Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Throne of the Netherlands

It doesn't feel like a novel, but like a script, written from a Dutch perspective. After reading a lot of chapters, the history of each period is basically introduced like a narration. There is not much real plot introduction for the protagonist, but the main character introduces the background for clues. As for the plot the protagonist does in private, it is only mentioned a little when the plot catches up or is over. It is not like a novel at all, just like introducing the plot. Anyway, it feels like an old lady's foot wrap. Anyway, I wrote a lot, but I feel that a lot of the introduction is dispensable. After reading it, it feels like I have seen something but not seen anything.

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Now, it's just annoying, the ban is severe, we have more than 400 good ones, and we haven't sent a single pawn.

The author, this book is written by a novice. The fiscal revenue accounting for 25% of GDP is too outrageous.

The Netherlands is a booger-sized place with no population and no resources and is still in the center of Europe. Why don't you want to rise and compete for hegemony without moving? You want to eat shit, that era was going to be turbulent in the next few decades and the World War was going on, but you still want to dance with such a small body? If nothing else, let's just say that the French chicken John Bull next to you is not blind. I think the author will not be able to make up the plot in the end.

It is impossible for the Netherlands to rise. How can it rise when it is surrounded by big countries? I feel like I could write a book about Romania, Austria-Hungary, Serbia or Bulgaria before World War I, Hungary or Albania before World War II... National historical literature.

It is impossible for the Netherlands to rise. Its domestic resources are limited and its population is limited. Moving is almost possible, America is completely divided, moving to Africa is almost impossible, Asia…. The people don't allow it, the army doesn't allow it, and the officials don't allow it. If you really do it, then you will be the second Louis XVI! The king who gave up his native land was guillotined before he could do it. The second point is that the surrounding countries do not allow it. The history of the British attack on the Netherlands has proven that Germany wants to annex you directly. France wants to turn you into a buffer zone. We cannot fight for colonies, we have no hard power, and we have no sovereignty in diplomacy. A small country is like a leaf, drifting with the tide and being submerged accidentally. This is the fate of a small country. The First World War directly destroyed the Netherlands, and everything before was lost!

The population determines the upper limit of a country and a nation. The population of the main ethnic groups in the Netherlands determines that it is impossible for it to become a big country.

In this era, the population of the Netherlands is about 3 million. The population of France and England is ten times that of yours. If the Netherlands wants to develop, it must run away or imitate Prussia. However, the strategic environment of Germany is a tragedy. Even if Germany is unified and wins the first war, its vitality will be greatly damaged. The rise of the United States is inevitable. It is better to move the whole country to Australia as soon as possible and control Southeast Asia with Australia as the core. Control the Indian and Pacific oceans, explode the population, and compete with the United States for German immigrants. In order to have a population of 20 million during the First World War, we will have some development. We must also exterminate the indigenous people of Southeast Asia. If we do not abandon our homeland, it is basically impossible to develop. We can still migrate while there is little resistance. In a few years, you will not be able to escape even if you want to. The author wants to It would be completely ridiculous for Europe to control overseas territories when it is the homeland. Once the resources are cut off, you will be blind. A small place like the Netherlands will be blocked for you in minutes. As soon as the navy is finished, the Netherlands will be destroyed. All the overseas territories will be independent for you. You don't even want to be independent. Such a long distance is impossible to control. Refer to the United States to fight Japan. Once the United States breaks out, your territory is far away from the Netherlands. It's so far away. It's good to be able to last for one year. This is still a one-on-one situation. It's too ideal. If the author wants to develop, he must run away as soon as possible and write more about farming instead of sitting in the Netherlands and doing things here and there. You are a small and broken country in the Netherlands. Who will give you face? There are big countries on three sides. You have no diplomatic say. Who will give you the opportunity to cause trouble? The navy will suppress you every minute.

In the Netherlands, only free ports can be developed, and there is not much room for development. First think about it, if the European War breaks out, the Netherlands is basically a battleground for military strategists, and there is no way to protect it. The European smuggling center is the Netherlands, which is basically an important transportation hub for land and sea. No country will let you develop.

The author should move. Staying in Europe is not possible. The country is small and has no resources, so it is impossible to rise. Staying in Europe is a dead end, being sandwiched between the three major powers. It's hard to be a good person and get beaten if you don't obey. If you obey, you will be cannon fodder. The three major powers will not give you face at all. If you are a small country and a few people can't fight them, it would be good to move to Oceania or South America. If that doesn't work, just move to South Africa. Just kill all the indigenous people to occupy the land, and then develop industry and commerce, and enhance national strength through immigration. Talent means a rapid burst of industrial development, and all walks of life can also develop rapidly. Learn again from the Americans and seek the greatest interests.

Population is not enough. I think the most important thing for the protagonist to do is to abandon the homeland before the First World War breaks out, go to Southeast Asia and slowly develop, and then annex Australia. No matter how bad the future is, it will still be one of the five permanent members.

The Netherlands cannot become a great power. The population is too small and the territory is too small. During this period, the Netherlands can develop South Africa. The Netherlands already has a foundation in South Africa. This place is very good and vigorously absorbs immigrants, especially immigrants from the German region.

Well, by integrating and marrying black people, the author is trying to exterminate the Dutch bloodline.

The UK wants to buy it, but Russia won't sell it. Except for the United States, Russia will not sell Alaska to the Netherlands. Russia had its own strategy for selling Alaska. The United States would surround Canada if it got it. This would intensify the conflict between the United Kingdom and the United States, but the United States turned around and relaxed with the United Kingdom. Even if the Netherlands gets it, it will offend Britain and the United States, which is not cost-effective.

Swap Borneo for Queensland, gradually encroaching on Australia, and then use Australia as its base camp. Indonesia has a tropical rainforest all year round. Europeans cannot stand the climate there, and many local people are unwilling to go there. Australia is different. It is not just a country that sits on a mine cart or rides on a sheep's back. It is extremely rich in gold, silver and various resources.

If I don't know, I can also read your predecessors' books. Anyway, I haven't seen anyone write about intermarriage with black people. I haven't even seen novels about developing the population from 0 that encourage intermarriage with black people. You are the first black person to intermarry.

I skipped through a few chapters. Will there be some problems with the population policy? Millions of white talents. Assimilation of tens of millions of Southeast Asian natives. Is the author sure there is no problem? I'm afraid it will be more chaotic than the United States in the future. Don't let others occupy the magpie's nest. The correct thing should be to gather the indigenous people and give them a piece of land, preferably a small island. Exile them. You can use the indigenous people for infrastructure construction in the early stage. Once they are used up, that's it. After being exiled, you must not mix with the domestic population. The international environment is not so holy now. It is still okay to engage in massacres and so on. Don't be afraid of being blocked. Just be subtle. Everyone is aboveboard and racial discrimination is no problem.

This is scribbling. First of all, the Netherlands is a non-agricultural country. For hundreds of years, all the people in the Netherlands have been doing business, and they are very rich. It is simply impossible for the Dutch to plow the land and build in an honest manner. The land in the Netherlands used to be old garbage. It was always flooded by sea water and could not grow anything at all. Finally they found a way to get rich by doing business. From a poor village to a wealthy town, it can really be expressed as being extremely rich. The Netherlands is not China. When it comes to their own interests, the Dutch people will not pay attention to their king. They were the first to break away from the Holy Roman Empire. They all do business, and doing business is very profitable. From that time until now, they have always been extremely wealthy. The Netherlands' per capita GDP is now among the highest in Europe. They were happily having banquets and drinking champagne every day. Europe was full of manors and ranches they purchased. Now if you ask them to farm and work as workers, and the wages are not high, who will go? This is like asking American capitalists to leave the United States and immigrate all to new islands to slowly develop estates and work as workers to build the country. The returns are not high and no one is willing. The United States was built by a bunch of bankrupt farmers and laborers. It was built by exploiting the people at the bottom. It took more than a hundred years since the start of the Industrial Revolution. The other is that the author does not understand Australia at all. The British have occupied Australia for hundreds of years, and why its development is so slow. Because Australia is not suitable for living at all, not to mention that only the seaside is suitable for living, and there are also a large number of poisonous spiders and black bats. It can be said that the horrors in Australia are beyond the author's imagination, otherwise it would not be regarded as a penal colony. Most British people would not choose Australia even if they chose New Zealand. The author is a typical Chinese thinker. Chinese rulers have summarized hundreds of years of "noble" thinking. Europe pursues personal interests, especially non-agricultural countries like the Netherlands. They want to be capitalists, businessmen, and exploiters, rather than truly becoming members of the country. They don't want to fight for their country, they want to fight for themselves. If you ask them to form a big country, it will simply kill them. To them, ousting you is more important than building a new Netherlands.

The previous book, Rebirth of the Spanish Empire, was very good, but it wrote too much about domestic affairs. This book should remember to write less about domestic affairs, as it will easily be blocked.

The first picture was a hit. Does the author have any common sense and know how difficult it would be to secretly build a shipyard capable of building warships with a displacement of over 10,000 tons in a barbaric land? How could it not be discovered? Do you really think that the European countries at that time were idiots? The special steel used to build warships is a strategic material and must be monitored at all times. And do you know how much high-quality coal is needed to replenish a warship with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons? Can this be hidden? Too naive, as naive as a kindergarten kid. Even if the materials are obtained for you, where will you find the workers, engineers, and designers to build a warship? With the little technology accumulation of the Netherlands, secretly, you can only build a destroyer in 6 years, but you still want to build a 10,000-ton giant ship? Just ridiculous. The last one is a 180,000-ton warship. Do you know how many sailors and land support personnel are needed? Still want to keep it a secret? Absolutely ridiculous.

I don't think anyone who has traveled through modern society knows about the intrusive reproductive capabilities of black people. People of that era didn't understand you, time travellers, didn't you know? It's so poisonous, I immediately abandoned the book when I saw this.

This book made a mistake, that is, it greatly strengthened the combat effectiveness of its own army, allowing Prussia and Austria, which had little resources and little interest in colonization, to force colonization, and also underestimated the combat effectiveness of the British army.

Author, you really shouldn't set up the plot of John's Empire in another world. If you want to lift it up, you can lift it all up, as long as the bones are not skinned. If you come here suddenly, it will only make people feel ridiculous and angry. Reality is reality and history is history. Do we even have the courage to admit history? The reason why I say so much is because there are very few people writing about foreign history. To be honest, I can read every book. I hope that those who write about foreign history can have more profound thoughts about history that come from the author himself. I don't want the author to make such stupid mistakes again.

The Netherlands is still too small, and it is surrounded by Britain, France, Prussia and Spain. Even if Belgium is taken back, its development potential will still be limited. It is better to occupy and develop Australia. There are also opportunities in South America, not to mention Africa. However, the current environment in Africa is too harsh and there are too few areas suitable for development. Don't even think about North America, but North America's resources are too strong, so it's best to decompose North America and not let it be unified.

As long as it is the land that you like, you will definitely win it within five chapters. The first few pictures say that you want to have good relations with the United States, but after a few pictures, you compete with the United States for Alaska, and you also want to get involved in Hawaii. The inexplicable new fleet, the United Kingdom that is inexplicably weakened ten times, the inexplicable Australian territory, inexplicable Inexplicably, Canada gave more than half of its land to the Netherlands. Inexplicably, Prussia became a pawn. North America, you have a share of South America, you have a share of Southeast Asia, you have a share, and you have a share of Europe. Why is the Netherlands so proud of you? Are you sure this is not a hypnosis APP?

Push the timeline more, focus on development, immigration, develop colonies, occupy the Pacific Ocean, important islands such as Guam and Nauru, and develop resources. Europe is too young to stay for a long time.

The Dutch must be transformed, and the Germans are a model. They used to be very lazy, but they were unified by Prussia and became strict and orderly. Changing places will inevitably lead to the integration of the local indigenous people, and it should also attract other ethnic groups to come in and integrate, diluting the indigenous people and becoming a self-contained entity.

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Why keep it here? It feels like an enclave.