The finances of the Ocean Empire are divided into two parts, one is the royal income based on the royal domain, which enters the imperial treasury for overall arrangement, and the other part is the national finance, which is arranged by the imperial treasury.

At the beginning of the empire, the royal revenue once accounted for as much as 70% of the total fiscal revenue, because the industrial city belt, dominated by the Earlland of Queensland, provided a large number of tax and employment opportunities, and also provided a major part of the empire's finances.

1890 year

After the victory of the Australian Civil War, the empire covered the economically developed states of New South Wales and Victoria. In February 1891, the Ballarat United Mining Company was established to oversee the unified production of more than 170 gold mines, and the income was handed over to the imperial treasury.

After the accession of these two wealthy states, the empire's financial strength has reached a higher level, basically comparable to the Royal, and it has more financial resources to build domestic and overseas states, which is also the golden age of Australia's comprehensive industrial development.

Shortly thereafter

The Empire carried out a reform of the fiscal and taxation system, and the state treasury could collect national taxes in the royal domain, which further strengthened the imperial treasury, and the ratio between the two was about 6:4, and the imperial treasury began to be higher than the imperial fiscal revenue.

The Imperial Family of the Ocean Empire had the financial resources to support a well-armed Imperial Guard of up to 100,000 men, and in 1898 it independently completed the Western War and occupied the Luzon Islands.

Its military expenditures and the security and combat expenses of the following years did not make the imperial treasury pay a single piece of silver, including the in-depth development and construction of the Luzon Islands in the following ten years, and all the investment came from the royal interior office.

In this "wool war".

Three of the four divisions of the Royal Praetorian Guard of the Ocean Empire participated in the war, including the 4th Armored Division of the Royal Praetorian Guard, which spent a total of $377 million in war funds, all of which were paid by the Royal Home Office, and the soldiers were concentrated in Oregon after the war.

This reduced the financial pressure on the empire in disguise, and in terms of post-war reparations, all the war reparations of the United States and Argentina belonged to the imperial treasury. Therefore, the "post-war liquidation syndicate" formed by several large banks dominated by the Royal Fund to obtain huge loan benefits is a kind of compensation in disguise.

How much money does the Ocean Empire royal family have?

According to the annual report, in recent years, the fiscal and tax revenue attributable to the Royal Household Office has averaged about 8~900 million gold oceans, about 2 billion to 2.3 billion US dollars, which is mainly used for the construction of royal territories (including the Earldom of Queensland, Luzon Islands and Tasmania, about 40,000 square kilometers of northwestern Somalia bordering the Red Sea, and the Hawaiian Islands), the expenses of the Royal Praetorian Guard, war and bandit expenses, and the maintenance costs and expenses of the palace. It is used for charitable causes (Eagle School, Yucai School, Renji Hospital, Renci Hospital, etc.), to support various scientific and technological research and development funds of the Empire, educational expenses (more than 20 universities in the Empire, as well as financial subsidies for dozens of professional schools), and to supplement the Royal Fund.

Among them, the construction of the royal domain is the main part of the expenditure, including the expansion of the city, the reconstruction and expansion of various public facilities, the construction of roads, railways, bridges, docks, subways, hydropower stations, thermal power plants, the construction of buildings and palaces, the financial allocation of municipal departments and the royal police, education grants, immigration subsidies, disaster relief grants, etc.

Take the 1910 year, for example;

The Royal Home Office has invested as much as 477 million gold oceans in the construction of the royal territory, including 285.3 million gold oceans in the Queensland territory, 164.1 million gold oceans in the Luzon Islands, 17.01 million gold oceans in Tasmania, 6.38 million gold oceans in the Hawaiian Islands, and 3.11 million gold oceans in Somalia.

After 10 years of continuous large-scale infrastructure investment, the urban belt in the Queensland Territory, led by the Red River Valley, Songjiang and Beilun, has continued to develop rapidly, and the level of urban construction ranks among the top in the world, leading the trend of urban construction in the world in terms of municipal greening, urban public facilities, health and education.

The largest city in the Red River Valley is still the metropolis of the Red River Valley, whose population has grown rapidly from 1,786,000 in 1900 to 2,633,000, surpassing Tokyo with a population of 2,420,000.

The top three cities in the world are London with 4.68 million, New York with 4.55 million (war factor), and Paris with 2.72 million.

This core city of the empire's political, economic, cultural and social life, a large number of large enterprise headquarters gathered, the fields of culture, health, and education are among the top in the world, and there are more than 40 large and medium-sized colleges and universities alone, and the construction of developed cities is leading the world trend.

By the end of 1910

After the completion and operation of Metro Line 1 with a total length of 32.4 kilometers in Red River Valley City in 1900, Line 2 with a total length of 67.6 kilometers, Line 3 with a total length of 117.5 kilometers, and urban connection lines 4, 5, 6 and 7 have been completed successively, with a total length of 522 kilometers.

The subway network takes the Red River Valley metropolis as the core, forming a pattern of three ring lines of No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, and four radial lines of No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7, which not only connects the south bank and the north bank of the Red River Valley metropolis together, but also extends to the surrounding Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu four cities, providing a large volume and economic travel and transportation mode, forming the world's largest and most advanced subway network, closely linking several cities.

The metro network is still in operation today

With 3.55 million passengers per day, it is the largest in the world.

The developed subway transportation line has become the preferred fast travel mode for the daily life of residents in the Red River Valley metropolis, and the four radiation lines connecting the surrounding cities have formed a spider web subway line, which greatly facilitates the residents of the surrounding Qinglong, Baihu, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu cities, shortens the time during the travel period, and makes these cities better integrate into the Red River Valley metropolitan area.

The well-developed transportation network of the metropolis of the Red River Valley is not only reflected in the subway line, but also in the construction of highway transportation.

With the increase of population, the expansion of urban scale, and the emergence of high-rise buildings, the agglomeration effect of the Red River Valley metropolis is becoming more and more obvious. Especially with the rapid growth of car ownership, it has brought great pressure to transportation.

By the end of 1910

The number of cars in the metropolis of the Red River Valley has reached 274,000, with an average of one car for every 10 residents, and the total number of cars in the surrounding four god beast cities exceeds 350,000.

Although the cobweb-shaped highway traffic extends in all directions, traffic jams are still unavoidable. And it's getting worse.

To this end, municipalities and municipal councils have taken a number of approaches to address the problem.

First of all, it is to continue to vigorously build the elevated ring road, after the completion of the construction of the urban elevated inner ring line, the construction of the second ring and the third ring has begun, and the fourth ring road in the planning will include the two cities of Baihu and Xuanwu into the rapid elevated ring line.

The Fifth Ring Road will include Qinglong City in the elevated ring road, and the Sixth Ring Road will include Suzaku City in the elevated ring road of the Red River Valley metropolitan area, becoming an inseparable part of it.

The city has developed to this day

The Red River Valley metropolis will include the surrounding cities of Qinglong, Baihu, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu into the administrative area, and the conditions for the formation of the Greater Red River Valley urban agglomeration are ripe.

On February 17, 1911, the new cabinet of the empire unsurprisingly defeated its opponent with the Zhi Gong Party led by Zhang Li, and won the general election with 57.8% of the vote, and Prime Minister Zhang Li was responsible for leading the formation of the new cabinet.

This is the first time in 10 years that the Zhi Gong Party has regained power, and the first issue they face is the merger of the Red River Valley metropolitan area, which is a very challenging new issue.

In the city of the Four Divine Beasts

Suzaku City, with its developed light industry, was the fifth largest city in the empire, with a total population of 835,600 in 1900 and further increased to 1,076,000 in 1910.

As a traditional light industry textile town, more than ninety percent of the industrial output value of Suzaku City comes from the wool textile industry, and it has been deeply cultivating the wool textile industry for decades, and is among the top in the world in terms of industrial scale and technical level.

The city's "Textile College" has been upgraded to "Australian Textile University", which has the world's top level in the fields of wool textile, fine textile, textile machinery, cashmere textile, textile printing and dyeing, textile design, etc.

Suzaku City is a city born for textiles, thousands of textile, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing, textile machinery and equipment, hat and socks factories gathered together, forming the world's most complete wool textile industry chain, the textile industry output value reached an average annual level of 335 million gold ocean, the domestic textile group occupies the first place, the total industrial output value is only slightly inferior to Songjiang City, ranking second.

Suzaku City not only has a traditional wool textile industry, but also has a unique unique activity ~ the world's top cashmere textile industry.

Due to the reason of technical secrecy, the cashmere textile industry of the Ocean Empire is limited to Suzaku City, and there is no other semicolon. The famous "Edelweiss" textile factory is located here, in addition to a series of brands such as "Baiyun", "Mona Lisa", "Emile" and "White Snow", the products are sold well in Europe and the United States, and it is the most powerful money-making machine in the empire.

For thirty years

The complete set of cashmere textile equipment in Suzaku City has been updated to the third generation, with the characteristics of faster textile speed and higher efficiency, and has always firmly controlled the right to speak in the cashmere industry, and it is also a technical secret that the empire will never export.

If the four cities were swallowed in one gulp, the Red River Valley metropolitan agglomeration would become the world's largest city, with a population of more than 5.45 million, surpassing London for the top spot.

Take stock;

Suzaku City, which is the fifth largest city in the empire with a total population of 1.076 million, Qinglong City, which is famous for its education, ranks as the nineteenth largest city in the empire with 621,000 people, and Baihu City, which is dominated by heavy industry, has grown from 690,000 10 years ago to 787,000, ranking the fourteenth largest city in the empire. and Xuanwu City (with a total population of 327,000), which is the 37th largest city in the empire, and the total population of the four cities has exceeded 2.82 million, which is extremely staggering.

Therefore, the merger of cities is an extremely challenging event, and the preparatory work alone has already attracted the attention of countries around the world.