Chapter 36: Public Support

"Let's go, Minister Thomas. It seems that the place in front is where the Royal Relief Committee distributes supplies. Since we have come this far, let's go and take a look." Arthur suddenly saw the crowds of people in the street ahead, and the crowd seemed to be queuing up for something, so he said to Thomas with a little interest.

"Yes, Your Highness." Minister Thomas immediately followed and said respectfully.

In front of the crowd, several officials of the relief association were registering and distributing food in a tense and orderly manner.

Although there were at least thousands of people in these lines, it was surprising that these thousands of people formed three long lines, from the central street of Sydney to the port road in the south.

Not only that, Arthur basically did not find any queue-jumping or scrambling along the way. The people in the queue were anxious but orderly, poor but polite, and occasionally there were even a few strong men who would make way for the elderly behind them.

"Thomas, is this also done by your Ministry of Public Security? You can make so many people so orderly when receiving supplies without any chaos or scrambles. It seems that your Ministry of Public Security has achieved much more than this!" Arthur looked at all the people in line moving forward in an orderly manner with a little surprise, and couldn't help but express his inner doubts.

"No, no, no, Your Highness. This is not the credit of the Ministry of Public Security, it is your credit!" Minister Thomas shook his head and explained: "Everyone knows that it is Your Highness who distributes food. Most people will only line up with joy and gratitude. Occasionally, there are selfish guys who want to cut in line, and they will be taught a lesson by those who respect you. Because of this, so many people seem so orderly."

Arthur suddenly realized that he had such a strong appeal in Australia. Seeing the orderly crowd in front of him, Arthur couldn't help but feel an incomparable heroic spirit in his heart.

"His Highness is here!"

"Long live His Highness!"

Finally, a few sharp-eyed people still noticed Arthur's arrival. They didn't care about lining up and rushed to Arthur, shouting excitedly and enthusiastically.

"Long live His Highness!"

As the saying goes, thousands of words can be summed up in one sentence, and the Australian crowd is like this now. Facing the monarch who reduced their taxes and gave them free food, they did not hesitate to express their love.

"Guys, I know you may come from the British Empire, France, Germany or even other parts of Europe. But you are now in Australia, in this beautiful place. Now, please tell me loudly, who exempted most of your taxes, who gave you free food when you were in trouble, and didn't let you worry about a little food?" As the crowd cheered loudly, Minister Thomas had quietly come to the highest place near the site, where the officials of the Heritage Committee were.

As a small official who went all the way to the position of parliamentarian and even colonial prime minister, Minister Thomas's oratory skills are also very outstanding.

Minister Thomas decided to take advantage of this opportunity to show his goodwill to Arthur. Smart people can see that Arthur attaches great importance to cultivating his status and prestige in the hearts of Australians. In this case, Thomas will go with the flow and take the opportunity to publicize Arthur's achievements on such a grand occasion today.

It must be said that Minister Thomas is very eloquent, and it may be that Australians are very satisfied with what Arthur has done so far.

After Minister Thomas asked twice, several nearby streets rang out incessantly: "Your Highness!" and "Long live Your Highness!".

Arthur's eyes flashed a look of satisfaction, but his face was still very calm. He signaled the crowd to stop, and then said: "My people, as your monarch, this is what I should and must do. Australia is a great country, and Australians are a great nation. I hope we can go hand in hand to make Australia the top of the world and let Australians reach the top of the world!"

"Long live Your Highness!"

"Long live Australia!"

There is nothing happier than having a monarch who loves his people and country, at least in the hearts of modern Australians.

If there is a way to count the public opinion, Arthur is absolutely confident that his support rate in Australia is definitely above 80%, and at least half of the more than one million Australians who can receive food will become his followers.

"How is the food distribution? How many people have received our food today?" After quieting the crowd, Arthur began to ask the officials in charge of distributing food.

As the most populous state in Australia, New South Wales does not have the largest number of poor people.

There is a big difference between immigrants in New South Wales and immigrants in other states, that is, immigrants in New South Wales are regular immigrants attracted from Europe, and their population quality is generally high, and they have more abilities, so their income is relatively high among all states.

Although other states, especially Western Australia, can also have a lot of immigrants every year, most of these immigrants are gold diggers attracted by the gold rush. Although a small number of them can successfully make a lot of money with the gold rush, there are still most people who are just gold mine workers and live a life that is not enough to make ends meet.

"Your Highness, up to now, our food relief has been going on for two days. In Sydney alone, more than 9,300 portions of food have been distributed in these two days. Among them, there are three particularly poor families, and we have given them one more portion of food." The official reported.

Under normal circumstances, each person is only allowed to receive one portion of relief food. But when encountering a particularly poor family or individual, an extra portion of food can be given to them at their discretion.

The poverty situation is determined by the official distributing the food, but under normal circumstances, as long as it falls within the scope of extreme poverty, there will basically be no restrictions.

After all, Arthur distributes food for his own reputation and prestige, and naturally will not cause his reputation to suffer losses for a little bit of profit.

Therefore, this time the food distribution is based on the principle of rather giving out a thousand more portions than missing a single person, and some more food is prepared.

"Well, in addition to the distribution of food, the name and address must be fully registered. There will be many relief policies in the future, and many of them will rely on the information registered now." Arthur ordered.

Because there is no more appropriate identity verification system, it is still very difficult to find a poor person in Australia.

The officials of the relief committee came up with this idea, which is to register the name and address of the recipient when distributing food, so that it will be more convenient to find people for various policies in the future.

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