Chapter 350: And then the music was played and then the dance was done

“Oh ho, my Alan is the best.” Pamela Mountbatten skimmed her lips and made a face of adoration as she bragged.

“My dear, even if the feelings are strong, you can’t insult me with that tone of voice.” Other things were fine, this line about our Alan being the best, completely enraged Alan Wilson, which was clearly his tone of voice in bragging about India.

It wasn’t offensive, but it was extremely insulting, and it was just as well that he simply didn’t believe it, but he was even mocking his own man. It was something a man just couldn’t put up with, and Allen Wilson couldn’t take that kind of insult; it was a matter of future family status.

“If I can find a way for you to make a rocket into the rich list, is it possible to get a sincere apology.” Smoothly closing and locking the metal box, Alan Wilson squinted at his soon-to-be-engaged fiancée, his hands still pinched.

“Is it richer than my mother? The Comet airliner doesn’t count, the project has a chance of failure and can’t be used as a basis yet, so neither does speculation in stocks. Can’t talk about oil either, the Persian Gulf is full of national oil companies. Corruption is okay in the colonies, but not in this country, where do corrupt people make the rich list? Plundering German businesses doesn’t count either.”

Pamela Mountbatten snapped her fingers and filtered them one by one as if they were counting, and finally thought it was about right.

“You’d better contact the aristocracy in the country by then, especially those families that are having a hard time affected by the war, and wait for the report.” Alan Wilson said with a high profile, “Wait for the time when you become the spiritual leader of the noble class of the British Empire, my dear, you will definitely thank me then.”

“What in the world? And contacting other nobles?” Pamela Mountbatten was confused and kept asking questions non-stop.

“I’ll tell you when it’s done, register the exploration company.” Alan Wilson was finally worn down and couldn’t stand it, and opened his mouth, “You should know about the sale of the Mysore iron ore mine, right, isn’t it very profitable? That’s all, don’t ask rashly.”

Why did the Mysore iron ore sell for a high price? The first is that the coast is easy to transport, and the second is because the quality of the iron ore is more than sixty percent, and when the Rockefeller family purchased from the Germans and eventually sold to the Morgan family’s Mesabi Ridge iron ore mine.

After decades of development has come to an end, the quality of iron ore has been greatly reduced.

Mesabi Ridge iron ore ore iron content of more than seventy percent, without any treatment, can be directly into the furnace smelting, become the raw material base of the U.S. iron and steel industry, directly promote the completion of the U.S. industrialization and urbanization process.

Mysore iron ore ore iron content has more than sixty percent, in the world has been considered a very rare mine, Mesabi Ridge iron ore quality is seventy percent.

Compare this with China, where the average quality of iron ore is thirty percent, which causes a lot of extra costs.

Even the average quality is poor, the average quality of the world’s iron ore is forty percent. Indian iron ore is better than Chinese, but of course the total amount is not comparable.

And Australia’s iron ore is a little higher quality than the Mesabi Ridge iron ore, also more than Brazil’s Vale, into the twenty-first century is also a unique, the most critical thing is that Australia’s iron ore has not yet been discovered.

All Australian experts, scholars, the Australian government is convinced that the country’s iron ore reserves of no more than two and a half billion tons, so in nineteen thirty-eight mandatory ban on the export of iron ore, will be implemented until nineteen sixties.

Alan Wilson could not believe that an iron ore mine would not run away with its legs open, and how he would find it if he spent a few years on it.

Pamela Mountbatten is very obedient not to inquire, she thought it must be a colony of iron ore has news, was Allen Wilson know, not all right, Australia is not a colony very early.

So you can’t take the approach of eating alone, first of all, Pamela Mountbatten must enlist a number of British nobles with status and influence, so that these nobles invested a portion of the funds, tied together with shares, and then the second step is to talk to the powerful nobles in Australia to form a transnational collection of interests.

This is also of great benefit to the British Empire, binding Australia with interests, with the addition of Australian iron ore.

Allen Wilson would dare to fight so much in Malaya, and Japan which undertook the transfer of American industry.

Japan a U.S. colony to such a high per capita income for what? Allen Wilson think a little bit to Malaya very reasonable, Japan Square Agreement before the per capita is 11,000 U.S. dollars, he is not greedy, taking into account the population of Japan and Malaya’s population ratio, so that the Japanese people to share out a little bit of Malaya and Japan per capita are 10,000, this desire is not excessive at all.

After all, Malaya, in addition to population, natural land resources are better, but also choke the Malacca Straits transportation is also better, as long as the British Empire and Australia are willing to give some support, this is not a problem.

Of course, the immediate problem, or can not continue to have the technology no money down, the British poor even sold the engine to the Soviet Union is only one aspect, Alan Wilson proposed the Netherlands to Britain to rent battleships, in fact, is just the icing on the cake.

Because that’s what Prime Minister Adderley did historically, and also does now, because of the support of France’s return to Vietnam, the Royal Navy leased an aircraft carrier, the Giant, to the French Navy.

By giving the aircraft carrier to this centuries old rival, it was already evident that Prime Minister Alderley was really returning the favor.

According to history, at the end of the lease, France would buy the carrier and rename it HMS Arromanches. During the Vietnam War, it saw combat in Southeast Asia, where its flight crews supported French troops at Dien Bien Phu and assisted in the evacuation of North Vietnamese refugees.

All indications are that Adderley’s tenure as Labor Prime Minister was still trying to hang on for dear life.

Alan Wilson liked this Prime Minister, although the main reason was the nationalization policy; he was a civil servant, and it is natural for civil servants to like state enterprises.

His engagement ceremony with Pamela Mountbatten had another important role to play, and that was that it could be used to stall for time.

Ever since it had become clear what was wrong with British India, especially the conflict between the Congress and the PMLN, what Governor Mountbatten did was to stall for time, the party went on as it was, followed by music and then dancing, and avoided taking a stand on tendentious issues. Even on the Tupang issue.

This filled the Congress Party with misgivings, and Gandhi once pointed out that the princely Tupangs were a British creation, created by the chiefs to weaken Indian resistance to the British Empire.

As long as Mountbatten encouraged the princes to become independent, the Congress Party argued that Mountbatten was undermining the newly independent India by balkanizing India’s rightful territories and allowing the development of the princely tuktuks, which were artificially created and undemocratic products of their time.

The PML-N likewise wanted some of the princely states to be annexed to Pakistan, and thus opposed allowing them to become independent as well.

Mountbatten tried to be as vague as possible, not really wanting to resolve the issue, but now that his daughter was getting engaged, it was a good time to pretend that he was busy, to put it off for a while.

When the time for independence arrives, it can be temporary! It is not that he has no talent, but time is running out, only in the partition of India and Pakistan did not have time to think more, some policies appeared aftermath.

Knowing that after this village will not have this store Allen Wilson, to any party’s gifts are not refused, the practitioner of his original commitment to stand the last shift, but also take the time to drug testing and licensing, eight pharmaceutical companies a total of one million and a half million U.S. dollars in hard work, is waiting for the head of the local civil service to receive.

He and the Indian major buyers in the morning, and in the afternoon and the representatives of the Turkish state is happy, waiting for the day of the engagement ceremony, waiting for more than just the Indian side of the people, the two local civil service chiefs are also waiting for this side of the matter is completed, on a paper transfer order, so that he returned to Europe.

The invitation list drawn up by Mountbatten consisted of three thousand people from all walks of life, from the Congress Party and the PML-N, as well as from the native Indian business families and representatives of the native states.

The Viceroy’s office had made elaborate preparations for this, and Governor Mountbatten had said that he must be thrifty and frugal, and set the standard of the banquet according to the lowest standards, which Sir Barron approved of, except that he did not quite see how he could be thrifty and frugal at a banquet for three thousand people, but as the Governor had said so, he had nothing to lose by pretending to do so.

Coming out of the Governor’s office, Sir Barron happened to see, coming over, the two Allen Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten, and could not help opening his mouth to exclaim, “How time flies, and it does not seem that too long has elapsed since the day when Allen came to New Delhi.”

“Indeed not too long has passed, Sir Barron.” Alan Wilson replied politely, “I have always been very grateful to Sir Barron for taking care of me for the past two years and allowing me to find a purpose in my life. Everything today is inseparable from your teachings.”

“The main thing is that you yourself worked hard enough and were good at recognizing opportunities.” As soon as Sir Barron heard Alan Wilson’s words, he also said with great satisfaction, “Groot is a very good child, he should be happy about this.”

The origin of the two men, which it was somewhat inappropriate to speak of on such an occasion, was that it had arisen because of the Bengal famine. After all, there were Indians among the guests, and out of respect for the impending independence of others, the past was not to be mentioned.

October 15, Alan Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten’s engagement ceremony began, for the Governor and his wife, in addition to some regret that the eldest daughter Patricia can not come, the rest of the time are immersed in happiness.

It was a lively day at the Governor’s House, and all who came to the Governor’s House were guests, no matter what their faith, whether they belonged to the Congress Party and or the PMLN, whether they were a merchant or a feudal princeling, all to the great delight of Mountbatten himself.

Alan Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten also received the blessings of the crowd, and met Ali Jinnah, who was drinking wine, and nodded to each other, the leader of the PMLN, who had always disdained the rules of the religion of peace.