Chapter 179: Chapter 173: Losses in Animal Husbandry


    Both Australia and New Zend used to have a very high degree of recognition towards the British Empire.


    That is why Australia and New Zend continued to maintain a very close rtionship with the British Empire by joining the Commonwealth of Nations after gaining independence, respectively.


    However, it’s slightly different now. In the disaster in New Zend, the support level of the British Empire for New Zend is not very high, and is even merely on par with other European powers.


    Some New Zenders who still regarded the British Empire as their suzerain felt unsatisfied and disappointed. Compared to the aid from Australia, the British Empire’s assistance seemed to be less sincere.


    Previously, there were three opinions on the status and situation of New Zend. The first opinion believed that New Zend should continue to be under the rule of the British Empire, which, as the world’s first superpower, could protect New Zend’s interests well.


    The second opinion held that New Zend should strive for more independence, and even went to the extent of promoting New Zend to be an independent country.


    And the third opinion, like Grant’s, was to have a favorable impression of Australia with a simr status and history as New Zend. They tried to make New Zend and Australia unite, even going back to the era when they were Australian colonies and allowing the two regions to merge thoroughly and firmly.


    Before Australia’s independence, the support levels for these three opinions were in sequence: the first > the second > the third.


    After Australia became the Australian Duchy, the view of New Zenders towards New Zend changed to the second > the third > the first.


    With Arthur bing the Governor of New Zend and carrying out various constructions and relief operations in New Zend, the second and the third opinions basically maintained the same support levels. However, in theter stages, the idea of uniting Australia had already surpassed the concept of an independent New Zend.<div>


    At this point, theplete advantage of merging with Australia hadn’t been fully acknowledged. Many people still ced their expectations on the British Empire and the independence of New Zend.


    There was no doubt that the actions of the British Empire smashed the hopes of these people. Would New Zenders trust a suzerain who didn’t offer them strong support during the disaster?


    Especially whenpared with Australia, the aid from the British Empire seemed like pitiable alms.


    This news article struck deep within the hearts of all New Zenders, as they all pondered one question: where should the future of New Zend head towards?


    Although there isn’t a definitive answer at present, there are quite a few New Zenders whose minds are bing swayed, and they are beginning to focus on the currently popr New Zend Alliance Party.


    On November 29,1903, the 21st day after the typhoon disaster.


    After 21 days of rescue and reconstruction work, much of the debris caused by the typhoon and waves was gradually cleared away.


    This only applied to the urban area that needed to be rebuilt, whilerge parts of the coastal ins continued to be in ruins.


    The damage caused to New Zend by the typhoon went far beyond the surface as it devastated agricultural areas on the West Coast. It is predicted that in a short time, New Zend’s agriculture and animal husbandry industries will be severely affected.


    Unfortunately, agriculture and animal husbandry, being one of the economic pirs for New Zend, are the main means of generating revenue for the current colonial government.


    This also implies that in the future, New Zend’s finance will be facing a deficit, and this deficit couldst for several years.


    As post-disaster reconstruction work entered a rtively stable phase, Arthur finally had time to return to Wellington and discuss the next actions with the officials in Wellington.


    Wellington, Government Building, a certain conference room.


    At this moment, the conference room was more crowded than thest time they had held a meeting discussing ns after the disaster. Hundreds of officials from the New Zend colonial government, the New Zend Labor Party and Alliance Party, the Advisory Council, various city Mayors, Garrison Commander Piers, and leader of the relief organization Joshua filled up the small conference room.


    “Ladies, gentlemen, today’s conference topic is to discuss the next ns for New Zend, including relief ns for the refugees and the focus of our rebuilding efforts. How to enable these refugees to obtain an ie and return to their normal lives is our primary direction.” Arthur scanned the room and slowly spoke.


    “Your Highness, everyone,” an official from the New Zend colonial government took the initiative to speak, “This typhoon not only caused devastating damage to our cities on the West Coast but also dealt a devastating blow to our animal husbandry industry there.”


    “ording to a rough estimate, at least millions of cattle and sheep died in this typhoon, with hundreds of thousands missing. The pasturends on the West Coast suffered severe destruction. Even within a few years, parts of the West Coast’s pastoralnds basically won’t return to their previous state. This also means that New Zend’s economy and national ie will experience a prolonged period of stagnation.”


    “Therefore, I believe that in addition to rebuilding the towns on the West Coast, we should also allow these refugees to continue the work-for-relief approach to clean up the vast pasturends on the West Coast. This way, our pastoralnds could recover more quickly, and the refugees could temporarily gain an ie-generating job, allowing them to return to their normal lives.”


    New Zend’s pasturends are scattered throughout the North and South Inds, which is why small New Zend can be a major animal husbandry country.<div>


    But unfortunately, the pastures of New Zend’s North Ind are located west of the mountain range, that is, the West Coast and the Oand Penins.


    However, these regions had the misfortune of being hit hardest by the typhoon, causing significant losses to New Zend’s animal husbandry industry.


    The New Zend colonial government official’s suggestion was simple: invest as much human and material resources as possible into the recovery of the animal husbandry industry and pastoralnds. This affected not only the economy and ie of many New Zend herdsmen but also the economy and ie of the entire New Zend.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    As the pir industry of New Zend, the ie from animal husbandry ounted for more than half of the total revenue of the colonial government and was the industry many New Zenders depended on for survival.<div>


    It was something New Zend was proud of as an animal husbandry powerhouse, but it also made the rebuilding of the industry crucial when facing such a massive disaster.


    Among the hundreds of thousands of affected New Zenders in the disaster- stricken areas, at least half of them worked in the animal husbandry industry.


    This provided them with stable ie and a guarantee to their livelihoods.


    Thus, the best way for them to resume their lives was to restore the animal husbandry industry they relied on, allowing them continuous stable sources of ie instead of simply relying on the government and external relief.