The Dutch ambassador to France first met with French Foreign Minister Talleyrand to test Talleyrand's views on the French colony of Cape Town. Talleyrand said France had always supported the Netherlands' demands for justice. Prior to this, the Netherlands had made representations to Britain for the return of the Cape Town colony, which France had always supported. This attitude has never changed. The Netherlands and France are allies who share weal and woe, and both sides have the responsibility and obligation to support each other.

Talleyrand's statement is actually to show that the Dutch can arch fire on the British, and the French can support him, and they can guarantee that the British will not shell Rotterdam with warships.

Of course, the British robbed Cape Town that year, but later forced the Netherlands to sign a treaty of trade, which symbolically gave the purchase fee. Later, after the undisputed victory of France, the revolution broke out in the Netherlands (of course, this was carried out under the manipulation of France, but the Dutch people were also very supportive - because with the revolution, the Netherlands was France's revolutionary comrade-in-arms, the victorious power, the tributary state like Korea, not the state-building Tartars like Prussia and Austria). The Dutch government after the revolution claimed that the money that the British "bought" Cape Town was used to support the reactionary government to suppress the revolutionary people, and that the traitorous treaty signed by the overthrown reactionary government to sell Cape Town was null and void and would not be recognized by the Dutch people.

However, although they declared that they would not admit it, the Netherlands alone could not do anything with the British. In fact, the Netherlands themselves are not particularly concerned about reclaiming Cape Town. Even if, at that time, the British were willing to talk to them about the purchase of Cape Town, the Government of the Netherlands would have been more than willing.

Of course, this is impossible, if the British were going to really do it. With the Dutch people's notoriously shameless habit of asking for money, the Netherlands will certainly make every change of power in power take the form of a "revolution", and then the new "revolutionary government" will immediately define the previous government as a "reactionary government", and then re-talk with the British and sell Cape Town again.

So, of course, the British refused the Dutch demands. And after the rejection, the Netherlands basically didn't mention it for a long time. The reason is also simple, because the Ming Dynasty, ah, it should be that France did not plan to turn against Britain at that time, so the Netherlands, as an ally (tributary state), naturally could not create incidents by themselves. But now, the French's efforts to find trouble with the British were seen by all Europeans.

In particular, not so long ago, His Majesty the Roman Emperor Napoleon, at a meeting of the Senate of the Roman Empire, delivered a speech on the economic situation in Europe. In this speech, His Majesty Napoleon pointed out: "In a situation where the economic situation is still very serious and the hope of recovery is like a candle in the wind, the maintenance and promotion of the European and even the world single market is the guarantee of economic recovery." But sadly, some countries, for their own purposes, do things that harm others and themselves, and endanger free trade. It's so hateful and so pathetic.

An iron curtain has now been lowered on the English Channel, behind which England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are located, as well as the wider North America and British Africa...... And India. Hundreds of millions of people are shielded from free trade by this iron curtain.

We know that economic freedom determines political freedom. Without a free economy, there can be no free politics, and there can be no protection of the fundamental rights of human beings. So we see that on the other side of the Iron Curtain, on the one hand, there is the barbaric and brutal oppression of all peoples, and on the other hand, the trampling on the freedom of the people, including their own.

Many years ago, French farsighters pointed out that the security and guarantee of freedom in a free country lie in the pursuit and maintenance of freedom in the whole world. Freedom and democracy cannot coexist with oppression and slavery. Just as Rome could never coexist with Carthage.

The Iron Curtain must be destroyed and free trade must become the universal norm. It's like Carthage must be wiped out unconditionally......"

This speech sounded the clarion call against the British. The British, of course, were extremely dissatisfied with this, and they immediately protested to France. However, the French government said: "This is a matter for the Roman Empire, what does it matter to us in France?" If you want to protest, you can go to the Roman Empire to protest. ”

However, Britain and the Roman Empire did not have formal diplomatic relations at all. Because it was not part of the allies of the Roman Empire. Outside of the Roman Empire and its allies, there were barbarians. Naturally, the Roman Empire would not establish diplomatic relations with barbarians. Therefore, the diplomatic protest of the British naturally could not be protested.

In this speech, Napoleon has clearly compared England to Carthage. Since ancient times, "Rome and Carthage are not at odds", and France's determination to engage Britain has been very obvious. Now, as an ally of the Roman Empire, the Netherlands naturally understood that it was time to take the initiative to jump out.

For the Dutch people to take the initiative in Rome when needed, jumped out. Both Napoleon and Joseph were very much appreciated. In Napoleon's view, if you control Cape Town, you control the most important shipping routes between East and West:

"During the Seven Years' War, France lost vital India, and a series of financial problems in France were actually related to this loss. And Britain was able to wreak havoc on the entire European continent with a small island, in large part, because they had India, which allowed them to suck blood at will. If we could control Cape Town, the route from Europe to India would be directly under our noses, and at a critical moment, we would have only to allow British ships to use the facilities at Cape Town, which would be enough to make it difficult for the British to suck blood from India. And if we stationed a fleet there, it would be a nightmare for the British. ”

Joseph raised his hands in agreement with Napoleon's view. In addition to what Napoleon said, there is another extremely important reason, that is, South Africa has gold mines, and they are very large.

South Africa's Rand Gold Mine is the world's largest gold mine, with recoverable reserves of up to 53,000 tons. It accounts for more than half of the world's mineable gold reserves.

Gold is a natural currency. Relying on the two gold mines in the Americas, the Bank of Rome now initiates banknotes without blinking an eye, and because of this, when there is an economic crisis in the whole of Europe, France, as the birthplace of the crisis, is now in the best economic situation. Of course, the French do not advertise that our economic situation is good because we have gold mines in our hands and can print money at will. Rather, it claims that it is because we have democracy, freedom and free trade.

"We're going to organize an uprising in Cape Town. and to allow the rebels to quickly occupy Cape Town. "As I recall, this should have been prepared for a long time ago, and the Ministry of Peace should have already had several plans." Napoleon, you ask people to pick a few sets of plans that are most suitable for the current situation, and we will study them together. ”

Just as Napoleon and Joseph began to work on the plans of the Ministry of Peace, the Spaniards jumped out with the Netherlands, and their goal, of course, was the fortress of Gibraltar, which he had always obsessed.