Chapter 95 European Affairs Manager (Please Subscribe!)

In addition to the M1897 artillery, Butler Hunter also brought Arthur a piece of good news.

After a period of preparation, the Victoria Prize has officially entered the collection and selection stage.

Because the prize money for any award is as high as 50,000 pounds, this Victoria Prize has caused a sensation in almost half of the European scientific research community. Even those who are not in the scientific research community want to invent something in a short period of time to get this pie-in-the-sky prize.

Because it is the first time to judge the award, Butler Hunter invited many professors and scientists who are highly recognized by the entire scientific research community as judges, and each of them will receive at least 2,000 pounds.

Attracted by money, these people are also very happy to serve as judges of the first Victoria Prize, and they also specifically asked when the next grand prize will be awarded.

These people are free advertising machines, and Butler Hunter is naturally happy to tell them.

Under the publicity of these professors and scientists, the popularity of the Victoria Prize in Europe has spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and has attracted the attention of many people.

What makes many people excited is that the Victoria Prize will be awarded every year, and the prize money will not be reduced.

What does this mean? As long as you win the Victoria Prize in any year, you can get at least 50,000 pounds in prize money.

Many professors and scientists who are not outstanding in their abilities may never have access to such a huge amount of funds in their lifetime.

If we have to talk about the attraction of these funds in the hearts of these people, it is like the attraction of Zhang Xiu's aunt to Cao Cao.

Under such irresistible temptation, although the first award has high requirements for participating works and research, it still attracted thousands of works and research, and individuals to participate.

When Butler Hunter left, the award had entered the selection stage, and the specific winners of each award would be selected before the new year, and then the awards and announcements would be made in Australia at the beginning of the new year.

In order to prevent and eliminate the occurrence of cheating in the selection, the works and research of all judges this time cannot participate in the selection.

This undoubtedly disappointed some judges a little, but the reward of 2,000 pounds is definitely more attractive than the award that can be called one in ten thousand.

Arthur is very satisfied with the progress of the Victoria Prize.

After being successfully held, the Victoria Prize can bring several senior talents to Australia every year.

Although it is impossible for all the winners to choose to come to Australia, as long as half of them, or even a small half of them are willing to come, it will be acceptable to Australia.

Although the purpose of the Victoria Award is to attract senior talents to Australia, the award selection is still very serious and fair.

Those who can finally win any award are definitely talents who have made great contributions in this regard.

Any such talent can play a major role in a certain industry. If Australia can gather many such talents, then why worry about Australia's rise?

After Butler Hunter returned home, the main affairs in Europe were handed over to Eric Oboom, the Australian ambassador to the Netherlands, and David Martins Simang, the director of European affairs.

David Martins Simang naturally needs no further explanation. As one of the confidants trusted by the old Duke Arthur, he is also Arthur's team.

Ambassador Eric Oboom is a talent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one of the Australian local officials that Arthur is more optimistic about.

David Martins Simang's position as the director of European affairs is actually the same as Butler Hunter's position as the director, both of which are private officials affiliated with the royal family.

They only obeyed Arthur's orders and were absolutely loyal to him.

As the name suggests, the European Affairs Director is a subordinate who manages European affairs.

Although Australia is an Oceania country, it is absolutely necessary to deal with European countries.

Especially Britain and Germany, one is the mother country with deep relations, and the other is a cooperative country with good relations.

The Dutch acted quickly. In the second month after the signing of the Aboriginal Purchase Treaty, that is, in December 1901, the first batch of natives from the Dutch East Indies had been transported over, a full 20,000.

Although Australia also paid a purchase fee of 100,000 pounds for this, compared with these 100,000 laborers, Australia is definitely the winner.

Of course, the Kingdom of the Netherlands did not lose much. These natives were not easy to manage in the colonies, and rebellions broke out from time to time in the Dutch East Indies.

Half of these 20,000 natives were assigned to steel mills to quickly increase Australia's pitiful steel production.

Half were assigned to the construction of industrial railways. At present, the construction of railways is in need of manpower. In the absence of rails and other materials, the more indigenous people who can work, the better.

According to statistics from various sources, Australia currently has more than 50,000 indigenous workers involved in all aspects of national construction, and the number is still increasing at a relatively large rate every month.

Among them, only less than 10,000 indigenous people are native Australians, and the other more than 40,000 indigenous people are from New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies.

In terms of indigenous people, Australia is an outlier. Most colonies have a large number of indigenous people, especially colonies as large as Australia.

But Australia is different. Even in the colonial period, Australia only had more than one million indigenous people.

During the long colonial career, a large number of indigenous people were tortured to death by diseases brought by the colonists, and a small number of indigenous people were relocated to the barren inland.

In addition, the increase in immigration led to the expansion of cities, and the living area of ​​Australian indigenous people became smaller and smaller, and the total number became smaller and smaller.

These indigenous people were not included in the government's population statistics, and no Australian official regarded them as normal citizens.

According to estimates, there are still more than 700,000 such indigenous people in Australia, and they are decreasing slightly.

But this is actually a scene that most Australian officials are happy to see. Even in the early days of Australia's establishment in history, the so-called White Australia Policy has been pursued, that is, the Australia of white people.

Although Arthur is not an extreme racist, he has acquiesced to those officials in his policy on indigenous people.

This also led to a phenomenon that some of the native Australians will join the army of indigenous labor due to various circumstances.

However, this is good news for Australia's construction. Because of the large number of indigenous people, Australia's various construction speeds are much faster than before, and some places can even be said to be a change every day.

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