Chapter 1378 – Currency Reform

“Not bad, Germany finally forgot about his Axis allies and didn’t go after the Japanese like an idiot.” Alan Wilson took a deep breath, this is also a blessing in misfortune.

“Actually, Japan’s economy is approaching Britain’s, it’s considered a powerful country.” Pamela Mountbatten shook her head, it was just a pity that there were some things that couldn’t be done.

“And it’s not because Japan has twice the population of the UK.” Alan Wilson crumbled, “On the surface Japan does have power, but the country has been reorganized by the United States. Inside is no longer a country, a lot of things that are important to a country, Japan is very much missing, in fact, Germany also has this problem, Germany’s luck is that it is in Europe, Britain, the United States and France are strategically different, Germany still has some room to maneuver, just watch, sooner or later, Japan will be difficult.”

Japan dares to disobey the United States? Sneakily found a financial loophole, Japan quietly accumulate a little gold, this category of things Japan is able to do, but to say more further to realize the national power, that depends on the United States can allow to which step.

In fact, Japan once really try to break free from the United States set up the development of the line, a lot of big countries in the twenty-first century development of the industry, Japan have tried, and even with the national strength to get into, but at the critical moment by the United States called a halt.

Can be said that all can be converted into strategic capabilities of the technology, Japan have engaged in, aircraft engines, rocket engines, self-developed missiles, self-developed fighter aircraft, chips, hydrogen fuel, large passenger aircraft, these things either be stopped, or be curbed, really can not be curbed, directly replace the standard. Hydrogen fuel Japan does well, the United States just change the track.

Now Allen Wilson is just borrowing Malaya and Japan for targeted sniping, and so really Japan has the technical strength to want to go to the next level, it’s not his turn to worry about Japan, the United States will tell the Japanese what it means to be a professional, what is not for nothing, the United States will not open the market indefinitely to feed Japan.

In fact, Allen Wilson is now very much want to understand one thing, the United States claims to be a huge and incomparable market, in the end, how much capacity.

If the capacity has peaked, may South Korea want to develop the difficulty will be higher than the original history of the billion points point, if the market capacity remains unchanged, Malaya and Japan to compete for the market, South Korea’s position in what place.

“Find an opportunity to talk to the emirates of the Persian Gulf and finalize the grain company, and we can consider letting those emirates of Qatar and Dubai gain nominal independence.” Alan Wilson stretched his back, “Keep the military bases to maintain the circulation of the pound, and the UK can keep its nose out of the rest.”

“Got it, do I count this as dedication to supreme authority?” Pamela Mountbatten’s phoenix eyes flickered, connoting the Cabinet Secretary who was just moving his mouth without making any effort.

“Actually, I have another space program I’d like to talk to you about.” Alan Wilson reached out and squeezed his wife’s small hand, dedication to the matter of supreme authority could be demonstrated by practical actions.

Financial operations naturally have professionals to promote, Alan Wilson’s current biggest goal is to promote the Typhoon’s service, creating public opinion to the Typhoon is the first to serve the third generation fighter news, to maintain the face of Britain’s aviation powerhouse.

News of Britain’s imminent service of the first third-generation fighter is sure to attract the attention of enemies and dubious allies, but if public opinion isn’t created, a stingy Labor government may slow down the emergence of a classic.

Let’s just be content for America, Alan Wilson would have wanted to clone even the F18 carrier aircraft if he hadn’t remembered, and is now waiting to see if the technology built up on top of the Typhoon can be used on top of the Royal Navy.

He also took time to look at the progress of composite armor, Allen Wilson does not know what degree of composite armor is considered qualified, anyway, the Institute of scientists believe that it is not qualified, in that case, then wait, anyway, compared to the Warsaw Pact, NATO this side of the armored force has never been unbearable, has been in the valley, and there is no need to hurry to rise to the occasion.

Then it is headlong to the semiconductor results above, not and sister-in-law rocket ride this thing, is really to visit the semiconductor development milestones, the computer has been developed to the third generation.

Integrated circuit computers, computer logic components using medium and small-scale integrated circuits; semiconductor memory devices instead of magnetic core memory, the use of pipelines, multi-channel programs and parallel processing technology; software gradually improved, time-sharing operating systems, conversational languages and other high-level languages, proposed modular and structured program design.

In the development of mainframe at the same time, “small computers” began to appear; so that the computer varieties began to diversify, series development, the field of application continues to expand.

The main features are smaller, faster, more accurate, more powerful, the cost of computers further down; software to the series, diversified development.

“It’s still not very convenient, and this volume is unrealistic to use for home office.” Alan Wilson shook his head in front of Turing, to the father of the computer in front of him, “This batch of computers is not up to our standards, but it can be used for export, in the continuation of technological updating at the same time, I this batch of computers, I think it can be exported to Malaya, incense, the Middle East’s engineering departments also need.”

“Not needed on the mainland?” Turing was a little disappointed; he had been bothering with semiconductors, but of course it was still to serve the UK more than any other reason.

“My friend, you know that after the advent of the camera, the world’s school of painting began to favor the abstract style. The appearance of a new thing may overturn everything that is currently perceived.” Alan Wilson made an analogy, before the appearance of the camera, the European side of the painting is also biased towards realism, Van Gogh over the poor is the obvious example.

And Picasso appeared, the western painting school has been because of the emergence of the camera turned to abstraction, you in the realistic and camera shutter can not be compared, so to change the track well, the times make Picasso fame.

Obviously now this batch of one person high computer, is not impossible to use, but can only be used in the hands of various universities, government departments, not that they are backward, in fact, this is the UK’s best finished product, but can not be promoted in the local community, because of Moore’s Law under the size of the computer, obviously and these one person high computer is not relevant.

Now the most cutting-edge computers, maybe two years later will be behind, Alan Wilson thought for a moment, “I will let Xiangjiang and Malaya to place an order for this batch of computers for use in the public service, as for the mainland, first use typewriters. By the way, you can send a batch to Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister will definitely agree, this expenditure I can fight for.”

“Good, you have a point.” Turing nodded, “But state-of-the-art computers used elsewhere first always sounds odd.”

“More than weird, letting the general public know might make them think I just know Whee, but in reality the general public knows shit about Moore’s Law.” Alan Wilson grinned, people in all countries are the same at this point, they just want to take advantage of the situation and not suffer, they are not even willing to think more about why they are doing it.

The so-called public domain, naturally, included everything in the realm of public service, the obvious being medical care, which could be used amongst surgeries especially head surgeries, which used to be gory and screamingly difficult to deal with visually.

It required turning over a large chunk of the skull to expose the brain directly. The surgeon first had to find the markers on the surface of the brain, and then swing his electrodes into the brain. If he loads the electrodes deeper, he occasionally has to dissect the brain with a knife and then load the electrodes into the ventricles.

It’s a complicated process, and there’s no room for sloppiness. The operations were long and difficult, and the patients never cooperated satisfactorily.

Now, the computer has changed all that. It allows you to pinpoint locations in three dimensions. Originally, the Neuropsychiatric Research Laboratory and other researchers in the field tried to relate the location of the ventricles to the structure of the skull. They used the eye sockets, ear canals and sagittal sutures to determine the surgical landmarks.

This, of course, does not work; people’s brains do not minister to the same fixed location in the head. The only way to determine the location of the brain in the depths was to correlate it with other brain locations – and the logical boundary markers were the ventricles, the fluid-filled spaces inside the brain. Under this new system, it is decided that everything is linked to the ventricles.

It was best to keep this from the British citizens, or else the native citizens would find enjoyable surgical techniques that had not been colonized well, and Whitehall would certainly have a hard time accounting for it.

Inside the television, Harold Wilson is impassioned in the House of Commons, expounding on the importance of monetary reform, converting the pound to decimal, where one pound is now equal to twenty shillings; and one shilling in turn is equal to twelve pence. In other words, one pound was equal to two hundred and forty pence.

Coins are divided into: quarterpence, halfpenny, penny, threepenny, sixpence, one shilling, two shillings, half a crown which is two shillings and sixpence, and one crown and fivepence.

The most recent coin minting was in 1967, and in fact most of the coins have been taken out of circulation, and the only thing left for the pound to carry out decimal reform is the threepenny and sixpence impediment to the small amount of money being out of circulation, which has allowed the pound to open up to decimal reform.

“The Ministry of Finance said that this reform will promote the standardization of British imports and exports.” Alan Wilson said to his wife, “In fact there is also a plan to devalue the pound, but it has not been communicated yet. After all, we also have to guard against the U.S. pulling the pound down after being squeezed for gold. Although the pound’s overshooting is not comparable to that of the dollar, it’s always good to be careful.”

“Taking advantage of the currency reform to push for a devaluation, it’s always good to talk to the citizens ahead of time, and once the devaluation is announced at that time, I believe that the citizens have certain psychological expectations.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, “But it also depends on the performance of the dollar in the next two years.”