On August th, Arthur attded the dyedmcemt ceremony of the New Zend battleship due to the slow progress of the Russian warship construction and couraged the workers of the Royal Shipyard.


    Starting with the Austrsian Battleship in January, the Royal Shipyard has now sessively started working on three battleships. The fastest one, the Austrsian Battleship, is expected to bepleted in a March or April of the following year, 909, for the finalunching test.


    This is good news for Austrsia, as March or April is only about half a year away.


    However, ev though he was looking forward to the battleship''sunching test, Arthur repeatedly instructed the person in charge of the shipyard and all workers to carefully control the quality of warship construction. What Austrsia needs is a powerful, excellt warship that can withstand the actual test of war, not just a showpiece.


    The good news is that Austrsia''s industry and shipbuilding were established with the help of the Germans, and the Germans'' rigid and serious character has had a profound impact on these Austrsian workers.


    At least Austrsia''s industrial products can withstand the test. Ev if they are not as meticulous as Germany, they are definitely striving for perfection.


    Currtly, the sea trials of the two Russian warships are going very smoothly, and the fastest Peter Pavlovskiy battleship can ev be officially delivered a October of this year.


    Based on the performance of the Peter Pavlovskiy battleship in maritime aspects, the actual performance of the Monarch-ss battleship is not much differt from its data on paper, and it is a true dreadnought that can beparable to the Dreadnought battleship in all aspects.


    It is worth mtioning that the first Nassau-ss battleship of Germany has be sessfullyunched, but the performance demonstrated in the test cannot be satisfactory.


    In history, because there was noparison, the Germans had some confidce in the Nassau-ss battleships.


    However, with the advt of Austrsia''s Monarch-ss battleship technology, the Germanspared the two warships in all aspects and ev produced one sample ship each forparison. In the d, they had to admit that the design of the Monarch-ss battleship was better than the Nassau-ss battleship, and the 305mm primary artillery was definitely more powerful than the 83mm main gun.


    More crucially, Germany''s most intimate ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, happs to have such artillery technology. After consultations betwe the two governmts, Germany quickly introduced the technology of 305mm ship guns from the Austro-Hungarian Skoda Arsal. As a price, Germany will help the Austro-Hungarian Empire to have dreadnoughts.


    This exchange is not a loss for Germany as the 305mm main gun can significantly improve the firepower level of the currt German battleship. After the Austro-Hungarian Empire has dreadnoughts, it can also increase its influce in the Mediterranean Sea, threating France''s southern coastline and the Strait of Gibraltar.


    The Germans kept their promise and shared a part with Austrsia after obtaining the 305mm main gun technology of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.


    The Germans obtained the gun technology in July, and it was shipped to Austrsia in mid-August, just in time for the day wh the cab candidates had be determined.


    After obtaining the gun technology provided by the Germans, Arthur immediately conved all the artillery experts from the arsal and put the whole country''s strgth together to quickly grasp the 305mm main gun technology.


    At this time, there were fewer German experts in Austrsia. This was because the aid treaty signed with the Germans at the time was only for five years. However, due to the closer diplomatic rtions betwe Germany and Austrsia, some experts stayed for a few more years.


    From signing the aid treaty in 900 to August 908, Germany st a total of ,5 experts in various fields to Austrsia, providing Austrsia with a wealth of advanced industrial and scitific knowledge.


    So far, there are fewer than 00 German experts left in Austrsia, and the specific number is only 4.


    These 4 people are the result of Austrsia''s eight-year effort and finally managed to keep them permantly in Austrsia.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Of course, they used more peaceful means. The Austrsian governmt provided a lot of convice and policies, which retained one-ninth of the tire expert group''s talts.


    A considerable part of them are experts in the military factories and shipyards, ounting for 93 people, and the rest are talts in the chemical industry, basic industry, and other industries.


    Most of these experts have sessfully obtained Austrsian nationality, and the rest are considering it.


    Arthur offered gerous terms for winning them over. In addition to keeping their yearly wages unchanged, he promised to invite all their families to Austrsia and grant them nationality as soon as possible, joying the treatmt of Austrsian citizs.


    At the same time, they would be giv conditions that all immigrants would get, which means that these German experts'' families would receive at least several doz acres ofnd wh they arrived in Austrsia, and their living could be guaranteed.


    William II maintained a default attitude towards Arthur''s talt recruitmt. After all, the good rtions betwe Germany and Austrsia were ahead, and the abundance of German talt did not lead to dissatisfaction with Austrsia because of these more than one hundred talts.


    Following Arthur''smand, hundreds of arsal gun experts began aprehsive study of the 305mm main gun technology provided by the Germans under the guidance of dozs of German experts, striving to master the technology as soon as possible and th equip it on the Austrsian battleship.


    At prest, the two Russian warships have already be tested forunching, so they have to wait for Austrsia to master the technology before spding time recing the main guns of these two battleships.


    However, the good news is that it won''t take long to rece the main gun. It will bepleted in as short as half a month and as long as one or two months.


    Moreover, these disassembled 83mm main guns could also be installed on Austrsian coastlines as coastal defse batteries. This would not only solve the problem of waste but also hance the defse capabilities of the Austrsian coastlines.


    In addition, the submarine technology provided by Germany had basically be mastered by Austrsia. Since Germany''s currt submarine technology only reached the U-3 ss submarines, and that too only the first two vessels, their technology was not too advanced, at least by European standards.


    Germany''s U-3 ss submarine construction nsprised 0 vessels, divided into sev groups. Germany''s goal was to make performance improvemts in each group of U-3 ss submarines, which was also the reason for the rapid rise of German submarine technologyter on.


    At prest, Germany''s U-3 ss submarines were still in the construction phase of the first two vessels, the U-3 and U-4, which were the most basic U-3 ss submarines.


    This type of U-3 ss submarine had a surface discemt of 4 tons, and an underwater discemt of 5 tons. The lgth of the submarines was about 53. meters, with surface speeds reaching a  knots and underwater speeds reaching 9.4 knots.


    Inparison to the more advanced submarines developed by France and Italy at the time, these submarines were somewhatgging behind. Perhaps Kaiser Wilhelm II was aware of this, which is why he gerously shared the design blueprints of the U-5 to U-7 submarines, which were still in the design stage, with Austrsia.


    These were the second group of U-3 ss submarines, and the German Navy had higher requiremts for this group.


    ording to the design blueprints, the discemt of the second group of submarines was much greater than that of the first group, and each submarine was required to be equipped with at least three gines, allowing the submarines to have a surface speed of at least 4 knots.


    Furthermore, the German Navy demanded that this group of submarines have a cruising range of at least 000 nautical miles, a crew of a 0 people, and the ability to operate continuously underwater for 7 hours toplete missions.


    In terms of firepower, the submarines were equipped with two torpedounchers at both the front and rear ds, with a total of 6 to 8 torpedoes carried on board.


    ording to the design blueprints, the second group of submarines would almost satisfy the German Navy''s requiremts, with an estimated surface speed of a 4 knots, an underwater speed of more than 9 knots, and a maximum speed maintained betwe  to  knots.


    To be honest, there was noparison betwe the performance data of the first and second groups of submarines. The second group of submarines were truly battle-worthy and met Arthur''s satisfaction.


    Although the second group of submarines only existed on the design table at prest, Arthur believed in the German Navy''s technology. After all, ording to historical developmts, German submarine technology indeed expericed rapid progress during this period.


    Naturally, relying only on the efforts of Germans themselves wouldn''t be ough; the indepdt research of Austrsia was also crucial.


    Giv that the cost of building submarines wasn''t too expsive, Arthur immediately ordered the shipyard to thoroughly understand the design blueprints of the first group of U-3 ss submarines and to build a submarine to familiarize themselves with the process.


    Subsequtly, in-depth studies were conducted on the design blueprints of the second group of submarines. Once both Australia and Germany were sure that the design blueprints were wless, thrge-scale submarine construction wouldmce.


    After dealing with the naval interlude, the time neared the d of August, which was wh Arthur decided to conve the cab meeting.


    Although, in theory, this was just a regr cab meeting, since it was the first meeting after the restructuring of the cab and it also weed several new cab ministers, it was rather important.


    At this cab meeting, Archbishop Stede of Austrsia, Lord Chancellor Gregory, Defse Minister Raul, and Sir Evan would make their first appearances, with Evan returning to the cab in a new capacity.


    Moreover, with the addition of Kt Butler''s son, the former defse minister officially assuming the position of Secretary of State in the Cab governmt, there would likely be significant changes in the alignmt of the cab.


    However, this wouldn''t greatly affect Arthur. After all, he controlled the most important finances and defse sectors, and Secretary of State Kt was a highly loyal and trusted talt. There was no need to worry about the emergce of opposing factions within the cab.


    Based on the currt situation, the rtionship betwe Speaker of the House Evan and Chief Minister Walter would certainly not return to what it was in the previous governmt.


    One was a former Prime Minister, and now Speaker of the House, the other was a former Minister of Livelihood, and now a Prime Minister. If there were no surprises, both would likely aim for the position of Chief Minister in the next cab, which was a testamt to their strained rtionship.


    It could ev be said that after serving three consecutive terms as cab ministers, the former Prime Ministers of several Australian colonies would be the most threatingpetitors amongst one another, if they wished to remain in the cab.


    Apart from these more expericed cab ministers, the currt cab also included loyalists directly appointed by Arthur, as well as rising stars in the cab elected with the support of political parties.


    However, the only two political parties in the cab, the Unity Party and the Rural Party, both leaned towards Arthur. This significantly reduced the likelihood of the emergce of opposing factions within the cab.


    On August , 908, the long-prepared cab meeting was officially conved.


    Arthur attached great importance to this cab meeting, choosing to hold it in the grandest and most formal conferce hall of Sydney Pce.


    Starting from a sev in the morning, cab ministers had be waiting outside the door. Before the cab meeting officially began at eight o''clock, all ministers were in ce, quietly awaiting Arthur''s arrival.