Chapter 445: The Marriage Proposal (I)
Soon, the Dutch parliament began to convene an emergency meeting, and the matter of this meeting was also discussed about the marriage of their queen. Now that it has been revealed that Queen Wilhelmina is pregnant out of wedlock, this is simply a cheat. So next, everyone has to find a way to solve it, and everyone discusses whether to marry Wang Guorui. After all, now that you even have children, most of them are going to be wrong. In the current law of Westerners, abortion is not allowed, which causes them to choose to marry Wang Guorui by mistake. However, this is the queen's marriage after all, and it will definitely not work out if it is not resolved by a parliament. In this way, everyone is ready to go back and discuss what to do.
As for Wang Guorui, he walked into the Dutch Parliament Building with Wilhelmina hand in hand, and then Wang Guorui kept reassuring Wilhelmina, hoping that she could calm down. And many people also feel that Wang Guorui is showing affection, but the queen doesn't care, what does he have to say about this?
Wang Guorui walked into the parliament building, and then the members of the first and second houses of the Netherlands also began to prepare for a joint meeting. The Netherlands, on the other hand, is a constitutional monarchy, and their parliament is divided into two chambers, one of which is equivalent to the Senate of the United States, and the representatives are elected according to the provinces, regardless of the population. The other second chamber, which is similar to the House of Representatives in the United States, is elected in proportion to the population. The division of labor between the two chambers is also slightly different, generally speaking, the first chamber is responsible for legislation, and the second chamber is responsible for deliberating various day-to-day administrative matters. However, now this issue concerning the marriage of the queen must be discussed by the two houses together and a joint meeting must be convened to discuss.
Wang Guorui sat at the top of the table, and then prepared to be questioned by those Dutch parliamentarians.
"Next, let's discuss the marriage proposal between our Kingdom of the Netherlands and Wang Guorui, the leader of the Taiwan region of China. Now I would like to invite Governor Wang to come up and take your inquiries and make a message. The president of the council said first.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Wang Guorui, Governor General of Taiwan, China. Since I don't know Dutch, I plan to answer in English, so I hope you will forgive me! Wang Guorui said.
But. The people on the scene didn't have much opinion, because most of the people present could speak English, and even if the translator who didn't know English was easy to find, there was no problem.
"Regarding the marriage between Taiwan and the Netherlands, we actually have a lot of complementarity. Taiwan is still in the process of development and construction, which requires a large number of industrial products, and various basic technologies of various machinery. However, Taiwan has huge wealth, but it cannot have enough industrial products, and our industrial strength is also developing. So we still need to buy a lot of these supplies from foreign countries, so we want to be able to complement the Netherlands. Although the Netherlands is now inferior to Britain, France, Germany and other countries in the world. However, they are also first-class countries with a glorious history. The Netherlands has a relatively complete industrial system and can produce most of the industrial products. What the Netherlands lacks at present is a market, so many industrial products cannot be expanded, and the employment of workers cannot be effectively improved. However, Taiwan lacks a large number of industrial products, and the Netherlands cannot meet its own productive forces, so we have great complementarity. So, I think we can be as a marriage. After the marriage, we become a family, so that both of us can also carry out effective cooperation and development. process of strategic cooperation. ”
However, there will definitely be people who are dissatisfied next.
"In that case, why should we get married, can you just come to us and buy it?"
Wang Guorui immediately asked: "If we didn't become a family, why did we give so many orders to the Kingdom of the Netherlands?" If we want to, there will be many countries that are willing to sell to us. For example, Britain, France and Germany will certainly be very satisfied with this. And the reason why we are willing to give 10 million pounds to the Netherlands must be that we have a closer relationship, otherwise how could we give these orders to you? ”
And many people also felt funny about the parliamentarian who raised the question, if Wang Guorui did not marry their queen, then why did Wang Guorui give this order to the Netherlands cheaply. To know the order of 10 million. It is enough to make countless second-rate European countries eat a lot of money, and such a big local tyrant, perhaps many European countries are also willing to give up a lot of political interests to Taiwan. Such a large order, if it is given to anyone, it is a great friendship, so why should such an order be given to the Netherlands, is it not because Wang Guorui wants to marry their queen? Therefore, this is actually nonsense, if there is no prerequisite for marrying the queen, then there is no need for Wang Guorui to give this 10 million pound order to the Netherlands.
"Also, the war between Taiwan and our Netherlands has not stopped before, why do you want to marry our Dutch queen? Also, you are the culprit who invaded the colonies of our Kingdom of the Netherlands, why should you marry the queen of our Netherlands? Someone immediately asked.
Wang Guorui immediately said: "This matter is actually very simple, the Netherlands destroyed our Chinese protectorate back then, so we naturally have to help them restore the country, is there a problem?" The Republic of Lanfang and several other republics on the island of Kalimantan are all countries established by our Chinese ancestors, and we help our protectorate to restore the country, there is no problem with this, even you in the Netherlands can work. Even when I was helping the Republic of Lanfang to recover, I found out that you Dutch rule in the name of the Republic of Lanfang, and these are enough to show that the Republic of Lanfang exists. Therefore, if you invade and occupy our protectorate of China, this must be an infringement on our interests of China, and what is it for us to seek back our own interests? ”
"You're using strong words!" Immediately someone shouted angrily.
Wang Guorui said righteously: "In this war, you Dutch invaded and occupied our Lanfang Republic and other protectorates, and we China naturally have the obligation to help them restore the country, so what you say is unreasonable." And Kalimantan has always been a colony of our Chinese, so if you invade our colony, won't we be allowed to take it back? It's good that we in China don't ask for such compensation, and since we are about to become a family now, I won't ask you for compensation. ”
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The Dutch parliamentarians at the scene also felt speechless, Wang Guorui was definitely beating back, originally they wanted to question Wang Guorui for encroaching on the Dutch colony, but they didn't expect Wang Guorui to be tougher than them, this is obviously fighting back against them.
However, those Dutch parliamentarians had nothing to say, because Wang Guorui's toughness came from their great strength, with hundreds of thousands of troops and several fleets, which were much stronger than the Dutch, who had already declined. So although Wang Guorui faced so many of them alone, he would not be afraid at all. Wang Guorui has hundreds of thousands of troops to support him, so he naturally will not be afraid of them. And although these Dutch seem to be numerous, they don't have any strength to support them, so Wang Guorui naturally won't worry too much.
"Now that we're about to become a family, what are you going to do with our Dutch prisoners of war? When will you release those prisoners of war? A lawmaker immediately asked.
There are still some parliamentarians who care about those prisoners of war, after all, these are more than 100,000 prisoners of war, and their various relatives and friends are very large numbers, and they are related to at least a million Dutch relatives and friends. These people are also voters one by one, and if they can promote the resolution of this matter, they will inevitably gain a lot of political capital, so some people have also begun to care about the issue of prisoners of war.
"With regard to prisoners of war, as a sign of sincerity, we can consider releasing 10,000 prisoners of war first. And these 10,000 prisoners of war will be given priority to officers, and we can also give priority to all officers, and the remaining soldiers will not be released. And when my wedding with Her Majesty the Queen has reached a certain stage, then we will release some prisoners of war again, so that the final wedding will be considered the release of prisoners of war. As for the ransom for the prisoners of war this time, since we are all family, there is no need for us to ask for it. ”
Wang Guorui's release of prisoners of war this time is actually tied to the marriage of Wang Guorui and Wilhelmina, if this marriage cannot be determined, then naturally it will not be possible to release all prisoners of war. As soon as the marriage is completed, all prisoners of war will be released. Anyway, since as long as you get married, everyone will become a family, so there is no problem in this way.
And those noble councilors heard this, and heard that Wang Guorui was willing to give priority to the release of the officers, which also made them feel relieved, because those nobles could return to China first. After all, many of those officers were nobles, and if the nobles could be allowed to return home first, then those Dutch nobles would also have a good impression.
"But what about the colonies? The small countries of your Chinese that you advocate are also on Kalimantan, and our island of Sulawesi and the islands west of it are also our Dutch colonies, and Java and Sumatra are also our Dutch colonies, should you withdraw from them? Since we're all going to be a family, it's hard for you to occupy our place, right? Immediately, a councillor began to ask. (To be continued......)