Chapter 304 Inspecting the Construction of the Stadium (Asking for Monthly Tickets!)

In December 1911, Arthur went to the National Stadium again to inspect the construction of the National Stadium because 1912 was approaching.

After two years of construction, the National Stadium has been built for the most part, and only some finishing work is left.

During this period, the Australasian Olympic Preparatory Organization has also received applications from 20 countries around the world to participate in the Games.

Compared with the last London Olympics, this Olympics has made some changes to the previous regulations. Each country can participate in each event at most 7 people, and it is recommended to participate in three people.

At the same time, some relatively new technologies, such as electronic timing and end-point camera equipment, will also be added to this Olympics, making the timing of the Olympics more accurate and able to more reasonably resolve some ranking disputes.

More importantly, because the timing is more accurate, even accurate to one tenth of a second, and Arthur has invested a lot of money, the International Olympic Committee announced that it will record the results of athletes in this Olympics and publish the world records of the corresponding results.

In other words, the excellent results of the Sydney Olympics will directly enter the world record.

This makes some athletes who want to win glory for their country and gain fame for themselves look forward to this Olympics even more, and also makes the Sydney Olympics a hot topic around the world.

The medals for this Olympics have been prepared long ago. The gold medals are made of gold and jade. Each medal is estimated to be worth at least 2,000 Australian dollars, which is really valuable.

Don't underestimate these 2,000 Australian dollars. According to the fact that one pound is equal to 7.33 grams of gold, 2,000 is equal to 1,000 pounds, which is equal to 7,330 grams of gold.

If estimated according to the approximate gold price in later generations, the value of this medal is even more than 3 million yuan.

Of course, this is just a proportional calculation of the gold price. If factors such as currency depreciation are taken into account, I am afraid that this price will have to be multiplied several times.

The price of the silver medal is slightly lower, with an estimated value of only about 600 Australian dollars, which is just a little more than one-third of the value of the gold medal.

The bronze medal for the third place is the lowest, with an estimated value of only about 150 Australian dollars, which can only be said to be a decent participation award.

Of course, the number of events in the Sydney Olympics has also decreased compared to the previous London Olympics.

According to the negotiation with the International Olympic Committee, there are only more than 40 events in the Sydney Olympics, which are expected to start in June and July 1912 and will take at most two months to complete.

Arthur spent a lot of money on this Olympics. In addition to the cost of building stadiums, organizing competitions, etc., Australasia will also provide round-trip tickets for all athletes from participating countries and food and accommodation expenses in Australasia, and send professional medical teams to ensure the safety of all participating athletes.

However, this expense is worth it. After all, after this Olympics, the next Olympics is destined to be held a long time later.

According to the current tense situation in Europe, Arthur even prayed that the situation in Europe would not deteriorate to ensure that the Sydney Olympics could be held successfully.

It is worth mentioning that although only 20 countries have registered to participate in this Olympics so far, the number of registered athletes has exceeded 2,000, of which Australasia has contributed 500.

These 500 people are also the ones left after the athlete training team was carefully selected. After a period of hard training, they should also be able to achieve certain achievements.

In addition to the 500 people from Australasia, the second largest number of participants came from the United Kingdom, with a total of 293 people. The third largest number came from Norway, with a total of 207 people. The fourth largest number came from Sweden, with a total of 199 people.

After that, Finland (186 people), Germany (185 people), Russia (178 people), and the United States (174 people) were also countries with a relatively large number of participants in this Games.

Arthur's goal is to strive to get the number of countries participating in the Olympics to the threshold of 30 before the start of the Olympics.

At the same time, the number of athletes participating in the Games should also be more than 3,000. After all, it is not easy to host an Olympic Games. The larger the scale, the better the effect.

The construction of the stadium should be completed before March 1912, and it is completely possible to put it into use before the June Olympics.

The construction of the hotel and various ancillary constructions and roads supporting the stadium has been basically completed so far.

Arthur visited the hotel and supporting training facilities prepared for the athletes, as well as the road connecting the stadium and the city, and then ended his inspection of the stadium construction with satisfaction.

So far, the construction of the stadium has not only spent the initial budget of 6 million Australian dollars, but also used an additional 2 million Australian dollars in reserve budget.

This resulted in the construction of the stadium costing 8 million Australian dollars, which is nearly four dreadnoughts.

However, judging from the current construction of the stadium, Arthur believes that the money is still worth spending.

If the National Stadium can be used for dozens or even hundreds of years, the historical heritage and culture it represents will definitely be more valuable than the millions of Australian dollars used now.

After finishing the inspection of the National Stadium, Arthur rushed to the agricultural machinery factory without stopping.

Here is hidden the big killer prepared by Arthur, which is also one of the weapons that the Australasian Army will focus on in the future.

"Your Majesty!" Outside the agricultural machinery factory, Director Joel greeted Arthur respectfully, and then took Arthur to the warehouse of the agricultural machinery factory.

There were several newly produced tanks parked in the warehouse. They were also the first generation of tanks that were finally finalized after more than a year of experiments and improvements since the last experiment.

Compared with the first test period, the stability of these newly produced tanks has been greatly improved.

Although this cannot change the problem of tanks occasionally breaking down, why should we care about those small problems for big guys with armor protection and firepower output?

Looking at these brand new big guys, Arthur nodded with satisfaction, looked at Director Joel, and asked: "Director Joel, what is the current production speed of such tanks in the agricultural machinery factory?"

"Your Majesty, it is not easy to produce such a big guy. If we can lay a production line, we can guarantee a production speed of one every four days. If we can lay two production lines, we should be able to increase the production speed to one every two to three days." Director Joel replied.

The production of tanks includes modules such as armor, artillery, chassis, power system, tracks, etc., and the practicality and stability of the tank must also be taken into account.

In addition to the testing phase that each tank must go through, the speed of producing a tank is not fast, even if it is only improved on the basis of a tractor.

Arthur nodded in understanding and ordered: "Now the agricultural machinery factory has laid a tank production line and produced tanks at a rate of one tank every four days. The current production speed is enough. I hope to have at least 200 tanks before 1914."

Australasia is still far from a large-scale war, and the role of tanks is not so high for the time being.

As he said, Arthur looked at Director Joel again and asked: "Director Joel, if we use the current tanks and tractors as references, can we design a transport vehicle that still has armored protection capabilities to improve the travel efficiency between our armies?"

"Or we can install large-caliber artillery on tractors to make it easier to transfer and mobilize artillery. If these ideas can be realized, we may have to add several more secret weapons to our arsenal." Arthur said with a smile.

"It is possible, Your Majesty. The ideas you mentioned are not difficult to realize, but it will take some time to exert better combat effectiveness. Our factory is really short of manpower, Your Majesty. Can you send us more outstanding employees and some military experts to help the machinery factory better realize these?" While chatting, Director Joel suddenly began to cry poor, and pleaded with Arthur with helplessness and sadness.

"The agricultural machinery factory is producing and researching tractors while also researching military weapons and equipment such as tanks. There is indeed a shortage of manpower. Let me allow you to negotiate with the military factory and invite some military experts to sit in the agricultural machinery factory to better realize the ideas I proposed. As for the issue of excellent workers, you go to negotiate with several major technical schools in the country and ask them to give priority to dispatching next year's graduates to the agricultural machinery factory." Arthur nodded, agreeing to Director Joel's request.

In fact, there is no way, after all, the production of tanks is still confidential, which also means that military weapons such as tanks can only be produced and researched under agricultural factories such as agricultural machinery factories.

Although the scale of the agricultural machinery factory is not small, it is still somewhat inferior in terms of manpower in terms of the research and development and manufacturing of tractors and tanks.

"Great, thank you, Your Majesty. Please rest assured that I will pay attention to the weapon ideas you mentioned and strive to realize them as soon as possible." Hearing that Arthur agreed to his request, Director Joel said excitedly.

"The research and development of the second-generation tank cannot be left behind. After all, there are some limitations to the tank modified with a tractor. We have to redesign a tank plan and continuously improve it to form the final tank system. Compared with the first-generation tank, I hope that the second-generation tank can give me more surprises. Maybe that will be the time to equip tanks on a large scale." Arthur instructed.

Development must look forward after all. Although the agricultural machinery factory successfully developed and manufactured the world's first tank by modifying the tractor.

But such success is only temporary, and we cannot be satisfied with the tank modified from the tractor.

Arthur's expectation for the Australasian tank is that it would be best if it could have a good combat capability before World War I. Within the scope of World War I, at least the second generation of tanks should be developed to avoid the loss of the first generation of tanks in Australasian tanks due to the leakage of the first generation of tanks.

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