This fleet is naturally carrying Arthur's long-prepared ambassador and diplomatic mission.

Of course, this time Lord Louis was among them, and Margaery and Patricia naturally followed.

As for the reason why the lord of Louis went to the Netherlands, it is needless to say.

At the same time, Steward Hunter is among them, and he will accompany the fleet to Europe and be responsible for the creation of the award.

For the upcoming scientific prize, Arthur gave it an important name, the Victoria Prize.

Nominally in honor of Arthur's beloved grandmother, Queen Victoria, but it also inevitably borrowed from Queen Victoria's prestige to make the newly-born award famous in Europe.

In order to prevent the unborn Nobel Prize from impacting the Victoria Prize, Arthur has specially prepared a reward of up to 300,000 pounds for the Victoria Prize, even if there are six major prizes including literature, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, science and technology, etc., the winner of each prize can still receive support worth 50,000 pounds.

This prize money has far exceeded the prize money of the first Nobel Prize in history, and even three or four times as much.

In addition, if the winner of the award is able to travel to Australia for at least 10 years, the Australian royal family will provide additional research funding and venues.

Even in the UK, where the economy is very developed, senior professors earn only a few thousand pounds a year.

The prize money of any award of the Victoria Prize is enough to earn tens or even hundreds of years of income for senior professors in the United Kingdom.

Add to that the enormous prestige of Queen Victoria, and it is to be expected that the new Victoria Prize will definitely be more popular than the original historical Nobel Prize.

The Victoria Award will also become a powerful tool for Australia to attract high-end talents, and in the coming years, decades or even centuries, it will allow Australia to maintain enough prestige and attractiveness in the scientific research community.

The cost of holding the prize each year is only more than 300,000 pounds, which may seem like a lot, but it is completely affordable for Arthur's estate.

What's more, the reconstruction of the production line of the automobile plant is also in full swing. Cars will also bring Arthur a lot of revenue, which is a huge market of hundreds of millions or even billions of pounds.

Arthur chose to stay in Australia, not that Arthur didn't take this trip to the Netherlands seriously, but Australia currently has too many important projects, and Arthur must personally supervise it.

The railway construction plan is one of the most important development plans in Australia at present, and it has attracted the attention and attention of a large number of Australians since the birth of the plan.

This also led to the fact that the land acquisition for the construction of the railway went very smoothly.

The vast majority of the places where the railway passes are uninhabited wasteland, and some of the land that has already been allocated is also bought by Australia at twice the market price.

Of course, if you are not willing to exchange it for money, the Australian government will also organize indigenous people to reclaim and compensate for the same area of reclaimed land.

Why is the Australian government so generous, don't ask, ask is that there are many indigenous.

Nearly 20,000 Aboriginal people are already involved in Australia's construction, and the number is growing at a rate of nearly 6,000 per month.

Although various industrial constructions will also lead to the shedding of hundreds of natives every month, in the face of the huge manpower replenishment, the number of deaths of hundreds of natives per month is not significant.

As one of the most important construction projects, the construction of the railway has involved a lot of investment in Arthur and Australia.

On the worker side, more than two dozen German experts are involved in the planning and exploration of the railway construction, and hundreds of trained Australian rail workers have been invested.

Needless to say, in terms of cheap labor, at least 5,000 natives have been deployed to the construction of the railway, and the number is increasing at least 1,000 per month.

At the same time, major steel mills have also begun to work overtime to produce steel rails. The reason why railway construction can become one of the symbols of an industrial country is that the construction of railways not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also tests the country's steel production.

Australia is building a broad-gauge railway, which has a significant increase in capacity, and the trains will run smoothly and the interior of the carriages will become more spacious and comfortable.

Of course, broad-gauge railways also have very obvious disadvantages, that is, they will occupy more area, the cost of bridges and tunnels will rise, and the turning radius will also increase.

But now, because Australia is not short of money or land, it is clear that broad-gauge rail is a better fit.

At the same time, most of the distance of this railway is a single-track railway, and only some sections with relatively large traffic are designed with double-track railways.

Of course, this is not absolute. Before the construction of the railway, the entire design team had already planned to convert the entire railway into a double track at any time.

Any section of the railway can be converted into a double-track railway, as long as there is any need for it in the future.

This has also eased the demand for Australian steel production to some extent.

According to German experts' estimates, Australia's railway construction consumes about 170 tons of steel rail per kilometer, and the entire railway needs at least nearly 700,000 tons of rails.

If you add in the additional consumption of tunnels, bridges, stations, etc., then the entire railway needs at least 800,000 tons of steel production.

Although this is the total consumption of more than ten years of construction time, it also consumes at least 80,000 tons of steel per year on average.

Australia's current steel production is not keeping up with this figure for the time being, so expanding the size of steel plants is an urgent issue.

The car is also an iron-eating beast. It also takes a lot of steel to build a car, ranging from a few hundred kilograms to a ton at most.

Once automobiles are popular on the world market in the future, tens of thousands of tons of steel will be needed every year to build them.

This can be a lot of trouble for the Minister of Industry, Pierre.

All of a sudden, the pressure came to Minister Pierre's side, and the Ministry of Industry could only speed up the construction of industrial zones and steel mills, invest more indigenous people, and expand the production scale of steel mills as much as possible.

Thankfully, in this era, it is difficult to expand the scale of steel production, and it is easy to say that it is simple.

With technology, equipment, mineral resources, capital and manpower, the expansion of steel production scale is simple.

But without these prerequisites, it will not be easy to scale up steel production.

Australia is fortunate to have the resources, equipment, technology, manpower, experts, and money to do it, and there are no problems other than the time it takes to build a new steel plant and expand it.

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