Rise of Australia

Chapter 664
In the end, the shipbuilding plan including two battleships and nine aircraft carriers was approved.

After all, 5000 million Australian dollars is not a big expense for the current government. If it has to be paid over 2 to 3 years, it is even less.

If this can further enhance the country's naval strength, this kind of deal is definitely a good deal, and the cabinet ministers will not be unreasonable.

What Minister Mellen was worried about was that the funding for his own security department would be cut. But after Arthur said that the funds for the shipbuilding would be directly transferred from the national treasury instead of diverting the budgets of other departments, Minister Mellen did not agree. No more objections.

With the addition of these two battleships and nine aircraft carriers, Australasia's naval strength can reach a higher level, reaching the third naval power after Britain and the United States.

Of course, compared to other naval powers, Australasia's naval establishment is relatively extreme. Aircraft carriers are the real main battleships, and the status and number of battleships have dropped to the next level.

Although this seems a bit strange, after all, the naval construction of other countries is still based on battleships, and aircraft carriers, which are modified designs from battleships and destroyers, are only used as auxiliaries.

But if you see Australasia's advanced aircraft design, you will actually understand the purpose of using aircraft carriers as the main battleships.

The aircraft carrier technology now mastered by Australasia, if coupled with radar, can actually crush battleships.

The attack range of a battleship is the range of the main gun, and the attack range of an aircraft carrier is the flight distance of the aircraft it carries.

Radar can also ensure that the aircraft carrier detects the battleship before it enters the battleship's attack range. This technological gap has proven that the actual combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier exceeds that of the battleship.

Although it will take some time for aircraft carriers to become more important than battleships in history, in the current Australasia, the development of jet aircraft has brought this time much earlier.

Except for Australasia, which attaches special importance to the development of aircraft carriers, other countries, even the United Kingdom, which was the first to develop aircraft carriers, do not attach such strong importance to aircraft carriers.

Although Britain's current aircraft carriers have made progress compared to more than ten years ago, due to limitations in aircraft technology, the British feel that the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers will not exceed that of battleships. Battleships are still the most powerful warships in the world.

Although they also understood the design of Australasia's previous Titan-class aircraft carriers, the lack of Australasia's aircraft technology made them mistakenly believe that the aircraft carriers designed by Australasia were also inferior to the most powerful battleships.

This is also the biggest misunderstanding that the British entered, because of the misunderstanding about the development of warships caused by aircraft technology.

But there is no way around it. After all, what determines the true combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier is the ability of the aircraft.

Even if the aircraft carrier is the most advanced in design and carries aircraft produced decades ago, it is still not as good as the aircraft carrier carrying the most advanced aircraft decades ago.

Of course, the premise for this is that the aircraft carrier can withstand the takeoff and landing of more advanced aircraft. After all, if the aircraft cannot even take off and land, then it can only pretend.

Including this naval shipbuilding plan, the various non-stop construction and engineering projects in the last few months of 1926 have been the epitome of Australasia.

This also made Australasia the most envied country by people all over the world in the second half of 1926, and attracted a large number of immigrants.

Through the registered immigrants and births and deaths in 1926, the Australasian government also successfully estimated the total population of Australasia as of early 1927.

This has to mention the current population registration system.Although various technologies have been developed, Australasia still cannot achieve accurate population statistics to single digits.

In fact, all countries currently cannot do this because there is no real-time statistical population data system. The population data reported by each country is often in tens of thousands, with a maximum of two decimal places.

But this does not prevent Australasia's population data from being outstanding. At the beginning of 1926, the total population of Australasia was only 2976 million.

Just one year later, in early 1927, the total population of Australasia had risen to 3247 million, with a net population increase of more than 271 million.

Such population growth data is already extremely exaggerated. Even if you look at the world, it will definitely be among the best.

It is precisely because of this scale of population growth that the total population of Australasia has jumped to about 3250 million. It is no longer the small country with a population of several million.

The number of deaths in Australasia is approximately 25.1, which also means that the total population growth is close to 300 million.

Of the total population growth of 296.1 million, the native newborn population contributed less than one-sixth, about 43.2.

The remaining nearly 253 million are all immigrants from Europe and the Americas, which also shows the impact of the economic crisis on these countries.

These 253 million immigrants are further broken down into 147 million British immigrants, of which 37% are from the United States, 55% are from the United Kingdom, and the remaining less than 8% are from other regions.

After that, the number of Russian immigrants reached 43.2, and more than [-]% of Russian immigrants came from Tsarist Russia.

Nearly 10% of the remaining immigrants, or 24.7, are immigrants to the United States.It does not mean that fewer people from the United States come to Australasia.In fact, these people can be regarded as native Americans. Although their ancestors were also immigrants from Britain or other countries, after decades or hundreds of years of development, they can all be collectively called Americans.

The addition of a large number of British immigrants not only caused Australasia's population to increase dramatically, but also kept the proportion of British immigrants at over 59%, which is considered a relatively good level.

I just don’t know what Prime Minister Baldwin would think. Australasia did sell a large amount of food and meat at cost price to the UK, but the UK also lost more than 80 people. In comparison, Australasia still made a profit. .

This was only because the immigration operation lasted only four months.The next year was even more difficult for the British government, because they could not stop unemployed British people from coming to Australasia, and they could not stop capitalists from dumping large amounts of food and milk into rivers or lakes because they could not make money.

This also caused a miracle. A small lake outside London was originally a beautiful scenic spot, but after capitalists dumped a large amount of milk, the lake water already smelled like milk.

Walking next to the lake, in addition to the clear smell of milk, you can also smell the stench of moldy and rotten food in the lake.

Of course, if you have better eyesight, you can actually see a few corpses floating in the lake.

These people smelled the milk fragrance in the lake and saw the food in the lake. They thought that they would not starve to death at last, so they rushed to the center of the lake desperately.

But the capitalists will not let them succeed, and these refugees have only one ending: they are forced to drown in this lake that has turned into a milky white.

The biggest good news brought about by the population explosion is that there is no shortage of manpower for various infrastructure projects in Australasia.

The 253 million immigrants created nearly one million laborers, who immediately entered Australasia's infrastructure industry, keeping the unemployment rate at a low level.

Due to the continuous influx of these labor forces, the progress of railway, highway construction and other infrastructure construction has become much faster, and the country's development is also booming, without being affected by the economic crisis at all.

Because of this, while the economies of various countries around the world have generally fallen sharply due to the economic crisis, Australasia's economy has maintained its original scale, with neither decline nor growth.

In fact, this is normal. Although imports and exports have experienced a reduction due to the economic crisis, the large-scale infrastructure construction that has started has led to economic growth.

With one increase and one decrease, the economy has maintained a balance.However, this is not easy in an economic crisis. After all, the economic decline of various countries is very large, and it is unique to be able to maintain equilibrium.

However, the changes in fiscal revenue and expenditure are still relatively large.Due to the substantial reduction in the scale of exports, Australasia's total fiscal revenue also experienced a decrease in 1926.

The previous tax payer, Benz Automobile Factory, paid less than A$200 million in taxes last year, a drop of more than 70% compared to the previous year.

This also caused Australasia's total fiscal revenue to fall back below 1.801 million Australian dollars, or even only [-] million Australian dollars.

However, total fiscal expenditure has experienced a substantial increase.Whether it is various infrastructure construction or naval expansion plans, each of them is a gold-swallowing behemoth, and the financial budget paid is also very high.

In 1926, Australasia's total fiscal expenditures reached 2.939 million Australian dollars, and the annual fiscal loss reached 1.138 million Australian dollars.

Although the financial losses are relatively large, it is these infrastructure developments that ensure the stability of Australasia's economy at its current level.

At the same time, these infrastructures also allow new immigrants to earn sufficient income, which is also the key to attracting foreign immigrants to Australasia.

Calculated based on the funds currently available to the government, an annual loss of more than 1 million Australian dollars can sustain the current government for about three years.

If it's more, you'll have to rely on other means, such as issuing national bonds, or printing more currency, etc.

Although this will devalue the currency, it is much better than the country not being able to spend money for infrastructure construction.

That is to say, Australasia's economy has improved considerably in the past 20 years of development. Otherwise, not many countries can afford an annual financial loss of more than 1 million Australian dollars.

Fortunately, Arthur's royal consortium can also serve as a guarantee and can lend money to the government to tide over difficulties if necessary.

This is also the benefit of Arthur's high income. The royal family's act of lending to the government can also increase the favorability of the people. After all, it is rare for a monarch to be willing to give his own money to the government.

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