The Royal Shipyard is about to start construction of the two Unification-class strategic cruisers, named the first ship Unification and the Mir respectively, and officially started construction in mid-January this year.

Because the main task of the Royal Shipyard this year is to build these two fast cruisers, the construction of these two warships will also be slightly faster, and it is expected to be completed in October this year at the earliest, and no later than December.

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the warship, Arthur called the head of the Royal Shipyard and asked him the same questions he had asked Director Theodor in the aviation laboratory.

The head of the Royal Shipyard did not boast about Haikou, and after thinking carefully and carefully for a while, he gave Arthur an answer that he could try.

After receiving the reply, Arthur nodded in satisfaction and ordered the head of the Royal Shipyard to dock with the Aviation Research Office.

The development of aircraft carriers is inseparable from the joint efforts of shipyards and aviation research laboratories, which not only meet the requirements of short take-offs of aircraft, but also make their combat capabilities and design more reasonable.

Leave the specific design and experiments to the aviation laboratories and shipyards to do the headache! For Arthur, he only needs to come up with an idea, and there are many people who can actually put it into practice.

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the two warships, Arthur officially approached the IOC members at the end of January and hosted a large banquet to welcome them.

After a welcome reception, Minister Grant and the IOC rushed to the designated area of the Australasian National Stadium.

The IOC is quite satisfied with Australasia's arrangement, after all, the IOC's request is only to build a stadium that can accommodate up to 40,000 people, and if you look at Australasia's plan, the National Stadium will be a super-large stadium with a capacity of 50,000 people, far exceeding the IOC's requirements.

In order to build the national stadium, the Australasian government hired well-known designers and architectural companies from all over Europe and the United States at great expense, in order to build a national stadium that has been used for hundreds of years. Even if the stadium is no longer in use in the future, it can be used as a historical witness to the development of Australian Lasia over the past century.

Determining the design of the stadium was not an easy task, after all, the Australasian National Stadium will serve as one of the landmarks of Australasia and the external symbol of Australasia's sporting aspects.

This also means that the design requirements of the stadium are very strict, not only to reflect the good side of the country, but also to be innovative and innovative enough to attract more people.

It took more than a month for the major construction companies and designers to finalize the preliminary design, in coordination with the International Committee and Secretary Grant.

During this period, most of the time was spent arguing about which design was good, and there were even two construction companies arguing over this, of course, it is not excluded that one of them was British and the other was German.

Once the design is finalized, the next most important task is definitely to get into construction.

Arthur and Prime Minister Walter, Minister of Kent, and many ministers attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Stadium, and Arthur also delivered an important speech at the groundbreaking ceremony, stating how important sports are to the comprehensive and diversified development of Australasia, and encouraging and calling on more Australasian people to devote themselves to the development of sports, and make some contributions to the country under the premise of physical fitness.

According to Minister Grant's report, on the day of Arthur's speech alone, there were thousands of Australasian people who wanted to sign up to become athletes.

However, the selection of athletes must not be arbitrary, they need to go through a strict selection of physique and talent, and priority will be given to those who are loyal and patriotic.

Arthur's speech came as a relief to Minister Grant. As the speech began to spread across the country, there was no need to worry about the number of athletes.

Even Minister Grant suspects that if the sports department liberalizes the number of athletes recruited, the number of athletes in Australasia could exceed tens of thousands at any time.

It sounds crazy, but it's really unnecessary. You know, even the largest number of athletes in the Olympic Games is only about 2,000 people.

The London Olympics, which has the largest number of athletes from a single country, only sent more than 700 athletes.

There are only one, two, or three in the sports industry, but there are no participation awards and consolation prizes, so there are not many athletes to choose from.

Minister Grant spent a lot of effort to select nearly 500 teenagers who seemed to have good physical fitness and talent from the tens of thousands of applicants, plus more than 100 athletes who had already participated in the last Olympic Games, forming a lineup of more than 600 athletes in preparation for the next Sydney Games in Australasia.

With nearly two and a half years to go before the Sydney Games, Minister Grant sent the more than 600 athletes to a specific location for secret training.

I believe that more than two years will make the training of these athletes fruitful. Minister Grant is not very demanding, and as long as one in ten of the more than 600 athletes can win a medal, it will meet Secretary Grant's expectations.

It is worth mentioning that Minister Grant also spent a part of the money to consult some officials of the National Committee on ways to train athletes quickly, so that the training athletes can take some shortcuts.

Fortunately, nowadays' physical training is not so formal, and most of them rely on instinct and physical fitness.

In March 1910, construction of the Australasian National Stadium officially began. The construction of the stadium is expected to take twenty months, but it may also be delayed to about twenty-four months.

This meant that the stadium would be completed in March 1912 at the latest, barely in time for the opening of the Olympic Games in June 1912.

The construction of the hotel, various facilities and roads supporting the stadium was expected to be completed from late 1911 to the end of 1911 at the earliest, and it would not be delayed until March 1912 at the latest.

The construction cycle is a detailed plan and forecast made by major construction companies and designers, and basically does not exceed the scope of the prediction.

For the construction of the stadium, Arthur is very generous, with an initial budget of 6 million Australian dollars and a reserve budget of 4 million Australian dollars, which can be added at any time.

Arthur has only one requirement, that is, to ensure quality and quantity, and to complete the construction on time.

Such requirements are still relatively relaxed for construction companies, so the enthusiasm of these construction companies is also relatively high.

In addition, there are many indigenous inputs, which saves a lot of labor and manpower, and also reduces the construction cost of the stadium.

In April, Arthur traveled to the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory outside Sydney to inspect the latest situation in the machinery factory.

Of course, Arthur was nominally here to inspect the construction of tractors and the specifics of tractor-related matters at the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory.

Tractors have been an integral part of Australasia's agricultural development since they began to be used extensively in parts of Australasia a few years ago.

People are surprised to find that the tractor used to plough the land can not only greatly reduce the consumption of labor, but even the tractor ploughs the land better than manpower.

At the same time, the tractor can also be used for harvesting and other part of the work, in addition to being a little more expensive and requiring fuel consumption, this is simply a hard-working serf, or the kind of serf with great strength.

To date, there are more than 1,000 farm tractors in Australia, more than 70% of which are on Australasian state-owned farms or royal farms.

Australasia's grain production has been able to usher in a substantial increase, and the contribution of tractors is indeed not small.

But a small tractor, Arthur wouldn't have personally asked. What really made Arthur care and came there was actually the first generation of tanks that the Agricultural Machinery Factory researched and built in the name of studying tractors.

Of course, the reason why this kind of guy is called a tank is because the agricultural machinery factory calls this kind of guy who looks like an iron cabinet for transporting water resources a tank, in English, for the sake of confidential research.

After Arthur's clapping, this guy who had no resemblance to a tractor in actual action was officially named Tank.

The tanks that have been researched and manufactured by the Agricultural Machinery Factory are taller than normal tractors.

From the outside, it looks like a tractor, except that it is covered with a layer of steel that looks thick.

Of course, because of the covering of steel plates, there is only a small observation hole in front of the tank, and the rest of the tank is basically airtight.

Above the tank, a long cannon muzzle sticks out, and the dark muzzle seems to capture the soul.

The official crew of this tank was a total of four people, a driver, a commander, a gunner, and a loader.

Under normal circumstances, the commander is also the commander of the vehicle, and at the same time the observer of the entire tank, standing at the only observation hole left by the tank.

The driver, on the other hand, sits at the front of the tank and operates the entire tank in the same way that he operates a tractor.

The gunner is responsible for firing and aiming the 75mm howitzer above the tank, as well as the machine gun on the top of the tank.

Of course, in order to use the machine gun at the top, it is necessary to poke half of the body out of the tank, which is also bound to be dangerous.

The easiest task for a loader is to reload the guns in the tank. The magazine and gun are on the left and right sides of the loader, and the loader does not need to move to reload.

The person responsible for directing the entire tank to move forward and fire is the tank's observer, the commander.

The observer observes the position of the tank and the direction of its advance through the reserved observation opening, and orders the three men to make corresponding movements.

The four crews complement each other and together maintain the operation of the entire tank.

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