Chapter 510 Submission of reports

These days Alan Wilson’s already high family status has been significantly elevated, all the slightly excessive demands have been met, this is what life is all about.

“I see these Roman Empire gold coins as the family’s inheritance token.” Alan Wilson pinched a Roman gold coin, sighed, “more than five hundred of them, can be passed on for many generations, if this is in a closed place, we can pretend to be an ancient family, Rothschild or something.”

“That Jewish family is okay too, it’s not like they’re much better.” Pamela Mountbatten cocked her head, not understanding how her fiancé was so taken with a very common business family.

“Wrong thing to say, it’s my fault.” Alan Wilson slapped his face lightly and admitted his mistake decisively to his fiancée.

He meant to impersonate some thousand year old family or something like that, such as the famous four hidden families of China in the Li world, the thirteen clans of vampires, the Dark Council, or something like that.

“There’s really nothing I can do about you!” Pamela Mountbatten guffawed, and had to admit that being with this man was just soothing, and his worries were swept away.

“It would be a dereliction of duty on my part as a man if I let you be troubled by these out-of-body things.” Alan Wilson lowered his voice, “like the Persian Gulf around the sea of oil, this is a fact known to the whole world, however, similar landscapes of North Africa is still in the exploration stage, from all kinds of information, Libya’s most valuable place, can be similar to Australia, probably in the same position, North Africa French power is strong, we should take a common interests with the French way.”

“Take note!” Pamela Mountbatten nodded her head, for Alan Wilson’s words, she believed unconditionally.

Ever since she met this man, she felt as if she was living in the middle of a fairy tale, everything she wanted was at her fingertips, and she would almost never be bothered by trifles, and now trusting this man had become a habit, and no matter what Allen Wilson said, she would believe it unconditionally.

“So look, I’m going to make a trip to Paris to talk to some French nobles.” Pamela Mountbatten said this, while also seeking Allen Wilson’s opinion.

“Now that you’re holding the Australian iron ore in your hands, you can speak with more justification.” Allen Wilson nodded his head.

Just with the news put out now, the news of a billion tons of reserves of high quality iron ore was also a huge fortune.

What’s more, Australia’s iron ore reserves are far from one billion tons, the reason why it’s limited to one billion tons is to prevent the Americans from settling down to their inner greed, one billion tons of reserves, although it’s also a rare iron ore in the world, but it’s not yet particularly noticeable.

After all, the world’s high-quality iron ore is not less to that extent, but the reserves are still increased by a factor of ten, that can be a unique iron ore, it is difficult for the Americans to resist the greed of the heart to find ways to get involved.

With the advent of the Australian iron ore mine, Pamela Mountbatten had bound the great nobility of the British mainland. Now it’s time to go one step further and bind the French aristocracy, and there’s nothing to be said for the unity of reactionary forces around the world.

Most importantly, Libya is a soft enough place to live, with less than six million people in Libya when Ka Daizo died. Now the whole of Libya is estimated to have a population of only one million.

It would be very easy to control Libya if one wanted to, and by borrowing some of France’s power, one could simply make Kadazo’s heroes useless, and build up a high-income African country with ease.

“My dear, if, and I mean if, if there is a breakthrough in Libya, make sure you take a thin profit margin, leaving half the profits to Bilya, and the remaining half to be split between you and the French. It’s not that we’ll make the Libyans much better off, but it must be better than any of the neighboring countries.”

The resources of all the current colonies, whether under British or French colonial rule, are not fundamentally different, and it is true that the exploitation of the United States in the latter days was much lower than that of the British and the French. Nor was it these oil-producing countries that the United States exploited, but rather used them to take out its own competitors.

Now Britain’s British-owned oil companies in the Persian Gulf don’t say they have nothing left for the region, but they pretty much don’t have anything left either.

Alan Wilson hoped that Pamela Mountbatten would change that paradigm and leave enough to Libya to hold up the framework of the welfare state, which had a small enough population anyway.

“I’m all yours, so it looks like I’ll have to take a majority share to silence the French opposition. Talk to the Libyans when the time comes.” Pamela Mountbatten understood Alan Wilson’s meaning, “It’s the establishment of a multinational joint venture isn’t it, with me and the French on one side and the Libyan royal family on the other.”

“You’ll follow the Australian model and give half of the profits to the Libyans, but when negotiating the contract, it’s best to set up a moral framework that will allow the Libyan royal family to use the profits to give benefits to ordinary people.” Alan Wilson pointed out Pamela Mountbatten, “This is the time to restrain your greed, realize that the Americans are much richer than us, the current British Empire does not lack colonies, what it lacks is a channel to liquidate them.”

“I think you’re going to Paris to negotiate as well, right?” Pamela Mountbatten inquired with a crooked head.

Alan Wilson nodded his head and admitted, “I that negotiation and not good to talk about, the general framework is no problem, but some conditions out of interest considerations, or to adhere to the British position.”

The Americans are also quite good at choosing a place, the French is also the ceiling there, in fact, the twenty-first century French technology blockade is not more lenient than the United States, the same strict, just the American presence is too high to France to cover up.

To the country as a unit of internal secrecy, external blockade, is also a major feature of France. France is Europe’s technology blockade of the strictest countries, just the United States sense of presence is too high. Unlike German machinery and Japanese electronics, France specializes in all nuclear technology, large aircraft manufacturing and space technology, arms, and robotics.

Unlike other NATO countries, had torn with the United States, withdrew from NATO for forty years, so the industrial chain, the military industrial system are more independent. And after the Suez Canal crisis, France was threatened by the Soviet Union’s nuclear threat, before deciding to single-mindedly and heartlessly engage in nuclear testing military investment. As a third force independent of the two camps during the Cold War, it is destined that the French scientific research has serious secrecy.

Naturally, the Cold War confrontation with the United States turned a blind eye to France, the Cold War has just ended, the United States began to retaliate, the Soviet Union after the collapse of the French set up as a strategic competitor, two thousand years ago, no less than a heavy blow to France.

Had it not been for the rise of a major power in the Far East that had diverted attention, France would surely have enjoyed a long period of unfailing American care.

In the last few days he had to write a report to the Cabinet Secretary on the third part of the section supporting the value of the pound.

To this end Allen Wilson suggested the issuance of an Asiatic pound, which is actually what France did later, such as the CFA franc.

The more you can control the monetary situation in the colonies, the more you can control the colonies. And a separate currency was the best way to strengthen control over the colonies’ currencies. Banks that could print money were under the control of the colonial government, and the monetary base, tightened or loosened at the drop of a hat, was manipulated freely.

The smaller the scope of use and circulation of the currency, the better the control, separate currency is the best choice.

With a separate currency, the British pound could influence the value of the Asian pound, but the reverse would not hold true.

If the colonial government tightened the purse strings with a separate currency + controlled exchange rates, then it would be really tight. But if it’s just straight up sterling?

It doesn’t matter, naturally someone will get money from somewhere else, for the sake of a small colony and it’s impossible to control the exchange rate and the amount of money issued in pounds, then it’s not so good to control the colony, this is the perspective of Great Britain affecting the colony; to put it in another way, look at the colony will not affect the British mainland: in case the colony is independent someday, if the currency is changed, a large amount of excess pounds in the colony backfire to the United Kingdom, it’s not a mess?

If British India’s currency is the pound, and Nehru comes to power and announces a new currency, then the pounds don’t all go back to the mainland. Knowing that Britain is already in a state of contraction, wouldn’t that be another blow to the waning empire?

This is also the reason why France introduced the CFA franc in Africa, instead of using the franc directly, all in order to leave a way back to the mainland.

Anyway, as long as the control of the right to issue currency, the franc can always be exchanged for the CFA franc to use, but the reverse can not be.

The essence of money is the need for something to support, if the currency can not buy things is bound to depreciate, the pound is less and less applicable, and Britain can provide fewer and fewer items are also related.

From the industrial scale, exhausted Britain is not likely to catch up with the United States, but if you can borrow Malaya to supplement, it is not impossible to retain the existing scope of use, worthy of being an international currency.

Without this support, the pound will continue to depreciate, the scope of circulation will also become less and less. This is not able to open the printing machine can be solved, just printing money without corresponding industrial products to support is not a long-term solution.

Arrived at the cabinet secretary’s office again, the industrial transfer report submitted, Alan Wilson turned around ready to leave, Norman Brook spoke, “first sit down for a while.”

Allen Wilson directly sat upright and waited for Norman Brooke, a good half day Norman Brooke said, “In fact, we have been in the colonies are newly issued currency, you should know this. Of course the credit of backing a currency with industrial industry cannot be said to be novel, and the reasoning is right.”

“Not bad for someone who is not an expert. I’ll change your report, and you should know by now that the list of negotiators has you on it. Go and get ready for Paris.” Norman Brooke said with a slight forehead.

“Yes, Sir!” Alan Wilson’s chest rose and fell, was this a preliminary success?