Chapter 708: All Come and Rush to Be a Son-in-law (Part I)
Soon, Wilhelmina sent a telegram back to the Netherlands, and then asked the Dutch parliamentarians to introduce a bill to marry Germany. Although Wilhelmina is in China, according to the Dutch constitution, the king still has the right to appoint some people to serve as members, and these people can be directly appointed to the parliament without an election. They act as representatives of the royal family, and then they indirectly influence domestic affairs on behalf of the royal family. Although the Dutch royal family has no way to intervene directly, such indirect interference is still possible. And as a royal family, who doesn't have a few cronies! Even though Wilhelmina came to China, her power to appoint parliamentarians was not revoked according to the Dutch constitution.
So the MPs immediately began to put bills in Parliament at Her Majesty's request. As for the matter of marrying Angelina to the German prince, this matter must be discussed and approved by the parliament before it can be counted. Because Angelina is not only the princess of the Netherlands, but also the first in line to the throne of the Netherlands. This is true even if he has Chinese ancestry, after all, there are not many people in the Dutch royal family anymore. Wilhelmina was the third monarch of the Dutch Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Wilhelmina's father was in his sixties when he gave birth to Wilhelmina. And Wilhelmina had a few older brothers and sisters before, but they were all burping. As a result, the woman Wilhelmina is considered a lone seedling of the Dutch royal family, and Wilhelmina's descendants must be the Dutch royal family.
In fact, if there is no way, if it is not for Wilhelmina who has no other brothers and sisters, then I am afraid that the Netherlands will also force Wilhelmina to abdicate. After all, they can't quite accept that their queen is married to an Oriental, not to mention that there are many other women in this Oriental. If, according to the previous practice, if the queen had to do so, she would have to choose to abdicate. But the Dutch royal family is also Wilhelmina's woman, if Wilhelmina abdicates? So what to do then? There was simply no one to find the right person to be the king, and at that time there were only two options. One is to find a distant relative from another country to be the king. But find a distant relative, so why? Especially those around the royal family, that disagreed. After all, as long as the queen Wilhelmina is on the throne for one day, even if it is only a nominal queen, then their interests can be guaranteed. If you change to a ghost, you will know where the distant relatives came from to be the king of the Netherlands. The situation of the son of heaven and the courtiers will inevitably change.
So even if those who are united around the Dutch royal family know that Wilhelmina is married to a Chinese, and even if the future royal family has Chinese blood, then they can only knock out their teeth and swallow blood in their stomachs. Anyway, as long as they are descendants of the Nassau family, then their interests can be guaranteed. If another family were to be the king of the Netherlands, their interests would certainly not be guaranteed. In particular, the king of the Netherlands still has a certain amount of real power, so they are even more unwilling to be such a son of heaven and a courtier. They could only desperately defend Wilhelmina's throne and prevent Wilhelmina from being deposed.
Of course, on the other hand, there is really no one in the Nassau family, only Wilhelmina, the queen. All they will grit their teeth and accept. If there was another person to choose from, most likely they would have chosen to depose Wilhelmina's throne. However, there is obviously no choice, that is, choosing to be obedient.
"What? To marry our crown prince to Germany? The news immediately detonated the entire Dutch parliament.
You must know that the crown prince is not an ordinary person, which country's crown prince would choose a husband at will? Especially now that Wilhelmina and Wang Guorui's daughter Angelina is just over two years old, she actually chose to marry Germany, is it too early?
However, it seemed that the Germans had known the news in advance, and the prepared Germans immediately responded. If Germany and the Netherlands are willing to marry, then Germany will support it. Even if the German prince goes to the Netherlands! After all, Angelina is the first in line to the throne in the Netherlands. Most of them were going to inherit the Dutch throne, so it was impossible to let the future Dutch queen marry at that time. Therefore, I can only let the German prince come over and "join in". However, the German Emperor Wilhelm II may have few other things, but there are definitely a lot of such "things" as sons. Wilhelm II planned to send his youngest son, Prince Joachim, to the Netherlands to marry the Dutch first in line to the throne. As the prince of Germany, you must be prepared to sacrifice for the country. Moreover, it is probably impossible for that Joachim to inherit the German throne, and his succession is very backward. Unless the first few brothers are dead. That's what you need to inherit. But this probability is too low. If it was true that the first few brothers died, what would everyone think? Everyone may suspect that he did it!
So since the hope of inheritance is very slim, it is better to sacrifice for the sake of the country and make a living.
But this has just been passed on to the world. The British looked at the map and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat! Of course, they could see that if the Germans had stopped their warships in the Dutch port of Ludan, they would have made such a complete and rapid direct attack on London, the capital of England. This distance is much less than that from Germany, and the feasibility of the plan is also very large. If the time really comes when the German fleet in the Dutch port of Ludan gives you a chill, then directly through the North Sea through the London Tyme, and then to your capital London to wreak havoc on you, then you are really going to be in trouble. Even, there is no need for any large warships, as long as some small speedboats rush over at the fastest speed, then you will be miserable after a round of fighting.
If the marriage between Germany and the Netherlands had even gone further, and the German warships had stopped at the port of Ludan, it would have been a little more important to the British capital. It's not like a knife on your neck, but it's all people pointing a knife at your throat, and although the distance is not very fatal, it feels uncomfortable.
The British navy suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, if the Germans and the Dutch were officially married, then once this plan was achieved, the British would be in trouble. No country understands the truth that any country understands how to allow others to snore on the side of the couch, not to mention that the enemy still points a knife directly at your throat, and can sneak attack your throat at any time, so that the British can not be afraid? There are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, so the British have to be afraid. Even if they have a powerful fleet, who knows about this kind of sneak attack?
Therefore, the British could not afford not to take countermeasures, and they also made suggestions to the Dutch Parliament, hoping to let Queen Victoria's great-grandson George be engaged to Angelina, the first in line to the throne of the Netherlands. And the British are also thinking that if this marriage can be laid, then there may be an opportunity to use the Netherlands as a springboard to threaten Germany.
In this way, the Germans will not do it, Nima, the Netherlands is next to Germany, if the Netherlands and Britain are married, then wouldn't this directly give the British a springboard on the European continent, and then they can give Germany a chiller on land at any time? You must know that according to the Schlieffen plan formulated by the German General Staff, they were to fight against France, and then try to force France to surrender before they were ready to turn around and fight the Russians. At that time, the navy was on the defensive, so as not to let the British seize the loophole. And the core of this plan is to destroy France, and the Dutch must be on their side, even if it remains neutral!
If the Schlieffen plan was implemented at that time, and the main forces of the Germans went to France at that time, if the Dutch stood on the side of the British at this time and directly sent troops to cut off the logistics supply lines of the Germans, then the Germans would not have said anything about the Schlieffen plan, and it would have been good to be able to guarantee that the country would not be destroyed.
Therefore, at this moment, the Netherlands has become a dead end between Germany and England, and both sides have begun to go beyond each other for this opportunity of marriage. Both sides put pressure on the Dutch parliament to force the Dutch to agree to their side's marriage proposal. And this Netherlands is already geographically unknown, I don't know if it's too good or too bad, it's just stuck between two big powers, and the most cheating thing is that there must be a war between these two big powers. That's a real fool.
The members of the Dutch parliament almost fainted in the toilet crying one by one, and now the two major powers were putting pressure on them, both openly and secretly. Some threatened, some gave gifts and bribes, and anyway, the two countries showed their own powers, and then forced the Dutch parliamentarians to agree to their plan.
As a result, these Dutch parliamentarians are also going crazy, they are rats in bellows - angry at both ends! This is also the sorrow of a weak country, caught between two big and powerful countries, and it is not okay to offend that one. It's really dancing on two eggs, and you can't even step on one of them.
As for the support of the queen's husband, the future emperor of China, Wang Guorui, it is still a province, this is far away from the water can not quench the thirst, Wang Guorui's hand is not so long, it is impossible to help them get through the difficulties.
So now the Dutch parliament, the Dutch have completely lost control, and it has become a stage for the wrestling between Britain and Germany, and those parliamentarians are really big, and even some parliamentarians can't bear such huge pressure at this time and offer to resign.
"You want to be my son-in-law?" Wang Guorui received the news and couldn't help but sigh. (To be continued.) )