Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

In the past few years of the Dutch migration to the Far East, the Netherlands' huge transportation team, construction team, road infrastructure, etc. all need to be supported, which has created a huge market.

Through the four-person joint-stock company, many people have accumulated a large amount of capital by supplying long-distance mobility and relying on the construction wave of the Far East with materials and labor, and have become wealthy figures in Dutch society, such as those who produce dairy products and groceries. Borden, Gustave Swift, who produced meat, and Andrew Carew, the Dutch steel magnate who built railways.

In addition, there is the construction king Eft who builds houses. Maritime shipping giants John Shiras and Richard Hough

These people were among the first Dutch people to migrate to Far East Australia and grew up eating crabs.

On April 20, 1863, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Netherlands passed legislation to move the Far East to the Australian continent. Under the strong request of William IV, Dutch politicians quickly passed the two Dutch legislation without any opposition. The Senate legislates to support its own factional factories.

From 1863 to 1867, in order to protect domestic producers and resist adverse competition from foreign goods and foreign traders, the Dutch Parliament issued banking laws to unify and liberalize the currency system, and established tariff barriers. Many owners in the Far East of the Netherlands were allowed to introduce cheap labor from continental Europe, with Northern Europe and Eastern Europe being the main direction for the introduction of labor to the Netherlands.

Not only that, the Dutch Parliament donated a large amount of land and mineral resources to the transportation company and the railway company, and the latter began to build an east-west railway across the Australian continent and New Guinea.

At the same time, the Dutch Ministry of Transport also used cheap indigenous construction teams to implement a highway strategy in the Netherlands and build flat and wide roads across the country. It is even said that hundreds of kilometers of hardened roads have appeared in the Far East. It is said that it is for the Netherlands every year. It is not known whether it is a bicycle race, but it is said that Europe is also building a north-south hardened road from Amsterdam to The Hague-Rotterdam. It is said that it is 18 meters wide and many people in Europe are staring at it.

In addition to the free land given away to the Dutch in recent years, plus the free land provided by those companies in the Far East, the area has been equivalent to the total area of ​​the three Dutch Kingdoms. These places contain rich mineral resources such as coal mines, lead mines, iron ores, etc. Therefore, a very close and undefinable relationship has been formed between the Dutch government and companies, as well as between migrants. In particular, the interests of companies are completely inconsistent with the interests of the Dutch government.

Therefore, many private companies at this time do not look so "private", and the presence of parliamentarians behind them can be seen everywhere. Their influence on legal provisions and influence has also gradually increased.

On June 11, 1868, the Dutch Ministry of Transport announced that the area under the jurisdiction of the Netherlands was divided into four time zones. The Pacific Ocean including the Alaska Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and Australia was the Eastern Time Zone, the entire Indian Ocean was the Central Time Zone, and Europe in the Netherlands was and the African time zone and the Atlantic time zone including Guyana in the Americas.

Previously, time zones were chaotic. The time zones in the Far East and Europe were very confusing, which had an adverse impact on the operations of various companies. The division of four time zones changed the Dutch people's timekeeping habits. This new time zone division method was immediately written down in the Netherlands. It was incorporated into Dutch law, and then European countries began to discuss it and later adopted it.

With the development of the railway industry in the Far East, railways ran through every province in the Australian continent, as well as the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea. Telegraph lines also covered many areas in the Far East, although the density was not as high as in mainland Europe.

The laying of these transportation and communication facilities accelerated the pace of the Netherlands' Far East leapfrogging the first industrial revolution, and actually entered the leading ranks of the world's second industrial revolution together with the European mainland. .

In fact, many of the most advanced research in the Netherlands has been transferred from Europe to the Far East. Many companies' new products are developed and trial-released in Australia, and then sold around the world after receiving results.

Among them are the newly emerging scientific and technological leaders of the Netherlands, Edison, who invented the automatic voting counting machine and the printing press, and became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences at the age of 21 this year. .

In 1867, Edison and the Dutch East India Company (also known as the William Group) jointly founded the "Dutch-Edison" Electric Company, specializing in electrical engineering scientific instruments. At the same time, it is said that he was developing the synchronous machine that was valued by William IV. Whether the transmitter and gramophone were real or not is just a rumor at the moment.

Before 1857, there were few national companies in the Netherlands, with the exception of the Dutch East India Company. However, by 1867, through the use of the new transportation network, many Dutch companies had expanded beyond the mainland of the Netherlands and the local area. Operations throughout the Netherlands.

A company can obtain raw materials from the Far East Pacific Islands, and finally complete processing and production in Sydney or Melbourne on the Australian mainland, or Jakarta or Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies. The products can be sold locally or brought back to Europe as The window faces the entire European continent, and it can be said that product sales are open to the entire Netherlands.

And one after another, giant Dutch companies began to appear. They have basically controlled the production and sales of goods, and have an increasingly profound impact on Dutch society.

Many rural villages in the Netherlands were originally small societies isolated from the outside world. The extension and promotion of railways and roads broke this isolation, making these Dutch villages gradually become a more complete and more 'single' organic part of the Netherlands. Small local companies in order to The only way to avoid being overtaken is by imitating giant companies or merging with them.

The electrical company jointly established by the Dutch East India Company and Edison was a model. One had funds, resources and sales, and the other had technology. They hit it off and everyone was happy.

Not only the technology industry, but also the Dutch petroleum, steel, construction, food, and even agricultural industries have been affected by this huge change. Some people even joked that even the Dutch soap manufacturing industry has been greatly affected.

In short, the emergence of Dutch joint stock companies has greatly accelerated the development of various industries in the Netherlands. Many domestic companies in the Netherlands have grown rapidly during this period, and their popularity has also been greatly improved. Their products are even exported to Europe, America and Asia. For example, the just-mentioned Edison United Electric Company's technological products and Dutch tobacco products are exported overseas and have become one of the most important multinational companies with well-known brands in the Netherlands.