck, who also started his new term.

Thorbeck was very curious about Hendrick.

This last month, the eldest son of former King William III, who was the crown prince.

Prince Orange, who was once famous for his literary masterpieces in Europe and made the whole of the Netherlands feel shining on his face, has now appeared in front of everyone as the King of the Netherlands. What kind of situation will this be? Where will he lead the Netherlands?

However, Prime Minister Thorbeck's problem made William IV beat him up.

He said: "If we want to solve the dilemma that the Netherlands is facing now, we must first understand the impact of the Vienna system established by the Vienna Agreement and its establishment in 1815."

Upon hearing this, Tolbek nodded secretly, "Yes, this is the most basic source of the current European pattern and the most recognized signing system for the territories of various countries."

Hendrick continued: "Only by formally confirming the status pattern of the new balance of power system formed by European countries after defeating Napoleon I and defeating the four countries of the United Kingdom, Russia, Russia, and Austria, we can prescribe the right medicine.

However, France in the south wisely used a series of small moves to completely integrate into the top four in Europe, but the situation in Europe became a little different.

It joined this system in 1818 to prevent being isolated by various countries and become the fifth party in fact co-managed by continental Europe.

This meeting also officially declared the status of the Netherlands, and it has completely become the de facto second-class European country. After all, it is not even qualified to be at the negotiating table, so how can you dare to be a great power?

"The Vienna Conference confirmed the restoration of the Bourbon rule over the French Empire and Spain and the two Sicilian kingdoms, the Braganza rule over Portugal, and the dominance of our Nassau dynasty over the Netherlands."

"Austria conquered Galicia Tyrol, Istria, etc., and it turned out that the Austrian Netherlands had assigned us the Netherlands, and the first Venice in Italy in Lomba was used as compensation to Austria.

Most of the Duchy of Warsaw established the Kingdom of Poland, with the Tsar of the Russian Empire serving as king.

Krakow and its neighboring areas established the Free City of Krakow, which is jointly managed by the Russian and Opp.

It was also confirmed that the Tsarist Russian Empire defeated Finland captured by Sweden in 1809 and became the principality of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and Bisarabia was also owned by Tsarist Russian.

Prussia occupied Danze and Posen, the Principality of Poland, and obtained two-thirds of the territory of the Saxony Kingdom.

Rhine is Bavaria and Pomerania, which originally belonged to Sweden, as compensation for the loss of Poland.

The British Empire occupied the Mediterranean Islands Malta and the Ionian Islands, and from Denmark, Dalehe Helgoran, Dutch Ceylon, Cape of Good Hope, Guyana, French Saint Lucia, Tobago, Seychelles and Mauritius.

This system formally established the split state between the Confederacy of Germany and the Kingdom of Sardinia (later predecessor of Italy).

The German Confederacy was established with 34 monarchies, principalities, and 4 free cities, including Prussia and Austria, forming the German Confederacy, and establishing the Confederacy Parliament as the presidency of Austria, in Vienna.

The Tuscany, Modena/Palma and other principalities of the Kingdom of Sardinia were assigned to the Austrian Habsburg royal territories, and Genoa, Sawa and Nice were incorporated into the Sardinian dynasty.

The Austrian Netherlands was incorporated into the Netherlands, known as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Norway and Norway were incorporated into Sweden, forming the Swedish-Norwegian Alliance, and Denmark obtained Schleswig, Holstein and Raunfort in Prussia.

And according to the First Peace of Paris and the Second Peace of Paris in 1815, France maintained its borders in 1790 and paid 700 million francs of war compensation to the anti-French alliance, and the allies were stationed for three to five years.

However, the French were extremely cunning. They had quickly become a group of countries from defeated countries, especially using the British to prevent the emergence of overlord countries in the continental region. They were afraid of threatening Britain's offshore balancer mentality, and soon my family recovered their vitality."

Hendrick sighed: "It's a pity that the British are too cunning and will dig holes for people. When they gave us the Netherlands, they took it away in another way 20 years later, and became what Belgium is now.

But Britain has actually obtained overseas territories from our countries. Unfortunately, our Ceylon Island (Sri Lanka), Cape of Good Hope and Guyana, how fertile land is, it is gone.

Especially Ceylon Island, it is the largest bridgehead for entering the Indian subcontinent and the largest island in the northern Indian Ocean. It guards the east-west sea direction of the Indian subcontinent, but now it has become a colony that the British Empire wants to dominate India."

Thorbek secretly agreed with Hendrick's analysis and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think about the Netherlands? Or, how do we need to cooperate with you to manage it?"

Hendrick knew there was something in Thorbeck's words.

Tolbek: He coached with the University of Ghent, Netherlands in 1825, was successfully elected as a member of parliament since 1840, and was recognized as the chairman of the Dutch liberals that year.

In 1844, he jointly proposed to amend the Dutch constitution with eight other liberal members, but was blocked by conservative MPs and was not approved.

In 1848, he presided over the amendment of the Constitution, restricted the king's rights, expanded the power of the parliament, and was approved.

He was elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1849 (the Speaker of the House of Representatives is the Prime Minister of the Cabinet) and the Prime Minister of the Interior. Unfortunately, he was forced to resign shortly afterwards because of the issue of zongsi. Last year, he was elected as the second representative of the liberals.

In the campaign, the law of navigation was formulated, free trade was promoted, and the colonial slavery was abolished, but the forced cultivation system was still retained. The prime minister's seat was snatched away by others during the first cabinet period, but it began its third term in 1872 and died of illness that year...

His father William III originally wanted to make a big splash, but because the other party was quarreling all day long to restrict the royal power, he was in a big fight.

Even Hendrick, no, it should be said that William IV is right now. William IV even suspected that when Thorbeck first stepped down, William III might have participated. However, this time Thorbeck's return was to exchange the former monarch and ministers, and chose the situation where the ministers did not see the king and the king did not see the king for a long time.

William IV looked at Tolbek with deep eyes: "Although our action this time is secret, my Prime Minister should know that even if it is wrapped, the paper still cannot be kept in the fire. Sooner or later, it will be leaked. Therefore, we need to quickly consolidate our position and you in order to face all the changes that will occur in the future."

"I am almost finished building a cabinet, but your Majesty, I will sing a counter-topic to your reputation..."

"No, don't forget. After several years, the Dutch newspapers are under my control. I have controlled the public opinion in the Netherlands. The change of wind direction is what I like. However, the main thing I need to face is the problem of my father William III. Therefore, your existence needs to continue to allow my father to continue to stay in Luxembourg and not come back and let him be calm."

Thorbek lowered his head and sighed: Although the new king in front of him was young, he was decisive. He came to him five years ago, and finally convinced him to join his shadow team with a wise mouth and many promised benefits.

And from that point on, he received the first order, which was to lead the liberals to attack in the wild. Crown Prince Hendrick's father William III asked him to act like he was completely restricting the king's power.

For more than five years, although conservatives have tried their best to defend William III, as parliamentary power grows in Europe, the Netherlands cannot stop this trend.

Therefore, for their own interests, the conservatives could only slowly change their positions and finally formed the current Dutch management pattern.

With the large-scale amendment of the Dutch law in 1848, the Constitution stipulated that the Netherlands was a hereditary monarch to establish the kingdom, the legislative power belonged to the king and the parliament, the executive power belonged to the king and the cabinet, the Privy Council was the highest state consultation body, the chairman was the king himself, and other members were appointed by the king.

The Dutch Prime Minister is the head of the country's government and is appointed by the leader of the Dutch House of Representatives.

Last year, the liberal leader was Tolbek, so the Dutch military and political parliament is now in the hands of King William IV and Tolbek, who are in this room. Many people outside do not know that, even because the two will continue the evil struggle between the monarch and his ministers during the William III period, and the struggle for power and profit continued.

But they didn't know that their young William IV and the newly appointed Prime Minister Tolbek were already recasting the development of the Netherlands in the next few decades five years ago. They were already sharpening their knives and preparing to do a big move to revive the glory of Dutch history.

"Have the cabinet formulated a diplomatic development plan?"

"We are planning to make friends with Prussia in diplomacy, and at the same time cooperate with Belgium to maintain a mutual offensive and defensive alliance, but we are deepening our cooperation with France again."

William IV suddenly said: "As William III entered Luxembourg, Napoleon III repeatedly asked us to sell Luxembourg to him. My father William III was a little moved, but he did not sell it every time because of Prussia's obstruction. Will this make Napoleon III angry?"
Chapter completed!