Chapter 448: Advance Planning

The war has continued until now, and everyone with a discerning eye can see that the war has come to an end. But the problem is, how the war will end is not so certain.

If you carefully study the history of the countries in World War I, you can find that World War I was a civil war between European royal families, and even more so a civil war between German nobles.

Why do you say that?

First of all, except for the French Republic and Italy, the royal families of all other powers participating in the war came from the German region.

Needless to say, the British royal family and the Australasian royal family are members of the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family.

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 excluded by the Kingdom of Prussia at the time 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 UK, and there are also a considerable number of British nobles in Germany.

The complex marriage relationship between the royal families of various countries has allowed the royal families of various countries to form an inseparable blood network.

Therefore, this war can also be seen as an internal friction between European monarchs, which not only greatly weakened the power of European royal families, but also caused a large number of European nobles to lose their actual territory.

Even the British Empire, which seemed to have a stable royal status, would have been at risk of becoming a republic if it were not for the strong power of the royalists.

Therefore, the sooner this world war ended, the less internal friction there would be between European royal families.

A stronger monarchy would not be bad for Arthur, and it could even ensure that Arthur's throne would be more stable.

Because of this, ending the war as soon as possible has become what Arthur expects.

But before ending the war, Australasia also has many problems to solve.

The first is the rapidly developing military industry and manufacturing industry in Australasia during the war.

Before the outbreak of the war, there were only over 20,000 people working in the military industry in Australasia, and this was because the war was about to break out and the military industry had already undergone a considerable expansion of employees.

Now, the number of people employed in the military industry exceeds 100,000, and the industrial output value has expanded five times compared with 1913 and three times compared with 1914. The expansion speed is very exaggerated.

After the war, the placement of these military industry practitioners 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 the problem of overcapacity in the military industry.

In addition to the military industry, the expansion of Australasia's manufacturing industry 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 also making Australasia's manufacturing capacity far exceed the needs of the local population.

A more exaggerated figure, Australasia exports nearly 2 million military uniforms to Europe every year, but the demand of the Australasia army is less than 500,000 per year.

You know, this is the demand for military uniforms after the army's major expansion. If it was before the war, the number of military uniforms currently produced by Australasia each year would be enough for the army's needs for ten years.

The most urgent task at present is to gradually reduce the production values ​​of the military industry and manufacturing industry to a reasonable range, so as to avoid these enterprises facing bankruptcy crisis.

In order to obtain larger orders, some factories can be said to have sold their pots and pans to purchase production lines.

If the production value is easily reduced, it is easy for some factories that have sold their pots and pans to purchase production lines to face a debt crisis.

However, if production is not reduced from now on, these factories will face a financial crisis due to overcapacity after the war.

After careful consideration, under the instruction of Arthur, 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.

However, there is also good news. After the war with the Netherlands, Australasia has basically mastered the entire Dutch East Indies.

This area has a population of tens of millions and will be one of the dumping grounds for Australasia's products, consuming some industrial products for Australasia.

Coupled with the material consumption brought about 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 most factories will not go bankrupt due to production cuts.

This can be regarded as saving Australasia's hard-earned industry, and the money can be obtained from the reparations of the Allies anyway.

A closer look at the land Australasia obtained for this war basically meets Australasia's needs to become a superpower.

After obtaining the land in the Middle East, Australasia has no defects in mineral resources, and it can become an extremely developed country relying solely on mineral resources.

As for the mainland, the defensive island chain in the north of Australasia has been completely improved, which can perfectly resist the attack from the island countries in the north and the United States in the east.

With an excellent army and a strong navy, Australasia can proudly declare that before the invention of nuclear bombs and missiles, Australasia's mainland has no risk of being breached.

As long as this war is over, Australasia's tone will change back to developing the country, governing the great desert inside Australasia, and developing the newly acquired colonies.

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 powers such as Britain, France and the United States.

In order to better govern these areas, government officials are busy holding meetings and investigating materials every day.

Arthur also implicitly proposed the idea of ​​moving the capital at a cabinet meeting some time ago. Investigating the site selection of the new capital and investigating public opinion also gave the government a headache.

However, as the highest decision-maker of the government, Arthur naturally would not do these things himself.

For Arthur, he only needs to control the macro tone of things, and the micro-detailed control is left to these cabinet ministers and their subordinates.

If the development of a country requires the king to work hard to carry out detailed control in all aspects, then the development of this country will not last long, and it is likely to only prosper 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, and Arthur named him Peter.

Peter is only one year old now, so he naturally doesn't need any education. Arthur's eldest son William and daughter Anna are both over seven years old, and it's time for them to be well educated.

In order to train William's administrative ability more practically, Arthur decided to hand over the development of the Middle East to William.

Although William is only seven years old, he has undergone a relatively strict elite aristocratic education and looks like a little adult.

Of course, if that were the case, Arthur would not hand over such a large area of ​​the Persian Gulf coastal territory to William for management.

There is another very important reason. Before more territories are exchanged from the Persian Gulf coast, Arthur does not intend to vigorously exploit the oil along the Persian Gulf coast.

This also means that the development of the territories along the Persian Gulf coast is not strong. With the assistance of officials appointed by Arthur, it is safe to hand it over to William for management.

William will not experience a setback. Anyway, the population along the Persian Gulf coast is not large. It's just right to see what William has learned from the elite aristocratic education in the past few years.

Anyway, the garrisons along the Persian Gulf are not under William's management. Even if little William makes a fuss, it will not affect Australasia's rule in this area.

As for the life and death of the indigenous population in the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf, Arthur does not care, and other countries will not care either.

When Arthur first decided to hand over the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf to William for management, he could clearly see the excitement in the little guy's eyes.

Obviously, managing a huge territory alone is very attractive to a boy.

Arthur also asked little William what he would do first after taking charge of this territory, and the answer he got was military management plus enslaving the indigenous people.

Such an answer is a complete hawkish idea, but Arthur thinks there is nothing wrong with it.

Because of the impact of this world war, the hawkish war ideas of various countries are constantly increasing.

The strength of the peace faction is a matter after the war. After all, before the end of the war, a large number of civilians were bewitched by governments of various countries, but they only knew to serve the country, and did not know the death threat that serving the country brought to themselves.

When the war was over, 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 was nothing wrong with William the Younger's hawkish thinking, but it also depends on who the hawk is.

The life and death of the indigenous people does not need to be cared about. Even if there are too many local indigenous people in the territory of Australasia, it is easy to be bewitched by future republican countries like the United States, allowing these indigenous people to plan independence in the territory of Australasia.

Instead of this, it is better to solve these indigenous people in advance, when these occupied colonies and lands all become legal territories for the permanent residence of Australasia people.

There is a vivid example in later generations, which is the East Prussian land of Konigsberg occupied by the Russians after World War II.

Konigsberg was once the capital of Prussia, but it was occupied by the Russians after Germany surrendered in World War II.

Otherwise, in order to better defend this land, a large-scale migration plan was launched to expel all the Germans in a piece of land to West Germany, and a large number of Russians were immigrated to live in this land.

As a result, this German homeland became the land where most Russians lived, and thus became the legal territory of the Russians.

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