Nearly three years have passed since the end of World War I, but the hidden dangers brought by World War I to countries around the world have not yet ended.

The biggest headache for European countries is the placement of soldiers who participated in World War I. Take Britain and France, for example, who called up millions of soldiers in the war, who lost their jobs in an instant after the war and did not receive any pensions.

These people have greatly increased the unemployment rate in Britain and France, and are also a security risk to the British and French governments and society.

This is not a small number, and the number of soldiers participating in the war in various countries is generally in the hundreds of thousands or even millions, and one carelessness can lead to serious demonstrations and crises.

This is also one of the better points of Australasia, because most of the soldiers are made up of indigenous people, and only a small severance pay is required.

The remaining Australasian soldiers do not need to be dismantled at all, and even have to be expanded on a certain scale, and there is no risk of unemployment at all.

Coupled with the various constructions underway in the country, Australasia's unemployment rate has become one of the lowest among the powers and one of the most desirable places for immigrants.

On the other hand, the unemployment rate in Britain and France has been less controllable, and the millions of soldiers who have been forcibly discharged from the army, coupled with the reduction of unemployed workers in the military industry, have made the number of unemployed in Britain and France as high as millions.

A large number of unemployed people have undermined social order and stability, and many people have gradually moved towards the road of breaking the law and committing crimes, which has also increased the crime rate in Britain and France in disguise.

Even the United States, thousands of miles away, has not been able to avoid it. Although the size of the U.S. military in World War I was modest, it also reduced hundreds of thousands of troops after the war.

Coupled with the infamy of the flu period, the US economy has suffered significant losses.

Under all these influences, the unemployment rate in the United States has also risen, and the unemployment crisis has begun to affect the whole world.

Although it seems that the industry and economy of various countries are recovering, the hidden dangers behind it have proven that this is only the last afterglow before the economic collapse.

If Arthur's estimate is correct, the world will still have an economic crisis, and it is destined to affect the whole world.

Judging from the current performance of the major victorious countries, basically no country can escape the economic crisis, not even Australasia.

However, if you prepare in advance, it will only affect the trade volume of imports and exports, and the impact on the country can be controlled.

Although the economic crisis is still too far away, the recession of the economies of various countries is already visible to the naked eye.

It is only the two exceptions of Australasia and the United States that the world economy looks better

In fact, the European economy has declined much more than it was six years ago, and at least one-third of Europeans are in a state of underfed and clothed.

This was unthinkable before World War I. Europe before the First World War has always been synonymous with development and prosperity, not to mention that there is no food and clothing, and in the eyes of other backward regions, Europeans are rich and only eat good.

But as it stands, Germany and Russia together have a population of about 200 million people suffering from a huge food crisis, and the other victorious countries also have a very serious unemployment crisis, and the recession in Europe is visible to the naked eye.

The impact of the economic crisis is one-linked, and in addition to the impact on various industries and enterprises, it will also create a large number of unemployed people and increase the financial burden on the government.

In an economic crisis, food reserves are an important part. Arthur's expectation for Australasia is naturally to achieve self-sufficiency in food at all times, and to be a large country with abundant products, rather than a food importer.

At the end of April 1920, Arthur again boarded a special car and went to the vicinity of Fort St. Arthur to inspect the development of the Murray River Plain.

As mentioned earlier, the Murray River Basin Plain is home to millions of square kilometers of land, so it's no surprise that the city of Arthurburg is not the only one left in this area.

The purpose of Arthur's visit was not Fort St. Arthur's visit, but another nearby city, Barranade.

Barranard is located along the Murray River, about a hundred kilometers east of Fort St. Arthur.

Barranade was a grain reserve city in the new capital, Fort St. Arthur. In other words, it was destined to be an agricultural city, and its main purpose was to develop agriculture and serve as a food supply for the capital, Fort St. Arthur.

Why is it here? As you can see from the map, the hundreds of kilometres of land around Barranade are all extensive plains, and there is no shortage of land and water just along the Murray River.

As a pilot city for the development of the Murray River Basin, Barranard embodies the efforts of the Australasian government, and must be developed successfully, and it must be developed perfectly.

After determining the geographical location of Fort St. Arthur, Barranade was actually developed earlier than Fort St. Atherburg.

After the construction of the railroad was completed, the government brought in a large number of tractors, installed the climbing pears and began to reclaim land, and tens of thousands of acres of land have been reclaimed.

Barranade, which now has more than 1,000 inhabitants, will be fully automated in its entirety, aiming to produce more food with less manpower and even meet the needs of most of the country in the future.

Food production is entirely dependent on water, and the good news is that Barranade and nearby farming areas have little shortage of water because of the Murray River.

However, just in case, it is necessary to build a water storage area in the vicinity so that there is enough water for agriculture at all times.

Looking at the grand occasion of Barranade's agricultural reclamation, Arthur was still very satisfied.

The flat plains allow tractors to flourish here, and also to better automate agricultural production.

Both Australasia and the United States are very similar to Europe, and naturally have a high urbanization rate.

Especially in a country like this, where the per capita land area is vast, it is natural that the vastness of farms and the rapid spread of automated agricultural production have also led to this.

Automated production in agriculture has never been a new term in Europe and the United States. As early as 1830, the Americans invented the first harvester, which provided great help for the development of agriculture.

After nearly a hundred years of development, harvesters have become quite important for the production of agriculture in Europe and the United States, and the mechanization of agricultural production is far greater than manpower, which also liberates a considerable amount of human resources for European and American countries.

Agricultural production in Australasia has also been based on mechanization, which is known as producing more food with less manpower.

Whether it is a tractor or a harvester, as long as it can be used, it is naturally much better than using a lot of manpower for planting and harvesting.

When the Murray River basin was developed, it was determined that agricultural production in the region must be mechanized and eventually fully automated.

It is not yet known what this million-square-kilometer plain can bring to Australasia, and it may be the breadbasket of Australasia in the future, supplying most of the country's food consumption.

Speaking of the development of Barranade, it is still inseparable from the shadow of the royal consortium.

Of course, the current agriculture and animal husbandry industry is managed by the United Group, which is responsible for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry in Australasia, with a large number of farms and pastures, and is currently the largest agricultural and animal husbandry giant in Australasia.

With the technical and human support of the United Group, the agricultural development of Barranade is still very smooth.

In order to attract more immigrants to live in Barranade, the Australasian government has also opened up the relevant policy, providing the residents of Barranade with relevant agricultural technology for free, and renting tractors and harvesters cheaply.

It is expected that it will take another five years for the official capital to be moved to Fort Saint-Arthur, which is also more than enough time for the development of Barranade.

By the time it was relocated to Fort St. Arthur in the future, Barranade would have produced at least enough food for Fort St. Arthur's consumption.

In addition to Barranade, there is also a city called Berry in the lower reaches of the Murray River basin.

Barranade was mainly agricultural, while Berry was mainly industrial.

From Berry, follow the Murray River for dozens of kilometers to the coastline. Coupled with the proximity to Adelaide, the railways and roads are still quite developed.

With such an innate advantage, Berry is very suitable for industrial development, and the related Berry Industrial Area is also under construction.

Although the total size is not as large as the Leonora Industrial Park, the complete Berry Industrial Zone is capable of providing at least hundreds of thousands of jobs and accommodating thousands of large and small factories.

The Leonora Industrial Base is mostly heavy and chemical, while the Berry Industrial Area focuses on light industry, making up for some of Australasia's shortcomings in light industry.

The Leonora Industrial Base and the Berry Industrial Base are one west and one east, one heavy industry and one light industry, which can just support half of the Australasian industry.

Thanks to the experience of building the Leonora Industrial Base, it was fairly straightforward to build a smaller Berry Industrial Zone.

The construction here will also provide more jobs in Australasia, which can be regarded as paving the way for the economic crisis that follows.

Anyway, there is still a lot of infrastructure in Australasia, and even if the economic crisis breaks out, it is completely possible to rely on a large amount of infrastructure to provide for the unemployed group to have a job and support their families through cash-for-work.

For the sake of Australasia's ecological environment, Arthur still put forward relevant requirements when building these industrial zones.

First of all, the problem of industrial discharge, the sewage in industrial production must be purified before it can be discharged into the river, which is a must.

Sewage equipment is a must be considered in the construction of industrial parks, at least not to have a huge impact on the ecological environment.

At the same time, air emissions are also a top priority. Arthur didn't want the new capital to become the famous fog capital like London. Not to mention the damage to physical health, even the reputation is not so good.

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