Rise of Australia

Chapter 217 Continuous Financial Growth

Most of these universities have only been established in the past two years, and it will take at least one or two years before their first batch of college students graduate.

At present, there are already many majors in universities in Australasia, and different universities also have their own majors that they are good at.

For example, the National University of Australasia has more majors in physics and chemistry, as well as architecture.

The first thing Arthur ordered Richard, the Minister of Education, was to expand the scale of the current major universities as much as possible, and to further upgrade the teaching level and quality of the universities.

This also means that Australasia needs to introduce more university professors and lecturers from Europe to meet the teaching needs of major universities in Australasia.

At present, there is no formal military school in Australasia to train military talents in all aspects for the country.

Arthur considered it again and again, and finally decided to establish a military academy in the name of the royal family, called the Royal Military Academy of Australasia.

The three colleges of the Army Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Aviation Academy form a complete Royal Military Academy of Australasia.

The Royal Military Academy will be established by the royal family with an investment of 500 million Australian dollars. Arthur will be the honorary principal to train various military talents for Australasia.

Among the three major colleges, the Aviation Academy is very simple. It only needs to transfer all the training personnel of the aviation laboratory. This is the simplest scale of the Aviation Academy.

In addition to being transferred from the army, various personnel of the Army Academy and the Naval Academy, Arthur also plans to spend high salaries to hire them from Europe.

As long as they are capable, they will be invited to serve as teachers in military academies with high salaries.

The Royal Military Academy mainly has two enrollment methods. One is that high school students enter through examinations and are traditional students of the Royal Military Academy.

Another way of enrolling students is to select potential soldiers from the army.

Regardless of the enrollment method, as long as you successfully graduate, you can become an officer in the Australasian Army.

In order to make the establishment of the Royal Military Academy faster and improve the teaching conditions, Arthur also plans to invite a large number of experts from Germany and the United Kingdom to help the Royal Military Academy to be established smoothly.

After all, in terms of army and navy, that is, Germany and the United Kingdom are the most powerful.

Whenever the army of a country shows strong potential and strength, it will be praised as Prussia in a certain area.

This is enough to show that the strength of the German Empire's army is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is also the best praise for the German Army.

Compared with the development of universities, the development of technical schools is much simpler.

Because the purpose of cultivating talents is different, this also leads to the fact that technical schools often only need some experienced talents to be established, and students of technical schools often only need to master one technology proficiently to graduate.

At present, the three technical schools in Australasia can probably train thousands of skilled workers and talents for Australasia.

If you count the various technical trainings of the people, the number will be even more.

But Arthur was not satisfied with this number, and specifically ordered Minister Richard to expand the technical schools in Australasia and build more technical schools.

In terms of skilled workers and talents, Australasia does not have too many, and it can cultivate as many as it can.

After more than six years of construction and development, the transportation system in Australasia has gradually improved.

First of all, Australasia's current longest railway industry railway has basically achieved single-track opening to traffic, and it is only a few months before the final goal of double-track opening to traffic.

This industrial railway has greatly improved the transportation environment of the Australian mainland, making the communication between Western Australia and Eastern Australia more effective.

The second is the railway in New Zealand.The current railway construction on the North Island of New Zealand has been basically completed, and the railway around the island has made the traffic on the North Island of New Zealand extremely developed.

There is currently only one railway in the South Island of New Zealand, from Picton in the northernmost part of the South Island of New Zealand to Invercargill in the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand.

Of course, the scale of the railway did not satisfy Australasia.Arthur gave the next step of the railway construction plan of the transportation department. In the Australian region, the northern railway will be built to connect the entire northern region of Australia, just to surround the entire Australia with the southern industrial railway.

The mileage of this railway is not inferior to that of the industrial railway, and Arthur also gave eight years to complete this railway.

Simply Australia has enough manpower and funds, and the northern railway construction plan has also been agreed by everyone.

The railway construction in New Zealand has been basically completed, and most of the other areas where railways are not popularized are mostly inhabited mountainous areas.

It is not cost-effective to build railroads in these areas, nor is it necessary at all.

Therefore, in New Zealand, the most important task of the transportation department is to build more roads, so that the road network covers all cities and towns in New Zealand, so that New Zealanders can truly feel the benefits of transportation development.

The last one to report is the finance department.

Throughout 1906, the total fiscal expenditure of the Royal Government of Australia was 930 million Australian dollars, the total fiscal revenue was 120 million Australian dollars, and the fiscal deficit reached about 810 million Australian dollars.

The reason the budget deficit is so high is actually because of the industrial construction that is going on everywhere in Australasia right now.

If we only look at fiscal revenue, the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Australasia government is rising every year, and the fiscal deficit is getting smaller and smaller.

This can be seen from the funds available in the government treasury.At present, the available funds of the Ministry of Finance are as high as 400 million Australian dollars, which is only 6000 million Australian dollars less than four years ago.

But in the past four years, the economic development of Australasia has already exceeded this figure, and the total fiscal revenue has increased by half compared to four years ago.

In addition to the development of industry, Australasia's agriculture has also ushered in a lot of development.

Due to a large number of indigenous inputs, the current available arable land in Australasia has increased by [-]% compared to four years ago, and the per capita arable land area has increased by [-]% compared to four years ago.

There is also animal husbandry. The number of sheep in Australasia exceeds 6000 million. If it is allocated to every Australasian, each person can even be allocated 24 sheep.

This number is enough to show how outrageous the livestock industry in Australasia is, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a big animal husbandry country.

This is not counting other animals such as cattle that Australia has.Animal husbandry products such as wool, beef and mutton, and milk are the key agricultural and animal husbandry products exported by Australasia, and they can generate a lot of income every year.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the British Empire.In the beginning, New Zealand was the supplier of animal husbandry products in the British Empire, and it was eventually replaced by the developed Australia.

After the establishment of Australasia, it naturally inherited the status of Australia and became the livestock supplier of the British Empire and even many European countries.

It is precisely because of the well-developed animal husbandry that in Australasia, meat is cheaper than grain. Meat is also an important part of the food of Australasians.

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