Rise of Australia

Chapter 423 Nicholas II's Generosity

The factional struggles in Russia are nothing to Arthur, but Russia's decision to temporarily abandon domestic weapons and choose to import weapons, especially weapons produced in Australasia, is definitely a matter for Arthur and Australasia. good thing.

First of all, Russia's full shift to Australian-made weapons will bring Russia and Australasia closer.

Coupled with the marriage relationship between the two royal families, the Russia-Australia alliance will become more stable.

Although the second batch of aircraft orders from the Russians was not many, they added up to 200.Combined with the cost of sending cadet pilots to Australasia, this is a deal of more than 5000 million rubles.

Even if it is converted into Australian dollars, it is an order of nearly 1100 million Australian dollars, and the income brought to Arthur and the royal family can be as high as about 600 million Australian dollars.

You know, such an order is just the beginning.In the original history, the countries of World War I built a total of more than [-] aircraft, which is not an exaggeration.

Even if the progress of the world in terms of aircraft has changed a lot, it is not a problem to eventually build tens of thousands of aircraft.

Even in a country like Russia, the demand for aircraft is hundreds or thousands.Even in order to form air superiority over Germany, Russia had to equip at least a thousand aircraft.

According to Arthur's information, Germany's research on aircraft can be said to be at full capacity.

Not only is the aircraft built on a large scale, but a lot of money is also invested in trying to develop an aircraft comparable to the first generation of military aircraft.

If Germany really researched it, the aircraft performance advantage that the Allied Powers maintained over Germany would be gone, and the number of aircraft between the two sides would determine the outcome.

As long as Germany starts to build aircraft on a large scale, even if Britain, France and Russia are unwilling, they must maintain a balanced or even lead in numbers.

At present, only Australasia is able to sell aircraft. Britain and France are still conducting urgent research on the technology of the first generation of military aircraft, and they may have to wait until 1916 to put them into production.

Of course, in fact, in addition to the several countries participating in the war, the United States currently has aircraft technology, and it has indeed evolved into militarized aircraft.

But the performance of American aircraft is still far behind that of German aircraft, let alone Australasian aircraft.

In the case of similar prices, the British, French and Russians also know which aircraft to choose.

It is worth mentioning that in the arms trade with the Russians, Australasia has generally requested payment in resources or gold.

Although the war has only lasted for more than a year, it can be seen with the naked eye that the Russian ruble has gradually depreciated, and paying in ruble is taking advantage of Australasia.

Anyway, now that the trade line from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea has been opened, the Russians can raise mineral resources or gold at home, and Australasia can ship from the Black Sea port.

Of course, under normal circumstances, the use of gold reserves for payment is the last option, and all countries will not use it easily.

In this era of the gold standard, a country's gold reserves determine the currency's circulation and value, and are also an important means of ensuring currency stability.

At present, almost all currencies are linked to gold. Before the war, one pound was equal to 7.33 grams of gold, one Australian dollar was approximately equal to 3.66 grams of gold, and one ruble was approximately equal to 0.81 grams of gold.

But now, sterling aside, the ruble has indeed depreciated.Before the war, one pound was equal to about nine rubles, but now one pound can be exchanged for more than ten rubles, and the purchasing power of rubles in Russia has also been greatly reduced.

Because some Russian people are dissatisfied with the government and the country, many workers demand gold and food supplies instead of their wages.

They are afraid that the ruble they get will eventually become a piece of waste paper, which can only be used to wipe their ass after the country is wiped out.

Australasia certainly has this in mind.Although Australasia is not worried that the Russians will renege on their debts, even after the collapse of the Russian Empire, the newly formed government must admit its debts to Australasia.

But if there is less trouble, there will be less trouble. Anyway, minerals and resources and gold will never depreciate.

When purchasing aircraft technology before, the Russians used a large amount of mineral resources, as well as a small amount of gold and Australian dollars to purchase.

Australasia and Russia have an alternative population trade, and the trade between the two parties is very frequent, so Russia still has some Australian dollar reserves.

Almost all of this part of the reserve has been used to purchase aircraft technology, allowing Russia to save a lot of mineral resources and gold.

However, as Russia's battles on the front line retreated steadily, the Russians also began to use gold for payment. After all, gold is better than mineral resources to raise.

After the Russians paid for the aircraft with mineral resources and gold, Australasia quickly transported 200 aircraft to Russia, and generously donated aircraft parts worth more than 150 million rubles.

If all goes well, Russia's pilot training can also be completed before the beginning of next year.At present, it is relatively simple to train pilots. The combat method of the aircraft is relatively simple. There is no complicated control system. It only needs skilled driving and the use of weapons.

It only takes about a month to urgently train a qualified pilot. If it is to train an elite pilot, it needs to go through continuous actual combat practice and undergo transformation in various air battles.

In Russia, Nicholas II's purge of some capitalists and logistics officials was also carried out secretly.

Thanks to the opening of the Black Sea-Mediterranean route, the Russian government and military have little tolerance for domestic capitalists.

Even if domestic capital cannot provide supplies for the army, the Russian government can still purchase from Britain, France and Australasia.

Without the collusion between logistics officials and capitalists, imported materials would be cheaper and of higher quality.

Especially after the property of several logistics officials was seized and the stolen money seized reached tens of millions of rubles, Nicholas II had no worries.

The big deal is to use the property of these capitalists and logistics officials to buy more supplies and food. As long as the army can be satisfied with sufficient logistics supplies, the army will be able to support the rule of Nicholas II and suppress various domestic uprisings.

On the contrary, if these capitalists and logistics officials are allowed to collude to exploit the front-line troops, I am afraid that when the army riots in the future, the capitalists and logistics officials will run the fastest.

They can run, but Nicholas II cannot.Most of Nicholas II's property is in Russia, and his status also comes from the Russian royal family and the throne.

If Russia is gone, Nicholas II will lose his power and status, and his life may even be in danger.

In fact, Nicholas II's purge of the logistics department and capitalists was quite timely.If it is a few days later, not only the Southwest Front Army, but also the Northwest Front Army may go to St. Petersburg to question.

In times of war like this, the power and status of the military are at an all-time high.Once the entire military is dissatisfied with Nicholas II and the government, no one can save the status quo in Russia.

Nicholas II's timely clean-up of the logistics department and capitalists won the hearts of the front-line troops.

After the front-line troops ate the long-lost canned rabbit meat and beef again, they finally calmed down their recent dissatisfaction, but they hated the logistics officials and capitalists purged by Nicholas II even more.

After all, Nicholas II, as the tsar who controlled the whole of Russia, although his military ability was not worth mentioning, his political ability was still at a certain level.

After learning about the logistics status of the frontline army, Nicholas II quickly realized that the current poor logistics urgently needs a blamer.

Otherwise, the new commander-in-chief of the Russian army, that is, himself, will be hated by the front-line troops.

After all, the logistics of the frontline army has been getting worse and worse since he took office. It is hard not to think of it together, but Nicholas II has never missed the logistics budget of the frontline army.

After purging some logistics officials and capitalists, Nicholas II made a big publicity among the army and the people, shifting the responsibility for the defeat to some logistics officials and capitalists, saying that it was because they withheld front-line logistics materials that led to Lost the battle.

Although some people do not trust this, at least there are people who are responsible for it, and the calls for the overthrow of Nicholas II and the entire tsarist system are not so loud.

Nicholas II knew that the next step was to look at the performance of the frontline troops.After cleaning up the logistics department, the front-line army can show a good record, and the dissatisfaction of the people may be able to dissipate part of it.

If the front-line troops are still retreating steadily, does it prove that those capitalists and logistics officials are just the ones who were pushed out?

It is also because of this that Nicholas II was not stingy with military expenditures, and even opposed all opinions in the government and raised the estimated military expenditures for the next year by [-]%.

Of course, not just the next year.After purging the logistics officials and capitalists, Nicholas II obtained a large sum of money and used it all to purchase armaments.

Nicholas II placed a large military order to Britain, France and Australasia. Australasia alone received as many as 50 rifles, 150 million military uniforms, 100 million gas masks, 5 2500 million rounds of rifle bullets, 5000 heavy machine guns, 1500 million rounds of machine gun bullets, 250 artillery pieces of various calibers, and [-] million rounds of artillery shells of various calibers.
Even Arthur had to be shocked by Nicholas II's generosity.After the large armament order from Australasia has arrived, Russia's equipment on the front line is not weaker than that of the German army.

Coupled with the superiority of the aircraft, as long as the Russian army stopped making stupid moves, it would be impossible for the Eastern Front to suffer heavy casualties like the Battle of Goerlitzer.

Even the Russian commander was a little more conservative, and used positional warfare to fight and consume the Germans, which made the Germans tired of two-line response. Among them, looking for opportunities to encircle the German army may not fail to win a big battle.

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