If Arthur remembers correctly, the two princes who preceded Prince Juan's succession to the throne seem to have historically renounced their right to the throne in 1933.

Although this scene has not happened yet, it is not difficult to make it happen.

With this in mind, Arthur did not stop Ana and Prince Juan from falling in love, and finally the two finally got engaged.

At the end of 1933, Arthur finally met the last king of Spain, Alfonso XIII.

After discussions between the two, the engagement of Prince Juan and Princess Ana is also scheduled for the beginning of next year.

That's a good thing for both parties. For Arthur, Princess Anna was able to find someone she liked, which was the best thing for Anna as a royal princess.

For Alfonso XIII, the fact that his son was able to find a very powerful ally for himself was very helpful in his plan for the restoration of the throne.

Although Australasia is far away from Spain, it is also recognized as the third great power in the world.

This strength was more than enough to support his own restoration, which also made Alfonso XIII smile almost the whole time, and his smile was very sincere.

In the outside world, the media have commented that the union of the two royal families is the Spanish royal family.

A royal family that has lost its throne and a royal family that has just become a royal family, the status between the two is naturally not the same.

What's more, Spain itself is only a second-rate country in Europe, while Australasia is the top country in the world.

This is equivalent to the marriage of the richest man in an ordinary city and the top three richest people in the country, and the one who climbs high is definitely the richest man in an ordinary city.

In addition to Princess Anna's marriage, there were several more important news at the end of 1933.

One of them is the official completion of the Eyre Lake Canal.

Construction of the Eyre Lake Canal began in early 1929 and was completed at the end of 1933, nearly five years in the process.

Over the course of five years, the Australasian government invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to finally complete the construction of an entire section of the canal.

On the day of the completion of the construction, Arthur attended the celebration of the completion of the Eyre Lake Canal and witnessed the "pomp" of the large amount of water pouring into the Eyre Lake.

As far as the eye can see, the originally dry Lake Eyre instantly became wet. In just a few days, a large amount of seawater poured into the interior of Lake Eyre.

The sea water continued to soak the surrounding land along the soil, causing the area around the otherwise arid Lake Eyre to suddenly become wet.

The Australasian media has reported extensively on the completion of the lake and has begun to publicize the beneficial effects of the influx of water into the surrounding land.

However, if it does, it will be a long time later. The arid environment around Lake Eyre cannot be solved in a short period of time, and the Lake Eyre Canal is more of a long-term benefit.

On the second day of the completion of the Eyre Lake, Arthur took a 20,000-ton cruise ship to experience the entire Eyre Lake Canal from south to north.

Because when the Eyre Lake Canal was built, it was taken into account that the canal would be responsible for part of the transportation of the surrounding mineral resources and industrial base, which also made the width and depth of the canal larger than previously expected.

More than 20,000 tons of cruise ships run on the canal, which will not cause any congestion to the canal at all.

It was also on this day that a large number of transport ships began to pass through the canal, transporting the vast mineral resources of central Australia to other cities and at home and abroad by water, from south to north or from north to south.

The Broken Hill Industrial Complex, in particular, has an additional mode of transportation due to the completion of the Eyre Lake Canal.

As a result, the industrial base developed more smoothly, and by the end of 1933 it had reached maximum production and had managed to accommodate more than 500,000 workers.

The Broken Hill industrial site has entered maximum production, effectively alleviating the employment pressure caused by the large population in the surrounding area.

The Brockenhill Industrial Base is surrounded by the four boroughs of Victoria, the Capital Territory, the Sydney Territory and New South Wales, and is the most densely populated area in the whole of Australasia.

This also means that the potential of the Brockenhill Industrial Site is far greater than imagined.

Arthur also made an important decision to start the construction of a new phase of the Broken Hill Industrial Base, which will make the Broken Hill Industrial Base and the Leonora Industrial Base a real East-West industrial center.

These two industrial hubs have their own advantages. The Leonora Industrial Base is close to the minerals of Western Australia, which has the advantage of being extremely rich in mineral resources, and its proximity to the Australian outback, so there is no need to worry about enemy bombing in a short time.

The Broken Hill Industrial Base, although the surrounding mineral resources are not as rich as the Leonora Industrial Base, there are definitely a lot of mineral resources.

What's more, the large population surrounding the Brockenhill Industrial Base also represents the development potential of the Broken Hill Industrial Base, perhaps greater than the Leonora Industrial Base that Arthur once had high hopes for.

At this point, it is necessary to see the total production volume and profit of the Brockenhill industrial base at that time.

Regardless, it is necessary to continue to expand the size of the Broken Hill industrial base.

If it was in peacetime, Arthur did not want to expand his industry on such a large scale. But seeing that war is coming, there is no harm in expanding industry at this time.

After all, this war was even more brutal than the First World War, and the consumption of resources was much more than that of the First World War.

This also means that all kinds of war materials made in Australasia can be safely transported to Europe, and there is no need to worry about sales.

In particular, when Australasia is likely to have a war with the island nation in the Pacific, it is necessary to expand the scale and output of industry and crush the enemy in terms of industry and economy.

At present, the industrial scale of Australasia is several times that of the island nation. If the scale of industry continued to expand, Arthur really didn't know how to lose this war.

This is why Arthur is unwilling to throw a lot of money into the navy. Otherwise, based on the huge industrial and economic gap between Australasia and the island countries, the island countries will not be able to catch up with Australasia in terms of naval arms competition.

The island's economy and industry have dictated that their investment in the navy, although huge, is also limited.

Australasia is different. If Arthur goes crazy, he can do the exaggeration of Australasia for every warship built by the island nation.

Since the founding of Australasia, the government has not been burdened with particularly exaggerated debts. If it is really desperate, the economic scale of the island nation is definitely not an opponent.

But alas, Arthur will not exhaust the country's potential for such an opponent.

What's more, with aircraft carriers more powerful and missiles already ahead for I don't know how many years, Arthur doesn't think that with the current size of Australasia's navy, he will lose against the islanders.

Arthur had no specific requirements for the new phase of the construction of the Broken Hill Industrial Base, but he also put forward his own expectations, which were to form a layout of two industrial centers, one east and one west, with the Leonora Industrial Base.

This also means that the scale of the Broken Hill Industrial Base is to catch up with the Leonora Industrial Base.

The Leonora Industrial Site is already capable of housing more than 1.5 million workers, while the Broken Hill Industrial Site is currently a fraction of the Leonora Industrial Site.

Reaching 1.5 million workers would mean tripling the size of Broken Harden's rare industrial base.

This brings us to the fact that the current Secretary of State for Industry, David Paul Oliver, is actually on the conservative side.

In order to allow the Broken Hill Industrial Base to develop smoothly, Arthur deliberately granted the Broken Hill Industrial Base Special Zone Governor higher powers, so that he would not be influenced too much by Minister David when planning the construction of the Broken Hill Industrial Base.

As the time approached 1934, Arthur also decided to make final preparations for war, allowing Australasia to gradually enter a state of war.

One of the main ones is about the construction of transportation.

Although Australasia has caught up with European countries in terms of railways and roads over the past 30 years, the transportation environment has improved a lot.

But Arthur wasn't going to rest on his laurels.

In a meeting between Arthur and the new Secretary of State for Transportation, Perry Zackling, Arthur made a request for the Department of Transportation to vigorously build highways in 1934.

When it comes to highways, it's no stranger to Australasia now.

From the most humble highways to the relatively smooth highways, the efforts of the transportation department are commendable.

The highway has proved to be very helpful for exchanges and communication between regions.

The speed limit on highways has now been raised to 75 kilometers per hour, which means that in most cases, taking a car is already the fastest mode of transportation after airplanes and airships.

All things considered, the car is the fastest mode of transportation among the cheapest, and the cheapest mode of transportation among the fastest.

Because of this, people everywhere are asking the government to build highways to their cities, so that they can also enjoy the convenience of high-speed travel.

One thing that cannot be ignored is that the development of the automobile industry has led to the continuous construction of highways to various places.

In the beginning, the speed of the car could not reach 75 kilometers per hour. But now, there are countless car brands in Australasia, and the fastest luxury sports cars can even increase their speeds to more than 90 kilometers per hour.

However, because cars are not as stable nowadays, the speed limit on highways remains at 75 km/h.

Even in urban areas, the speed limit on urban roads must not exceed 30 km/h, and on peri-urban roads, the speed must not exceed 50 km/h.

Such regulations are more to ensure the safety of pedestrians on the road. After all, there are no cameras on the road, and most drivers don't have so many scruples when driving, and there are many road rages.

This has also forced the security department to increase the number of police officers in the city. The traffic police, in particular, is already one of the most important departments of the city police.

Nowadays, technology is not so advanced, and if you want to monitor the speed of vehicles on various roads, you can only let these traffic police control it themselves.

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