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On the fourth day after the Battle of the English Sea, the Don army successfully landed in The Hague and captured the city, and then the Franco-German-Bilian army also entered from the south, and the Dutch army laid down its arms and surrendered to the Don army when the Dutch ruling capital fled.

Both the French and German forces soon withdrew from the Netherlands, leaving the Netherlands entirely with 14,000 Don soldiers. France was preparing to launch an Italian campaign, and the Pyreneean legions did not take advantage of the confrontation with the Spaniards. The Dutch originally hoped to use the power of France to contain the political influence of the Tang Dynasty, but France was also constrained by the Tang Dynasty, so they couldn't count on it at all.

The strength of the Dutch National Revolution in the Netherlands is completely insufficient, so Datang also gave up the idea of establishing a complete national revolution in the Netherlands, mainly cooperating with the Patriot Party. Of course, the status of this kind of cooperation can never be equal, basically what the Tang people say, what the Dutch do.

First of all, the name of the United Provincial Republic of the Netherlands was officially abolished, and the new Dutch Republic, in terms of political system, was abolished and replaced by a unitary system, in which the central government was supreme over the local political institutions. Prior to this, the Dutch system was as follows, for example, diplomatic needs to sign a treaty of great importance: the head of the joint provincial republic cannot decide alone, the content of the treaty will be discussed by the parliament of the republic, and it will not be adopted here, because the republic is composed of various autonomous provinces, so it must be discussed and approved by the provincial council of each province, and each province has some autonomous cities, so the treaty must be approved by the parliament of each autonomous city first. The decision to approve or disapprove is then returned to the provincial assembly, the Assembly of the United Provincial Republic, and the head of the country. Such a circle is not only cumbersome and laborious, but also easy to cause the phenomenon of procrastination and prevarication.

Under the strong intervention of the Tang people, the new Dutch government was directly given the highest power, and the new constitution was above all else, and the local government must abide by the principles of the central government, and only give the local council the power of local legislation, and it cannot contradict the constitution.

This situation naturally caused discontent in some parts of the Netherlands, but it could not have been better for the Patriot party, because then the central power would obviously be more concentrated and larger. In fact, many people know that the previous system of the Netherlands was problematic, for example, the Dutch navy, in fact, is not one navy, but four navies. If the Dutch government wants to do something, many times it will even be stuck by a city, which is too embarrassing.

The leader of the patriots, Hemmel Penningk, in accordance with the will of the Tang Dynasty, organized the loose group of patriots into the patriot party and served as the party leader. Himmel Pennink also began to form a new Dutch government, led by Patriot Party members, and implemented large-scale national reforms. It is also worth mentioning that the Dutch National Revolution, originally an unknown force, also managed to enter the political arena in this change, winning a few sporadic parliamentary seats and two ministers.

The first thing the Patriot government did when it came to power was to declare the Orange family, to which William V belonged, a traitor to the Netherlands, persona non grata, and to ban them from entering the country.

Subsequently, the Patriot government passed a series of new decrees, and almost every aspect of the country began to carry out reforms. Of course, the most important thing is constitutional reform, which is opposed by many conservative forces. However, with the support of the Tang people, the Patriot government was extremely tough, and even used drastic measures similar to those of the French Revolution. Many conservatives have been found guilty of various crimes, the most common of which are crimes such as "betraying national interests" and "treason". Because the new government intends to strengthen the role of citizens, many conservatives are under siege by civilians. A group was killed, a group was exiled, and the remaining group chose to cooperate, and the Patriot Party also made a certain amount of compromise, and constitutional reform began to become smooth.

Naturally, these Dutch reforms are of little significance to Datang, and what really matters is that a month after the Patriot government came to power, the Netherlands officially signed an agreement with Datang, because the agreement was signed in Eindhoven, so it is called the "Eindhoven Treaty".

The Eindhoven Treaty first established a military alliance between the Tang Dynasty and the Netherlands, and in the event that a signatory was attacked by another country, the other country was obliged to provide military support to the Allied countries. As a subsidiary clause of the military alliance, the Tang Dynasty obtained the right to garrison troops in the Netherlands, but the headquarters of the Tang Army in Europe was not built in the Netherlands, but in Cievres, Belgium.

At the same time, Datang will assist the Netherlands in reorganizing the Dutch army and establishing a Dutch army of 30,000 men and a Dutch navy of 6,000 men, which will be unified under the Dutch Ministry of Defense. But just as the wartime command of the South Korean army was in the hands of the U.S. military, the operational command of the Dutch army was placed under the command of the Tang Army in Europe.

For the military alliance, many Dutch still agree, after all, Datang is very powerful, and an alliance with Datang will have a higher security guarantee for the Netherlands. However, the content of the latter treaty caused a huge controversy in the Netherlands.

The Dutch government imitated the previous treaty of transfer of the East Indies colonies, and transferred the Ceylon colonies and the Cape colonies to the Tang Dynasty, which opened more than 10 overseas territories around the world to the Netherlands, and completely exempted import and export duties, and the Dutch who were originally in the colonies had developed assets that could be retained. At the same time, the Netherlands and France merged Guyana into a single colony, which was jointly administered by the Tang Dynasty, France and the Netherlands, and the residents of the three countries were free to immigrate to the local area.

Many Dutch people considered the treaty to be humiliating because the Netherlands had lost almost all of its colonies. However, a considerable number of Dutch capitalists are very supportive of this, and in the eyes of this group of people, it does not matter what their nationality is, and it does not matter which government they are under the jurisdiction of, as long as they can make money. The overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty contained unlimited business opportunities, nominally they lost two colonies, but opened the door to trade with more colonies, which is simply unwanted.

Not all Dutch businessmen are satisfied with this, the deprivation of monopoly rights will definitely lead to fierce competition, and the free trade treaty is a two-way street, and the Netherlands also fully welcomes the strong Tang merchants with zero tariffs, and it is impossible to do without a sense of crisis.

But in any case, the Dutch could not afford to listen to the Tang people who occupied their land, and the treaty was finally signed. (To be continued.) )