Chapter 509 Interference
After visiting Timor's agricultural construction, Arthur inspected Timor's animal husbandry and railway and transportation construction.
Because of the help from the excellent local livestock industry in Australasia, Timor's livestock industry is still developing very well.
Timorese rancher Henry, who generously donated his cattle and sheep during the influenza period, received the Victoria Memorial Medal and a knighthood. The development of animal husbandry has become increasingly smooth, and he has received strong support from the Timorese government.
At present, Sir Henry is not only the largest rancher in Timor, but also a member of the Timor Colonial House. He is highly respected in Timor, and his identity and status are no longer the same.
When Arthur visited Timor's livestock industry, he naturally couldn't avoid visiting Henry's farm.
Arthur had great respect for this patriotic man who donated generously during the flu, and said many words of encouragement, which also made Sir Henry feel more excited.
Arthur's status is unquestionable in Australasia, and those who can be encouraged by Arthur will have bragging rights in the next few years.
Even for someone like Sir Henry, it is not impossible to spend his whole life boasting.
After all, there were really very few people that Arthur personally met and encouraged. Sir Henry was already a big step ahead of others in this regard.
There is no need for Arthur to worry about the development of animal husbandry. Timorese ranchers, represented by Sir Henry, will take the initiative to develop their own animal husbandry industry.
Australasia itself is a powerful country in the livestock industry, so there is no need to worry about the development of the livestock industry and the problems it faces.
The next thing to inspect was the traffic situation in Timor.
Before large-scale immigration, Timor had only one city, Dili, and it was indeed small.
But after a large number of immigrants, Timor already has two cities and five villages and towns, large and small, and it is still developing.
This has also increased the traffic pressure in Timor in disguise. After all, there was only one city before, and only urban roads in Dili City needed to be built.
But now, roads between cities and villages and towns need to be connected, and even corresponding railways need to be built. After all, it is an island with a height of 30,000 square kilometers. The future population will remain at least hundreds of thousands, and it is very likely to even exceed one hundred. Ten thousand.
Under such circumstances, it would be difficult to meet the transportation needs of the entire Timor without trains.
Even in the future, not only railways but also airports will be built. The shorter the communication time with the local area, the better.
The Timorese government has done a relatively good job in building transportation. After all, it is only a road between a few small cities and villages, plus a railway between the two cities. Not only is the mileage relatively short, but it also does not consume too much manpower and material resources.
As long as there have been indigenous people, Timor's roads have been under intense construction.
Although most of the indigenous people have now been repatriated, Timor's transportation construction will not go backwards.
It is worth mentioning that although it is only an island, the number of cars in Timor is not low due to the promotion of the Timorese colonial government.
Although it has a population of only 120,000, Timor has nearly 2,000 cars, most of which are small and medium-sized trucks purchased by the Timorese colonial government and engineering teams.
Although there are hundreds of civilian cars, most of them can only be owned by government officials and a small number of high-income people in Timor, such as nobles like Sir Henry.
After being ennobled as a knight, Sir Henry immediately purchased a Benz car. Firstly, it was to support Arthur, and secondly, it could also serve as a front.
After all, as a nobleman, how can you do it without a car that represents high-income people?
This also increased the sales volume of Benz Automobile Factory in Australasia in disguise.
You know, Benz cars have always been representatives of low price and high performance. Not only are they cheaper than other cars, their performance and stability are also better than other cars.
At present, Benz cars have sold more than 10 million units, and the profits these sales have brought to Arthur are even immeasurable.
A little calculation shows that based on the profit of 35-45 pounds per car, the profit that tens of millions of cars can bring to Arthur has already exceeded 300 million pounds.
Although this involves dividing accounts with several United Automobile Plants, plus Benz's shares and so on. However, Arthur can at least obtain a profit of nearly 200 million pounds, which is why the royal consortium has expanded so hugely.
As the royal consortium was split into multiple consortiums, even Arthur didn't know how huge the property controlled by Arthur was.
Arthur only knew one thing, if he wanted, his income could always exceed that of the Australasian government.
You know, Australasia has entered the level of great powers, and is now firmly among the top five powers.
Arthur's personal income can exceed that of the entire country. This is the true sense of a wealthy country.
Talking back to the development of Benz Automobile Factory, the most representative Benz One is definitely the most representative car in the world today, and it is also the most famous car with the highest sales volume.
With more than ten years of sales, Benz One has entered thousands of households around the world and has become the first choice for many European and American people when traveling.
Even if you are just a middle-class person, after solving the three problems of food, clothing and housing, you will most likely choose a car when faced with the choice of travel.
After more than ten years of development, car prices have already dropped, and at least the middle class can afford them.
When Benz cars were first launched more than ten years ago, the price was generally around 150 pounds, and the profit was about 70 to 80 pounds.
More than a decade later, the price of Benz cars has been reduced to 110 pounds, and the profit remains at the level of 30 pounds.
You know, compared with more than a decade ago, the current cars have added some configurations, but the price is still in a state of continuous decline.
This does not even take into account the depreciation of currencies over the past decade and the increase in per capita income worldwide.
It can be expected that as long as the economy does not suffer too much crisis, the sales figures of cars will not decrease, after all, there are still many rich people in Europe and the United States.
The sales of cars can promote the development of more industries, which is also a good thing for the economic improvement of Australasia.
Arthur's way of promoting car sales in Australasia is also very simple, that is, to use cars as rewards for meritorious people, or to turn them into prizes for some projects and distribute them directly to the target population.
Using cars as rewards is much more practical than food and other things.
First of all, Benz Car Factory was originally Arthur's industry, and he could directly enjoy the cost price of cars, and the cost of using cars as rewards would not be too high.
Secondly, with the development of Australasia's transportation construction, cars have also become one of the main means of transportation for Australasia people.
Most people still accept cars as rewards.
After all, the official price of a car is as high as hundreds of pounds, which is the income of an Australasian without food or drink for two years.
Now government officials, capitalists, new nobles, small and medium-sized businessmen and other groups are the major users of cars. Coupled with the large number of taxi drivers in Australasian, the car usage in Australasian ranks among the top in the world.
According to the sales data of Benz Automobile Factory in Australasian, the Australasian market purchased a total of 713,700 vehicles, with an average of one car for every 28 people.
Although this number is not high, it is not bad at this time point.
With more immigrants coming and the increase in per capita income in Australasian, the number of cars and per capita car ownership will naturally increase.
The frequent use of cars has brought the biggest change to the world, which is the increase in oil prices.
Whether it is a small family car or a medium or large truck, it uses diesel or gasoline refined from petroleum.
This undoubtedly greatly increased the demand for oil in the world market. According to the current situation, as of 1919, the price of oil has more than doubled from 19 years ago, and the price of gasoline has tripled, which is enough to show how huge the value of oil will be in the future.
As one of the countries with the largest oil reserves in the world, the rise in oil prices is actually a good thing for Australasia.
So far, most of the world's oil-producing areas are in the hands of Britain, Russia and Australasia.
The situation in Russia is chaotic. Let's not talk about whether it can develop oil, and even the right to develop oil in the country may fall into someone's hands.
And the British Empire's control of part of the oil reserves is also a good thing for Australasia.
After all, the area with oil is too wide, and Australasia alone cannot fully control it.
But if the British are also part of the oil interests, the British will try their best to control the oil reserves in other countries to achieve the goal of controlling oil prices.
With the British attracting firepower in the open, Australasia will not be coveted by other countries when it uses oil materials to make profits behind the scenes.
In other words, if you want to covet Australasia's oil resources, you have to see if the British agree.
Before the two major concerns of France and the United States are completely eliminated, the British will never abandon Australasia, a natural ally, for a little oil profit.
Therefore, while European countries are concentrating on restoring the economy and industry damaged by the war, Australasia has already formulated a plan for oil extraction, will establish a complete defense system in the Persian Gulf territory, and officially carry out oil exploration and extraction.
Although Arthur is very sure that the Persian Gulf region has more than 60% of the world's oil reserves, before the oil reserves are thoroughly explored, Arthur naturally tells others this data without any evidence.
Let's not talk about how shocking it is to hear such exaggerated data from Arthur in advance. I'm afraid that before there is actual evidence, not many people will fully believe in the value of the Persian Gulf region.
September 1919, World Alliance.
Although this is just a regular meeting of the World Alliance, the people attending the meeting generally have serious faces, as if something big has happened.
In the center of the meeting, on the four most spacious seats, the four representatives representing the four great powers of the Allied Powers all looked unhappy.
"Everyone, Russia needs your help!" Glenn Vasilyevich, the Russian representative to the World Alliance, said with a serious and slightly pleading face.
Representative Glenn has asked for help more than once, but the response has never been as great as today.
Hearing Representative Glenn's request, almost everyone looked at Billy Gray next to Representative Glenn.
Billy Gray is the representative of the British Empire to the World Alliance, and his opinions actually represent the opinions of the British Empire.
In the current World Alliance, the opinions of the British Empire can influence the choices of most countries and can even directly promote the decisions of the World Alliance.
"Representative Glenn is right. We can't sit and wait for death. God will not allow a wrong belief to rule Eastern Europe. As a part of Europe, we must do our best to maintain peace and prosperity in Europe." Billy Gray stood up and expressed his attitude without hesitation.
The last time he intervened in the Hungarian Civil War, many countries, including the British Empire, tasted the sweetness.
Although the Hungarian Civil War has been ended, Hungary has also paid a lot of price to withdraw the World Alliance's troops from its territory.
Russia is larger than Hungary, and the World Alliance is destined to gain more benefits from Russia.
"Yes, the civil war in Russia has exceeded our expectations. It's time for the Russian people to enjoy a peaceful environment." John Yandali, a representative of Australasia, nodded in agreement and expressed his opinion.
In general, Australasia's diplomatic strategy is basically in line with that of Britain. After all, Britain and Australasia are close allies now, and the two countries can only gain greater benefits through cooperation.
Just like this time, the British decided to intervene in the Russian Civil War, and intervening in the Russian Civil War would not harm the interests of Australasia, and it would even be beneficial to the interests of Australasia, so Australasia could not stop it.
In fact, at this time, two of the four major powers had already expressed their positions, and the other one was the party seeking help, which had basically determined the attitude of the entire World Alliance.
For such a thing that was almost set in stone, the French could not clearly refute it.
Besides, the continued existence of Tsarist Russia was not a bad thing for the French. After all, it was Tsarist Russia that signed the alliance with the French, not the current Soviet Russia.
After several major powers expressed their positions one after another, it was the turn of small and medium-sized countries to show their loyalty.
After some operations and voting, dozens of countries in the World Alliance voted with an absolutely overwhelming advantage to agree to use force to intervene in the Russian Civil War, and decided how many troops each country would send.
Because the British were the leader, they also sent the most troops in this intervention war.
According to the British promise, the British will form at least 200,000 troops within three months, and land in Danzig, and join forces with other countries to intervene in the Russian Civil War.
In addition to the 200,000 British troops, the World Alliance's intervention in the civil war also includes: 100,000 French, 100,000 Australasia, 100,000 Italian, 100,000 Romanian, 80,000 Serbian, 50,000 Dutch, 50,000 Belgian, 30,000 Greek, 20,000 Montenegrin, and 20,000 Hungarian troops, totaling 850,000 troops.
This 850,000 World Alliance coalition forces, plus the army of Tsarist Russia, can already maintain the advantage over Soviet Russia in terms of quantity.
Although there is no intention, or even expectation, to destroy the entire Soviet Russia through this coalition, of course, it is also hoped that the flames of Soviet Russia can be extinguished, at least to prevent the expansion of Soviet Russia from being as rapid as in history.
The best result for Australasia is that Russia is split into two. The continued existence of Tsarist Russia is a good thing for Australasia.
The containment of Soviet Russia will allow Germany to continue to face the pressure of multi-front warfare in the future World War II, so that Australasia will not have to bear it alone.
Of course, according to the current development of the world situation, no one can predict what will happen in the future, but the division of Russia will not be bad for Australasia.
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