Of course, while it may seem like the per capita arable land has increased by only 0.02 acres, the total arable land has increased by about 2.18 million acres.

After all, the population has grown by more than 900,000 people, and in order to maintain the same level of arable land per capita, a large amount of arable land must be cultivated.

Thanks to the increase in arable land, Australasia's grain production also ushered in a considerable increase in 1910, which has exceeded 9.6 million tons.

This puts Australasia's grain production only one step away from 10 million tons, and next year's population will exceed 10 million at the same time, food production should also exceed 10 million.

But in 1910, Australasia's national food consumption was less than 2.9 million tons, which means that Australasia can export 6 million tons of grain every year, which is not a small income.

Of course, because of the previous trade agreement with the UK, the UK became a major target for Australasian grain exports.

Australasia exports at least 2 million tonnes of grain to the UK every year, which is a testament to the current close relationship between the UK and Australasia.

This is the current development of the government, and as for the current development of the royal consortium, Arthur can only be said to be a behemoth.

After the cabinet meeting, after the report of the Kent butler, Arthur realized how large the current royal consortium was for Australasia.

Of course, in fact, last year's royal consortium was already large enough, and this year it has expanded a lot on the basis of last year.

At present, the royal consortium has created hundreds of factories and enterprises, and controlled thousands of factories and enterprises.

All the businesses and factories managed by the Crown Consortium have more than 500,000 employees in all states, sectors and industries in Australasia.

In 1910, the net profit of the royal consortium was as high as 54.31 million Australian dollars, which was the result of deducting nearly 10 million Australian dollars in taxes to the government.

The difference between the net income of the royal consortium and the total revenue of the country is only 10 million Australian dollars, which is enough to see how large the current royal consortium is in Australasia.

It is not an exaggeration to say that as long as Arthur wants, the net income of the royal consortium can exceed the total revenue of the state at any time.

However, the royal consortium only controls some of the more important industries in Australasia, such as heavy industry, petroleum, chemical industry, military industry, etc., and some civilian industries and fields The royal consortium does not have much involvement, after all, the people of Australasia have to be given a chance.

If there is currently a list of the world's top 500 companies, Arthur believes that his royal consortium will definitely be ranked in the top 10 in the world.

A company with a net profit of $54 million, or £27 million, is a drop in the bucket in the current era, and even more than some small and medium-sized European countries.

In mid-January 1911, a diplomatic team sent by Chile finally arrived in Australasia again to inspect the Hope-class battleships designed by Australasia.

This time, the Chilean diplomatic team had several more admirals of the navy and high-ranking government officials, who were obviously interested in the new, particularly powerful battleship that Australasia had said.

To be honest, the Hope-class battleships are basically the same as or even exceed the requirements of the Chileans in terms of firepower, power and armor protection, except for the expectations of the Chileans.

In the end, the Chileans were stubborn about tonnage, and they were also defeated by Defense Secretary Raul's statement that tonnage is not as good as combat effectiveness.

However, this is indeed a truth, instead of blindly pursuing the tonnage and volume of warships, it is better to focus on the speed, firepower and protection capabilities of warships.

No matter how big the warship is, if its combat effectiveness is not good, it will become a live target in naval warfare, and it may sink the fastest.

After a week of discussions and discussions between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chilean mission, the final naval order was finalized.

Chile invested a total of 5 million pounds, or 10 million Australian dollars, to buy two Hope-class battleships, six Duke-class frigates, and two German submarines.

The order was expected to begin in the middle of the year, with the delivery of two submarines no later than mid-1913, six frigates no later than mid-1914, and two Hope-class battleships no later than the end of 1915.

On the whole, this warship order is still very timely, enough for the Royal Shipyard to complete the warship order of the Russians and the production of the warship order of the Chileans.

Of course, there was a downside to this, and that was that the Royal Dockyards had little spare time to build Australasia's own warships until at least 1914.

However, these are all minor problems, and by the time the European countries were busy with the war in World War I, Australasia had the time and money to build its own strategy, and it was not in a hurry at all.

The two Hope-class battleships were excitedly named Admiral La Torre and Admiral Cochran by the Chileans, perhaps this is the dream of the rise of the navy of a small country!

I have to sigh that although the size of several countries in South America is not too large, they are very willing to invest in the military, especially the navy.

After the order for the warship was signed, Arthur was given a short period of free time. At this time, however, Arthur was waiting for news from the European side.

According to the Royal Security Intelligence Service, the Moroccan crisis should be imminent.

Of course, this was not Arthur's prediction.

In fact, the situation in Morocco has not been very good in recent years. Because of the weather, Morocco has suffered a rare drought, which has led to a crisis in agriculture in many areas, with crops failing and farmers suffering.

Coupled with the short-sightedness of the Sudanese government and the corruption of some officials, the disaster has been obvious, but there is no means of disaster relief, but it has also increased some taxes, resulting in great dissatisfaction among the low-level civilians, and riots against taxes have continued one after another.

On the other hand, France has taken control of Moroccan politics since the first Moroccan crisis.

The flood of French products has hit the local economy of Morocco, bankrupting a large number of Moroccan artisans one after another, and causing a large part of the middle class to become dissatisfied with the government.

Offended the middle and bottom civilians, and the top and the government are so rotten, the chaos of the country can be imagined.

In January 1911, a large-scale uprising broke out in Morocco, and the people who were dissatisfied with the government and Sudan besieged some cities under the banner of overthrowing the government.

The wave of the uprising swept through much of Morocco, leaving the French government behind Morocco somewhat unable to sit still.

Because in addition to the name of these rebels against the Sultan, there were also some rebels who fought against the French invaders in the name of opposing the French invaders.

If these rebels overthrow the Sultan government, won't the next target be the French colonizers?

In February 1911, the French could not sit still due to the dire situation in Morocco, and the French government sent troops to occupy Fez and some nearby cities under the pretext of protecting the expatriates and restoring order in Morocco.

In the face of the French soldiers, the small Moroccan army had no resistance at all, and the rebel army, which was composed of the vast majority of ordinary people, was no match for the French army, and when facing the French army, it could be said that it was unable to form an army.

At the same time as the French were moving, Spain also sent troops to the north of Morocco, which also lost Morocco's de facto independence.

The actions of the French in Morocco led to discontent in some European countries. Among them, the most dissatisfied was the German Empire.

Because of such actions by the French, they openly violated the Treaty of Algeciras, which was signed five years ago because of the first Moroccan crisis.

Although long before the French acted, the French ambassador to Germany, Cambon, informed German Foreign Minister Kidren that France was about to send troops to Morocco.

The problem was that Kidren was clearly opposed at the time, believing that the French would not only break the agreement with Algeciras, but also provoke an even more fierce resistance from the Moroccans and would cause discontent among the German population.

When talking about the dissatisfaction of the German people, German Foreign Minister Gidren also strengthened his tone and expressed Germany's attitude.

The Germans' view was that they hoped that the French would postpone the military occupation and that they would consult the German government on the matter.

In fact, the implicit meaning is to let the French make some concessions to interests elsewhere, after all, everything is negotiable, as long as the interests are enough.

But what the Germans didn't expect was that they thought that the French would make concessions elsewhere, but they didn't expect the French to maintain their usual tough attitude, and even directly sent troops to interfere with the Moroccan order without notifying Germany.

This not only nullified the Algeciras Agreement signed earlier, but also slapped the Germans in the face.

After all, it is easy to say that Germany is also the second great power in the world, and the French directly stabbed Germany in the back in Morocco, so where does this make the face of the Germans?

As it happens, Wilhelm II's temper was not so good. Germany also had a lot of interests in Morocco, and the French did not care about German interests in Morocco at all, let alone Wilhelm II, who was an angry German people, which was enough to change the attitude of the German government.

But the question is, does France dare to budge now? The French are pleased with the French government's hardline attitude, since Germany is a country that was united by the French decades ago.

If the French government compromises with the Germans quickly, I am afraid that the disgraced French people will not mind a direct change of cabinet.

You know, France is an old revolutionary country. The French cabinet is not willing to test the bottom line of the people, they really dare to rebel!

Because of the constant pressure on the government by German public opinion circles and monopoly organizations, the German government is demanding that the German government take corresponding actions to safeguard the interests of the German people.

Under such pressure, and in order to force the French to make significant concessions to Germany, at least on the issue of compensation, Foreign Minister Gidren offered Kaiser Wilhelm II a clever plan to send warships to the important Moroccan ports of Agadir and Mogadol in order to protect the German expatriates and their commercial interests.

If such an important collateral could be obtained, the Germans could watch the events in Morocco unfold with peace of mind, and even wait for the French to offer to offer part of the colonies in exchange for compensation for the Germans leaving the two ports.

Kidren's calculations were loud, and now the chaotic Morocco had two chips, and if the French wanted to unify their interests in Morocco, they had to exchange colonies in other regions for these two ports.

But the question is, will the Germans' direct dispatch of troops really not directly escalate the severity of the incident?

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