Chapter 706 Planning for Hawaii and Alaska

The US government is in an awkward situation at this time.

Because they found that the current situation is out of their control. As long as Britain interferes with any state, the state will remain neutral in the war, and even directly cut off contact with the federal government.

Although there are only a few states holding independence referendums, this does not mean that other states that remain in the federation are loyal.

But the US government has no good way to deal with this. With most of the troops already going to the front line to fight the coalition forces, the US government does not have enough troops to prevent the rebellion of these states.

More importantly, what can the US government do? If high pressure is applied to these temporarily neutral states, I am afraid that what these states should do is not to return to the embrace of the United States, but to immediately contact the countries behind the coalition forces and ask for their support to hold an independence referendum.

Especially after the Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated, the vast majority of Americans and states no longer had hope for this war. They firmly believed that the US government could not win the war at all.

At this time, the United States was not the world hegemon. When faced with setbacks, Americans also wanted to retreat.

The only navy that could turn the tables in the United States has already lost some of its warships. Can we still count on the army that was temporarily recruited to work?

President Hoover fell into deep thought while looking at the war reports from the front, because the war reports from the front have shown that there are less than 10,000 truly reliable troops among the hundreds of thousands of troops in the United States.

Most of the troops only look huge in size, and they are just cannon fodder in real battles. Their only role is to delay the enemy's advance.

But what can be done?

The command of the army lies with the Army Headquarters. As the highest leader of the United States, President Hoover can only request general orders from the army.

President Hoover can do nothing about the current situation. Compared with the crazy smashing and looting in the previous months, President Hoover now just sighed, as if he accepted his fate.

President Hoover's silence does not mean that the US government is very calm.

In fact, the activities inside the building were the most intense before the building collapsed.

However, Arthur did not care about the ups and downs in the US government at this time. For Arthur, since the outcome of this war has been determined, the most important thing is of course to arrange the management of the territory after the war.

Arthur still attaches great importance to Hawaii and Alaska, two lands that will soon join Australasia.

However, there are differences within the government on how to deal with these two lands.

One side thinks that the two states should be regarded as new colonies and localized over a long period of time.

But the other side thinks that Hawaii has an important geographical location, and Alaska is too remote, and it seems unnecessary to be a colony or localized in the future.

There is even one side that thinks that Alaska should be promoted to be independent. They think that Australasia has no use for Alaska, and it is not easy to manage across the Pacific Ocean.

Arthur naturally sees all these different voices, and naturally will not laugh at certain views because of the limitations of this era.

If it were not for the experience of later generations, Arthur would not have known that there are such rich mineral resources buried underground in Alaska.

Of course, despite the differences, there should be a relatively unified opinion on the treatment of these two regions.

The final result is that Hawaii will join the Kingdom of Australasia as a state directly under Australasia, and Alaska will become a royal territory, directly under the management of the royal family.

Arthur took some effort to make Alaska a royal territory. Although he could achieve this directly with his own prestige, it would be too arbitrary to do so, which would not be a good thing for the future monarch.

In the end, by giving up the royal territory, Arthur turned the entire state of Alaska into the Alaska royal territory, which is also the fourth royal direct territory after the Western Pacific, South Pacific and Persian Gulf territories.

As for the original royal territory, some islands were incorporated into the Timor State, and some islands were incorporated into the Java State.

All newly occupied Pacific islands except Alaska and Hawaii were incorporated into the South Pacific Territory or the Western Pacific Territory.

These widely distributed islands will become the first line of defense in the east of Australasia, and they can also occupy a large amount of territorial waters for Australasia. These oceans have quite rich marine resources, which are also quite rich stocks for Australasia's fisheries.

After occupying the entire Oceania, most of the Pacific Ocean will become Australasia's territorial waters.

This is very exaggerated. Needless to say, the seafood in the Pacific Ocean will become one of the economic pillars of Australasia in the future, and fishermen will become a popular job in Australasia.

After slightly changing the administrative divisions, Arthur also checked the construction of Java and Sumatra.

It has been three years since Java and Sumatra were incorporated into Australasia. During these three years, the transfer of indigenous populations and the transportation of immigrants have been the main work of these two states.

It is going relatively smoothly at present. Especially after the outbreak of the economic crisis, Australasia attracted a large number of immigrants, a large part of whom came to Java and Sumatra.

Currently, most of the indigenous people in these two states have been transferred to Kalimantan, and the remaining indigenous people are expected to be transferred within a year.

Of course, more importantly, the rubber industrial park in Java has resumed production. The rubber industry in Australasia can bring tens of millions of Australian dollars in net profit every year, which also makes the government's fiscal revenue rise steadily.

At present, the population of Java has exceeded 900,000, and the population of Sumatra is about 500,000.

The localization of these two islands was also completed not long ago, and they have now become direct subordinates of Australasia.

Speaking of these two islands, we naturally cannot forget the situation in Kalimantan.

The United Sultanate of Kalimantan has been established for three years, and the current development is still quite smooth.

Although casualties are inevitable in the transportation of indigenous people, especially after these indigenous people go to new areas, they also need a fairly long adaptation period.

But overall it is still very smooth. At present, there are at least 20 million indigenous people in Kalimantan, and the construction of the United Sultanate of Kalimantan is also very rapid.

Muhammad naturally became the first great sultan of the United Sultanate of Kalimantan, and because of this, his territory gained a narrow outlet to the sea.

It is worth mentioning that the capital of the Great Sultanate was named by Muhammad at the request of Arthur.

Arthur named this narrow outlet Holiland Rubles, which means the sacred place of rebirth.

At present, Holiland Rubles has become the largest city on the island of Kalimantan, with a total population of more than 2 million. Looking at the world, it is definitely a megacity.

Of course, if we compare the degree of advancement of cities, this city is naturally far inferior to the cities in Europe, America and Australia.

But Arthur's idea is not to westernize these natives. The biggest role of keeping these natives in Kalimantan is naturally to let them play their due role in times of war.

The human wave tactics will still be very useful at least in the next few decades. And in a few decades, the developed United Sultanate of Kalimantan can also become an effective market for Australasia. The income from dumping industrial products alone is enough for Australasia to survive any crisis.

The same role also exists in the Philippines. However, the Philippines is more advanced than Kalimantan.

After several years of development, the population of the Philippines is close to 13 million, and it is still rising.

It is expected that Kalimantan and the Philippines will be able to provide Australasia with at least 2 million combat troops in the future.

Even if it is more demanding, the number of troops can be increased to more than 3 million, which is why Arthur is not afraid of any war at present.

Even if it is only 3 million cannon fodder, it can support at least one year when it is put into the battlefield.

Coupled with the same number of elite troops in Australasia, no country is afraid at present, which is also the confidence of Australasia to become the world hegemon in the future.

Of course, the current Kalimantan is only South Kalimantan occupied by the Netherlands. The northern lands including Brunei, Sarawak and the North Borneo Protectorate are all British territory.

Arthur naturally has ideas about these lands. Not to mention the millions of natives living on these lands, these lands alone are enough to double the number of natives on Kalimantan Island.

The fully formed Kalimantan Island can feed hundreds of millions of indigenous people without any problems, and it will also become the most reliable overseas market for Australasia.

Other markets may change, but there will be no changes in Kalimantan Island, which is at its doorstep.

Even if each of the hundreds of millions of indigenous people can only provide Australasia with the value of one Australian dollar per year, the total income is hundreds of millions of Australian dollars.

If this number can be doubled, Australasia will have sufficient sources of funds for various construction projects in the next few decades.

Of course, the elderly population in Kalimantan Island is increasing, and the controller of the Sultanate must be someone that Arthur can trust.

At present, Muhammad is doing very well. He understands who is the real master of the country, and there is no action that Arthur did not expect.

But this is normal. Looking closely at the indigenous distribution map divided by Arthur for Kalimantan Island, such political division has made Kalimantan Island not out of Arthur's control.

In particular, the ruling area of ​​​​the Great Sultan Muhammad is surrounded by all other indigenous sultanates.

If Muhammad had any rebellious thoughts, he would probably be besieged by all the sultanates before he could take any action, given Arthur's high reward.

After all, for those sultans, Arthur did not harm their interests, but Muhammad was a sword hanging over their heads.

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