Chapter 291 – Political and Economic Accounts

With the American fundraising arriving in Calcutta, Vivien Lei gained enormous influence throughout British India, and wherever she went the mountains roared with crowds that could not be seen at a glance, worshipping the goddess in their hearts with devotion.

All this was naturally recorded by the professional photographers that Alisa brought with her, and of course Vivien Leigh, who was already on a political mission to the United States, was bound to share some of the glory with the Hollywood actresses who accompanied her on this return.

Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman two Scandinavian big horse, the same is the object of Indian fantasies, along with being carried out a full range of deathless pursuit.

Moments of the trio distributing fund-raising materials and building their image were also faithfully recorded by the photographers who followed them.

The so-called in the United States by the majority of Americans welcome is just a figure of fun, really want to experience the feeling of worship, but also have to come to India, with these Hollywood actresses in the Viceroy’s Office of the recent work is much simpler.

As long as the first person of these actresses to talk about it, we India where great on the line.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think that a star could do all this.” Sir Barron tsked, unable to understand the craze that was emerging.

In England native movie actors are not much stronger in status than stage actors, and purely in terms of status, those who act in stage plays are even higher.

“I’m taken aback, too.” Alan Wilson, who had come to the Governor’s Mansion on rare occasions lately, was inwardly not the least bit surprised, but still sided with the top man at the crucial moment of whether or not he was reliable.

Truth be told, handsome men and beautiful women are really influential, South Korea in terms of culture, in terms of the world can not even rank third-rate.

But with the combined groups of the Korean Wave, it is hard to make South Korea’s popularity greatly increased.

Especially in the third world countries God block kill God block kill Buddha, it seems that only India is sort of spared.

This problem previously Allen Wilson thought about, may be India’s song and dance would have been every movie, the Indian people already have immunity.

The poorer the country, the face of the Korean current is more no resistance, in Europe and the United States Korean current can only be regarded as second-line, but in the third world countries is simply super first-class.

Now Allen Wilson completed the Korean Wave unfinished business, with the top actresses of Britain and the United States, to tear open the British India looks very strong immunity.

Indians not only can not blame, even should thank him, the British Empire’s national treasure, the United States of America’s star, the two powers serve the Indians, this blessing is not small?

“But then again, Alan your work is the envy of many a lad.” Sir Barron spoke up, “Isn’t it that you often take the female stars of the United States of America on trips, many lads must be very jealous of you.”

As soon as Alan Wilson heard this, he immediately replied, “I feel like I’ve found several moms, and just cooking every day takes up a lot of time, and I have a cultural disconnect with the Americans.”

Alan Wilson first made it clear that there was an age gap of at least ten years between himself and these actresses, clearing the air before he began to change the subject.

Sir Barron was really curious and couldn’t believe it, “No way, Americans were also British immigrants once upon a time, do they already have a cultural gap with us? Could it be that funny, ridiculous American accent?”

“That’s kind of a contributing factor, but I can get over it, it’s just that some of the actresses think I’m a hustler.” Alan Wilson strained his face, “And I say to want financial freedom, you still have to find a way to do business. You can’t waste your time in the middle of the public service corps system.”

“These stupid Americans.” Sir Barron’s face changed, with a sneer on his face, “Americans may not be able to see anything but money among their eyes.”

As the head of the civil service in British India, Sir Barron was furious at hearing the disrespectful words about the civil service community.

“Eyes that cannot see anything may also be blinded by poverty.” Alan Wilson, with seeming decency, offered an alternative hypothesis to express a shared hatred with his top boss.

Mouth hi a little American, it is better than the top boss concerned about his reception, to be really fine Allen Wilson also body is not afraid of the shadow slant, but the key lies in, he really do thief heart.

Although on the surface, all activities are under the attention of the security personnel of the Governor’s Office, but after dark, the relevant people involved in the matter know very well.

He, the toolman, is still relatively relaxed at present, Vivien Lei and his party have returned, and after returning to New Delhi and resting for two days, they will immediately start the West Coast trip, which is actually more important.

Because Mumbai is on the west coast, Mumbai, in addition to being the largest port in British India, is also the filmmaker center of British India.

India’s Bollywood is the film base centered in Mumbai, and Vivien Leigh is also the honorary president of the British Indian Film Actors’ Association, so the West Coast trip will be more official.

Bollywood represents part of the Indian film industry, one of the largest film production bases in the world, with hundreds of millions of viewers.

Indian cinema carries a strong family color, and several film families in British India today can be said to have influence into the twenty-first century, so it’s definitely not a loss to establish contacts with these Mumbai film actors, which may come in handy in the next fifty years.

Much more extensive personnel in London, as well as Pittsburgh, were also much more motivated than he, the tool man.

Some series of assessments were made around the Mysore iron ore mine, market factors, transportation factors, and even political factors were among the considerations, and an acceptable price was accounted for, and then given to the toolman 10,000 miles away, to see if he could get a satisfactory figure, and if he couldn’t do that, taking a step back to make both sides happy could be grudgingly accepted.

Edward Bridges’ bottom line in the telegram, again, was thirty million, but in pounds sterling. Any figure in excess would count to Alan Wilson’s credit, and the telegram put it this way, “Norman and I agree that Alan is a very reliable civil servant of the Empire ……”

Reliable! At the sight of the word Alan Wilson instinctively straightened his back, and the spirit of ownership rose in his chest.

“Thirty million pounds, eighty-four million dollars.” Converting the exchange rate in his mind, Alan Wilson felt that there was still a lot of room, although he didn’t know how the London side assessed it. But instinctively felt that this price had absolutely nothing to do with the lion’s share.

As for Pittsburgh’s assessment, the most important part is to prevent the British Empire from digging a hole and tampering with the liabilities above. After all, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, a lineage, for the pro-father’s style of doing things, the reverse son was taught.

The United States of America’s children as a child can not feel less fatherly love, if not for the Germans, a complete childhood is the nail in the coffin.

The hardware is all there, but the cost is not just as simple as it seems, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in a big deal, negotiation is not as simple as it seems.

On the basis of the balance sheet of the target enterprise, the value of the object of appraisal is determined by reasonably assessing the value of each asset and liability of the enterprise.

The rationale is that no rational person would pay more for an asset than the price of replacing it or buying a substitute for the same purpose. The main method is replacement cost.

The replacement cost method treats the enterprise under appraisal as a combination of various factors of production. On the basis of an inventory and verification of the various assets and confirmation of the existence of goodwill or economic depletion of the enterprise, the appraised value of the enterprise value is obtained by summing up the appraised value of the individual recognizable assets and adding the goodwill of the enterprise or subtracting the economic depletion.

In this regard, U.S. Steel, which was born of mergers and acquisitions, has a lot of experience and will not be confused by some civil servant’s words, especially if it is still said by the British, which is even less credible.

The people Derek brought with him were not all in New Delhi, those in New Delhi were lapdogs, the professional part, still keeping in touch in Mysore Tubal and Pittsburgh, exchanging information to provide support for Derek.

Otherwise what did Alan Wilson say, Derek is also a tool man. This kind of negotiation will not be too high or too low final result just because the boss personally appeared, the whole process is professional.

In comparison, in fact, the American side is still more professional, after all, the British side are some bureaucrats, just want to realize the property of the colonies, to give the mainland top a big pill.

The appraisal Pittsburgh gave Derek didn’t talk about what the bottom line was, but rather indicated that there was a profit to be made if the merger didn’t exceed one hundred and twenty million dollars. In fact, that’s still only a five-year theoretical gain for Steel.

On the other hand, the boost in the stock market, that was something the Morgan brothers were thinking about.

Five years! Alan Wilson didn’t know about the steel company’s assessment; he was counting political accounts, assessing how long independent India, and Nehru in particular, could endure watching the steel industry, the equivalent of a country’s ability to stiffen its backside, being controlled in the hands of foreigners.

He remembers that Nehru at the beginning of independence, that is, the next year in history, 1947, has identified state-owned enterprises as the dominant, 1950 officially began to follow the example of the Soviet Union, set up a planned economy committee and personally as chairman.

In the same year, Nehru officially opened India’s first five-year plan.

Wouldn’t it be a joke if the steel industry was still in the hands of the Americans even after the Five Year Plans had begun?

If history has not changed too much, it can be said that the Mysore iron ore mine in the hands of the Americans safe time, not counting this year is only three years.

By 1950, Nehru could have found a way to take the iron ore back anytime, anywhere. That’s also to consider whether Nehru would be encouraged by a successful Soviet nuclear bombing in 1949, which would put the books on the same footing as the United States.

While Pittsburgh’s side of the ledger was economic, Allen Wilson’s was political, especially when India’s sky-scraping slugger, which was heavily influenced by the Soviet Union, would be purged of the imperialist remnants in the country.