Fox of France

The ambassador of the Netherlands to France first met with French Foreign Minister Talleyrand, and asked Talleyrand to test France's views on the Cape Colony. Talleyrand stated that France had always supported the just demands of the Netherlands. Prior to this, the Netherlands had made representations to the United Kingdom, demanding that Britain return the Cape Town colony, and France had always supported it. This attitude never changed. The Netherlands and France are allies who share weal and woe, and both sides have the responsibility and obligation to support each other.

Talleyrand's statement is actually saying that the Dutch can attack the British, and France can support him and give them the bottom line to ensure that the British cannot bombard Rotterdam with warships.

Of course, the British robbed Cape Town back then, but afterwards forced the Netherlands to sign the transaction treaty and paid a symbolic purchase fee. Later, after France won an undisputed victory, a revolution broke out in the Netherlands (of course, this was carried out under the manipulation of France, but the people of the Netherlands were also very supportive - because of the revolution, the Netherlands is France's The comrades-in-arms of the revolution are victorious countries, and they are tributary states like North Korea, not state-building tartars like Prussia and Austria.), the post-revolutionary Dutch government declared that the money that the British "purchased" Cape Town was for The traitorous treaty to sell Cape Town signed by the overthrown reactionary government which supported the suppression of the revolutionary people by the reactionary government is invalid and will not be recognized by the people of the Netherlands.

However, although they declared that they would not admit it, the Netherlands alone had nothing to do with the British. In fact, the Netherlands itself did not particularly care about taking back Cape Town. Even, if the British were willing to talk to them about the purchase of Cape Town at that time, the government of the Republic of the Netherlands would be very willing.

Of course, this is impossible, if the British really do this. The Netherlanders are famous for asking for money and shameless habits, so the Netherland will definitely let every ruling regime change, and it will be carried out in the form of "revolution", and then the new "revolutionary government" will immediately It will define the previous government as a "reactionary government", and then re-negotiate with the British to sell Cape Town again.

So of course the British rejected the Netherlands' request. After being rejected, the Netherlands basically didn't mention this matter for a long time. The reason is also simple, because Ming, ah, it should be that France did not plan to turn against Britain at that time, so the Netherlands, as an ally (tributary country), naturally could not create troubles by itself. But now, the French are trying to find trouble for the British, and all Europeans are watching.

Especially not long ago, His Majesty the Roman Emperor Napoleon delivered a speech on the economic situation in Europe at a meeting of the Senate of the Roman Empire. In this speech, His Majesty Napoleon pointed out: "Under the situation where the economic situation is still severe and the hope of recovery is still like a candle in the wind, maintaining and promoting the unified European market, and even the unified world market, is the guarantee to promote economic recovery. But sadly, some countries, out of selfish purposes, do things that harm others and endanger free trade. This is really hateful and sad.

Now on the English Channel, an iron curtain blocking free trade has come down. Behind this iron curtain are England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, as well as the wider North America, British Africa...and India. Hundreds of millions of people are blocked from free trade by this Iron Curtain.

We know that economic freedom determines political freedom. Without a free economy, there will be no free politics, and there will be no protection of basic human rights. So we see that on the other side of the Iron Curtain, on the one hand, there is a brutal and brutal oppression of various ethnic groups, and on the other hand, it is trampling on the freedom of the people of the same ethnic group.

Many years ago, people of insight in France pointed out that the security of a free country and the guarantee of freedom lie in the pursuit and maintenance of freedom for the entire world. Freedom and democracy cannot coexist with oppression and slavery. Just like Rome can never coexist with Carthage.

The Iron Curtain must be broken, and free trade must become the universal norm. It's like Carthage must be destroyed unconditionally..."

The speech sounded the clarion call against Britain. The British were naturally extremely dissatisfied with this, and they immediately protested to France. However, the French government said: "This is a matter of the Roman Empire. What is it about us in France? If you want to protest, you can go to the Roman Empire to protest."

However, Britain and the Roman Empire did not have formal diplomatic relations at all. Because it was not an ally of the Roman Empire. Outside the Roman Empire and its allies, there were barbarians. Naturally, the Roman Empire would not establish diplomatic relations with the barbarians. Therefore, the diplomatic protests of the British naturally could not be protested.

In this speech, Napoleon has clearly compared Britain to Carthage. Since ancient times, "Rome and Carthage are incompatible", France's determination to engage Britain has been very obvious. Now, as an ally of the Roman Empire, the Netherlands naturally understands that this is the time to take the initiative.

For the Dutch people to take the initiative to jump out when Rome needs it. Both Napoleon and Joseph appreciated it very much. In Napoleon's view, if he controlled Cape Town, he controlled the most important route between East and West:

"During the Seven Years' War, France lost the crucial India. Later, a series of financial problems in France were actually related to this loss. And Britain was able to make trouble on the entire European continent with a mere small island, to a large extent. In fact, it is also because they have India that allows them to suck blood at will. If we can control Cape Town, the route from Europe to India will be directly exposed under our noses. At the critical moment, we only need to not allow British ships to use The facility in Cape Town is enough to make it difficult for the British to suck blood from India. And if we station a fleet there, it would be a nightmare for the British.”

Joseph agreed with Napoleon's view with both hands. In addition to what Napoleon said, there is another extremely important reason, that is, there are gold mines in South Africa, and they are super large gold mines.

The Rand Gold Mine in South Africa is the largest gold mine in the world, with recoverable reserves of up to 53,000 tons. It accounts for more than half of the world's mineable gold reserves.

Gold is a natural currency. Relying on the two gold mines in America, the Bank of Rome is now issuing banknotes without blinking an eye. Because of this, when the economic crisis occurred in the whole of Europe, France, as the birthplace of the crisis, has the best economic situation today. . Of course, the French will not advertise that our economic situation is good because we have gold mines in our hands and can print money at will. Rather, it is claimed that it is because we have democracy, freedom and free trade.

"We want to organize an uprising in Cape Town. And let the rebel army quickly occupy Cape Town." Joseph said, "I remember that this matter should have been prepared long ago, and the Ministry of Peace should have several plans. Alright. Napoleon, ask someone to choose a few plans that are most suitable for the current situation, and let's study together."

Just when Napoleon and Joseph began to study the plans of the Ministry of Peace, the Spaniards also jumped out together with the Netherlands. Of course, their goal was the Fortress of Gibraltar, which he had always been obsessed with.