Elective Sultanate

On October 1, 1925, a piece of news plunged the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands into chaos in an instant.

According to the report, Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, had officially fallen to the indigenous rebels. The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Dirk, had been captured, and more than twenty thousand Dutch soldiers were in danger of being surrounded.

The culprits responsible for all this were blamed on Dirk's poor command and Muhammad's betrayal.

The Dutch media reporting the news called Dirk a good-for-nothing and Muhammad a traitor to the Netherlands. They even claimed that all mixed-race people were like Muhammad and should not be trusted.

As soon as the news was reported, it stirred up a storm throughout the Netherlands. The importance of the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands was beyond doubt. Muhammad's betrayal and Governor-General Dirk's capture also represented the fact that the situation in the Dutch East Indies was beyond saving.

After confirming that public opinion had turned into fury toward Muhammad and Dirk, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands was quite satisfied with his actions. During the public address that followed, he had no choice but to sorrowfully state that he was considering abandoning the Dutch East Indies in exchange for the safe return of tens of thousands of Dutch soldiers.

One had to admit that ginger grew spicier with age. This move by the Prime Minister of the Netherlands quickly extricated him from the crisis, shifting all the blame for losing the Dutch East Indies onto Governor-General Dirk and Muhammad. Instead, it made him look like a benevolent prime minister who had been forced to make a sacrificial decision for the sake of the people.

Sure enough, following the Prime Minister of the Netherlands' statement, the Dutch people vented their