According to the results of the latest Belgian intelligence assessment provided by the British Empire, France is assisting the construction of local troops in Mons, the southern Medal-speaking district of Belgium, in the town of Carnion, southwest of Mons. Because the British intelligence agency found it was wearing a large number of French guns and uniforms provided by France, which were military supplies used by the French regular army to train and perform tasks, because the evidence was conclusive.

In fact, the Belgium region not only has various forces infighting, but also a field of game between major Western European powers. Since the Vienna Conference in 1815, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and even Prussia and Austria have been very interested in the Dutch of Belgium, which belonged to the Kingdom of the Netherlands at that time.

In particular, the principality has always been the connection and intersection of Catholicism and Protestantism in Christianity in central coastal areas of Western Europe. It has become the isolation buffer zone between the two major denominations of the north and the south, and the forefront of confrontation with faiths such as the Netherlands Prussia and France and Austria.

Since becoming the territory of the Netherlands in 1815, until 1830, the Netherlands has been troubled by the difficulty of resolving the historical grievances within the public. The Netherlands itself is a country where Protestantism has absolutely the upper hand. Therefore, the French-speaking region in the south was also forced to surrender to the Dutch rule due to the Vienna Agreement and the situation where Napoleon I was just defeated in the war and was defeated by the Dutch.

It is precisely because of this that the central point of Brussels became the most chaotic place in Belgium. British Prime Minister Palmerston, a newborn calf, was not afraid of tigers. It was in this situation that he used the philosophy of balanced power diplomacy, combined with both vertical and horizontal forces, and finally integrated the opinions of several parties, making Leopold, the leader of the Saxony Coburg Gotha family at that time, the king of Belgium, and Leopold was also the fiancé of the newly-dead crown prince in Britain. Moreover, after his fiancée passed away, Victoria, who inherited the British throne, was his niece.

This has led to close concerns between Britain and Belgium. It is even more conducive to the newly established Belgium to restrain the Netherlands that lost its territory and the ambitious France...

It is precisely because of this relationship that although the population in Belgium is distributed by the Netherlands and France, the two tribes in Belgium dare not provoke the Belgian throne at will, for fear of arousing dissatisfaction among the British.

In the past, the Queen of England would send royal members to Brussels regularly every year to show that she would not change her original intention to support Belgium.

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Even in the face of Belgium's sometimes enforced domestic suppression policies, the British government has taken high light and light, which shows that for the UK, Belgium's national interests are still far more convincing than superficial fairness and justice.

However, for a long time, the UK has sold a large amount of guns to Brussels on the grounds that Belgium needs to strengthen national control, which is because Belgium is more peaceful and stable. Therefore, both French and Dutch people in Belgium are helpless about Brussels and the UK's approach.

France and the Netherlands were not willing to offend Britain in the past, so they chose to pretend not to know or turn a blind eye.

However, as the surging situation within Belgium has become increasingly intense in recent years, the two major ethnic groups within Belgium have begun to be unwilling to be completely subject to the oppressive rule of Brussels, so their minds have become active.

Various associations have been established, such as the Dutch-speaking alliance development association, which is a solution to assist the Dutch in solving various conflicts in Belgium. It has achieved remarkable results in recent years and is well-known in the Dutch-speaking circle.

There is also the Dutch Belgian General Chamber of Commerce, a commercial club-style alliance conference established by top Belgian Dutch merchants.

His members include capitalists with a proportion of more than 80% of the Dutch.

The influence is terrifying and has the function of influencing almost every Dutch and even Belgian.

The third is the Dutch self-rescue alliance that rose rapidly in 1859, which mainly specializes in protecting the rights and interests of Dutch people in Belgium.

The fourth is the Belgian Firearms Association, a paramilitary armed organization that sells more than 70% of Belgium's firearms.

Whether it is the French-speaking circle or the Dutch-speaking area in the south, they love and hate this organization. It was founded in 1858 and occupied a huge share of Belgium in just four years. Even the Belgian royal family is said to have become jealous of it.

Some nobles even had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the situation, but in the end they chose to give up this kind of idea because the alliance was too strange and mysterious. Even though Leopold I knew something about it, he forced the other party to gain support from various internal forces in Belgium, so he chose to turn a blind eye.

Similarly, in France, what happened in the northern Dutch-speaking area was also followed in the south, turning its attention to France in the south, and no firearm alliance was established. However, Napoleon III of France swept his pen, and a large number of light weapons such as French-made rifles and revolvers were quickly reached the hands of French-speaking people.

Especially recently, the situation in Belgium is unpredictable, and with the intentional promotion of Napoleon III, people from the French-speaking areas have sought assistance from the garrisons in the northwest of France. In the first two months of this year, France delivered a number of batches of guns to them. Due to the long-term cooperation between the two sides, France even began to assist French-speaking areas in the French-speaking areas to make their own guns, in order to deal with the threat that the Dutch-speaking areas have long been built and completed the production chain.

However, it is precisely because of this that the huge movements between the two sides seem to have attracted the dissatisfaction of Brussels. Brussels is preparing to sanction people in these two spoken regions. It can be seen that Brussels has discovered the seriousness of the problem, especially British intelligence shows that France openly chose to support the French in the south. It completely angered Leopold I, so although he did not directly choose to confront France and the Netherlands behind the two spoken regions, he used this election as a medium to teach them a lesson, especially after notifying Queen Victoria and receiving a positive support reply, he became more confident.

What worries him was that compared with the French-speaking Napoleon III's increasingly open and upright nature, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was very low-key in terms of military support. However, the Kingdom of the Netherlands had exceeded Leopold I's bottom line in cooperation with local governments. Without the approval of the goods, it had reached an agreement between local and Dutch economic agreements privately and selfishly, and was already touching the authority of his king in Belgium. This was a great impact for their royal family. If one is not handled well, it is likely to reduce the prestige of the royal family and even marginalization. At that time, the Belgian royal family will completely sweep into the garbage dump of history.

He wanted to directly send troops to suppress these northern local governments, but was afraid of causing greater riots. He even imagined whether William IV of the Netherlands would be looking at him with a sarcastic joke, and murmured with a whisper: "Come on, come and turn them up and torture them and ask them."

Shaking his head, Leopold I threw away this hateful thought. At the same time, he felt worried.

Although the British are now so powerful that European countries dare not offend Britain easily, it seems that Britain has completely settled in the position of first maritime hegemony, but who was Leopold I?

His achievements are also extremely brilliant!

Born in 790, he is now 72 years old. He has experienced countless changes in Europe. Even a big man like Napoleon I can fight without any pressure when he was young.

The reason was that when he was 16 years old, Napoleon I admired his title of genius strategist, so he invited him to become his marshal,

Unfortunately, he refused because his father ruled the Duchy of Saxony, Coburg, Gotha when he was 15 years old, and after he inherited the Duke in the same year, he directly refused the invitation.

The situation in Britain today is not better than that in France during the Napoleon period. At least in terms of strength, Britain only has the advantage at sea.

Napoleon I was dominating the European continent in an all-round way, although he was defeated by the defeat of the Tsarist Russia and Moscow, and was defeated in a total way, and was finally liquidated by various countries.

But it is undeniable that Napoleon I achieved the ability to overturn countries in Europe.

With the rapid development of Britain in the European continent due to the rapid development of various countries in recent years, especially the rise of Prussia, the influence of the German state in Hannover and Saxony has dropped sharply. Moreover, since this year, after the opening of the Suez Canal, Britain has devoted its energy to the Indian Ocean. It is not an exaggeration to the British navy, and the tonnage of the entire fleet is even more than one-quarter of the second-ranked France 190,000 tons.

But this is obvious. Which country does not have a trump card to hide?

As the relationship between the King of Belgium and Queen Victoria's uncle, Leopold I, the closest continental ally of Britain, had already begun to increase. It was not the 230,000 tons announced by the Amsterdam Security Index Association, but reached 1.5 times that of France, about 280,000 tons, especially on the steam iron armored battleship, not one or two announced, but the terrifying four ships, twice that of France.

However, the tonnage has increased, but with the expansion of overseas colonies, Britain originally had only three major fleets, but now it has expanded to the scale of five major fleets.

There are only two major fleets in the Atlantic Ocean, namely the local fleet and the Atlantic Ocean fleet stationed in Canada.

In addition, it is the Mediterranean Fleet stationed in the Mediterranean, as well as the Indian Ocean Fleet of colonial India and the Australian Fleet of Sydney.

On average, except for the local fleet of 80,000 tons, the tonnage of each of the other four fleets is controlled at about 50,000 tons.

It seems that its power is not diminished, but because of the distance between them, if a naval battle starts, will it be defeated by everyone?

Leopold I didn't know if those British people had ever thought about this. Perhaps in the hearts of the extremely arrogant British, no one dared to attack them.
Chapter completed!