Chapter 236
October 15, 1865.
On the most coveted beach of Biarritz in the Atlantic Ocean of the French Empire, there was a guest - Bismarck, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia.
The Prime Minister of Prussia, on behalf of William I, held a second meeting there with the French Emperor Napoleon III.
The last time was in October 1864, and a year later, this time it was also October.
During the meeting, the two sides did not sign any agreement, but Bismarck got what he wanted from Napoleon III.
However, the outside world did not know about this short meeting. It seemed that no agreement was signed, but it was the most bizarre.
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William IV stared at this scene like the eyes of God. He knew that the end of this meeting meant that Austria, who was staring at the Balkans, was about to suffer.
And blindly confident that he helped Joseph I of Britain in the Balkans, he didn't know that he had been calculated.
"Napoleon III would never have thought that he would be killed, so this meeting caused his empire to be quickly defeated.
It was even ridiculed as the Biarritz meeting, a private meeting for the secret handover of the empire's position.
On October 20, 1865, the Ottoman Empire opened fire with the Tsarist Russian Empire in Bulgaria.
After that, the Austrian Empire also participated, and the United Kingdom also landed after shelling the places occupied by the Russian Empire at sea.
The Tsarist Russian army was suppressed for a while, and was even driven out of Varna, the Bulgarian occupation. Under the pursuit of the three countries, it retreated to Romania, which was heavily defended.
This battle lasted for 5 days, and the three countries suffered losses.
The Ottoman Empire dispatched 50,000 people, the Austrian Empire 30,000, and the United Kingdom 20,000.
The casualties were 18,000 for the Ottoman Empire, 12,000 for the Austrian Empire, and 6,000 for the British.
The Russian Empire's 60,000 troops suffered 41,000 casualties.
The entire war in Bulgaria involved 160,000 people, with more than 77,000 casualties and nearly half of them.
This is the biggest casualty since the Balkans.
As a result, the military resources of various countries have begun to quickly gather there through three routes including sea, land and inland rivers, ready to prepare for the next war.
The Balkans were cloudy for a while. The other small principalities were trembling, afraid of getting angry.
October 26, 1865.
William III of the Kingdom of Greece announced that the Kingdom of Greece would not favor any side among the countries. He expressed the hope that all countries would put aside their prejudices, restore peace and stability in the Balkans, and reduce unnecessary casualties.
Followed by Emmanuel II of Italy, he also announced that Italy would not take a stand, but asked the Russian Empire to calm down, and at the same time said that Italy would not send a single soldier to participate in the war in the Balkans, unless the interests of Italy were affected. Damage will be considered.
With the announcement of the two eastern Mediterranean states of sovereign rights, other European countries also began to speak out.
The Netherlands has also declared neutrality, but will continue to pay attention to the interests of the Netherlands there, and call on all countries to protect the interests of countries that are not participating in the war, including the Netherlands.
But Prussia's position is more ambiguous.
Because the country said that Prussia is very serious about safeguarding its national interests and that it will not miss any opportunity that is beneficial to Prussia.
What would this statement be?
This made all countries vigilant, especially many small countries within the German Confederate Empire. They were worried that Prussia would take advantage of the fact that when Austria of the German Empire was participating in the war in the Balkans, after there was no object of checks and balances, they would choose to directly invade other small countries just like the Kingdom of Hanover. .
In fact, they were right to be concerned.
On November 1, 1865, when the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced the establishment of the International Women's Union in The Hague, and the first director-general was Queen Alexandra of the Netherlands, there was a sensation in all countries.
Especially after seeing the purpose of the organization, more history has captured the hearts of a large number of women in various countries, and they have all agreed to express their opinions.
The United States of the United States of the North even held more than 1 million women's street marches for this purpose, asking the Federal State to join the organization.
Naturally, the Lincoln government would not object.
So on November 1, the United States of America was announced as the organization's second member.
After that, the Kingdom of Greece also announced to join the organization, recognizing the status of the International Women's Union.
Subsequently, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Denmark joined successively.
Major institutions are where small countries speak, so Belgium also chose to join.
The Principality of Württemberg, the Principality of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of Bavaria, and a series of countries of the German Confederation also chose to join,
In addition, the French Empire, known as the Holy Land of European thought, was also announced.
However, in order to prevent the Netherlands from using the identity of the founder of this organization to affect women in France, Napoleon III announced the establishment of his own domestic women's branch, which nominally belongs to the International Women's Union.
Seeing this, other countries have followed suit, obviously reducing the influence of the Netherlands.
At this time, the United Kingdom naturally chose to join the organization.
Surprisingly, the director general of the British branch was just about to marry the crown prince of Hanover when the kingdom of Hanover was destroyed.
Because of parliamentary opposition, she failed to marry the crown prince of Hanover, who was in exile in the UK, so Princess Alice, who is now free, has recovered.
Even many people in the Netherlands joked that because Princess Alice once expressed her approval of William IV, but in the end the Anglo-Dutch marriage was not successful. Now facing Alexandra from Denmark, an opponent who has cut off her love and marriage, she later She even overwhelmed Alice's British branch secretary as the director-general of the International Women's Union, and once again defeated Princess Alice.
Princess Alice has thus become a model that can be called a lose-lose in love and career.
This topic has become more and more intense, and it has become lace news for the people of the two countries to joke.
In the end, the British and Dutch governments and their respective royal families had to stand up to stop it before it was calmed down.
But also because of this, the hostility between the two countries seems to have begun to condense.
This was an accident that William IV never expected.
But soon, he didn't have the energy to think about it.
Because ~www.mtlnovel.com~ The Statistics Group of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior sent him a report, which made him happy for a long time.
It turns out that from the international war in the past few years, the Netherlands has accepted more than 800,000 international migrants, all of whom have been affected by the war and are now assigned to the Far East Australasia by the Dutch Far East."
Most of them are more than 300,000 Dutch from the Commonwealth of America, 200,000 Irish, 50,000 Russians, more than 100,000 Germans, and the rest are French, Italians and Latinos.
Seeing this, William IV was very happy.
This is international immigration!
The reason why Milliken in the previous life was so long and prosperous was that international immigrants continued to join their countries, bringing demographic dividends and the latest technologies from various countries.
In the future, the Netherlands will develop into a "front line" plan that brings together global talents in Madagas-Australia-East India in the Far East, and finally enters the most critical talent link.
"As long as the population is large enough and the quality is hard enough, do you still need to worry about the rise of the Netherlands?"