However, this happy agreement was sent by telegram to Amsterdam, the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and was met with King William III and Prime Minister Young. Hemskelke's brutal refusal, and at the behest of William III, the Parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands passed a resolution to send a fleet and troops to the East Indies colonies.

However, the Kingdom of the Netherlands is in power. After the news of the government's refusal to negotiate, the Dutch stock and bond markets continued to plummet in panic, falling by 90 percent. Government bonds have truly become waste paper.

King William III and Prime Minister Young. Hemskelke was so angry that he announced the temporary closure of the stock and bond markets without even a parliamentary resolution.

This was something that Hu Zhen expected, but he had a plan, and he received the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the government refused the news of the negotiations, it immediately sent a telegram without hesitation ordering Zhang Suan, Frodo, and Ou Lang to form a delegation to lobby the parliament to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The government exerted strong pressure to stabilize the collapsed stock and bond markets as soon as possible.

At the same time, Hu Zhen also activated the secret force hidden in the Netherlands to attack the Dutch naval force.

When the Dutch army was in full swing preparing for the expedition, the Dutch naval fleet stationed in Amsterdam had a strange explosion, which sank two cruisers moored at the anchorage, blew up forty percent of the ammunition reserves of the Dutch Navy on the dock, and the explosion swept across the entire dock area, killing and wounding more than 1,000 Dutch naval officers and men, and destroying countless military operations.

The Dutch army immediately cordoned off the explosion site and launched an investigation, but the investigation came and went, and there was no clue at all.

This caused the morale of the Dutch naval officers to fall into a low point before they even set out for the battle.

This also had the consequence that the Dutch army was running out of ammunition, and according to calculations, the arsenal urgently replenished enough expeditionary ammunition, and it would take at least a month.

A more serious problem was that the Netherlands was caught in a strange circle: the stock market collapsed and the bond market was closed. There was no way to raise funds, and where would there be enough money beyond the budget to send a fleet and army to the East Indies colonies?

Finally, there is the troubling issue of the draft agreement of DiBoer, which was reached under the auspices of Walder, the Governor of the Straits Settlements of the English Empire, and the two banks of the English Empire clearly benefited. I heard that the Kingdom of the Netherlands was going to organize an expeditionary force to the Far East. Immediately some people in England were unhappy, and they lobbied the Prime Minister Salisbury and the House of Commons to ask the Imperial Government to immediately prevent the Dutch Expeditionary Force from going to the Far East to the detriment of the interests of the Imperial Bank.

Hu Zhen took the opportunity to make a move in England and asked Zhang Suan to buy some writers, and said it openly in influential English-language newspapers such as The Times. It is proposed that the Dutch expeditionary force fleet should not be allowed to pass through the Suez Canal, so that the Dutch expeditionary force will travel at least 8,000 kilometers more, even if the huge fleet of steamers crawling like a snail sails at an economic speed of eight knots and does not encounter wind and waves, it will at least travel for nearly a month, which will make it possible for the Dutch expeditionary force to collapse before it reaches the Far East.

News of the inability to cross the Suez Canal soon reached the Netherlands, which put a heavy strain on the Dutch expeditionary force, and the military opened its mouth wide to propose an astronomical budget for the expedition for the prime minister. Hemskelke was frustrated with the need to raise enough of a budget.

King William III was furious and ordered Parliament to impeach the conservative Prime Minister Jan immediately. Hemskelke stepped down. Aeneas, a well-mannered counter-revolutionary, was re-elected. Mackay is Prime Minister.

But at this time, the stock market and the bond market were closed, even Aeneas. No matter how powerful Ma Kai was, he could not raise enough funds to start an expeditionary force to begin an expedition to the East Indies colonies.

When the helpless Aeneas. When Mackay was also white-headed, the seventy-year-old William III was so angry that he could not afford to fall ill.

Just a few days later, William III was so angry that he was caught between the inside and the outside.

Originally, in another time and space, William III died three years later, but under the disturbance of Hu Zhen, history changed, and the Dutch lost their East Indies colony. William III died early.

The sudden death of Wilhelm III caused great confusion in the political landscape of the Netherlands.

William III, who had three sons with his former queen Matilda Sophie, intended to pass on the throne to three sons, but was met with strong opposition from the Constitution-makers. In the end, all three of William III's sons died inexplicably young.

William III, now 29 years old, has a daughter, William Helena Polina Maria, who is only seven years old.

After a month of bitter bickering, the political forces in the Netherlands finally reached a compromise and agreed to maintain the constitutional monarchy and let the seven-year-old girl Wilhelmina Helena Polina Maria succeed to the throne of William III. But before Queen Wilhelmina officially ascended the throne at the age of eighteen, she was regent by Queen Emma.

Queen Emma, a twenty-nine-year-old woman from Germany, has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and she does not have enough political experience, let alone any knowledge and opinion about the East Indian colonies thousands of miles away, and she has no opinion on whether to go on an expedition to recapture the East Indian colonies.

Hu Zhen did not expect William III to die three years early, but of course he would not let go of this opportunity. He quickly sent a telegram asking Frodo and O'Lang to secretly use large sums of money to organize workers through intermediaries. Workers and merchants. The city demanded that the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands quickly settle the affairs of the East Indies colonies and restore the normal economy.

Even the Dutch soldiers, after receiving a little monetary benefit, were encouraged to resign from their military posts one after another, expressing their unwillingness to go to the Far East to die.

Hu Zhen also secretly paid a lot of money to buy off a large number of writers, reporters, and writers in various European countries, and asked them to write articles in various newspapers and magazines one after another, commenting that although the Governor of the East Indies Colony, Dipole, should be sent to the gallows because he lost the entire East Indies Colony, he negotiated with the Chinese Guild of that barbarian at the last moment to get back 600,000 square kilometers of land on Java and Sumatra and 20 million pounds for land sales. Now that the Kingdom of the Netherlands is in turmoil, it is time to seriously consider the draft agreement reached between Dipole and the Huaxia Guild.

Of course, some people have written in newspapers pointing out that although the Dutch East Indies Colony has lost 1.3 million square kilometers of land, there is no economic value at all in these 1.3 million square kilometers of land, and most of them are inhabited by some headhunters and cannibalistic barbarian tribes, while Sumatra and Java have retained 70 percent of the essence of the Dutch East Indies Colony.

Someone else wrote that the Kingdom of the Netherlands had collapsed its stock and bond markets for the sake of a wild land in the Far East, and that in the old saying of the Far East, "if you lose a watermelon, you pick up a sesame seed", this kind of policy is really as stupid as a pig.

The clamor and suggestions of these literati really affected the Dutch government and the opposition, and the various factions in the parliament quarreled over it.

At this time, the English Empire, which had benefited from it, intervened, and the Prime Minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, was very concerned about the controversy in the Netherlands, and expressed on more than one occasion in private and public that he was willing to support the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Chinese Guilds in the Far East to settle the issue of the ownership of the East Indies colonies through peaceful negotiations.

In July 1887, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was in trouble. After more than two months of hard work, the government finally could not hold on, and expressed its willingness to accept the draft determined by Dipole and Niu Quyun, and sent plenipotentiaries to Singapore on a clipper ship to sign a contract with the plenipotentiaries of the Huaxia Guild to confirm the delivery of the East Indies colony.

On 21 August 1887, the representatives of the two sides finally signed a peace treaty in Singapore mediated by the representatives of England.

The Huaxia Guild will pay 20.1 million pounds sterling to the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the return of Java and Sumatra (this 100,000 pounds was increased by Hu Zhen in order to show some face to the Dutch Kingdom), that is, it has more than 1.3 million square kilometers of land territory in the former Dutch East Indies colonies, including Borneo Islands, Sulawesi, Maguru Islands, Nusa Tenggara Islands (Lesser Sunda Islands), West Papua Ilian, Riau Islands, and Bangka Belitung Islands. (To be continued.) )