Chapter 268

June 1, 1866, 8 am, Scandinavia, Stockholm.

Although Stockholm in the morning is not as monsoon as winter, but there is still an arctic chill in the morning, which is too refreshing.

This Nordic continent is indeed not suitable for large-scale migration of human beings, not to mention food, just the degree of freezing in this day, and the annual cost of buying fabrics and clothing is much more than those in southern Europe, the Kingdom of Italy and other places. For a family, this is a lot of money.

This also pumpkins the Swedish-Norwegian United Kingdom's population is always so small

As Sweden's largest city, Stockholm is also the heart of the country with the most concentrated power. The royal palaces, government agencies and parliament buildings are all located here.

Stockholm is adjacent to the Baltic Sea and has beautiful scenery. It is scattered on 14 small islands and a peninsula. More than 70 bridges connect these islands into one, so it enjoys the title of Venice of the North, so William IV came to Sweden this time, but he arrived 2 days earlier. . It was only after walking around in Stockholm two days ago that I attended the German-Heads of State meeting hosted by Karl XV today.

William IV sat in the carriage and asked Haf, the Dutch ambassador to Sweden next to him, "How is the situation in Sweden today?"

This time he came with him, only Foreign Minister Heisbet Feng and the middle of the International Intelligence Agency Mackay Sean, of course, the head of the Dutch Royal Guard is bound to follow, to maintain the safety of the royal family members. great responsibility.

Huff was born in 1834 and is only 32 years old this year, but he is still young and strong. The fame is second only to Nicholas Pearson, the ambassador to Prussia, and Mike Davies, the ambassador to the British Empire, the former was born in 1835 and the latter was born in 1830.

Huff took over from Pearson.

William IV knew that Haf in front of him was in the Dutch diplomatic circle and was under the command of Pearson, the leader of the Young Zhuang faction.

Where there are people, there are factions of Jianghu. This sentence is really true.

However, don't worry too much about this for William IV. Just like Tolbek now, he has been elected Prime Minister of the Netherlands for the second term, and he can only serve two prime ministers at most, but he is not ready to break it. .

Therefore, for the new cabinet government in the Dutch election in 1869 and 1870, the Netherlands does not mind electing the anti-opposition party to power and check and balance the current Dutch ruling party.

"Christian sects can maintain my religious adherence, which must be done"

William IV secretly said: "However, the Franco-Prussian War is coming. If a Christian dang comes to power at this time, it may break the current arrangements of the Netherlands and affect the plans of me and Tolbek. It makes me a little bit. Contradiction, let's see the situation, it's really not good, let the free dang continue to work for another term and see, after Europe enters the peace of the 1970s, it will use Christian dang to paralyze other European countries and promote the commonality of the Netherlands in Protestantism"

Thinking of this, William IV looked at Huff in front of him, and then thought of Nelson, the ambassador to Prussia.

"Nelson is a good guy, he is shrewd enough, and his political tactics are different from those of Tolbik. Nelson likes to use the king's way. When it comes to Bismarck, he can retreat completely, and let Prussia agree to make an alliance with the Netherlands and France.

Nelson is from Christian dang, which is a good choice. The next term will only be 36 years old. If it is 1874, it will be just 40 years old, which is really good.

Mike Davies, the free dang's ambassador to the UK, was 40 years old in 1870. He could have succeeded Tolbek, but it was too early. After all, Heisbert Von was the same age as him, and the other cabinet members were also different in age from him. It's not big, but the free dang is full of talents, but Davis and Pearson and a few others can enter the cabinet first for experience and experience to broaden their horizons."

William IV was thinking here, but Ambassador Haf reported: ""Go back to your Majesty, the current domestic situation in Sweden is quite chaotic."

William IV looked at it unexpectedly, "Go on"

Haf said solemnly: "Before 1861, Sweden wanted to be independent because Norway wanted to be independent, so King Carl XV strengthened control over Norway. However, the Norwegians did not dare to change, but with the British side over the past few years. The promotion of maritime trade with Norway, the trade volume between Britain and Norway is even higher than that between Norway and Sweden, which has led to the development of Norway's local capital to gradually shift its focus to the United Kingdom, and Norway has vigorously of the construction of marine vessels."

William IV asked: "Isn't Karl XV stopping him?"

Capital is highly profitable, so for more than 2 million Norwegians, they will resist Stockholm in the future, because the factories in this era are more purely manual, and employment will change with the direction of industry. If Norway's industry serves the United Kingdom, Then the amount of employment in the future will be in the hands of London, not in Stockholm.

Sure enough, Haf smiled bitterly: "Karl XV once asked Oslo to reduce its transactions with the United Kingdom, but it caused huge dissatisfaction in Oslo, and even after the Norwegian Parliament passed the proposal for free trade, it was sent directly to Karl XV, the Royal Palace of Stockholm. in the office of Charles XV, said to have caused the great wrath of Karl XV."

William IV: "What happened in the end?"

The result is of course not to be used. Looking at the fact that Norway is still in full swing with the British, you can know that Karl XV has gray hair.

Haf: "Karl XV was going to directly veto it, and even planned to withdraw Frederick Stang, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, but in the end this proposal by the royalists was rejected by the Swedish Parliament."

what!

At that time, William IV was paying attention to Africa and the East Indies and other southern overseas countries~www.mtlnovel.com~, but he did not pay attention to this, and Sweden quickly turned major events into small ones, so it did not cause too much international sensation.

However, in this way, William IV proposed to Sweden to hold a German leaders-people summit this time, and Karl XV even readily agreed, which is a bit frowning.

"Why do they oppose Karl XV's proposal at home"

Haf then explained: "At present, the Swedish parliament is mainly composed of liberals supported by royalists and capitalists. Many of the capitalists have countries and are the promoters who want Sweden to keep up with the industrial pace of Western Europe. Father Oscar I, who wanted to promote Sweden to become an advanced industrialized country, was greatly reused, and the royalists were suppressed by Oscar I"

William IV knew about this, because traditionally, these royalists were actually the legacy of the nobles, and they were all vested interests.

On the contrary, many capitalists have only started to rise not long ago, and they are considered to be self-made, so Oscar I was afraid that the capitalists would be suppressed by the royalists, so he favored the capitalists.