Chapter 538: Queen Pamela
Lieutenant General Bilton nodded, thinking that doing so could be considered very thoughtful from the point of view of maintaining the unity of the European countries.
As for inviting the leaders of the major powers in Malaya, it was out of the perspective of deterrence, which could be said to be two birds with one stone.
Currently Malaya is surrounded by France in South Vietnam, the Dutch in Kalimantan and the Portuguese in Timor. Not to mention the Australians who have been very concerned about the local situation, the significance of this one nuclear bomb, for the current European colonial powers have a huge role in encouraging.
So Alan Wilson was adamant that Britain’s first nuclear test should be in British Malaya, for a nuclear test at sea. As for the Egyptian desert, later more powerful nuclear fusion tests could be placed in Egypt if it was not too late.
As the commander of the garrison of British Malaya, Lieutenant General Bilton is considered to be a high-powered position, if not for General Mountbatten’s signboard is too loud, Alan Wilson would not be so easy in front of the other side of the big talk.
Waiting for the other party to leave the public office to return to the command, Allen Wilson only to Pamela Mountbatten to express gratitude, up and down with the orthopedic craft to help his fiancée to relieve her fatigue, his mouth is not idle, “If you hadn’t arrived, I wouldn’t have had so much courage to talk like this in front of a Lieutenant General.”
“It’s nothing, in fact, many soldiers are reasonable people.” Pamela Mountbatten laid straight down and let the man get up and down.
Reasonable? Alan Wilson thought, it still depends on to whom? Pamela Mountbatten opened her mouth at this time and asked, “Honey, also arrived a few days ago, have any clue.”
“Just got here, light has been threatening the forces on all sides. Using reasoning to make them understand that there are still benefits to the British Empire for them to stay, and that if we leave, Malaya is bound to be the one to break out into war. In fact from the time of India we have been plotting to bring about the conditions for the outbreak of war.”
Alan Wilson paused for a moment and continued, “The Chinese community alone is now divided into three parts, the Straits Chinese, the traditional Chinese and the new immigrants, the Straits Chinese on the other hand are very loyal to the British Empire, and if they have enough numbers are actually the most suitable to lean on. However, the Straits Chinese are not the majority in the original Chinese community, and the traditional Chinese community has a lot of problems, some issues are very persistent, but not persistent enough to be relied upon if something goes wrong at the critical moment. The largest number is the new immigrants, which is the part I am focusing on.”
The Straits Chinese’s are the group of Chinese near Singapore, the main thinking is that they consider themselves subjects of the British Empire and are not willing to let the British leave, but the Straits Chinese are emotionally attached to the land under their feet and know in their hearts that once the British leave, the Chinese are bound to be ostracized.
The Traditional Chinese on the other hand actually had little attachment to the land under their feet and did not consider themselves Malayan since the beginning. This was exactly the mentality he hoped would emerge, but the traditional Chinese community was not enthusiastic about the struggle for power, at least nowhere near as enthusiastic as the Straits Chinese.
With the traditional Chinese being the majority and the Straits Chinese being the minority, the mindsets of the two groups were so different that Alan Wilson would have preferred a synthesis of the two groups, and ultimately had to give up on both. Re-cultivate the newly migrated Chinese.
He hoped that the Chinese, as half of the population of Malaya, as the Straits Chinese loyalty to the British Empire, while preserving the guest mentality as the traditional Chinese, so that it would be easier to establish a cooperative relationship.
We are all outsiders, we do not need to pretend to be a loving family, just talk about cooperation directly.
Mountbatten was directly confused by the words Channel, traditional and new immigrants, puzzled, “Split into three parts?”
“What’s so strange about that, the Irish were still ruled for hundreds of years and didn’t they become independent?” Alan Wilson laughed softly and said, “In fact, I do have a little admiration for the Chinese, or Chinese I guess, they know how to deal with the rebels, provided that it is enough to get it, I am unable to imagine that the Irish are next to China, being ruled for hundreds of years and still being able to maintain their Catholic traditions. We English are still too kind compared to the Chinese.”
“What next? There seems to be a little something missing!” Pamela Mountbatten knew her fiancé well, good at making friends with others and even better at creating hidden dangers.
“Good, so I decided to admit my mistake to the Malays, officially recognizing the Malays as aborigines while fixing the Indians and Chinese as outsiders.”
Alan Wilson smiled and said, “As for education, the Chinese in West Malaysia take Chinese education, the Malays take Malay language education, East Malaysia regardless of Chinese or Malays all English education, the Straits region also adopts English education, because the population of West Malaysia is far more than the East Malaysia, this is conducive to balance. If the day comes when we can’t stand on our own two feet, we will simply partition Malaya, and the East and West Malaysia and the Straits Settlements must be separated. The belonging of the Isthmus of Clara I have not yet thought of.”
“Think of the town far!” The corners of Pamela Mountbatten’s mouth quirked, and she rose to kiss her fiancé.
“And you test the commissioner with this? What commissioner couldn’t stand such a test?” Allen Wilson gave an inch to express his contempt for such a test, “Stick out your tongue ……”
It took a while for Allen Wilson to let go of his blushing fiancée and ask Pamela Mountbatten about her recent schedule, and of course received a knowing answer.
Pamela Mountbatten is still going to make a trip to Australia to negotiate with the Australian government about the export of iron ore.
Australia banned iron ore exports in principle, but the British Empire had a preferential system, and as loyal and dutiful sons of the British Empire, the Australians really didn’t always refuse.
“My dear, Australia is well worth plowing deep into, and I hope you and the great nobles behind you understand that. Ever heard of the plate drift hypothesis?” Alan Wilson held his teacup, and when he saw his fiancée shaking her head, he said further, “Analyzing Australia’s soil, the history of this isolated continent should be far more than that of other continents, to the point that the loss of soil nutrients from the surface is extremely severe.”
“But there are pros and cons to everything, being windblown for so long has resulted in poor agricultural conditions, yet can be a boon to the mining industry. Australia is by no means worth more than an iron ore mine, there should be other minerals as well. And any minerals are of high quality.”
Even just the Australian iron ore alone could feed the nation of Australia until the end of time. The true reserves of Australian iron ore were more than twenty billion tons, and it was very rare for an iron ore of the same quality to exceed a billion tons, let alone twenty billion tons of reserves.
Not to mention the other, Mysore iron ore is the absolute rich mine, the reserves are definitely less than one billion tons.
Twenty billion tons of reserves or only seventy percent of the quality of the reserves, similar to thirty percent of the quality of the iron ore, there is no statistics at all.
In addition to bauxite and iron ore, mineral resources such as bituminous coal, lignite, lead, nickel, silver, gold, zinc, uranium, natural gas, petroleum, and other mineral resources Australia is also very rich in reserves. It is worthy of being a country sitting on a mine train, the ceiling of the resource country exists.
These are waiting for Pamela Mountbatten to discover, and Alan Wilson to encourage the behavior of his fiancée.
It’s not like it’s such unfamiliar territory to the British, not to mention that the current guano on Nauru is mined by the UK in conjunction with Australia and New Zealand, and it’s been mined for decades.
In that sense, a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit was a reward that Alan Wilson fully deserved.
Because of the arrival of the Commissioner’s wife, the desire of the High Commissioner of British Malaya to go nowhere has finally abated a bit. As the recognized leader of the aristocracy of the British Empire, Pamela Mountbatten also asked her fiancé if he needed any help, did Malaya need any boost?
“It is not needed yet, but it may be needed soon. I would be very grateful if I could get an opening for the iron ore export ban in Australia. While a large-scale steel industry isn’t currently needed to attract jobs, Malaya will need to build an appropriately sized steel plant as well.”
Pamela Mountbatten nodded at that, “I see, I am interested in mentioning this to the Australian government under the framework of the Empire’s preferential system, and exporting Malaya’s iron ore won’t require much effort.”
“When the time comes, I will widely publicize your achievements towards Malaya, by the way, when will Brooke cede the throne to you?” Alan Wilson frowned, “He’s not backtracking, is he? Although half a million pounds is no longer such a heartbreaking figure for you, you can’t let someone cheat you for nothing.”
“My dear, Mr. Brooke and I have already been to the Colonial Ministry, and in the presence of your colleagues, Mr. Brooke has ceded the throne of the Kingdom of Sarawak, sensibly and reasonably, to me.” Pamela Mountbatten couldn’t hide her smile as she talked about it, “Now I am the Queen of Sarawak. However, a monarch who is not recognized by anyone in the colony is not good enough, I need to develop my career more and get the support of all the big clans, so that I may be able to be named a hereditary earl or something. That way when our children are born, they can also have the title of hereditary nobility.”
“If you’re a countess? Can our child inherit the title?” Ellen Wilson had a puzzled look on her face, it seemed like no.
“My dear, you forget that my sister is the one who can inherit the title.” Pamela Mountbatten reminded her fiancé.
“That’s not because your family is royal itself, uh, forget I said that.” Alan Wilson decisively bowed his head, rules that kind of thing were completely divided into to whom, His Majesty the King had even opened a back door specifically so that Pamela Mountbatten’s sister could inherit the title. Who says that the back door can’t be opened once more in the future?
“Good to know!” Pamela Mountbatten was smug, “I’ll give you an excellent heir to inherit your power and my wealth, so that there are no regrets in life.”
“Perhaps I am incapable of understanding what your regrets of a superior birth and vast wealth really are.” Alan Wilson reached up and tugged at his fiancée’s cheek.
Finally, after spending half a month, Allen Wilson finished receiving the leaders of the big and small forces and had a clear understanding of Malaya’s current pillar industries, he began to release his own governance plan.
But before that, he first issued an executive order recognizing the identity of the Malays as aborigines, and classified the Chinese, Indians and the British as outsiders.
The divide-and-rule thing is a very old-fashioned way of doing things, but it doesn’t matter, as long as it works! Alan Wilson expressed his goodwill towards the Malays, while announcing the cold, hard figures that the Malays currently account for only thirty-seven percent of Malaya’s total population.