Arthur's actions were swift, and after only three days, he persuaded most of the officials of the New Zealand colonial government to create a political organization with great influence on New Zealand, the Political Participation Group.

The Senate is in fact a union of the House of Commons of Australia, but with a different name.

New Zealand's political suffrage can be elected by New Zealand's political parties and civilians, and is elected by all New Zealand citizens who have the legal right to vote.

In terms of rights, the Senate does not have the power of the House of Representatives, but it can give its own opinion on the current situation in New Zealand and submit it to the colonial government.

In addition to these, the Participation Group has the more important right to monitor officials of all New Zealand factions and to impeach when there is sufficient evidence to do so.

Although it is basically impossible to threaten British-appointed officials, there are actually very few British-appointed officials, except for the Governor and the Commander of the Garrison, there are very few officials appointed by the British themselves, most of them are appointed by the Governor and the Commander of the Garrison, or directly elected from the New Zealand people.

This means that the newly formed Participation Group has a lot of power in New Zealand, and it can even be said that it is the most powerful institution and body in New Zealand other than the Governor, the Commander of the Garrison and the colonial government.

In order to prevent this newly formed political group from getting out of his control, Arthur also deliberately added a new clause under the regulations for the establishment of the political group, that is, the governor of New Zealand can dissolve the political group if he feels that the political group is harmful to New Zealand, and does not need to give any explanation.

This decree directly allowed Arthur to grasp the lifeblood of the political participation group. Once the political group has a slight tendency to break away from Arthur's control, then he can only face the fate of disbanding.

Since New Zealand was not a free government, Arthur had no objection to such conditions.

Of course, because the political participation group is the reason for Arthur's proposal, those who are eligible to be selected for the political participation group will naturally not object.

The colonial government's proclamation came quickly, and within a few days, most of the New Zealanders in Wellington had been informed of the formation of the Legion.

The vast majority of New Zealanders are not interested in the formation of a political group, and this is to be expected.

After all, New Zealand's economic decline has only recently ended, and many New Zealanders have only recovered from not having enough to eat.

In this case, they really don't have much mood and energy to get involved in politics.

Arthur had been prepared for this for a long time, after all, the political team was not for ordinary New Zealanders, but for the Coalition Party.

To put it bluntly, the Coalition is just a step up the ladder for the League to gain more power. Only by giving the League more power could Arthur's plan to annex New Zealand be carried out.

It is indeed a good time to set up a political participation group at this time. As another major party in New Zealand, the New Zealand Labor Party itself has little desire to participate in politics.

The New Zealand Labour Party was founded against the backdrop of these workers protecting their rights, much like the parties formed by Australian workers.

The New Zealand Labour Party is a little looser than the Coalition Party, and its pursuit is only to improve the welfare of workers and ensure their basic living conditions.

Coupled with the economic recession in New Zealand in previous years, these workers are the first to bear the brunt.

Because the factory produces a large amount of food, the finished products cannot be sold, resulting in a greatly reduced profit for the factory owners, so they have to deduct the wages of the workers and reduce the welfare of the workers.

Although this led to a short-term explosion of workers' enthusiasm for participating in politics, they were not able to resist the wealthy factory owners and the capitalist class in New Zealand.

In the face of livelihood, many people also gave up fighting against the factory owners and had to accept the cruel reality of exploitation.

At the same time, Australia's rise has also attracted the attention of some New Zealanders. On the premise of not being able to fight internally, there are also many people who hope to join Australia.

Because Australia's new industrial estates and factories were very strict with the policy that Arthur had set at the time, not only the universal ten-hour workday, but also the wages and benefits of workers had to be paid on time.

10-hour workday! This is a policy that many countries in Europe do not enjoy.

In fact, although many countries in Europe have developed a system of 10 or even 8 hours of work, in fact, only a handful of them can actually implement it, and even the great powers are implementing a system of 10 hours or more.

There's no way around it. In this gloomy era, if you want to ensure your own interests, you can only exploit the interests of the people at the lower levels.

Although Australia's work system is just the usual ten-hour work day in Europe, at least Australia has a very strict enforcement system, with all Australians working less than ten hours and double pay for any overtime.

This alone has attracted the aspirations of many New Zealand workers.

As a self-governing colony, New Zealand has imperfect welfare benefits and systems. In the case of the work system, New Zealand does not have specific requirements for the working hours of workers, which gives the factory owners and capitalists room to operate.

After all, the government does not have a requirement for working hours, as long as it is guaranteed that these workers will not tire out in the factory, then it is not in line with the government's requirements?

After all, a large number of workers in Europe are exploited to death, starve to death, and die of exhaustion every year.

But it can't be helped, this is the beginning of the twentieth century, for the capitalists, what are the people? Animals that can be exploited.

Actually, it's nothing. For workers in New Zealand, gritting their teeth may be acceptable.

After all, this is an event that workers all over the world, even in Europe, are experiencing.

But Australia, which shares the same roots and is not far away, has changed.

Workers in Australia, although not well paid, at least do not have to worry about being oppressed, are paid a full salary every month, and enjoy double pay on holidays and other overtime.

What does this mean for the workers? Heaven!

This led to a prolonged downturn for the New Zealand Labour Party, with many workers choosing to join the League or compromise with the capitalists in order to make ends meet.

The formation of a coalition now would at least guarantee that the majority of the seats will be won by the coalition party. Even if New Zealand Labour workers are able to win some seats, they may not necessarily support Labor.

The first is to ask for support!

(End of chapter)