Chapter 1215 The consequences of the corn campaign

To be honest, Alan Wilson is trying to figure out how to raise money, the initial investment is just an estimate, to be invested in more than three million pounds, this money is more or less how to calculate.

If you know the British in 1978, the Breston Woods system has collapsed, withheld the order of 1,500 tanks of Iran’s advance payment, that is, 400 million pounds, you know that this investment has been quite a lot.

And this is only the current year’s allocation, the next year will continue to invest. Although the semiconductor industry to promote employment is quite large, but also high investment in the industry. Otherwise, the United States will not be so easy to give up, the industry will be transferred to the island of fraud.

Considering the political impact, it is best to be able to pull in a certain degree of royal funds, as long as it can escort the development of the semiconductor industry, Alan Wilson remembers that the Mountbatten Group at that time was also given to the royal shares, and Her Majesty the Queen should have no less dividends over the years.

Just he does not know if there is this face, can deduct some money from the royal family out. Even if he doesn’t have this face, it doesn’t matter, if the Queen can’t, there is still a sister-in-law who is obedient to her words.

Even if you take out the identity of the cabinet secretary general, Alan Wilson thought that his credit value was also quite high.

He is not Jack Ma? Properly a liar, and when and stand, but also not only cheat the country, even dare to intercept the money of investors.

Did Ali pay dividends to all shareholders after it went public? Not at all, the money was left in Ali’s small circle. Is there a difference between this and a Ponzi scheme?

So far, he has been very nice to the ladies on the same level as his wife, and has never let these ladies lose out on benefits.

“I can’t really fill in the blanks myself.” Alan Wilson muttered in a low voice, even ready to sacrifice himself to take over for his country and kill this high-investment industry.

Turing left the Cabinet Office, with a new task to research the status of semiconductors in the United Kingdom, Alan Wilson is editing, about what the third industrial revolution written report.

Whether the written report is accurate or not does not matter, the main thing is to compete with Japan, Malaya’s population in the existing field can compete with Japan, has done its best. Nor could a colony of 16 or 17 million people be expected to do more.

Alan Wilson also knows that the development of semiconductors in Japan in the 70s and 80s, for Japan to seek a strong voice. It even aroused the scorn of the United States. He did not want to see this happen and would rather not make any money but only create jobs than let Japanese semiconductors develop.

Malaya does not have this ability to compete with Japan at this stage, then only rely on Japan itself. If necessary, you can even introduce the capital of other European countries, together in the semiconductor power.

Alan Wilson gave Richard White of MI6 a phone call to pay attention to the development of semiconductors in European countries, to know the enemy and know yourself, and then in the assessment, in the end, whether to cooperate or go it alone. And of course the report on the survey of semiconductor development in the hypothetical enemy Japan.

While the Cabinet Office is evaluating semiconductors in each country, it must not forget the United States, which is the hegemon at this stage. The U.S. was the first country where semiconductors were developed, and the U.S. has nine of the top ten semiconductor companies in the world today, with Japan’s Riken Takeda in tenth place.

Now the United States certainly can not imagine, in another 20 years, Japan and the United States will be exactly the opposite, in the position of today’s U.S. companies, of course, before the nineties, semiconductors can not be said to be globalized, the vast majority of semiconductor production capacity of each country’s semiconductor companies, are applied in their own markets.

Globalization that is still a later thing, Alan Wilson to see if the idea of unity in Europe, the semiconductor industry for the United Kingdom to get a piece of cake, we must know that the emergence of French-Italian semiconductors is twenty years later, the United Kingdom has enough time to cultivate the European market.

“The government is interested in supporting the semiconductor industry?” In the face of Turing on the doorstep, Jeff Dahmer was very surprised, in fact, five years ago a campaign was launched to encourage the UK to invest heavily in integrated circuit development, but there was little response to this.

The British military had not realized the important role it would play in future scenarios, and British companies were reluctant to invest their own money to take the risk.

Jeff Dahmer’s initiative at the time was met with a cold reception and no one would take the risk.

Government departments were reluctant to sign contracts because they didn’t apply. People wouldn’t say we want to use it because they had no experience of using it. It was a question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. Whereas the US has taken a gamble on this, the UK has been a little slow to get its feet wet in the field.

“Government departments are reluctant to sign contracts because they haven’t applied for it. Wouldn’t people say the curators want to use it because they don’t have experience of using it?”

Alan Wilson, if he were here, would instantly recognize this as classic Whitehall civil servant cartwheeling. It was also true that the two-pronged question of whether the chicken or the egg came first was being pushed back on the initiative.

Turing seemed to have vaguely heard someone talk like that too, but it didn’t matter, he was going to tell Jeff Dahmer that the situation had changed, “Sir Alan, the newly appointed Cabinet Secretary, is extremely interested in the development of the semiconductor industry, and I think you should go ahead and try the previous initiative on what you think is the most critical aspect of this industry.”

“There are six main areas.” Jeff Dahmer was immediately not sleepy upon hearing this, “Microfabrication technology; crystallization technology; design technology; engineering technology; test and evaluation technology; and hardware technology.”

Should gather all the British companies with semiconductor technology for integration, the mutual existence of a competitive relationship between the company together, together to overcome the technical difficulties of the matter, can be said to be unprecedented initiative.

In fact, in the semiconductor equipment, the company was able to produce related parts or assemblies are limited, almost all use the same supplier system, just after the equipment into the production line, how to adjust and optimize, which can become the competitiveness of the core companies in the United Kingdom.

Listening to the ideas relayed by Turing, Alan Wilson scratched his scalp and commented in an unhurried manner, “The Konzern model?”

But then again, this set of plutocratic monopoly model developed by Germany and utilized by Japan and South Korea in later generations did play a huge role in the development of the two countries, and? In fact, the Mountbatten Group is also a Conzern model enterprise.

Allen Wilson on the Konzern model is not how to resist, this set of Germans original group model, in fact, not as bad as the Soviets say, not to mention other things, the Soviet Union planned the different sectors under the name of the Economic Commission, but only public ownership of the Konzern, and the plutocrats of the essence of the difference is also not very big.

The year just passed, nineteen sixty-two, was not a very good year for the Soviet Union, not only because of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union underestimated Kennedy, and eventually had to compromise.

There was another reason, and that was that the Soviet Union’s grain production had slipped, and at the meeting just concluded in the Kremlin, Khrushchev was furious because of that, but in fact, the other members of the Central Presidium, in their hearts, knew that the root cause lay in the First Secretary.

The First Secretary of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev’s strong initiative, the Soviet Union slowly popularized the corn movement throughout the country. Obviously, due to the lack of scientific research and verification of Khrushchev’s corn movement, many of the corn seeds that replaced the original grain crops failed to grow on the cob due to climatic reasons.

Later, in order to be better able to better listen to Khrushchev’s preferences, some cadres also quietly imported corn from abroad to muddle through.

“According to the data of the Committee for Planning and Economy, this year there will be a shortfall of more than eight million tons of grain. The current reserves in the state treasury will never last beyond the fall harvest.” Brezhnev worriedly told Kozlov, “The situation has become extremely difficult, and we must make up the grain gap.”

“There’s really only one way to do that, and that’s to buy grain on the international market.” Foltseva spoke with an expressionless face, “But the world’s largest grain producer is the United States, if we make purchases of the United States. We might face skyrocketing food prices.”

“France is also an agricultural powerhouse.” Kozlov inquired succinctly, “Can’t we think of something from Eastern Europe?”

“Most of the food-producing countries, face the same problem as we do, which is being in the northern hemisphere. If it comes to the second half of the year, in taking the purchase approach, everyone knows that our country has problems with food security. The only agricultural powerhouses in the southern hemisphere are Brazil and Argentina, but both are in the Americas.” Brezhnev shook his head, “We can hardly hide from the Americans.”

The approach to foreign purchases was just as problematic, the grain purchased by the Soviet Union was not a small amount, and Europe and the United States would not recognize the value of the ruble, and it was clear that the foreign exchange reserves in the hands of the USSR could not cover the expense.

As a last resort, the Soviet Union could only use its gold reserves to make purchases on the international market.

“Can’t we think of a way out of Britain?” Foltseva spoke cautiously, “Britain still has colonies in good condition in Southern Africa, and we all know that North and South Rhodesia are both colonies with small populations but not small areas. It would be best to get things done without going through the American surveillance network.”

Foltseva couldn’t say what was on her mind right now, she hoped that the man would be able to help the USSR through this.

“The southern hemisphere? It’s right after the harvest, and if North and South Rhodesia are really the breadbasket of Africa as rumored, that’s really an option.” Brezhnev expressed his approval, “Comrade Kozlov, what do you think?”

Given the choice, Kozlov would never bow to imperialism, but he had no choice now and gritted his teeth, “I’ll talk to Comrade Khrushchev. Of course we have to minimize our losses as much as possible, and it’s best if we can get help from our brother countries.”

Brezhnev and Foltseva both nodded their heads, only the Second Secretary had the qualifications to suggest this in front of Khrushchev.