Rise of Australia

Chapter 91 Steel Crisis (Please Subscribe!)
The fleet carried by this fleet is naturally the ambassador candidates and diplomatic missions that Arthur has prepared for a long time.

Of course, Princess Louise was also among them this time, and Margaery and Patricia would naturally follow along.

As for the reason why Princess Louise went to the Netherlands, it goes without saying.

At the same time, Butler Hunter is also among them. He will accompany the fleet to Europe and be responsible for establishing the awards.

The forthcoming award for scientific research, Arthur gave it an important name, the Victoria Award.

Nominally, it is to commemorate Arthur's dear grandmother, Queen Victoria, but it is also unavoidable to borrow Queen Victoria's prestige to make the newly born award quickly famous in Europe.

In order to prevent the impact of the yet-to-be-born Nobel Prize on the Victoria Prize, Arthur specially prepared a reward of up to 30 pounds for the Victoria Prize, even if he has prizes for literature, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and technology The winners of each of the six major awards, including waiting, can still receive support worth £[-].

This bonus has far exceeded the first Nobel prize in history, even three or four times as much.

And, if the winner of the award can travel to Australia for at least ten years, the Australian royal family will provide additional research funds and venues.

Even in Britain, where the economy is very developed, the annual income of senior professors is only a few thousand pounds.

The prize money of any one of the Victoria Awards is fully the income of dozens or even hundreds of years of senior professors in the UK.

Coupled with the huge prestige from Queen Victoria, it can be expected that the new Victoria Award will definitely be more popular than the original Nobel Prize in history.

The Victoria Award will also become a powerful tool for Australia to attract high-end talents. In the next few years, decades or even hundreds of years, it will enable Australia to maintain sufficient prestige and attractiveness in the scientific research community.

The annual cost of hosting the awards is only more than 30 pounds. Although it seems a lot, it is completely affordable for Arthur's property.

What's more, the reconstruction of the production line of the automobile factory is also in full swing.Cars will also bring Arthur a lot of income, which is a huge market worth hundreds of millions or even billions of pounds.

Arthur chose to stay in Australia, not to say that Arthur did not pay attention to the trip to the Netherlands, but Australia currently has too many important projects, and Arthur must personally supervise them.

The railway construction plan is one of the most important development plans in Australia at present. Since the birth of the plan, it has attracted the attention and attention of a large number of Australians.

This also led to the smooth progress of the land acquisition for the construction of the railway.

Most of the places where the railways pass are uninhabited wastelands, and some have already been allocated land, and Australia has also purchased them at twice the market price.

Of course, if you don’t want to exchange it for money, the Australian government will also organize the aborigines to reclaim and compensate the same area of ​​reclaimed land.

Why is the Australian government so generous, don't ask, there are many aboriginals.

At present, Australia has nearly 6000 aboriginals invested in the construction, and it is still increasing at a rate of nearly [-] per month.

Although various industrial constructions will also cause hundreds of aboriginals to shed blood and sacrifice every month, the death toll of hundreds of aboriginals every month is nothing in the face of huge manpower replenishment.

As one of the most valued construction projects, the construction of the railway cost Arthur and Australia a lot.

In terms of workers, more than [-] German experts have invested in the planning and exploration of railway construction, and hundreds of trained Australian railway workers have also invested.

Needless to say about cheap labor, at least 1000 indigenous people have been dispatched to railway construction, and the number is still increasing by at least [-] per month.

At the same time, the major steel mills also began to work overtime to produce rails.The reason why railway construction can become one of the symbols of industrial countries is because the construction of railways not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also tests the country's steel production.

Australia builds a wide-gauge railway, which has significantly improved the transport capacity, the train will run very smoothly, and the interior of the carriage will become more spacious and comfortable.

Of course, wide-gauge railways also have very obvious disadvantages, that is, they will occupy more area, the cost of bridges and tunnels will increase, and the turning radius will also increase.

But now because Australia has neither lack of funds nor lack of land, it is obvious that broad-gauge railways are more suitable.

At the same time, most of the railway is a single-track railway, and only some sections with relatively large traffic are designed with double-track railways.

Of course, this is not absolute.Before the construction of this railway, the entire design team had already made a plan to change the entire railway to double track at any time.

As long as there is any need in the future, any section of this railway can be rebuilt and turned into a double-track railway.

This has also eased demand for Australian steel production to some extent.

According to the estimates of German experts, Australia's railway construction consumes about 170 tons of steel rails per kilometer, and the entire railway needs at least nearly 70 tons of steel rails.

If the additional consumption of tunnels, bridges, stations, etc. is added, then the entire railway needs at least 80 tons of steel production.

Although this is the total consumption of more than ten years of construction time, an average of at least [-] tons of steel is consumed every year.

However, Australia's current steel production cannot keep up with this figure for the time being, so expanding the scale of steel plants is an urgent problem to be solved.

The car is also a beast of iron.Building a car also requires a lot of steel, ranging from a few hundred kilograms to tons.

Once automobiles become popular in the world market in the future, tens of thousands of tons of steel may be needed each year just to build automobiles.

This can be very busy industry minister Pierre.

All of a sudden, the pressure came to Minister Pierre, and the Ministry of Industry could only speed up the construction of industrial zones and steel plants, invest more natives, and expand the production scale of the steel plant as much as possible.

Fortunately, in this era, expanding the production scale of steel is both difficult and easy to say.

Under the premise of having technology, equipment, mineral resources, capital and manpower, the expansion of steel production scale is simple.

But without these preconditions, it will not be easy to expand the scale of steel production.

Australia is lucky enough to have resources, equipment, technology, manpower, experts, and funds. Apart from the time it takes to build a new steel plant and expand its scale, there are no other problems.

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