Rise of Australia

Chapter 334 Grain Storage and Immigration

The British were able to complete the design of the 1912-inch caliber main gun in more than two years from 1915 to 15, and equip it on the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship.

Arthur believes that Australasia, which combines British and German artillery technology, may not and cannot do such a thing.

Even if it cannot be done in more than two years, it should not be difficult for Australasian technical experts to overcome the technology of the 15-inch caliber main gun within the period of World War I.

At present, Australasia is at the forefront of the world in terms of dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts, and is even one of the strongest countries.

Naturally, such an advantage must be maintained, and one must work as hard as possible to continue to improve one's own advantages in this area.

With a cabinet meeting in November, Australasia has also confirmed a new task of the government, which is to prepare in advance for a possible future European war.

Not only must a large amount of strategic materials be stored, but food, medical care, supplies, military weapons and equipment, and various rare mineral resources are all within the scope of the preparations of the Australasian government.

As time came to the end of 1912, Arthur clearly knew that there was not much time left for Australasia to prepare.

Perhaps the prime time for Australasia to attract immigrants is the last half of the year.

If the war continued to break out in 1914 as it did in history, then I am afraid that the introduction of immigrants to Australasia would not have been so smooth since 1913.

After all, if these immigrants continue to stay in the country, they can serve as an excellent source of soldiers during wartime, and they can also be invested in civilian economic production.

After all, with the outbreak of war, civilian production will always be delayed after a large number of army soldiers are recruited. At this time, a large population is needed to make up for the production stagnation caused by the transfer of young and strong.

"Prime Minister Kent, from now on, we will expand our food production scale as much as possible. And, except for some necessary food exports, we will reduce the scale of food exports as much as possible, and increase the amount of food reserves." After the cabinet meeting On the way, Arthur looked at Prime Minister Kent with a serious face, and ordered.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Kent also nodded solemnly.

"If necessary, the Propaganda Department of the foreign affairs department can cooperate with the action and release the news of future grain shortages and price increases among the people, so that the people can spontaneously stockpile grain. If a war breaks out in Europe, the grain in our hands will not only bring us A lot of profits can also bring us more benefits. For the people, it is also good for them to hoard food." Arthur said with a smile.

The government hoarded grain to sell it to foreign countries during the European war to obtain a lot of profits and benefits.

Encouraging folks to stockpile grain is to avoid the phenomenon that people have to buy high-priced grain due to lack of grain during the period of rising grain prices in the future.

After all, after the price of food rises in the future, Arthur intends to deceive the Europeans, not to let his own people step on the pit.

Anyway, the price of food and meat in Australasia is not expensive now, and proper stockpiling of food is not too much of a burden for the people.

After hearing Arthur's order, Foreign Minister Daze nodded to express his understanding.

Australasian newspapers are under the control of the Ministry of Propaganda, which in turn is directly under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Foreign Minister Daze naturally understood the importance of this matter, and he also attached great importance to Arthur's instructions.

Thanks to the fact that public opinion in Australasia is basically under the control of the royal family, the two newspapers of the royal family, the Australasian Daily and the Victorian, have high credibility.

In addition to these two large newspapers covering most of the states, some local small newspapers in each state, as well as state-owned newspapers established by the government, have good credibility in Australasia.

After all, public opinion in Australasia is basically under the control of the royal family and is also supervised by the propaganda department.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for other small and medium-sized newspapers to report some fabricated news, otherwise they may face accountability from the propaganda department.

This has also led to the fact that the people of Australasia will choose to believe the news as soon as it is published by a major newspaper in Australasia.

Especially the two newspapers of the royal family. The news read by these two newspapers basically represents the truth in Australasia.

If someone said that the news published by these two newspapers was fake, the people around them would just chuckle in disdain and say, "Get lost!"

More importantly, newspapers, large and small, are legally responsible for the news they publish.

If anyone dares to print false news, especially false news about the government and the royal family, all the people involved will face jail time, except for the newspaper being shut down.

Under such circumstances, as long as the newspaper office has a normal mind, it will basically not read the fake news.

This also greatly strengthened Arthur's control over public opinion. As long as the two newspapers under the royal family publish something, no newspaper or media has the right to refute.

On the second day of the cabinet meeting, many media outlets, including the Victorian News and the Australasian Daily, began to publish news that global food production may be reduced due to disasters such as droughts and floods in various places.

The Australasian Daily also predicted that the world's food may suffer large fluctuations within a few years, and encouraged the Australasian people to stockpile food in advance to deal with possible food crises in the future.

At the same time, it seems that in response to the news from these newspapers, the Australasian government announced on the second day that, in addition to some cooperation with the United Kingdom and Germany, it will reduce grain exports to foreign countries on a large scale and increase domestic grain reserves scale.

The country is about to start stockpiling grain, can this news be false?
With such expectations in mind, Australasians have responded to the calls of major newspapers and media, and began to enter the stage of stockpiling grain.

Of course, the reason why people are called on to start hoarding grain is to protect them from future food price hikes.

Therefore, the government will also impose certain restrictions on the scale of grain storage by the people.

Theoretically, each household is only allowed to purchase 500 catties of grain to avoid the crisis of insufficient grain reserves due to large-scale hoarding of grain by the public.

Under the appeasement of the government, it was ensured that the government would increase the grain storage, so that the Australasians would not be short of food. This allowed the people to accept the 500-jin grain purchase limit.

In addition to increasing the strategic reserves of food, attracting the population is also a key topic of discussion at this cabinet meeting.

Everyone knows that it is impossible for the great powers during the war to allow a large number of people to emigrate abroad.

This will not only reduce the country's control over certain areas, but also weaken the country's potential before the outbreak of war.

In addition, there will always be people who are afraid of death in every country, and there are quite a few of these people.If there are no restrictions on these people during the war, then I am afraid that once the war breaks out, dozens or even millions of people will be displaced outside in a short period of time.

These people have different occupations, and they may even be talents in important positions.Once these people are allowed to lose, it is tantamount to disrespecting the outbreak of war.

Therefore, before the war broke out, and perhaps before the end of the war, the last chance for immigrants from Australasia.

In order to attract more immigrants before the war, Arthur issued an order for the people's livelihood department to cooperate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support of the cabinet government, to attract immigrants on a large scale in major European countries.

This time, the conditions for attracting immigrants to Australasia have become more generous, which has increased by nearly [-]% compared with the conditions for immigrants before.

In addition, as long as there is an idea to immigrate to Australasia, the Australasian government can reimburse the boat ticket and provide housing and food for the new immigrants before they arrive in Australasia and do not officially obtain citizenship.

Once such an immigration policy is promulgated, it is bound to attract more immigrants to Australasia.

In this era, there are still a large number of Europeans who want to immigrate abroad.

Especially now that the war in Europe seems to be getting closer and closer, many peace-loving people who do not want to see war have already planned to immigrate to peaceful countries.

Countries like the United States and Australasia, which are far away from European disputes, have a unique geographical location, and even have a large industrial and economic scale, and have the status of great powers, are naturally the first choice for those who want to immigrate.

At present, the priority of choice for European immigrants can be divided into: the United States and Australasia are the first category, European colonies are the second category, South American countries are the third category, and Asian countries are the fourth category.

Although immigration to Australasia has set a new record this year, who would want too much population?
Even Arthur's goal, in the last two months of 1912, was to attract at least over 20 immigrants.

Changes in immigration policies have brought Australasia's attractiveness to immigrants to another level.

But at the same time, the cost of immigration is also increasing.In order to attract a larger immigrant population, Arthur also relaxed restrictions on the origin of immigrants.

As long as it is a European country and a white population, immigration restrictions will be relaxed, and all European white populations will be encouraged to immigrate to Australasia.

In order to complete the task assigned by Arthur, the Australasian government has spent a lot of effort.

It is also a big expense if the immigrants are allowed to buy the ferry tickets themselves.Therefore, the government specially rented more than a dozen large cruise ships from Europe to transport immigrants safely to Australasia.

At the same time, Australasia is not only responsible for the boat tickets for immigrants, but also provides free food to immigrants during the journey, which also attracts more immigrants.

In addition, the government also decided to use warship escorts to ensure the safety of cruise ships and immigrants, and to demonstrate Australasia's naval strength and tell all European immigrants that Australasia has the ability to protect all citizens.

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