Chapter 1480 Post-War Reconstruction

Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Israel have issued ceasefire statements, marking the end of this Middle East war, and the armies of the two sides have disengaged from contact, and many voices believe that Israel’s flashing of its nukes is responsible for the willingness of the Arab League side to call a truce.

Another part of the voices argued that the Arab League’s oil embargo policy, which led to Israel’s unprecedented diplomatic isolation, was what made Israel give up on continuing the war.

“But I don’t think so, I just simply think that Israel can’t hold out, it’s really that the southern eastern and northern fronts of the war are beyond Israel’s strength and can’t chew through those fortress strongholds. Now that the war has been going on for two months, neither side has the strength to fight any longer.”

Alan Wilson packed his suitcase, putting away one thing after another that his wife would need, and Pamela Mountbatten was back from Denmark packing her bags again, about to embark on this year’s wintering trip to bring the gifts of the richest woman to the warm beaches of Perth.

The scale of this war was unprecedented, far greater than any Middle East war in Alan Wilson’s mind, comparable to millions of troops fighting in a very unskilled positional war.

Even the most prestigious land forces outside the power, but also reluctant to fight such a war, there is a count without exception.

Think of the World War I period to stand up chest full of vengeance, and Germany to fight to the death of the French soldiers, in the end of the battle of the position are repeatedly mutiny, do not know that this kind of war is not a human being to fight.

As for my Great Britain? An intensive charge, angrily sent 60,000 heads of the operation, directly be woken up the soldiers of the romantic fantasies of war, this kind of consequence which is Israel’s total population of three million can afford.

“The evacuation of three carrier battle groups has not occurred in my memory, my dear, this matter is more serious than you think. Even if the Royal Navy comes back, they won’t be able to control the Mediterranean.” Pamela Mountbatten, in a position of being raised to be a waste of space, half reclined and gave encouragement with her gaze to her husband who was helping to gather up the laundry.

“No, the Royal Navy won’t start a conflict with the Red Navy. Who’s to blame, the Americans have to show their fearlessness in waters the size of a bath tub. If the Soviets don’t back off, it’s all they can do.” Alan Wilson slapped at the leather case, “The Red Navy’s play is very roguish indeed, but wasn’t it the Americans’ overconfidence of their own choosing? Who told America to take an aircraft carrier into the bath tub?” ,

The Mediterranean standoff, like the outcome in Alan Wilson’s head, ended with the U.S. Navy retreating first.

But while the U.S., as the spokesman of a military alliance, had its own considerations in doing so, a withdrawal is a withdrawal, and inevitably makes a camp partner wonder whether the U.S. has the resolve to go to war or not.

If the German High Seas Fleet under Wilhelm II, and the British Royal Navy so confrontation, the British performance will not be better than the United States, the navy for the two countries is life. To a continental country like the Soviet Union, it was nothing more than a more important sacrificable force, and Britain would have lost a lot of money by annihilating the German High Seas Fleet, resulting in the loss of sea power.

“Got it, we can’t afford to mess with the Soviet Union right now.” Pamela Mountbatten replied lazily, then got up to express her gratitude to her husband who had put in the hard work for some verbal sparring.

“That’s not true, and in fact we can’t afford to mess with the US either. But it’s a good thing there won’t be such an obviously incompatible maneuver as a standoff between Britain and America.” Alan Wilson said as he put his suitcase down.

Pamela Mountbatten blankly glanced at her husband, nodded to herself and said by way of example, “It’s like me, no more than I would have done to Margaret. And pretend I don’t know.”

Alan Wilson opened his mouth, but eventually said nothing, and a minute later was thinking that it seemed like something should have been done just then, but it was too late now.

A day apart, Alan Wilson arrived at Vivienne’s house, the Great British Treasure was going on a trip to South Asia, mainly because of an event with the Indian acting community, and actually to look after his eldest child, David.

“I was born in South Asia and have some memories of the region.” Vivienne felt the man’s worried gaze and warmed her heart that everything was okay.

“Bring a personal doctor, even though you’ve been cured long ago. But the sanitary conditions over in India are in not reassuring.”

Alan Wilson said this, then came out of the British Hong Kong government’s documents, “the plan for the development of Central, if you listen to me, you will settle down in Central, the development of office office buildings, in the next ten years, that will be the golden decade of Hong Kong, said that inches of gold is not excessive at all.”

Central is located in Hong Kong’s Central and Western District, the political and commercial center of Heung Yee Kuk, and is home to many banks, multinational financial institutions and foreign consulates. Heung Kong’s government headquarters, the Legislative Council Building, and the former Governor’s residence are all located in Central. Despite its small size, Xiangjiang actually has a capital city, and the capital city is Victoria City, which contains Central.

“Isn’t it just developing a few office buildings, look at how solemn you are.” Fei Wenli took over the development plan of the Governor, looking a bit unimpressed, “Rarely have I seen you so solemn.”

“A few office buildings? Just those few office buildings if developed, it’s not even remotely worse than you mastering a big business.” Alan Wilson had an expression that was more worthy of attention than you can imagine, “Just listen to me, in the future it’s just lying on a golden mountain, if you miss it, you’ll definitely regret it later. Get the land shot down, I’ll mobilize my contacts to help.”

The seventies and eighties were the heyday of Central, when multi-storey skyscrapers were constantly being built in Central, including the headquarters of various banks, and with the financial market starting to boom, many of Hong Kong’s major commercial activities took place in Central, and a lot of locals were proud to work in Central.

Vivien Lei has land in Central, have been pinched in the hands of many years, now very suitable for development. Alan Wilson remembers that an office skyscraper is valued at thirteen hundred billion dollars, and every year, without doing anything, collecting rents will be able to collect enough for ten billion dollars.

To know the world’s only profitable subway is in Hong Kong, and the MTR’s profit model is real estate, because when the subway is built, the government will sell the land on and around the subway, at a lower price to the MTR, and the MTR can take these areas to attract investment, and those real estate developers can build shopping malls and residential housing, and of course the land price at this time will be doubled.

For the good purpose of giving the people of Hong Kong a way to live, Alan Wilson decided to pay personal attention to the development of Hong Kong, so he is going to give the land in Central as well as the Hong Kong MTR to the trusted developers, all left to their own people, and the local businessmen in Hong Kong can go to develop residential buildings. Isn’t there a saying that first-class enterprises sell buildings.

“Isn’t that an exaggeration.” Vivien Lei muttered in a small voice, if it wasn’t for the trust that had been built up over a long period of time, she still really couldn’t believe it, “It can still be more profitable than an office building in London?”

“What’s London?” Alan Wilson had a tone of a smaller target, “Once the office building is developed, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and every corporation you can imagine will move in, and you have to know that it’s a place controlled by the British Empire, and even Tokyo can’t be compared to it on some levels. It’s easy for United American Pictures to grow in the future.”

Considering from the perspective of real estate profitability, London and Xiangjiang can’t really be compared, London land fall is also losing money, Xiangjiang subway will be able to make a profit.

Alan Wilson still told Fei Wenli, it is best to pull in as many shareholders as possible for development, which helps to tie up more interests related to, eat alone if the Whitehall is also difficult to do.

“Don’t worry, you are an official, I won’t let you be influenced.” Vivienne nodded good-naturedly, there was a time when she would never have thought she’d be at the mercy of a small man.

When Israel withdrew from the Golan Heights, Syrian soldiers erupted into earth-shattering cheers, although this was a war that ended with the signing of an armistice agreement, compared to the two countries, Egypt and Jordan, which endured heavy losses from Israel’s all-out output and were occupied with a large amount of land, the Syrian side was considered to be the best-performing Arab country.

It was only after the stabilization of the front in Egypt and Jordan that Israel’s large forces turned in the direction of Syria. Armored brigades and trucks carrying logistical provisions swarmed to the Golan Heights in great numbers, with all the replenishment they needed for the battle, intending to take the Heights in a single attack, leaving no loose ends, but of course, the results are now visible to all countries.

To say that the country that felt unfulfilled on the Arab side of this war was undoubtedly Yemen, led by Nasser, the Democratic Republic of Yemen, which only sent in its air force, similar to the role of the Kingdom of Iraq.

But it was the country of Nasser, a former Egyptian war hero, that saved his country at a critical moment when Egyptian armor was being crushed.

The Arab countries provided troops, equipment and financial support to the participating countries, which helped the Arab countries to seize the dominant power in the war, and to a certain extent contributed to this lose-lose war.

After two months of war, Alan Wilson believed that the tragic casualty figures were enough for both sides to calm down for a period of time.

“On the matter of post-war reconstruction, there is no doubt that the British Empire should stand up proudly. It will take time for relations between the Arab League and the United States to improve, even if the Saudis are willing to do their part in the midst of it.”

Alan Wilson dragged Frank, the permanent undersecretary of the Treasury, along with him to 10 Downing Street to meet the prime minister, who was holding a document from the foreign secretary, who was visiting the Chilean capital, Santiago, and preparing to exert British diplomatic influence.

Did the Arab League not care when the Palestinian areas were rippled by the war? Letting the stragglers appear, even if it doesn’t care, Britain should talk to the Middle Eastern countries so that they don’t become a destabilizing factor.

What kind of bad intentions can Britain have? Britain is thousands of miles away, and when problems do arise, it is still not the neighboring countries that have to bear the burden.

“It’s also true that it’s time for the Arab countries to take out a little interest, those oil producing countries are making a lot of money.” Harold Wilson nodded, thinking that Whitehall had come up with a good idea.

“We can take the lead in contracting the reconstruction of the Arab countries in subdivisions, and leave monuments of thanks to the leaders of the countries on the reconstruction.” Alan Wilson spoke with great interest, “I think these works will be enough for Britain to consolidate its economic prospects during the oil crisis.”