Chapter 505: Russian Capital Pours In
The allocation of Australasia's military expenditure was fought for by the Ministry of National Defense at the cabinet meeting, and then allocated to the three services.
The General Staff does not have the financial power of the military, so it is still difficult to use the military power to do things.
Such a structure can also be more stable, ensuring that the military power of Australasia can be balanced between the two institutions, and will not pose a threat to Arthur's monarchy.
Arthur's first requirement for the re-divided Ministry of National Defense is to increase investment in the navy and create a smaller fleet to protect the coastal defense security of Australasia.
The small fleet of the navy and the patrol team of the Coast Guard do not conflict. After all, the small fleet of the navy is mostly small warships of hundreds or even thousands of tons, and the patrol team of the Coast Guard is mostly patrol boats of tens to hundreds of tons.
The military expenditure of the army after the expansion is fixed. After all, there is no war and there is no great consumption, so the cost of training has become the bulk of the army.
The Air Force and the Army are actually not much different. In addition, the aircraft technology in the future still needs to undergo major changes, and large-scale equipment of aircraft does not seem to be very cost-effective.
Under the influence of various conditions, large-scale construction of the navy is currently the most cost-effective. If there were no naval restrictions, it would be the best opportunity for Australasia to build a navy.
With the four-year construction plan set at the cabinet meeting, Australasia's great development and construction officially began.
With the official announcement of Australasia's first four-year plan, it immediately attracted the attention of many media and people at home and abroad.
In fact, this is also normal. After all, there are not many countries in the world that are developing so vigorously.
Britain and France are still licking their wounds, and the Americans' reputation is damaged, so they naturally dare not make a big fuss. The Russians are busy with the civil war, and the Italians are obsessed with the victory of the war.
The Germans who are interested in development will not make any voices in the short term because of the suppression of the Allies.
In this way, the development of Australasia has become unique. In particular, this four-year construction plan is relatively large, and the external bidding for various constructions and the Leonora Industrial Base attracting foreign investment have attracted the attention of many foreign consortiums and capital.
Among the many foreign consortiums, capital from Russia is still worth noting.
Yes, it was the Russia that suffered from the civil war and lost most of its industrial level.
The Russian government is poor, what does it have to do with Russian capital? This is the current situation of Russian capital.
Hundreds of years of accumulation of Tsarist Russia have enabled many Russian nobles and big capital to have quite strong capital.
The Russian civil war caused these capitals to lose a lot of industries, and they could not help but turn their attention to foreign countries. After all, Russia is not peaceful now and is not suitable for industry.
Among many countries, the high-profile development of Australasia has attracted the attention of these Russian capitals.
What attracts them more is that Australasia has millions of Russian people. As the capitalist class that has exploited these people for hundreds of years, Russian capital also knows the advantages of these Russian people, that is, they are down-to-earth and hard-working, and can withstand greater exploitation.
Of course, in addition to this, Australasia's relatively excellent environment has also attracted the attention of these capitals.
Compared with the United States, whose reputation has been damaged, Australasia seems to have greater development potential. The last war also proved that large-scale wars did not seem to affect the mainland of Australasia. Isn't such a country that can guarantee peace what these Russian capitals want?
After Australasia publicly tendered for foreign bids, a large amount of Russian capital began to pour in. They also longed for a stable investment environment like Australasia, rather than a horrible hell like Russia, where any war would make their hard work go up in smoke.
In fact, capitalists are fickle. On the one hand, capitalists collude with officials and businessmen in their own nests, oppress civilians and the poor in various ways, and play the word exploitation to the fullest.
On the other hand, when capitalists go to other places, they also want to go to places with relatively clear officials.
This is actually easy to explain. After all, capitalists who collude with the government and officials are the most powerful. Pure capitalists are vulnerable to a country's government machine and can be controlled by one hand.
In this case, these capitalists who come from afar hope that the areas they go to have a relatively fair political environment and can fairly protect their interests, rather than collude with local capitalists to swallow them up.
Australasia obviously meets their requirements. First, Australasia also has a considerable number of Russian people, and everyone is considered to be one of their own.
Secondly, the political environment in Australasia has also achieved the word "fairness". After all, it is an immigrant country, and there is no rejection of foreign nationalities and capital.
In addition, the Australasia royal family has a marriage relationship with the original Russian royal family, which has attracted many original Russian nobles.
After all, if they are in Australasia, their noble status can even be guaranteed. At least the Australasia royal family will recognize their status as Russian nobles, even if they have gone to a foreign country and their power and status in Russia have long disappeared.
If they go to a republic like the United States, although capital still has a lot of power, the identity of the nobles will disappear.
It is precisely because of this or that reason that after the announcement of Australia's four-year construction plan, Russian capital poured in very quickly.
These capitals generally choose to establish or acquire some industries. They have poured into various industries, including heavy industry, chemical industry, light industry and some food industries.
Among them, there are many Russian capitals that choose light industry and food industry.
This is actually easy to understand. After all, these Russian capitals still have some power and connections in Russia.
Opening factories in Australasia, producing a large number of light industrial products and food, and then selling them to Russia at a high price, wouldn’t this create a huge income?
Although it will create a large amount of tax revenue for the Australasia government, these capitalists will also make money, and it is almost a guaranteed profit.
You must know that the Russian civil war has a huge impact on the domestic environment in Russia. Such an impact is not only on industry and economy, but also on agriculture and animal husbandry.
Russia’s grain production has decreased by half compared to before the civil war, which has threatened the food needs of the Russian people.
Because at the request of the British Empire, all members of the World Alliance signed a treaty prohibiting trade with Soviet Russia.
This enabled Soviet Russia to fully establish a centralized material distribution system to ensure that most people have some food to eat.
Although they could not fill their stomachs completely, they could avoid starvation as much as possible, which was a blessing in disguise.
As for Tsarist Russia, it was naturally not within the scope of the trade restrictions proposed by Britain. Tsarist Russia had grain trade treaties with many European countries and Australasia, and grain exports alone were enough for these Russian capitalists to make a lot of money.
Arthur still welcomed the influx of these Russian capitals, after all, they could promote the rapid development of Australasia's industry and all walks of life.
These people may not be in the same mind with the Australasia government, but their industries are established in Australasia and will be controlled by the Australasia government.
Especially when Russia was affected by the civil war, these Russian capitalists had no one to protect them.
If they were obedient, Arthur would certainly be willing to treat them as local enterprises.
If these Russian capitalists were not obedient, they would know the strength of the royal consortium and could quickly swallow up the enterprises established by these Russian capitalists in a short period of time, making their investments go down the drain.
I believe these capitalists are smart. After all, no one can go against money, and no one is willing to hand over the investment they have worked hard to create to others.
You know, all the investments these capitalists have made in Australasia are in the real industry.
However, heavy industry, light industry, chemical industry and food industry have a significant stimulating effect on the Australasia economy.
It can be expected that with the addition of these Russian capitals, the economic growth this year should be not small.
And this year is just the beginning. In the next few years, these Russian capitals will play a vital role in Australia's economic growth.
With the addition of these Russian capitals, the 9% annual economic growth mentioned by Prime Minister Trump in the four-year plan can not only be achieved, but even hope to be exceeded.
In order to show his importance to these Russian capitals, Arthur also personally met with a Russian nobleman.
This is a count from Russia. He is not in the core decision-making level of Tsarist Russia, but he still has a considerable influence in capital.
Arthur's meeting also greatly boosted the confidence of Russian capital. After all, everyone knows that in Australasia, Arthur's opinions are still very important.
Although Arthur personally met with some Russian capital, it does not mean that officials can contact these capitalists at will.
Arthur has a clear view of capitalists. No matter which country the capitalists are from, most of them are not good people.
Therefore, Australasia has never had any regulations to favor capitalists, and even the taxation of some industries is relatively heavy, just to limit the scale and number of capitalists.
For Australasia, compared to becoming a capitalist, becoming an aristocrat is a better choice.
After all, the aristocracy is the class that the government strongly favors. Not only will they enjoy some tax exemptions, but they are also the role models for the whole country to learn from, as advocated by Arthur.
After all, compared with capitalists, these aristocrats, who do not have much power, will closely unite around Arthur, consolidate the monarchy of Australasia, and ensure their status at the same time.
Any of their preferential treatment and power status comes from Arthur, which also means that they must be loyal to Arthur. After all, only when Arthur exists can their rights and status exist.
This situation is definitely not limited to Arthur's reign. The future monarchs of Australasia still hold the fate of these new nobles.
The new nobles are the best sword in the hands of every monarch of Australasia. These new nobles can run for the monarch in any direction, including military, economic and political.
The noble schools advocated by Arthur are to cultivate the descendants of these new nobles and ensure that the descendants of the nobles are not waste, so that they can better serve Arthur and the future monarchs of Australasia.
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