Chapter 1439: A Win-Win Deal

It’s fine to tighten your belt for more ambitious goals, the British paid no less than anyone else in any country during the Industrial Revolution era.

But a hundred years down the line many of the country’s mainstay industries are the same as they were a hundred years ago? That’s just isn’t it? Technology stagnation is justified, but a little bit of the dividends of the new era did not share is their own problem.

Britain is naturally at the top of the world, this is not what industry, but the British financial industry, although to the current time, financial hegemony is the United States accounted for a large part of the British accounted for a small part, at least not part of it, on the part of the financial hegemony, enough to let the British print money and then exchange for other countries of the goods.

Alexeyev sent back to Moscow, Alan Wilson is now faced with a problem, first to inform the Prime Minister or first to inform the love of his life, Ms. Pamela Mountbatten. After not-so-long thought, the Prime Minister’s side could wait a little longer and talk to his wife first.

“And that’s a good thing?” Pamela Mountbatten eyes lit up, the last time the Soviet Union took out more than three hundred tons of gold, although the final is down to the British treasury, but after the London financial markets turned around, Pamela Mountbatten got a share of that, not in the least less than the market value of the gold, and even over! This time there is such a good opportunity?

Pamela Mountbatten simply want to thank God, Alan Wilson listening to God bless the mantra, and his old man has anything to do? Obviously more to thank God for calling me God’s man.

“My dear, I understand that it was you who strongly suggested in the first place that I want to make a career in agriculture.” Pamela Mountbatten immediately switched to the tone of a young daughter-in-law and expressed her obeisance to the Supreme Authority, but the Supreme Authority didn’t respond and couldn’t help but gently poke, “What’s wrong?”

“This is the importance of information superiority, with the information you hold at your level, even if it is one day faster than an ordinary person, that would lead to several hundred million dollars of trade. Power and money can’t be separated, except that there are countries that differ in their understanding of who’s in front of them, but basically there’s a consensus that the combination of power and money is the way to go, but that’s not what I’m thinking about.”

Even an ordinary patriot in the East End of London, having the advantage of information beyond even one day is enough to become rich, not to mention that the advantage of information held by the top of a country is definitely more than one day.

Even in the middle of the reborn no matter how ordinary the family, later become mega-rich will make the reader convinced.

Coincidentally, Allen Wilson happened to be in the right position of information advantage, and with his own memories, doing business was like fighting the right war at the right place at the right time.

After uttering some philosophical words, Allen Wilson fell back into thought muttering to himself, “I was wondering how many ways there are to make this dish.”

“How?” Pamela Mountbatten came to attention, knowing at once that her husband must have an idea; she had not seen him look like that for a long time.

“I haven’t thought of anything yet, I’ll just say something you can just listen to.” Alan Wilson at this time had an immature idea about this time the Soviet Union to buy food, can we achieve a win-win or even win-win results, then put his own ideas and Pamela Mountbatten said.

The person he should trust most in this world is the woman in front of him, and trust is due.

Now the pound is still the world’s main currency in circulation, in addition to the dollar is the pound, in other words the financial hegemony is still there, Britain can print pounds to solve some problems.

In fact the UK does do this, except that Whitehall has been firmly opposed to doing this on home soil, but not to quantitative easing on specific things.

The main reason for this opposition is because the Bretton Woods system of overissued money is literally convertible to gold, and this is the main reason for the opposition of Alan Wilson and the entire civil service hierarchy.

Can’t say that all the Whitehall top brass support him as Cabinet Secretary, and those who don’t naturally have the positions of High Commissioner of Fiji and Chairman of the War Public Funding Board waiting for them.

So far so good, and the dollar compared to the over-issuance of the pound is restrained, but now that the unsustainability of the Bretton Woods system has been declared unspoken, continue to be so restrained it seems?

Taking advantage of the international financial drastic transformation of the stall, is can slightly expand the scope of application of quantitative easing, once the end of the Bretton Woods system, it is not the United Kingdom reneged on the debt, all the responsibility for the United States.

It is the United States to play off the Bretton Woods system, the United Kingdom has what to do?

“We collect the Soviet Union’s gold without delay, and then we print a batch of pounds to purchase food in Asia, mainly in the two populous countries, so that we collect the gold but pay only the cost of printing the pounds. We could also collect less gold. Let the USSR trade raw materials instead, say exporting steel with us. Then we send the food to the USSR from our ports in Asia, and ship the raw materials exported from the USSR to Bangladesh, which is like endorsing the reconstruction of Bangladesh with the industrial capacity of the USSR, and as far as manpower is concerned, South Korea is also lacking in foreign exchange, and South Korea has no resources of any kind of its own, and is very dependent on the outside world, and with the foreign exchange that we get for hiring South Korean workers to build Bangladesh, and with the South Korean government getting the British pound sterling, we can still buy from the Middle East energy and buy iron ore from Australia.”

Although her husband’s words were a bit confusing and indeed still in the stage of not thinking things through, Pamela Mountbatten stretched out one finger and kept gesturing to speed up her understanding of her husband’s meaning, “That means that all we need to do is to print the pounds out, and we’ll get the steel exported from the USSR to rebuild Bangladesh, as well as the USSR’s gold reserves, and then we’ll use the pounds that were printed out to sign a contract with South Korea to borrow a batch of labor to bring the rebuilding of Bangladesh up to speed, and the Soviet Union needs food that can be purchased from two populous countries in desperate need of foreign exchange reserves, in addition to a portion of our own purchases.”

“At basically no cost!” For a long moment, the husband and wife spoke almost simultaneously, then looked at each other and smiled, what a good deal.

“It definitely won’t be that simple, but it’s theoretically feasible. The two populous countries involved and South Korea, who recognizes their currencies?” Alan Wilson hesitantly muttered to himself, “If it’s not too big of a target that could lead to a fierce reaction from the United States, I’d want to follow India’s rupee to rupee settlement.”

The two major currencies currently equipped for international circulation are the US dollar and the British pound, and any country would surely want to settle trade in its own currency, such as India, a large and vocal nation, but who recognizes it?

What anchor does India have that other countries can’t live without to stabilize the value of the rupee? Does it use sustainable consumables Dalit?

If a currency has no anchor and is purely sovereign, and your sovereign’s credit isn’t good enough, you’re just waiting for inflation to explode in place.

Alan Wilson was unable to think of what India was using to talk to the USSR in terms of rubles to rupees, was it a fifth of the Malayan colony’s steel production, propped up to keep the USSR squarely in the black?

Britain would not accept the Soviet currency either, but at the critical moment of rebuilding Bangladesh, it could also use Soviet raw material exports to even out the books, and if it just used Malaya’s production capacity to prop up the reconstruction of Bangladesh, it would also affect Malaya’s economic development.

If the Soviet Union could accept this, then Britain could agree that some of the gold could be replaced with raw materials supplied by the Soviet Union.

The reconstruction of Bangladesh, Alan Wilson said in his heart, he did not want to take a penny, purely to give the High Commissioners around the world a chance to level the playing field, at the same time with a debt trap to trap the 60 million workforce in Bangladesh, who let the United Kingdom in the aspect of the nationalization of enterprises in the blue, the state-owned enterprises opened to other countries it.

“But with two populous countries, there may not be much left over probably.” Pamela Mountbatten, unaware of the Soviet Union’s food deficit, inquired if her husband knew.

Alan Wilson similarly shook his head, “If you believe me, take the pounds and go to purchase, you can definitely buy food. With our contribution to both countries, it makes sense to take advantage of it, not to mention that they need foreign currency, for foreign trade.”

Old documentaries often appear inside the precious foreign exchange this vocabulary, visible in a particular period of time to the degree of thirst for foreign exchange, as long as you can exchange foreign exchange, food will definitely be exported.

Allen Wilson mouth to the two populous countries, is the contribution of the Mountbatten Group to provide good seeds, both countries have accepted the Mountbatten Group in agricultural technology support, this contribution is here, export some food, but also to maintain the traditional relationship between each other.

Unsurprisingly, it is possible that the traditional black pigs of the Far East will be grateful to the eight generations of ancestors in the UK, which are now certainly not in a good position to be squeezed by the alien monk Great White Yorkshire pig.

Pamela Mountbatten said she would have to make some assessments, while Alan Wilson told his wife, “I’ll get the Treasury to bring over a statement of the average price of Soviet exports to help you with your assessment.”

Two days later, with the Mountbatten Group’s finances largely worked out operationally, Alan Wilson went to 10 Downing Street to inform the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union’s negotiation of food imports, and also of the response backed up by data.

The core idea is that the reconstruction of Bangladesh, the London government from now on do not want to take a penny, but must also be rebuilt into a benchmark, borrowing the Soviet Union this time want to import food, so that the Soviet Union will be the cost of printing pounds in the United Kingdom to report.

At this time Alexeyev, got Andropov’s praise, “We really should not be too anxious, you keep a prudent attitude is right, we reported and previous years about the same shortfall, will not cause fluctuations in international food prices, to let the British believe that the Soviet Union and previous years of the harvest in line. Let’s first replenish part of the grain shortfall.”

“If there are no fluctuations in international grain prices, overshadowed by the news of a bumper harvest, we’ll make a sweep at that time.” Alexeyev at this time did not know that the old father in London also came up with a way to let the Soviet Union save gold reserves, raw materials the Soviet Union has plenty of, steel production Soviet Union is the world’s first.

Alexeyev if you can save the Soviet Union’s gold reserves, this is certainly another big credit, life resume on the colorful one.