In the end, the shipbuilding plan, which consisted of two battleships and nine aircraft carriers, was approved.

After all, 50 million Australian dollars is not a big expense for the current government, and it has to be paid over 2 to 3 years, which is even more nothing.

If this can make the country's naval strength go further, such a deal is definitely a good deal, and the cabinet ministers will not be unreasonable.

Minister Mellen was also worried about the reduction of the funding of his own security department, but when Arthur said that the funds for the construction of the ships would be transferred directly from the treasury and not diverted from the budgets of other departments, Minister Mellen no longer objected.

With the addition of these two battleships and nine aircraft carriers, Australasia's naval strength can reach a new level, reaching the third naval power after Britain and the United States.

Of course, compared with other naval powers, Australasia's naval establishment is more extreme, aircraft carriers are the real main warships, and the status and number of battleships have been reduced to the next level.

Although this may seem strange, after all, the naval construction of other countries is still dominated by battleships, and the design of aircraft carriers, which is modified from battleships and destroyers, is only used as an auxiliary.

But if you have seen the advanced aircraft design of Australasia, you can actually understand the intention of using aircraft carriers as the main warship.

The technology of aircraft carriers mastered by Australasia now, if combined with radar, can actually crush battleships.

The range of attack of a battleship is the range of the main guns, and the range of attack of an aircraft carrier is the flight range of the aircraft on board.

Radar also ensures that aircraft carriers can detect battleships before they enter the range of the battleship, and such a technological gap has proven that aircraft carriers are more effective in combat than battleships.

While it will take some time for aircraft carriers to become more important than battleships in history, in the current Australasia, the development of jet aircraft has brought this time much earlier.

Except for Australasia, which attaches special importance to the development of aircraft carriers, other countries, even the United Kingdom, which was the first to develop aircraft carriers, do not attach so much importance to aircraft carriers.

Although Britain's current aircraft carriers have made progress compared with more than 10 years ago, because of the limitations of aircraft technology, the British feel that the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers will not exceed that of battleships, and battleships are still the most powerful warships in the world.

Although they also understood the design of Australasia's previous Giant-class aircraft carriers, the lack of Australasian aircraft technology made them mistakenly believe that Australasia-designed aircraft carriers were also inferior to the most powerful battleships.

This is also the biggest misunderstanding that the British have entered, because of the misunderstanding of the development of warships caused by aircraft technology.

But there is no way to do this, after all, it is the capabilities of the aircraft that determine the real combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier.

Even if it is a state-of-the-art aircraft carrier, the aircraft carried are decades old, it is still not as advanced as the aircraft carrier of decades ago.

Of course, the premise of this is that the aircraft carrier can withstand the take-off and landing of more advanced aircraft, after all, if the aircraft cannot even take off and land, then it can only be pretended.

In the final months of 1926, including this naval shipbuilding program, Australasia was epitomized by a variety of non-stop construction and engineering.

This also made Australasia the most envied country in the second half of 1926, and attracted a large number of immigrants.

The Australasian Government was also able to successfully estimate the total population of Australasia by early 1927 by registering immigrants and births and deaths in 1926.

This brings us to the current population registration system. Despite the development of technology, Australasia is still unable to accurately reduce demographics to single digits.

In fact, this is not possible in all countries at present, because there is no system for real-time population statistics, and countries often report population data in 10,000 units, with a maximum of two decimal places.

However, this does not prevent Australasia's demographic data from being impressive. At the beginning of 1926, the total population of Australasia was only 29.76 million.

Just one year later, in early 1927, the total population of Australasia had risen to 32.47 million, a net increase of more than 2.71 million.

This is an exaggerated figure for population growth, and it is definitely among the best in the world.

It is precisely because of this scale of population growth that the total population of Australasia has jumped to about 32.5 million, and it is no longer the small country with a population of several million.

Australasia has about 251,000 deaths, which means that the total population growth is close to 3 million.

Of the total population growth of 2.961 million, the native newborn population contributed less than one-sixth of the total population growth, about 432,000.

The remaining nearly 2.53 million are all immigrants from Europe and the Americas, which shows the impact of the economic crisis on these countries.

The 2.53 million immigrants are broken down into 1.47 million British immigrants, of which 37% are from the United States, 55% from the United Kingdom, and less than 8% from other regions.

Since then, the number of Russian immigrants has reached 432,000, and more than ninety percent of Russian immigrants have come from Tsarist Russia.

Nearly 10 percent of the remaining immigrants, or 247,000 people, are immigrants from the United States. That doesn't mean there are fewer people coming to Australasia from the United States.

In fact, these people can already be regarded as native Americans, although their ancestors were also immigrants from Britain or other countries, but after dozens of hundreds of years of development, they can already be collectively called Americans.

The addition of a large number of British immigrants has not only made the population of Australasia skyrocket, but also made the proportion of British immigrants still high at more than 59%, which is a relatively good level.

I just don't know what Prime Minister Baldwin will think, Australasia did sell a large amount of grain and meat at cost price to the UK, but the UK also lost more than 800,000 people, compared to Australasia still earned.

And that's only because the migration operation lasted only four months. The following year was even more difficult for the British government, because they could not stop the unemployed British from coming to Australasia, and they could not stop the capitalists from dumping large quantities of food and milk on rivers and lakes because they could not make money.

This also created a spectacle, a small lake outside London that would have been a scenic spot, but the water had already tasted of milk after the capitalists dumped milk in large quantities.

Walking around the lake, in addition to the smell of milk, you can also smell the stench of moldy and rotten food in the lake.

Of course, if you have a better eye, you can actually see a few corpses floating in the lake.

These people smelled the milk in the lake, saw the food in the lake, and thought that they would not starve to death at last, so they threw themselves into the middle of the lake.

But the capitalists will not let them succeed, and these refugees have only one end, to be forced to drown in this milky lake.

The biggest news about the population boom is that there is no shortage of people for Australasia's infrastructure.

The 2.53 million immigrants created a workforce of nearly one million that immediately moved into Australasia's infrastructure sector and kept the number of unemployed at a low level.

The construction of railways and roads and other infrastructure projects has been accelerated by the continuous influx of these laborers, and the country's development has been booming without being affected by the economic crisis.

Because of this, the economy of Australasia has maintained its original size, neither declining nor growing, despite the fact that the economies of the world have generally fallen sharply due to the economic crisis.

In fact, this is normal, although the economic crisis has caused both imports and exports to shrink, but the large-scale infrastructure construction has ushered in economic growth.

Under the increase and decrease, the economy has maintained equilibrium. However, this is not easy in the economic crisis, after all, the economic decline of all countries is very large, and it is unique to be able to maintain equilibrium.

However, the changes in fiscal revenue and expenditure are still relatively large. As a result of the massive reduction in the scale of exports, Australasia's total fiscal revenue also ushered in a decrease in 1926.

Benz Motor Plant, the former largest taxpayer, paid less than $2 million in taxes last year, down more than 70% from the previous year's figures.

This has also brought Australasia's total fiscal revenue back below $200 million, or even $180.1 million.

However, the total fiscal expenditure has ushered in a substantial increase. Whether it is the infrastructure construction or the expansion plan of the navy, each of them is a gold-swallowing monster, and the budget is very high.

In 1926, Australasia's total fiscal expenditure was $293.9 million, with an annual fiscal deficit of $113.8 million.

Although the financial deficit is relatively large, it is precisely these infrastructure projects that have ensured that Australasia's economy has been stabilized at the current level.

At the same time, this infrastructure also allows new immigrants to earn enough income, which is key to attracting immigrants from Australasia.

Based on the current funds that the government has, a loss of more than $100 million a year can support the current government for about three years.

If you have more, you will have to rely on other means, such as issuing government bonds, or printing more currency, and so on.

While this would devalue the currency, it would be much better than if the country could not afford to build infrastructure.

That is to say, Australasia's economy has been greatly improved in the past 20 years of development, otherwise, the annual financial loss of more than 100 million Australian dollars is not something that many countries can afford.

Fortunately, Arthur's royal consortium can also be used as a guarantee, and if necessary, he can lend money to the government to tide over the difficulties.

This is also the benefit of Arthur's high income, and the royal family's lending to the government can also increase the popularity of the people, after all, it is rare for a monarch to be willing to give his money to the government

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