Chapter 771: Full Localization of Colonies

Although Arthur had the idea of ​​building an empire, Australasia would definitely not take action before the fall of the Russian Empire.

Even if the Russian Empire fell, it would take some time to establish a new empire.

First, Arthur and the Australasia government made preparations so that the people could better accept the establishment of the empire.

Second, it was to avoid dissatisfaction among the Russians in Australasia. After all, it was a bit heartbreaking to think that Arthur would establish a new empire just after the fall of the Russian Empire.

But before taking action, some preparations were still necessary.

Starting from November 1930, when reporting various official news, Australasia's civilian news media would describe Australasia as a great country and empire without leaving any trace, in order to judge the reaction of the Australasia people.

The result was obvious that the vast majority of Australasia people recognized such a title, just as people recognized Arthur's contribution to the country.

After receiving positive responses from the people, the government had sufficient motivation. Isn't it a good thing to obey Arthur's orders, obey the will of the people, and create a lot of merit for yourself?

Under this circumstance, Arthur has already crowned himself as emperor to solve the domestic conflicts. At present, we only need to wait for the demise of the Russian Empire, and then exchange interests with Nicholas II to get the legal principles from the Eastern Roman Empire.

Because there are not many government affairs in the government, the development of the country is proceeding steadily every day.

Arthur set his sights on the localization of colonies and decided to promote the localization of all colonies before establishing the empire.

The most important part of the localization of colonies is to have economic industries with more characteristics in each region.

Since we want to build a local area, either all kinds of resources can be self-sufficient, or we must have a good scale in a certain industry.

The reason why Timor can be localized quickly is that Timor's original area is very small, and as a pilot area for localization in the country, under the full promotion of the government, it quickly achieved the first requirement of localization, that is, self-sufficiency of resources.

Next, New Guinea and Java Island have achieved the second requirement of localization, that is, they have unique economic products and have reached a certain scale.

Needless to say, Java Island. As the shining pearl in Southeast Asia, Java Island has fertile geology and is particularly suitable for growing food.

In addition, because it is located in the tropics, Laowa Island can achieve three crops a year, and is currently the best crop production area in Australasia.

Coupled with the large-scale rubber planting area, Java Island has formed a very good economic industry scale.

With the large amount of food and rubber exported every year, the economic scale of Java Island is not inferior to some local administrative regions, and it is also among the best among the localized colonies.

Although New Guinea is not as good as Java Island, it is also very advantageous compared to some administrative regions in Australia.

First of all, New Guinea has abundant natural rainfall. This alone has doomed the importance of New Guinea to the entire country.

But it is precisely because of this that Arthur has identified New Guinea as a key area for the future North-South Water Transfer.

Because New Guinea's water resources will be transferred to Australia in the future, this also means that New Guinea cannot build too many industries.

Especially in terms of heavy industry and heavy pollution industry, New Guinea cannot even think about building them.

To a certain extent, this has also affected New Guinea's industrial construction and economic development. In order to compensate New Guinea and avoid conflicts between New Guinea and Australia in the future, the Australasian government encourages and promotes the planting of related economic products in New Guinea and vigorously develops agriculture.

At present, in addition to the rubber industry, New Guinea also grows and exports yams, taro, sago, bananas and sweet potatoes in large quantities, and feeds livestock appropriately in the mountainous areas.

These relatively rare food productions have greatly enriched the food types of the entire Australasian region.

This can also be regarded as the government's compensation to the New Guinea region. New Guinea has achieved a considerable lead in these rare food crops. In addition to the large number of rubber planting areas and mineral resources, New Guinea's economy is also good, and its localization is quite successful.

In addition to these two relatively important localization areas, the localization of Sumatra and Sulawesi is also very successful.

Sumatra is the largest colony outside of New Guinea, and its development potential is relatively high.

However, due to insufficient population and proximity to the Strait of Malacca, it is more of a strategic defense role as a military base.

At present, the development of Sumatra is mostly concentrated in some existing cities.

The arable land around these cities has been well reclaimed and distributed to immigrants coming to Sumatra by the Sumatra government.

It is worth mentioning that Sumatra currently has the largest number of Asian immigrants except Hawaii.

Moreover, Sumatra is relatively vast and has rich mineral resources. As one of the best rubber planting areas in Southeast Asia, Sumatra is destined to not fail in localization just by relying on the rubber planting industry on the island.

Compared to the above several large islands, Sulawesi's advantages are not that great. As an island with a relatively large proportion of mountains among many Southeast Asian islands, Sulawesi's economic scale is not as large as imagined even in later generations.

But after all, it is a tropical island, anyway, it is still quite good to grow food.

With the small population of Sulawesi, it is still easy to achieve localization by achieving self-sufficiency.

However, the localization action only stays on these islands. In addition to these large-scale colonies, localization is still very difficult for colonies on other small islands.

First of all, the population of those small colonies is not large, which is the biggest factor hindering their localization.

Because if you want to localize, it is very important to build a large amount of infrastructure, including education and medical care.

But because the population of these colonies is only tens of thousands or even thousands, the colonial governments where they are located obviously do not have too much funds to promote infrastructure.

The finances of the royal government must give priority to the construction of key areas, and to a certain extent, they will also ignore the development of these areas.

It is also because of this that the large-scale colonies have been successfully localized, while the small colonies are still between colonies and the mainland.

Since it has been decided to fully promote the localization of colonies, these small colonies must also be taken into consideration.

On November 25, 1930, Arthur convened a cabinet meeting with the theme of promoting the localization of all colonies.

At this cabinet meeting, Arthur specifically mentioned many small island colonies headed by the Solomon Islands and put forward his own requirements.

"Whether it is Australia or New Zealand, whether it is the Solomon Islands or New Caledonia, they are all lands ruled by Australasia.

Now, at the great moment when our colonial localization policy is about to be realized, we must use the whole country's strength to promote the localization policy of all colonies.

The government should fully consider the vital interests of all people, and building a more complete infrastructure for the people in many small colonies should be the government's primary task."

The officials of the cabinet government are not fools, and they soon understood the intention of Arthur's words.

It is also a great job to realize the localization of all colonies. If this work could be accomplished before the establishment of the empire, Arthur's throne would undoubtedly be more stable.

Knowing this, officials naturally did not dare to underestimate Arthur's request. If there were problems with the localization of the colonies, at best, it would delay the government's major projects, and at worst, it would delay Arthur's chance to be crowned emperor. Such a result would be fatal!

Knowing that Arthur was definitely not a soft-hearted monarch, cabinet officials said that Arthur was right and promised to squeeze out a part of the finances to help the colonies build infrastructure.

Shortly after the cabinet meeting ended, on November 27, 1930, the Australasian government made public the results of the cabinet meeting, namely the "Plan to Support Construction in Backward Areas".

According to this plan, the royal government will spend 35 million Australian dollars within two years to help areas that have not yet fully established infrastructure to build more complete infrastructure to protect the interests of local people.

In the entire Australasia, the only areas that have not fully established infrastructure are those small colonies.

Even the smaller mainland, such as Tasmania, has established a complete infrastructure early, and the economic scale is quite strong.

35 million Australian dollars may not seem like much, but it is no problem to help these small colonies improve their infrastructure.

After the plan was announced, the government quickly took corresponding actions.

In terms of infrastructure, the three elements of education, medical care, and transportation are mainly improved.

As long as the island is inhabited, a corresponding clinic must be built. As long as the population reaches the village level, schools at least up to junior high school must be built.

In order to achieve the localization of all colonies, the cabinet officials have also fought hard.

After all, it is a great achievement to do this well, and it can even be recognized by Arthur with such merit. This is much more important than anything else in Australasia, and it is also a factor that determines whether these cabinet officials can go further and make their political careers more brilliant.

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