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October 15, 1865.

On the most coveted beach of Biarritz in the Atlantic Ocean of the French Empire, a guest was attracted - Bismarck, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia.

The Prussian Prime Minister held a second meeting there with the French Emperor Napoleon III on behalf of William I.

The last time it was held was in October 1864. A year later, this time it was also in October.

During the meeting, the two sides did not sign any agreement, but Bismarck got what he wanted from Napoleon III.

But the outside world didn't know that this short meeting, which didn't seem to have any agreement signed, was the weirdest thing.

William IV was staring at this scene like the eyes of God. He knew that the end of this meeting meant that Austria, which was staring at the Balkan Peninsula, would suffer.

And Joseph I, who blindly and confidently thought that he was helping Britain in the Balkans, didn't know that he had been plotted against.

"Napoleon III wouldn't have thought that he would be killed. Because of this meeting, his empire was quickly defeated.

Even ridiculed as the Biarritz meeting, it was a private meeting where the empire secretly handed over the empire's position.

On October 20, 1865, the Ottoman Empire opened fire with the Russian Imperial Army in Bulgaria.

Later, the Austrian Empire also participated, and the British even landed at sea after shelling the places occupied by the Russian Empire.

The Tsarist Russian army was suppressed for a time, and was even driven out of Varna, the occupied territory of Bulgaria. Under the pursuit of the three countries, it retreated to Romania, which was heavily defended.

This battle lasted for five days, and each of the three countries suffered losses.

The three-power alliance, the Ottoman Empire, dispatched 50,000 people, the Austrian Empire 30,000 people, and the British 20,000 people.

The Ottoman Empire suffered 18,000 casualties, the Austrian Empire 12,000, and the British 6,000.

The 60,000 troops of the Tsarist Empire suffered 41,000 casualties.

During the entire war, 160,000 people were invested in the Bulgarian battle, with more than 77,000 casualties, nearly half of which were casualties.

It can be called the largest casualty since the Balkan Peninsula.

As a result, military supplies from various countries began to flow there quickly through three routes including sea, land and rivers, in preparation for the next war.

The Balkans were suddenly filled with dark clouds. The other small principalities were trembling, afraid of getting angry.

October 26, 1865.

William III of the Kingdom of Greece announced that the Kingdom of Greece does not favor any party among the countries. He expressed the hope that all countries will put aside their prejudices, restore peace and stability in the Balkan Peninsula, and reduce unnecessary casualties.

Immediately following was Italy's Emmanuel II. He also announced that Italy would not take a position, but asked the Russian Empire to calm down. At the same time, he stated that Italy would not send a single soldier to participate in the Balkan Peninsula war unless Italy's interests were affected. Will only consider the loss.

As these two countries in the eastern Mediterranean announced their independent rights, other European countries also began to express their positions.

The Netherlands has also declared neutrality, but will continue to pay attention to the Netherlands' interests there and calls on all countries to protect the interests of countries other than the Netherlands, including the Netherlands, that are not involved in the war.

However, Prussia's stance was rather ambiguous.

Because the country stated that Prussia was very serious about safeguarding national interests and would not let go of any opportunity that was beneficial to Prussia.

What kind of statement would this be?

This made all countries wary, especially many small countries within the German Confederation Empire. They were worried that Prussia would take advantage of the fact that Austria of the German Empire was participating in the war in the Balkans and would choose to directly invade other small countries like it did with the Kingdom of Hanover. .

In fact, they are right to worry.

On November 1, 1865, when the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced the establishment of the International Women's League in The Hague, and its first director-general was Queen Alexandra of the Netherlands, there was a sensation in all countries.

Especially after seeing the purpose of the organization, More History captured the hearts of a large number of women in various countries, and they all expressed their approval.

The Northern Confederate States of America even held more than 1 million women's street demonstrations for this purpose, demanding that the Confederate States join this organization immediately.

Naturally, the Lincoln administration would not object.

So on November 1, it was announced that the Commonwealth of America would become the second member state of the organization.

Later, the Kingdom of Greece also announced that it would join the organization and recognize the status of the International Women's Union.

Later the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Denmark joined.

Major institutions are where small countries can speak, so Belgium also chose to join.

The Principality of Württemberg, the Principality of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of Bavaria, and a series of other German Confederation countries also chose to join.

In addition, the French Empire, known as the Holy Land of European Thought, also announced.

However, in order to prevent the Netherlands from using his identity as the founder of this organization to influence women in France, Napoleon III announced the establishment of his own domestic women's branch, which was still nominally affiliated with the International Women's League.

Seeing this, other countries followed suit, obviously reducing the influence of the Netherlands.

At this time, the United Kingdom naturally chose to join the organization.

Surprisingly, the director-general of the British branch was just about to marry the crown prince of the Kingdom of Hanover when the Kingdom of Hanover was destroyed.

And because of parliamentary opposition, she failed to marry the Crown Prince of Hanover, who was exiled in England, so Princess Alice is now free again.

Many people in the Netherlands even joked that because Princess Alice once expressed her approval of William IV, but in the end the Anglo-Dutch marriage failed, now when facing Alexandra from Denmark, a rival who intercepted her love and marriage, the latter As the director-general of the International Women's Union, she defeated Princess Alice once again as the director of Alice's British branch.

Princess Alice therefore became a model of lose-lose love and career.

This topic has become more and more intense and has become a joke among the people of the two countries.

In the end, the British and Dutch governments, as well as their respective royal families behind them, had to step forward to stop it before it was able to calm down.

But because of this, the hostility between the two countries seems to have begun to condense.

This was an unexpected surprise for William IV.

But soon, he no longer had the energy to think about it.

Because the statistics team of the Netherlands Ministry of Interior sent him a report, which made him happy for a long time.

It turns out that during the international wars in the past few years, the Netherlands has received a total of more than 800,000 international immigrants. These people were all affected by the war and are now assigned to the Far East by the Dutch Far East."

Most of them are Dutch from the American Commonwealth, with more than 300,000 people, 200,000 Irish, 50,000 Russians, more than 100,000 Germans, and the rest are French, Italians and Latin Americans.

Seeing this, William IV was very happy.

This is international immigration!

The reason why America has remained strong and prosperous for so long in the previous life is that international immigrants continued to join their country, which not only brought demographic dividends, but also brought the latest technologies from various countries.

In the future, the Dutch will develop into a "first-line lead" plan to gather global talents in Madagascar-Australia-East India in the Far East, and finally enter the most critical talent link.

"As long as the population is large enough and the quality is high enough, then do we still need to worry about the rise of the Netherlands?"