After sending the two away, William IV looked at the uneasy Hesbet Feng and the steady Tolbek.
"My foreign minister, tell me about your worries. Every time you worry, don't you notice? You stretch your left hand as straight as possible, but your right middle finger, ring finger and tail finger will be rolled back, and your nails will stick straight into your own. palm"
Looking at the strange expressions on purpose of the other people, Haysbet Feng gave a wry smile.
"Your Majesty is still so humorous"
So I talked about my worries completely.
William IV pretended to think for a while, and then said, "So, are you worried that Napoleon III or Viscount Palmerston will be difficult to convince?"
"It's only your Majesty who would say that. For me, neither of the two of them is easy to get along with, they are both dangerous people," Hesbet Feng replied.
"My Prime Minister, do you also think that they are not easy to deal with?"
"Of course it's hard to convince"
Thorbeck affirmed, looking at the relaxed appearance of Hesbet Feng being recognized.
There is also William IV who is waiting to hear your explanation. He feels the helplessness of being a subordinate. Of course, he will never have the idea of committing the following crimes. As a Dutch person with the traditional spirit of honorable knighthood, trust Erbeck has long considered this to be a self-assessment of his proudest character.
Heisbet Feng looked at the Dutch Prime Minister with sympathy. He finally knew that the most powerful mouth in the Netherlands did not rely on his mouth to win the election of Dutch Prime Minister Tolbek, nor did he rely on his mouth to talk to the world. He is the foreign minister who fights every inch of land for national interests, but his immediate boss, King William IV of the Netherlands. This is the one who is hiding.
However, it is obvious that the Prime Minister, Tobelk, has such a consciousness long ago, but no one has informed him until just now.
So full of resentment, he looked at him with schadenfreude.
"Actually, let's not talk about other territorial awareness. The Kingdom of Greece is located in the eastern Mediterranean. The current Ottoman Turkey is no longer the huge country that spanned the Mediterranean coast. It already belongs to the sick man among the powerful countries. They even At the very least, the battleships have also slowly transferred orders to Britain, France and other countries.
Under the circumstance that they have even the most basic gunpowder provided by European countries, and even many of their military instructors are from these two countries, the weak have the characteristics of birds of fear.
Therefore, out of frustration, I could only agree that the Kingdom of Greece was separated from Ottoman Turkey, and it was signed by Britain, France and Russia.
Naturally, the three kingdoms would not sign at will. The reasons were all for the common goal of suppressing the influence and strength of the Ottomans in the eastern Mediterranean, so they finally chose Prince Otto, the second son of the King of Bavaria, who was a supporter of the Austrian Empire, from the German Confederation. king. "
When William IV heard this, he suddenly sighed, it was the Ottoman Empire!
What a powerful country this once was. It has maintained its status as a powerful country in Europe and Asia for more than 500 years. It is such a powerful country, but now it has become a grasshopper in the autumn, and it may be asked at any time. But now it's like being delayed by someone, cutting one piece of territory into another, what's the difference?
He couldn't help thinking of the words of Churchill, the prime minister of the later British Empire: Europe is waiting for the death of the Ottoman Empire, but year after year, this empire is unwilling to die, and its weak hands are still clutching the huge family business. Let go!
In fact, he had previously discussed in detail with Crown Prince Mohammed, the crown prince of Ottoman Turkey, that the interests of the Netherlands in Ottoman Turkey are guaranteed by the other side, and the Netherlands will also introduce new technologies to the country, such as gunpowder and firearms.
The latest Mauser guns in the Netherlands have appeared, which has put hundreds of thousands of old guns in the hands of the Netherlands into the ranks of elimination, and the Ottoman Empire is a recycling station that the Netherlands is ready to use to eliminate these weapons, and get back a fortune for the Netherlands. The Philippine funds returned can be used in the defense class to develop new weapons.
At that time, I started to use long lines to catch big fish. Today's kindness is for the sake of future love. Therefore, the Ottoman Turks wanted them to support William III, but he was very confident.
As for Napoleon III, he was an ambitious guy, but sadly every time, in almost all his diplomatic actions, except for the war between the Kingdom of Sardinia and Austria, he was right, and the others were lost, including the later Prussia He chose to sit and watch the battle with the Kingdom of Denmark in 1863 and the Prussian and Austrian Empire in the 1866 German Confederation leadership war, etc., and finally found out that the combat power of the Kingdom of Prussia has grown to be almost the same as that of France.
It was originally thought that both sides would hurt the fishermen of France, but in the end they got the bitter fruit. In 1870, when Prussia marched south, Paris was trampled by William I in a few days.
"Try to put pressure on other countries, such as Württemberg, Saxony, and the Kingdom of Hanover, and at the same time notify our embassies in various countries to ask them all to enter the state that requires all countries to support His Majesty William III in the throne of the Kingdom of Greece, and at the same time let the French Dutch embassy on the side"
"Your Majesty, you forgot that the Grand Duke of Saxony, Karl Alexander, is your uncle; and the Duchy of Württemberg, that is your mother, Queen Sophie's natal family."
"And the queen of Sweden's Karl XV is our cousin. I naturally know that I'm just thinking about how to find a reason to let them support them more directly..."
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North America, the United States, the White House.
President Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Secretary of State William Henry Seward, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton, Chancellor of the Exchequer Salmon Portland Chase and the Post Office Minister Montgomery Blair and a few others were just receiving a piece of news that made everyone here extremely depressing—they were one step ahead of the United States and occupied the Hawaiian Islands in the center of the Pacific Ocean, which the United States had long remembered.
"Look, you've pushed too hard, and now you've finally got the opposite effect.
Your Excellency, as I said earlier, we are now engaged in a civil war with the South, not a real large-scale westward march. Now our beloved Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, is desperately trying to get there. In the past, this was a serious blow to the morale of the Northern Alliance in the front-line battle. If one is not handled properly, this civil war in the United States is likely to have a poker-like effect in Europe, and the leader, Maybe it's the Kingdom of the Netherlands that seems to have stolen the meat from our bowls now."
Lincoln's running mate in 1858, the current US Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, was not very friendly at first, and his goal was directly pointed to the leader in charge of foreign relations, the current US Secretary of State Seward.
The reason is that on February 16, 1862, after being successfully instigated by the Pacific Fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Hawaii, the Hawaiian Islands, which have been missed by the United States for a long time, the fleet captain drove straight in and completed the eight islands of Hawaii in just a few hours. All occupied, and the blockade of news was also implemented, until the American merchant ship was returning from the Pacific West Coast Great Merchant Empire in the morning, after realizing that something was wrong, and through hard work, finally got all the means used by the Netherlands in Hawaii, which made the King of Hawaii agree to the Dutch. incorporated and become part of the Netherlands.
He also used the fast delivery function of the Tier 6 battleship non-stop, and completed the delivery to the West Coast within a few days, and sent the news to Lincoln in the White House this morning by telegram.
William Henry Seward felt that he was really wronged. It wasn't that when President Lincoln told the whole team to face other countries, he needed to be tougher and not lose our position. As a result, on the issue of Hawaii, the United States He directly had bad relations with the British Empire and France, and also had fundamental conflicts with Kamehameh, the king of the Hawaiian Islands, many times.
The Netherlands, a second-rate European power, even reached out to Hawaii, which had to be very shocking to him.
Seward has always been the central figure of expansionism in the White House of the United States. His expansionism is mainly divided into the idea of building a Pacific rice empire. The so-called empire, to put it simply, is a business empire centered on Asia and the Pacific.
And Seward also believes that although the civil war between the North and South in the United States is going on like tea, this is just a small disaster before the rebirth of the United States from the ashes.
As long as you survive it safely, the road ahead will be smooth.
"President, we cannot afford to lose Hawaii~www.mtlnovel.com~ This is related to our future construction of a Pacific power, a business empire centered on Asia and the Pacific. As long as the expansion of the United States is completed, the next target is the Pacific and the Far East.
However, for these two places, the main way of expansion is that commercial expansion is no longer territorial expansion, and the means of expansion is trade rather than force. Battleships are by no means able to be sent abroad only as successful envoys. "
Seeing this, President Lincoln didn't really follow Vice President Hannibal Hamlin to take the lead in criticizing Seward. It was just that he was angry. Whoever encountered this would not be in a good mood. stand up.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Salmon Portland Chase and Post Secretary Montgomery Blair looked at each other, and the former said, "Your Excellency, I don't think it's a simple matter of the Netherlands wanting to take Hawaii. This matter is very important to the United States. Look, you should think more deeply about the problem."
What's the meaning?
Seward felt bad, but he couldn't find where he wanted to be.
So, he stared closely at Salmon Portland.
The latter glanced at him without fear, and then smiled at Hannibal Hamlin, showing kindness. After the latter nodded in agreement, he said, "The whole of Europe was watching us and The internal conflict of the Confederacy, they are doing all kinds of actions, such as..."
"When we tested the attitude of the international community on November 8 of the previous year, it was the order you requested, Secretary of State, that the US warship intercepted the British Empire mail ship 'Trent' and imprisoned two people who were going to the British Empire. Confederate envoys..."
Salmon Portland's eloquence was so good that everyone, including Lincoln, listened very deeply.