Chapter 10 Finding a Back Road
Even Alan Wilson knew that it would be almost impossible for Hyderabad, with its geographical location and composition of inhabitants, to hold off the Indian army, but for money’s sake, this was the most professional army in South Asia at the moment.
He is now clearly more attached to Ali Khan’s dogged role than the Hyderabad Commissioner of British India. After all, British India’s paychecks were dead on arrival, and nowhere near the wealth of the former richest man in the world to move him.
Although Alan Wilson was a keyboard warrior in his last life, and in this life he only followed the old Wilson to hear and see the logistics, far less impressive than the Bengal famine left.
But he still had a say in these lousy armies in South Asia, not to mention that he was the Commissioner of Hyderabad, now a close associate of the monarch, who was working hard for the future of the Hyderabad Tuktuk. Even if the British Empire was not known for its military strength in terms of land forces.
Hiding the nature of his military illiteracy, Alan Wilson somewhat politically incorrectly made a benchmark with the Axis boss, the Army of the Third Reich, stating that a weapon like the tank is a must for the present Hyderabad Army.
“Europe has already caused two world wars in a matter of decades, among the birth is ideas and tactics, a sort of consolation for this immense destructive power, the Hyderabad Army must be equipped with enough tanks to be able to deter potential enemies.” Alan Wilson spoke with a firm hand, military illiteracy is justified.
What the king of land warfare, infantry-tank synergy of the vocabulary constantly from the inside of the mouth, with the surface of the inscrutable, actually a face of baffled expression, shocked a crowd of high caste officers or not a problem. The religion of peace within South Asia is also caste-specific.
“The world war has now entered the end of the strong and weak obvious, the future of a large number of armaments how to deal with is also a problem. Hyderabad needs these armaments, in fact, quite a few Turkish states also need the same, even Ali Jinnah and Nehru.” Alan Wilson said as he walked, “But whether it is for national interest or private reasons, I would prefer those armaments to fall into the hands of friendly people.”
“The friendship between Hyderabad and the British Empire has been proven time and time again through bloody battles.” Abalakhanan spoke half-publicly, half-privately, “Tested by blood and practice.”
“That I know, but the London side considers the issue a little more comprehensively, those London politicians, never consider issues with morality as the focus, in a sense, I as well as the young assistants brought in will actually still make irrational judgments, while those old men won’t.” Alan Wilson said with a wry smile, “Anyway, I am absolutely qualified as a friend and will try to defend Hyderabad’s interests.”
The reference to his own importance to Hyderabad was not exactly a boast, nor was the analysis of the London politicians all a slur; what the British politicians were like was clear when one looked at the rebellious United States which had an example to follow.
Returning to the British quarters, the matter was talked over with the aides who had been brought in, and not all of them agreed; after all, the question of the status of British India was not understood by all these fresh-from-school aides.
“Commissioner Allen, why should we be so attached to a native state?” The female among the ten aides, an aide named Alisa said in disbelief, “And it’s not something that we can make a decision on, isn’t it a good idea to inform the Delhi side.”
Alisa was a year older than Alan Wilson, although not considered an absolute beauty, she was still a rather attractive woman, with long red hair draped over her shoulders, at this time she was standing in front of Alan Wilson, her fair face full of confusion.
“Who else is as confused as Alice?” Alan Wilson pulled out a cigarette and lit it, waving his other hand as a sort of solicitation.
Four aides raised their hands at once, and Allen Wilson nodded, “By not hiding this from you, I’m treating you as one of my own, and truth be told, you’re in the same position as I am. A lot of people are not so knowledgeable about the land under our feet, at least not none of you know that right now India is fighting for independence whether it’s the Congress or the PMLN, right?”
“So what’s the point? As long as London doesn’t allow it, they can still kick us out?” A disgruntled aide spoke up.
“Do you think that after this great war is over, Britain can still have a respite like after World War I?” The corner of Alan Wilson’s mouth curled up slightly, “If we really still have that kind of chance, then of course it’s a good thing. But will the Americans and the Soviets give us time?”
This was the downside of bringing a bunch of college students into office, if they were bringing old civil servants with work experience, they would know what was going on with just one rhetorical question, but not these college students.
Alan Wilson had no choice but to return to the old ways of his past life and analyze the world situation today, with the pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union on the outside, and Nehru and Jinnah’s hair-trigger on the inside. From his mouth, now the British Empire is quite a bit of internal and external danger, even more dangerous than when dealing with the Third Reich attack.
Originally this is the case, the British Empire, even if it is alone in the face of the attack of the Third Empire, with the support of the British colonies, as long as you can go out of the way can not be a repeat of the glory of the First World War.
But now facing the pressure of the United States and the Soviet Union, coupled with the British India internal class and the United Kingdom is not the same heart. It is almost impossible to protect British India.
The United States and the Soviet Union has how much national power, now how powerful, which is in the colonies these students can see.
Later history also proved this, Britain in the matter can not be done, chose a soft landing, in batches to let the hands of the colonies independent, and from the most important colonies British India, itself is a compromise to the United States and the Soviet Union, indicating that the world of the British Empire to do the Lord’s time has passed.
Even if Alan Wilson knew the future trend, but also did not have the ability to change history, that is the United States and the Soviet Union na. Not to give up British India, how will these two countries believe that Britain has really given up world hegemony.
However, in the process of the British Empire soft landing, save some geographically important, easy to control the colonies, don’t independent so clean, Alan think it can still be done.
The idea of preserving a few hundred thousand square kilometers of land in a colony of more than thirty million square kilometers was not excessive.
And it’s not like the colonial empire was just the British Empire itself, France, Holland, Belgium and even Portugal were all considered rags to riches aristocrats.