Chapter 526: Angry at England

“Hey, don’t talk like that, you are the hope of all the nobles.” Alan Wilson’s hand holding the wine glass gestured at Charles Brooke, “Pamela and I are in a relationship of fiancées, and it was a coincidence before, I happened to be there when you went to the Foreign Office, and helped out in passing.”

Pamela Mountbatten was now undoubtedly the hope of the whole village, and during the war Churchill had gotten the British inheritance tax down to ninety-eight percent, which wasn’t bad, and had given two percent left over.

This shows how much difficulty Alan Wilson solved for the British aristocracy by putting a foot on the brake in Newfoundland. Now Pamela Mountbatten with the aristocracy’s investment abroad, the aristocracy does not support may have, but Alan Wilson did not see.

Alan Wilson, representing the civil servants of Whitehall, and Pamela Mountbatten, representing the British aristocracy, performed a standard combination of interests in front of this far-flung Charles Brooke.

Showing this king, who had cashed in on the kingdom of Sarawak at the drop of a hat, what a husband and wife team can do.

Regarding the next matter, that is, the throne of the Kingdom of Sarawak, this matter still deserves to be discussed carefully.

This is something that Pamela Mountbatten also wanted to let her fiancé come up with an idea for, only that when the two were chatting privately, there were always Whitehall colleagues and unrecognizable nobles coming over to interrupt, and the two of them could only smile with their mouths.

“The heir to the Earl of Cardigan!” After the other party turned away, Pamela Mountbatten introduced the identity of the noble who came over to greet her for the seventh time, and the response was a long yawn from Alan Wilson.

It is not that there is any dissatisfaction, after all, Whitehall colleagues also came to five, after waiting for a while is finally quiet for a moment, “About the Sarawak Kingdom, what do you think.”

“Let Charles Brooke pass the throne to me.” Pamela Mountbatten cocked her head and asked, “What do you think.”

“Could that be done? But I do think of an Eastern custom called Zen ceding.” Alan Wilson mused for a moment, “Currently under the threat of high inheritance tax, the aristocracy is actually in a similar situation as all of us in the civil service. All of our livelihoods are in our overseas territories, and I believe that you are not willing to see a repeat of the wave of bankruptcy of the aristocracy after World War I. In fact, you can abandon the gateway view for a while, as long as they are nobles, even the Irish can be absorbed as well.”

Although Ireland is already a republic, but just like the general situation in Europe, recognizes the original aristocratic status, France and Germany is also the same, from the class point of view these are credible people.

Speaking of this Alan Wilson just remembered, isn’t Earl Cardigan the main character in the twenty-first century who couldn’t afford the inheritance tax and ended up selling his family’s old castle?

Thinking of this Alan Wilson also glanced at the heir to the Earl of Cardigan who had just gone elsewhere, and couldn’t get the age right, so presumably his son just happened to be the bankrupt generation of the Earl of Cardigan.

“I think that even if the contract of succession to the throne with Charles Brooke is successful, it should not be announced for the time being. From history we look for experience, we can first set up a company that operates locally, what do you think?” Alan Wilson said this waiting for Pamela Mountbatten to state her position.

“I’ll listen to you on all counts.” Pamela Mountbatten had a face of attachment, she knew that her fiancé had never been one to do long term planning, what was guaranteed was the success rate.

It was also traditional now for Britain to set up companies to run colonies, the East India Company was merely better known in Asia. It also included, but was not limited to, the Massachusetts Bay Company that ran the United States, the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada, and the Rhodes Company in Africa.

Some of these companies still exist today, such as the Hudson’s Bay Company, which, after its founding in Canada and with the loss of its monopoly on territories and the fur trade, entered the commodities market and began to continue to diversify its business, such as continuing to invest in energy and infrastructure development.

There is no more successful business for the company today than retailing, and it is even arguably Canada’s most recognizable homegrown department store, a business that also sprang up based on the trading posts that the company established across Canada back in the day.

So the Hudson’s Bay stores that sold the necessities of life for new immigrants across Western Canada gradually became the stores that can be seen everywhere now, and its success in the field of apparel retailing can be considered not to dishonor its old business.

Alan Wilson felt that since Pamela Mountbatten just wanted a throne, naturally, it is not necessary to seem to treat the local area as a raw material supply, first try to operate as a company.

If this approach does not work, then try the Eastern culture of Zen, let Charles Brooke give the kingdom to Pamela Mountbatten, anyway, Britain and France have different colonial policies. France can educate a bunch of Africans that our ancestors were honorable Gauls.

Britain’s diametrically opposed colonial policy was to recognize all sorts of local cultures and personally manipulate what may have been the last Zen cession in human history, Alan Wilson was fine with that, what doesn’t everything have to be tried and true?

“I suddenly remembered something, I can hear that Mr. Churchill’s expenses after not being the Prime Minister are also very huge. Is his family fortune very rich?” Smoothly taking two glasses of wine from the waiter’s tray, Alan Wilson pulled Pamela Mountbatten to sit on one side to ask for some inside information among others.

“Churchill himself lived a very lavish life.” Pamela Mountbatten thought for a moment and said, “But his family can’t talk about how rich, he’s not the eldest son, he doesn’t have any knighthood, only with his achievements in the Second World War, he might be ennobled. But I hear he is writing a book, and living on royalties.”

“A stinking write!” Alan Wilson grunted twice, a face of contempt, “Of course, he is the leader of the British Empire in the World War Well, for a little royalty also shameless, I do not know whether his book inside write, during the First World War because of two battleships, the Ottoman Empire pushed to the Allied Powers, resulting in the Imperial Russia was completely surrounded, resulting in the birth of the Soviet Union? ”

“What’s your solution?” Hearing Alan Wilson’s words, Pamela Mountbatten’s heart moved, Churchill but set a ninety-eight percent inheritance tax, which is simply confiscating the property of the aristocracy, as for whether the aristocrats are now welcoming this former prime minister, that is obvious.

“It’s not that I have any solutions, but what do you guys want to do? If you want to see the Churchill family go bankrupt, it will have to be at the expense of the writer class. Doesn’t he write memoirs, find a way out of the royalties.” Alan Wilson lowered his voice and said, “In fact, there is nothing to hesitate, the class that kneels while swinging a fist, offend and offend, the person who controls the pen, the key moment is not to go out of the way.”

Churchill when the writer of this file, from the twenties to do the Chancellor of the Exchequer began, Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, about the then permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, Richard Hopkins, said to him, I do not have the ability to pay taxes, there is no way to salvage a little bit down?

In view of Churchill had previously worked as a journalist, and published, Hopkins proposed that His Excellency announced his “retirement” as a writer, so that the income can be declared as royalties, and royalties belong to the capital gains can not be included in personal income, so that the perfect tax evasion.

Churchill became prime minister before the war, the major publishers flocked to the year brought Churchill £ 600,000 of income.

He dealt with the war in full swing while fighting the tax authorities, insisting that the royalties be classified as capital gains for retired writers.

“Looks like you’ve got it covered, dear?” Pamela Mountbatten, no longer interested in the current reception, asked what the solution to the problem was.

“Copyright tax reform, he can kill the rich and support the war against the aristocracy, we can do the same.” Alan Wilson said lightly, “A writer earning six hundred thousand pounds a year? There aren’t any but him, are there? We could similarly tier the royalties, setting the levels of royalties by class according to the current standard of living of the citizens of London. The higher up the scale the higher the percentage extracted, writers earning over half a million pounds a year are taxed more on their royalty income, ninety-eight percent if you like, the same as inheritance tax.”

“And that?” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes lit up and she couldn’t help but kiss her fiancé and said, “Darling, you really have a way.”

“What is the way to divide, this kind of damage is not difficult.” Alan Wilson stretched out his finger on his lips and whispered, “Pay attention to secrecy, his supporters are still a lot, there is also the fact that if he wins the election, this thing will not be able to be done, first of all, we need to know how many best-selling authors there are, and how strong the backlash is, this is more than you guys are capable of, I’ll go to the Whitehall to inquire about it.”

While focusing on the election process, the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has certainly not been idle, as a person with professionalism, Alan Wilson in the Far East situation crisis, has been firmly cheering for Xiangjiang, said Xiangjiang is not in danger of falling.

Although at the time of the battle of Guangzhou, there has been a day of 100,000 people across the border, and even Xiangjiang local inquiries, whether to close the border, Allen Wilson firmly call back no need to close, send people to Kalimantan Island on the line.

Now the Battle of Guangzhou has been over two months, the Far East crisis has been lifted, the general election, although although it is currently a major event in the United Kingdom, but Allen Wilson is still in the first few days is still in the Far East power generation, to convey the meaning of the Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, January 6, the United Kingdom recognizes the regime change in China.

Now Allen Wilson, on the other hand, went to the Foreign Office building, to meet with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, disturbing the foreign minister, who was still insisting on campaigning despite his poor health, and the document was a diatribe against Britain, which had fewer Chinese-speaking talents, and which Allen Wilson translated directly.

“I am ashamed of Britain for selling the soul of the country for petty gains. One day, Britain will surely pay the price of blood, sweat and tears for these interests on the battlefield for freedom, morally wrong and never politically right.”