The news of the Russian civil war immediately squeezed the front page headlines of European and American countries. War is a big news at all times, especially the civil war of a great power country, which will not only cause the media everywhere to rush to report, but also be taken seriously by major countries.

It is no exaggeration to say that the civil war in Russia is closely related to the interests of many countries. First of all, Russia and Australasia have very close ties, and the millions of immigrants sent by Russia to Australasia every year determined that Arthur would not sit idly by and watch the Russian civil war.

If the Workers' League won the civil war, Arthur would not have dared to accept even if the Workers' Union wanted to continue to honor the immigration treaties.

Just kidding, the brainwashed Russian people will definitely transmit revolution in Australasia, which is absolutely undesirable and must be prevented by Arthur.

Second, a republican Russia is not in Australasia's interest. During the reign of Nicholas II, he was able to ensure that Russia was a close ally of Australasia.

But if power in Russia were controlled by the workers' union, the new Russia would only be an adversary to Australasia.

In addition, Britain, which has disputes with Russia in some areas, is also closely watching Russia's development.

France, which has an alliance with Russia, also attaches great importance to the Russian civil war, and together with Russia's two allies, Germany and Austria-Hungary, there are as many as five major powers that have closely followed the development of the situation in Russia.

Theoretically, the vast majority of countries, including Britain and Australasia, supported Tsarist Russia under Nicholas II.

Unlike the previous bourgeois government, Soviet Russia, formed by the workers' union, was a completely new form of government, which would have had a huge impact on the traditional state.

Historically, after the establishment of Soviet Russia, European countries formed coalition armies to eliminate the new country.

But now the situation has changed, but the British Empire does have the idea of forcibly extinguishing this regime.

Soon after the Russian Civil War, the representatives of the British Empire stressed at the weekly meeting of the World League that the World League should have the responsibility to protect the world situation and world peace.

But the current situation is much better than it was historically, and the Workers' Union was significantly weaker than Tsarist Russia controlled by Nicholas II, rather than the bourgeois government and Nicholas II having no resistance, as in history.

Although countries are very concerned about the civil war in Russia, the countries of the world, which have just been ravaged by the flu, are obviously unable to gather millions of troops to attack the newly established Soviet Russia.

The major delegates had to consider the interests of their respective countries, and naturally it was impossible for them to nod their heads and agree to send troops because of a remark from the British delegates.

The British delegates were helpless, because it was impossible for Britain alone to send troops to Russia.

The British delegates could only change their request for troops to ask for aid to Tsarist Russia, controlled by Nicholas II, and to free the Russian people from the bitterness of the civil war.

Tsarist Russia, controlled by Nicholas II, was called the real Russian power by the British representatives, and Soviet Russia, which had recently been established in Moscow, was called an evil rebel regime by the British representatives.

Although countries are reluctant to send troops to Russia, it is still okay to provide some assistance to Russia.

Romania, especially close to Russia, and Serbia, which had been hugging Russia's thighs, agreed to provide aid to Tsarist Russia in its fight against the evil Soviet Russian regime.

The panic of these countries is not unreasonable, and if Nicholas II loses the Russian Civil War, it may be Russia's neighbors who will face the Russian Revolution.

Even defeated countries like Germany and Austria-Hungary could not escape at all, especially Austria-Hungary, where the contradictions between the imperial government and the government of the Kingdom of Hungary were already so obvious that any accident could lead to the collapse of this ancient empire.

The good news is that the current disparity in strength in the Russian civil war is still quite wide. Although large swathes of the south-east have been occupied by the Workers' Union, the Workers' Union has not yet exceeded 500,000 men.

On the other hand, Tsarist Russia in the north successfully received the troops of the previous Russian government, coupled with the weapons and equipment prepared by Nicholas II, the number of troops soon exceeded 500,000, and even moved towards one million.

Even without the help of other countries, Tsarist Russia could have spent some time with Soviet Russia.

After all, Britain's attitude was unequivocally in favor of Tsarist Russia, which also meant that the reparations paid by Germany and Austria-Hungary to Russia would basically be received by Tsarist Russia.

The imbalance between the finances of the nascent Soviet Russian regime and the tsarist regime controlled by Nicholas II was the greatest factor limiting the strength of the workers' union.

It takes a lot of money to buy supplies in any era and strengthen your strength. Soviet Russia, which had just been established, was poor and white, and most countries did not have a high opinion of the nascent regime, and even directly refused to trade with Soviet Russia under the leadership of Britain.

In fact, Nicholas II's letter for help soon reached the World League and European countries, and Australasia was no exception.

In order to win the civil war and bring the rule of the Romanovs back to all Russian territories, Nicholas II made a huge order for more than 1.5 million rifles, 500 million rounds of ammunition, 2,000 machine guns and 1,500 artillery pieces from Australasia.

At the same time, Nicholas II was also interested in Australasian tanks, as well as aircraft, which were among Nicholas II's military orders.

In order to distribute supplies to the population at home, Nicholas II had already spent a considerable part of the German reparations, and the Russian government was not in a good financial position.

For this reason, Nicholas II directly took out the gold that the Tsar family had stored for a long time, and used the real gold to trade with Australasia.

In addition to weapons and equipment, Nicholas II ordered large quantities of food and medical supplies from European countries to distribute to the population at home.

After previous setbacks, Nicholas II understood the importance of gaining the hearts and minds of the people.

But not completely reborn, but it was clear that Nicholas II had the support of the population on the surface.

Even if some of the supplies are distributed to the people for free, the cost is not destined to be too much. But such an act can greatly win the favor of the people, which is still very important for the stability of one's own rule.

In the face of such a formidable enemy as Soviet Russia, Nicholas II could be said to have done everything.

Arthur decisively agreed to Nicholas II's request to purchase weapons and equipment, after all, a Russia ruled by the Tsar was also in Australasia's interests.

But Arthur's attention was not entirely focused on the Russian side, after all, the development of Australasia in the new year was also important.

The first was the construction of a railway in the Persian Gulf Territory.

It was clear that Australasian construction companies could not meet all the construction needs in the country, so foreign construction companies were invited to tender in order to smoothly get the railway in the Persian Gulf Territory into construction.

As you can see from the map, the Persian Gulf Territory of Australasia is a long, narrow stretch of the Persian Gulf coast.

Although only one coastal railway from south to north needs to be built, the distance of this railway is not short, and even more than 1,000 kilometers have been estimated by the transportation department.

The need to build this railway, in addition to meeting the transportation requirements of the Persian Gulf Territory from south to north, is also to mobilize the troops of the Persian Gulf Territory more quickly.

After all, it is a land far from the mainland of Australasia, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will always be peaceful, and the guarantee of transportation capacity is very important.

The 1,000-kilometre rail is expected to cost $25 million and take about three to five years to build.

The main reason is that there are more deserts in this area and it is hotter, otherwise the investment cost and cycle can be reduced.

In the end, this section of the railway was taken by the British railway company, after all, the current industrial level is not only Germany, Arthur believes in Britain the most.

Moreover, Britain is currently the most important ally of Australasia, and there is nothing wrong with giving the British a face.

I believe that the British will not have problems with the quality of the project, after all, the quality of the project is clearly written in the contract, and the British government will not sit idly by and watch their credibility collapse.

The second foreign contracted railway is the Ring Island Railway in New Guinea. The Ring Road on the island of New Guinea is actually half complete, which is the area previously controlled by Australasia.

As for the area controlled by Germany and the Netherlands, it is the area to be built around the island this time, a section of ultra-long railway with a total length of nearly 4,000 kilometers.

Yes, the total length of the Ring Road on the island of New Guinea alone is about 4,000 kilometers.

While this may seem incredible, it makes sense when you think of New Guinea as the second largest island in the world.

The island is rich in water and minerals, and is the most important area in Arthur's plan outside of Australia and New Zealand.

The island is an important source of water resources for Australasia and is at the heart of Arthur's plan to divert water from the north to the south.

It is no exaggeration to say that this island can bring new hope to the Australian region, even more so than New Zealand.

It will also be the first of all the colonies and territories in Australasia to be directly under the direct jurisdiction of Australasia, and when it has enough settlers and size, it will become the new state of Australasia.

Of course, as a single state, the area is too large. The best outcome would be to divide it into 2 or 3 states and join Australasian domination.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the huge administrative division of the Australian region.

It is no exaggeration to say that Australia alone has more land area than most countries in the world.

But as a whole of Australia, it is divided into seven administrative divisions: Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Capital Territory.

This is a bit of an unreasonable division, with the largest Western Australia accounting for more than a third of Australia, and the smaller Capital Territory and Tasmania being only a tenth of Western Australia.

For such an extremely large land, Arthur's ideal administrative division was to divide it into at least ten administrative regions.

Among them, the three administrative regions of New South Wales and Victoria in the southeast and the capital territory should be divided into at least five administrative regions, after all, this is the most populous region in Australia, and even accommodates more than half of the population of Australasia.

The New Guinea Ring Railway, a railway of more than 4,000 kilometers, will be built at least 2,000 kilometers of railways, excluding some of the previous railways in Australia and New Guinea.

For the construction of this section of the railway, Arthur most hopes that the private railway company in Australasia will undertake it.

As early as when Australia was a colony, there were many private railway companies in Australia, but the scale was not large.

After more than a decade of development, some medium-sized railway companies have indeed emerged, but without exception, they are not qualified to contract this section of the railway alone.

In the end, the 2,000-kilometer-long railway was contracted by more than a dozen railway companies in sections, and the average length of railways built by each railway company did not exceed 200 kilometers.

Although there are many railway companies that have built them, Australasia's transport department has clear specifications for New Guinea's Loop Railway, and there is no need to worry about the different specifications of the railways built by these railway companies.

This is also a way to support the private railway companies in Australasia and help these small private private railway companies to develop better, provided that the railways they build meet the specifications and quality requirements.

Compared with other countries abroad, the development prospects of private enterprises in Australasia are relatively good.

For a variety of reasons, Australasia was neither affected by World War I nor the flu, and its economy was relatively stable.

In the midst of the flu, the United States has bankrupted at least tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is quite exaggerated in number and scale.

While Australasia has also had a number of small and medium-sized insolvencies, the government's timely measures have reduced the number of insolvencies to less than triple digits.

In the final analysis, because of Arthur's precautionary measures, the epidemic did not affect the important cities of Australasia, and they were basically isolated from the port.

Even in large cities like Sydney and Melbourne, more than half a year has passed since the discovery of the flu, and the total number of people infected with the flu in the two cities has not exceeded 1,000.

Except for these two regions, which require new railways, the railways built in other areas are not large, and the railway companies under the royal consortium are responsible for it.

The royal consortium has grown into a very large behemoth, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rich country.

However, there is also a good point, that is, the annual revenue of the royal consortium to the government is even greater than that of Victoria and New South Wales, which are more populous.

The royal consortium is very strict about the payment of taxes, and even some taxes that could have been avoided will be paid in full under Arthur's orders.

In fact, this is equivalent to the left hand to the right hand, and the large amount of taxes paid to the government by the royal consortium are basically used in the development of the country.

The strength of the royal consortium is a good thing for Arthur, and the strength of Australasia is even more good for Arthur.

Moreover, a considerable number of enterprises of the royal consortium are also jointly operated with the government, including the newly established Royal Oil Company, which is the result of the joint funding of the royal consortium and the government.

This also allows the government to have more taxes and revenues, and government officials naturally have no complaints about the huge royal consortium.

The attitude of the people towards the royal consortium is basically supportive. After all, the treatment and benefits of employees in all the companies of the royal consortium are the best in Australia, not only strictly implementing the eight-hour working day and double pay on holidays, but also giving out gifts and materials for free during holidays.

In addition, Arthur will take a considerable part of the income of the Wang Consortium every year and transfer it to the name of the Royal Relief Committee to help all low-income people and orphans, widows and elderly people in Australasia.

Most of Australasia's nursing homes and orphanages are funded by the Royal Relief Committee and are free of charge for orphans and widows in Australasia.

Although life in these nursing homes and orphanages is not destined to be too good, it can be regarded as having food, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and no worries about food and clothing.

It is precisely because of the large amount of money that Arthur spends on the people every year that the people will not have any dissatisfaction with the royal consortium that is making money every day.

After all, a considerable part of the income of the royal consortium is also directly returned to the people, which is much better than those greedy capitalists.

In fact, if you think about it, Australasia's pensions, free distribution of materials, orphanages, nursing homes, education subsidies and scholarships, medical subsidies and exemptions, relief for low-income people and other policies are completely inseparable from the efforts of the royal consortium.

With the huge amount of tens of millions of Australian dollars that the royal consortium gives back to the people every year, the evaluation of the royal consortium in the public will definitely not be low.

In addition to large-scale construction in the country, Arthur also intends to make further upgrades with education and health care in the country.

The first is the Australasian education system. After more than ten years of development, education in Australasia is actually quite successful.

The per capita education level has been raised to junior high school or above, and the number of college students is no longer the pitiful number that was small in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In terms of education, the number of universities and technical schools in Australasia needs to be further strengthened.

As the population increases, it is also necessary to increase the number of universities. In particular, after the re-division of Australasia, each new administrative region must have a university, which is also the most basic guarantee.

In addition to increasing the number of universities, it is also necessary to improve the international status of universities.

The best solution at the moment is to invest more in universities, hire more professors and experts from Europe, and build more high-precision laboratories.

Large investment in education is inevitable, after all, education is the foundation of a strong country.

One more today, 5,000 words, be lazy, ask for support!

(End of chapter)