v3 Chapter 133： Australian Rail Ambition

"Australia's railway construction is now being planned. This is a road map. To get rich, build roads first. If there is no land transportation artery that can drive the two places, it is difficult for the inland economic development to rise by shipping alone. And the safety is not optimistic.”

After all, the world's No. 1 navy in the United Kingdom is not a vegetarian. They are at the northern end of the Indian Ocean because the Indian subcontinent extends almost south to the center of the Indian Ocean. When the two countries are at odds, there is no reason to prove that the United Kingdom will not attack Australia and other countries. In the Dutch industrial bases and cities in the East Indies, one attack and one defender. The attacking ground people can choose at will, but the defense needs to be comprehensive. The navy can come and go freely. Without convenient land transportation, we are afraid that our navy will be exhausted. Also to no avail. "

William IV's words have to be said to be very reasonable.

There is only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent a thief!

Everyone looked at the plans for Australia's railways that William IV had already prepared.

However, when they looked at the map of Australia, the simple strokes on it were gently passed, but they were extremely shocked.

Why?

Because William IV's railway construction route plan is too huge, so huge that it is suffocating.

I saw this area that has been outlined by William IV, from Perth, the capital of Western Australia, to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

After arriving here, it seems to be the central interchange of Australian railways.

The first bifurcation runs straight east from the middle to Sydney, the capital of New Wales.

The second bifurcation is southeast and south to Melbourne, the capital and deputy capital of William Province.

The third fork runs north from Adelaia through the central Australian city of Alice Springs to Darwin, the capital of Northern Australia.

Another fork in Alice Springs in the central part leads to Townsville, the second largest city in Queensland, in the northeast.

Don't think that William IV's Australian railway ambitions only have this, it would be a big mistake, because he also has a coastal railway, in addition to this east and west Perth to the southeast through Adelaide to Melbourne in the southeast, there is also Perth along the coast until Darwin.

And Melbourne northbound after Sydney, Brucebane, Townsville. Go west again to Darwin.

This is like drawing a circle with a vertical line in the middle, and the upper half of the vertical has two lines extending to both sides at 30 degrees east and 45 degrees west.

After reading this plan, everyone's eyes fell on the Minister of Industry Wem Cotter and the Deputy Minister of Finance Tom.

The former is not bad, at least it is only astronomical data that requires industrial materials. Although the task is arduous, it is also a huge errand.

But the latter, like other people in the Ministry of Finance, changed his face for money.

Tom smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, the available balance of the Ministry of Finance is not enough now, not to mention the construction of so many railways, just in the southeast surrounding the three cities of Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, the deputy capital, our The financial resources can’t keep up, and these three places alone need to build thousands of kilometers.”

"No, this is not a negotiation, but an order"

William IV said solemnly: "Come and see, what is this, you will understand"

I saw that this time it will not be a planning book, but a newspaper.

When they saw an English newspaper, they were stunned at first, and then wrinkled. At this time, the popular language in Europe was French, and that was the language of the upper class in Europe. English is just emerging, and most of them can basically speak Some French, English is very little involved.

However, there are also people who know this, including the Chief Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Venus, and the Minister of the Navy, Jan Peter, etc. Because of business reasons, they are familiar with it.

So he explained the above to the people.

After listening, everyone was stunned.

3,100 kilometers across a new railway in North America.

Even Tom, the Dutch Deputy Minister of Finance, was stunned.

"Venus, are you sure you read it right?"

Tom couldn't help asking again.

But after asking, he regretted it, because he saw the clear Arabic numerals above, and the six 0s behind 3 and 1 were all correct.

"If you don't believe me, don't you believe in Jan Peter, the Admiralty?"

Hearing the words, Tom turned to William IV, and said, "Your Majesty, is the United States crazy? With so much investment, won't it be lost?"

"Bloodless"

William IV shook his head, "A country's security is greater than any monetary assessment, what's more, it also involves the grand strategy of the United States to rule the country."

Seeing everyone looking over, they were full of curiosity.

William IV sighed: "Have you forgotten who the real original owner of America is?"

"Indians!"

Several exclamations came out.

Venus, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, had his head spinning rapidly, and he quickly thought about it, and found the answer under the context provided by His Majesty.

So he looked at William IV in shock, the latter nodded to him, Venus couldn't help showing a shocked expression, and finally sighed: "President Lincoln of the United States is too wild."

Seeing everyone's doubts, he explained: "Everyone, in this newspaper of Your Majesty, on August 20, 1862, President Lincoln of the North of the United States, in the case of the Civil War, also announced that they would build a road across the United States from east to west. This railway at both ends. This is the news reported in the newspaper just now, and it has been almost a month.

It's normal to build railways, but don't forget that the entire United States is separated from east to west. Except for the coastal areas, the west is almost all the territory of the indigenous Indians of the United States.

The northern industrial country is obviously influenced by the south, and has no longer endured the following unexpected factors, but has been killed.

If my guess is correct, it is true that the United States wants to open up this east-west transatlantic and Pacific railway, but the same ultimate goal is that the construction of this railway is also to separate the north and south of the entire west, and further divide the Indians. People's territory, when the railway is opened, the Americans in the east will continue to transport goods along the railway to the western coast through the western railway to the western countries of the Pacific Ocean. At the same time, they will kill the Indiana people to achieve complete Control the entire United States. "

"No way, there is still such a purpose. Lincoln usually sees him as a good person, but he didn't expect to be so insidious behind his back."

"What's the matter When the Netherlands first landed in New York, they didn't expand with Indian flesh and blood, but they were snatched by the British in the end, just like the Cape of Good Hope."

Suddenly speaking, everyone looked at William IV.

After taking a deep breath, King William IV said seriously: "In order to take Australia, I started planning a few years ago. For this purpose, I built a huge naval base on the island of Elysium, which was hidden from the whole of Europe, and even the Netherlands had only a few Some people know this, but they are also trustworthy.

And the arsenals such as Jakarta and Sulawesi are more comparable to the Netherlands.

Now that the UK has successfully won Australia, the UK is here in the South Pacific, and only New Zealand is left."

"Your Majesty, the geographical location of New Zealand is too important. It blocks our sea direction to South America, which is very annoying." Jan Peter revealed his ambitions for New Zealand.

"The time has not come, New Zealand will be ours sooner or later. Where it exists now is the reason why Queen Victoria and the United Kingdom are assured of us. If it is gone, then the Indian subcontinent will put pressure on us."