Chapter 23 Andaman Islands

Even for the sake of the big picture, to maintain the foundation of India’s strength over Pakistan, there are still quite a lot of places where you can move the knife, you can’t make a bunch of small countries that can’t catch up with Pakistan, cutting off some edges is still possible.

After bidding farewell to Ali Khan, Alan Wilson then took John as well as the Portuguese representative Pedro, back to the British residence, no similar gathering can be finished in a day, and they can’t be in Ali Khan’s palace all the time.

“Have a cup of black tea, Commissioner. I made it!” Alisa saw the somewhat drunken Alan Wilson and directly brought up a cup of black tea, following the commissioner for a short period of time, he knew that his superior had some stinky problems, for example, drinking tea was different from the general taste of milk tea of the British, but rather drinking tea water.

“Oh thanks, Alisa, hard work.” Eyes a bit straightened Alan Wilson smiled and thanked, “I’m a student of the Oriental College and lived in Xiangjiang, my eating habits are a bit oriental, thanks to you remembering.”

“You are my superior, I wouldn’t dare to forget.” Alisa sat down with her thighs together, looking very ladylike, looking at her somewhat uptight boss with a guffaw, “In fact, you don’t need to run around like a lightning bolt at all, I heard some of the old staff of the Office of the Public Prosecutor’s Office say that the last commissioner didn’t work so hard.”

“That also depends on the time, the time we’re in right now has no room for enjoying life. Oh yes!” As if he remembered something, Alan Wilson took out the briefcase at his feet, and took out from it the gift Ali Khan had given him.

Just took it out, Alisa’s eyes straightened at once, it was actually a small gold nugget, although the family was well off, he had never seen so much gold.

This is not as good as his boss, Alan Wilson but has seen a lot of gold, so it looks very calm, “You go and call Andy and the others over, divide these gold, from New Delhi to South India, is it for the vast South Asian people to make a contribution? Anyway, this is not my purpose, we are to think about our own lives, in the future to avoid living in poverty, so it is the purpose of our work.”

The gold that Alan Wilson took out was small bars of ten drags, a drag being a unit of weight in India. One drachm was equal to eleven point seven grams, and ten drachms would be one hundred and seventeen grams.

This is of course not all the favor fee Ali Khan handed over to him, just took out these to distribute to his own assistants. Ali Khan’s gold are transported by truck, this gold is not worth mentioning compared to his huge wealth.

Soon the other nine assistants came to Alan Wilson’s office, each person’s eyes were like mounted radar, instantly saw the gold on the table, and could no longer move.

“All come over, one person take a piece of good preservation, this thing can be more useful than rupees, where are hard currency.” Alan Wilson immediately gave his assistants a surprise, let these assistants share the joy of coming to Hyderabad to work.

As for his own share, it is not for the assistants to bother about, and indeed there is not much, he has been busy organizing the alliance of the Turkish states, and even called the Portuguese to the party, can not be a little little reward can not be impressed, want to let him, the commissioner of the British Empire to do things, you have to add money!

“Commissioner, you are so good to us.” Andy was overjoyed with the small gold bar, “Coming to Hyderabad to work was definitely the right decision.”

“Oh yeah? Then don’t whine behind your back, what do you mean Lightning Alan?” Alan Wilson cursed with a laugh, then turned serious, “Compared to the local civil servants, we have a certain degree of freedom in this part of British India, but it’s up to us whether or not we’re able to return with a full load. Well, go and rest, there are still a few days of busy time to go.”

The Commissioner of Hyderabad, who had just received the title of Lightning Allen, was not much weary, but on the contrary, because of a little drink, his brain was very active, and at this time Hyderabad was in darkness except in a very few places, and in this age the great city of South India was not electrified in the great majority of its districts, except in a few places.

In the light, an untired Alan Wilson opened a map of British India to pass the time and rested when sleepiness struck, “It would be too bad for the Andaman Islands to follow India to independence, it can’t be cheap for Nehru.”

A few decades later the Andaman-Nicobar Islands were an overseas joint dependency of the Union of India, south of Burma, between the Bay of Bengal and the Burmese Sea, eight hundred kilometers from the Indian mainland. A group of islands in the UT of Andaman & Nicobar, India, lies southeast of the Bay of Bengal.

In fact, the Andaman-Nicobar Islands are justifiably part of Myanmar or part of Bangladesh. But it went to India, which is undoubtedly the legacy of the British Empire on the board.

Crucially, the Andaman-Nicobar Islands are on the westward course of the Strait of Malacca, and any ship coming out of the Strait of Malacca will be able to be monitored by the military installations in the Andaman-Nicobar Islands.

Because of the powerful productivity of the U.S. during the war, the U.S. Navy has been the world’s number one without a doubt in terms of naval size, surpassing the world’s number one before World War II, the British Royal Navy. But the current strength of the Royal Navy is also uniquely second in the world.

The Royal Navy is not a rival to the U.S. Navy, but likewise handsomely outclasses the naval power of other nations. The Japanese navy is just close to the British Royal Navy in strength, just the Royal Navy’s main force is not in Asia, after all, in the British view, Malacca is close at hand; in the Japanese view, Gibraltar is far away.

The world’s first colonial empire was just so ho-hum, and now Alan Wilson looked at the location of the Andaman Nicobar Islands, and the desire to cut the place out of British India grew stronger in his mind.

At least just after the end of World War II, the British Royal Navy strength is still in the time, Andaman Nicobar Islands position is very important, far more than that a little land area can reflect.

The Andaman-Nicobar Islands were also chosen because Alan Wilson found it easier, as India, newly independent was certainly not going to build a navy with any great vigor, and didn’t necessarily have that understanding yet. It was not too difficult to cut down an archipelago that was alone offshore!

Furthermore, it is also persuasive to the London side, although the probability of independence of British India is a nail in the coffin, but the British colonies and not only British India, there is also British Malaya. The Strait of Malacca is still under the control of the British Empire, and the Andaman Nicobar Islands, which is right in the middle of the route of the Strait of Malacca, should of course remain in the British Empire.