Chapter 631: Representatives of various countries arrive
Although the shipbuilding plan has been determined, the construction of aircraft carriers will not be until the beginning of next year at the earliest.
After all, it will take some time for the allocation of funds, the availability of personnel, and the real start of construction, and it is not said that aircraft carriers can be built.
More important than the construction of aircraft carriers awaited Arthur's oversight: the preparation of a military parade for the 20th anniversary of the founding of Australasia.
Of course, the founding of the Principality of Australia began with the founding of the Kingdom of Australasia, more than 25 years to be exact.
A clear difference can also be seen from this point, the Australasian country and the royal family are relatively close.
The establishment of the Kingdom of Australasia was due to Arthur, and the existence of a king in this country also ensured the status of the royal family in disguise.
In other words, only the presence of the royal family can guarantee the unified status of Australasia. Once the royal family is gone, the colonies and regions such as New Zealand will naturally no longer be subordinate to Australia.
In the past 20 years, the country has experienced too much, and it has grown from a less powerful country to a great power with enough power to speak.
In particular, under the premise that the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China is missed, the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China has become extremely important, not only for the royal family and the people to celebrate, but also to strengthen the cohesion between the country and the nation.
In order to show the importance of this military parade, Australasia's navy, land and air force will be dispatched, and foreign troops will also be invited to participate in the parade.
At present, the diplomatic department has invited a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the Philippines, El Salvador and the newly formed United Sultanate of Kalimantan, to participate in the parade.
There is no doubt that the British are still very face-saving. On the same day that they received an invitation from the Australasian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the British agreed to the offer to participate in the parade together, and said that they would send a military to the parade to review it.
At the same time, King George V of the United Kingdom will attend a military parade in Australasia to commemorate the special relationship between Australasia and the United Kingdom, and to make an official diplomatic visit to Australasia.
Arthur certainly welcomes this. Even if the British are not allies of Australasia, he is currently the most powerful country in the world, and there is no need for Arthur to refute the face of the British.
The countries that will also participate in the Australasian military parade include Finland, Greece, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and other countries, which also invisibly increases the scale of this military parade, which is definitely a rare event.
With the participation of so many countries, in order to demonstrate the strength of the Australasian army, the Australasian military parade also awarded the most elite troops, the Guards, the third generation of military aircraft will also be unveiled, aircraft carriers, battleships are dispatched together, to show the true strength of Australasia.
Speaking of aircraft, the development of aircraft in various countries in the world is still relatively rapid.
Although it started behind Australasia and the same period in history, it has also developed for nearly a decade, and the aircraft level of various countries has developed to more than the second generation of Australasian military aircraft, and even some of the more powerful countries have developed powerful aircraft similar to the third generation of Australasian military aircraft.
Arthur took out the third-generation military aircraft at this time, naturally to demonstrate the military strength of Australasia, saying that Australasia would not lag behind in terms of aircraft.
While countries are rushing to Australasia, Australasia's National Day ceremony is also being anxiously prepared.
The good news is that the new palace, which has been under construction for almost six years, has been completed, which means that the palace's huge square can be used, and the size of the National Day ceremony can be increased from 100,000 to more than 600,000.
During the six years of construction, the transportation construction of Fort St. Arthur has been completed, and it is relatively convenient for Australasian people to travel to Fort St. Arthur.
After this National Day ceremony, the relocation of the capital of Australasia will also be put on the agenda. With the government and royal palace in place and the power system in place, Fort St. Arthur was ready to be the new capital, awaiting the relocation of Arthur and the government.
This National Day ceremony is also to make Fort St. Arthur famous, to avoid the embarrassing reality that people only know Sydney and don't know Fort St. Arthur after the capital is moved.
In fact, this is also inevitable, Sydney has long been a huge city with a population of more than 3 million, and Fort St. Arthur's current population is only more than 200,000, just in terms of the size of the city is only a small city, can not be compared with Sydney.
If it weren't for the fact that the development of the Murray River Plain was too important to Australasia, Australasia's capital would have been more likely to be by the sea than inland.
After all, Australasia is not a purely continental country, but also has overseas lands including New Zealand, New Guinea and many other territories and colonies, and it is important to consider the interests of these overseas lands.
The relocation of the capital from Sydney to Fort St Arthur also increases the distance these overseas lands have to reach the capital, which leads to a weakening of local control over these overseas territories.
Thankfully, Australasia isn't too far away from these overseas territories either. Otherwise, Arthur would not have dared to move the capital from the sea to the interior.
In the last month of 1925, all of Australasia's troops participating in the parade went through a rigorous training phase to ensure that they could not make mistakes during the parade.
In order to maintain order during the National Day celebration, the government specially mobilized thousands of police forces from other states to maintain order at Fort St. Arthur.
Although it is a city with a population of only 200,000, by the time the National Day ceremony begins, the city's population is destined to exceed one million.
Although they were only a short-lived population, they were also a danger to the security of Fort St. Arthur.
Even if clashes don't break out, the stampede and congestion caused by too dense crowds are likely to make this National Day ceremony less than good.
In order to put an end to this situation, when the National Day ceremony begins, several more professional medical teams will be stationed near the new palace, ready to rescue the wounded at any time.
Even though ambulances are now poorly equipped, Arthur is equipped with hundreds of ambulances to ensure that the wounded can be transported to the hospital faster at any time.
While the government was preparing for the handover, the military parade of foreign guests invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and some friendly countries also arrived in Sydney to prepare for the transfer from Sydney to Fort St. Arthur.
Although Arthur was busy, he approached representatives of a number of countries, such as the United Kingdom, Finland, the Philippines, El Salvador, and many others.
Because George V intends to make a diplomatic visit to Australasia, this also leads to the person in charge of the team this time is George V, which can be said to have given Australasia enough face.
Arthur, of course, did not refute George V, not only went to the port to greet him personally, but also specially prepared a grand welcome banquet for George V and his party, and cordially invited them to live in the palace.
Archduke Dmitry of Finland also has this face, after all, he is Queen Mary's own brother, and he can be regarded as Arthur's own person.
As for the rest of El Salvador, the president of the Philippines, Arthur naturally could not go to greet them personally, but just let the diplomatic department greet them, and then take them to meet Arthur.
The presidents of El Salvador and the Philippines are very knowledgeable, and Manuel even compliments Arthur very much, just to fight for more power and status in the Philippines.
This is also the benefit of a balanced policy. As long as Manuel does not have complete control over the Philippines, he must rely on Arthur's support to maintain his power and position.
As long as Manuel asks for Arthur, he can easily be controlled by Arthur. As long as the president of the Philippines can be controlled, it is equivalent to Arthur controlling the Philippines in disguise.
The same is true of El Salvador. Although Arthur did not pursue a balancing policy in El Salvador, the country's population and land area were destined to pose no threat to Australasia, let alone resist Australasian rule alone.
The problem was that El Salvador's neighbors were already largely controlled by the British, and it was impossible for El Salvador to resist Australasian rule under the premise of a close alliance between Britain and Australasia.
Fortunately, the rule of Australasia did not have too many excessive requirements, even the number of troops stationed was small, and it was more of a diplomatic and economic influence.
This is what Arthur has always pursued, and Arthur prefers to use diplomatic or economic control to control a country by force.
Not only will this make it difficult for the enemy to resist, but it will also have a subtle impact on international fame.
As an ally of Australasia and the most powerful country in the world, Britain's reception of King George V Arthur also gave enough face.
After going to Fort St. Arthur, he took George V to visit Fort St. Arthur and the construction of the new royal palace, and also introduced Australasia's grand plan for the development of the Murray River Basin, and said with a smile that Australasia's territorial expansion will basically not happen again, because the development of the Murray River Basin alone has exhausted Australasia.
Arthur's purpose in saying this was naturally to reassure George V. The British attracted a lot of firepower for Australasia in Europe, and Arthur was able to lay out the development of Australasia with peace of mind.
At the same time, only by reassuring the British can Australasia develop with peace of mind.
Britain is still important to Australasia, and Arthur not only wants to maintain his alliance with the British, but also wants the British to focus on Europe and other regions as much as possible, ignoring Australasia's current strength.
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