Chapter 771 Comprehensive localization of colonies

Although Arthur already had the idea of ​​establishing an empire, Australasia would definitely not take action until the Russian Empire was destroyed.

Even if the Russian Empire was destroyed, it would take some time for a new empire to be established.

First, Arthur and the Australasian government made preparations so that the people could better accept the establishment of the empire.

The second is to avoid making the Russians in Australasia dissatisfied. After all, it is a bit heartbreaking to think that Arthur established a new empire just after the fall of Tsarist Russia.

But before taking action on this, certain preparations are still necessary.

From the beginning, when reporting various official news, Australasian private news media would describe Australasia as a great country and empire without leaving any trace, so as to judge the reaction of Australasians.

The results are clear: the vast majority of Australasians recognize this title, just as people recognize Arthur's contribution to the country.

After receiving positive responses from the public, the government has sufficient motivation. Isn't it a good thing to comply with Arthur's orders and the public opinion and create a lot of credit for yourself?

Under this situation, Arthur had already resolved the domestic conflicts by crowning himself emperor. At present, we only need to wait for the demise of the Tsarist Empire, and then exchange interests with Nicholas II to obtain the legal principles from the Eastern Roman Empire.

Because there are no longer too many government affairs within the government, the country's development is proceeding steadily every day.

Arthur set his sights on the localization of the colonies and decided to promote the localization of all colonies before establishing an empire.

The most important part of colonial localization is to have economic industries that are relatively unique to each region.

If you want to build a local country, you must either be self-sufficient in various resources, or you must have a good scale in a certain industry.

The reason why Timor was able to localize quickly is that Timor’s original area is very small. In addition, as the country’s localization pilot area, with the full promotion of the government, it quickly achieved the first localization requirements, that is, self-sufficiency of resources.

Next in New Guinea and Java, what they achieved was the second requirement of localization, which was to have unique economic products and have reached a certain scale.

Of course, it goes without saying much about Java Island. As the shining pearl in Southeast Asia, Java Island has fertile geology and is particularly suitable for growing food.

Coupled with its location in the tropics, Laowa Island can produce three crops a year, making it currently the best crop-producing area in Australasia.

Coupled with the large-scale rubber planting area, Java Island has formed a very excellent economic and industrial scale.

With the large amount of grain and rubber exported every year, the economic scale of Java Island is not inferior to that of some local administrative regions, and it is also among the best among the localized colonies.

Although New Guinea is not as outstanding as Java, it is still very advantageous compared to some administrative regions in Australia.

First, New Guinea has abundant natural rainfall. This alone has determined the importance of New Guinea to the entire country.

But it is precisely because of this that Arthur designated New Guinea as a key area for the future north-south water diversion.

Because New Guinea's water resources will be transferred to Australia in the future, it is also destined that New Guinea will not be able to build too many industries.

Especially in terms of heavy industry and heavily polluting industry, New Guinea cannot even think about building it, let alone building it.

To a certain extent, this also affected New Guinea's industrial construction and economic development. In order to compensate the New Guinea region and avoid future conflicts between New Guinea and Australia, the Australasian government encourages and promotes the planting of related economic products in New Guinea and vigorously develops agriculture.

At present, in addition to the rubber industry, New Guinea also grows and exports yam, taro, sago, bananas and sweet potatoes in large quantities, and also appropriately feeds livestock in mountainous areas.

These relatively rare grain yields have greatly enriched the variety of grains throughout Australasia.

This can also be regarded as the government's compensation for the New Guinea region. New Guinea has achieved considerable leadership in these rare food crops. Coupled with the large number of rubber planting areas and mineral resources, New Guinea's economy is pretty good, and localization is currently quite successful.

In addition to these two key localization areas, the localization of Sumatra and Sulawesi is also very successful.

Sumatra is the largest colony after New Guinea, and its development potential is also relatively high.

However, due to its insufficient population and its proximity to the Strait of Malacca, it serves more of a strategic defense role as a military base.

At present, the development of Sumatra Island is mostly concentrated in some existing cities.

The cultivated land around these cities has been well cultivated and distributed by the Sumatra government to immigrants coming to Sumatra.

It is worth mentioning that Sumatra currently has the largest number of Asian immigrants outside of Hawaii.

Moreover, Sumatra is quite rich in mineral resources because of its vast area. As one of the best rubber planting areas in Southeast Asia, Sumatra is destined to fail in localization just by relying on the island's rubber planting industry.

Compared with the above large islands, Sulawesi’s advantages are not that great. As an island with a relatively large proportion of mountains among many Southeast Asian islands, Sulawesi's economic scale was not as large as imagined even in later generations.

But it is still a tropical island after all, so growing food is pretty good no matter what.

With Sulawesi's small population, it is easy to localize through self-sufficiency.

However, the localization movement stopped at these islands. In addition to these large-area colonies, it is still very difficult to localize other small island colonies.

First of all, the population of those small colonies was not large, which was the biggest factor hindering their localization.

Because if you want to localize, it is very important to build a lot of infrastructure, including education and medical care.

But because the populations of these colonies are only tens of thousands or even thousands, the colonial governments where they are located obviously do not have much funds to use to promote infrastructure construction.

The Royal Government’s finances must give priority to the construction of key areas, and to a certain extent, they will also ignore the development of these areas.

Because of this, the current success in localization is in large-scale colonies, while small colonies are still somewhere between colonies and mainland.

Since it has been decided to comprehensively promote the localization of the colonies, these small colonies must also be taken into consideration.

On the 1st, Arthur held a cabinet meeting, the theme of which was to promote the localization of all colonies.

At this cabinet meeting, Arthur specifically mentioned the many small island colonies headed by the Solomon Islands and put forward his own requirements.

“Whether it’s Australia or New Zealand, whether it’s the Solomon Islands or New Caledonia, it’s all Australasia’s land.

Now, at the great moment when the localization policy of our colonies is about to be realized, we must mobilize the whole country to promote the localization policy of all colonies.

The government should comprehensively consider the vital interests of all people, and building better infrastructure for the people in many small colonies should be the government's top priority. "

Officials in the cabinet government were not fools, and they quickly understood what Arthur meant by what he said.

Achieving the localization of all colonies is also a great job. Had this been accomplished before the establishment of the empire, Arthur's throne as emperor would undoubtedly have been more secure.

Knowing this, officials naturally did not dare to despise Arthur's request. If there was a problem with the localization of the colonies, at least it would delay the government's major projects, and at worst it would delay Arthur's opportunity to be crowned emperor. The consequences would be fatal!

Knowing that Arthur was definitely not a soft-hearted monarch, cabinet officials expressed that Arthur was doing the right thing and promised to allocate part of the finances to help the colonies build infrastructure.

Shortly after the cabinet meeting ended, on the 1st, the Australasian government disclosed the results of the cabinet meeting, which was the "Plan to Support and Construction of Backward Areas."

According to this plan, the Royal Government will allocate 35 million Australian dollars within two years to help areas that have not yet fully established infrastructure to establish more complete infrastructure to protect the interests of local people.

Throughout Australasia, the only areas without complete infrastructure were small colonies.

Even relatively small mainland states, such as Tasmania, have established complete infrastructure early and their economic scale is quite strong.

A$35 million may not seem like much, but it is perfectly fine to help these small colonies improve their infrastructure.

After the plan was announced, the government quickly took corresponding actions.

In terms of infrastructure, the three main elements that have been improved are education, medical care, and transportation.

As long as the island is inhabited, corresponding clinics must be established. As long as the population reaches the village or town level, schools must be established up to at least junior high school level.

In order to achieve the localization of all colonies, cabinet officials also worked hard.

After all, it is a considerable achievement to do this well, and it can even be recognized by Arthur with such merit. This is much more important than anything else in Australasia, and it is also a factor that determines whether these cabinet officials can go further and make their political careers more brilliant.

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