On September , 9, by Arthur''s appointmt, the first Governor of the Royal Territory, Hdrik Campbell, officially took office on Flores Ind.


    The Royal Territory can be divided into three parts, respectively made up of the Dragon Eye Ind, Sumbawa Ind, Sumba Ind, Flores Ind, Alo Archipgo which form the Nusa Dungara Inds, as well as the southwestern inds of the eastern part of East Timor Ind and the Leti Inds, and finally the Southeastern Indsposed of the Tanning Bar Inds, Cay Inds and Aru Archipgo in the east.


    The Cocos Inds and Christmas Ind in the southern part of Java Ind are also under Austrsia''s control.


    This has led to the official formation of Austrsia''s northern ind defse chain, effectively keeping emies out of these inds and prevting the nativends from being covered by war.


    The small town of Flores City on Flores Ind has be officially ramed Flores, serving as the capital and administrative cter of the Royal Territory.


    Arthur ns to build a port city here, which will also be one of Austrsia''s naval bases.


    Almost allrge inds in the Royal Territory are home to ts of thousands of indigous peoples. Managing them is quite troublesome due to their scattered distribution.


    Arthur gave Hdrik his first directive, which was to ctralize the indigous inhabitants of the Royal Territory as much as possible in each ind''s urban cities to facilitate subsequt relocation.


    Yes, aside from a portion of the indigousbour, Arthur does not n to let the remaining indigous people continue to stay on these inds.


    Only Austrsians will be allowed to live on these archipgos and inds in the future. Apart from using the indigous people asbour and cannon fodder, the rest will evtually be expelled.


    The indigous poption is currtly useful to Austrsia, but as the poption of Austrsia grows and some jobs are inevitably reced by machines.


    The usefulness of this freebour will not be very significant. Apart from using them as cannon fodder, the only option left would be to expel them to the Dutch territories.


    After about a week, the assaults of the First Division and Division two have be making good progress.


    After leaving Flores Ind, the First Division proceeded to Sumba Ind, Sumbawa Ind and Dragon Eye Ind, easily capturing these threerge inds.


    In addition to these threerge inds, there are countless small sub-inds a them.


    Attacking these inds is very troublesome and requires ev more time than the threerge inds.


    The task of the First Division and Division Two was only to upy and control theserger inds, and the n of the Ministry of Defce for the smaller suring inds was to hand them over to the First and Second Native Divisions.


    The Native Division has be in training for quite some time since its establishmt, and now it is time for them to witness bloodshed.


    After all, the soldiers of the Native Division arergelyposed of indigous peoples. As long as there are no major losses among the sior officers, there won''t be any grievances if many indigous people die.


    On September 5, 9, afterpleting their tasks, the First Division and Division Two switched defses with the First and Second Native Divisions respectively.


    The First Division and Division Two returned to Austrsian maind, while the two Native Divisions will be responsible for garrisoning the Royal Territory.


    The two Native Divisions will be divided by Flores Ind. Including Flores Ind, the western part will be stationed by the First Native Division, while the numerous archipgos in the east will be scattered and garrisoned by the Second Native Division.


    With the expansion of territory, the shortage of the Austrsia Army has emerged again.


    Although there is currtly one Guard Division, four Regr Divisions and two Native Divisions in Austrsia, they are still too sparse wh spread over millions of square kilometers ofnd in Austrsia.


    The core areas of Austrsia, Australia and New Zend together have nearly 8 million square kilometers ofnd, but theoretically, the troop force responsible for garrisoning is onlyposed of four regr divisions.


    This means that if Austrsia were to go to war with others, at most it would be able to mobilize the two most elite regr divisions, the First and Division Two.


    Two divisions together can only consist of a force of 3,000 troops. It''s ough for small skirmishes, but if it''s arge-scale war, this force might just be barely capable of defding the territory.


    As the good news from the Ministry of Civil Affairs came in early September, with the total poption of Austrsia officially exceeding  million, Arthur also decided tounch another military expansion in Austrsia, and at least increase the army''s personnel to consist of two guard divisions, six regr divisions, four native divisions, and two colonial garrisons totaling slightly over 0,000 troops.


    This also implies that the total number of soldiers in the Austrsian Army will officially exceed 00,000, amounting to double the number before the expansion.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Since nearly 80,000 troops from the four Native Divisions are made up of the indigous people, the real burd on the  million poption of Austrsia is to support an army of just ,000. Thus, the burd is not that great.


    Of course, the scale of the expansion was not directly decided by Arthur. The expansion magnitude was decided upon after days of contemtion and discussion by Arthur, Kt, and the incumbt Minister of Defce, Raul.


    The pivotal reason is that the Military University is able to train several hundred army talts for Austrsia every year, and the army also has a good pipeline of talts. Therefore, directly increasing by nearly 0,000 troops is not that struous.


    Considering that World War I is approaching, expanding the country''s army in advance would be beficial. Of course, Arthur wouldn''t dy that he is slightly vious of the alliance that the Balkans are currtly nning. These small countries have armies of more than 0,000 to 00,000, ev though their poptions are less than half of Austrsia''s.