Chapter 547 Christmas Broadcast Test

Arthur's order is an absolute directive in Australasia, and everything must give way to Arthur's order.

After notifying the government, the Royal Dockyard quickly obtained the construction funds for three R108-class battleships. The construction funds for each R108-class battleship were as high as the additional cost of emergency mobilization of personnel. The total construction funds were as high as 30 million Australian dollars.

In addition to the funds arriving quickly, experts and skilled workers from the Melbourne Shipyard and Auckland Shipyard were also urgently mobilized and rushed to Sydney.

If nothing else happens, they will spend at least two years in Sydney to ensure that all three R108 battleships are completed within two years.

For these three battleships, except for the ongoing construction of aircraft carriers, other warship construction can be stopped.

After all, small and medium-sized warships can be built at any time. If such a super-large battleship is not completed before the treaty is signed, it will be difficult to complete it without any news under the supervision of the major powers.

Moreover, once the binding force of the treaty is destroyed, the treaty used to restrict the development of the navies of various countries will be like a piece of waste paper.

Without restraint, the pace of building navies in various countries will be very exaggerated. Australasia does not have the capital to compete with countries like the United States in naval arms.

This is why Arthur supported the British push for a naval limitation treaty, because this treaty was beneficial to Australasia.

After leaving Melbourne, Arthur took a special train non-stop to Adelaide.

Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, is a veritable forest city. Its environment ranks among the best among all cities in Australasia, and its air quality is surprisingly good.

Although Adelaide's population is not huge, its population only exceeds 700,000.

But the most fundamental reason for the city's size and far larger population than Perth is Adelaide's stunning green area.

In the central city of Adelaide, you can still see high-rise buildings that represent advanced advancement and technology.

However, the area of ​​the central urban area is not large, and the total population is only over 300,000.

Outside the central urban area, that is, there are still up to 400,000 people living in the suburbs, and most of them are single-family buildings and villas.

Almost every house comes with a small garden, and every few houses have parks of varying sizes, making Adelaide a green city at a glance.

Arthur stayed in Adelaide for two days, and after experiencing the relatively unique urban planning, he took his family to the Leonora Industrial Base.

There is nothing to say about the rest of the journey. We went all the way from Western Australia to Timor, New Guinea and Queensland, then visited two states in New Zealand, and returned to Sydney before Christmas.

This trip took more than a month. When I left Sydney, summer had not yet arrived. When I returned to Sydney, it was already midsummer.

It is also quite unique. Because Australasia is located in the southern hemisphere, the seasonal climate is completely opposite to that of the countries in the northern hemisphere.

Although it is also Christmas, it is Christmas in the summer in Australasia, and there is no snow in most parts of the country. It is completely different from the situation in the UK.

Although the climate is completely different, this does not prevent immigrants from Europe from enjoying this wonderful festival in their own way.

As usual, the palace was decorated a few days in advance to spend this happy festival with the common people.

Christmas in the West is like New Year in the East. It is a relatively important festival of the year and a festival that all Europeans attach great importance to.

Fortunately, the palace has Queen Mary and a few little ones dressed up. After working hard for more than a month, Arthur can finally rest for a few days and return to his soft big bed in the palace.

Arthur was fortunate that the era he lived in was still relatively advanced, and at the same time he was not too close to the new century. The royal power of various countries still had considerable reservations.

It is precisely because of this era that Arthur, while controlling a high level of royal power, was able to enjoy the changes brought to society by technological changes. This was something that neither the previous nor subsequent monarchs could appreciate.

Although the power of ancient monarchs was high, the poor sanitation and medical conditions were enough to dissuade most people who wanted to travel through.

Don't look at it. Europe now seems to be the beacon of mankind in the world, the most developed and prosperous region in the world.

But hundreds of years ago, in the Middle Ages, Europe was still relatively backward and ignorant.

December 23, Sydney Palace.

In the office next door to Arthur's dormitory, a group of people dressed in workers' clothing were busy coming and going in the office.

"How are you preparing? You must check carefully. There is no room for sloppiness in this matter, and there must be no mistakes." The director of Sydney Radio suddenly walked in, looked at the busy radio technicians, and came out. asked in a voice.

"We are almost ready, Director, we can start testing at any time." Several busy technical workers stopped their work and replied.

"Everything is ready, Your Majesty. When will the test start?" The station director secretly breathed a sigh of relief and went next door to report to Arthur.

"Has it been installed? What range can the radio wave signal currently cover?" Arthur asked with interest.

According to Australasian tradition, Arthur gives a speech every Christmas.

After the birth of radio wave technology this year, Arthur had a sudden idea and decided to use this new technology to conduct a nationwide real-time broadcast so that more people could hear Arthur's speech.

"After more than half a year of hard work, we have achieved coverage in most urban areas in Sydney and Melbourne. The scope of this test is also in Sydney and Melbourne. It is expected that at least 2 million people can hear Your Majesty's radio speech. "The director of Sydney Radio came up with a reasonable figure after careful consideration.

"Are there only Sydney and Melbourne?" Arthur was slightly disappointed, but he quickly adjusted his mood.

After all, the improved radio wave technology was only born ten months ago. Being able to cover most of Sydney and Melbourne in such a short period of time is already the result of the joint efforts of various units.

Of course, in addition to the coverage of radio waves, Arthur was more curious about how to determine the number of people receiving the broadcast signal.

"What's the situation with the radio company? Radios should have started to be sold to the private sector, right?" Arthur continued to ask.

Although the radio was destined to be a profitable business, Arthur still chose to hand it over to the joint consortium of nobles to manage it, giving the nobles a project that could continuously generate income.

In addition, Arthur has been traveling abroad recently, and he doesn't know much about the development and manufacturing progress of the radio, as well as the sales situation.

"Radios have already been sold, Your Majesty. Because there are currently not many radio stations, and there are no radio programs yet, our radio sales are not high. Sydney and Melbourne combined have only sold less than 100,000 units. . In order to ensure that your speech can be heard by more people, we have temporarily installed tens of thousands of large radios in Sydney and Melbourne to ensure that the audience of your speech can reach at least 2 million people." The director of the radio station smiled. Said: "Of course, after your speech, I believe that the sales of radios will surge. By next year, we will not have to install radios ourselves. People's radios are enough for most citizens to hear your speech."

The cost of radios is not high, and the selling price is not high either. The real reason for the current low sales is actually that there are not many radio stations, plus there are no real radio programs.

Moreover, radio waves currently only cover Sydney and Melbourne. Naturally, it is impossible to sell radios in cities without coverage.

However, in the new year, radio waves are destined to cover more cities, and radios are destined to be sold in more cities.

Coupled with the promotion of Arthur's Christmas speech, the real-time speech is destined to be more gimmicky.

Apart from anything else, just being able to hear Arthur's real-time speech at Christmas time can make a considerable number of people in Australasia take the initiative to buy radios.

People may have to think about spending money for themselves for a while, but if it is to hear Arthur's speech, a large part of the people actually don't need to think about it at all and just buy it without thinking.

Arthur was noncommittal about the station director's flattery and became concerned about this radio wave test.

The content of this test is very simple, which is to announce Arthur's Christmas speech to the public and ensure that the signals within the radio wave coverage are in a relatively stable state.

As the time came to one o'clock at noon, the radio wave test officially began.

In Sydney and Melbourne, streets and squares with radios suddenly erupted into a cacophony of airwaves that soon turned into human voices, announcing the test.

This test attracted the attention of quite a few people. The sound of broadcasts sounded simultaneously in such a huge range, and the sound was completely audible. It was completely different from previous broadcasts and loudspeakers.

This also led to a large number of people in Sydney and Melbourne temporarily buying radios during the three days from the 23rd to the 25th, and under the guidance of the radio salesperson, they learned to adjust the frequency of the broadcast so that they could receive radio broadcasts on Christmas Day. Ser's speech.

1st, Christmas Day.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Arthur's speech began on time.

"To all my people, it is a pleasure to spend 1

Australasia is becoming rich and prosperous. This is not the result of any one person's work, but the result of the efforts of all Australasians.

On behalf of the country and the Royal Family, I would like to thank all Australasians for their service. It is because of you that Australasia is prosperous.

But our goal is far beyond that, technology is advancing. The same is true for Australasia.

Citizens, let us pray together to the great God. With the efforts of all Australasians, Australasia will be stronger and will protect every Australasian who makes efforts for it.

Citizens, take action! For the sake of Australasia, for the sake of all compatriots and Australasians, work conscientiously in your posts and contribute to the construction of the country.

God will bless us and every Australasian who works hard. May you and I be with God, long live Australasia! "

When this speech was heard by more Australasians through the efforts of countless broadcast base stations and relay stations, as well as the reception of radios, a large number of newspapers and media were also listening carefully, and they read it verbatim. Recorded.

It's not that these people are overly fanatical. Past experiences have already taught them that any news with Arthur's name will be a hot news item welcomed by Australasians.

Although this year's Christmas speech has increased its audience, it still only covers most of Sydney and Melbourne. There are still a vast majority of cities and populations across the country that have not heard Arthur's speech. These people are definitely newspapers about Arthur's speech. Loyal audience.

Moreover, even if some of the population of Sydney and Melbourne heard Arthur's speech, they would definitely not mind buying another newspaper about the speech.

In this way, whoever can be the first to print a newspaper about the speech can make a fortune from the sales of the newspaper the next day.

When it comes to their own profits and newspaper income, no newspaper company dares to be careless. This is why these newspapers listen more carefully than the public.

You should know that the publicity department in Australasia is relatively strict in censoring the content published by newspapers.

Although news about Arthur cannot be published, there cannot be any typos or errors in Arthur's speeches.

Nor can you change the content of Arthur's speech based on your own subjective intentions. This is against Australasian law.

Of course, news about the royal family must undergo strict censorship before being released. This can eliminate rumors and slander against the royal family with a high probability.

As for benign news, although the Propaganda Department will also censor it, the intensity is not so strict.

After all, Australasia is a free country, and it still needs to be lenient in some aspects.

After the speech ended, Arthur breathed a sigh of relief.

Although such a speech must be drafted several times to ensure that nothing is wrong. But after all, it is the first time to give a speech to millions of people, so it is impossible to say that I am not nervous.

It's just that Arthur is used to big scenes, so he can calmly suppress this nervousness and ensure that he will not make any slips of the tongue due to nervousness.

After the speech, it was time for the two-day Christmas break. If you include Christmas Eve the day before, there are actually three days of Christmas holiday.

This is also good news for Australasia. Holidays such as Christmas, New Year's Day and National Day are basically mandatory holidays.

Even if some important positions cannot take holidays, they must receive double salary, plus a certain amount of gift compensation, in order to comply with Australasian labor laws.

Precisely because of the Australasian labor laws formulated by Arthur, Australasia also has a nickname at the international level, that is, a paradise for workers and a hell for capitalists.

Of course, it's not that exaggerated. It is indeed a paradise for workers. After all, their various welfare benefits and basic rights can be guaranteed, which is not yet available in other countries.

But for capitalists, it is far less exaggerated than hell. It’s just that labor laws protect the interests of the civilian class, which will naturally harm the interests of capitalists.

This kind of damage is beneficial to the development of the country. After all, when the people are rich, the country will become rich. It is not a good thing for property to be in the hands of a small number of people, because monopoly will only create greater monopoly.

Ensuring people's income is guaranteed will lay a solid foundation for the development of Australasia.

Capitalists dare not oppose Australasia's policies, and the public's enthusiasm for support is also very high.

After all, Arthur, as the country's largest capitalist, was very resolute in fulfilling the labor laws, and even the benefits of corporate employees of the royal consortium were even more exaggerated than the labor laws.

His Majesty the King’s companies have all complied with the labor laws. How dare other capitalist companies not comply with the labor laws?

Among other things, there are many private company employees who are very limited in the welfare benefits of royal company employees.

If there are indeed capitalist companies that ignore the existence of Australasian labor laws, then those employees will not give up the bonus for reporting. After all, once the reporting is successful, they will have several years of income.

It is precisely because of such policies that although Australasia's capital is developing, the extent of development is not that exaggerated.

Overall, the Australasian capitalist class is completely controllable. Capital has little impact on Australasia, and it has no impact at all on Arthur.

As the largest nobleman and largest capitalist in Australasia, Arthur's rights no longer have any influence on him.

This year's Christmas is not affected by the flu, and the festive atmosphere is still strong across Australasia.

At a time when all parts of the country were plunged into a sea of ​​celebration, Arthur was not without any action.

The founding of Australasia is not far away from Christmas, which is also good news for Australasians. They can experience a seven-day National Day half a month after Christmas.

On the night of Christmas, the palace sent out more than 100,000 Christmas cards, representing the royal family's blessings to the people.

A small part of these greeting cards also have the autographs of several little guys. This is also an added bonus. Let’s see if any lucky ones can win.

In addition, twenty royal salutes were fired outside the palace, accompanied by many super-large smoke, rendering the sky above the palace into beautiful colorful fireworks.

People watched the beautiful scenery one after another. These salutes and fireworks were also witnesses of the royal family and the people spending Christmas together.

The fireworks carnival lasted for more than an hour and finally disappeared.

But the people’s celebrations have just begun. Christmas night is destined to be a sleepless night for most people.

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