Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

"The Netherlands is increasing its own strength. If it is successfully realized, the population of the Netherlands will become unprecedentedly large. At the same time, the lack of labor in the Netherlands will soon be filled. This will be an unprecedented boost to the industrial strength of the Netherlands."

Crown Prince Frederick of the Kingdom of Prussia was extremely worried: "Prussia's advantage over the Netherlands lies in Prussia's population of more than 30 million. Now the Netherlands has been supplemented by 20 million people, and now there are tens of thousands of people every year due to European wars. The promotion of the policy of European immigrants to the Netherlands and the Far East. This is a huge boost to the growth of the Netherlands' strength. In comparison, it is also the fact that Prussia's advantages are being removed bit by bit. We need to quickly integrate the rest of the German Confederation in order to Able to further enhance Prussia’s strength.”

What Crown Prince Frederick said is true. Prussia has annexed the German Confederation with a population of more than 20 million. If completed, the population of more than 50 million will soon catch up with the 60 million people of Tsarist Russia, firmly occupying the second top spot in terms of population in Europe. This pair of Prussia's economy naturally has an even greater advantage.

Thinking of this, Crown Prince Frederick said to Bismarck: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I don't think the Dutch policy can be used on Prussia."

What he means is that the Dutch integration policy can be used to deal with the indigenous people, so the German Confederacy, who are also white people, will obviously have more integration advantages for Prussia, and it may be more convenient.

Moltke did not wait for Bismarck to answer, but unexpectedly nodded and said: "The Crown Prince is right to say that. Originally, we people from the German Confederation would not have much trouble integrating. Besides, we are almost all Protestants and Germanic people, these are the advantages that the Dutch integrated indigenous people cannot have."

After speaking, Moltke looked at Bismarck and said with a smile: "I really don't see how the Netherlands can compare with us in terms of convenience and profits."

Now, even William I agreed.

Bismarck said: "How can I say it, but William IV naturally saw this, but the Netherlands really did this, obviously the purpose is not pure."

"What does the Prime Minister mean?" Frederick asked in confusion.

Bismarck: "The Netherlands has greater ambitions. Perhaps it is the ultimate goal of William IV and the Netherlands to integrate the indigenous Africans, Asian and South American indigenous people into one body and become the common hegemon of the entire Indo-Pacific ocean. I have a copy of Asia and America here." Please take a look at the data on population immigration to Australia, the Dutch East Indies and other Pacific islands.”

Bismarck's words shocked everyone present, and their eyes fell on the documents and papers on his desk.

William I took the data handed over by Bismarck and couldn't help but look at it.

"In 1867, the population of Latin American immigrants in the Far East of the Netherlands exceeded 50,000, of which people with higher education and secondary education accounted for 50% of the population, small capitalists and foreign students accounted for another 30%, and the rest were their relatives."

William IV narrowed his eyes, there was a lot of information in it.

You must know that Latin America has not reached the economic level of European countries and is considered a poor country in Europe.

In such a poor place, more than 50,000 "high-class" people immigrated to the Far East of the Netherlands. Isn't this Far East of the Netherlands clearly just for harvesting leeks?

As an old fox who has been active in the political arena of Niu Zhou for many years, William I then thought of a problem, that is, with these immigrants from Latin America, the Dutch influence at the top level of various countries will appear in these places. Rich and powerful people would put their relatives in the Netherlands as a kind of 'hostage'.

With this kind of 'hostage' in hand, the Netherlands will have more influence on South America.

The consequences are!

With the data, in addition to Latin America, the same seems to be true in Asia. Even many European countries, especially people from Northern and Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, have a large amount of immigration data revealed before their eyes.

William I looked at Bismarck in horror.

Others looked at the data in their hands one after another.

Crown Prince Frederick was even more surprised and said: "The average annual population of immigrants from Latin America is 50,000, with high net worth and affluent families. The same is true in Asia, with more than 30,000 immigrants and students studying abroad every year. This brings together the two countries in the Netherlands." The yearning of local people provides an advantage, and the Netherlands becomes the center invisibly.

The immigration of Europeans is obviously that North America is no longer the only place for immigrants outside of Europe. It is competing with the American Commonwealth for population immigration. And obviously, the civil war between the North and the South of the United States seems to have made the Australian mainland and the Dutch East Indies even more difficult. In line with European security concepts. Currently, there are more than 10,000 European immigrants every year. Holland, the picture is not small.”

Bismarck: "The more intense the competition in Europe, the more people in Europe are fleeing abroad. The current war in the Balkans has made many people choose to immigrate. The cold weather in Northern Europe makes life difficult, which is also the main reason for immigration. The Netherlands has a population shortage. Make the Netherlands willing enough to absorb immigrants.

Data show that the total population of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish immigrants from Northern Europe who immigrated to the Far East of the Netherlands has exceeded 200,000 since 1862. During the war and tensions in the Balkan Peninsula, the number of immigrants who immigrated to the Far East of the Netherlands has exceeded 300,000.

This means that in addition to the 6 million white Dutch population in the Far East of the Netherlands, there are also more than one million white European and American immigrants.

Looking at the lines in the data, immigration from these places is still showing an upward trend. It can be seen that immigration to the Far East of the Netherlands will continue to become a normal state for some time in the future. "

Bismarck raised his head, with a majestic face showing a fierce expression, and said: "Although the Netherlands cannot threaten Prussia in Europe, we have to be careful about him harming Prussia's interests in Africa and the Pacific and Indian Ocean."

Crown Prince Frederick was stunned, "There don't seem to be many major interests in Africa and the Indian Ocean, right?"

Although there is a Somali colony, it is still a barren land, but it is better than nothing.

Bismarck disrupted his idea with shocking words. Bismarck said: "We explored the Middle East with the Netherlands some time ago. On the border of our Middle East colony of Qatar and the Netherlands in the United Arab Emirates, the exploration teams of the two countries not long ago Got a big energy news”

Bismarck's words are surprising, Middle East? Exploration team?

Associating these words together, William I's eyes suddenly shone with a compelling light. At this moment, the majesty of the King of Prussia was clearly revealed.

He asked nervously as if he couldn't wait: "Has the oil exploration in the Middle East yielded results?"

oil!

Crown Prince Frederick and Chief of General Moltke were stunned when they heard this, and their faces showed shock.

By the way, the Netherlands and Prussia jointly carried out oil exploration there a few years ago. At that time, they were not impressed that the Netherlands actually made such a request. They also laughed at the Netherlands for choosing to explore in such a barren place. It would be better to choose Africa. .

But now they actually got the 'result' from Bismarck?

Oil, this is the "gold" that Prussia needs to change Britain's first industrial development and establish its own electrical industry system. If it really exists, it will definitely be a real power to Prussia.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but look at Bismarck.