The Rise of Australia

July 1, 1900, outside Sydney.

Yesterday's meeting made Arthur clearly understand the fact that Australia is now backward in all aspects. Although he has also worked with ministers from various departments to develop detailed plans in various aspects and mobilized up to 30 million pounds of funds, it will probably take at least a year to see results.

But the good news is that after the cabinet meeting, Arthur will have some free time.

Although it is not to say that there is really nothing to do, compared with the busy days before, there is still a lot of free time.

But what Arthur did not expect was that on the first day, he was invited by Butler Hunter to the outskirts of Sydney on the grounds that Arthur's private winery was about to be built.

Because Roger Joseph Ebert, who previously managed Arthur's assets with Butler Hunter, became Australia's Minister of Finance, the responsibility of managing Arthur's private assets fell entirely on Butler Hunter.

This is not an easy job. Arthur's current private property includes two steel mills, a military factory and a shipyard, as well as 132 million in cash and 150 million pounds of property loaned to the government.

After handing all these assets over to Butler Hunter, Arthur basically stopped asking about them.

European nobles have a special complex about red wine. Red wine is as important to nobles as the dresses at the banquet.

In Europe, those who don't have a castle may not be low-level nobles, but those who don't have their own private winery are most likely poor or low-level nobles.

Wine has been given a special meaning in Europe. It is regarded as being blessed by God and is sought after and loved by all European nobles.

Duke Arthur also has his own private winery in the UK, but it has been sold by Arthur.

After coming to Australia, Butler Hunter has already selected a site for Arthur's winery, and while Arthur was busy with state affairs, he has completed most of the construction of the winery, waiting for Arthur to visit in person, give the winery a noble name, and then officially put it into production.

When they learned that Arthur was going to the suburbs of Sydney, Margaret and Patricia cried and shouted to follow him.

Arthur had no choice but to agree to let them follow, but the premise was that Princess Louise had to follow them.

After all, given the erratic personalities of Margaret and Patricia, if Princess Louise was not allowed to watch them, who knows what they would do.

In this way, the team that was originally Arthur's one-man trip turned into a motorcade for the entire Australian royal family.

There were also many servants and guards accompanying them, and the size of the entire motorcade had reached hundreds of people.

When the motorcade arrived at the address of the winery, it was already noon.

Butler Hunter had been standing outside the door long ago, waiting for Arthur and the royal family to arrive.

"Butler Hunter, how is it?" Arthur slowly got off the carriage and asked with a smile.

"Everything is going well, Your Highness. Just waiting for you, Your Highness the Princess, and the two little princes." Butler Hunter performed a noble salute very gentlemanly and said respectfully.

After Princess Louise and her two sisters got off the carriage, Arthur smiled and said, "Let's go and see how the winery is."

It's called a winery, but it's actually a combination of a vineyard and a winery.

In addition, due to the fact that Australia is currently sparsely populated, the area of ​​this winery has reached a terrifying three square kilometers, that is, 300 hectares, a full 4,500 acres of land.

How big is this winery? If you walk around the manor, you have to walk at least six kilometers, even if you speed up, it will take more than an hour.

Fortunately, Arthur didn't have the idea of ​​walking around the manor, otherwise it would be a problem whether he could get back here in an hour.

"Butler Hunter, where do our grape vines come from for such a large red wine manor?" Arthur asked curiously.

According to normal trellis grape vines, one acre of land can plant about 140 grape vines. This is a relatively suitable spacing, which can ensure that each grape vine gets enough sunlight without wasting too much land area.

Although part of the winery is used to produce and ferment wine, the grapevine planting area is not that large, but at least 600,000 grapevines are needed.

So many grapevines, even if you search all over Australia, you may not be able to collect them.

"Your Highness, I have been hoarding grapevine seeds long before you sold the red wine estate in the UK. Our winery currently has nearly 500,000 grape seeds planted, and purchased 10,000 grapevines and 50,000 grape seedlings and tens of thousands of fruit trees from Australia. Before the seeds grow into grapevines, our winery can produce about 130,000 liters of wine every year." Butler Hunter explained with a smile.

Although finished grapevines are not easy to buy, excellent grape seeds can be found everywhere.

Although most of the grapevines planted in the winery are grape seeds, a large number of finished grapevines can still be harvested in two or three years.

Arthur was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Butler Hunter had already started to plan the winery in Australia when he was in the UK.

"Butler Hunter, is our current production enough? If the production is too large, it will not be sold. At least in the next few years, our wine will not be able to compete with French red wine." Arthur asked with a little surprise.

Currently, most of the most famous red wines in Europe are produced in France, which is due to the geographical location and climate.

Without a large European market, even if the winery can produce more red wine, it cannot be sold and can only cause losses in vain.

"Your Highness, the winery's annual expenditure is less than 100,000 pounds, which is completely within our acceptable range. Although we cannot compare with European red wine in a short time, we can also firmly grasp the Australian market. With the increase in immigrants, the Australian red wine market will gradually increase, and it is not difficult for the winery to maintain a balance of income and expenditure. When the European red wine market is affected by fluctuations, it will not be too late for us to enter the European market. At worst, the red wine that has been aged will be more mellow than the newly produced red wine. We can create two brands, one taking the high-end route to operate the European market, and the other taking the low-end route to operate the Australian market." Butler Hunter explained.

Red wine is not the fresher the better it tastes. On the contrary, the aged red wine will taste more mellow and will be more sought after by European nobles.

The same red wine produced by a winery, the price of the red wine produced this year and the red wine produced ten years ago may differ several times.

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