Chapter 539 Electrification

Essential is to put this responsibility on the last British Malaya High Commissioner Gerard Edward, anyway, Gerard has returned to Europe, in order to the long-term stability of the British Empire should be brave to take responsibility, anyway, and is not a loss of anything, continue to do the Commissioner in Germany is also possible.

And Alan Wilson’s current persona is to come and clean up the mess left behind by his predecessor, although this mess is again the credit of all Whitehall executives, and also recognized by the Cabinet, but the natives of British Malaya do not know.

The issue at hand is simple, the Malays who are the indigenous population are in the minority and the new commissioner who has just taken office found out about this and expressed his apologies for this situation arising.

In the British controlled newspapers, the former commissioner, Gerard, as Alan Wilson called him, became a rotten man.

Out of the Allies’ caring heart in the World War, some of the immigrants were taken in, but the post-war reconstruction was very laborious, which led to this matter evolving into an unmanageable situation in the end.

It was not that I, Great Britain, was incompetent, but the Chinese were too cunning, and if Alan Wilson had not taken office, there would have been a steady influx of Chinese.

In fact the reason for the non-influx was simply because the civil war was over, but of course there was no need for the Malays to know such deep-seated reasons, even if they were local natives.

In the newspaper, Alan Wilson, in the name of the new commissioner, shirked a load of responsibility, shirked it to the Chinese, shirked it to his predecessor, anyway, he just took office is absolutely no responsibility.

But even if there is no responsibility, as the current Administrator of British Malaya, Allen Wilson still publicly expressed his apologies, even if he has nothing in his heart to apologize for.

“The Malayan Administrative Office is already considering the release of the compensation, but Malaya has its own national conditions here, the difficulty of repatriation is quite high. So after study, in order to avoid the tragedy of the partition of India and Pakistan, the current is to stabilize the local situation. The Executive Council recognizes the rights and interests of Malays in British Malaya and will focus on protecting the interests of the indigenous people.”

“At the same time Indian and Chinese, given the British Empire overseas citizenship component, after the necessary communication, the Indian government refused to Indian residents to return to the country, India is independent, we can not hit the door, right. The Chinese problem is even more complicated.”

Among the public appeals on the second day, the main reference was to the Chinese problem, the opening up of the commercial sector for the Chinese to operate freely, and that the Chinese and Indians in British Malaya would be regarded as overseas citizens, stating in persuasive tones that although the Chinese and Indians were numerically dominant, the interests of the Malays must be respected.

“The Executive Council will not sit back and allow outsiders to turn against them, and I hope the MCA and the Malayan National Congress will understand this. Especially for the Indian population, it is now 1950, India has become independent, India and the British Empire are no longer in suzerainty, and the special care that used to be the jewel of the British Empire will be terminated.”

It had come to this, and it was a foregone conclusion that the Malays, though indigenous, would become a minority population. Allen Wilson merely issued a painless apology for this finality as appeasement, and as for the open letter in Malay published in the newspapers, it was more of a reminder to the Malays that you are a minority.

“After retreating from Japan, these Malays have swelled up and are always messing with the colonial government. Now it’s time for it to die down.” Alan Wilson, who had his fiancée in his arms, was spirited and looked like a bad bull.

“Are the Chinese reliable?” Pamela Mountbatten frowned, “Will there be hidden dangers.”

“The main purpose at the moment is to maintain the stability of Malaya in the near future. Don’t think about too long term things first.” Alan Wilson replied unhurriedly, “The first generation of Chinese immigrants, considering that their country left them with memories of too much suffering, the mentality of seeking stability is the mainstream, and it is difficult for the first generation of Chinese immigrants to get rid of their native land complexes, the hidden dangers should just appear in the second generation of immigrants.”

“So I start with education, try to let Chinese children have a guest mentality from a young age, and don’t think of themselves as locals. And we should also start with this aspect in public opinion in the future. But just this is not enough, nothing is open to everything, so the local economy must be built to catch up, with the altar, and then make a fuss if you need courage.”

Anyway, summed up is nothing but three points, force deterrence, cultural suppression and economic development, of which economic development is the most important, economic development is not doing well, the first two points do even better is also a mirror.

“But then again, the nukes are going too slow, just crossing the Arabian Sea.” Alan Wilson turned to complaining that the sea transportation was still too slow, and he was so repulsed by airplanes that he had started taking them to save time for the sake of the British Empire.

“Speaking of which, I’ll discuss with Mr. de Havilland about reserving a special plane just for you. Otherwise I’m never quite sure, and although you say the resistance is lessening, this is a colony after all.” Pamela Mountbatten wasn’t doing this on a whim, but already had that intention, “Normally this special plane is kept in Western Australia, and you come over to pick you up when you need it.”

“Okay, honey.” Alan Wilson knew that his fiancée meant well, to excuse himself at this time would be nothing, “By the way, go and see how the Crocodile Shame is doing, it’s also a real coincidence that I’ve put them all in the middle of the river in Sarawak.”

Put in the rivers of East Malaysia is entirely because the local population is relatively small, the main part of British Malaya is the Malay Peninsula, rather than the island of Kalimantan, which was partitioned with the Netherlands, both in terms of the fertility of the land and the proportion of the population.

Few of the islands truly isolated in the ocean are fertile, but are little more than one Australia of varying degrees of lightness and heaviness. But the Malay Peninsula is different; it is part of Eurasia.

There are only a few conditions for land to be fertile or not, glacial movement, fire eruptions and being part of an already extensive continent. Australia is just sad, glacial movements are not there at all, volcanic eruptions are on nearby islands, and just the Australian mainland is exceedingly stable and has been constantly subjected to salt-laden sea breezes for hundreds of millions of years.

Don’t think the sea breeze doesn’t do so much, one goes to the highlands for a month and look at your skin still in the same state as before you went there.

“Darling, can’t you see the future?” Wrapping her arms around her fiancé’s neck and kissing him twice, Pamela Mountbatten suddenly paused, “Are you taking advantage of the convenience of your work to accompany me in passing?”

“Uh, yes and no!” Alan Wilson tilted his head, “It depends on the angle you look at the issue, on a macro level, public and private matters have the same goal, it can be considered as one thing, we go to East Malaysia for private matters, but at the same time wouldn’t you like to see your kingdom?”

“Huh?” Pamela Mountbatten had an I-get-it look on her face, “So what’s your main objective?”

“To examine the local power resources, it must be electrified for Malaya to have a basis for development. Because of the geography, Malaya’s power grid must be split into two parts, this is something that no one can change.” Alan Wilson said this and looked at Pamela Mountbatten, “You don’t want to see your kingdom in a barbaric state either, right?”

Regarding the development time for electrification in British Malaya, it was announced to the public as a ten year development plan. However at the internal meeting of the Executive Council Allen Wilson only gave five years.

You know it took the Soviet Union two five-year plans, one five two five, to achieve electrification. But he only gave five years, and is synchronized with the textile industry development and implementation, can be said to leave no room for error.

The root of the matter is also in the per capita resources, the Soviet Union is a large area of per capita resources are of course also very rich, but the Soviet Union in 1920, than in 1950 Malaya’s power base is still poor.

This is of course to the credit of the 600,000 POWs held by British Malaya, at least three power plants in West Malaysia were built by these POWs, and all the British Malaya Executive Office had to do was to come up with a plan.

It’s not as if the former commissioner, Gerald Edward, did nothing, it’s just that the British Empire needs him to take the blame now and he’s long since returned to Europe not caring enough to shift the blame for the influx of Chinese onto him.

Of course now the electrification of British Malaya covered only twenty-five percent of the population, and if it hadn’t been for the fact that Malaya’s population had grown two and a half times in just five years, Gerard Edward could even say that it was most of the way through, no weaker than post-war Japan at all.

But the population is no longer four million, indeed it has become ten million, then the remaining seventy-five percent will have to rely on Allen Wilson to complete, without a good foundation, what industry can not be engaged.

Regarding the establishment of the power grid, Alan Wilson remembered that in fact, the resources of East Malaysia are actually more than West Malaysia, coupled with the population is less than West Malaysia, it is estimated that it will enter the electrification earlier than West Malaysia.

Just now there are financial problems, the rubber handed over to London as well as tin mine income, he can not move. So at first it was a sure bet that he would have to ride the money himself, except that he wasn’t prepared to ask Pamela Mountbatten for it, and by all accounts the financial company attached to Newfoundland was supposed to help him sell his shares in the U.S. stock market, except for the steel shares.

It was just as well that he accompanied his fiancée around East Malaysia before the nukes and the money arrived. Both the Baiji and the Yangtse were placed in the middle of one of the tributaries of the Baran River, with interceptor nets at the confluence of the converging main streams. Of course before this he had specifically inquired whether the river exists Malayan crocodile. Otherwise it was not easy to put in, but it became food for the local crocodiles, which is not good.

Issued some inspection electrification notice, he accompanied his fiancée …… and Princess Margaret who appeared right after catching people off guard.

“The Princess seems to be on good terms with you lately, it’s not proper for a princess of the British Empire to be running away all the time, is it? Very undignified.” Sitting on the boat, Alan Wilson whispered an inquiry to Pamela Mountbatten.

“That would be the baiji!” Princess Margaret suddenly reached out and pointed to a white dorsal fin not far away, and Alan Wilson stood straight up and walked with Pamela Mountbatten over to the fence to look out over the snowy white backs of the one large and two small.

“Margaret still brings good luck.” Pamela Mountbatten poked her fiancé, but there was no response, and with a startled glance, she caught a glimpse of liquid falling from the man’s tear ducts.

The discovery freaked Pamela Mountbatten out; she had never seen her fiancé like this before and was more than afraid to say anything.

When the baiji disappeared into the water, Alan Wilson gave some eyelids to squeeze the tears out, sat back down where he had just been with an expressionless face, and continued to talk as if nothing had happened about how he was going to govern in Malaya.

“You just scared me!” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes retracted from the giant baiji dolphin cue sign next to the riverbank, “First time I’ve ever seen you like an animal.”

“Oh, yeah!” Alan Wilson neither admitted nor denied that the baiji was extinct in the era he lived in his previous life, it was naturally difficult to be calm when seeing such a creature, and although he had not shown his emotions for a long time, he still could not control it.