Chapter 217 Continuous Financial Growth

Most of these universities were established in the past two years, and it will take at least one or two years before their first batch of college students graduate.

At present, there are many majors in Australasian universities, and different universities also have their own specialties.

For example, at Australasian National University, the majors with the most enrollment are physics, chemistry, and architecture.

The first thing Arthur ordered the Minister of Education, Richard, was to expand the scale of the current major universities as much as possible and further upgrade the teaching level and quality of the universities.

This also means that Australasia needs to introduce more university professors and lecturers from the European region to meet the teaching needs of major universities in Australasia.

At present, Australasia does not have a formal military school to train military talents in all aspects for the country.

Arthur thought twice and finally decided to establish a military academy in the name of the royal family, called the Royal Military Academy of Australasia.

The three major colleges of the Army Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Aviation Academy form a complete Royal Military Academy of Australasia.

The Royal Military Academy will be established with an investment of 5 million Australian dollars from the royal family. Arthur will be the honorary principal and will cultivate various military talents for Australasia.

Among the three major colleges and universities, the aviation college is very simple. It only needs to transfer all the training personnel from the aviation laboratory. This is the simplest aviation college size.

In addition to drawing personnel from the army, Arthur also plans to hire high-paying personnel from Europe for the Army Academy and Naval Academy.

Anyone who has the ability will be invited to serve as a teacher in the military academy with a high salary.

The Royal Military Academy has two main enrollment methods. One is for high school students to enter through examinations and are traditional students of the Royal Military Academy.

Another way to recruit students is to select potential soldiers from the army.

Regardless of which enrollment method you enter, as long as you successfully graduate and successfully graduate, you will be able to become an officer in the Australasian Army.

In order to make the establishment of the Royal Military Academy faster and improve the teaching conditions, Arthur also plans to invite a large number of experts from Germany and the United Kingdom to jointly help the Royal Military Academy to be established smoothly.

After all, Germany and the United Kingdom are currently the most powerful in terms of army and navy.

Whenever a country's army shows strong potential and strength, it will be praised and called the Prussia of a certain region.

This is enough to show that the power of the German Empire's army is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is also the best praise for the German Army.

Compared with the development of universities, the development of technical schools is much simpler.

Because the purposes of cultivating talents are different, technical schools often only need experienced talents to establish, and students in technical schools often only need to master one technology skillfully to graduate.

The three technical schools in Australasia are currently capable of training thousands of skilled workers and talents for Australasia.

If you include various private technical trainings, the number will be even greater.

But Arthur was not satisfied with this number, and specifically ordered Minister Richard to expand the scale of technical schools in Australasia and build more technical schools.

In terms of skilled workers and talents, Australasia does not have too many and can train as many as it can.

After more than six years of construction and development, Australasia's transportation system has gradually improved.

First of all, Australasia's longest industrial railway line has basically been opened to traffic as a single line, and it is only a few months away from the final goal of double-tracking.

This industrial railway has greatly improved the transportation environment on the Australian continent, making communication between Western and Eastern Australia more efficient.

The second is the railway in New Zealand. The current railway construction in New Zealand's North Island has been basically completed, and the island-circuit railway has made transportation in New Zealand's North Island extremely developed.

There is currently only one railway in the South Island of New Zealand, which runs from Picton in the northernmost part of the South Island to Invercargill in the southern part of the South Island.

Of course, such a railway scale does not satisfy Australasia. Arthur gave the transportation department’s next railway construction plan. In the Australian region, a northern railway will be established to connect the entire northern region of Australia, just in time with the southern industrial railway that surrounds the entire Australia.

The mileage of this railway is not inferior to that of industrial railways, and Arthur also gave eight years to complete this railway.

Simply because Australia has enough manpower and funds, the northern railway construction plan has been agreed by everyone.

Railway construction in New Zealand has been basically completed, and other areas without widespread railways are mostly in inaccessible mountainous areas.

Building railways in these areas is not cost-effective and completely unnecessary.

Therefore, in New Zealand, the most important task of the transportation department is to build more roads so that the road network can cover all cities and towns in New Zealand so that New Zealanders can truly feel the benefits of transportation development. .

The last person to report is the finance department.

Throughout 1906, the total fiscal expenditure of the Royal Government of Australia was AUD 29.31 million, the total fiscal revenue was AUD 21.2 million, and the fiscal deficit reached approximately AUD 8.1 million.

The reason the fiscal deficit is so high is actually because of the industrial construction that is currently going on everywhere in Australasia.

If we only look at fiscal revenue, the fiscal revenue of the Government of the Kingdom of Australasia is rising every year, and the fiscal deficit is getting smaller and smaller.

This is evident from the funds available in the government treasury. Currently, the Treasury's available funds are as high as A$234 million, which is only A$60 million less than four years ago.

However, in the past four years, Australasia's economic development has already exceeded this figure, and total fiscal revenue has increased by half compared to four years ago.

In addition to the industrial development, Australasia's agriculture has also experienced a lot of development.

Due to large amounts of indigenous investment, the available arable land in Australasia has increased by 50% compared to four years ago, and the per capita arable land area has increased by 30% compared to four years ago.

There is also animal husbandry. The number of sheep in Australasia exceeds 160 million. If allocated to each Australasian, each person could even be allocated 24 sheep.

This number is enough to show how outrageous the livestock industry in Australasia is. It is not an exaggeration to call it a big livestock country.

This does not include other animals such as cattle that Australia has. Wool, beef, mutton, milk and other livestock products are Australasia's key export agricultural products, and they can also generate considerable income every year.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the British Empire. At first, the British Empire's livestock product supply area was New Zealand, which was eventually replaced by the developed Australia.

After the establishment of Australasia, it naturally inherited Australia's status and became a livestock supplier to the British Empire and even many European countries.

It is precisely because of the highly developed animal husbandry that meat is cheaper than grain in Australasia. Meat is also an important part of people's food in Australasia.

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