Chapter 448: Planning in Advance
The war has continued until now, and anyone with a discerning eye can already tell that the war has come to an end. But the problem is, there is no certainty about how the war will end.
If you carefully study the history of the countries involved in World War I, you will find that World War I was a civil war between European royal families, and even more so between German nobles.
Why do you say that?
First of all, all the great powers participating in the war, with the exception of the Republic of France and Italy, all have royal families from the German region.
Needless to say, the British royal family and the Australasian royal family are members of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family in Germany.
The Romanov royal family of Russia came from the German region, and the Habsburg dynasty of the Austro-Hungarian Empire also came from the German region, but was squeezed out by the then Kingdom of Prussia and eventually became the Austrian Empire alone.
In addition to the royal families of various countries, there are a considerable number of German nobles in the United Kingdom, and there are also a considerable number of British nobles in Germany.
The complex marriage relationships between the royal families of various countries have allowed the royal families of various countries to form an inseparable blood network.
Therefore, this war can also be seen as internal strife among European monarchs. It not only greatly weakened the strength of the European royal families, but even caused a large number of European nobles to lose their actual territories.
Even the British Empire, which seems to have a stable royal status, would even be in danger of turning into a republic if the royalists were not so powerful.
Therefore, the sooner this world war ends, the less internal friction there will be between European royal families.
A stronger monarchy would do no harm to Arthur, and would even ensure Arthur's throne was more stable.
Because of this, Arthur hopes to end this war as soon as possible.
But Australasia also had many problems to resolve before ending the war.
The first is Australasia's rapidly developing military industry and manufacturing industry during the war.
Before the outbreak of the war, Australasia's military industry employed only just over 20,000 people. This was because the war was about to break out and the military industry had already experienced a considerable expansion of its employees.
The number of people employed in the military industry now exceeds at least 100,000, and the industrial output value has expanded five times compared to 1913 and three times compared to 1914. The expansion rate is extremely exaggerated.
The placement of these military industry employees after the war is a problem. Australasia obviously does not need such a large military industry after the war. It must be reduced to at least one-fifth of the current scale, otherwise it will face overcapacity in the military industry. The problem.
In addition to the military industry, the expansion of manufacturing in Australasia is also a problem. The European war created a large number of manufacturing orders for Australasia, allowing many private factories in Australasia to earn enough funds, and allowing Australasia's manufacturing capacity to far exceed the needs of the local population.
A rather exaggerated figure is that Australasia exports nearly 2 million military uniforms to Europe every year, but the demand for the Australasian army is less than 500,000 each year.
You know, this is still the demand for military uniforms after the army has greatly expanded. If it were before the war, the amount of military uniforms currently produced in Australasia every year would be enough to meet the needs of the army for ten years.
The most urgent task at present is to gradually reduce the production value of the military industry and manufacturing industry to a reasonable range, so as to avoid the bankruptcy crisis of these enterprises.
In order to obtain larger orders, some factories purchase production lines at the expense of others.
If the production value is easily reduced, it will easily cause some factories that have purchased production lines to face debt crisis.
But if production is not reduced from now on, these factories will face a funding crisis with overcapacity after the war.
After careful consideration, under Arthur's instructions, the Australasian government decided to reduce production in advance for the entire industry, encourage factories to modify production lines, and reduce the production of military products and daily necessities.
But it's not without good news. After the war with the Netherlands ended, Australasia had basically controlled the entire Dutch East Indies.
With a population of tens of millions, this area will be one of Australasia's product dumping grounds, consuming part of Australasia's industrial manufactured goods.
Coupled with the material consumption caused by the domestic population growth, the number and scale of factories that need to reduce production are also acceptable.
For factories that need to reduce production, the government will provide certain subsidies to ensure that the vast majority of factories will not close down due to production reduction.
This can be regarded as saving Australasia's hard-won industry, and the money can be obtained from the Allies' reparations anyway.
A closer look at the land Australasia acquired for this war basically satisfied Australasia's needs to become a superpower.
After acquiring the land in the Middle East, Australasia has no shortcomings in mineral resources and can become an extremely developed country based on mineral resources alone.
On the mainland, the defensive island chain in northern Australasia has been completely completed and can perfectly resist attacks from island countries to the north and the United States to the east.
Coupled with an excellent army and a powerful navy, Australasia can proudly claim that before the invention of nuclear bombs and missiles, there was no risk of Australasia's homeland being breached.
As long as this war is over, the tone of Australasia will change back to domestic development, managing the large deserts within Australasia, and developing newly acquired colonies at the same time. If it can attract a large number of talents from Germany, obtain a large amount of industrial equipment, and digest these territories, it can be said that Australasia has the strength of a top power and can compete with great powers such as Britain, France and the United States.
In order to better manage these areas, government officials are busy holding meetings and investigating information every day.
Arthur also vaguely proposed the idea of moving the capital at a cabinet meeting some time ago. Many matters such as inspecting the location of the new capital and surveying public opinion also gave the government a headache.
However, as the government's top decision-maker, Arthur naturally would not do these things personally.
For Arthur, he only needs to control the macro tone of things, while the detailed micro control is left to these cabinet ministers and their subordinates.
If the development of a country requires the king to work tirelessly and carefully control all aspects, then the development of this country will not last long, and it is likely that it will only be prosperous for one generation.
For Arthur, he also has a more important task, which is to educate his three children.
Yes, Queen Mary gave birth to Arthur's second son more than a year ago, who was named Peter by Arthur.
Peter is only one year old now and naturally does not need any education. Arthur's eldest son William and daughter Anna are now in their early sevens, and it's time they need a good education.
In order to exercise William's administrative abilities in a more practical way, Arthur decided to hand over the development of the Middle East to William.
Although William is only seven years old, he has experienced a relatively strict elite aristocratic education and looks like a little adult.
Of course, if this were the case alone, Arthur would not hand over such a large Persian Gulf coastal territory to William for management.
There is another very important reason. Arthur does not plan to vigorously exploit oil along the Persian Gulf coast before acquiring more territory from the Persian Gulf coast.
This also means that the development of the territories along the Persian Gulf is not large, and with the assistance of officials appointed by Arthur, it is safe to leave it to William for management.
We don't want William to experience a setback, and the population along the Persian Gulf is not large anyway. It's just a good time to see what William has learned from the elite aristocratic education he has experienced in the past few years.
Anyway, the garrisons along the Persian Gulf are not under William's management. No matter how happy little William is, it will not affect Australasia's rule in this area.
As for the life and death of the indigenous populations along the Persian Gulf, Arthur didn't care, and neither did other countries.
When Arthur first decided to hand over the Persian Gulf coast to William for management, the excitement in the little guy's eyes could be clearly seen.
It's obvious that the appeal of managing a large territory on your own is huge for a boy.
Arthur also asked William what he would do first after taking charge of this territory, and the answer he got was military management plus enslaving the natives.
Such an answer is a proper hawkish thought, but Arthur doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.
Because of the impact of this world war, hawkish war ideas in various countries are constantly increasing.
The strength of the peace faction only happened after the war. After all, before the end of the war, a large number of civilians were bewitched by the governments of various countries, but they only knew how to serve the country and did not know the death threat that serving the country would bring to them.
When the war ended, people were surprised to find that most of their friends and relatives died because of the war, and the damage of the war was truly reflected in everyone's life.
For Arthur, there is nothing wrong with William's hawkish thinking, but it also points to who is a hawk.
There is no need to care about the life and death of the indigenous people. Even if there are too many local indigenous people in the Australasian territory, they will easily be deceived by future republics like the United States and let these indigenous people plan for independence in the Australasian territory.
Rather than doing this, it is better to deal with these indigenous people in advance, when all these occupied colonies and lands become legal territories for the permanent residence of Australasians.
A clear example in later generations is the East Prussian land of Königsberg, which was occupied by the Russians after World War II.
Königsberg was once the capital of Prussia, but was occupied by the Russians after Germany surrendered in World War II.
Otherwise, in order to better protect this land, a large-scale relocation plan was launched to expel all Germans in a land to West Germany, and a large number of Russians immigrated to live in this land.
As a result, this German homeland became the land where most Russians lived, and it became the legal territory of the Russians.
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