"No, because the Kingdom of Belgium is close to Britain. If we follow the pro-British, it will be a lot of pressure for France, and Prussia is the same. They will not deal with us too much. After all, although our naval power has been weakened over the years, Columbia is not comparable to that of Prussia. Although France is overwhelming, it is not a huge difference.

In addition to following the friendship between several countries, the new cabinet plans to continue as the friendliest country of the Tsarist Russian Empire in Western Europe, continue to maintain a partnership with the Tsarist Russian Empire, and promote trade between the two countries. After all, most of the gold of Tsarist Russia is now stored in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and continue to consolidate our best convenient access for Tsarist Russia to integrate into Europe."

Hendrick William IV nodded, "The Tsarist Russia line continues to hold on, but Sweden cannot relax too much, especially their iron ore, but"

"By the way, how many people do we have now and how many overseas colonies are there?"

Torbek was familiar with this, and he said: "The Netherlands is 5.75 million, the Dutch of Luxembourg 250,000, East India 10 million, Dutch Guiana (later known as Suriname) 40,000, and Antilles 20,000."

"How many Dutch people are there in the Dutch East India?"

"500,000"

"This is too little. 500,000 is in charge of 10 million? Can it be managed well and can it be controlled?"

William IV said seriously: "If the Netherlands wants to develop, it is destined to be unreliable to rely on others. Developing itself is the key to the principle. We need to get rid of the current restraints of the surrounding countries. We must find a place to develop quietly and vigorously, and need a good environment to develop to a certain extent.

And here, European countries have too many eyeliners, and every move is under the eyes of others. A little big move can attract the attention of all countries, so I decided to "

Thorbeck listened carefully, but he was a little curious. Obviously, the new king William IV has done his homework. So, it seems that what he heard next is the focus, and what just now is just the appetizer.

"We should focus on East India. The cabinet needs to quickly formulate immigration plans. I am ready to start immigration to East India, using the powerful strength of our fleet and transport fleets to strive to immigrate more than 100,000 people a year," he said.

"But your Majesty, even so, our population is a drop in the bucket and it is difficult to keep up with the growth rate of the indigenous population there."

"Isn't this simple?" In Tolbek's longing eyes, William IV said wisely: "Please all the native ethnic groups there to Kalimantan Island. Humph, Kalimantan Island is now managed by us and the British, and the French are even like being involved in it. It is very messy. In this way, we moved the indigenous people to the top to make trouble and make everyone go together, which can even attract the British's attention to New Guinea Island.

Aren’t the British competing for territory with us there?

We just let these indigenous people compete with their indigenous people, and the land was freed up for us immigrants. I plan to spend twenty years to alleviate the per capita land restrictions of the local population in the Netherlands. Immigration now has 2 million people to other islands in East India, so that they can become the territory for our immigrants to reclaim. In this way, we the Dutch have the final say in those places. In the future, they will directly call them overseas territory instead of colonies. Over time, it will be the hinterland of our rise and the key to our second counterattack after the attack on us by the continental powers.

With this as a support, we will focus on Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Nusha Tenggara Islands, and the Maluku Islands, and directly occupy the entire New Guinea Islands, using this as our base camp. The Solomon Islands and other Melanesian islands over there are the next area of ​​our expansion. We will use it as the most important support for the Netherlands in the future to participate in the European hegemony, and it is also the base for us to discover secretly. Unfortunately, the Micronesian Islands and the Philippine Islands in the north have been occupied by Spain, otherwise we can make great strides in the Pacific Ocean and carry out the island-circling strategy.”

When talking about Spain, he couldn't help but show a little fear in his eyes. Spain is not the second-rate European country in later generations. Although Spain is not as important as the five countries in Europe in terms of influence in Europe, it is second only to Britain and France in overseas colonies. Especially in the Caribbean and the Philippines, Spain is also heavily guarded, with its naval strength and 130,000 tons of naval strength, which is not something that can be covered.

William IV's eyes flashed: "The plan for New Guinea Island cannot be lost. It will also be the most important key to our weapons construction, especially the naval construction. This is an armored battleship ship. Don't send telegrams, be careful of being intercepted and leaked by other countries..."

Armored battleship ship?

Thorbek's heartbeats faster, why?

Now even the French Empire, which is known as the world's largest British Empire and the second largest French Empire, the United States and the United States have just served such warships. Originally, she heard that the Dutch naval officers kept envious of the luck of the three countries in the past. But now if the Netherlands can join this team in one fell swoop, it would be like a leap for the Netherlands to turn over the road. At the same time, Europe and the world will cause tsunami-level shocks. If there are enough, then...

William IV liked to see his subordinates' expressions very much, and he was very happy, but he did not forget to remind him: "Can I keep up?"

Thorbek suddenly returned to reality when he heard this, as if he had risen to mid-air and fell back to the ground, and said with a wry smile: "ruidian has the most steel exports, but the largest share was ordered first by Britain and Prussia. Ruidian also wanted to rely on such a relationship to check and balance the hostility of his old enemy Tsarist Russian Empire."

"That means it's hard for us to get enough steel to make enough warships?"

William IV frowned, but he forgot that this is not the era of steel flooding in later generations. He was crying and shouting everywhere to carry out national-level steel anti-dumping, and he disliked the fact that there were too many steel imports.

Now steel is a strategic material for various countries and is rarely exported easily, except for pure exporters like Ruidian.

Torbek also frowned, "Last year's coal production was 3.6 million tons in the Kingdom of Austria, 8.3 million tons in the French Empire, 18.4 million tons in the Kingdom of Prussia, 87.9 million tons in the British Empire, 300,000 tons in the Tsarist Russian Empire, and we were 1 million tons. However, according to His Majesty's information, we did find large coal mines in East India. If we enter the state soon, I believe that the supply of our coal mines will increase significantly this year.

Crude steel output: 36,000 tons of the Austrian Empire, 80,000 tons of the French Empire, 143,000 tons of the Prussian Empire, 334,000 tons of the British Empire, 7,000 tons of Tsarist Russia, 100,000 tons of Ruidi, and 30,000 tons of our Netherlands.

In terms of pig iron, the Austrian Kingdom was 403,000 tons, the French Empire was 1.178,000 tons, the Prussian Kingdom was 1.261,000 tons, the British Empire was terrifyingly high, the Tsarist Russia was 359,000 tons, the Italian Kingdom was 20,000 tons, the Ridian Kingdom was 800,000 tons, and the Netherlands was 500,000 tons. On the railway, Austria was 3,000 kilometers, France was 9,160 kilometers, Italy was 2,400 kilometers, Tsarist Russia was 1,626 kilometers, the Prussian Kingdom was 11,050 kilometers, the British Empire even reached 14,600 kilometers, and we were 300 kilometers."

Don’t say that you have no worries when traveling through time, this is a dilemma.

The size of the Netherlands' local land area determines the poverty of many resources to varying degrees, especially the steel that industrial development is most needed. Without it, how can it become an industrial power and a military power?

"How is the iron ore developed in Guyana?" William IV asked expectantly, there is more than 10 billion iron ore storage there. If it is developed, then the Netherlands will no longer worry about the iron ore issue. Unfortunately, Thorbeck's answer disappointed him slightly.

"The hidden is too deep, and it is not difficult to increase development, but it is impossible to solve our current dilemma for a while."

Upon hearing this, William IV was a little disappointed, but he comforted him: "Yes, it's better than nothing, hurry up and develop."

"How is the bearing company building?" This is his focus. He knew that because of the problems of major bearing production methods, including World War I and World War II, countries did not dare to arbitrarily impose sanctions and aggression on Ruidian, which accounts for 80% of the world's production share, because bearings are too important to industrialization. Under his leadership, the Netherlands naturally would not let go of such strategic industrial weapons, because it is related to industrial machines and the operation of various large weapons, from aircraft tanks, to small wheeled bicycle pulleys, they all need to be used.

"We have kept pace with Sweden and we have developed various bearings."

William IV nodded and said solemnly: "This cannot be relaxed. There is also the development of domestic machinery. We must keep up with the pace of other countries, and at the same time implement more secret projects and pursue leading other countries."

"Your Majesty, but the iron ore..." Thorbek smiled bitterly and wanted to ask again.

William IV waved his hand to stop him, his eyes were so sharp that he sneered and changed the subject: "After the Civil War in the United States, don't you think Europe has been too quiet recently?"

Thorbek looked at him in confusion, not understanding why he jumped so far.

After the 18th century, the United States developed along two different paths from the British Empire after Duli.

In the north, the capital zhuyi economy developed rapidly. From the 1820s, the industrial revolution began in the northern and central states, and by the 1850s, the industrial revolution was completed.

Last year, the northern states had an astonishing industrial output value of US$4,88 billion in the world.

(Exchange rate: 1 pound = 5 US dollars = 25 guilds, the northern United States has a population of 20 million, with an average annual population of US$90 and 18 pounds.

The UK GDP during the same period was 1 billion pounds, with a population of 20.1 million, with an average of 50 pounds per capita.

During the same period, the Netherlands had a population of 6 million, 6 billion guilds, US$1.2 billion, 240 million pounds, and an average of 40 pounds per capita.

The living standards of the Netherlands are the first to explore in Europe, which is the high quality of life that has been formed over the past few hundred years.)

In the south, the black slave system was implemented in the plantation, with black slaves in the south having a population of 4 million, while in the north, it had long abandoned this system and liberated black slaves, so the conflict between the two places deepened fiercely.

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