Chapter 620 Colonial Incident

Although the current TV sets are a huge problem in terms of cost, it is impossible to give up the development of TV sets.

It goes without saying how important rear-view TV is to people. Who doesn't want to watch a movie or TV with his family in his spare time?

Of course, this is in the case of leisure time. If people cannot be guaranteed to have enough free time after work, buying a TV is just to have a TV, not to watch TV.

Now it seems that it is impossible for TV to be truly popularized in thousands of households without decades of improvement.

However, the good news is that Australasia has achieved most of the popularization of wireless broadcasting and radio, just in time for TV sets to develop for a while and let radios make more profits.

"Let's start with small-scale production, Mr. Baird. The improvement of TV sets cannot be stopped. I am optimistic that this guy will replace the position of radio and become the first choice of people's home appliances." After thinking for a while, Arthur ordered.

There are still many middle-class and rich people in Australasia, and these people are the real consumers of TV at present.

It just so happens that TV sets can also be used as a prize to reward people who have made contributions, and by the way, it can also increase the popularity of TV sets.

Anyway, it is not a loss to do it anyway. It is still necessary to occupy the TV market in advance. After all, brand and popularity are the guarantee of the market in an industry.

"I hope to reduce the production cost of TV sets to less than 100 Australian dollars as soon as possible, and to improve the stability of movie playback as much as possible. This is the key to popularizing this guy to more families." Arthur said with a smile.

There must be enough profit between the cost and the selling price, which also means that according to the current cost, people may have to spend 3 to 5 years of income to buy a TV.

If the production cost can be reduced to less than 100 Australian dollars, there is hope that TV will expand the market in a short time.

After all, the purpose of TV is just to play movies. Compared with the cost of more than 100 Australian dollars, why don't people go to the cinema to watch cheaper movies?

More than 100 Australian dollars is enough to take your family to watch dozens of times, which is much more cost-effective than buying a TV.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The high cost of television is the biggest problem of television at present. In fact, as long as the cost can be reduced, the current television can meet Arthur's requirements.

After all, in history, television was not really popular until after World War II. Even if the birth time of television in history was this year and next year, the development time of more than 20 years actually proves that the current television in history is not as good as the current research results in Australasia.

As soon as Arthur came back from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Foreign Minister Deze hurried to see him and brought a news that surprised Arthur: "A large-scale rebellion broke out in the Dutch East Indies!"

The reason why Arthur was surprised was that the current Dutch East Indies only had Java Island, Sumatra Island and most of Borneo. The distance between these three islands was not far, and the pressure to control these lands was much less than the entire Dutch East Indies before.

The size of the Dutch colonial army has not been reduced, so how can they not even control the smaller Dutch East Indies?

Until he heard the explanation of Foreign Minister Deze, Arthur nodded and understood the current situation of the Netherlands.

The former coachman of the sea, the Netherlands, is now a second-rate country in Europe, or even a third-rate country to put it bluntly.

After Australasia occupied part of the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch could only increase the exploitation of the natives of the East Indies again to maintain a balance of their income in the East Indies.

This made the natives of the Dutch East Indies very dissatisfied, and a rebellion broke out that was even more serious than before.

The rebellion at this time was still in a controllable stage for the Dutch government. After all, the Netherlands is a European country after all, and it is easy to suppress the rebellion of the natives.

But since World War I, all countries have been facing serious economic problems. Although the Netherlands was not a belligerent in World War I, the Netherlands' economic problems were also quite serious. Who made the Netherlands and Germany have a close economic relationship before?

The Germans suffered huge economic losses after World War I, which also seriously affected the industry and economy of the Netherlands.

In order to save the local economy of the Netherlands, the Dutch could only focus on the tens of millions of natives in the Dutch East Indies again, and exploit the natives more crazily to ease the domestic economic problems.

Such oppression led to the common dissatisfaction of colonial immigrants and natives. To put it bluntly, the Dutch East Indies was just a colony, and the treatment of the Dutch here was completely different from that of the native Dutch.

The people on whom the Dutch raised taxes also included the Dutch and Dutch-Turkish mixed-race people in the Dutch East Indies, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among those Dutch, and even a small-scale march broke out.

In fact, this is nothing, which country doesn't have some marches? The colonial government was also quite polite to these pure Dutch people, and it took good words to persuade these Dutch people to give up the march.

But the Dutch march gave the natives hope, and they believed that the colonial government at this time was already weak.

Under the leadership of some mixed-race people with ulterior motives, the natives of the Dutch East Indies also followed the march, and even some mines and factories went on strike to resist the harsh taxes and cruel policies of the colonial government.

The mixed-race people's incitement caused the number of natives participating in the march to exceed hundreds of thousands in a short period of time, directly threatening the rule of the colonial government.

This naturally caused dissatisfaction with the Dutch colonial government. After all, the Dutch are different from these natives.

No one can take the risk of slaughtering their compatriots, but there is no risk in slaughtering the natives. Even if the march is calmed down, it will be praised at home.

With this idea in mind, the Dutch colonial government launched a brutal suppression of the march in the Dutch East Indies, and forcibly repelled two large-scale marches through two armed suppressions.

These two suppressions killed at least thousands of natives and at least tens of thousands of wounded. This treatment, which was completely different from the Dutch march, made the natives and mixed-race people very dissatisfied. The intensity of the march increased, and even a full strike was held in some cities.

A large number of natives began to attack some cities in the colony, and even successfully robbed the arsenal of a city.

This also gave the natives hope. They believed that the current Dutch government was already weak, and it was time for the Dutch East Indies to be independent and break away from the cruel rule of the Dutch.

Without any country's participation, the number of people marching and striking in the Dutch East Indies has exceeded one million, and the number of armed rebellions has reached tens of thousands.

This is no longer something that the current Dutch East Indies government can control. The current Dutch East Indies still has tens of millions of natives. If they really unite to resist the rule of the Dutch, even if the Kingdom of the Netherlands tries its best, it may not be able to suppress the rebellion of the natives.

But this is actually inevitable. The Europeans' indifference to the lives of the natives means that these natives simply cannot obey the rule of the Europeans.

It's okay if the country is strong, and these natives will also admit defeat. Once a country like the Netherlands enters a period of decline, these natives will try every means to break away from the rule of the Netherlands.

"What is the current reaction of the Dutch?" Arthur asked with a little curiosity.

The current situation is very difficult for the Kingdom of the Netherlands to deal with, which makes Arthur very curious about what the Dutch will do next.

After all, the Dutch East Indies is also a colony consisting of three large islands with tens of millions of natives, and it is very close to Australasia. It is impossible for Arthur to say that he is not tempted.

Perhaps this is also the best opportunity for Australasia to interfere in the Dutch East Indies, and even to obtain the entire Dutch East Indies from the Netherlands through the exchange of interests.

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