Rise of Australia

Chapter 60 Immigrants
"Your Highness, the British government has agreed to support us with funds or other industrial equipment worth 500 million pounds. This fund will be paid in ten years, with a share of 550 million pounds per year." Minister Andrew explained with a smile: "Prime Minister Robert agrees with us Arbitrarily choose the payment method of funds or industrial equipment and resources. In theory, except for the technology and industrial equipment at the British strategic level, any industrial equipment and resources can be exchanged equally with these support funds.”

"Can the naval technology we need also be exchanged?" Arthur asked with a little interest.

The British naval technology is one of the major factors for the British navy to lead the world, and another major factor is the huge investment in the navy and the two-power policy.

It has to be admitted that even the German Empire, which has the second largest comprehensive strength in the world, still lags far behind the British Empire in terms of navy. Except for submarines, it can be said that it lags behind the British Empire in terms of naval technology.

Although Germany started to catch up with the United Kingdom in terms of navy after its rise, it will take a long time to make up for the gap accumulated over a long period of time.

"The vast majority of naval technology is acceptable, Your Highness. But Prime Minister Robert specifically explained that the blueprints of all battleships and large warships in service in the UK are not within the scope of support." Defense Minister Kanter said helplessly.

Even though the two parties had discussed this for a long time, the British government did not agree to include the blueprints of battleships and large warships in service in the scope of support.

Although there are blueprints, it does not mean that Australia can produce warships, but blueprints are also the most important thing for warships.

With blueprints, it is also easy to study the weaknesses of warships, especially for potential enemies of the British Empire, blueprints of warships in service are definitely a good thing.

In fact, during the confrontation between the two major military blocs, especially after Britain joined the Allied Powers, the number of spies sent by European countries rose sharply. Among them, stealing the blueprints and data of warships was one of the important tasks of these spies.

"It doesn't matter, Minister Kent." Hearing that Britain was unwilling to share the blueprint of the warship, Arthur not only didn't look angry, but laughed instead.

"Your Highness, in this way, if we want to build a navy, we can only buy the drawings of warships from Germany. However, compared with British warships, German warships are still slightly inferior in terms of performance. "Minister Kent frowned and said helplessly.

The British were stuck with Australia in terms of naval drawings, which made Minister Kent a little dissatisfied.

The navy is willing to teach everything about science and technology, but the blueprints of warships are not willing to share.Isn't this equivalent to the chef buying all the cooking utensils for the apprentices, but not teaching the recipes to the apprentices? Isn't this a waste of money?

"That's fine, Minister Kent. Australia's industrial strength is also limited. In a short period of time, our navy is still dominated by small and medium-sized warships. Our shipyards are capable of producing such warships. We just need to let the workers familiarize themselves with the warships." Familiar with the shipbuilding equipment, you can start working after groping." Arthur smiled and said comfortingly: "Our shipbuilding industry is still very weak, even if the UK gives us the blueprints, we will not be able to digest them in a short time. I think Germany The design of the warship is very suitable. Compared with the United Kingdom, Germany has more support for us, and we can master its technology more quickly. Is it possible to use British naval technology to build the warship on the German warship blueprint? Will it perform better?"

Arthur's words comforted Minister Kent very well, and the unhappiness of the British warship blueprint quickly dissipated.

In fact, compared to the explanations, the real Arthur doesn't care about the blueprints of the warships. In fact, it is the dreadnoughts that will be born in a few years.

The gap between the dreadnoughts and the main battleships before these dreadnoughts, to use an exaggerated sentence on the Internet, is that after the birth of the dreadnoughts, all the former dreadnoughts will be reduced to scrap iron.

Although the reality is not so exaggerated, the former dreadnought basically has no resistance in front of the dreadnought. Whether it is based on surface data or actual combat capabilities, the dreadnought can crush the former dreadnought.

The difference between the dreadnought and the former dreadnought does not lie in one aspect, but in all-round crushing.

For a warship, its combat performance is determined by its sailing speed, armor thickness, firepower, flexibility, and soldier quality.

Except for the external factor of soldier quality, whether it is sailing speed, armor thickness, vitality strength and flexibility, dreadnoughts have crushed the former dreadnoughts.

To use a more appropriate word to compare, the combat power gap between the dreadnought and the former dreadnought is like a college student and a primary school student.

After the birth of the dreadnought, the drawings of these warships in Britain are basically useless now.

At that time, the naval arms race of various countries will be dominated by dreadnoughts. It is not these backward warships that determine the strength of the navy, but the number and combat effectiveness of dreadnoughts.

The days when these warships in active service can be prosperous will not last long, which is the real reason why Arthur doesn't care about the blueprints of these warships.

"What about immigration? Immigration should be said to be one of the most important issues in Australia, and the introduction of immigrants is urgent." Arthur said.

At present, Europe is in a relatively chaotic period. Coupled with the increase in European population, all major European countries are in the stage of immigration.

According to the rough statistics of later generations, from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, about 6000 million people in Europe immigrated overseas, of which 3500 million people immigrated to the United States.

As the most powerful country in Europe, Britain has immigrated more than 100 million people in the past 800 years.

Especially with the confrontation between the two major military blocs in Europe and the increasingly serious arms race, the number of European immigrants has gradually increased since 1890. Every year, about 80 million Europeans choose to permanently emigrate overseas.

Although more than half of these immigrants choose to go to the United States, after all, the United States is one of the great powers comparable to European countries. Although it is not outstanding in the military, its industry and economy have surpassed many European powers.

But Arthur is not greedy either. It is impossible for the United States to absorb a huge number of immigrants in a short period of time.

But with Arthur's popularity in the UK and the support of immigrants from Britain and Germany, coupled with Australia's hype, it is still very possible to account for one-tenth of the European immigrants.

"The British government has expressed that it will try its best to help with the issue of immigration. They promise that they will never oppose immigration to Australia in the UK, and they will help Australia to promote various immigration policies as much as possible." Foreign Minister Andrew said: "Although the British will not object to us attracting Immigrants, but if you want them to help us directly, I'm afraid there is no hope."

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