Rise of Australia

Chapter 299 Crazy Shipbuilding Plan (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)
On September 1911, 9, under the appointment of Arthur, Hendrick, the first Governor of the Royal Territory, officially went to Flores to take office.

The royal territory can be divided into three parts, which are the Nusa Tenggara Islands composed of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Alor Islands, and the eastern part of Timor Island. The Southwest Islands, the Lety Islands and to the east the Southeastern Islands which consist of the Tanimbar Islands, the Kaye Islands and the Aru Islands.

The Cocos Islands and Christmas Island, south of Java, are also under Australasian control.

This also led to the formal formation of the defense chain of the northern islands of Australasia, which can effectively keep foreign enemies out of these islands and prevent the mainland from being covered by war.

The small city of Inde on the island of Flores was officially renamed Flores and served as the capital and administrative center of the royal domain.

Arthur intends to build a port city here, which will also become one of the naval stations of Australasia.

There are tens of thousands of natives in almost all large islands in the royal territory, and because these natives are too scattered, it is very troublesome to manage.

Arthur gave Hendrick the first order, which was to concentrate the natives of the royal territory in the cities of each island as much as possible to facilitate the subsequent transfer.

Yes, except for some of the native labor force, the remaining native Arthur did not intend to let them stay on these islands.

Only Australasians will be able to inhabit these archipelagoes and islands in the future. Apart from being consumed as labor force and cannon fodder, the rest of these aborigines will be driven out sooner or later.

The current aborigines are still somewhat useful to Australasia, but as the population of Australasia grows, some jobs will definitely be replaced by machinery.

Then these free labors will not be very useful. Apart from being used as cannon fodder, they can only be expelled and let them go to the Dutch territory.

It took almost a week, and the offensives of the first and second divisions made good progress.

After leaving Flores, the first division went to Sumba, Sumbawa and Lombok successively, and easily occupied these three large islands.

In addition to these three large islands, there are countless subsidiary small islands around.

These islands are very troublesome to attack, and it takes even more time than those three large islands.

The task of the [-]st and [-]nd Divisions is only to occupy and control those large islands. As for the surrounding small islands, the plan of the Ministry of Defense is to hand over to the [-]st and [-]nd Indigenous Divisions.

The native division has been training for a long time since its establishment, and now is the time to let them see the blood.

Anyway, the soldiers of the native division are basically composed of natives. As long as the middle and high-level officers do not lose much, the Ministry of Defense and Arthur will not feel bad about how many natives die.

On September 1911, 9, after the first and second divisions completed their tasks, they switched defenses with the first and second indigenous divisions respectively.

The [-]st and [-]nd Divisions returned to mainland Australasia, while the two Aboriginal divisions were to be stationed in the Crown.

The two native divisions will be bounded by Flores Island, including Flores Island, the west will be garrisoned by the first native division, and many islands in the east will be stationed scattered by the second native division.

With the expansion of the territory, the problem of insufficient army in Australasia appeared again.

Although Australasia currently has one Guards Division, four Standing Divisions and two Aboriginal Divisions, it is still too rare to be scattered across millions of square kilometers in Australasia.

The core region of Australasia, Australia and New Zealand, together have nearly 800 million square kilometers of land, but the army responsible for the garrison theoretically has only four standing divisions.

As a result, if Australasia fights abroad, at most it can only draw out the two most elite standing divisions of the first and second divisions.

The combined strength of the two divisions is only 3.2, and small fights are enough.But if it is to participate in a large-scale war, this force may only be able to barely defend the country.

Following the good news from the Ministry of People's Livelihood in early September, after the total population of Australasia officially exceeded 1000 million, Arthur also officially decided to expand the army in Australasia again, and at least expand the number of troops to two There are three guard divisions, six regular divisions, four native divisions, and two colonial garrison regiments with a total strength of over 22 troops.

This also means that the total number of troops in Australasia will officially exceed 20, which is about twice the number before the expansion.

Because there are four aboriginal divisions with nearly 8 troops composed of aboriginals. In fact, Australasia's population of 1000 million can only support an army of 12, and the burden is not that great.

Of course, the scale of the military expansion was not directly decided by Arthur.The extent of the military expansion was decided after several days of thinking and discussion by Arthur, Kent and the current Defense Minister Raul.

The main reason is that the current military academy can train hundreds of army talents for Australasia every year, and the army has a sufficient reserve of talents, so it is not so difficult to directly expand the army of nearly 10.

After all, World War I is approaching, and it is also beneficial to expand the country's army in advance.Of course, Arthur will not deny that the alliance currently being planned in the Balkans makes Arthur a little envious. These small countries have an army of more than 20 to [-], but their population is less than half that of Australasia.

On September 1911, 9, Australasia's military expansion announcement was officially announced.

This can be said to have caused a thousand waves with one stone. The conscription points in various cities in Australasia are almost full. Some people even line up one night in advance in order to be able to sign up early.

Employees of the royal consortium, soldiers, and officials should be the three most popular occupations in Australasia.

As for the reason, it is actually very simple.Arthur's royal family consortium is one of the few companies in Australasia that thoroughly implements the eight-hour working system.

Moreover, any employees of the factories of the companies affiliated to the royal consortium are not worried about their wages being deducted and their treatment halved.

Because as long as they find this kind of problem and report it, they will not only get a lot of rewards, but also don't have to worry about losing their jobs.

Because as long as the report is true, the person who is reported will basically go to jail.The punishment for this kind of behavior in Australasia is still very serious, at least more than ten years in prison.

Not to mention the army, the benefits of the army can even be said to be one of the best in Australasia, and there will be some small rewards and gifts every holiday.

Coupled with the military pension system, reward system and military merit system, this also makes the military a dream job for Australasians.

It's a pity that Australasia's review of soldiers is still relatively strict, and immigrants within at least three years cannot enter the army.

As for the last official, naturally needless to say.No matter which country you are in, the treatment of officials is relatively good.

In addition to the salaries of officials, the benefits and various policies of officials are also the most favorable, which also leads to the fact that the actual income of officials is much higher than the per capita annual income.

Even according to statistics from the Ministry of Finance, the average salary of all officials in Australasia is as high as 190 Australian dollars, which is four times the per capita income of Australasia.

Of course, this is actually because the vast number of ordinary officials has lowered the income of senior officials.Like all the ministers of the cabinet government, the minimum income among them is more than [-] Australian dollars, plus various bonuses and welfare policies, the annual income is at least [-] Australian dollars.

However, although officials in Australasia have high salaries, Australasia's anti-corruption and anti-corruption policies are also very strict.

Although Arthur has not organized large-scale anti-corruption activities so far, according to the laws of Australasia, embezzlement of more than 3000 Australian dollars is a capital crime, and more than 1500 Australian dollars is a life sentence.

The lightest punishment for corruption, that is, the actual corruption of no more than 200 Australian dollars, will also face dismissal and punishment, and the person and his immediate family members are prohibited from being officials within three generations.

For officials, there is really no need to take such a big risk of corruption. After all, the income of officials in Australasia is not that low, and it is even higher than that of some European countries.

What Arthur and the Ministry of National Defense did not expect was that this military expansion caused a stir in the country, resulting in a total of 50 registration requests received by conscription offices around the country in just one week.

Arthur originally thought that it would take at least a month of conscription to complete the selection of the [-] military expansion quota.

Now it seems that even if the conscription offices stop the conscription now, these 50 registration requests are enough to screen out more than [-] qualified soldiers.

The Ministry of National Defense's conscription plan has also been decisively terminated, and the next main task is to select 50 of the best soldiers from the more than [-] registration requests to join the army.

While Australasia began to expand its army significantly, the situation in the European Balkan Peninsula finally ushered in a change.

The first was the armed uprising of residents of the Italian-occupied Tripoli area.

As a result, Italy had to expand the number of expeditionary forces to 9, and brutally suppressed the Turks in the occupied areas.

The Italian-Turkish war has been fought until now, and the development of the war is somewhat beyond the expectations of the Italians.

Although Italy relied on advanced equipment, a larger number of troops and sufficient preparations, it achieved a good victory in the early stage of the war.

However, the war still entered a stalemate. The combat capability of the Italian army was not that strong, and the lack of coordination among the Italian troops made the combat effectiveness that could be displayed even worse.

But this news is a piece of news that the Balkan countries and the Tsarist Russian Empire are more willing to see.

As early as a month ago, Australasia had ordered [-] rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition in the order of [-] rifles agreed with Nicholas II. Shipping to the Far East.

This also made Arthur finally understand Nicholas II's intention, which was to sell Russian-made weapons to the Balkan League, and use the profits in exchange to buy German-made weapons from Australasia.

This is why Nicholas II requested that weapons and equipment be transported to the Far East.

Although the actions of the Tsarist Russian Empire are a bit unethical, there are indeed only interests between countries.

Anyway, for Arthur, it doesn't matter who the weapons end up in.The important thing is that Australasia can open up the arms trade market, and by the way clear the stockpiles that have been produced before.

Yes, as early as a few years ago, Arthur was ready for the next battle.This has also led to the fact that although Australasia has not expanded its military in recent years, the production of military factories has no intention of stopping.

So far, the inventory of military factories includes hundreds of thousands of rifles and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, as well as thousands of cannons and millions of rounds of shells.

In order to produce these weapons and equipment, Arthur has already invested a lot of money, waiting for the outbreak of World War I in the future, and using these weapons and equipment to make more profits.

The Balkan Alliance in the Balkans has been formed for more than two months, and these small countries are already making intense preparations.

If Arthur did not expect, the first Balkan War should break out soon. After all, Italy and Turkey are fighting fiercely at this time, and it is indeed the best opportunity for the Balkan Alliance to make a move.

Before the outbreak of war in the Balkans, there was another important news in Europe, which was the new shipbuilding plan announced by the Germans.

When it comes to the shipbuilding plan, we have to mention the psychological blow to the Germans caused by the second Moroccan crisis.

Although the result of the crisis was that the Germans successfully obtained part of the colony of the French Congo, the close alliance between Britain and France in this crisis made the Germans aware that his biggest enemy had become Britain and France, not just the French.

As an enemy with the British, the importance of the navy becomes unparalleled, which is the real reason why the Germans announced the new shipbuilding plan.

So far, the Germans have a total of four Sovereign-class battleships: Nassau, Westphalia, Rheinland and Posen.

And also has four battleships under construction: Helgeland (expected to be completed in October this year), Ostfriesland (expected to be completed in October this year), Rhineland (expected to be completed in November this year) and Posen (expected to be completed in November this year) It is expected to be completed in March next year).

This also means that after the end of this year's shipbuilding plan, the Germans will have almost a full eight dreadnoughts.

But this obviously can't satisfy the appetite of the Germans. After all, the number of dreadnoughts currently disclosed by the British has far exceeded that of the Germans.

The British dreadnoughts include the world's first dreadnought, the battleship Dreadnought, three Bellerophon-class battleships, three St. Vincent-class battleships, two Mammoth-class battleships, a total of nine battleships, under construction, and one Neptune-class battleship (expected to be completed in November this year).

If you count the so-called battlecruisers built by the British, Britain's current main battleships have even reached 11.

Such a huge naval gap made the Germans sweat for their own navy, and it also made William II determined to expand the naval construction plan.

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