Chapter 705: Planning for Hawaii and Alaska

The U.S. government is embarrassed at this time.

Because they find that the current situation is out of their control. As long as Britain intervened in a state, that state would remain neutral in the war, or even cut off ties with the federal government.

Although only a few states have held independence referendums, this does not mean that the other states that remain in the Union are loyal.

But the U.S. government has nothing to do about it. With most of the military already on the front lines and fighting the coalition forces, the U.S. government did not have enough troops to guard against mutiny in these states.

And more importantly, what can the U.S. government do? If these states that remain neutral for the time being are put under pressure, I am afraid that what these states will do is not to return to the arms of the United States, but to immediately contact the countries behind the coalition army and ask for their support to hold an independence referendum.

Especially after the total annihilation of the Pacific Fleet, the vast majority of Americans and states had lost hope in this war, and they firmly believed that the US government could not win the war at all.

At this time, the United States was not the world hegemon, and when faced with setbacks, Americans also wanted to retreat.

The only U.S. navy that has a turnaround point has already lost some of its warships, can it still be expected that those improvised recruits of the army will work?

President Hoover looked at the war reports from the front and fell into deep thought, because the war reports from the front line had already shown that there were even fewer than 10,000 truly reliable troops among the hundreds of thousands of American troops.

Most of the armies are only looking at the scale, and they are just cannon fodder when they really fight, and the only role is to delay the enemy's advance.

But what can be done?

The command of the Army rests with the Army Command, and President Hoover, as the supreme leader of the United States, can only request general orders from the Army.

The current situation President Hoover is also helpless, compared to the frenzied smashing in previous months, the current President Hoover only sighed, as if accepting his fate.

President Hoover's lack of movement does not mean that the United States government is very calm.

In fact, before the collapse of the building, the activity inside the building was the most intense.

However, Arthur did not care about the turmoil within the US government at this time. For Arthur, since the outcome of this war is already doomed, the most important thing is, of course, to arrange the post-war territory management.

For Hawaii and Alaska, two lands that are about to join Australasia, Arthur still attaches more importance to it.

However, there are disagreements within the government about how to deal with the two lands.

One side felt that the two states should be made as new colonies, and the two states should be indigenized over a long period of time.

But on the other hand, it is not necessary for Hawaii to have an important geographical location, and Alaska is too remote to be a colony or a future indigenization.

There are even those who believe that Alaska should be independent, and they feel that it is useless for Australasia to ask Alaska, and it is not easy to manage the entire Pacific Ocean.

Arthur naturally sees such different voices, and naturally does not laugh at certain views because of the limitations of this era.

If it weren't for the experience of later generations, Arthur would not have known that Alaska is so rich in mineral resources buried beneath the ground.

Of course, differences are differences, and there should be a relatively unanimous opinion on the handling of the two regions.

As a result, Hawaii will join the Kingdom of Australasia as a direct state of Australasia, and Alaska will become a crown territory under the direct administration of the Crown.

In order to make Alaska a royal domain, Arthur still took a lot of effort. Although he can do this directly by his own prestige, it is too arbitrary to do so, and it is not a good thing for the future monarch.

Eventually, at the cost of giving up the royal domain, Arthur turned all of Alaska into a royal domain of Alaska, the fourth direct crown territory after the Western Pacific and South Pacific and the Persian Gulf Territory.

As for the original royal domain, part of the island was annexed to the state of Timor and part to the state of Java.

All newly occupied Pacific islands, with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii, were incorporated into the South Pacific Territory or the Western Pacific Territory.

These widely distributed islands will be the first line of defence to the east of Australasia and will also occupy a large amount of Australasia's territorial waters, which are rich in seafood resources and a considerable stock of Australasian fisheries.

After occupying the whole of Oceania, most of the Pacific Ocean will become the territorial waters of Australasia.

This is an exaggeration. Needless to say, seafood in the Pacific Ocean means that fishing will become one of the pillars of Australasia's economy in the future, and fishermen will become a popular job in Australasia.

After changing the administrative divisions slightly, Arthur also checked the construction situation in Java and Sumatra by the way.

It has been three years since the states of Java and Sumatra were incorporated into Australasia. The transfer of indigenous populations and the transport of migrants have been the main work of the two states over a three-year period.

At present, it is going relatively smoothly. Especially after the onset of the economic crisis, Australasia attracted a large number of immigrants, a large part of whom came to Java and Sumatra.

Most of the indigenous people in both states have been relocated to Kalimantan, and the remaining indigenous people are expected to be relocated within a year.

Of course, more importantly, the rubber industrial park on the island of Java has all resumed production, and the rubber industry in Australasia can bring in tens of millions of dollars in net profits every year, which also makes the government's fiscal revenue climb.

At present, the population of Java has exceeded 900,000, and the population of Sumatra is about 500,000.

The indigenisation of the two islands was also recently completed and both are now part of Australasia.

Speaking of these two islands, it is natural not to forget the situation in Kalimantan.

It has been three years since the establishment of the United Sultanate of Kalimantan, and the current development is still quite smooth.

While casualties are inevitable in the transport of indigenous people, especially when they move to new areas, there is also a considerable period of adaptation.

But on the whole, it is still very smooth, and the current island of Kalimantan has 20 million indigenous people, and the construction of the United Sultanate of Kalimantan is also very fast.

Muhammad naturally became the first Grand Sultan of the United Sultanate of Kalimantan, and because of this, his territory was given a narrow outlet to the sea.

It is worth mentioning that the capital of the Great Sultanate was named by Muhammad at the request of Arthur.

Arthur named this narrow outlet to the sea Holliland Roubes, which means sacred place of new life.

At present, Holliland Roubles has become the largest city in Kalimantan, with a total population of more than 2 million people, and it is definitely a megacity in the world.

Of course, if you want to be more advanced than the city, the city is naturally far inferior to the cities of Europe, the United States and Australia.

But Arthur's idea was not to Westernize these natives. The greatest role of keeping these natives in captivity on the island of Kalimantan is, of course, to let them play their due role in times of war.

Crowd tactics will be useful for at least the next few decades. A few decades later, the United Sultanate of Kalimantan could become an effective market for Australasia, and the revenues from the dumping of industrial goods alone would be enough to survive any crisis.

The same is true for the Philippines. However, the Philippines is still a bit more advanced than Kalimantan.

After several years of development, the population of the Philippines is also close to 13 million, and it is still rising.

In anticipation of the outbreak of war, Kalimantan and the Philippines will be able to provide Australasia with at least 2 million fighting troops.

Even if it were a little harsher, the number of troops could be increased to more than 3 million, which is why Arthur is not afraid of any war at the moment.

Even if it is only 3 million cannon fodder, it can last at least a year when it is put into the battlefield.

Coupled with the same number of Australasian elite troops, no country is intimidated at present, which is also the confidence of Australasia to become a world hegemon in the future.

Of course, the current Kalimantan is only Southern Kalimantan, which is occupied by the Netherlands. The northern part of the country, including Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo, was all British territory.

Arthur naturally had ideas about these lands. Not to mention the millions of natives living on these lands, the lands alone are enough to double the number of natives in Kalimantan.

The island of Kalimantan in its entirety will have no problem supporting hundreds of millions of indigenous people, and it will become Australasia's most reliable overseas market.

Other markets may change, but not in Kalimantan, which is on your doorstep.

Hundreds of millions of Aboriginal people, even if each person only provides Australasia with a value of $1 a year, adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars.

If that number were doubled, there would be plenty of funding for construction in Australasia for decades to come.

Of course, Kalimantan has a growing population, and the control of the Sultanate must be held by someone that Arthur can trust.

At the moment, Muhammad is doing very well, he understands who is the real master of the country, and there is no action that Arthur did not expect.

But that's normal. A closer look at Arthur's map of the indigenous distribution of Kalimantan shows that such a political division has created a political division that will not leave Arthur's control.

In particular, the area ruled by the Great Sultan Muhammad was surrounded by all the other indigenous sultanates.

If Muhammad had any rebellious mentality, under Arthur's high bounty, he would have been besieged by all the sultanates before he could act.

After all, for the sultans, Arthur did not harm their interests, and Muhammad was a sword hanging over their heads.

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