Chapter 1163 – Private State Enterprise

“Look at you!” Hepburn’s eyes rippled with light, and since the decision had been made, she had waited for this child to arrive. It might not be so easy in the future if she missed this opportunity.

Not only was it a compliment to the man for keeping his word, but Ballflower was now trying to use her PUA skills to get Alan Wilson to value her precious sacrifice.

“I’m the luckiest man in the world, what a blessing.” Alan Wilson had a tone of being caught up in happiness, “If only the French would stay out of trouble.”

“France, what’s wrong with them?” Hepburn looked puzzled, aren’t they all allies of the free world, pillars of the EEC?

“Something on industrial integration.” Alan Wilson said helplessly, “Europe now does not have a single country that can complete the construction of the entire industrial system, it is necessary to divide the work in order to establish an extensive industrial system. On this point, Britain and France have some differences.”

If according to the original history, Britain was shut out of the EEC by France, its natural end was to watch France integrate the EEC for industrial distribution, and wait until France finished distributing the industry before opening the door to Britain, when it was already too late, and how could Britain possibly compete with the industry that had already been distributed by the EEC long ago.

Now the door to the EEC was never closed to Britain in the first place, but evolved through the European colonial powers into the EEC as it is today, so that it would be impossible for France to use its status as a defeated country to hold down Germany and Italy and work out a distribution scheme that favored France, because Britain existed.

True, France was strengthened after the successful suppression of Algeria.

But now Britain was not the only one left on the mainland, and coupled with the fact that the Commonwealth was stronger than the French Community, the British colonies were richer than the French colonies, and raw materials were more controlled, Britain certainly could not agree to the French scheme of distribution of industries.

The current situation is that both Britain and France carry territories on them that are not part of Europe, and then talk about industrial allocation within the framework of the European Community, such a situation.

In normal competition, France has a resource shortfall, with the security of the Suez Canal, Algerian oil is no cheaper than oil from the Persian Gulf, Algeria only has oil, and the other British colonies have other raw materials.

France felt that it would lose out in normal competition, and coincidentally, the UK felt the same way because of the distance of its colonies.

The future is surely going to be a long process of costing and trade-offs in certain areas, not something that can be reached in a short time.

It is not only in the civil sector that the two countries are at odds with each other, but also in the military sector.

France, in order to be independent, is certainly to pursue as comprehensive as possible, large and comprehensive can not do if small and comprehensive will also strive.

Britain is certainly not likely to accommodate France, knowing that Britain’s accumulated technological capabilities in the engine field far exceed those of France.

Simply put, around the direction of the development of the European Community, along with the cost of overseas territories, the nastiness between the two countries will have to be maintained, in the general direction, Britain and France are naturally nothing to say, the United Kingdom has the support of the Nordic countries, France has the support of the Latin countries, it is just that the focus is not the same.

Consistent and will not cause controversy, is that both countries believe that industrial integration will help the strength of Europe. But who would lead a strong Europe? De Gaulle thought it should be France, but Britain did not.

So offshore balance of the British Foreign Office permanent undersecretary, which does not come over to another tradition of offshore balance of Sweden, hoping to get a certain degree of solidarity.

The latter day of the European Union, before the United Kingdom did not withdraw, Sweden and the United Kingdom is a strategy, is part of the European Union but do not use the euro, the two offshore balancing hand, in Europe can not only be able to balance the Soviet Union, and if necessary, can also balance France.

Alan Wilson just expressed the diplomatic position on behalf of the UK, and then went all ballflower ass-kissing.

Just as when he communicated with France again last week, he was only concerned about France’s stance on the EEC while sitting on a rocket with the pecking order lady president.

“National politics is full of nastiness!” Hepburn can’t help but be helpless, inquiring, “Is it more in favor of you or France, or is it an even split.”

“England exceeds France in the number of countries if you take out Germany, but as you know, the Latin countries of Italy and Spain are considered populous in Europe, and most of the Belgians speak French.” Allen Wilson knew what he was talking about and had nothing to hide from Ballflower.

Britain’s supporters, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland plus Portugal who was a traditional influence and had just mediated a bit. France is surrounded by Spain and Italy, as for Luxembourg type countries don’t count them.

None of the UK’s supporters have large populations, Spain and Italy not so much. On some issues like the Libyan affair, Italy would side with the UK, but not on all issues.

“See you should be really bitter.” Hepburn empathized, the man did give so much to his country, “But then again, why is it always the French. I thought you could handle the French.”

“Yeah, it’s always the French.” Alan Wilson was helpless, “In fact, compared to the traditional words, Britain does not have an advantage over Germany and France, before the war, the center of the world’s physics was Berlin, the center of the world’s mathematics was Paris, the mecca of these two important disciplines, in fact, neither of them has anything to do with Britain.”

What was Britain’s role? Actually for a long time it was probably similar to the role of a major country, a manufacturing center.

For many years before World War II, the shine of French mathematicians and German physicists set Britain off.

But even so, Britain, with its industrial consolidation and earlier accumulations, was surely stronger than these two countries in terms of national power.

A few days later, the permanent undersecretary, who had been loyal before Ballflower, returned to London with a full harvest, that is, the understanding attitude of the Swedish side, and there was not a bit of fault to be found with it.

It’s not as if the world is full of major diplomatic achievements all the time; if it were, wouldn’t the Foreign Office be exhausted? Would it be like that not to multiply the salary several times over?

After a busy round of negotiation on the issue of industrial distribution, as if his body had been emptied, Alan Wilson was only ready to rest for a few days.

Pamela Mountbatten was also very considerate, placing her husband’s head on her lap and whispering, “My husband, hard work, running through several countries in such a short time.”

“No hard work, all for England.” Alan Wilson yawned as he spoke, “It’s also for your industry, right now it’s only about negotiating on the distribution of civilian industries, but in reality the military industry is the hard part to cope with, I don’t reckon there will be any communication results from the military industry, France is wary of Britain, likewise we are.”

“The way I help you envision it is to use the military industrial complex to create high quality jobs and then safeguard your industries around the world. And high quality local employment will be about approval ratings, and any party, no matter who it is, will be courteous to you. With military industry employment rooted in the defense force, let the country protect your overseas industries.”

Pamela Mountbatten kept nodding her head, just to hear her husband continue, “The military industry would rather not make any money than no problem, the key is the employment issue, you can absolutely grab the money from oil and iron ore. This will help Britain’s armament replacement cost lower, and if Britain can do this, your overseas industry is automatically included in the protection, because once the overseas industry of the Mountbatten Group is taken away, it will affect the employment problem of the military industry at home. That closes the industrial loop.”

“Not pursuing profits? Sounds like a state-owned enterprise!” Pamela Mountbatten asked suspiciously, “Are you asking me to establish a private state-owned enterprise?”

“To the extent that I can’t say it’s wrong, only then can Britain guarantee that it won’t be left behind in the military field.” Alan Wilson nodded his head, “It’s your steel, iron ore, oil, food, automobiles, and hydroelectricity overseas that Britain will have to protect.”

Alan Wilson, who had been enjoying his wife’s service, sat up all of a sudden and spoke to his wife with a solemn face, “If you think it’s okay to form an industrial closed loop like this, I have a method of equity distribution that you can use for the military industry part of the Mountbatten Group that should be very useful.”

“You have a method?” Pamela Mountbatten was staggered, how come her husband seemed to have a solution for everything?

“Of course I do, I feel that the most suitable industry for this distribution plan is the military industry.” Although Alan Wilson was just a flash of light, but the atmosphere was baked up to this, naturally, he could not stop there.

Huawei’s equity incentive program to virtual stock is the company grants incentive recipients a virtual stock, incentive recipients can enjoy a certain number of rights to dividends and share price appreciation rights accordingly, but there is no ownership, no voting rights, can not be transferred and sold, and automatically expires when leaving the enterprise.

The issuance of virtual shares maintains Huawei’s management’s control over the enterprise and does not lead to a series of management problems.

The scope of the issue includes almost all employees who have worked at Huawei for more than one year. To encompass all employees, older employees naturally could not participate in the distribution because their shareholding had reached the upper limit of their level of shareholding.

The history of equity incentives shows that equity incentives can closely link the human capital of employees with the future development of the enterprise, forming a virtuous cycle system.

Alan Wilson felt that this set of allocations is actually the most suitable for the military industry, if the wife does not pursue profitability, the benefits to the United Kingdom is huge, in fact, ninety-nine-six is not a big problem, the big problem is that in ninety-nine-six at the same time do not give money.

Pamela Mountbatten was really shocked this time, and couldn’t help but ask, “If it is used in the government sector, wouldn’t it be a bigger benefit?”

“What are you thinking? My dear, that would bring up discussions of redundancies. Whitehall’s authority would be undermined as well, and that would be a sinking of civilization, a crumbling of the bedrock, with unimaginable consequences.” Alan Wilson crossed his arms.