Rise of Australia

Chapter 295 Balkan Alliance and Combat Readiness

In mid-May, when Italy and Turkey were fighting, Arthur also sent a business team north to Southeast Asia to integrate all the rubber estates and companies that had bought the bottom.

Although Arthur's bottom-hunting rubber companies are all located in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia is currently one of the most important rubber production areas in the world, and will even be the most important rubber production area in the world in the future.

If Arthur remembers correctly, since 1914 in history, the rubber production in Southeast Asia has accounted for half of the world's total production, and Southeast Asia is also a veritable rubber kingdom.

Now integrate these rubber companies in Southeast Asia in advance to create an exclusive rubber brand, which is also beneficial to the future development of the rubber industry in Southeast Asia.

The first person in charge of the Australian Rubber Company was Charles Wenn, the former head of the rubber company under the Royal Consortium.

Charles Wenn has been in contact with the rubber industry for more than ten years. Letting him take charge of the Australian Rubber Company has a positive effect on the business development of the Australian Rubber Company.

Charles Wenn's first task was to visit and control more than 200 rubber companies and more than 1000 rubber manors that the royal consortium bought bottom.

These rubber companies and manors will become the property of the Australian Rubber Company and the main business of Australian Rubber.

In order to ensure the safety of Charles Venn, Arthur dispatched to Charles Venn a security team of more than ten people, all of whom were composed of royal guards or senior police officers, and uniformly carried Kassadin submachine guns and AS-1898 semi-automatic pistols. Do everything in your power to keep Charles Venn safe.

After all, the capital behind the more than 200 rubber companies that bought the bottom is a mixed bag, and no one can guarantee whether they will hand over the rubber company to Charles Wenn in an orderly manner.

After all, most of the people employed by these rubber companies are natives of Southeast Asia. These natives don’t have a very good sense of Australasia, and they are easily bewitched by people and do some unexpected things.

With the protection of more than a dozen security personnel, Arthur is relatively at ease.After all, if you want to break through the defense of more than a dozen security personnel, you have to mobilize at least a thousand natives.

There should be no forces in Southeast Asia who don't want to live. Mobilize thousands of aborigines to attack the businessmen in Australasia.

At the end of May, with the help of the British, the Italian army quickly defeated the small Turkish garrison in Tripoli and successfully occupied Tripoli and the coastal areas.

However, because the Italian army encountered strong resistance from the local Turkish residents, the Italian army advanced very slowly to the hinterland.

In early June, before the war ended, Italy eagerly announced the annexation of Tripoli and Cyrenaica, and restored the region's old name of Libya.

However, Italy's harsh demands were directly rejected by the Turkish government, and the local Turkish residents also began extensive guerrilla warfare against aggression, and the Italian-Turkish war entered a long and protracted war.

While the Italian-Turkish war was in full swing, on June 1911, 6, Tsar Nicholas II called Arthur in his personal name, asking whether the military industry in Australasia had sufficient production capacity.

Arthur didn't know why, but he quickly accepted the order for 300 rifles and [-] million rounds of ammunition proposed by the Russian Empire.

In July 1911, the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Bulgaria formed an alliance.Immediately after half a month, Montenegro and the Kingdom of Greece also joined the alliance, forming the famous Balkan Alliance.

Only then did Arthur understand why Nicholas II asked about the military production capacity of Australasia. It turned out that the younger brother ordered by the Russian Empire was about to start trouble.

The purpose of forming the Balkan Alliance is to jointly seize Turkey's territory in the Balkan Peninsula to expand its own country and territory.

With the support of the Tsarist Russian Empire, Pan-Slavism has become the mainstream thought in the Balkan Peninsula, and the various kingdoms in the Balkans are also actively expanding their armies and conducting diplomatic work.

Coupled with the current period of the Italian-Turkish war, most of Turkey's domestic attention is attracted by this war, and now preparing for a war with Turkey can achieve unexpected results.

If there is no accident, the order of [-] rifles from the Tsarist Russian Empire should also be prepared for several countries of the Balkan Alliance.

But no matter who it was given to, Australasia was the moneymaker, and Arthur didn't care that much.

At the beginning of July, something else attracted Arthur's attention.

Charles Wenn has spent more than a month integrating the rubber company since he left for Southeast Asia at the end of May.

More than a month later, on July 7, Arthur received a progress report from Charles Wenn, but the results of the report made Arthur not so happy.

According to Charles Wenn's report, the main personnel of the Australian Rubber Company arrived in Southeast Asia at the end of May to start the process of integrating all small rubber companies.

But the road to integration has not been very smooth. First, the previous rubber crisis plunged the management of major rubber companies into chaos. Not only did the top management disappear, but even the employees of the rubber companies also ran away.

Secondly, there are still some high-level executives of the rubber company who are obsessed with what Charles Wenn said. This is not the main problem. What is more serious is that there have been two indigenous attacks, although they were easily resolved by guards armed with submachine guns and semi-automatic pistols. But there must be other people behind these natives.

Sitting on the desk and thinking carefully for a while, Arthur asked the guards to call Barty Crouch, the director of the Royal Security Intelligence Service.

Seeing Chief Batty rushing over, Arthur directly handed him the report in his hand, and said with a slight sneer: "Director Batty, I will give you a week to find out the forces behind those indigenous people, can they Can you do it?"

"It's all right, Your Majesty. Just wait for my good news!" Director Batty decisively accepted Arthur's order, and under Arthur's signal, he returned to the Royal Security Intelligence Service to make his own arrangements.

The Royal Security Intelligence Service has been developing for nearly ten years, and its scale is no longer the small intelligence organization it used to be.

At present, the Royal Security Intelligence Service has thousands of intelligence personnel, of which nearly a thousand are elite intelligence personnel, some are stationed in Australasia, and some are scattered in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia.

In addition to the nearly [-] elite intelligence personnel, more than half of them are part-time intelligence personnel.

In other words, they also have their own normal identities and jobs, but they also have transactions with the Royal Security Intelligence Service, providing intelligence clues to the Security Service from time to time.

The distribution of these people is even more scattered. Apart from the management system of the Royal Security Intelligence Service, even ordinary intelligence personnel don't know where these people are going.

It is even very possible that normal-looking pedestrians and shopkeepers on the side of the road, or well-known businessmen and capitalists from other countries, in short, these intelligence personnel are more widely distributed.

Director Batty acted very quickly. In fact, it only took four days to investigate the forces and purpose behind the attack on Charles Wenn.

This is actually because Charles Wenn controls and integrates the rubber market in Southeast Asia.

The force behind those indigenous people is actually a rubber company that was acquired during the crisis.

The original owner of this rubber company was a member of the aristocracy of a certain state in the Dutch East Indies. During the rubber crisis, he took advantage of the high price and sold his stock in advance.

Now that the rubber crisis is over, I want to buy my company back at a low price, but I find that my rubber company has been fully acquired by a person named Charles Wenn, and it has been delisted a few months ago. .

This made the original owner of the rubber company very angry, because he spent most of his own capital to establish this rubber company, not only because of his hard work, but also to generate a lot of income for him every year.

Although he has already made a lot of money by selling stocks at high prices, facing the company that should belong to him being snatched away by others, he can't help but use his brains.

However, after learning that Charles Wenn was from Australasia, the original owner of the rubber company did not act rashly. Instead, through layers of relationships, he summoned dozens of aboriginal people in a way that could hardly implicate himself. , wanting to create an accident that caused Charles Wenn to die in an aboriginal unrest.

As long as Charles Wenn died, he could easily get back his company, which was a best-of-both-worlds solution.

But what this person did not expect was that within a few days, a group of aborigines assassinated Charles Venn, which also made the seemingly accidental aboriginal unrest very suspicious, and also made Charles Venn En made up his mind to report to Arthur himself.

After knowing that something was wrong, the forces behind these two groups of aboriginals hid themselves and cut off the connection with these two groups of aboriginals as much as possible.

Arthur shook his head with a sneer, and looked at the two behind-the-scenes forces investigated by Chief Batty.

The first behind-the-scenes force was the big family Houtman in the Dutch East Indies. The history of this family in the Dutch East Indies can even be traced back to 1596.

Of course, this does not mean that the history of the Houtman family has been inherited since 1596, but at the end of the 17th century, a colonial admirer from the Netherlands commemorated the first Dutchman Houtman who arrived in the Dutch East Indies, History after changing his surname to Hotman.

But in any case, the Hotman family has been circling in the Dutch East Indies for more than 100 years, and naturally has a lot of power and voice, and it is well-deserved as the largest family in the Dutch East Indies.

Another power is the Kingdom of Rarantuka, a Catholic state within the territory of the Dutch East Indies.

The people of Larantuca are known as the Topaz people, and they are actually the blood left by the local Portuguese who married the native wives. These people are also called black Portuguese by the Dutch.

The kingdom has the Da Costa family and the De Hornay family, and these two families have been engaged in a bloody power struggle.

Coupled with a small number of Muslim forces and Sudan in the country, the domestic situation in this Catholic country located in the southern part of the Dutch East Indies was very chaotic. Too much interference in politics.

After looking at the information about the two forces behind them, Arthur glanced at the map of Southeast Asia and found that the kingdom of Rarantuka was very close to Australian Timor, across the sea in the west of Australian Timor.

After pondering for a while, Arthur spoke out slowly, with a hint of firmness and unquestionable words: "The Royal Security Intelligence Service immediately went to the vicinity of the Kingdom of Rarantuka to find out more information, and at the same time, pay attention to the settlement of the Dutch East Indies colony." The government's response. Guardsman, summon the cabinet government, I'm going to call an emergency meeting."

Director Batty quickly agreed, and retreated out with great interest.

Soon, the cabinet ministers rushed to Sydney Palace, waiting for Arthur's order.

"Everyone, since the establishment of the Australasian Army, the purpose has always been to protect the country and all people. Since the last fisherman crisis, I think our army has done a good job. No country has dared to provoke Australia. The majesty of Lacia and the Australian people." Arthur looked at the slightly puzzled cabinet members and said.

"But I got the news that some of our domestic businessmen's legitimate businesses in Southeast Asia have not only been greatly hindered by local forces, but even a large number of indigenous people have been used to threaten the lives of our businessmen. I hope the government can investigate the matter as soon as possible What happened, and ordered the relevant cases to give a reasonable statement. Otherwise, they will face the full suppression of the Australasian army, and the Australasian army will fight for the dignity of the country and the people.”

Arthur's words instantly made the cabinet ministers understand a few things.

First of all, certain forces in Southeast Asia made Arthur unhappy, and secondly, Arthur must make a decision to attack these forces.

As for some of Arthur's other remarks, the cabinet members will certainly not take it seriously.

It is definitely not as simple as being able to make Arthur mobilize so many people and directly call the cabinet government for an emergency meeting to hold those forces accountable.

"In this incident, the Kingdom of Rarantuka in Southeast Asia is the most likely behind-the-scenes. If it is confirmed, I suggest that the army be stationed in the Kingdom of Rarantuka to give all our citizens a fair result." Arthur He looked at the Minister of Defense Raul, and said with a little deep meaning.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Minister of Defense Raul nodded quickly.

Although what Arthur said was a suggestion, Minister of Defense Raul would not foolishly take Arthur's words as suggestions.

Not to mention that Arthur is the actual controller of the army, even if Arthur is just a suggestion, Minister Raul dare not disobey.

"Okay, that's the end of the meeting. The government will immediately be responsible for contacting the Dutch East Indies. The army will be on combat readiness from now on. Within three days, I want an accurate answer from the Dutch East Indies." Arthur ignored it. The cabinet members who were still receiving the information directly issued their final orders.

　Please take a leave of absence for [-] words today, and tens of thousands of words tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)