Rise of Australia

Chapter 308 Splitting the Military Academy (ask for a monthly ticket!)
In addition to national defense construction, the second phase of construction of the Leonora Industrial Base is currently the top priority in Australasia.

In fact, the construction of the second phase of the Leonora Industrial Base has been started since 1910, and it was originally expected to be completed in 1913.

After all, the construction of the second phase far exceeds the construction of the first phase of the industrial base in terms of scale and planning.

Even if all the factories built in the first phase are fully occupied, they can only provide less than [-] jobs for Australasia at most.

But if the second phase is completed, the construction of the second phase alone will be enough to create more than [-] jobs.

If the first phase of construction is added, the entire Leonora industrial base can provide at least 15 jobs for Australasia, which can not only fully meet the job needs of Western Australia, but also benefit South Australia. .

With the large capital investment from the government and the industrial sector, the construction of the industrial base is going to be faster than expected.

If nothing goes wrong, it should be possible to complete the construction of the industrial base by the end of 1912 to the beginning of 1913 and put it into production in 1914.

This also means that if World War I happened at the same time as in history, Australasia would be able to have a super industrial area with more than 15 jobs before World War I, which would not only further stabilize the industrial level and scale, but also It can export a large amount of industrial products to Europe.

As the population of Australasia grows, more jobs will be created.Including industrial bases and other various constructions, in addition to the needs of national development, it also adds more jobs to meet the needs of the people of Australasia.

In response to the impending European war, Arthur also issued an order to the agricultural sector, requiring the expansion of agricultural production as much as possible and the temporary reduction of foreign food exports.

Except for some disaster-affected areas with high grain prices, grain exports in other areas will all be reduced.

After all, the price of food at this time is definitely not as good as the price of food during the war. It is better to prepare for grain storage early and wait until the European war breaks out before dumping.

At that time, all European countries will send hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops to participate in the war. All kinds of domestic military factories and civilian factories will make concessions for the military, and the decline in food production is also a matter of course.

For those with a high emotional intelligence, the fact that grain is stored up until the war period is dumped is actually to prevent Europeans from starving and starving to death.

After all, Arthur is also a European after all, how can he sit back and watch Europeans face hunger and starve to death because of the war?
Although food is not free, it can always save a life, right?

Judging from the annual grain production of millions of tons in Australasia, the profit from storing grain until the outbreak of World War I was not a small sum.

In addition to agriculture, Arthur has also made certain layouts in education and medical care.

The first is medical care. What can be felt is that it is becoming more and more difficult to attract medical talents from Europe.

Because as the war is about to advance, European countries are in a state of protection for more important talents in medical and military industries.

Therefore, Australasia must also seize this rare opportunity to attract as many medical talents as possible before the outbreak of World War I.

Whether it is highly skilled doctors or medical science researchers engaged in research, they are all talents that Australasia needs and is in short supply.

Arthur even planned to let the royal consortium set up a medical group to be responsible for the research and production of medicine, and to produce more medical supplies for Australasia and even the world. Even if it is for profit, it is also a contribution to human beings.

For example, Alexander Fleming, who is currently working in Australasia, discovered that the penicillin was a magic drug during the war and had extremely important strategic significance and value.

If the manufacturing technology can be successfully discovered and mastered before World War I, this technology alone will be enough for Australasia to acquire huge wealth and become a new world upstart.

Weapons, bullets, and equipment may be lacking for the great powers, but the shortage is not that serious.

After all, even if the bullets are sent to the battlefield, more than half of them are wasted, and the bullets that can really kill the enemy are not even one-thousandth of the wasted bullets.

But penicillin is different. Penicillin can save a heroic soldier who should have died of wound infection and reduce the huge casualties in European countries.

This has extremely important value for war, and whoever can master this magical medicine will be able to take the lead in the war.

After all, for a veteran who has come down from the battlefield, it may take several months to a year to recover from his injuries.

And a new training time is almost that long.However, the combat power displayed by the two is not at the same level. The major European powers are even willing to spend several times the price in exchange for more veterans instead of recruits.

The biggest role of penicillin is to save the lives of those elite soldiers as much as possible and ensure the combat capability of the army.

Establishing a unified medical group to be responsible for medical research and drug production in Australasia can not only improve the efficiency of research and production, but also reduce the waste of personnel and materials.

If we can take the opportunity to expand the medical reputation of Australasia, even after the war, there will be no vacancy in Australasia's medical market. This will be a profitable business.

Anyway, the most important thing that the royal consortium currently lacks is money. The cost of forming a unified medical group is a drop in the bucket for the royal consortium. What Arthur values ​​more is medical research and the production of medical supplies.

Of course, Arthur will not forget the domestic medical career.Both colleges and technical schools, at Arthur's request, had opened medical professions.

However, those trained by universities can be used as interns, but those trained by technical schools can only be used as nurses or medical assistants.

Of course, this is not a gap in academic qualifications.After all, university training takes four years, and all kinds of advanced equipment and excellent teachers are used.

However, the training in technical schools often only takes half a year to one year. The gap in knowledge and ability is also doomed to the gap between graduates of technical schools and universities.

However, such a gap can also be made up the day after tomorrow. As long as the students who graduate from technical schools have full professional enthusiasm, it is not difficult to become a qualified doctor.

In fact, this also reflects some shortcomings in the current education in Australasia, and there are no universities specializing in a certain aspect, such as medical universities.

After careful consideration, Arthur decided to establish a medical university and a normal university to train more medical and educational talents for Australasia.

The initial scale of these two universities should not be too large. The average annual enrollment is limited to about 1000 to [-] people. They are universities that specialize in cultivating talents in a fixed direction.

Of course, Arthur was just giving a plan.How to build a specific university and where to build it all needs to be decided by the education department. Arthur only needs one result.

In addition, Arthur also decided to subdivide the current Royal Military Academy and split it into multiple military universities.

The current Royal Military Academy officially opened in 1907, more than four years ago.

With the graduation of the first batch of graduates from the Royal Military Academy and their entry into the army, the Military Academy has officially entered the right track.

But at present, the sources of students of the Royal Military Academy are too mixed, some are from the civilian population, some are from the army, and there are even international students from foreign countries.

After careful consideration, Arthur decided to distinguish civilian students from military students, and foreign students were classified as civilian students.

It is initially expected that the Royal Military Academy will be split into the Royal Military Academy in Sydney and the Royal Military Academy in Melbourne.

The Sydney Royal Military Academy is responsible for training civilian students, foreign students and senior military officers.

This also means that the four-year graduates of the Sydney Royal Military Academy have just entered the army with a rank of second lieutenant or above, and they can even get the rank of lieutenant if they perform well.

These graduates are the mainstay of the Australasian army. No matter how bad they are, it should be no problem to be a school-level officer.

Although the Sydney Royal Military Academy also recruits students from the army, it has certain requirements for the rank of soldiers.

Those who can come to the Royal Military Academy in Sydney are generally lieutenant and school-level officers.

They will receive senior officer training at the Royal Military Academy in Sydney. After graduation, lieutenant officers can be promoted to one or two ranks, and school-level officers can generally be promoted to one or more ranks after graduation.

In other words, the military cadets accepted by the Royal Military Academy in Sydney are basically identified as potential officers who have been trained as key officers, who may become regimental commanders and division commanders at the top of the army in the future.

As for army commanders above division commanders and even group army commanders, sorry, this is not currently something that can be considered in Australasia.

The main function of the newly established Royal Military Academy in Melbourne is to train low-level officers for the army, that is, lieutenants and below.

This has also led to the simple admission requirements of the Royal Military Academy in Melbourne. Civilian students only require a junior high school education and conscription requirements, while military students only require one year of enlistment and excellent performance in the army.

Even the Royal Military Academy in Melbourne is theoretically open to the Aboriginal soldiers of the Aboriginal Division. After all, the low-level officers of the Aboriginal Division cannot be all served by Australasians.

To put it bluntly, the role of the Aboriginal division is to become cannon fodder and bear the casualties for the Australasian army.

There is no need for the Australasians to serve as the lowest-level officers in such an army. It is no problem for the aborigines to become a low-level officer after simple training.

However, even if it is only the lowest level of officer training opportunities, there will not be too many places for the native division.

And after these aborigines enter the military academy, they will be subject to strict supervision, and it is forbidden to carry weapons under any circumstances.

The only chance for them to encounter guns may be the target shooting training organized by the military academy every once in a while.

After all, the safety of other students of the military academy and the outside people must also be considered. Even if these aborigines are also Australasian soldiers, their loyalty cannot be fully guaranteed.

In the unlikely event that some extremists abscond with weapons, this is a huge threat to the security environment in Australasia and the lives of the people, and it is also a hazard that must never happen.

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