Chapter 536 I’m afraid that trying my best is not enough!

The task of meeting with the Malayan National Congress Party was given to the soon-to-be-appointed Commissioner of West Malaysia, while Alan Wilson discussed the development plan with Malaya’s original civil servants, who were in fact not strangers to each other. Many local officials had arrived in Malaya directly after leaving from British India.

There are even a very small number of people who still have industries in India, but with the passage of time, it will certainly become less and less.

At present Malaya has a population of nearly ten million, an area of nearly half a million square kilometers, and two pillar industries, tin mining and rubber. Except for the population and the quality of the population, it should be said that Malaya is strong in all other aspects. What kind of pillar industries does Japan have? Be honest and wait for the US to transfer the textile industry to get started.

Japan is an island that essentially doesn’t have any basic industries that can be developed in a controlled manner, and Malaya has two more, Japan has none. Or else talk to the Soviet Red Army about farming Hokkaido?

Losing Hokkaido made Japan’s already low food self-sufficiency even lower.

Even the infrastructure was stronger in Malaya, which after all even now has a population of 10 million, probably less. Six hundred thousand Japanese Confederate laborers were previously withheld from Malaya to make up for the damage caused by the war.

This is the essence of six hundred thousand well-trained Japanese troops, not only will British Malaya was damaged places to repair new, but also repair out a lot more facilities, this time Alan Wilson landed on the airport, can be said to be ranked in the whole of Asia.

Military bases, harbors and roads and bridges, have been renovated to a certain extent, do not dare to say than the Japanese mainland is much stronger, but definitely is not bad, the two sides of the population difference of ten times.

If Japan’s mainland has six million soldiers constantly free construction, it is estimated that also has long been recovered from the United States of America’s strategic bombing, there is no need for the United States before and after the investment of more than a billion to help Japan recover.

The tin mining industry and the rubber industry are not so dependent on talent, and it is relatively easy to start. Then the result of the meeting was actually easy to come up with, expand the export of tin ore and rubber industries by all means.

“The war has been over for five years, and the reconstruction of Europe is accelerating.” Alan Wilson said to these familiar and unfamiliar officials, “With a population of ten million, there is no population pressure on Malaya, the rubber plantations need to be expanded, and tin mining needs to be increased. In five years Malaya’s population has gone from four million to ten million, a two and a half times improvement, and these extra people must be made to move. It can’t just be farming!”

“Malaya will soon be undergoing monetary reform, and I have no particular to remind you that one rate of taxation is in force for the whole of British Malaya, not that you won’t be given the opportunity to improve your lives, but it must be your turn only after local supplies and local construction have been met. Is that understood?”

“Understood, Commissioner!” The voices that responded to Alan Wilson were neatly harmonized.

“Good, then we will discuss next, about the establishment of the Tin Mine Development Committee and the Rubber Export Committee.” Alan Wilson nodded with satisfaction, “The two committees are attached to the name of the Overseas Assets Commission in London, and are meant to work in conjunction with the other colonies, as an important part of reflecting the role of the Imperial Public Servant. At present, I am in charge of them, and every month’s report on the industry is given to me. I hope to triple tin exports in a single year.”

Alan Wilson reminded the civil servants present of the importance of this matter. After all, this was no small issue, with nearly twenty colonial commissioners working together to support Malaya’s development. No one was an internationalist, Malaya’s development was something that must be given back.

“Tripling exports in a year’s time I’m afraid?” A tiny query rang out from the conference room.

“Afraid of what? I’m afraid of something that makes money? In principle, of course we want a thin stream, but what time is it now? Even if it’s destructive mining, we still need to catch the stuff first.” Alan Wilson said salaciously, “It’s settled.”

After the meeting, the Malayan Commissioner’s Office issued a regulation on the promotion of imports and exports, and intensively carried out a special action to centralize and rectify enterprise-related fees within Malaya. The administrative fees for import and export established in compliance with the law, and the business service fees priced or guided by the colonial government are managed by a catalog list, and those not included in the list are investigated and punished as arbitrary fees.

Increase the supervision of the implementation of the abolition of fees and charges, the formation of foreign trade enterprises to loosen the burden of long-term mechanism to prevent the rebound of the problem of arbitrary fees and charges.

States and departments should further raise awareness, pay more attention to the work of foreign trade, strengthen the Commissioner’s leadership, taking into account the overall situation, and enhance the initiative, relevance and effectiveness of the work. The regions should take the initiative in conjunction with the actual situation, take multiple measures to promote the region’s foreign trade and stable growth and transformation and upgrading.

“It is important to clarify one thing, honored colleagues, take out part of your abundant private time, at the end of the year I will be in accordance with the data for job adjustment, the last place well? I might arrange for that colleague to go mining on Christmas Island.”

Alan Wilson stood up and spoke, “The meeting is now adjourned! The air routes of the Malayan colony are going to be expanded twice in five years, so I believe you won’t be inconvenienced to come and report your work.”

This meeting was over by the time Eliza arrived, and she came over to talk about the meeting of the Malayan Congress Party. It brought with it the fervor of Indian immigrants expressing a slice of loyalty.

“So nice to talk after being marginalized? You didn’t ask them if they want to go to India? I can send them back?” Alan Wilson laughed twice indifferently, “What do they have to say about Nehru’s claim to the Andaman Islands.”

“They are willing to send a telegram stating that the Andaman Islands are an integral part of Malaya from time immemorial.” Alice covered her mouth and snickered, “Then I’ll go inspect the tin mining in your place.”

“Be safe, this is a colony after all.” Alan Wilson nodded, then yanked out a bulletproof vest from his office and said, “Don’t mind wearing a heavy one, although the law and order is much better than it was during Gerard’s time. But it’s still better to be careful.”

“Thank you, my boss.” Alice directly received the bulletproof vest and said with a smile, “It’s really heavy protection, very sincere.”

After spending a few days to make some adjustments to the work that had only just arrived in Malaya, Alan Wilson once again asked Lin Lianyu to come and directly stated his purpose, “The Chinese community must be literate immediately, rubber and mining are not a long term solution, the basic qualities of the Japanese citizens are far superior to that of the Chinese, although it’s not much use right now, and there are still Japanese women who come to Malaya to sell their bodies, but once they start the processing industry, this advantage will be revealed, although compared to the Japanese, Malaya has better basic conditions, alone compared to Japan is considered a vast land, there will not be too much pressure to live, but the basic natural resources can not be eaten for a lifetime. This is not Australia.”

“I want the next generation of Chinese, all literate, to become a qualified industrial worker.” In the midst of Lin Lianyu’s dismayed gaze, Alan Wilson took out the simplified character catalog, “Mr. Lin, can you do this well? If this matter is not even done properly, it might make us in the UK question your reliability.”

Simplification is one of the main trends in the development of Chinese characters. The guiding principles of simplification are “convention” and “steady progress”. The principle of simplification is to keep things simple from the commonplace. The main content of simplification is to streamline the number of characters and reduce the number of strokes. The main problems with traditional Chinese characters are complexity and chaos, with complexity referring to the large number of strokes and chaos referring to the variety of different forms. These two problems have brought inconvenience to the learning and application of Chinese characters, and the solution is to simplify and organize them.

“This? I certainly have no problem with it.” Lin Lianyu looked at the dense catalog of simplified characters and marveled, “I didn’t expect Lord Zhongtang to be so familiar with our script as well.”

“Would one call a Chinese name like Zhongtang without being familiar with it?” Alan Wilson listened to Lin Lianyu’s answer with satisfaction, “Very well, you are indeed reliable, of course I don’t know the specifics, but I hope that even adults should know the everyday script. As for the children to communicate without barriers once they grow up, the scope of promotion is the entire Western Horse region.”

Why the West Malaysian region, because East Malaysia wants to promote English education and create a divide between the east and west parts of British Malaya.

“I’ll try my best!” Lin Lian Yu took the simplified character catalog, he now felt that this new commissioner was really a good person, conducting Chinese language education would have been something he had always insisted on.

“Try your best? It might not be enough!” Alan Wilson looked deeply at the other party, “It is necessary to do it. The plan regarding the development of Malaya must be supported by a reliable ethnic group, and the merit of being hardworking is not enough. It also needs to go through the necessary nurturing for the next stage.”

“There is one thing I must make clear in advance, the natives sent me to ensure the stability and development of Malaya, and I am mentally prepared to fail to do so, I have two ideas, repatriation of the entire Chinese population once colonization cannot be sustained, and the other option is to have a partition. A partition with the Malays as the center of power. Once the partition starts, it is inevitably the Chinese who will suffer because you have your own country. This is Malay land, the Chinese were just brought in to maintain colonial rule, like many colonial Indians, don’t live there long enough to really think it’s your own place. The Malays aren’t that forgetful.”

“Of course before I can do either of these, I have some other work to do, as we all know, Malaya is a coastal colony, many of the cities are seaside towns, and there are still many battleships in the current British Empire that would be perfect for replicating the glory of the shelling of Jakarta, and the battleships that shelled Jakarta, were built in the UK as well.”

“Mr. Allen, you should know that colonial rule is unpopular and should not continue to be upheld.” Lin Lianyu said carefully.

“Well said, that’s why all Chinese must be repatriated before leaving, the Chinese are also part of the colonial rule.” Alan Wilson smirked, “It’s not me who thinks so, it’s the Malays who think so.”