Warning and Orders

"What vast plains!" George V exclaimed involuntarily as he toured the Murray River Basin with Arthur.

Although there were many plains under British rule, there was no shortage of plains more suitable for development than the Murray River Basin.

But the problem was that the plains of Australasia's Murray River Basin lay in its own homeland, while the plains more suitable for development by the British people were in India and other colonies. The first threat they faced was colonial rebellion.

Although the British Empire controlled a vast number of colonies, George V, as the ruler of the nation, understood that only by making the homeland stronger could the country become increasingly stable.

Although the United Kingdom currently appeared very powerful, a considerable portion of that strength came from the contributions of its colonies.

Once the United Kingdom lost most of its colonies, the strength it retained might not even surpass that of present-day France and the United States.

That was precisely why George V was so envious of Australasia's vast territory and its large amount of developable land.

To say nothing else, if the territory of the United Kingdom merely doubled in size, no other country would have any hope of competing for supremacy.

If the United Kingdom possessed such enormous homelands as India and Australasia, it would directly become the undisputed number one power in the world. Surpassing the United States economically and industrially would be no difficult task.

Unfortunately, such thoughts could only remain thoughts. No matter how vast the land possessed by a colony was, strictly speaking, it had little to do with the homeland of the United Kingdom.

The United States, once a paradise for immigrants, and Australasia, now a paradise for immigrants, had both once been colonies of the British people.

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