October 24, 1900, was the first day after Queen Victoria's death.

As early as yesterday afternoon, after the Queen stopped breathing, someone was responsible for collecting Queen Victoria's body and transporting it back to the British mainland for burial.

Although Queen Victoria's favorite place to stay was the Isle of Wight, as the monarch of the British Empire and the queen admired and admired by all Britons, Queen Victoria's body was eventually buried in the royal mausoleum on the British mainland.

The transport of the remains was difficult, requiring at least half a month's voyage from the Isle of Wight to mainland England, which could be even longer if the time spent on resupplying them along the way.

In order to transport Queen Victoria to the British mainland earlier, Crown Prince Edward ordered the accompanying battleship Fame to take charge of the transport operation.

As one of the fastest warships in the Royal Navy, the battleship Fame could be shortened to just over 20 days from the British Empire mainland to New Zealand.

While Britain was busy transporting Queen Victoria's remains, there was no reason for the royal families and high-ups of other countries to continue to stay on the Isle of Wight.

The crowd said goodbye to each other and then boarded a warship and returned to their country.

The only one of these people who had some friendship with Arthur was Wilhelm II. When Wilhelm II was leaving, he specially called Arthur elsewhere, and the two chatted for a while.

William II was amazed at Queen Victoria's care and affection for Arthur. Originally, when Queen Victoria was dying last night, William II wanted to stay by his grandmother's side and brush up on the favorability of the British people by the way.

But I didn't expect that it was because of Arthur that he, the person who was the emperor, didn't get close to Queen Victoria last night.

However, Wilhelm II did not mind this, and only reaffirmed the cooperation treaty between Germany and Australia.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that after Queen Victoria handed over British New Guinea and New Zealand to Arthur's administration, Australia would become the most powerful country in the southern hemisphere, with no rivals in the South Pacific and the eastern Indian Ocean.

The British Empire, the only one that could compete with Australia, was also at the behest of Queen Victoria, not only getting the soon-to-be king Edward to promise a non-aggression pact, but also promising to protect Australia as an independent nation for ten years.

In ten years, if Australia has the dual support of the British Empire and Germany, it will definitely be able to completely absorb the power of British New Guinea and New Zealand, plus the Australian mainland, even the British Empire will be helpless against this behemoth created by itself.

However, Wilhelm II was happy to see this, after all, Germany had little interest in the region, except for a piece of German New Guinea.

But in fact, neither British New Guinea nor German New Guinea has a very large population, and even the population of the whole of New Guinea has only just reached more than 1.4 million.

In Wilhelm II's mind, it would have been absolutely acceptable to trade German New Guinea for the support of a united and powerful Australia for Germany in World War I.

If Australia before integration could only harass the rear of France's colonies, then after integration, Australia will have the ability to threaten France's colonies in future wars, and even annexation of some remote areas is not a problem.

For example, French New Caledonia in France is very close to the Australian mainland, so in the event of a conflict between Australia and France, will France be able to hold on to this area?

You must know that the logistical cost of distance is ten times greater, and it may be that the logistical cost of France just to hold this area will far exceed the value of this area.

Therefore, Wilhelm II's intention to win over Arthur was even more obvious, and he even made a special promise to arrange support for Australian industry after his return, and to speed up the pace of cooperation between Germany and Australia.

The reason why William II was so anxious was that before Queen Victoria died, she had specifically instructed the British Empire to provide at least £5 million a year to Australia for ten years, and not to cut off the source of immigration.

It would not be in the interest of Wilhelm II to bring Australia, which had already been freed from Britain, closer to Britain.

In order to win over Arthur, Wilhelm II decided to start a plan for German immigration to Australia, as long as most of Australia's population is German, then Australia's policy will not be imperceptibly biased towards Germany?

Arthur didn't know what Wilhelm II was thinking, but even if Arthur knew, he would only smile shallowly.

To change Australia's demographics, at least 4 million people from Germany need to migrate to Australia.

Not to mention ten years of such a huge number, I am afraid that Germany will not be able to immigrate to Australia for twenty years.

In the past 20 years, Australia has been able to attract millions or even tens of millions of immigrants to the whole of Europe and even the world, and it is even more impossible to change the entire immigration structure.

There is only one way to make the majority of Australians German, and that is for Australia to bring in immigrants from Germany only for a short period of time.

But Arthur was not stupid, although the German population had a relatively high literacy rate and was generally more culturally educated.

But after all, a country of immigrants like Australia must ensure the advantage and proportion of the main ethnic group.

While Arthur was willing to accept immigrants from other countries, it would only be if the proportion of Australians, led by British, remained above 50 per cent of Australia's population.

The country of immigrants needs diversity, but there is only one right to speak. In order to prevent many problems from being created by future immigrants, it is only possible to increase the proportion of the main ethnic group.

After bidding farewell to Wilhelm II, Arthur also sailed on a warship like Australia.

However, unlike when he came, Arthur had less Crown Prince Edward by his side, but a full 2,000 royal guards and hundreds of retinues.

Needless to say, the Royal Guard is the elite unit of the British Army, plus Arthur's original possession, the size of the Guards will reach 4,000 people, and Arthur's position will be more stable.

It was not without intention for Queen Victoria to give Arthur these retinues, Arthur was an outsider in Australia after all, and although he had successfully seized power and had the support of most Australians, some things had to be guarded against.

In addition, Arthur's power in Britain has also been lost, and if Arthur wants to recruit more loyal retinues, it will still be difficult in theory.

After all, no one can guarantee the loyalty of those newly recruited followers, and people's hearts are separated from each other.

But these retinues of Queen Victoria are different, most of them have served the British royal family since childhood, and are extremely loyal to Queen Victoria.

When Queen Victoria gifted these retinues to Arthur, their allegiance became Arthur's.

These men were far more loyal than the retinue that Arthur had painstakingly recruited in Australia, and they were more experienced in serving and serving as subordinates.