Over the years

Li Fushou has used the lucrative interests to weave a network of surprising energy, which cannot influence London's decision-making, but it is enough to influence the likes and dislikes of Lord Gulliver, the Minister of the Colonial Department.

The only regret is that the current Cabinet has less than two years left in its term.

The British Empire is a constitutional monarchy, the parliament is elected once every 5 years, the prime minister is the head of government, and has the right to dissolve the parliament and hold a new general election, so under normal circumstances, the term of office of the cabinet is 5 years.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands, with its system similar to that of the United Kingdom, with a wider parliament and three successive cabinet changes during the East Indies crisis, was a clear manifestation of the discontent of the people.

For Li Fushou

The year 1883 was a year of twists and turns, but it ended perfectly, not only did the actual benefits far exceed the pre-war predictions, but the construction progress of the subordinate territories was gratifying, and the economic statistics for the whole year (including Queensland and the territories) were extremely impressive, giving him more confidence in the overall situation.

After experiencing the turmoil between the North and the South and the East Indies War, Li Fushou's overall level of governance has gone one step further, and he has become more and more comfortable in controlling the situation.

Year 1883

The total income of the treasury in the Red Fort reached 32.06 million pounds, and the total expenditure was 38.72 million pounds, which was far greater than the income, and there was a huge fiscal deficit of 6.66 million pounds, which swallowed up the previous surplus.

The main reason is that the war expenses and subsequent bereavement rewards in the East Indies Islands, the total direct expenditure for the whole year exceeded 10 million pounds, and the indirect expenditure was even greater than this figure, and the funds transferred from the secret treasury controlled by Li Fushou alone were 3.5 million pounds to subsidize the war deficit.

Part of the funds will be used to invest in the Songjiang Strategic Reserve Bank, to present the 50th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne, to subsidize high soldier allowances and to provide pensions for officers and soldiers.

The East Indies War was a classic war for colonial interests, according to a sour report in the New York Times...... This is an unjust war between two robbers fighting for a territory that does not belong to them, and it is an unjust war to share the spoils.

No matter how the outside world interprets it, Li Fushou has to take out real money to support the army to win this battle, so the war is about money, resources and heritage.

This is a war that has nothing to do with justice or not, but a war between two great nobles for turf, and Australia's newly rising Oriental aristocracy has defeated William I, the king of a small European country, to win the eye-popping war dividend.

In this era of extreme admiration for strength

The natural law of the jungle dominates international relations, and if you lose, you must admit it, and if you are beaten, you must stand upright, otherwise you will be beaten even worse.

The Governor's Office of the Dutch East Indies is a typical negative teaching material, brazenly instigating wars without self-control, and missing peace opportunities again and again, with the result that not only Shangri-La Island, but also Sulawesi Islands, Borneo, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and most of Central Kalimantan were lost.

The victory in the war brought light to the face of the British Empire, the Earl of Queensland became famous, and the hapless King William I of the Netherlands became a broken drum and plummeted to the status of the European royal family, becoming the object of merciless ridicule.

After years of construction

At the beginning of 1884, after the ninth year of setting foot in Australia, the Red Fort forces controlled by Li Fushou stepped into the door of industrialization with one foot, industry and animal husbandry were mainly in Australia and other territories, agriculture and mining were mainly in Shangri-La Island, and planting was mainly in Borneo, forming a unique industrial division of labor.

From the perspective of the distribution of the population structure of the whole Australia

According to statistics in March 1883, the total population of Australia was 5.176 million, of which 3.229 million were Chinese, 1.813 million were white, and 134,000 were South Pacific aborigines.

In recent years

The Chinese population continues to grow rapidly, like a flood that cannot be recovered, the white population is stagnant with negligible growth, and the indigenous population of the South Pacific is declining dramatically.

Entering 1884, as of the end of February, statistics show;

Australia's total population exceeded the 6 million mark, reaching 6,212,200 (excluding Shangri-La, Borneo, Sulawesi and other territories), of which the Chinese population soared from 3,229,000 to 4,247,000, the white population increased slightly from 1,813,000 to 1,862,000, and the South Pacific indigenous population shrank rapidly from 134,000 to less than 100,000.

The rapid growth of the Chinese population continued, reaching and exceeding the scale of one million immigrants for the first time in 1883, especially the industrial towns in the southern part of the Red River Valley, which benefited greatly, and the effect of industrialization on population agglomeration was obvious.

Sorted only by the size of the city's population, it has undergone significant changes again in a few years.

The last time the city's population was accurately counted was in November 1880, and a few years later, in February 1884, the top ten major cities in Australia had a new situation of strong and strong and new stars constantly emerging.

As the political, economic, financial and military center of the whole of Australia, the city of the Red River Valley undoubtedly stands proudly as the largest metropolis, continuing to consolidate and expand its lead.

The population of the Red River Valley has risen from 485,100 in November 1880 to 761,200 and is expected to exceed the 800,000 population mark by mid-1884.

This is a city with a Chinese population accounting for the vast majority, with more than 717,000 Chinese residents and more than 40,000 white descendants from all over the world, mainly Germany, Britain, France, the United States and other countries, showing the prototype of a diversified international metropolis.

This new metropolis is beautiful, orderly and full of vigorous development, represented by the world's tallest building, the "Victory Street Tower" (formerly the Eiffel Tower), and is known for its diverse architectural styles, urban management and clean and beautiful cityscape can be called a model for metropolitan development.

Red River Valley is the headquarters of major enterprise consortia and the location of the financial center, with a developed shipbuilding industry and industry and commerce, is the immigration and shipping center of Queensland, the surrounding cities have complete industrial facilities, animal husbandry and non-staple food processing industries, high level of cultural, medical and educational development, and dense satellite towns around it, with the potential to develop into a metropolis with a population of one million.

Rationally, this goal does not seem to be far away.

As one of the shining twin cities in central Australia, Brisbane's population has grown from 337,000 to 555,100, surpassing Melbourne in terms of population size, becoming the second major city in Australia to break through the 500,000 population mark, and its political and economic status is becoming more and more important.

As a coastal city in eastern Australia, Brisbane is in a position of waist eye, and its influence radiates to the north of Queensland, to the south to Sydney, Melbourne, and to the west with the Red River Valley, the largest city in Australia, becoming one of the twin engines driving rapid economic development.

Brisbane is the city with the highest proportion of white people in the whole of Queensland, accounting for 32.9% of the total population, one of the third in the world, the city is oriented to the international ocean trade as the core industry, with hundreds of international trading companies dealing in Australian products, especially for education, culture, religion and strong European style, the Côte d'Azur scenery is beautiful, and it is a city that never sleeps after dark.

In third place is Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, with a population of 431,000 to 413,500, because of the state's perverse discriminatory policies, the loss of population is mainly Chinese immigrants, even if the population growth cannot make up for the gap of a large number of Chinese people, showing a strange situation of not advancing but retreating.

Also thanks to a sharp rebound in wool prices and a huge increase in income from animal husbandry, which occupies the heart of the economy, Melbourne's economy was morbidly prosperous throughout 1883, which further rampant white conservative forces.

From the analysis of Melbourne's economic composition, it is indeed unique.

Its economy is very independent, and the abundant gold mines occupy a dominant position in the economy, accounting for more than 80% in 1882, and can live a nourishing life only on the gold ore output.

With the sharp rebound in wool prices, the proportion of gold mining in 1883 shrank to more than 60 percent, the remaining 30 percent was animal husbandry, and 10 percent was culture, education, health, commerce and transportation, and it is still one of the world's wealthy cities in the present era.

Before 1835, Melbourne was largely uninhabited, a deserted wilderness.

By 1840, with the expansion of white ranchers in South Wales, Melbourne's population grew to about 10,000, and it became a well-known and prosperous town about 300 kilometers away.

The real big development of Melbourne was in 1851, when a rich gold mine was discovered here, and a large number of people from all over the world (mainly Americans) came to Melbourne to pan for gold, including a large number of Chinese workers, who were the first Chinese gold prospectors to set foot in Australia.

As the gold rush continued, Melbourne's population grew rapidly and gradually became a wealthy metropolis.

According to the history of Melbourne's urban development, in 1836, Melbourne's population was only 177 people, by 1851, the population was 29,000, by 1854, it had grown rapidly to 123,000, in 1860 to 276,000, and in 1875 it further swelled to 385,000 people, becoming the largest city in Australia at that time.

The dazzling light of Melbourne eclipsed the gold-rich San Francisco (San Francisco) in the United States, so it was called the "new gold mountain" by the Chinese, and referred to the whole of Australia in general.

80s of the 19th century

Melbourne is known for its affluence and is one of the world's most affluent cities, which has led to Victoria's economic independence being much stronger than that of New South Wales and one of the hardest hit by white conservative forces.

It is precisely because of this factor that Victoria and New South Wales hit it off and colluded to introduce several exclusion laws that went against the historical trend, which seriously threatened the interests of local Chinese immigrants, and the population continued to lose significantly and fell into a state of stagnation in growth.

meanwhile

In recent years, the new industrial towns of the Red River Valley have been making great progress and developing rapidly, not only the Red River Valley, Brisbane has quickly surpassed Melbourne, and there are a large number of strong players in the rear to stab Melbourne's chrysanthemums.

Barring any surprises, its status as Australia's third-largest city is in jeopardy......