Speaking of the current system of royal guards and guards, it is actually a bit complicated and repetitive.

In general, the royal guards are responsible for the security of the royal palace, and the guards are responsible for the safety of the royal family.

With the construction of the new palace, the number of guards and guards has also been expanded, and there are now 3,600 and 1,200 respectively.

Because the guards and guards are in charge of different areas, such a special scene can also be seen during Arthur's travels, and there are a certain number of guards and guards to follow.

If you include the Guards Division guarding the security of the capital, there are three armed forces responsible for protecting the security of the royal family, some of which are too complicated.

In Arthur's plan, the royal guards and squires would eventually merge into a team dedicated to the safety of the palace and the members of the royal family.

However, due to the tight schedule, the integration of guards and guards will not be carried out until the future, about before the new capital is built.

After the travel work is almost ready, Arthur also has to make certain arrangements for the government's work in advance.

For some major events, it is still necessary to contact the government at any time, after all, Arthur is the one who handles major affairs.

In addition, all other affairs of the country are handled by the government, and the Prime Minister of Kent is fully responsible, and Arthur is still very relieved.

Moreover, there is also a Guards Division to protect the safety of the capital, and in case of any emergency, Arthur can return to Sydney at any time.

In order to ensure Arthur's safety, Arthur's travel routes are never announced to the public, and even most of the travel routes are decided on an ad hoc basis.

After departing from Sydney, the whole group took a special train to Melbourne and then west to inspect the industrial base of Australasia.

As the second largest city in Australasia, Melbourne is still very well-known at home and abroad.

Among the targets of Arthur's many inspections was Melbourne, and Arthur was still very familiar with this already huge city.

Melbourne is located in the southern part of Victoria, and like Sydney, it is also a coastal city.

This is also characteristic of countries such as Australasia, including Adelaide, the capital of other states, Perth, Newcastle, etc., all of which are coastal cities with ports of a certain size.

The cities of Melbourne and Sydney, like the twin stars of Australasia, have played an important role in the entire history of Australia.

Before the formation of the Principality of Australia, the two cities were comparable in size and development, and both became the largest cities in Australia.

However, after the establishment of the Principality, Sydney's development has more advantages than Melbourne, and it has now surpassed Melbourne by a large margin.

However, both cities are megacities in Australasia, with populations of more than 2 million and Sydney already approaching 3 million.

This is actually a unique phenomenon in Australasia. Australasia has a large majority of the population in regional Australia and more than half of Australia's population in the southeast.

The south-east is home to more than half of the population in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and the areas in which they are located.

Although Arthur's itinerary has not been announced, there is no information on where he will go.

But the King's procession was so conspicuous that it soon attracted the attention of a large number of Australasian people, and attracted thousands of onlookers and cheers.

Arthur also decided not to hide any more, waved to the people, and went to inspect the port in front of the people.

Arthur was accompanied by the Premier of Victoria, the Mayor of Melbourne and a large number of government officials.

As one of the largest cities in Australasia, Melbourne's port naturally attracts a large number of ships to berth, and the port's cargo throughput ranks second in Australasia, and it looks very prosperous and spectacular.

Although Sydney is the capital of Australasia, the government has taken a fair approach to the development of both cities, encouraging each city to develop on its own terms.

Of course, in addition to the constant flow of cargo ships, Melbourne's port is also frequented by a large number of cruise ships and foreign tourists.

As one of the most economically developed cities in Australasia, Melbourne not only attracts foreign immigrants, but also attracts a large number of foreign tourists.

It is worth mentioning that compared with the port of Sydney, the port of Melbourne is more commercial, with few warships coming and going, and more civilian cargo ships and cruise ships.

From the perspective of a commercial port alone, the Port of Melbourne is larger than the Port of Sydney.

Arthur really didn't have a good suggestion for the development of the port. After all, these government officials are professional, and Arthur just grasps the direction.

This is actually the most appropriate structure for a government. If the monarch needs to do everything in any direction, then the development of the country is not destined to be much better.

This is also Arthur's cleverness, although he has great power in his hands, professional things should be handed over to professional people, and not pointing fingers is the best support for these professionals.

Of course, although these officials were given great power, Arthur would also be responsible for controlling the final result.

Those who do not do well naturally have no political achievements, and it is unlikely that they will continue to be promoted. For those who are corrupt, there is also the intelligence services and the House of Representatives to supervise.

Because the purpose of going out was to go out and the inspection was only secondary, Arthur did not go to the Melbourne City Council, but asked the Premier of Victoria and the Mayor of Melbourne a few questions at a private dinner.

The current Premier of Victoria is Georg Philippe Lugendas, a native of Australasia.

Arthur clearly trusted native Australasian people more than immigrants, which allowed more Governor Georg to rise to high positions.

"Governor Georg, are there any problems with Victoria in the current development?" After dinner, he looked at the two people who were very reserved on the side, and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, there are no big problems with Victoria's current development for the time being. If I had to talk about the problem, the recent influx of foreign workers from abroad has made some people very unhappy, believing that they are crowding out Australasian jobs. After hearing Arthur's inquiry, Governor Georg did not dare to hesitate or conceal it in the slightest, and replied.

"Foreign workers? How many people are there? Arthur asked, frowning.

Unlike those who want to immigrate but have not yet acquired a nationality, most foreign workers do not want to immigrate, but simply want to find high-income jobs in Australasia, earn a decent income and return to their home country.

Compared to the native Australasian people and immigrants, this foreign migrant worker is of course an outsider, and this issue naturally needs to be dealt with.

"The number of foreign workers has been on the rise in recent years. Victoria's current situation is not bad, but the size of the foreign migrant population is close to 50,000. Governor Georg continued.

Victoria's economy is definitely among the best compared to other Australasian states.

Coupled with the popularity of the capital Melbourne, it naturally attracts a large number of foreign migrant workers to come in search of job opportunities.

These people don't have a high level of recognition of Australasia compared to people who come to Australasia through immigration agencies, they recognise the high-paying jobs in Australasia and the tempting Australian dollars that come to them every month.

Arthur nodded. The size of 50,000 people is indeed not large, and for Victoria's population of more than 3 million, 50,000 foreign workers is only a small part, and it is still within the controllable range for the time being.

"What are the jobs that most of these foreign migrant workers do? Will it really have an impact on the jobs of nationals? Arthur asked the most crucial question.

Generally speaking, these foreigners who do not have Australasian citizenship will definitely have fewer job opportunities in Australasia than Australasian natives.

If most of the jobs of Australasian people are those easy high-income jobs, then the foreigners should mostly be more tiring middle-income jobs, and the impact on the jobs of native Australasian people should not be too great, at least the work expectations of the two groups of people are two levels.

Of these foreign workers, 31 percent are from Europe and the United States, 4 percent are from Africa (white people in the colonies are not black, and blacks are not welcome), and the remaining 65 percent are from Asia. According to intelligence held by the state government, most of them work in low- and moderate-income jobs, but about 20% of them work in high-paying jobs such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers. Governor Georg said.

This is not far from Arthur's prediction, after all, most of the people who can come to Australasia to find work cannot find a good job in the place where they originally lived, so they are destined to work only in low- and moderate-income jobs.

"These people aren't making trouble in the country, are they?" The safety of expatriates is always a concern, and these people do not have a high level of recognition of the state and are more likely to be involved in things that endanger national security.

"Not for the time being, Your Majesty." Governor Georg replied.

"In that case, we will not deal with these foreign workers for the time being. For some highly educated foreign workers who are engaged in more important positions, they should be wooed if they can be wooed, so that they can join the Australasian nationality. For example, talents in the education and medical industries can be given certain preferential treatment, and their families can be provided with free ferry tickets to Australasia, etc. As long as they do not support actions that endanger Australasia's national security, we will not exclude these foreign workers. Arthur said with a smile.

Overall, these foreign workers do not have much of an impact on the work of Australasian nationals.

Because Australasian labour law has long been stipulated, only Australasian citizens can enjoy the highest minimum wage.

Not having Australasian citizenship means that the minimum wage is lower than that of other Australasian people.

In addition, the government has regulations for all businesses in Australasia, and the size of Australasian citizens must account for more than 70% of the total number of employees, which is also destined to prevent companies from hiring a large number of non-Australasian employees.

In such a situation, it is difficult for migrant workers to have an impact on the working environment of Australasian people.

A considerable number of these people are engaged in occupations that Australasian people look down on, which is still helpful for enriching the Australasian vocational system.

While these people earn a portion of their income, they also generate greater economic growth in Australasia.

What's more, the life and consumption of these people in Australasia are all contributing to the economic growth of Australasia, which is completely a profitable deal.

In fact, this problem is not limited to Australasia, but also to migrant countries such as the United States.

The U.S. approach is simple: when these foreign workers are needed, they are an important guarantee for U.S. economic growth.

In the event of an economic crisis, or a conflict breaks out between U.S. citizens and these non-U.S. nationals, these people are quickly abandoned and become illegal immigrants, and at best they are deported, and at least they are simply left behind.

After talking to Governor Georg, it was Melbourne's mayor, George Nugent Temple, Grenville.

However, Melbourne's development is actually not too much of a problem, except for the high attractiveness, which is easy to attract foreign immigrants to make Melbourne's city continue to expand, and there seems to be no major problem that needs to be reported to Arthur.

That's the trick to reporting problems. Although Arthur asked to report the problems in the city's development and discuss solutions.

But the question is, if any minor problem needs to be escalated to Arthur to solve, then what else do these governors and mayors do?

The issues that can be reported to Arthur must be the ones that these governors and mayors cannot decide on their own, at least to the extent that they are reported to the cabinet government.

If Arthur needed to control even the construction of a building in Melbourne, then the country would not need to develop at all, because Arthur would not be able to handle many things at all.

After a meeting with Governor Georg and Mayor George, Arthur went to the Royal Dockyards of Melbourne to inspect the progress of the construction of the Royal Dockyards of Melbourne.

The Royal Shipyard of Melbourne was actually a colonial shipyard during the Victorian colonial period, and it was not large in scale, only capable of building warships of about 1,000 tons.

After being acquired and expanded by the Royal Dockyards, it has now become a major shipyard capable of building 20,000-ton ships, and is responsible for a considerable part of the Australasian naval construction.

Of course, 20,000 tons of warships are definitely not the ultimate goal of Australasia. While naval limitation treaties are inevitable, there must also be limits on the total tonnage of national navies.

However, there is no guarantee of how long this treaty will govern the countries, and Arthur's action to build a navy is absolutely impossible to be bound by a treaty.

According to the next phase of the Royal Dockyard's goals, the Royal Shipyard in Sydney will be expanded into a 50,000-ton super-large shipyard, and the Melbourne Shipyard and the Orland Manufacturing Shipyard will also be expanded into a large shipyard of about 30,000 tons.

Of course, it is naturally impossible to start the expansion of the shipyard at the moment. At a time when all countries were negotiating a proper treaty of naval limitations, Australasia's open-minded expansion of the naval shipyard was a blatant slap in the face of the British.

When I arrived at the Royal Shipyard in Melbourne, the head of the shipyard and a group of technical experts had been waiting for a long time.

Arthur mainly visited the shipyard's construction workshop and the design of the drawings.

During a visit to the Royal Dockyards in Melbourne, Arthur received a piece of good news about a new warship designed by the Australasian Navy.

The drawings for the new warship were jointly designed by the warship designers of the Royal Shipyard in Melbourne and are not officially named for the time being, while his design is codenamed R107.

Australasia's most advanced battleship designer, the Hope class battleship, is equipped with no more than a 15-inch 45-diameter main gun, which is far behind the world trend.

Previously, because Australasia attached great importance to the research of aircraft carriers, it only focused on the research and development of new battleships, and did not have any plans to build them.

The new battleship, designated R107, was the result of the union of three royal shipyards in Australasia.

Speaking of this battleship, it is also necessary to mention the cooperation of Australasia and the British Empire in the previously strengthened naval construction.

Thanks to friendly relations with the British Empire and close cooperation between the two countries, Australasia has acquired the technology from the British Empire's 16-inch 45-diameter triple gun, and is even already researching the 18-inch gun on its own.

Of course, 18-inch artillery is not realistic at present, and the mainstream ship-based artillery of various countries is 16-inch.

Even in the future, with the limitations of naval treaties, it is difficult to say whether the size of the shipborne artillery can be maintained at 16 inches, let alone the extremely spanning and terrifying 18-inch guns.

The R107 battleship, with reference to the latest British warship design and Australasia's existing shipbuilding experience, is comprehensively designed as follows:

Length: 217 meters; Width: 32.5 meters, draft: 9.2 meters.

The standard displacement is about 32,000 to 33,000 tons, and the full load displacement is 37,000 to 38,000 tons.

The power plant uses eight drum tube oil-fired boilers with steam superheaters and four steam turbines, with a power capacity of about 46,000 horsepower and a speed of nearly 23.5 knots.

The R107 battleship is capable of carrying more than 2,750 tons of fuel and has a maximum endurance of 15,000 nautical miles at a speed of 12 knots.

How scary is the concept of 15,000 nautical miles? It is equivalent to 27,800 kilometers, and the circumference of the earth is only about 40,000 kilometers.

In addition to the three triple-mounted 16-inch guns, the R107 battleship had six six-inch secondary guns in two batteries.

Because of the threat of aircraft to warships, the R107 battleship also added six single-mounted 120-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, four twin-mounted 100-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, six eight-pack 40-mm guns and 47 27-mm guns.

Such anti-aircraft firepower can be called excellent, and it is quite enough to deal with the less advanced aircraft of other countries.

If it is paired with an aircraft carrier, such a battleship can be called invincible, which is one of the most advanced battleship designs in the world.

Of course, Australasia was able to have such a battleship design, and the help and technical support of the British was important.

Perhaps the British saw the importance of Australasia's geographical location and the possibility of Australasia blocking the Americans, so they decided to strengthen Australasia's naval strength as much as possible, so that Australasia would have the capital to counter the United States.

In addition to the above anti-aircraft weapons, the R107 also has two 620mm torpedo tubes to deal with the threat of submarines under the surface.

The entire battleship is expected to carry 1,360 naval soldiers, and the size and weight of the battleship are currently the largest warships in Australasia, and the targets are also the most advanced warships in other countries.

Such a warship was designed with reference to the opinion of the British. In fact, the design of this warship has many similarities with the design of the British.

Based on the lessons of the Battle of Jutland, Britain made certain improvements to its shipbuilding concept.

This kind of effective improvement Australasia will naturally not be excluded, and it is good at learning the advanced ideas and concepts of various countries, so that a country can become stronger better.

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