Chapter 330: Expanding the Shipyard

In his sister Mia Ka's eyes, Tesla saw the expectation and desire. After a little hesitation, he finally nodded and agreed to Arthur's request.

Seeing that Tesla finally agreed to stay in Australasia to work, Arthur nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Mr. Tesla, welcome to join the Australasia family. The Royal Physical Chemistry Research Society has many top experts like you. I believe you should have many good common topics."

The establishment of the Royal Physical Chemistry Society of Australasia is to provide these top physical chemistry talents from Europe and the United States with a good research environment.

So far, the total number of members of the Royal Physical Chemistry Society has exceeded 100. These hundreds of people are all physical chemistry experts with considerable fame in Europe and the United States.

These experts are Australasia's top talent reserve in physical chemistry.

These people are conducting various research, which also has extraordinary significance for Australasia.

This is why the annual research funding of the Royal Physical Chemistry Research Society has reached more than 3 million Australian dollars so far, and each person has an average of nearly 30,000 Australian dollars in research funding.

30,000 Australian dollars is definitely not a small number. According to the exchange rate, it is equivalent to 15,000 pounds and 75,000 US dollars.

In this period when the war has not started and the depreciation of currencies of various countries is not so fast, the value of 15,000 pounds is equivalent to two kilograms, or four pounds of gold.

Of course, the research funds of each member of the Royal Society for Physical Chemistry Research also vary.

Well-known talents like Einstein and Tesla can naturally enjoy a higher proportion of research funds.

Of course, the research funds of these talents are mostly provided by Arthur, and are not included in the total research funds of the Royal Society for Physical Chemistry Research.

At present, the Royal Society for Physical Chemistry Research has cooperated with many universities in Australasia, and many members of the research association have become honorary professors and lecturers of these universities.

Of course, as the president of the research association, an expert of Einstein's level directly became the honorary dean of the physics department of the National University of Australasia.

While conducting research, these experts of the research association occasionally go to the universities where they are on duty to give lectures to cultivate future high-end talents in the physical chemistry industry for Australasia.

At present, Australasia's talent training system has basically matured, and talents in all aspects have the ability to cultivate themselves.

Whether it is the technical schools that are blooming everywhere or the universities that specialize in mid-to-high-end talents, they have become very common in Australasia.

If high school education was already very valuable in Australasia ten years ago, then for Australasia now, the truly valuable and worthy talents are those who graduated from technical schools and universities.

Tesla nodded and agreed to join the Royal Physical and Chemical Research Society of Australasia.

There are still many top talents from Europe and America in this association, and Tesla is also very much looking forward to joining such a top academic association.

Finally, in the slightly expectant eyes of Miaka's family, Arthur promised that someone would come to pick up Miaka's family tomorrow, and after settling down in Sydney, they would find jobs with relatively good salary and benefits for them in places close to where they live.

Of course, it is also necessary to find a place for Tesla to live. Since Tesla has agreed to join Australasia, he naturally cannot be wronged to live in a cheap hotel.

Fortunately, the scale of Sydney is constantly expanding, and some idle properties can be seen everywhere.

It is not a problem to settle Tesla and Miaka's family. If they want, they can move into the new house the next day.

After successfully winning over Tesla, Arthur was in a very good mood. He immediately rewarded Tesla and Miaka's family with 2,000 Australian dollars each, asking them to move into the new house in the next two days, buy some furniture and decorations, and start a new life.

As for Tesla's two remaining sisters who are still in Serbia, Arthur promised to bring them all to Australasia within two months, and they will also enjoy the treatment of Miaka's family.

After returning to the palace, Arthur summoned Kent, the butler, and asked Kent to contact David, the chief steward in Europe, to take charge of bringing Tesla's two sisters and their families to Australasia.

The Balkan War has entered a state of peace because of the signing of the contract.

This is also a good thing for Tesla's two sisters and their families. After all, only Serbia in a peaceful state allows them to come to Australasia easily.

Of course, even if Serbia is at war, it is not too difficult for Arthur to get Tesla's two sisters and their families to come to Australasia.

After all, Arthur has a marriage relationship with Russia, and Russia is the supporter behind the Balkan countries.

Even for Russia's sake, Serbia will never deduct the two ordinary civilians.

After meeting with Kent's housekeeper, Arthur learned that with the support of the royal consortium and the government, Australasia's shipyards will also begin large-scale expansion.

Before this, Australasia had more than a dozen large-scale shipyards across the country.

But except for the Royal Dockyard in Sydney, most other shipyards are products of the colonial period of Australia and New Zealand, and their main business is only building sailing ships and small fishing boats.

The vast majority of these shipyards can build ships with a tonnage of no more than 50 tons, and are only small and medium-sized civilian ships.

There are only three shipyards in Australasia that can build warships.

In addition to the Royal Dockyard, the remaining two military shipyards can only build coastal defense gunships, small frigates and other warships weighing no more than a thousand tons.

This is a very huge restriction for Australasia's naval development.

Take the current development status of the Royal Dockyard. After receiving naval orders from Russia and Chile, the Royal Dockyard has entered a state of full capacity construction. In a short period of time, it will not be able to accept orders from Australasia at all. .

Although the construction level, technical worker level and scale of the Royal Dockyard are definitely world-class.

But the problem is that for the shipbuilding industry in Australasia, only the Royal Dockyard serves as the front.

This is very unhealthy for the development of the navy, and the expansion of new military shipyards is urgent.

The Royal Dockyard is 100% controlled by the royal consortium and is a private property of the royal family.

The two newly expanded shipyards currently have backgrounds jointly run by the government and the royal family. The royal family holds 49% of the shares and the government holds 51%.

In the expansion plan given by the royal consortium, the royal consortium and the government will jointly invest 20 million Australian dollars to expand the Melbourne Shipyard and Auckland Shipyard, so that these two shipyards will have the ability to build at least 10,000-ton main ships.

Of course, in addition to the 20 million Australian dollars, the Royal Dockyard will provide part of the shipbuilding equipment and staff support, and within a short period of time, provide some expert technical support to the two newly expanded shipyards.

The good news is that Australasia's shipbuilding industry has received strong support from Germany and the United Kingdom, and there is no shortage of skilled workers and mid-range technical experts in the industry.

Even as long as the European war does not break out, Australasia will be able to continuously receive technical support from the United Kingdom to keep its shipbuilding level at the top of the world.

Before World War I breaks out, if you expand the shipyard in advance, you can also get help from the British, and the progress will be slightly accelerated.

Even if everything goes well, judging from the time when the First World War broke out in history, Australasia should still have about two years left.

It will take about two years for the two shipyards to have the ability to build 10,000-ton main battleships. With the help of the British Empire, it is possible.

Of course, theoretically speaking, Australasia also had good development time and opportunities in the years when World War I broke out.

After the end of World War I, it was possible to introduce a group of military technical experts from defeated European countries to strengthen the technology of military factories and shipyards.

If the construction goes smoothly, Australasia should be able to have three shipyards building super-dreadnoughts after World War I.

This was helpful for the plan to wildly expand the navy after World War I and bring the strength of the army and navy to the level of the great powers.

In line with the industrial level of Australasia, although it may not be as large-scale industrial development as that of Britain, Germany and the United States, it is still possible to make warships like dumplings.

On October 17, 1912, as the first batch of shipyard equipment purchased from Britain had arrived, and with the approval of the cabinet government, the expansion plans of the two major shipyards, Melbourne Shipyard and Auckland Shipyard, officially began.

Although the expansion of these two major shipyards is jointly participated by the royal family and the government, it can actually be divided into government funding and the royal family providing equipment, employees, and technology.

The shipyard expansion plan is still relatively important. Arthur also went to inspect the Melbourne Shipyard and Auckland Shipyard, and personally attended the opening ceremonies of the expansion of the two major shipyards.

The good news is that the British are very supportive of the development of the shipbuilding industry in Australasia, and even many shipyard equipment are sold at a lower price than the market price.

In addition, the British government also promised to dispatch a team of more than 200 experts within three months to support the expansion plans of the two major shipyards in Australasia.

Among the two hundred experts, in addition to experts in shipyard design and construction, there are also experts in shipbuilding, warship design, and so on.

This is a good compensation for the two major shipyards with insufficient foundation. At least while these experts are supporting Australasia, the two major shipyards can learn a lot and be prepared to go into battle alone in the future.

Arthur did not yet know that the British government had decided to strongly support Australasia to check the American plan that had already formed a climate on the other side of the Atlantic.

But no matter what, the British's strong support for Australasia is very helpful for Australasia's current development.

Arthur was originally worried that if the Royal Dockyard separated some equipment, technical workers and experts, although it would speed up the expansion of the Melbourne and Auckland shipyards, it would also affect the Royal Dockyard's construction of naval orders.

But now, with the help of the British, this problem will naturally be solved.

The British equipment and technical assistance arrived much faster than expected. In mid-October, the first team of experts arrived in Australasia and went to the two major shipyards to participate in the expansion design of the shipyards.

Most of the problems in the expansion of the two shipyards were solved by the British, and Arthur was happy to be idle. Under the supervision of the government and Kent Butler, he appropriately delegated power to British experts.

For the Australasia government, there is another good news, that is, the second phase of the Leonora Industrial Base is about to be completed.

The construction of the second phase of the Leonora Industrial Base began in 1910, and it has been under construction for nearly three years.

The scale of the second phase has tripled compared to the first phase.

This also makes the construction area of ​​the second phase reach more than 3,000 acres, and the construction area alone is as high as 2,000 acres.

In addition, there are more than 200 acres of green construction and road construction, as well as improvement of sewage discharge problems in the industrial base.

If nothing unexpected happens, the second phase of the industrial base will have at least two hundred standardized factory workshops and more than twenty large storage areas.

This also means that the second phase of construction can accommodate at least one hundred large factories and hundreds of small factories.

In order to meet the employee needs of so many factories, the government has transferred a large number of immigrants to Western Australia in advance, and even the surrounding South Australia has a lot of immigrants.

In addition, there are also several technical schools that have reached cooperation with the industrial base.

These technical schools can train technical workers in various aspects for the industrial base. They can recruit employees from other places for the industrial base, and they can also retrain the technical workers of the industrial base to give them stronger technical capabilities.

According to the construction of the second phase of the industrial base, if nothing unexpected happens, the construction of the second phase should be completely completed around November to December, and the factory can be settled in from next year and officially put into production.

If the factory's entry and recruitment are smooth, the construction of the two phases of the Leonora Industrial Base will be the largest industrial base in Australasia, and it will be the most advanced, diversified, and comprehensive integrated industrial base covering the widest range of aspects and industries.

At that time, the Leonora Industrial Base can also be called the Ruhr area of ​​Australasia.

Because according to the planning of the first and second phases of the industrial base, the construction of the two phases of the industrial base should have hundreds of factories and at least 200,000 skilled workers.

This will become the industrial center of Australasia, and it is also a chemical industry base, coal industry base, machinery industry base, textile industry base, etc.

According to the current situation, the Leonora Industrial Base should have nearly 200,000 employees and hundreds of factories and enterprises before the outbreak of World War I, and Australasia should be fully prepared for various production in the war.

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