Chapter 1216 – Gold for Food

“Not showing up for such a long time, and the moment you show up, you’re asking people for money.” Princess Margaret face with displeasure, the crystals on her red lips have not disappeared yet, Her Highness stated that a passionate kiss is far from enough, why should the country develop the semiconductor industry and let her shell out money?

Her Royal Highness is sure to misunderstand, Alan Wilson certainly can not catch a sheep woolgathering, and his wife of equal status of all the ladies will not be an exception, he will be contacted, the big deal is that the big borrowing in the future aftermath.

“The royal family is the symbol of the British Empire, if you can contribute to the country in such a potential industry. Think about it wouldn’t that be a good thing.” Alan Wilson embraced the princess into his arms, and started the persuasion work with a good attitude.

In fact, it does not matter how much to take less, the key is the need for the royal family to make an example, there is this example, Alan Wilson to continue to find ways to my semiconductor business injection, or even in the government to think of a way, so that the long term, and even beyond.

To the example of the fraudulent island, semiconductor in the creation of employment is certainly not as good as Formosa Plastics, but how can also create tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, which is also good for the United Kingdom. Now that Malaya is stuffed with a few industries that have been shifted, you can’t expect Malaysians working in agriculture to top it up, can you?

Can the semiconductor industry be topped up by just pulling in a bunch of old farmers? Doesn’t it still need to be topped up by the natives themselves?

“You’re amazing, you’re noble, you specialize in pouring money into the country when you’re the Secretary General of the Cabinet.” Princess Margaret blankly glanced at her brother-in-law, “It’s hard to imagine that there really are people like you.”

“There’s such a thing as patriotism in this world.” Alan Wilson stretched out his finger and tapped the tip of his sister-in-law’s nose, “Margaret, you are the princess of England, if England is not good, you, the princess, will not be good either. In fact, the royal family of each country should understand this, just that some countries are really confused on this point.”

Alan Wilson feudal monarchs of supernumerary ministers of the heart broke out, a time actually some worry about the country up.

He received only one salary in England, but served so many monarchies, and there were times when he wondered what kind of day it was.

My sister-in-law still knows what’s right, and after a long period of persuasion, mainly due to the rocket ride, Her Royal Highness expressed her willingness to do her part for the development of semiconductors in the United Kingdom.

“You’ve made it to Cabinet Secretary, what about me?” Princess Margaret inquired as she hung on to her brother-in-law, lamenting the fact that she was no longer in her prime, and that she wasn’t getting any younger, being thirty-three years old.

“Sometimes late at night, I wonder about that. Out of manhood, I can’t let you live like this. When the time comes for me to arrange it, it’s better to have love between us.”

Mind thinking of white whoring, has always been really in white whoring, but at this moment, Alan Wilson but the hallowed expression to be responsible, although not sincere, can love brain how to see that he is more reluctant it.

Poor Tom, he’s being played like this ……

“It’s not like I have to compete with Pamela, but you know how I feel about you.” Princess Margaret lowered her head and muttered in a low voice, “When the time comes, don’t let Pamela know, you’re the secretary general of the cabinet, blocking the news shouldn’t be a problem ……”

“Whoever dares to corrupt the princess’s innocence, God won’t forgive him either.” Alan Wilson beat his chest with a snap, as long as Princess Margaret is tolerant of loneliness, he will naturally find a place where His Royal Highness can be at ease with her labor.

In order to Britain’s semiconductor business, the Cabinet Secretary sacrificed too much, returned to Whitehall for a short time, was thinking about what meeting to meet with Britain’s semiconductor representatives after the meeting, the phone on the table rang, Allen Wilson returned to copy the microphone, “I’m Allen, speak directly.”

“Permanent Undersecretary, Soviet Ambassador Viktor would like to meet with you.” Came the voice of Dixon, the Foreign Secretary’s Principal Private Secretary, “Viktor insisted on it, said it was urgent and I could only inform you.”

“What are they up to?” Alan Wilson muttered to himself, then said, “Well, schedule a time. I’m still this term’s Permanent Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs after all, and I should be contributing to the work of my department.”

What’s going on? Prime Minister Aidan is in charge of diplomacy, so how come the Cabinet Secretary can’t also be the Permanent Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs? He didn’t even double up as Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance like the previous two Supreme Authorities. There’s no rush now, we’ll figure it out later.

Victor was actually very hesitant in his heart, he knew that he was carrying a heavy responsibility this time, and the person he was going to meet was not very old, but he had a deep background, and he had asked for the head of the British civil service at an age of less than forty.

The last ambassador had dealt with Alan Wilson, and knew that this man who had nothing to do was not easy to deal with.

However, the voices in the country seemed to recognize that the ability of this head of the British civil service, had to let him meet with the other party, and he had no choice but to come with a hard head.

“Want to purchase grain?” When Alan Wilson heard this, a playful look appeared on his face, his heart was already clear about what was going on, and he directly asked in return, “Mr. Ambassador, isn’t the Soviet Union carrying out a corn campaign these past few years? How come you want to get up to purchase grain, and I believe that the Soviet Union will not fail to understand that Britain is an island country.”

The other party begged to come to the door, this time do not pretend a little reluctant, simply not Allen Wilson’s style.

He knew that there must be a risk to the Soviet Union’s food security, otherwise he wouldn’t have said anything about purchasing food.

The Soviet Union’s agriculture according to the basic conditions should not be a weakness, after all, the world’s largest black land is in the Soviet Union territory. But yes, it is true that there were agricultural weaknesses during the Soviet period, and this must be recognized.

In other issues, such as the Soviet Union’s distribution mechanism is much worse, the Soviet Union’s many commodities from the founding of the country has not changed the price of some tools directly to the price of the steel seal, but the rising costs and is real, the more to the late, the Soviet market price inversion is more and more serious.

For example, the cost of producing grain was higher than the bread sold, and it’s not like the example of feeding bread to livestock in the Soviet Union didn’t happen.

Moreover, in terms of the degree of attention, heavy industry outweighed light industry and agriculture. Although no one seemed to attach more importance to agriculture than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) at meetings at all levels, in practice the importance of heavy industry, light industry and agriculture never changed.

This is also related to the population of the Soviet Union, in terms of job creation, heavy industry is smaller than light industry is smaller than agriculture. But the Soviet Union’s emphasis was diametrically opposed, because that was the only way the Soviet Union could arrange itself against the free world, which had a much larger population than itself.

The USSR’s lack of population required it to prioritize the allocation of labor to heavy industry, light industry was sparse, and agriculture had to make do, and the USSR would have had to have had the population of one of the great powers, even if it had had a population of 400 million, and it probably wouldn’t have had this problem.

Alan Wilson said in his heart, the food problem is not impossible to solve, for example, you can increase the price. But it is estimated that the Soviet Union will not do so, but they want to military and the United States than, welfare and Europe than, increase prices that is not to show that the great motherland can not do it?

Tune up high, will run into this problem, you see the latter days of Russia’s per capita food is far less than the Soviet Union, not the same as India has become a major food exporter? Poor na poor.

Britain is an island country is just a rhetoric, even if the United Kingdom is really an island country, food self-sufficiency rate of seventy-five percent, among the island countries is considered quite high, and certainly higher than the loss of the Hokkaido Japan.

“In fact, this favor, from a commercial point of view, is not impossible to help, but Britain is not the Soviet Union, where everything is clearly priced. Britain is happy to sell grain to the Soviet Union from a commercial point of view.” What Britain is an island nation is also just a figure of fun, Alan Wilson will not think that the procurement of food is difficult for Britain, Britain in the hands of the British pound, not no one recognizes the ruble.

“It’s a gold standard world, and Britain needs gold as a guarantee if it’s purchasing. If it is all right with Ambassador Victor, I would be happy to persuade the Prime Minister to have a normal trade and economic cooperation.”

The Soviet Union had to be purchased with gold, and Britain would not accept rubles, or even dollars. Because the price of dollars and gold is not in the ratio of the Breston Woods system, so why dollars? It was more tangible with gold.

Victor said that he would inform Moscow of the British side of the opinion, and Allen Wilson could not help but sigh, surprisingly, in the development of semiconductors, but also a food business, obviously he is a very focused person, really annoying.

A few days later, Victor seems to have been instructed, once again appeared in front of Alan Wilson, said to purchase 10 million tons of grain, Alan Wilson knows, then took the written report, went to 10 Downing Street.

The great Prime Minister, Aidan, was wondering whether to call a general election, and was considering it when he met the Secretary General of the Cabinet, “Alan, what’s the matter?”

“Something delightful.” Alan Wilson took out a memo straight away and put it in front of Aiden.

“The Soviet Union wants to buy food? Using gold?” Aiden read the memo and asked directly in return, “How much?”

“Initial estimate, two hundred and twenty tons of wheat in gold.” Alan Wilson smiled like a fox, “Honorable Prime Minister, it may be that the Cuban Missile Crisis Britain gave the Soviet Union a step up, and the United States has just confronted the Soviet Union, leading to animosity between the two countries, and I have specifically asked, and the Soviet Union is currently only making a request for a purchase from Britain.”

Two hundred and twenty tons of gold? Aiden’s heart was shocked, this is almost two years of the Gold Coast’s production, four percent of the UK’s gold reserves, spare him from experiencing great storms, but also can’t help but be calm, “This is really a big deal.”

“So Britain plays an important role in the international situation more often, it will still pay off.” Alan Wilson nodded and smiled.

“Can you handle this?” Aiden immediately inquired, it was obvious that the Prime Minister also wanted this business to be done.

“I don’t think there’s a problem, let’s call it the Gold for Food Program.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth and assured that in addition to North and South Rhodesia and Malaya, which were under his direct control, it could also be purchased through Canada and Australia, which recognized the value of the British pound.