The war has continued to this day, and anyone with a discerning eye can already see that the war has come to an end. But the question is, how exactly the war will end, which is not so certain.

If we carefully study the history of the countries of the First World War, we can find that the First World War was a civil war between European royal families, and even more so between German nobles.

Why?

First of all, all the great powers involved in the war, with the exception of the Republic of France and Italy, had royal families from the German region.

Needless to say, the British royal family and the Australasian royal family are members of the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha family.

The Romanov royal family of Russia came from Germany, and the Habsburg dynasty of Austria-Hungary also came from Germany, but they were squeezed out by the Kingdom of Prussia and eventually became the Austrian Empire on its own.

In addition to the royal families of various countries, there are a considerable number of German nobles in England, and there are also a considerable number of English nobles in Germany.

The complex marriage relationship between the royal families has allowed the royal families to form an inseparable blood network.

Therefore, this war can also be seen as an internal conflict between European monarchs, which not only greatly weakened the strength of European royal families, but even caused a large number of European nobles to lose their actual territory.

Even the British Empire, which seems to have a very stable royal position, is even at risk of becoming a republic if it were not for the great power of the royalists.

Therefore, the sooner this world war ends, the less internal friction there will be between European royal families.

A stronger monarchy would not hurt Arthur, and would even ensure that Arthur's throne would be more stable.

Because of this, ending the war as soon as possible has become what Arthur is looking forward to.

But Australasia also has many problems to resolve before the war can be ended.

The first is Australasia's rapidly developing military and manufacturing industries during the war.

Before the outbreak of the war, Australasia employed just over 20,000 people in the military industry, and this is because the war is about to break out, and the military industry has already undergone a considerable expansion of employees.

At present, the number of employees in the military industry is at least more than 100,000, and the industrial output value has expanded fivefold compared with 1913 and tripled compared with 1914.

The placement of these military industry employees after the war is a problem, and Australasia obviously does not need such a large military industry after the war, at least to reduce to at least one-fifth of the current size, otherwise it will face the problem of overcapacity in the military industry.

In addition to the military industry, the expansion of manufacturing in Australasia is also a problem. The war in Europe created a large number of manufacturing orders for Australasia, allowing many of Australasia's private factories to earn enough money and allowing Australasia to produce far more manufacturing capacity than the local population needed.

In an exaggerated figure, Australasia exports nearly 2 million military uniforms to Europe every year, but the Australasian army needs less than 500,000 per year.

You know, this is still the demand for military uniforms after the great expansion of the army. If it had been before the war, Australasia would have produced enough uniforms per year to meet the needs of the army for ten years.

At present, the most urgent task is to gradually reduce the production values of the arms industry and manufacturing industry to a reasonable range, so as to avoid the bankruptcy of these enterprises.

In order to obtain larger orders, some factories can be said to purchase production lines by smashing pots and selling iron.

If the production value is easily reduced, it is easy for some factories that sell iron to buy production lines face a debt crisis.

But if production is not reduced now, these factories will face a financial crisis after the war is overcapacity.

After careful consideration, under Arthur's instructions, the Australasian government decided to reduce production in advance of the entire industry, encouraging factories to modify production lines and reduce the production of military products and daily necessities.

But it's not without good news. By the end of the war with the Dutch, Australasia had largely mastered the entire Dutch East Indies.

The region, which is home to tens of millions of people, will be one of the dumping grounds for Australasian products, which consume a portion of the manufactured goods for Australasia.

Coupled with the material consumption brought about by the growth of the domestic population, the number and scale of factories that need to reduce production are also acceptable.

The government will provide subsidies to factories that need to reduce production to ensure that the vast majority of factories will not close down due to production cuts.

This can be regarded as saving Australasia's hard-won industry, and the money can be obtained from the reparations of the Allies anyway.

A closer look at the land that Australasia acquired for this war basically met the needs of Australasia to become a superpower.

After acquiring land in the Middle East, Australasia has no defects in mineral resources, and can become an extremely developed country with mineral resources alone.

On the home side, the northern Australasian defensive island chain is fully developed to defend against attacks from the island nations to the north and the United States to the east.

With an excellent army and a strong navy, Australasia can proudly claim that Australasia has no risk of being breached until nuclear bombs and missiles are invented.

As long as the war is over, the tone of Australasia will change back to developing domestic, governing the great desert within Australasia while developing the newly acquired colonies.

If it can attract a large number of talents from Germany, obtain a large number of industrial equipment, and digest these territories, it can be said that Australasia already has the strength of the top powers, and can wrestle with such powers as Britain, France and the United States.

Government officials are busy holding meetings and researching information every day in order to better govern these areas.

Arthur also vaguely put forward the idea of moving the capital at a cabinet meeting some time ago, and many matters such as inspecting the location of the new capital and researching public opinion also gave the government a headache.

It's just that, as the top decision-maker of the government, Arthur naturally won't be busy with these things himself.

For Arthur, he only needs to control the macro tone of things, and the micro details are left to these cabinet ministers and their subordinates.

If the development of a country requires the king to work tirelessly and meticulously manipulate in all aspects, then the development of the country will not last long, and it is likely that it will only prosper for one generation.

For Arthur, he has one more important task, which is to educate his three children.

Yes, Queen Mary gave birth to Arthur's second son more than a year ago, who Arthur named Peter.

Peter was only a year old now, so he didn't need much education. Arthur's eldest son, William, and daughter, Anna, are both in their early sevens, and it is time for a good education.

In order to exercise William's administrative skills more practically, Arthur decided to hand over the development of the Middle East to William.

Although William was only seven years old, he had undergone a relatively strict elite aristocratic education, and he looked like a little adult.

Of course, if this were the case, Arthur would not have handed over such a large territory along the Persian Gulf coast to William.

Another important reason is that Arthur did not intend to vigorously exploit the oil of the Persian Gulf coast until he had exchanged more territory from the Persian Gulf coast.

This also means that the development of the territory along the Persian Gulf coast is not very strong, and with the assistance of officials appointed by Arthur, it is safe to hand it over to William.

It's not a setback for William, anyway, the population of the Persian Gulf coast is not large, just look at what William has learned in the past few years of elite aristocratic education.

Anyway, the garrison on the Persian Gulf coast is not under William's management, and even if William Jr. makes a lot of trouble, it will not affect Australasia's rule in this region.

As for the lives and deaths of the indigenous populations of the Persian Gulf coast, Arthur does not care, and other countries do not care.

When Arthur first decided to hand over the Persian Gulf coast to William, the excitement in the little guy's eyes was palpable.

Obviously, managing a large territory alone is hugely attractive to a boy.

Arthur also asked William what he would do first when he took charge of the territory, and the answer was military administration plus enslavement of the natives.

Such an answer is properly hawkish, but Arthur feels that there is nothing wrong with it.

Because of the impact of this world war, the hawkish main war ideas of various countries are constantly increasing.

After all, before the end of the war, a large number of civilians were bewitched by the governments of various countries, but they only knew how to serve the country, and did not know the threat of death brought to them by serving the country.

When the war ended, people were surprised to find that most of their friends and relatives had died because of the war, and the damage of the war was truly reflected in everyone's lives.

For Arthur, there is nothing wrong with William Jr. being hawkish-minded, but also scoring against who hawks.

It doesn't matter if there are too many local aborigines in Australasia's territory, it is easy to be tempted by future republics like the United States to plan independence within Australasia's territory.

Rather than this, it would be better to settle these indigenous people in advance, when these occupied colonies and lands all become legal territories inhabited by Australasian people in perpetuity.

A striking example of this is Königsberg, the land of East Prussia occupied by the Russians after World War II.

Königsberg was once the capital of Prussia, but was occupied by the Russians after the surrender of Germany in World War II.

Otherwise, in order to better defend this land, a large-scale relocation plan was launched, all Germans from a land were expelled to West Germany, and a large number of Russians were immigrated to live in this land.

As a result, this homeland of the Germans became the land inhabited by the majority of Russians, and thus became the legitimate territory of the Russians.

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