Chapter 502: A Strong Country Relies on Scientific Research, and Strong Scientific Research Relies on Education (Asking for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 502: A strong country lies in scientific research, and strong scientific research lies in education (please vote for the monthly ticket!)

Minister Raul dare not guarantee what level the combat effectiveness of the new army will be after the expansion.

Compared with the current Australasian army soldiers who have participated in World War I, the combat effectiveness of the new recruits is definitely one level lower. This is inevitable and it is also something that any country cannot avoid when expanding its army.

In order to solve this problem, in addition to increasing the training of new recruits, we can only find opportunities to let these new recruits go to the battlefield and experience life and death to improve their combat effectiveness.

But the war after World War I is not easy to find, especially the war that Australasian can interfere in, it seems that the only war is the Russian civil war.

But the Russian civil war is not led by Britain and France, and Arthur is unlikely to take the initiative to participate in it.

Russia and Soviet Russia are fighting fiercely. At present, the standing forces of both sides have exceeded one million, which is not something that Australasian can interfere with now.

Even if they could interfere, Australasia would suffer heavy losses, which would be a loss for Arthur.

Given Australasia's current international status and the strength of the World Alliance, there is basically no country that dares to provoke Australasia, even the Americans.

"This is a normal problem faced by military expansion. Given the current situation, we can only hope to improve the combat capabilities of soldiers through a lot of training." Arthur nodded and expressed his understanding of the question raised by Minister Raul.

Seeing that anyone had objections to the military expansion plan proposed by Prime Minister Kent, Arthur said: "In this case, the new round of military expansion will be implemented as soon as possible according to this plan. I hope that before next year's National Day, the total number of our regular troops will be expanded to more than 250,000."

The size of the two divisions of the Guards, with 40,000 people, is temporarily sufficient. After all, the Guards' duty is only to guard the capital and the royal palace, and to protect the safety of the royal family and Arthur. There is no need for the size to be too large.

The actual combat army of Australasia is still the National Defense Force, and there is no need for the Guards to take over the main position.

After the proposal to expand the army was passed, Prime Minister Tete shifted the topic to the fourth point of the four-year plan, which is science and technology.

"Your Majesty, everyone. In addition to paying attention to and investing heavily in military technology, we should also pay attention to and increase investment in civilian technology and other research.

In addition to the Victoria Award we have, we should also set up some smaller awards to reward other civilian researchers and people who are helpful to scientific research.

At the same time, setting up more scientific research funds to encourage more civilian researchers to conduct their own research is also helpful for our scientific research work." Prime Minister Kent said.

One of the important reasons for the large-scale outflow of talents from Europe is that a large number of civilian scientists do not have enough research funds. Because they invest all their wealth in research, they cannot make ends meet, live in poverty or even go bankrupt.

After more than ten years of education, Australasia has also produced a small number of civilian scientists and research teams.

These people still need to be protected. After all, no one can guarantee whether these civilians will become great scientists in the future.

Using a small amount of money to save these people's scientific research careers is equivalent to scratching a lottery ticket. It can not only protect the scientific research environment of Australasia, but also try to tap some scientific research talents from the public.

After all, although the Victoria Award is already a world-renowned scientific research award, its reputation is absolutely international, and the winners every year can also attract a lot of media attention.

But the problem is that the Victoria Award only has these few awards every year. So far, it has been awarded for more than ten years, and the number of winners of the Victoria Award has barely exceeded 70.

This number is not worth mentioning compared to the large number of unsuccessful scientific researchers around the world. Only by issuing more small awards and small funds to help more scientific researchers can the scientific research environment of Australasia be improved and Australasia be turned into a powerful scientific research country.

The importance of scientific research is naturally self-evident. Science and education are not just talk. Education changes the scientific research environment, and scientific research changes all walks of life in the country, fundamentally improving a country's foundation and the advanced level of various technologies.

It is precisely because of various scientific research that Europe has become the world's most dazzling pearl relying on the two industrial revolutions.

Without these two industrial revolutions, the life of Europeans today would not be much better than in the Middle Ages, not to mention that major European countries have become world hegemons and established colonial empires all over the world.

It is precisely because of the heavy investment in military technology that Australasia has taken the lead in aircraft and tanks, making Australasia a military power.

The strength of a country is always inseparable from scientific research. Therefore, it is necessary for Prime Minister Kent to improve the scientific research environment.

The premise that the Australasia government can spend part of its funds to improve the scientific research environment is that the current financial situation of the Australasia government is very good and has enough funds to squander.

But this cannot be regarded as squandering. After all, encouraging scientific research is very important for national development, and it can even determine whether Australasia will be stronger in the future.

Arthur also attaches great importance to the field of scientific research and those scientists, and he readily accepted Prime Minister Kent's proposal.

Arthur even said that the royal foundation will take out part of the funds to share the government's pressure and help more scientific research teams and scientists.

The current Royal Academy of Sciences of Australia spends tens of millions of Australian dollars every year to support a large number of scientists.

However, the achievements brought by these scientists are indeed worth the cost. For people like Einstein and Tesla, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australia is well-known worldwide.

Coupled with the attraction of the Victoria Award, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australia has a small half of the 70 Victoria Award winners, nearly 30 of the world's top talents.

Winning the Victoria Award means having a large amount of research funds, which also makes many scientists with patriotic feelings unwilling to move to Australia.

Arthur also expressed his understanding of this, but still focused on some scientists. Those who are more famous in later generations have basically been attracted to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Australia.

Those who are not famous in later generations, or whose research fields do not pose a great threat to Australia, are not so concerned.

After all, Australasia cannot win over most of the scientists in the world, and other countries will not allow Australasia to manipulate these scientists, let alone send people to assassinate them.

If the media exposes it, the country's reputation will be damaged at best, and it will lose its appeal to foreign talents at worst.

The current Victoria Award is the golden signboard of the Australasia scientific research community. Arthur will not allow it, and will never let the Victoria Award lose its appeal.

Scientific research and education are both important to the country. Scientific research determines whether a country is strong or not, and education determines whether scientific research is strong or not. Education and scientific research cannot be separated.

Prime Minister Kent then mentioned the topic of education. Arthur's answer was to vigorously expand the number of universities in Australasia.

At present, the total number of universities in Australasia is about 30, large and small, spread across Australia and New Zealand.

However, New Guinea and Australian Timor, where the population has grown significantly, currently have no universities, or no more formal universities.

In fact, it is also easy to understand. After all, Australasia's previous strategy was to develop the local area, and it has always been in a semi-ignored state for the colonies.

Of course, a large part of the reason is that Australasia still has the opportunity to expand its territory.

Like the current New Guinea colony, it has expanded more than twice compared to before World War I. After the population surge, the lack of universities also reflects the disadvantages.

Universities are very important for a country. They can only attract foreign students and cultivate them into talents close to Australasia, or even directly attract these talents with good academic qualifications to Australasia.

In addition, the popularity and number of universities also determine the educational environment in Australasia. And the educational environment is also linked to the attractiveness of immigrants.

Some immigrants even go to certain universities. After all, who doesn't like areas with excellent education and medical environment?

Those ordinary civilians may not care about these. After all, for these people, a high school degree is already very good.

But for a group of high-quality talents, the number of universities and the level of education are still very important.

If the immigrant himself only has a high school degree or below, then he does not have much extravagant hope for the university. After all, college students are still very valuable now.

But if the immigrants themselves have a university degree or even higher, these people will definitely hope that their children and relatives can also have a university degree, then the number of universities becomes very important.

Even the educational level of the university, the international reputation and influence of the university, and the situation after employment, etc., are all within the consideration of these people.

Although the former is definitely more in number compared to the two. But for the development of a country, it is definitely better to have more high-quality immigrants than those ordinary civilian immigrants.

Although this seems a bit cruel, it is actually the case. For the current environment, a high-quality immigrant with a university degree can make a much greater contribution to the new country than an ordinary immigrant.

However, Australasia is currently in short supply of population, and there are not many restrictions on immigration.

As long as you are a European population and have undergone a round of political review, you can apply for Australasia nationality.

During the application period for nationality, as long as you have passed the review period of more than half a year, you can basically obtain Australasia nationality and become a glorious Australasia.

For the improvement of the educational environment, Arthur has great determination and also has great plans.

For Australasia, which aspires to become a superpower, the number of universities is destined to exceed three digits, and even approach four digits in the future.

Of course, the specific number of universities must also be linked to the population. It is most reasonable to build as many universities as the people need.

Given that this plan is only four years, the construction of universities is not so exaggerated.

In addition to the construction of universities in New Guinea and Australian Timor, universities in Australia and New Zealand will also be expanded and built.

Before this cabinet government completes its term, that is, around 1923, the number of universities must be increased to at least 50 to meet the demand for universities in the four-year plan.

Of course, these 50 universities are only the number of regular universities established by the state. As for the number of technical schools and private universities, they are not within the scope of these 50, and the number will only be greater.

Especially technical schools that train various technical talents. With the demand for jobs in Australasia, the number of such schools is already countless.

This is also the reason why all industries in Australasia are not short of corresponding technical talents when they expand.

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