Rise of Australia

Chapter 167
On July 1903, 7, several transport ships loaded with weapons and equipment set off from the port of Sydney, Australia, aiming to reach the destination island country.

What is loaded here is part of the island-Australia treaty, including 98 Gew105 rifles, [-] German-made Maxim heavy machine guns, [-] [-]mm Krupp howitzers and millions of rounds of bullets. , Tens of thousands of shells.

Of course, there are still a large number of bullets and shells being manufactured. Judging from Australia's current military strength, it is already considered overtime to be able to produce so many weapons and equipment.

It took less than half a month for this batch of weapons and equipment to be successfully delivered to the port of the island country, and Arthur also successfully obtained the final payment from the island country.

The total amount of orders for the entire arms trade was as high as nearly 200 million pounds, and the price of the battleship alone was as high as more than 100 million pounds.

Of course, the delivery of the battleship will have to wait until next year, and the entire construction time will take at least more than a year.

The total profit of Australia's total profit is as high as more than 70 pounds in the transaction with these weapons and warships from the island country.

Although more than half of the profits belonged to Arthur's military factory, that is, the royal consortium, nearly half of the profits belonged to the Australian government.

Although the income of the Australian government is less than 30 pounds, this is already a huge improvement for Australia, which had no income from military industry before.

On September 1903, 9, another batch of weapons and equipment also departed from Sydney Harbor, escorted by a number of transport ships and several warships, but the destination was no longer the previous island country, but a place where there was intense friction between the Far East and the island country. Russian Empire.

For reasons of secrecy, this batch of weapons and equipment was disguised as clothing and food on the surface, and was transported very low-key to a port controlled by the Tsarist Empire.

Although the number of these weapons and equipment is almost half of that of the island countries, no one can deny the lethality and power that these heavy firepower weapons can bring.

If the island country is not fully prepared, maybe these new heavy weapons of the Tsarist Russian Empire can make the island country have a good drink. Although it will not completely reverse the situation of the war, there is still hope for changing a small war.

Although the arms trade on the side of the Russian Empire was not as profitable as the island countries, it also brought tens of thousands of pounds of profits to Australia.

These two arms trades are also the two main arms trades in Australia at present. After all the orders from the island country and the Tsarist Russian Empire are completed, Australia's arms factories can only provide weapons for the country.

During this period, there is another piece of good news for Australia, that is, the first batch of undergraduates of the Australian National University has successfully graduated and entered various industries in Australia.

Although the Australian National University's first cohort of undergraduates entered school more than a month later than later, this did not prevent them from successfully graduating three years later.

The first batch of undergraduates involved a total of five majors, among which the more important mechanical majors and physical chemistry majors each had [-] undergraduates, and so far, the Australian National University has the two departments with the most undergraduates.

Then there are the construction professions and the medical professions.Architecture majors, also known as civil engineering, learn how to design and build.Needless to say, the medical profession can provide Australia with much-needed medical talents, and these talents will also provide strong manpower for many of Australia's current large hospitals.

The lowest number of enrollment is the literature major.There are only one hundred undergraduates majoring in literature in the first batch, even if the total number of literature students in the entire Australian National University is less than five hundred.

But literature students still have many important uses for Australia, and the combination of immigrants and native Australians that Arthur hopes to see depends on the pen and mouth of these literature students.

Don't underestimate the guidance of literati to the people's thinking. As long as these people publish their articles about the Australian nation in various newspapers crazily, there will always be many Australians who will see it and gradually believe and recognize it.

The graduates of this year's college students have changed the industry and medical care the most in Australia.

With 150 medical graduates, all the major hospitals in Australia are basically in operation. Except for some particularly important positions that are hired by foreign experts, other positions have basically been mastered by these medical graduates.

Many graduates of mechanics and physical chemistry were invited to Arthur's munitions factories and shipyards, as well as to the various factories and laboratories built in the industrial estate.

They are crucial to Australia's scientific research force. Although they are not decisive leaders, they can also become a very good backbone.

The enrollment of the Australian National University has shown a downward trend over the years. Except for the 800 students in the first cohort, there are only 600 in the second cohort, and only 500 in the third and fourth cohorts.

This has also led to the fact that the number of teachers and students of the Australian National University is only less than 700 after the first undergraduates graduate.

Although the number of college students has decreased compared to before, the teaching efficiency of teachers will also increase accordingly.

With the graduation of college students one after another, the mainstay talents that are relatively scarce in Australia can finally be filled. On the basis of attracting top scientists with the Victoria Award, Australia's middle and bottom scientists can finally develop.

On September 1903, 9, after presiding over the opening ceremony of the fourth session of the Australian National University, Arthur Arthur received a request from the new cabinet government to hold a cabinet meeting, so he rushed to the government building without stopping to attend the The first major cabinet meeting of the second cabinet government.

The place where the meeting was held was also the place where the cabinet was elected, but it seemed a little empty at this time, with only eleven cabinet members and Arthur.

"Prime Minister Evan, tell me! About the purpose of holding this large cabinet meeting." Arthur asked.

Generally, the prime minister can convene small cabinet meetings alone, with all cabinet members participating, and then only needs to report all the results of the meeting to Arthur.

Of course, this kind of cabinet meeting cannot decide major events related to Australia, and his purpose is only to let the cabinet deal with some of the usual government affairs problems and difficulties.

There is only one reason why a large cabinet meeting can be held, and that is that Arthur must be present to decide major events related to Australia's political situation.

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