Chapter 634 National Day, Rewards, Military Parade

Arthur still agreed to the Finnish order request. After all, it would not hurt to strengthen Finland's naval strength. The stronger Finland is, the more benefits Australasia can get from Finland.

In addition to the naval order, Dmitry also brought another request from the Finnish government, which was to strengthen cooperation with Australasia and even sign a treaty directly.

The reason why the Finns were so proactive was that after Russia had been silent for a period of time, Nicholas II's ambition to reunify Russia could no longer be suppressed.

Of course, Nicholas II is not too stupid now. It is impossible to directly target those separated countries, at least not in the short term.

Nicholas II now has only one goal, that is, to make the two Russias become one, and to make Tsarist Russia the real master of Russia again.

Even if many regions including Poland are lost, the reintegrated Russia is still the European bulldozer that people fear.

This has always been the purpose of the Tsarist government, first to restore domestic strength through unification, and then find a way to recover the previous territory.

There was no other way. After a long period of civil war, Nicholas II had realized that it was impossible for Russia to restore its pre-war prosperity in a short period of time.

A weakened Russia is obviously in the interests of more countries. Even France does not want Russia to be too strong.

Although Russia did not set its sights on the Baltic Sea and Finland, these countries that separated from Russia still felt nervous and strengthened their cooperation with the powers that had an impact on them.

Finland naturally found Australasia and wanted to ensure its independence by signing an alliance with Australasia.

Arthur would naturally not refuse this. An effective alliance treaty would allow Arthur to control Finland more firmly.

For their own independence, the Finns would also move closer to Australasia and strengthen the relationship between the two countries.

In addition to Finland, Arthur also took the opportunity to bring in the Philippines, the United Sultanate of Kalimantan, and El Salvador to sign an alliance treaty.

This alliance treaty stipulates that if any country that signed the treaty is attacked by a non-treaty country, it will be regarded as an attack on all countries that signed the treaty.

The remaining countries should respond within a week, and after one month they must be in the same diplomatic status as all the allied countries.

This also means that if any allied country is attacked, the other allies must declare war on this country after one month.

Although it seems that Australasia is relying on its status as a great power to protect other allies, in fact, it is Australasia that has benefited the most.

Because small and medium-sized countries basically will not declare war on the entire alliance because of conflicts, but Australasia will get help from the entire alliance when facing war.

Of course, Australasia also generally guarantees the peace of the alliance. Whether it is Australasia or other countries that have signed the treaty, it can only be said that it is mutually beneficial and everyone has gained something.

As for the remaining economic and diplomatic cooperation in the treaty, these have basically been realized before the signing of the alliance treaty, so there is no need to mention it again.

This treaty can ensure that these countries become Australasia's firm allies and also Australasia's cooperative market.

Even El Salvador, the smallest country, has a population of millions and its economic situation is still good.

The Philippines and the Sultanate of Kalimantan, which have relatively large populations, are the two markets that Australasia controls the most for various reasons.

After independence, the economies of the Philippines and the Sultanate of Kalimantan will inevitably develop, and their markets will gradually expand, which will also help Australasia reduce losses in the next economic crisis.

In order to ensure the stability of the relationship between the allies, under the proposal of Australasia, all countries agreed that Australasia would mediate when there was a crisis between the allies.

However, the current situation that there are a total of five allied countries spread across four continents determines that there will be basically no problems between the allies.

The reason why Australasia proposed this is to clarify its leading or even dominant position in the alliance.

Regardless of whether there will be problems between the allies, Australasia's voice must be established.

On New Year's Day in 1926, because Australasia gathered many national representatives, nobles, big capitalists and newspaper media, the city of Fort Saint-Arthur quickly became lively.

Because of the participation of many countries, this grand military parade has attracted the attention of many countries and many people, and is called a show of strength by the British and Australian system.

This is also unavoidable. Basically, all the countries participating in the military parade are countries that have covenants with Britain and Australasia. Although France and the United States will send diplomatic representatives to participate in the Australasian military parade, they will not use their troops to join.

Under the close attention of various countries, time quickly came to 1926, and the military parade on January 10 was getting closer and closer.

Broadcasting companies and propaganda departments have been urgently debugging radio stations, because the venue of the National Day event has been moved to Fort St. Arthur, and they must ensure that the speeches at the National Day event can be received by most parts of the country.

For areas as far away as New Zealand and New Guinea, although the broadcast signal cannot be received on the same day, the news about the speech will be released at the fastest speed on the next day, and Arthur will never miss the publicity.

It is worth mentioning that in 1926, the population of Australasia experienced a year of rapid growth and reached more than 29.76 million people.

The population is about to cross the 30 million mark, which is very gratifying to Arthur.

Although the population of 30 million is not a lot, it is the biggest progress for Australasia, which used to have a population of only a few million.

There is another benefit of the increasing population, that is, the number of newborns will gradually increase with the growth of the population, and the rate of population growth is getting faster and faster.

If the population growth rate can be maintained as it was last year, Arthur is confident that the population of Australasia will be increased to more than 35 million before 1930.

After New Year's Day, the armies of various countries participating in the military parade are undergoing intensive training to avoid any mistakes at such a time of public attention.

You know, if there is a problem with the military parade, it is not only Australasia that loses face, but also the country that has the problem.

If there is no problem with the military parade of other countries, but there is a problem with itself, doesn't it mean that the combat effectiveness of its own army is not as good as that of other countries?

For such an opportunity to show strength and show muscles in front of the whole world, even those small countries will not miss it.

On January 10, 1926, under the attention of the public, Australasia's National Day activities officially began.

Arthur's speech is bound to be indispensable for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the country. This speech does not need too much sensational words, just need to affirm the efforts of the Australasia government and people in the past 20 years, which is the best encouragement for the country and people.

Obviously, the people are also very satisfied with the country's efforts in the past 20 years. In 20 years, Australasia has completed the leap from an ordinary country to a great power, and even became one of the four permanent members of the World Alliance that control the discourse power.

Although there are still many voices that think Australasia is only the fourth or fifth in the world, no matter which country it is, it can no longer ignore the influence of Australasia.

Even France, one of the old powers, dare not say that it can crush Australasia in all aspects.

Even if it were not for the heritage brought to France by the colonies, I am afraid that France would not be qualified to compete with Australasia.

There are many links in this National Day event. After Arthur's speech, it is the official National Day time.

The guards escorted an Australasia flag and walked forward slowly. Surrounded by the national anthem "Australasia, Forward!", the flag slowly rose and finally fluttered in the sky of the square.

After watching all this with a little solemnity and seriousness, Arthur signaled Prime Minister Roger to proceed to the next step.

What is the next link? Naturally, it is to reward the heroes of the past 20 years.

Of course, ceremonies such as enfeoffment and rewards have been held many times. This time, it is just to reward some people who have established new merits, and to promote those who have accumulated enough merits.

Many of the people who developed rockets, such as Tsiolkovsky and Hermann, as well as the researchers of the Royal Dockyard who developed aircraft carriers, and the scientists of the Royal Academy of Sciences, have been given new titles.

This has further increased the number of nobles in Australasia. All the nobles together have a scale of more than 300 people, although more than 200 of them are non-hereditary knights.

To be precise, there are 315 nobles in Australasia, of which 268 are knights, 42 are barons, 4 are viscounts, and 1 is an earl.

Except for Prime Minister Kent, who holds the title of earl, the highest title of other nobles is only viscount, who can receive dividends of about 5,000 Australian dollars each year. This is the income that every noble can get, and it is also one of the main sources of income for the new nobles in Australasia.

Prime Minister Kent has more earl titles, and the annual dividend is as high as 20,000 Australian dollars, which is equivalent to the total annual income of nearly 200 Australians.

Although the power of these new nobles is much lower than that of traditional European nobles, their status is relatively stable.

As long as the royal family exists and the throne of the King of Australasia exists, the noble class will not be abolished, and those who have obtained the title will always enjoy this benefit.

Although the dividends seem to be a lot, the number of nobles is destined not to be too many. After all, it is impossible to obtain a noble title without accumulating enough merit.

The requirement for merit also means that most people's titles will remain at the level of knights, and barons are already the peak of life for ordinary people.

It is no exaggeration to say that ordinary people will never be able to reach the level of viscounts and earls on the Internet.

But every step forward in the title brings huge improvements to oneself and the family. Judging from the annual dividends alone, the difference in dividend income between different nobles is as high as several times or even more than ten times.

Fortunately, Arthur has established a joint noble consortium, and the annual income is completely sufficient to distribute dividends to the nobles.

These new nobles must also guarantee the status of the royal family and the king for their annual dividend income.

The reason is simple. If the royal family's position is not stable, the income of these many financial groups will be doomed to be lost.

By then, even if the royal family wanted to give them dividends, they would not be able to take out the money. These new nobles still understood this simple truth.

Under the envious eyes of the people, dozens of new nobles were born in Australasia, strengthening the power of the aristocracy.

Then, the National Day activities came to the next stage, that is, the government reported the country's achievements in the past 20 years and commemorated the soldiers and heroes who died for the country.

This stage lasted for a long time. After all, this was the first ten-year anniversary of Australasia, and the country had changed a lot in 20 years.

After all these ceremonies were completed, the time was around 11 noon.

Although more than three hours had passed, hundreds of thousands of people in the square had no intention of leaving, but waited expectantly for the next stage.

The National Day ceremony was quite solemn, and there was no rest time between each stage, which was a test for all those who participated in the ceremony.

Fortunately, the Australasians still have a deep patriotism for the country, so this little wait will naturally not cause any dissatisfaction.

At nearly 12 o'clock, the military parade ceremony officially began.

Although it was already time for lunch, the soldiers were still in high spirits, and they were not in a bad mental state because of the long wait.

The first to be reviewed was the Australasian Army. The carefully selected Guards soldiers passed the reviewing stand solemnly and majestically. After Arthur extended his hand to greet them, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Long live His Majesty the King! Long live Australasia!"

Arthur nodded, and was quite satisfied with the Guards who were the first to appear. The military parade is not only to show off its muscles to the outside world, but also to enhance Australasia's international influence in disguise.

Therefore, the army that takes the lead becomes very important. After careful consideration, Arthur decided to use the carefully selected review team of the Guards to lead the National Day military parade.

After the Guards, there is the cavalry company formed by the regular army. The horses of these cavalry companies are all composed of Australasian wild horses, which are carefully selected and bred horses. They look very strong and look mighty and domineering with a full set of military uniforms.

In order to increase the awe and solemnity of the cavalry company, all the horses in the cavalry company are uniformly white, carefully selected and maintained, and look flawless.

Such horses are matched with a solemn and powerful army, which naturally brings a greater shock to other small and medium-sized countries.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of horses defecating under the attention of the public in the square, these horses have reduced feeding and defecated in advance before being reviewed.

A whole team of cavalry passed solemnly in front of the reviewing stand, and then shouted to Arthur very enthusiastically and respectfully: "Long live His Majesty the King! Long live Australasia!"

The sound of horses marching in an orderly manner is the most effective way to prove the combat strength of this army.

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