Before the expeditionary force departed, Arthur gave an encouraging speech to the 4th Division, and said that he would personally award them with honors and medals after the successful return of the 4th Division.

This speech aroused the enthusiasm of the Fourth Division, and the soldiers' enthusiasm for the war was still very high, after all, there were not many wars in Australasia, and every war was a big victory, just waiting for the credit.

Arthur had great trust in the Fourth Division's combat capabilities, and he also trusted the Fourth Division's commander, Scott Malone, in his command and adaptability.

Scott Malone is a native Australasian who has cultivated his own talents.

Division Commander Scott served in the Australasian Colonial Garrison, the 1st Australasian Division, the 1st Guards Division, and the Royal Military College in Sydney before being sent to the 2nd Guards Division as Deputy Division Commander.

When it came time to form the Fourth Division, Scott successfully became one of the candidates and eventually won the position of commander of the Fourth Division.

The current division commander Scott is not yet 40 years old, and there is still a lot of room for upside to be tapped.

After sending a note to Division Commander Scott and asking Division Commander Scott to defeat the Argentine living forces as much as possible on the premise of reducing casualties, Arthur watched the expeditionary force leave with great confidence.

Arthur's consistent aim was to try not to blindly intervene in the war of his troops. Except for the Guards Division, which is subordinate to itself, the operations of the regular divisions are basically carried out under the command of the Ministry of Defense.

Of course, the results and progress of the war also need to be reported to Arthur, after all, how can a monarch who does not understand the current military situation be in charge of the country.

It would take some time for the expeditionary force to reach the border between Chile and Argentina, and at this time, Arthur also had a relatively important job.

More than half a year has passed since the second phase of the construction of the Leonora Industrial Base was fully completed.

In the past six months, the investment attraction of the Leonora industrial base has been very smooth, and most of the industrial zones have been put into production.

Of course, the relocation and formation of the plant was not so fast. According to the conservative estimates of the industrial sector, the second phase of the construction of the Leonora Industrial Base will be able to enter a state of full production from the end of this year to the beginning of next year, greatly enhancing the industrial strength of Australasia and promoting the economic development of Australasia.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current Leonora industrial base is the industrial core of Australasia and the most brilliant industrial pearl of Oceania.

The current Leonora industrial base has nearly 200 factories and 170,000 workers and technicians, covering all aspects of Australasia.

The successful completion of the construction of the first and second phases of the industrial base also gave Arthur and the Ministry of Industry full confidence to promote the construction of the third and expected last phase of the industrial base.

Time waits for no one, because it has already entered August, and Arthur does not want to wait for the second phase of the industrial base to be fully put into production before starting the third phase of the industrial base.

Fortunately, the second phase of the industrial base is far away from the planning of the third phase of construction, so there will be no interference between the two sides.

On August 9, 1913, after a cabinet meeting as usual, the Australasian government officially announced the start of the third phase of the Leonora Industrial Base.

The construction plan for the third phase of the Leonora Industrial Park is the largest and most expensive of the third phase of the industrial base.

According to the plan materials produced by the Ministry of Industry, the total construction area of the third phase of the industrial base is nearly 6,000 acres.

Among them, the construction area is 4,800 acres, and the greening, environment, drainage, environmental protection and road construction consume a total of 1,200 acres of land.

If you count the total area of the first, second and third phases of the industrial base, the entire Leonora industrial base will be a super large base covering an area of more than 10,000 acres.

According to the standards of the second phase of the industrial base, the third phase of the industrial base will have at least 400 standardized factory workshops and 50 large storage areas, which can meet the needs of at least 200 super-large factories and hundreds of small factories.

This also means that the third phase of the industrial base alone will be able to accommodate nearly 350,000 employees and create 350,000 jobs.

Combined, the entire Leonora industrial base will create more than 550,000 jobs in Australasia and bring immeasurable industrial growth and economic growth to Australasia.

Perhaps because the construction of the first two phases of the industrial base has given the Ministry of Industry full of experience, the design and planning of the third phase of the industrial base is going very smoothly.

On 15 August, the third phase of construction at the Leonora Industrial Base began after a large number of construction teams were mobilized from Sydney, Victoria and New South Wales.

As usual, Arthur attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the industrial site and expressed satisfaction with the construction and production of the first two phases of the industrial site.

Today's Leonora industrial base is well-known in Australasia and even abroad, and the start of the third phase has also attracted a lot of Australasian media.

"The construction of the third phase of the Leonora Industrial Base has officially begun, what is the exaggerated potential of the Ruhr area in Australasia?"

"With 500 standardized workshops and 100 large storage areas, what is the exaggerated scale of the Ruhr area in Australasia?"

With the official start of the construction of the Leonora Industrial Base, major newspapers and media have also published their own news, and they have tacitly chosen more eye-catching topics.

For the European people, the prosperity and development of Europe has been taken for granted. In their spare time, people are also happy to talk about things outside of Europe.

As one of the currently recognized powers, Australasia is already well-known in Europe.

Even with Australasia's own efforts, Oceania has become the first choice for European immigrants after the Americas.

And there are various news and reports about Australasia, which often attract many Europeans to watch and be curious.

They are always curious about new things, and it is not surprising that Europeans want to know about Australasia, a country thousands of miles away from each other.

In fact, if we talk about large cities alone, Australasia's development is not inferior to that of European countries.

The traffic lights, street lights, cars and modern facilities that can be found everywhere in Europe can also be seen in Australasia.

The buses of this era, the tram cable car, can also be seen in major cities in Australasia.

Even if Arthur looks at the current Sydney with the eyes of later generations, sometimes he can't help but have the illusion that Sydney is a modern city.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current development of Sydney is more developed and prosperous than the development of some cities in later generations.

With the addition of Tesla, electricity development in Australasia has spread to almost all cities, and is spreading to villages and towns further afield.

Electricity is no stranger to Australasian people, and has become one of the daily lighting methods that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Australasia.

It is worth mentioning that during the previous Australasian construction, Southeast Asian natives could be found almost everywhere and were common free labor in Australasia.

But so far, various large-scale constructions in Australasia have tried to replace the indigenous ones with their own people.

With the exception of some of the more dangerous jobs that are still indigenous, the rest of the more normal jobs have been carried out entirely by Australasian people.

This is inevitable, and with the development of time, sooner or later, the indigenous people of Australasia will be completely consumed, or all repatriated to Southeast Asia.

The fact that these people remain in Australasia is also a scourge, and if it is not dealt with sooner, it will be even more problematic in the future.

With the development of science and technology, some machinery has been able to gradually replace labor, or save a lot of labor needs.

Coupled with the fact that Australasia's population has been climbing and is already heading towards 13 million this year, the demand for labor is not so tight.

As a result, most of the indigenous people in Australasia have now been sent to the colonies and crown territories in the north.

The development of colonies and royal territories also needed these natives, who were far away and had a small population, and no one cared about exploiting them.

Admittedly, indigenous people have made no small contribution to the development of Australasia.

Australasia was able to develop so rapidly in the early stage, without oppressing the common people of Australasia in the slightest, and owe it to these aborigines.

According to incomplete statistics, from the establishment of the Principality of Australia to the current August 1913, a total of more than 2 million indigenous people have come to Australasia and made sufficient contributions to the development of the country.

At present, the only remaining indigenous people in Australasia do not exceed 300,000 at best.

Even with the more than 1 million Aborigines who were transported to the Northern Colonies and Crown Territories, there are less than 1.4 million Aborigines left in Australasia at most.

This also means that in more than ten years, nearly 800,000 indigenous people have died in Australasia, in exchange for the prosperity and development of Australasia.

In order to give back to these natives, Arthur deliberately transported these natives to the colony, and they ate meat that they had not seen for a long time, and the meat was the kind that Australasian people did not eat much, and could not be sold.

The construction of the Leonora industrial base this time used only a thousand indigenous people, and all of them are high-risk positions.

In addition, all the workers and technicians of the engineering team, including the experts who planned the construction of the industrial zone, were all Australasian themselves.

In addition to the Leonora industrial site, at the cabinet meeting, the government discussed plans for another major construction.

If you want to get rich, the phrase "build roads first" is common in all eras. Australasia's road construction is going well, and the states are now connected to all cities and large towns and villages, and some smaller villages are also connected by roads.

In terms of railways, after the Industrial Railway and the Northern Railway, the Ministry of Transport applied to start the next railway construction plan.

The first is Australasia proper, which is Australia.

The Northern Railway and Industrial Rail have already connected the Australian region around the island, followed by the railway connecting the major cities to the central part of the Australian region.

According to the plan of the transportation department, the next railway construction plan was named the Central Railway as a whole.

The Central Railway is divided into three sections, the first of which is located throughout Western Australia, starting from Esperance in Western Australia, connecting to the industrial railway to the north, and then to the Leonora industrial base to the north, followed by Mikasala, Newman, and Port Hedland.

The construction mileage of this part of the railway is not long, and the railway near the industrial site is already ready-made, so it is expected that the construction period will only take one and a half years.

The second part of the Central Railway, located in the true central part of the Australian region, connects Darwin, Bodham, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs and Takula from north to south, eventually still connecting to the Industrial Railway.

The third part of the Central Railway, which is actually about the rail connections of the four regions of Victoria, New South Wales and the Queensland Capital Territory.

All four of these regions are located in the eastern part of Australia and are also the most populous regions in Australia.

This part of the railway planning is more complicated, not only the railways between the four regions are connected to each other, but also within each administrative district, the railways also need to form a loop, which is convenient for the movement of people and economic exchanges.

This part of the railway can be divided into Queensland, Townsville, Huendon, Dajara, Jericho, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Charlville railway ring.

NSW's Newscar, Orange, Wolgt, Burke, Dilanande Rail Ring.

Victoria's, Melbourne's Geelong Obotst Rail Ring.

and the Circum-Sydney Railway Ring in the Capital Territory.

Each of the four major railway rings is connected to each other and can facilitate economic exchange and population movement in the region on a large scale.

If the construction of the three major parts of the Central Railway can be fully completed, the railway construction in Australia will be considered to be completed for the most part, basically meeting the transportation needs brought by the current population.

Of course, the three major parts of the Central Railway together are a more difficult construction plan than the Northern Railway and the Industrial Railway.

Because the estimated total mileage has exceeded 10,000 kilometers, the estimated construction period will be about ten years.

If the construction of the Central Railway is started, the transportation sector will be busy in the next ten years.

In addition, because of the large-scale construction of railways, the financial burden of the government will also increase, and the increase in government fiscal expenditure is inevitable.

But there's no way around it. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, this sentence is common at all times, and it is also the truth of national development.

Any construction and economic circulation requires a developed mode of transportation, and the construction of the Central Railway in Australasia is inevitable and necessary.

Fortunately, the government's finances are still in good shape, so Arthur agreed to the railway construction plan for the transport sector after some consideration.

Of course, as the saying goes, you can't eat a fat person in one bite. Although the construction plan of the Central Railway was agreed, this does not mean that the three parts of the Central Railway construction plan should be carried out at the same time.

For the construction of the Leonora Industrial Base, and also because the Leonora Industrial Base has a ready-made railway, and the construction is relatively smooth, under Arthur's order, the transportation department will first build the first part of the Central Railway, that is, the railway that runs through the Leonora Industrial Base.

When completed, the railway will be well connected to Western Australia and will allow the Leonora Industrial Base to quickly transport supplies from the Northern Railway and Industrial Railway.

According to the principle of priority of importance, after the construction of the first part is completed, the third part to be built is the most difficult and longest part.

The third part is located in the middle of the Australian region, which is the most populous and economically developed region in Australia and even the whole of Australasia, and it is also the most core area.

This section of the railway is far more important than the railway that runs through South Australia, and is an important target for the government's railway construction.

Once both parts of the railway have been completed, the Department of Transport will be able to consider South Australia's rail construction and then the entire Central Railway.

According to transport estimates, the construction of the entire Central Railway will take about ten years, and the capital required will start at least $50 million.

However, the good news is that this fund is not a one-time expense, but is slowly consumed over the course of more than ten years of construction along with the construction of the railway.

This means that the average annual government expenditure on railway construction is only about $5 million, which is well within the government's affordability.

You know, the increase in jobs brought about by the construction of the railway alone will allow the economy of Australasia to continue to grow.

At the national level, there is no loss in infrastructure construction, and the money spent will promote the country's economic growth in another way.

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