Chapter 217 Continuous Growth of Finance

Most of these universities were established in the past two years. It will take at least one or two years for their first batch of college students to graduate.

At present, there are many university majors in Australasia, and different universities also have their own specialties.

For example, the National University of Australasia has more students in physics, chemistry, and architecture.

The first thing Arthur told Minister of Education Richard to do was to expand the scale of the current universities as much as possible and further upgrade the teaching level and quality of the universities.

This also means that Australasia needs to introduce more university professors and lecturers from Europe to meet the teaching needs of Australasia's universities.

At present, Australasia does not have a formal military school to train military talents in various aspects for the country.

Arthur considered again and again and finally decided to establish a military academy in the name of the royal family, named the Royal Military Academy of Australasia.

The three major colleges of the Army Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Aviation Academy form a complete Royal Military Academy of Australasia.

The Royal Military Academy will be established with a capital of 5 million Australian dollars by the royal family, and Arthur will be the honorary president to train various military talents for Australasia.

Among the three major colleges, the Aviation College is very simple. It only needs to transfer all the training personnel of the Aviation Laboratory. This is the simplest scale of the Aviation College.

In addition to being drawn from the military, Arthur also plans to hire personnel from Europe at high salaries for the Army College and the Naval College.

As long as they are capable, they will be invited to the Military College as teachers at high salaries.

The Royal Military College has two main ways of enrolling students. One is that high school students enter through examinations and are traditional students of the Royal Military College.

The other way of enrolling students is to select soldiers with potential from the army.

No matter which way of enrolling, as long as they graduate successfully and pass the exam, they can become officers of the Australasian Army.

In order to make the establishment of the Royal Military College faster and the teaching conditions more perfect, Arthur also plans to invite a large number of experts from Germany and the United Kingdom to help the Royal Military College to be established smoothly.

After all, Germany and the United Kingdom are the strongest in terms of the army and navy.

Whenever a country's army shows strong potential and strength, it will be praised as the Prussia of a certain region.

This is enough to show that the strength of the German Empire's army is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is also the best praise for the German Army.

Compared with the development of universities, the development of technical schools is much simpler.

Because the purpose of cultivating talents is different, technical schools often only need some experienced talents to be established, and students in technical schools often only need to master a technology to graduate.

At present, the three technical schools in Australasia can train thousands of technical workers and talents for Australasia.

If various technical trainings in the private sector are counted, the number will be even greater.

But Arthur is not satisfied with this number, and specifically instructed Minister Richard to expand the scale of Australasia's technical schools and establish more technical schools.

In terms of technical workers and talents, Australasia is not too many, and it will train as many as it can.

After more than six years of construction and development, Australasia's transportation system has gradually improved.

First of all, Australasia's longest railway industrial railway has basically achieved single-line traffic, and it is only a few months away from the final goal of double-line traffic.

This industrial railway has greatly improved the transportation environment of the Australian continent, making the communication between the west and east of Australia more effective.

The second is the railway in New Zealand. The current railway construction in the North Island of New Zealand has been basically completed, and the circular railway has made the transportation in the North Island of New Zealand extremely developed.

There is currently only one railway in the South Island of New Zealand, which runs from Picton in the northernmost part of the South Island of New Zealand to Invercargill in the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand.

Of course, such a railway scale cannot satisfy Australasia. Arthur gave the next railway construction plan of the transportation department. In the Australian region, a northern railway will be built to connect the entire northern region of Australia, just like the industrial railway in the south surrounding the entire Australia.

The mileage of this section of railway is not inferior to that of the industrial railway, and Arthur also gave eight years to complete this section of railway.

Fortunately, Australia has enough manpower and funds, and the northern railway construction plan has also been agreed by everyone.

The railway construction in New Zealand has been basically completed, and other areas where railways are not popular are mostly sparsely populated mountainous areas.

It is not cost-effective to build railways in these areas, and it is completely unnecessary.

Therefore, in New Zealand, the most important task of the transportation department is to build more roads, so that the road network covers all cities and towns in New Zealand, so that New Zealanders can truly feel the benefits of transportation development.

The last report was made by the finance department.

Throughout 1906, the total fiscal expenditure of the Australian Royal Government was 29.31 million Australian dollars, the total fiscal revenue was 21.2 million Australian dollars, and the fiscal deficit reached about 8.1 million Australian dollars.

The reason for such a high fiscal deficit is actually because of the industrial construction currently taking place everywhere in Australasia.

If we only look at fiscal revenue, the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Australasia is rising every year, and the fiscal deficit is getting smaller and smaller.

This can be seen from the available funds of the government's fiscal department. At present, the available funds of the Ministry of Finance are as high as 234 million Australian dollars, which is only 60 million Australian dollars less than four years ago.

But in the past four years, Australasia's economic development has already exceeded this figure, and the total fiscal revenue has increased by half compared with four years ago.

In addition to the development of industry, Australasia's agriculture has also ushered in a lot of development.

Because of the large amount of indigenous investment, Australasia's current available arable land has increased by 50% compared with four years ago, and the per capita arable land area has increased by 30% compared with four years ago.

There is also animal husbandry. The number of sheep in Australasia exceeds 160 million. If it is distributed to every Australasian, even each person can be allocated 24 sheep.

This figure is enough to show how outrageous Australasia's animal husbandry is. It is not an exaggeration to call it a major animal husbandry country.

This does not include the cattle and other animals owned by Australia. Wool, beef, mutton, milk and other livestock products are the key agricultural and animal husbandry products exported by Australasia, and they can also generate a considerable income every year.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the British Empire. At the beginning, the livestock product supply area of ​​the British Empire was New Zealand, which was eventually replaced by the developed Australia.

After the establishment of Australasia, it naturally inherited Australia's status and became the livestock supplier of the British Empire and even many European countries.

It is precisely because of the highly developed livestock industry that in Australasia, meat is cheaper than grain, and meat is also a very important part of the food of the people of Australasia.

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