After the Cabinet meeting, the various departments in Australasia began to be busy, preparing for the respective tasks of the departments mentioned in the four-year plan, and also accumulating achievements for themselves.

The development of Australasia in the past ten years has been relatively smooth, the country's construction has been very effective, and each cabinet government has accumulated a lot of achievements.

But that being said, this also means that the requirements for each cabinet government have become stricter.

With the past and the present going so well, if there is any mistake in the work of the ministers, it will be in stark contrast to the performance of each previous government, and even if the mistake itself is not serious, it will be magnified many times by this contrast.

This kind of truth is equivalent to the famous theory of putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot.

When a good person does a bad thing, because it is too different from his previous behavior, it will be magnified many times, and the good person will become a bad person.

If a bad guy does a good deed, it will also be magnified because of the big difference from the previous behavior, and the bad guy will become a good person.

In the absence of the fault of every previous Australasian government, the first to do so will be blamed for an unprecedented amount of blame.

However, the current Australasian government has Arthur's control, and it is still difficult to go wrong.

After all, the general direction of the government's development has been determined, and no matter how much the government's thinking is out of the way, it can only make small-scale adjustments on the basis of the general direction, which is harmless to the entire development plan, and it is destined not to have much impact.

Speaking of the work of the Australasian government, Arthur attaches the most importance to the adjustment of the Ministry of Defense on the division of the garrison.

After the Ministry of National Defense is restructured, there will be checks and balances with the power of the General Staff Department under it. It will take some time to verify whether such checks and balances are beneficial to the country's development.

However, the good news is that there is still room for trial and error in Australasia, with Arthur's control, and the war is still far away, it is completely possible to test the system suitable for Australasia.

With the Ministry of Defence responsible for the expansion of the army, the General Staff was not idle, opening a discussion about the division of the Australasian army garrison.

Australasia was so large that it was destined to be divided into several military districts.

In the past, Australasia was divided into the mainland and colonies, and most of the main army was on the mainland, and the colonies were stationed with colonial troops and garrisons.

And now the General Staff has decided to adopt a more advanced division of military districts. Each military region has its own headquarters and a general staff, and all have the deployment of the navy, land and air force to ensure the combat effectiveness of a single military region.

The first to be determined was naturally the local military district.

The home military district included only Australia, and the garrison was: 1-5 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, 1 artillery division, and tank division, with a total of 135,000 men.

In addition to the local military districts, there are also a large number of overseas military districts, namely:

New Zealand Military Region: 32,000 men in the 6th-7th Infantry Divisions.

Pacific Military Region: Contains two Pacific territories, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and New Caledonia, and has 8 infantry divisions with a total of 16,000 troops.

New Guinea Military Region: It includes the entire colony of New Guinea, with 9 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions stationed with a total of 31,000 personnel.

Northern Military Region: Includes Sulawesi, the Crown and Timor, with 10 infantry divisions stationed there, totaling 16,000 men.

Persian Gulf Military Region: It includes the entire Persian Gulf Territory, with 11-12 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions, and 2 artillery divisions stationed, totaling 55,000 people.

As a result, the whole of Australasia was divided into six military regions, each with its own headquarters and staff, and each had the configuration of the navy, army and air force.

Of course, it is not possible to have a large-scale naval presence in every military district. In fact, there are only three naval districts with naval stationing, the Pacific Military District, and the Persian Gulf Military District, and the others only have some small patrol teams, the number of ships is not too large, and the tonnage is about 1,000 tons.

As for the Air Force, this is where each military district is stationed, and each military district has a significant number of air forces.

Although Arthur has no plans to equip aircraft on a large scale, the number of existing aircraft in Australasia has also exceeded 1,500, and Arthur naturally unceremoniously equipped all of them to the military region.

Of course, some of the aircraft are all equipped in the home military district because of the inconvenience of exposure.

The remaining 500 or so first- and second-generation military aircraft, with an average of 100 planes stationed in each military region, can be regarded as having a certain degree of air defense and air combat capability.

The objectives of the six military regions are different, but some meanings can be seen from the ratio of the navy, army, and air force.

First of all, the Pacific Military District, which has a large number of navies, has a large number of Pacific islands, and in addition to the United States in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, it is necessary to have a certain number of navies.

Needless to say, the Persian Gulf Military Region is the most important oil-producing area in Australasia, and its economic value is even incalculable, so Australasia naturally cannot afford to lose this area.

The last to have a large naval presence was the Home Military District.

The Home Military Region is responsible for the defence of the core of Australasia and also protects the coast of Australasia.

For any country, the defense of the mainland is the most important, and it is inevitable that the mainland has the largest number of navy, land and air forces.

The Pacific Military Region is responsible for the Pacific Ocean, the Persian Gulf Military Region is responsible for the Indian Ocean, and the Home Military Region is responsible for the surrounding territorial waters.

Splitting the large number of troops into military districts would also facilitate management between each military region.

If nothing else, when each military region is deployed, the commander of the military region will most likely have the rank of lieutenant general, so as to ensure that the commander of the military region has command authority over the division commanders of each division.

Of course, the rank of chief of staff of the military region is slightly lower, and there is a high probability that it will be around a major general.

In order to maintain the distinction from the commander of the military district, the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff of the General Staff were also raised to the rank of general.

This is also the benefit that the expansion of the army has brought to many officers, and with the increase in the number of senior officer positions, the promotion of some people is also inevitable.

The Minister of Defence and the Chief of the General Staff, as the two highest-ranking figures in Australasia (second only to Arthur's named General-in-Chief), their ranks naturally had to be raised accordingly.

Speaking of Arthur's rank of general-in-chief of the three armies, it is really not just a name in a special period.

As the generalissimo of the three armies in Australasia and the allegiance of the army, Arthur has the right to control the power of the army at special times, and at any time, whether it is the Ministry of Defense or the General Staff, their grand plans must be approved by Arthur.

This is also the power constraint that Arthur brought to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff as a monarch.

Although Arthur usually does not interfere with the operation of the army, with the sword of supreme power in his hands, he does not have to worry about the military overthrowing the monarch like Germany.

The reason why Wilhelm II was overshadowed was because the Junker aristocracy in Germany was too large and had too long a history.

Even if it still did not break out, the Junker aristocracy controlled all aspects of Germany and had already become a huge power in Germany.

And Australasia naturally has no such troubles. But in the future, many people will be born who will become nobles because of their military exploits, and these new nobles will also be firmly in Arthur's hands.

Without Arthur, the new nobility of Australasia would not have been recognized by other countries, and the new nobility would have no power.

This is completely different from the traditional aristocracy in Europe, and it is also a trade-off for Australasia to avoid the aristocracy becoming bigger and stronger.

Without Arthur's support, it would have been impossible for these new aristocrats to grow into a huge class.

If they want to gain a steady stream of power, they must rely on Arthur's rule.

This is also good for Arthur, after all, with more people to support him, Arthur's royal power will be more stable.

With the development of aircraft, it is possible to find that airplanes have become very common in Australasia.

Of course, the popularization here does not refer to the popularization of the people, but the popularization of the army and the government.

In particular, the spread of aircraft to all major military regions has made it inevitable that airports will be established frequently among them.

This is also a good thing for Australasia, after all, airplanes can indeed speed up exchanges between armies, and the current safety performance of airplanes has been guaranteed, at least the air crash rate has been reduced to a very low level, and there are basically no accidents.

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