Rise of Australia

Chapter 248 Inspecting the Industrial Base of Western Australia

After the time entered 1908, Australasia gradually recovered its calm and entered the usual development.

After more than two months of reorganization and training, the expanded new army was also formally formed. After the military ranks and serial numbers were awarded, the regular fourth division, the first colonial division and the second colonial division went to their new stations. Start the process of training while stationing.

Among them, the first colonial division went to the colony of New Guinea, and the second colonial division went to Australian Timor to garrison.

After all, the Colonial Division is still in its infancy, and real soldiers cannot be recruited until they go to the colony.

But in any case, when the two colonial divisions have undergone initial training, the colonies of New Guinea and Australian Timor can be considered to have stronger defense forces.

After switching defenses with the colonial division, the garrisons of Australian Timor and the colony of New Guinea also officially returned to the mainland of Australasia.

Therefore, the current defense deployment in Australasia has become clear. The Australian region has one to four regular divisions garrisoned, while the New Zealand region has a New Zealand garrison with a total of 6000 people from the previous New Zealand garrison and the garrison transferred from New Guinea.

Arthur's Guards were not counted among them.The guards are directly under Arthur's orders, and his duty is only to guard the palace and protect Arthur.

In addition to these defense forces, Arthur also has thousands of royal guards and guards, who are generally stationed in the palace as the defense force of the palace.

On the other hand, Arthur's general defense forces for travel and visits abroad are basically the royal guards. After all, the guards are tens of thousands of people at every turn, and transportation is a problem, and they are too ostentatious.

The weapon of Arthur's bodyguard is not the Lee Enfield rifle commonly used in the army, but the Kassadin submachine gun developed by the military factory itself.

As for why it is called this name, it is necessary to mention the inventor of the Kassadin submachine gun, Kassadin James Kenway.

In addition to Kassadin submachine guns, royal guards are generally equipped with self-developed As-1898 semi-automatic pistols.

As for heavy firearms such as machine guns and artillery, there are reserves in the arsenal of the palace, but the guards generally do not use them.

After all, the biggest duty of the royal guards is to protect Arthur, not to fight with heavy weapons.

At present, the army strength of Australasia is not too strong, but it is barely enough.

As an island country composed of large and small islands, if the Australasian navy can guard its territorial waters, there is actually no big problem for the army to maintain its current size.

This is why Australasia's defense funding has gradually shifted towards the navy.

In fact, there are certain similarities between the strategic environments of Australasia and the United States.

The east and west sides of the United States are bordered by the sea, and the strength of the north and south neighbors is relatively weak. This also leads to the United States having an excellent geographical location and can develop comfortably and comfortably away from European disputes.

Take a closer look at the geographical environment of Australasia. The east and west sides are the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, the south is the uninhabited Antarctica, and the north is the weak Dutch East Indies.

Although there are colonies of great powers in the surrounding area, most of them are small islands in the Pacific Ocean, and they are not that important to the great powers.

The really important colonies are in the Strait of Malacca and India, but because Australasia is separated from Australasia by a Dutch East Indies, and they are all British colonies, there is no conflict of interest with Australasia.

This has also led to the current excellent development environment in Australasia, which can not only stay away from European conflicts, but also become a spoiler after silent development, affecting the surrounding situation.

After the various departments reported their situation, Arthur nodded in satisfaction.

Generally speaking, although the cabinet government experienced a lot of changes in the middle of 1907, the country's development speed has not stopped because of this, and Australasia is still developing at a high speed.

Even the growth rate in 1907 was higher than in previous years. Whether in terms of population or economy, Australasia already looked like a little bit of a powerful country.

The next task of the Ministry of People's Livelihood is still to attract a large number of immigrants from Europe and other places to fill the population of Australasia.

Under the premise of Australasia's various medical education policies, immigration policies and worker welfare policies, the attractiveness of immigrants in Australasia has increased significantly, and it has now become the second choice for immigrants after the United States. .

Attracting a large number of immigrant populations, ensuring the current population's welfare policies, and paying attention to and solving people's livelihood issues are the most important tasks of the Australasian Ministry of People's Livelihood.

The Minister of People's Livelihood, Henris, took over the task very solemnly, and promised to make the immigrant population in 1908 reach a new high.

The task of the Ministry of Transport is very simple. At present, except for the northern railway, the construction of other roads and railways in China has basically been completed.

If you have to talk about railway construction, it may be the railway related to the two colonies.

However, the affairs of the colony are generally in the charge of the governor, and even the ministers of various departments are not easy to participate.

The construction of the northern railway has entered a stable stage, and more than [-] indigenous people have been invested so far, and this number is still increasing.

If the progress of the project is relatively smooth, it is expected that the Northern Railway will be completed and opened to traffic in 1914.But if the progress of the project is not smooth, this time may be delayed until 1916.

The task of the agricultural department is relatively simple. In addition to organizing the indigenous people to continue to cultivate the land, there is also the need to pay attention to the price of grain across the country and around the world, and be ready to stockpile or dump grain at any time.

The current task of the education department is relatively heavy. In addition to expanding the scale of existing universities, it is necessary to increase the number of universities and technical schools and train more college students and skilled workers for Australasia.

Even the current progress of university construction could be temporarily halted to make way to a certain extent for technical schools.

After all, whether it is developing industry or other industries at present, relevant technical talents are crucial.

The development of the medical department is relatively step-by-step. The number of hospitals is not suitable for excessive expansion without sufficient medical talents. Therefore, the task of the medical department is to attract more medical talents and make a good talent reserve for major hospitals.

In order to solve the problem of shortage of medical talents in Australasia, three universities have opened up medical majors one after another, and they can train nearly [-] medical talents every year.

But these talents can only serve as assistants to doctors, without a few years of experience, making them real attending doctors is harming patients.

The work of the security department is relatively easy.The booming development of Australasia has also reduced the number of crimes in the country.

Even at present, most of the crimes are caused by immigrants, and the domestic order in Australasia has actually stabilized.

In order to deal with the high crime rate of immigrants, the public security department also introduced corresponding solutions after consulting Arthur.

One is to improve the treatment of immigrants, find jobs and places to live for immigrants as soon as possible, and send them a certain amount of compensation.

Those who choose land will receive at least ten acres of land.Those who do not want land will receive at least one hundred Australian dollars in compensation, and will be introduced to major factories or other jobs.

Of course, there are rewards and punishments.For those immigrants who still commit crimes, the punishment of the public security department is also very severe.

If it is a minor crime, the immigrant may face at least one month of forced labor and a small fine.

If such a crime is recorded, it may also affect the verification and issuance of citizenship.If you cannot have the real citizenship of Australasia, you cannot enjoy the welfare policies promulgated by various departments in Australasia.

If it is a serious crime, the punishment of the public security department will range from a minimum of [-] years of forced labor to a maximum of death penalty. In addition, family members and friends may also be implicated.

But there is also a rule that if you find that your friends or family members are planning or have committed a crime, if you can report it, it will not affect your immigration progress.

If it's just ordinary friends, maybe friendship will really stand a certain test.After all, the nationality of Australasia brings a lot of welfare policies. The reason why these immigrants came to Australasia must be ready to live in Australasia permanently.

In fact, it is actually the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is currently the easiest for all departments.

Because Australasia's current main policy is still developing in a dull manner, except for a few countries with relatively close relations, Australasia has not made many international appearances.

The current influence of Australasia is only limited to Southeast Asia, but it already has a lot of popularity in Europe.

Although Australasia's hand has not yet risen to Europe, it is far from affecting European countries.

But now Australasia is well-known in Europe, and many immigrants often take Australasia as one of their considerations when choosing their destination.

This is not only thanks to Arthur's good reputation and support in the UK, but also to the previous Portuguese government and Carlos I.

If it weren't for their persistence, Australasia's reputation in that war would not be very good.

At present, the only countries with relatively good relations with Australasia are Germany and Russia, and they also maintain a superficially good relationship with the United Kingdom.

In addition, although they have established diplomatic relations with most of the great powers and many European countries, they are actually not closely connected with each other.

The only "allies" that Australasia currently has a good relationship with and can rely on are Germany and Russia.

Relatively speaking, the heaviest industry is still the industrial sector that is currently relatively important to the country.

At present, the industrial scale of Australasia is already at the first-class level under the big powers, but the industrial foundation and industrial background are actually still just a fledgling country.

With the support of Britain and Germany, Arthur will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity.Therefore, Australasia's next plan is to use a small amount of support from the United Kingdom and strong support from Germany to completely upgrade Australasia's basic industries and other industries to the same level as the steel industry, allowing Australia have become an out-and-out industrial powerhouse.

For this reason, the Ministry of Industry specially planned a new industrial zone, or call it an industrial base.

The new industrial base is located at the junction of Western Australia and South Australia. Because it is close to the mineral resources in the west, it has very convenient conditions for the development of industry.

The only problem is transportation, but the Ministry of Industry has already discussed with the Ministry of Transportation. The railway here will directly lead to the Industrial Railway in the south and the Northern Railway in the north.

At present, the main industrial bases of Australasia are located in the southeastern part of Australia and the northern part of New Zealand, because these two regions are the essence of Australia and New Zealand respectively, and they are also the places with the largest population and the most developed economy.

For Australasia, the development of industry is not so difficult, and more constraints are often the problem of underpopulation and insufficient labor force.

This has also led to the fact that most of the current industrial areas in Australasia are located in the essence of southeastern Australia and the North Island of New Zealand.

However, the types of mineral resources in these two regions are limited, which is also an important reason for limiting the diversification of Australasian industries.

The site selection of the new industrial base at the junction of Western Australia and South Australia is to solve the constraints of insufficient types of mineral resources in the past.

While Western Australia and South Australia are not as well populated, this time the Department of Industry is determined to make a difference.

To this end, the Australasian government will mobilize at least 20 aborigines.Since there is a shortage of labor, these natives will be used to make up for it.

Coupled with the tens of thousands of Australasian workers, I believe that the newly selected industrial base will soon catch up with the size of the old industrial areas before. After all, this is the current key project in Australasia, and it is also the Ministry of Industry the next important task.

In order to show the importance to this industrial base, plus there is really nothing to do in the past few days.

On January 1908, 1, Arthur embarked on a journey to Western Australia to personally inspect the new industrial base that had been selected.

Because of the industrial railway, it only takes two days to reach the junction of Western Australia and South Australia, and then take a car to the new industrial base.

Arthur will inspect the industrial base for one day. If the progress is smooth, he should be able to return to Sydney before the National Day, and he will be able to participate in this year's National Day activities at that time.

With the development of Australasia getting better and better every year, the National Day activities of Australasia are also getting more and more attention every year.

Often on the National Day, various stores and workshops will offer discounts to celebrate the great festival of the birth of the country.

Especially on this day, the brightly colored national flag of Australasia will be spread over all villages and cities across the country, which is also a good manifestation of people's love for the country.

　Today is outside, only [-] words, sorry brothers.It is expected to go back on the [-]nd and try Riwan from the [-]rd!Ask for support, ask for a monthly ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)