Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

In terms of natural resource utilization, if the Netherlands lacks local resources, then the Netherlands, which owns East India, Australia, and central Africa, is the country with the most resources.

The national policy of the Netherlands is to develop them.

As the Netherlands' territory continues to expand and develop in parallel, the Dutch are discovering new resources in the Far East and Africa every month and rapidly developing and utilizing them.

At the same time, the expansion of land also provided necessary conditions for the development of Dutch agriculture.

The expansion of agriculture also provided more abundant materials for industrial development.

In 1864, among the ten fastest growing industries in the Netherlands, eight were developed using agricultural products as raw materials.

Therefore, while noting the rapid development of Dutch industry during this period, William IV never ignored the promotion effect brought by the expansion of the Far East to Dutch industry.

At the same time, William IV also observed that with the development, the Dutch people's transformation of the company also further stimulated the rapid growth of Dutch industry.

Before 1857, when his father, William III, was in charge of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the government would refuse Dutch scientific and technological innovators (later called scientists) their requests for licenses from the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the grounds that they were unconstitutional because they wanted to Form a national science promotion agency belonging to them.

William III was relatively conservative and was afraid that another party-like interest group would appear, adding another group to the group that was already obstructing his royal power in parliament.

However, after William traveled through time in 1857, under his persuasion, his father William III finally gave up this control, and the Parliament passed the Constitution Act, so this prejudice disappeared in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

In 1859, the Parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands unanimously passed a decree promoting the establishment of the Royal Academy of Sciences, promoted by the then Crown Prince William IV.

The establishment of the Royal Academy of Sciences made Dutch scientists very happy and joined it one after another. This was also the biggest boost to the overall development of the William Group.

With science and technology now available, other factors will naturally become the key to the development of the Netherlands.

In particular, the role of population in promoting the development of Dutch industry.

The large influx of foreign immigrants provided sufficient labor for Dutch industry.

Among them, people from Europe are mainly Swedish and Norwegian, while people from the Far East come from all directions.

Even in Europe, capital injections from other European countries and capital operations in the Netherlands have injected strong impetus into the development of the Netherlands.

The large savings of the Dutch people and the status of Amsterdam as the third largest financial center after London and New York provided a large amount of capital for the industrial development of the Netherlands.

The Netherlands has improved domestic transportation, population growth, elimination of tariff barriers and relatively high per capita wealth.

This provides a market for Dutch industrial products.

Of course, there are also the Dutch market development in the Far East and the trade of industrial products with the Russian Empire. It is under the combined effect of various conditions like this that the Dutch industry has completed a rapid qualitative and quantitative leap.

With the frequent outbreak of wars around the world, the resonance effect of the Netherlands will become more obvious.

When the wars in various places stop, they will find that the Netherlands has completed its industrial transformation and become the world's top industrial power.

William IV said coldly: For warring countries, war represents death, but for consumer warring countries, war represents opportunities.

The Netherlands is an opportunist, and he is also the one who creates opportunities with his own hands.

Therefore, the world's war must continue so that the Netherlands can profit from it.

As long as wars continue to rage in various countries, immigration from various countries will not be interrupted. The Netherlands can even implement a talent-only immigration strategy and a labor strategy immigration strategy, which will allow high-end European talents to flock to the Netherlands and the Far East.

Thinking of this, William IV became even more determined not to let North America be quiet.

Because compared to the Far East, the American Federation of America seems to be more suitable for European immigrants. If they stop having wars, they will be the biggest opponent for the talent strategy formulated by the Netherlands.

Therefore, the civil war in America must continue, and Europe needs this even more.

"Currently, the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia have begun to fight. Except for the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan Peninsula, only the Austrian Empire has been beaten to the mainland of the major European countries. The other countries have not experienced war on their own mainland. This is a kind of war for the Netherlands. loss.

The Ottoman Empire was short of talented people, and it was difficult for them to immigrate to the Far East.

Only by spreading the flames of war to all countries can the Netherlands be able to snatch talents.

Just like the Prussian invasion of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Austrian War, the Dutch intelligence agency, which had started planning early, hunted down many talents from these two places, and now they have been sent to Australia. "

As a major European country, Austria is a huge talent pool for the Netherlands, which is the most attractive place for the Netherlands.

As far as he knew, because of the Austrian War, the famous musician Johann Strauss, whom his wife Queen Alexandra liked very much, had immigrated to Australia.

William IV also listened to this guy's works. His "Blue Danube", "Story of the Vienna Woods", "Sound of Spring" and other songs are all good.

However, William IV preferred Franz Liszt, a famous Hungarian musician whose family had just fled to Amsterdam after Prussia invaded Hungary.

This guy's "Prelude" in 1848, "Mazepa" in 1851, "Piano Sonata in B Minor" in 1852, and "Dante" in 1955, all of which interested William IV very much.

However, he is most interested in the two major etudes from his early debut, "Twelve Transcendental Etudes" and "Six Paganini Etudes".

Austria's musicians are famous, and Hungary's are not bad either, but William IV naturally has his eye on scientists from both places.

It would not be bad if Sydney or Amsterdam became a music mecca. After all, holding a music festival every year in the future would be enough to attract the attention of various countries and increase the Netherlands' cultural communication capabilities.

“Is there anything more beautiful than letting the talent seeds planted in other countries grow up and then be harvested by the Netherlands?

It is a pity that the largest talent pool in Europe is the United Kingdom, France, and Germany established by Prussia. In an era when the national pride of these three places was overwhelming, the Netherlands had very few opportunities to take action. "

William IV suddenly became happy, "Britain and Prussia are a bit difficult to deal with, but what about France?

When William I of Prussia captured Paris in 1871, it was the best opportunity.

It seems that this is only enough. The scientists in Paris still have other talents. Napoleon III, please help me continue to cultivate them. I will come and take them away in 6 years. "

William IV even thought greedily: "It would be too safe for Britain to have its own territory, which would be detrimental to the Netherlands.

The war must be fought there, and submarines may be the most powerful weapon to defeat their powerful maritime power.

Only in this way can Prussia be able to compete with Britain.

Yes, the Netherlands can help Prussia in submarines. Let the future German Empire compete with Britain, and the Netherlands will be good at picking up talents. "

After thinking about this, William IV suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

As long as the war spreads among the United States, Britain, France, Prussia, and Tsarist Russia, the Netherlands will continue to have opportunities.

Taking chestnuts from the fire has always been William IV's main work style in this war-torn era.