Chapter 548
On the third day of the holiday after Christmas, the coast of Australasia is crowded with tourists and local people.
This is also a unique feature of Australasian tourism. While the northern hemisphere is still experiencing a cold winter, Australasia is experiencing summer.
Precisely because Australasia has completely opposite seasons to those in the Northern Hemisphere, it is still very attractive to tourists from Europe and the United States in the Northern Hemisphere.
No one can refuse to go to a cold place to escape the heat in the hot summer, and no one can refuse to go to a warm place to vacation in the cold winter.
Coupled with Australasia's uniqueness in the southern hemisphere, as the most powerful country in the southern hemisphere, it naturally has the best tourism resources in the entire southern hemisphere and can enjoy the vast majority of tourists from the northern hemisphere.
This is indeed the case. The tourism data in the year-end summary have fully demonstrated that Australasia's tourism industry has been rising steadily since the end of the war, and the number of tourists received every year has increased by an extremely exaggerated figure.
Throughout 1920, the tourism industry in Australasia welcomed a total of 37.352 million visitors, of which domestic tourists accounted for 57.1%, totaling 21.32799 million visitors. Foreign tourists accounted for 42.9%, with a total of 16.02461 million visitors.
The data here only count the number of people received by the tourism industry in various places, and do not count the specific number of people.
A person may visit several tourist attractions a year, which is the real reason why the total number of tourist visits is as high as 37 million.
A total of 37.352 million tourist arrivals brought an income of AU$44.8733 million to the Australasian tourism industry and a tax revenue of AU$3.879 million to the Australasian government.
Compared with 1919, these data show considerable growth, and make Australasia's economy look more prosperous.
Although all countries have serious unemployment crises, this does not hinder the rapid economic development of countries around the world.
Especially for the participating countries in the World War on the European continent, the economy recovered very quickly, as if the post-war prosperity had already arrived.
According to economic reports published by various countries, the economic growth rate of almost all major powers is above 6%, except for Russia, which is undergoing a civil war.
Such good news has coaxed people from all over the world to cheer, and many media are also boasting about the arrival of world prosperity.
Is it really a boom? I'm afraid not necessarily.
Although the economies of various countries have experienced tremendous growth, which countries have now returned to their pre-war economic size?
Except for the United States, Australasia and the island countries, no great power country has been able to return to pre-war levels. Is this true prosperity?
But why are European countries still advocating such economic prosperity?
In the final analysis, there is only one thing, and that is that the politicians in those countries are just dressing up the current status of the country for their own political achievements.
Can they not see the crisis at home? Naturally it is impossible. However, in order to solve this crisis, under various conditions, it is not only difficult to solve, but also some losses outweigh the gains.
Anyway, the term of these foreign politicians is only a few years. As long as they can survive their term safely, who will fight for the next government?
Thanks to the government's efforts, Australasia's agricultural progress has achieved considerable results.
At present, the total area of cultivated land in Australasia has reached 39.77 million acres, and the total grain output has reached 19.2 million tons, a growth rate of 4.1% compared with last year.
Although Australia's population has reached 22.574 million, such developed food production is still enough to feed the entire population in the country for three years.
The government has fulfilled its grain targets in the Four-Year Plan very well, and Australasia's grain production is expected to reach more than 20 million tons before the end of the Four-Year Plan.
Although grain output is far greater than domestic demand, there are also many countries with food crises abroad, and the income from growing grain is still quite good.
According to statistics from the finance department, the per capita income in Australasia reached 60.1 Australian dollars in 1920, which was the first time it exceeded 60 Australian dollars.
The income from planting one acre of land in Australasia is about 17 to 22 Australian dollars. Based on the per capita cultivated land area of nearly three acres, the per capita income of farmers is almost between 51 Australian dollars and 66 Australian dollars, which is basically at the lower end of the per capita income. Up and down the horizontal line.
Although it seems to be somewhat different from per capita income, in fact, the selling price of grain that year will also affect farmers' income.
At the same time, farmers’ daily food expenses are basically at cost price. Although their income may be slightly lower than that of the urban population, their expenses are also much smaller, and their living standards may not be much lower than that of the urban population.
Precisely because farming can provide quite good income, a considerable number of people in Australasia choose to buy land and start farms.
Regardless of the size of the farm, there is basically no shortage of sales channels for food. At present, large and small grain companies have been born, specifically responsible for the sales of grain.
As long as they comply with relevant Australasian regulations, the government does not have much restrictions on these grain import and export companies.
It is worth mentioning that a considerable number of the new nobles entrusted by Arthur also chose to build castles on their own fiefdoms and use all the remaining land to grow food.
Arthur would not stop this. After all, after the land was entrusted to them, the property rights became theirs.
Except that they cannot establish countries and territories without sovereignty, they can do whatever they want on the land, which is in line with the law.
Arthur actually wanted to see these new nobles take the lead in setting up farms. Most of the land entrusted to these people is newly reclaimed land and will not have any impact on Australasia's original development plans.
The establishment of farms on these lands will not only increase Australasia's food production, but also control these food productions in the hands of the nobles, which will also strengthen Arthur's influence.
As long as Arthur is willing, the food of these nobles can also be turned into Arthur's food reserves. There is food in hand and no panic in mind. This sentence never goes out of style.
As time entered 1921, the aristocratic school founded by Arthur specifically for the children of the new aristocracy was also built and opened.
This aristocratic school is called the Royal College of Sydney. The annual tuition fees are unimaginable for ordinary people, and the admission requirements are very demanding and have an extremely strict review system.
Except for the children of the new aristocracy, those who can enter this school are basically the children of high-ranking officials, or quite famous scientific research experts, or scientific workers.
This school starts from kindergarten, and is established in primary school, middle school and university. It can be said that it covers a person's entire learning career.
The purpose of establishing this school is very simple. First, it is to cultivate the descendants of these new nobles and ensure that the descendants of these nobles, that is, the future nobles, are not incompetent wastes and can serve the future royal family and rulers of the country.
Secondly, aristocratic schools can also unite the entire aristocratic class more closely. Arthur also decided to send several little ones to this school so that they could get to know more descendants of the new nobles and cultivate relationships with their subordinates from an early age.
It is precisely because of the unique purpose of this school that the school's training system is also very different from normal schools.
The training system of the Royal Academy can be roughly divided into two types, one is politics in terms of national governance, and the other is military in terms of marching and fighting.
Under these two major categories, the system is also divided into specific subcategories including political science, economics, management, etc., and better academic plans will be tailored for each student based on their different personalities and characteristics. .
In a word, the Royal Academy is specifically designed to cultivate talents in national governance and military affairs for the royal family and the country. These noble children who graduated from the Royal Academy will become the right-hand men of Arthur or subsequent monarchs in the future.
Because of the characteristics of the new nobles, it has been ensured that the new nobles will not rebel against Arthur. Their rights are all given by Arthur, and Arthur can control this class at will.
Under such circumstances, it becomes necessary to improve the capabilities of the new nobles and future new nobles.
The aristocratic class is always the right-hand man of the monarch, and the ability of the right-hand man also determines the monarch's ability to a considerable extent.
Of course, in order not to create class conflicts in education, not all members of the royal family will study at the Royal Academy.
Except for the heir who is destined to be the monarch, the other children are free to choose the school and major they want to go to.
However, after so many years of development, the education industry in Australasia is relatively well-known internationally.
Some well-known universities, national colleges, Royal Military Academy, etc. are all quite famous in the powerful countries, and there is no need to worry about the education issues of these schools.
Whether it is Royal College or other universities, Australasian universities still have something unique.
Emphasis on practice and lightness on theory has always been the development direction of the University of Australasia. Of course, this does not mean that theory is not taken seriously at all.
It just means that on the basis of attaching importance to theory, practice is what Australasian universities think is more important.
In addition, the university holds military training every year. College students who have graduated from various universities in Australasia can proudly praise themselves for their ability and physical strength.
The ability of college students determines the development speed of various industries in a country to a considerable extent, let alone college students in this era.
This is not yet an era when there are so many college students. After 20 years of development in education in Australasia, the average academic qualification per capita has only increased to the junior high school level.
Because of the large influx of immigrants every year, it is difficult to increase the per capita education level to high school level in a short period of time.
After all, there is university beyond high school, and the per capita high school degree also represents one thing, that is, the increase in the number of college students and the decrease in the value of a university degree.
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