Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

On December 5, 1867, Senator Macri of the French Empire proposed to learn from the Netherlands and introduce an antitrust law. The bill was drafted by his partner, Senator Georges Edmund of Lyon, and its content drew on the experience of the Dutch antitrust law. Referring to the relevant report of the French Imperial Ministry of Finance, this draft believes that all business alliances are violations that hinder free competition.

As soon as this draft came out, people at the bottom of the entire French Empire thought it was a huge victory for them and a successful case of civilians challenging big entrepreneurs.

However, just when they were about to open the champagne to celebrate, the accident made them angry.

It turned out that the draft was weakly revised in the hands of the French Empire Senate Judiciary Committee. It did not propose specific punishment measures for the monopolistic behavior of trust organizations. It was of little significance to control and ban trusts. Not surprisingly, the Senate and the House of Representatives easily passed the bill.

Napoleon III did not expect that when he thought he could sleep peacefully, Paris would stage another large-scale demonstration.

In the end, Napoleon III and the financial backers behind him had to compromise again.

On December 10, 1867, the French Imperial Government officially followed the example of the Netherlands and established the French Antitrust Bureau to specifically supervise the monopoly behavior of large domestic companies.

European countries have also joined in.

Compared with the French Empire, they suffered less losses.

When President Lincoln and Seward, two giants of Irish and German descent, met secretly without telling the Dutch, they did not expect that they would be monitored and their conversation would soon fall into the far distance. In the ears of William IV of Europe.

William IV looked at the detailed conversation between President Lincoln and Seward in the intelligence. While he secretly supported the intelligence personnel lurking around them, he was also slightly disappointed with President Lincoln and felt sorry for Seward. Even more disgusted.

William IV looked at Dutch International Intelligence Director McKay Sean and Dutch Royal Intelligence Director Bill Charlie, and finally set his sights on Prime Minister Tolbeck and Foreign Minister Hesbert von.

"Everyone, what are your plans to deal with Lincoln and Seward, the secretaries of state of the Confederate States of America who are increasingly unfriendly to Dutch Americans?"

"Your Majesty, I think it is obvious that Secretary Seward is planning to use the remaining two years of President Lincoln's term to pave the way for himself, and the bargaining chip is to use transactions to get through Lincoln, an Irishman, and he happens to be using Dutch people. Because of their great influence, they then prepared to promote an alliance between Irish and Germans to suppress the Dutch in the federal government structure of the United States.

If we really want to deal with him, I don't think so. We need a strategy of using barbarians to fight barbarians. The combination of their two descendants will naturally form a huge monopoly. Nowadays, Europe and America are facing serious antitrust issues. So, why don't we use this to fight back against each other?

After all, this is also the area where Dutch people have advantages in the Commonwealth of America."

When William IV heard this, he nodded. In this regard, the Dutch had indeed done a good job.

In 1867, among the six most influential newspapers in the Commonwealth of America, they were ranked from largest to smallest: The New York Times (Dutch), the New York Post (Irish), and the Washington Post (Irish). German), "Chicago Times" (Dutch), "San Francisco Times" (German), "Washington Times" (Dutch).

One four six!

The Dutch own three newspapers and half of the country.

This kind of influence is enough to influence public opinion in the Commonwealth of America.

William IV gave a look of affirmation to Hesbert Feng's words.

He is upright and worthy of being a Dutch diplomatic expert.

So he looked at the International Intelligence Director McKay Sean next to him.

The latter said: "Your Majesty, judging from my experience, our intelligence community believes that we should directly spread the threat of the combination of Germans and Irish to other ethnic groups. After all, the Dutch are suppressed, so other ethnic groups are even more vulnerable. They may have fallen into the same trap, and they should feel the same way. I think as long as this person’s emotions are mobilized, he can do a lot of things that people don’t expect.”

Bill Charlie also agreed: "Latinos have long been very dissatisfied with the fact that the current federal government and other departments of the United States are managed by the three major ethnic groups. If the Dutch promote reforms, then there may be unexpected gains."

"Be more specific." William IV looked closely at Bill Charlie.

Under the questioning gazes of the three people, Bill Charlie explained: "According to our intelligence, the British are no longer willing to lie low and low-key because of the easing of relations between America and the United Kingdom, and the Jews are taking advantage of the huge wealth transferred from Europe. The expansion of mergers and acquisitions in the newspaper industry has begun. Although it is currently blocked, with huge funds, it will be a matter of time for the acquisition to succeed. After all, newspapers are run by people, and no one wants to have trouble with money.

In addition to these two ethnic groups, there are more than 2 million people of Swedish and Danish descent from Northern Europe. They are very united and claim to be descendants of Vikings, so they work together very well in the American Federation. The influence is not small. The French are very self-reliant. They exist in Central Europe, but their numbers are small, less than a million. Other Hispanics and Portuguese in southern Europe also formed their own interest groups.

The Irish (5 million) and the Germans (4 million) rely on their numbers to overwhelm all ethnic groups. The Dutch are friendly with the Irish, especially financially, so that the former can have funds to run for office. Just like this time Just like Lincoln's success, the Dutch-American consortium actually contributed a lot behind it.

Germans had abundant funds, and Irish conglomerates were on the rise.

Therefore, there is a three-legged confrontation. Now the two major ethnic groups, apart from the Dutch, have to be vigilant. At this time, if the Dutch can use this to open up cooperation with other ethnic groups, just like the members of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, As long as the Dutch become the leader, the alliance between these two ethnic groups will be broken without attack. After all, the population of these two ethnic groups is only 9 million, while the population of the American Federation is 23 million? "

Combine vertically and horizontally?

William IV also agreed with this approach, and he looked at Prime Minister Tolbeck.

Born in 1808, the 59-year-old Tolbeck is full of energy and good deeds. This made William IV understand that this age group is indeed the best age to play politics. It can be regarded as a golden age.

Tolbeck pondered for a moment, and then asked in an unanswered manner: "Your Majesty, I think we should not only focus on the United States of America. This is wrong."

Seeing the calm look in William IV's eyes, Tolbek suddenly understood that His Majesty had already noticed it?

Your Majesty is indeed Your Majesty, but his thoughts are different.

Seeing that the others were also surprised at first, and then their eyes suddenly became clear, Tolbik finally saw the effect he wanted to see with satisfaction.

Sure enough, His Majesty is the only exception.

Hesbertvon couldn't help but ask: "What does the Prime Minister mean?"

Tolbeck nodded and said shockingly: "The Netherlands can be a chess player, so why can't others control people in the American Federation?"