Chapter 266 The End of the Parade

Arthur stayed in Wellington for about a week. He not only visited Victoria University of Wellington, but also gave a speech for more than an hour in Victoria University.

Although we don't know what the actual impact is, judging from the awed and fanatical eyes of teachers and students at Victoria University of Wellington and the enthusiastic responses of college students, the effect of the speech should be good.

After leaving Wellington, the cars transported with the fleet came in handy.

Riding in the car, Arthur set off all the way to the northwest, and his destination was Opunaki, a small town in the southern part of the Tasman Sea.

This town is no different from an ordinary fishing town in New Zealand, but it is of great significance to New Zealand and Australasia at present.

Since the typhoon landed in New Zealand on November 8, 1903, the situation in New Zealand and the entire Oceania has ushered in a huge change.

First, New Zealand voted to join Australia after the disaster and formed the Federation of Australia and New Zealand, and then the current Kingdom of Australasia was established.

The first area where the typhoon landed in New Zealand was Opunaki, a small town that looked no different from other areas.

Outside the current Opunaki town, there is also a monument to the typhoon incident.

This monument has attracted many Australasians to visit. This is not only one of the great disasters in New Zealand, but also one of the great disasters in Australasia.

The losses brought to New Zealand by this disaster include not only more than 100,000 casualties, but also the loss of millions of cattle, sheep and large areas of crops. This is also the real reason why the total population of New Zealand is only 1.35 million so far.

Arthur stood in front of the typhoon disaster monument for a long time and presented a bouquet of flowers.

Although this was just a normal move in Arthur's eyes, it made many New Zealanders who personally experienced the typhoon incident very grateful.

After all, after the typhoon incident, Australia not only donated money to New Zealand, but Arthur also made two donations in the name of the Duke of Australia and privately.

After finishing what he should do in the town of Opunaki, Arthur followed the Western Highway of North New Zealand, went straight up, passed through New Spreemouth, Piopio, Hamilton, Huntly, Port Waikato, Manukau, and finally arrived at the second destination in North New Zealand, Auckland.

At this time, Auckland was rebuilt after the disaster, and it has been quickly rebuilt into the second largest city in North New Zealand.

This is because many citizens of Auckland chose to stay in Auckland, even though Auckland had become a wasteland after being destroyed by the typhoon.

After arriving in Auckland, Arthur found that the area had been rebuilt very well. Although the industrial area is not very developed at present, agriculture and animal husbandry are everywhere, which also clearly expresses the current development status of Auckland.

In Auckland, there is also the University of Auckland, one of the three universities in New Zealand. As usual, Arthur also visited the University of Auckland and gave a speech.

The people of Auckland are more grateful to Arthur. After all, if it were not for the generous donations from Arthur and Australia, it would be impossible for Auckland to rebuild so quickly.

It can be said that Aucklanders were able to quickly restore their pre-disaster lives within a few years, and Arthur and Australia's donations played a big role.

After the boring but necessary inspection and review, Arthur took the fleet and arrived at Picton, the capital of South New Zealand, across the sea from Wellington.

The level of development of North New Zealand and South New Zealand is very different.

In terms of area, South New Zealand is larger than North New Zealand, but the population of South New Zealand is only about half of that of North New Zealand.

As the largest city in South New Zealand, Picton has a population of more than 80,000. But the second largest city in New Zealand, Auckland after the disaster reconstruction, has a population of more than 100,000.

If North New Zealand has a certain scale of industry, then New Zealand has advantages only in animal husbandry and agriculture.

South New Zealand is much behind North New Zealand in all aspects. This is the clearest feeling Arthur had after passing through North New Zealand and South New Zealand.

However, in South New Zealand, you can also see more lush farmland and larger livestock areas, and the faces of the people in South New Zealand are full of smiles.

There is really nothing to inspect in South New Zealand. The three major cities of Picton, Christchurch and Invercargill are small cities with a population of no more than 100,000, and the total population of South New Zealand is less than 500,000, less than half of Sydney.

After a brief tour of the three cities, Arthur inspected the New Zealand garrison in Picton.

After encouraging all the soldiers and personally issuing salaries and supplies to some soldiers, Arthur ended his journey in New Zealand with satisfaction and headed to the next destination of the tour, the New Guinea Colony.

After several years of construction, the capital of the New Guinea Colony, Port Moresby, has grown into a city of 50,000 people.

And because of the strategic granary plan proposed by Arthur, New Guinea has been regarded as a natural granary by the Australasian government and is also one of the test sites for mechanized agriculture in Australasian.

Currently, New Guinea has more than one-sixth of Australia's grain output. The grain produced in New Guinea alone is enough to feed more than four million people for a year.

Due to the good relationship with Germany, part of the grain produced in New Guinea was directly transported to German New Guinea in the north, which also led to the fact that there was not much arable land in German New Guinea. After all, Germany had no intention of vigorously developing farming in such an area.

Officials of the New Guinea colonial government attached great importance to Arthur's inspection. Arthur also symbolically encouraged the officials and followed important officials of the colonial government to visit several large planting areas in New Guinea.

Then he inspected the New Guinea army. These actions also allowed Arthur to stay in New Guinea for three days.

After doing this, Arthur rushed to Australian Timor without stopping and continued the next stop of the tour.

The Governor of Australian Timor is Roman Pito, a member of the Royal Parliament and an official from New Zealand.

As one of the first New Zealand officials to swear allegiance to Arthur, it is not surprising that Roman Pito was appointed as the Governor-General of Australian Timor. After all, the team Arthur brought from Britain was basically entrusted with important tasks, and vacancies could only be promoted from talents in Australia and New Zealand.

However, this is also a good thing, at least it can make the Australian and New Zealand forces loyal to Arthur feel at ease.

After all, if Arthur only recognizes the officials he brought from Britain, then the local forces in Australasia will never be integrated into Arthur's core circle of subordinates, and their loyalty to Arthur will naturally decrease.

As the latest region to be included in the territory of Australasia, Australian Timor naturally has a pitiful population.

Even after several years of development, the current population of Australian Timor has barely exceeded 10,000, and almost all of the population of Australian Timor is distributed in Dili, the capital of Timor.

If New Guinea is an important grain producing area in Australasia, then Australian Timor is more like a military fortress and outpost.

Although it has only a little over 10,000 residents, there are up to 3,000 garrisons around Dili, and there are also multiple radio stations that can communicate with Australasia at any time.

In fact, Arthur and the government did prepare for this. Australian Timor cannot develop in a short period of time, so the government directly uses it as an outpost for Australasia's defense.

Because Australian Timor still has thousands of Portuguese residents, Arthur has stayed in Australian Timor for the shortest time.

Although Arthur is very interested in witnessing the folk life of Australian Timor, he thought about it and decided to forget it.

After all, this land has been annexed by Australasia for more than two years, and there are still thousands of Portuguese residents living in Dili.

Although in order to maintain the stability of Australian Timor, after the formal annexation of Timor, Governor Roman has organized several operations to confiscate weapons in this area, and residents other than Australasia are not allowed to own hot weapons, and Australasia residents who own hot weapons must register with the government, and each use of weapons must be reported.

But who can guarantee that there won't be people with hidden weapons among these Portuguese residents, waiting for the arrival of senior officials of the Australasia government and Arthur?

As the saying goes, no matter how good your kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives. Even if Arthur is fully prepared, he will not gamble whether someone will assassinate him.

After all, aren't there many such examples in history? One very similar one is the Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand who triggered the First World War.

There are also many kings and senior nobles including King Alexander I of Serbia and King George I of Greece.

The bloody cases of these people tell Arthur a truth, that is, no matter how noble your status is, no matter how many people love you, you are an ordinary person, and you will die if you are shot.

Arthur is not so stupid as to gamble with his life instead of being a good king.

In fact, as long as Arthur does not take risks, the possibility of being assassinated is almost zero. After all, there is a regiment of soldiers protecting him, and there are many intelligence officers of the Royal Security Intelligence Agency following him secretly. If there is any unusual movement around Arthur, these intelligence officers will take action immediately.

Not to mention that those who can get within 300 meters of Arthur must have their identities checked.

Those who can get within 200 meters will even have to undergo another round of search. Unless they are ministers or officials that Arthur trusts very much, Arthur's guards and members of the Royal Security Intelligence Agency will not show mercy. If they don't accept the inspection, they will be arrested first.

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