Rise of Australia

Chapter 48 Returning to Australia
On October 1900, 10, it was the first day after Queen Victoria died.

As early as yesterday afternoon, after the Queen stopped breathing, someone was responsible for collecting Queen Victoria's body and transporting the body back to the British mainland for burial.

Although Queen Victoria most wanted to stay on the Isle of Wight, as the monarch of the British Empire, the queen whom all British admire and worship, Queen Victoria's body will eventually be buried in the Royal Cemetery in the British mainland.

The transportation of the remains is very difficult. It takes at least half a month of sailing from the Isle of Wight to the British mainland. If the time spent on replenishment along the road is added during this period, the time may become longer.

In order to transport Queen Victoria to the British mainland earlier, Prince Edward ordered the accompanying battleship HMS Renown to take charge of the transport operation.

The HMS Renown is one of the fastest warships in the Royal Navy, and the fastest voyage from the British Empire to New Zealand can be compressed to just over 20 days.

While the United Kingdom was busy transporting the remains of Queen Victoria, the royal families and high-level officials of other countries had no reason to stay on the Isle of Wight.

Everyone bid farewell to each other, and then got on the warship and returned to their own country.

The only one among these people who had any friendship with Arthur was William II.Before leaving, William II called Arthur to another place, and the two chatted for a while.

William II was very surprised by Queen Victoria's care and love for Arthur.Originally, when Queen Victoria was dying last night, William II wanted to stay by his grandmother's side, and brush up the favorability of the British by the way.

But I didn't expect that it was because of Arthur that he, the emperor, didn't get close to Queen Victoria last night.

However, Wilhelm II didn't mind this, and just reaffirmed the cooperation treaty between Germany and Australia.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that after Queen Victoria hands over British New Guinea and New Zealand to Arthur, Australia will become the most powerful country in the southern hemisphere, with no rivals in the South Pacific and East Indian Ocean.

The only British Empire that could compete with Australia was also at the request of Queen Victoria. Not only did the soon-to-be king Edward agree to a non-aggression treaty, but he also promised to protect Australia as an independent country for ten years.

In ten years, if Australia has the dual support of the British Empire and Germany, it will definitely be able to completely digest the forces of British New Guinea and New Zealand. Coupled with Australia's mainland, even the British Empire will have nothing to do with this behemoth created by itself. no way.

However, William II is still happy to see the results. After all, Germany basically has no interests in this area, except for a piece of German New Guinea.

But in fact, whether it is British New Guinea or German New Guinea, the population is not very large, and even the entire New Guinea, the population has just reached more than 140 million.

In William II's heart, if German New Guinea could be exchanged for the integrated and powerful Australia's support for Germany in World War I, that would be absolutely acceptable.

If Australia before the integration could only harass the French colonies, then the integrated Australia will have the ability to threaten the French colonies in future wars, and even the annexation of some remote areas is not a problem.

Take France’s French New Caledonia as an example. It is very close to the mainland of Australia. If a conflict breaks out between Australia and France, can France hold this area?
You must know that the logistical cost brought by the distance is tens of times. It is possible that the logistical expenditure required by France to defend this area will far exceed the value of this area.

Therefore, William II's intention to win over Arthur was more obvious, and he even specifically promised to arrange support for Australian industry after he returned, so as to speed up the pace of cooperation between Germany and Australia.

The reason why William II was so eager was that before Queen Victoria died, she specifically instructed the British Empire to provide Australia with at least 500 million pounds of support each year within ten years and not to cut off the source of immigration.

This will bring Australia, which had already escaped from Britain, closer to Britain, which is not in the interests of William II.

In order to win over Arthur, William II decided to launch a plan to emigrate from Germany to Australia. As long as most of Australia's population is German, wouldn't Australia's policy be subtly biased towards Germany?
Arthur didn't know what William II was thinking, but even if Arthur knew, he would only smile slightly.

If you want to change Australia's population structure, then at least Germany must immigrate at least 400 million people to Australia.

Such a huge number, not to mention ten years, I am afraid that Germany, like Australian immigrants, will not be able to do it in 20 years.

In the past 20 years, Australia has been able to attract millions or even tens of millions of immigrants to the whole of Europe and even the world, and it is even more impossible to change the entire immigration structure.

There is only one way to make most of the Australians become Germans, and that is to introduce only immigrants from Germany in a short period of time.

But Arthur is not stupid, although the literacy rate of the German population is relatively high, and they generally receive more cultural education.

But after all, an immigrant country like Australia must ensure the advantages and proportions of the main ethnic group.

Although Arthur is willing to accept immigrants from other countries, it must be that the proportion of Australians headed by British descent remains above 50.00% of the total population of Australia.

Immigrant countries need pluralism, but they only need one according to the right to speak.In order to prevent future immigration from causing many problems, we can only increase the proportion of the main ethnic group.

After bidding farewell to William II, Arthur also headed for Australia on a warship.

However, the difference from when he came was that there was no Crown Prince Edward by Arthur's side, but there were 2000 more Royal Guards and hundreds of entourages.

Needless to say, the Royal Guards are the elite troops of the British Army. With Arthur's original possession, the size of the Guards will reach 4000, and Arthur's position will be even more stable.

It was not without intention that Queen Victoria gave these entourages to Arthur. After all, Arthur was an outsider in Australia. Although he took power very smoothly and won the support of most Australians, some things still had to be guarded against.

Coupled with the loss of Arthur's influence in the UK, it would be very difficult for Arthur to recruit more loyal followers in theory.

After all, no one can guarantee the loyalty of those newly recruited entourages.

But these entourages of Queen Victoria are different. Most of them have served the British royal family since childhood and are extremely loyal to Queen Victoria.

After Queen Victoria presented these entourages to Arthur, the object of their allegiance became Arthur.

These people are much more loyal than Arthur's hard-earned entourage in Australia, and they are more experienced in serving people and serving as subordinates.

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