The Russian civil war has lasted for a long time now, and the armed intervention of the world alliance has made the Russian civil war the hottest news in recent times.

In Australasia, there was another person who paid more attention to the Russian Civil War than Arthur: Queen Mary from the Romanov family.

After a normal cabinet meeting, Arthur met Queen Mary, who had a slightly unnatural expression, and asked curiously, "Mary, is there anything to do with me?" ”

Under normal circumstances, Queen Mary would not disturb a meeting between Arthur and government officials.

What can make Queen Mary unconventional is definitely something unusual.

"Well, Arthur, how long will it be before our army reaches Russia?" Queen Mary asked with some concern.

"Hasn't the time of the World Alliance's armed intervention been announced? Our troops will have to wait at least two months for their arrival in Russia. Arthur smiled and took Queen Mary's hand, understanding Queen Mary's worries about her mother's family.

In fact, if Queen Mary wasn't worried about the situation in Russia at all, Arthur would have felt that something was wrong.

Although she has become the queen of Australasia, Russia is also the place where Mary has lived for more than a decade, not only her hometown, but also her relatives.

After hearing Arthur's answer, Queen Mary breathed a sigh of relief, and the sadness on her face dissipated most of it.

In fact, the civil war in Russia is really not an easy problem to solve. Even with the current armed intervention of the World Alliance, Arthur was not optimistic that it would be possible to completely end the civil war in Russia.

First of all, a peacefully united Russia must be a great power state, and it would have the strength to compete with the British Empire in Europe and Asia, which the British absolutely did not want to see.

The reason why the British were willing to intervene by force to help the Tsarist Empire was simply to see that Tsarist Russia could no longer resist the attack of Soviet Russia and wanted to find a balance between the two forces in Russia.

But if you really want to directly help the Tsarist Empire end this civil war, the British really don't have such a good heart.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the Russian civil war continues, European countries will continue to export various materials to Russia in exchange for gold reserves, mineral materials, and so on.

Tsarist Russia, because of the reparations of the defeated countries and the indemnities of the Americans for the flu, was in a much better financial position than it was in history.

This is also the reason why Tsarist Russia has been able to hold out until now and has not been defeated by Soviet Russia in the civil war.

However, no matter how strong the family is, it cannot withstand a long war, and the current crisis facing Tsarist Russia is not only financial.

Although Britain and France did provide aid to Russia, the scale of British and French aid is somewhat intriguing.

When Australasian aid did not arrive or had been consumed, British and French aid would arrive in droves to ensure that Nicholas II could hold on.

But if aid from Australasia or other countries had just been received by the Russian government, Britain and France would slow down the pace of aid to Russia, ensuring that Russia would not be too strong and that the civil war would continue.

Russia is now facing an embarrassing situation in which almost all the great powers want the Russian civil war to continue.

It can't be helped, the profits from the arms trade are too large, and the export of all kinds of materials has formed a huge chain of interests, allowing the capital of various countries to influence the government, thereby promoting the continuation of the Russian civil war.

If Britain and France had supported Tsarist Russia with all their might, the Russian Civil War could not have developed into what it is now.

You know, Soviet Russia was very poor at the beginning, and it simply could not afford to raise an army of up to a million.

Tsarist Russia had double reparations from the defeated countries and the United States, and the annual income from reparations alone was as high as tens of millions of pounds, and it had an overwhelming advantage in terms of funds.

But the difference between the two Russian governments was that the tsarist government represented the old powers, and the capitalist and aristocratic classes that supported the tsarist government were not so loyal.

But the working class that supported Soviet Russia was different, and under the influence of the Bolshevik Party, the whole of Soviet Russia was cohesively cohesive, which the tsarist government could not compare with at all.

Even though Nicholas II knew that the civil war in Russia had the result of the British and French laissez-faire, Nicholas II had nothing to do.

After all, if Tsarist Russia wants to win the civil war, it has to rely on the support of Britain and France, and the current Russia does not dare to offend Britain, France and Australasia at all.

As long as these countries cut off aid to Russia, this would be a fatal blow to Tsarist Russia, and it might even directly lead to the end of the Russian Civil War and the demise of the tsarist government.

Fortunately, the Romanovs have accumulated a lot of wealth in Russia for hundreds of years, and Nicholas II is not short of money for the time being, and he does not have to pull down his face to borrow from other countries.

Otherwise, it is difficult to say whether other countries are willing to lend to Russia, after all, it seems that the chances of Tsarist Russia winning the civil war are very slim at present.

Isn't lending to Tsarist Russia a disguised attempt to help Tsarist Russia win the war? Otherwise, if Tsarist Russia was defeated in the civil war, and the state simply did not exist, to whom should the borrowed loan be repaid?

Not to mention that Britain and France wanted to keep the Russian Civil War going, even Australasia and Arthur could not refuse the huge profits brought by the Russian Civil War.

Through the Russian Civil War and Nicholas II's trade, Australasia has acquired a large amount of mineral materials and gold reserves from Russia, even including the immigrant population, which are relatively valuable Russian possessions and have a great effect on Australasia.

Gold reserves, in particular, can make Australasia's Australian dollar stronger, which is of high strategic importance for Australasia.

Judging by the current situation in the United States, it is impossible for the dollar to become a global currency.

At present, in addition to the British Empire's British pound, there are also French francs, Australasian Australian dollars, American dollars, and so on.

However, there is a depreciation of both the franc and the dollar, especially the franc, whose value is no longer guaranteed because of the effects of the war.

The pound and the Australian dollar, which have not depreciated so much, should be the two strongest currencies in the world at the moment.

Although the Australian dollar was founded on the basis of the British pound, Arthur also had ambitions to take the Australian dollar global.

However, the scale of the Australian dollar issuance is not large, and in most cases it is only circulated in Australasia, which is the biggest problem facing the Australian dollar at present.

To solve this problem, we have to have more gold reserves in order to print more currency and really push the Australian dollar towards globalization.

Speaking of the globalization of the Australian dollar, next year's National Day also marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Australasia, and Arthur will not only hold a grand military parade, but even plan to reform the currency.

At that time, the Australian dollar was promulgated more for the country to have its own currency, and in many ways it copied the British pound, which also led to a lot of overlap with the British pound.

Arthur plans to turn the Australian dollar into a truly independent currency, pegged only to gold, and increase the influence of the Australian dollar around the world.

At the same time, a certain amount of commemorative currency was issued to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the founding of the kingdom, and a number of corresponding events were enacted.

In late September 1919, Arthur met with Albert Einstein, Honorary President of the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences, and Tesla, Honorary Vice President, and inquired about the recent scientific research work of the Royal Academy.

The Royal Academy of Sciences is still developing very rapidly, with the Victoria Award to attract talents to Australasia, which has also led to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Australasia attracting many famous physicists and chemists from Europe and the United States.

To date, the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences has more than 500 people.

Don't underestimate the scale of these more than 500 people, these 500 people are all famous scientists, and the worst ones have considerable experience and reputation in their own industries, and there is no problem at all to say that they are intercontinental.

For the sake of these more than 500 people, Arthur has to invest up to 20 million Australian dollars in research funds to the Royal Academy of Sciences every year, with an average research fund of 40,000 Australian dollars per person, which is enough to show Arthur's attitude towards scientific research.

Of course, some of the Royal Academy's large-scale research projects cost a little money, which also leads to the fact that the research fund is only a little more than 20,000 yuan per person, but it is definitely a lot.

You know, the Royal Academy of Sciences and the universities of Australasia have cooperated, and not only these more than 500 people participated in the research project, but also many professors and students of the university, so to speak, the entire Australasia has basically participated in the higher talents.

Arthur has never been stingy with research funds from the Royal Academy of Sciences, as long as he is not deliberately wasted, even if it exceeds the budget, Arthur does not care too much.

At present, the main technical direction of the Royal Academy of Sciences is the research and development of power transmission and transformation technology, which is also related to the development of the Australasian electricity industry and the progress of Australasian civil and industrial electricity.

Secondly, the Royal Academy of Sciences is also working on new elements in physics. This is largely the responsibility of physicists, who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on research.

In addition, rocket and missile research and development, nuclear exploration, crude oil and mineral material exploration technology, smelting technology improvement, train power and braking system research and development improvement, chemical field, bioengineering and other technologies are also within the scope of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Last year, the Royal Academy of Sciences conducted more than 400 studies, with an average cost of $50,000 per research project, which is definitely not a small number.

Based on the current per capita income in Australasia, the research funding for each project is enough for an Australasian to work for more than 800 years without food or drink, which is a very exaggerated figure.

As you can see, the research of the Royal Academy of Sciences covers both civilian and military fields, as well as practical and theoretical research.

Among them, Albert Einstein is responsible for the exploration of the nuclear field, while Tesla is responsible for the power transmission and transformation project in the current field.

Basically, every large-scale project will have a sufficient number of technical personnel to take charge of the main research and development, and there will be a large number of well-known experts and university professors to support the work.

And the participation of those college students can also improve the knowledge level of college students, and they can learn some knowledge in such a large-scale research.

For Arthur, these students are the next generation of Australasian technologists to train them in advance. It's also good for Australasia.

When the youth is strong, the country is strong, this sentence is not just talking. Only when the knowledge level of these university students meets the needs of Australasia's development will the country's development be steady, not stagnant.

Basically, every university student will get the opportunity to go to the laboratory for internship and study, but it depends on the number of opportunities.

Generally speaking, there are not a few college students who make progress in such internships and study opportunities, but it is not without college students who are messing around.

Arthur didn't have the luxury of cultivating all college students into top talents, after all, the country also needs some low-end talents, doesn't it?

Of all the research projects of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arthur attaches more importance to research in the nuclear field and missile and rocket projects.

As the most powerful weapons in later generations, as well as the most powerful conventional weapons, nuclear weapons and missiles, there is no doubt about their external deterrent power, and they are definitely a country's hole cards.

As long as these two weapons are possessed, the advantage of manpower is no longer an advantage, and the defect of manpower is no longer a defect.

Of course, this is only on the war side. Manpower is still very helpful for economic and social development, after all, a country with a small number of people will be a little more difficult to develop than a country with a large number of people.

Nuclear weapons are undoubtedly powerful, and as a forbidden weapon that can easily cause hundreds of thousands or even millions of casualties, they have only been used a few times in later generations, and they are all aimed at the same country.

But the achievements of these nuclear weapons have already made all countries in the world crazy, and the major powers are even more desperate to study nuclear weapons.

The research of missiles and rockets is also very important for the development of the country. Under the premise that nuclear weapons cannot be used, missiles have become a country's most powerful weapon, and at the same time, they are also one of the carriers of nuclear weapons.

Later generations carried nuclear weapons in a variety of ways, including aircraft, warships, submarines, missiles, and so on.

If you want to say that the most powerful deterrent should be submarines and missiles.

Because submarines have good concealment, they can cause devastating strikes by surprise, and nuclear submarines are also one of the main directions of submarine development in later generations.

ICBMs allow the range of nuclear weapons to cover the whole world, and also greatly increase the influence of countries that possess nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

After all, this is really a superweapon that can cover the whole world without going out, and not many countries in the world will be able to control it in 100 years.

Speaking of which, we have to sigh again about the promotion of science and technology by war.

Before World War I, technology was developing very slowly. World War I directly made airplanes and tanks the most advanced weapons, and World War II not only developed more advanced aircraft and tanks, but also missiles and nuclear weapons.

During the subsequent Cold War confrontation, space shuttles, manned rockets, nuclear-powered submarines, the moon landing that mankind has dreamed of for thousands of years have been realized, which was unimaginable to mankind a few decades ago.

If there were no two world wars, even if human science and technology would still have progressed, it would definitely not be as exaggerated as later generations.

In order not to lag behind other countries, the investment of various countries in military science and technology is huge, and it is even an important reason for dragging down countries in war.

Among other things, the tens of billions of dollars a year spent by the European powers, especially Britain, France, and Germany in World War I, are beyond the reach of Australasia now.

However, it is also clear to see the damage of such a huge cost to these countries, which is why Australasia is currently able to surpass France in terms of industry.

Even if it were not for the huge disparity in population, there would probably not be a clear answer as to whether Australasia would be stronger or weaker than France's.

Tomorrow will resume two more 6,000 words, ask for a monthly pass, ask for support!

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