This year is the beginning of 1905, 29 years since the rebirth of the Great Ocean Empire in 1876, and 15 years since the establishment of the Ocean Empire.

When he first set foot on the Brisbane dock, Li Fushou was only 16 years old, and he was still a young man in his prime, who spent a glorious youth in the vast land of Australia after nearly 30 years of struggle, and is now middle-aged.

He stood tall and long, his eyes deep through the tall arched windows, overlooking the metropolis of the Red River Valley far into the sky at the foot of the mountain, and his eyes were filled with relief, and he stood for a long time.

After 29 years of development, the Ocean Empire now has a population of 60 million, of which the first generation of Chinese immigrants from the northern continent has almost 40 million, constituting the mainstream ethnic group of the empire, the Tang people, and the rest of the population is the newly born population in Australia and overseas states, belonging to the second generation of immigrants.

In this way, there are almost more than 1 million immigrants a year, the number of people in the early stage is smaller, and the number of people in the middle and later stages is larger, with an average of about 1.3 million immigrants a year.

Such a number

It did not have much impact on the population growth of the huge Qing Empire, compared with the original historical time and space, the number of victims who died in frequent natural disasters was greatly reduced, the phenomenon of infant drowning was greatly reduced, and the population contradiction was relatively relaxed, nothing more.

Entering the beginning of the 20th century

The Qing Dynasty still ranks first in the world with a population of 450 million, and the 40 million people who immigrated to Australia in 29 years are like a pebble thrown into a pond without splashing a little.

Compared with the traditional and conservative first-generation immigrants, the second-generation immigrants have a higher degree of cultural acceptance of the empire's Chinese and Western tolerance, a stronger sense of belonging, and a much higher level of education, with a literacy rate of more than 9%.

The generally increased literacy rate greatly enhanced the quality of the empire's population, and was also a solid foundation for the mushrooming of industrial and technological achievements in recent years.

Over time

The second generation of immigrants represented by Li Xiaozu and Duan Changjiang has entered the youth period one after another, and the third generation of immigrants has gradually become the mainstream, representing the hope of the future.

In view of the importance of education to improve the quality of the population, Prime Minister Pham Trung Jae's three major policies during his second term of office are to promote the "Beautiful New Rural Movement" and the "Universal Medical Care System" and to raise the "five-year compulsory education" to the "eight-year compulsory education" level.

The Beautiful New Countryside movement does not spend much of the government's money, mostly on building rural roads, subsidizing biogas digesters for farmers, and building some garbage collection stations, which costs a small amount.

The same is true of the universal health care system, which focuses on setting up health posts in each village and town, and sending medical school graduates to work in village health posts to provide basic medical services.

These health services are not free of charge, but can only be said to be of a public welfare nature, and at least they have to maintain the office expenses, operating expenses and personnel expenses of the health stations, and the number of people in these village and town health stations is as few as one or two people, and as many as one or twenty people.

The government has a certain amount of subsidies for remote health stations, and most of them are required to be self-supporting, self-financing, self-financing, independent operation, and allow individual contracting to form a basic medical and health network throughout the country.

This is complemented by the "Beautiful New Rural Movement", which aims to improve people's living standards, create a hygienic environment, improve the life expectancy and happiness of the whole people, and make people feel the dividends of development.

In the field of education

Among the more than 6,000 primary and secondary schools, there are more than 1,100 charity schools alone, including 769 donated by the royal family, 238 church schools, and 107 donated by well-wishers.

Considering that more resources will be invested in the eight-year compulsory basic education, government spending will be tilted towards education, which will account for nearly 10 per cent of total government expenditure, in order to advance the education for all policy.

Comparatively

Military expenditures account for less than 8 percent of government expenditures and 0.717 percent of the total national economy, less than 1 percent.

It shows that the Ocean Empire is a society based on economic construction, relying on its superior geographical location, it has gone all out to develop industry and science and technology, and has not used more than half of its government expenditure to support the frantic development of the army and navy and participate in the struggle for hegemony in the Far East.

At a major historical juncture, Li Fushou maintained his strategic calmness and chose the most reasonable strategy to avoid a complete break with London.

This proved to be an extremely wise strategic decision.

At the beginning of the statehood

The Army and Navy have a trend of development that will be vigorously and rapidly expanding in an all-round way, and the War Department hopes to maintain a large-scale army of more than 600,000 people, or even expand it further.

The navy hoped to build a huge fleet of more than 20 battleships, take Luzon, fully occupy the Dutch East Indies, and by the way, take New Zealand as well.

All these kinds of expansion impulses were suppressed by Li Fushou with his unparalleled prestige, and he began to carry out large-scale layoffs in the army after the Civil War, only retiring without recruiting new soldiers for three years, reducing the number of military personnel from 630,000 to 140,000, and using the huge military expenses saved to develop the economy and restore production in the southern states.

The Admiralty also ushered in a five-year gap without orders for new ships, and the Navy's budget was reduced again and again, and it could only maintain basic functions.

It turns out

Li Fushou's sober decision was correct, the Australian Civil War shook the British Isles, and in London's public opinion circles, Li Fushou's image also changed from Her Majesty's loyal courtier to a traitor to the country, and the rhetoric calling for the British Empire to implement a plan of armed intervention occupied the mainstream, which posed a serious threat to the new ocean kingdom.

Secretly, Li Fushou mobilized the European connections accumulated over the past ten years, sprinkled a lot of money to interfere with public opinion, co-opted and corrupted London's high society, and won the recognition of world powers through active German, French, Russian, and American diplomacy hostile to Britain.

It can be said that the strength of breastfeeding has been exhausted.

On the other hand

The Northern Coalition fought fiercely in the war, regardless of casualties, quickly advanced the battle line to Melbourne, and established the victory in one fell swoop through surprise attacks.

At this point, London's plan for armed intervention has no meaning, but to be stillborn and accept the harsh realities of the present.

Immediately after the war, Li Fushou expressed his allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and was willing to return to the British circle of friends in the form of the British Commonwealth, which led to the birth of this international organization led by the United Kingdom decades ahead of schedule.

At the same time, the Ocean Kingdom continues to pay more than 6 million pounds in taxes every year, and all these actions, combined with diplomatic efforts both overtly and covertly, have soothed London's urge to kill people and accept reality with its nose.

Looking back on the whole process of independent nation-building, it can be said that it is a crisis step by step, and we will fall into the abyss if we are not careful.

If it really expands in an all-round way, as the hard-line generals of the army and navy have said, it will inevitably arouse strong hostility from Britain and France and other old colonial powers, worsen the trade environment, cut itself off from the world trade circle with Europe as the core, and directly compete with the Third Fleet of the British Army in Calcutta and the Far East Fleet in the Indian subcontinent, triggering a large-scale naval war.

With the naval strength of the Ocean Empire, it is completely like an egg hitting a stone.

At that time

Standing on the moral high ground, the British Empire can organize a world coalition to punish the unsubordinate, and in the case of obtaining complete sea dominance, it will uproot the overseas states belonging to the Ocean Empire one by one, and finally encircle the Australian mainland into a dead island.

The thought of this terrible prospect sends chills down the spine.

The Ocean Empire is inseparable from the British circle of friends, and the British circle of friends has one more Australia or one less, which has little impact on London, and the two sides are not at the same level at all.

Looking back on this historical process, Li Fushou secretly rejoiced in his heart;

Fortunately, I didn't listen to these servants, and I killed people impulsively!

Look far away

Today's Red River Valley metropolis has many high-rise buildings of thirty or forty floors, most of which are clustered in the new urban area of the North Shore District, which has raised the urban skyline, while the old urban area located on the south bank is still dominated by classical architecture, each with its own distinctive characteristics.

The Old Town of the South Bank represents the past, the New Town of the North Bank represents a thriving future, and the skyline formed by the high-rise buildings symbolizes the power of the industrial society.

Development to date

The metropolis of the Red River Valley has completely bordered Qinglong City to the east, countless factory buildings to the south have spread to the outskirts of Suzaku City, and to the west it has been connected to Baihu City, only separated by a meandering Baishui River.

The entire Red River Valley metropolis covers an area of more than 900 square kilometers, which is one and a half times larger than Seoul, with a population of nearly 2 million, compared with the population of more than 10 million in Seoul in later generations, it still has great potential for development.

But to see

Today's Red River Valley metropolis still has a large area of forests and park reserves, the large forests around the Daming Palace cover an extremely wide area, the noble mansions near Beishan Street cover an area of several acres, and the big nobles occupy dozens or even hundreds of acres, which greatly reduces the land of the metropolis.

In the old city of the South Bank, the city is dominated by 3 to 4 storey classical buildings, as well as a large number of villas, and the manor houses are full of manors, which can provide limited living space, which also leads to high rents in the old town, which is unaffordable for the average person.

Therefore, there is not much developable land left for the Red River Valley metropolis in the future, and most of the developable land is outside the suburbs.

In other words, the land that originally belonged to the cities of Qinglong, Suzaku, and Baihu was encroached upon, and the suburban towns were included in the Red River Valley metropolis to build high-rise buildings and residential buildings.

Therefore, in the Imperial Council, there are now calls for the inclusion of the Four Divine Beast City in the Red River Valley metropolitan area, which has won the approval of a large part of the citizens.

If it can really be implemented

The Red River Valley metropolis will expand from the current seven urban districts to 11 districts, the population will increase from nearly 2 million to 4 million, and the regional area will expand from 900 square kilometers to 6,600 square kilometers.

Thanks to the empire's booming economy, the Red River Valley metropolitan area has no slums and excellent infrastructure, and although there are concerns about the different levels of urban construction in different regions, it does have the conditions for consolidation.

After the Red River Valley metropolis built the "Hui" shaped subway network, it has begun to build subways that reach Qinglong, Zhuque, Baihu, Xuanwu and other cities, and the suburban tram network between them has already been opened, and the spacious roads extend in all directions, which are closely linked.

By the end of 1904

In order to solve the problem of 227,000 cars (including trucks) in the entire Red River Valley metropolitan area and large-scale congestion on the roads, traffic police trained by the Royal Police Department have been put on duty, and supporting traffic regulations are being formulated.

On the other hand

Architects began to envision the construction of elevated roads and highways in addition to the subway and ground transportation, in order to ease the congested traffic and people flow in the metropolitan area, and strictly prohibit the passage of animal-powered vehicles and pedestrians.

The disease of big cities is gradually revealed in economic development, which is the main reason for Li Fushou's hesitation.

It is not that these cities cannot be merged, but after the merger, it will bring great challenges to urban transportation, water supply, power supply, sewage pipe network, municipal administration and environmental sanitation, and the urban elevated ring must build a bridge across the Brisbane River, which will cut off the westward channel of the Brisbane River, and it is impossible for the 10,000-ton steamer to continue westward after arriving at the North Shore Terminal.

Because of the existing bridge height, it is impossible for a giant ship of more than 10,000 tons to pass through, so it can only transfer goods here, and use smaller ships to continue to transport goods to the west, which will inevitably have a negative impact on the development of more than a dozen towns in the west, led by Baihu City.

All things considered

Li Fushou also approved the Red River Valley Metropolitan Viaduct Loop project submitted by the Cabinet, which is also the world's first urban viaduct loop, which crosses the Brisbane River through a river bottom tunnel downstream and connects the two banks through viaducts upstream to form a complete viaduct connecting the new urban area on the north bank with the old urban area on the south bank.

So

There is an elevated ring road above, a subway below, and there is road traffic extending in all directions on the ground, coupled with the newly appointed traffic police command, which can effectively solve the problem of traffic congestion in the metropolitan area of the Red River Valley.

This is no small matter, and it is expected that in the next five years, the Red River Valley metropolitan area will also experience a round of rapid growth in car ownership, from the current 227,000 to more than 400,000, and the total population will reach nearly 5 million, leading the world to enter the real automobile society.

This honor was originally historically American, but history has changed, and the Ocean Empire's automobile industry occupies an undoubted advantage in the world, with an annual production of 520,000 units, and the Ocean Empire's market share reaches 83.7%.

In 1904, the Ocean Empire produced 430,000 automobiles in Australia and in the United States and Europe, far ahead of the rest of the world.

There are two advantages that are very important;

The first point is that the Ocean Empire has mastered the advantages of natural rubber resources and cultivated and developed a series of world-leading large-scale enterprises such as Goodyear, Michelin, Shunchi, Fushunda, and Moresby Rubber Tire Company, which is an advantage that other countries cannot match.

Another point is that the development of the automobile industry of Ocean Empire started early, with large scale, high production efficiency, strong market competitiveness, leading technology and core intellectual property rights of supporting enterprises such as engines, gearboxes and clutches.

The entire automobile industry chain has formed a complete parts supply system, which is unique in the world today, and automobile companies in other countries also have to import related spare parts, and do not have independent production capacity.

In terms of policy

The United States and other countries pursue a free market economy and do not interfere in the development and mergers of enterprises, but the Ocean Empire is different, and vigorously supports automobile manufacturers and spare parts industries, not only has a science and technology support fund, but also has relevant preferential policies in terms of taxation, water supply and power supply, market environment and exports, and vigorously supports them.

The rapidly growing automobile industry of the Ocean Empire has seen dozens of automobile factories, including four large-scale comprehensive enterprises with a production scale of more than 50,000 vehicles, as well as BMW Automobile Factory, which is the leader in the field of trucks, and manufacturers specializing in the modification and production of city buses.

In this, Li Fushou's careful planning and painstaking guidance are indispensable, which is particularly important.

He knows that the huge scale of the future automobile industry is enough to support Australia's modern industrialization system and become a pillar industry of the empire.

A car and a wool are the two traditional pillar industries of the Ocean Empire.

Nowadays, the automobile industry in all countries in the world is generally weak, scattered, weak in technical force, and has no core competitiveness, which is the best time for the automobile industry of Ocean Empire to dominate the world.

As the place where the first car was born, the automobile industry has developed for more than 24 years, and the automobile industry has gone through a complete development process from weak to strong, and has cultivated a considerable world market.

Now, it's the golden harvest season.

The rapid growth of demand from all over the world has further promoted the rapid development of the automobile industry of the Ocean Empire, and only Citigroup holds more than a dozen head manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford Motor, and Karl Mailer Automobiles, with a total annual output of more than 70,000 vehicles, as well as Volkswagen, Foton Motor, BMW, Xingchi and other manufacturers located in Citigroup's branch, with an annual output of 117,000 vehicles, with a total annual output of 190,000 vehicles, according to more than 9 percent of Citigroup's automobile market.

Today, the world's car sales market

The Ocean Empire and Citigroup occupy ninety percent of the share, and the remaining share is in Europe.

Citigroup, which has become wealthy, has a strong demand for automobiles, and the domestic automobile industry has not yet developed, and it has been overwhelmed by the flood of imported cars.

The Citigroup government was also helpless about this, and could only watch the foreign-controlled General Motors, Ford Motors, and Karl Mailer Motors grow bigger and bigger, dominating Citi's domestic auto market.

Next

Li Fushou plans to guide the royal fund, which holds a large number of shares in various manufacturers in the automobile industry, to promote the standardized operation of various enterprises and start the listing process.

In accordance with the principle that the core enterprises are listed on the Red River Valley stock exchange market in Australia and the non-core enterprises are listed in New York, the development of the enterprise will be linked with thousands of shareholders to develop and expand the capital market.

In the future, the Red River Valley metropolis will be built into a world-class financial center, and the rapidly growing capital market is its most powerful financial tool.

In the current year

The Brisbane futures trading market will be dominated by wool futures, coal futures, oil futures, rubber futures, sugar futures, and spice futures, leading the price trend of the world's bulk products, so as to occupy the first-mover advantage in the financial market.

All of this contains Li Fushou's deep strategic considerations, and now the seeds planted bit by bit will surely have a huge impact on the future development of the empire, thus laying a deep financial foundation and industrial foundation, and the population of 60 million gives him full confidence to lead the empire towards a world-class power.