Chapter 541 – Local Orders

“Be honest!” Patting Princess Margaret on the shoulder, the latter obediently lay down.

Allen Wilson, who was going up and down, didn’t have any evil thoughts, but just had some impatience for serving the princess.

Although Princess Margaret’s could be said to be beautiful, but for him, it was a nuisance. Definitely not to be treated like those actresses, the consequences of not taking it seriously were obvious.

“As a contemporary princess, I believe there are many noble sons who like you in their hearts… By the way, you’re also twenty years old, right?” Treating the princess who didn’t follow common sense, he decided that it would be better to uphold the principle of trying not to offend and giving proper guidance in life.

Role models were readily available, and the current Crown Prince Elizabeth was a good one to follow. In fact, when Crown Prince Elizabeth ascended the throne, the British Empire skeleton was still in place, because to celebrate the Queen’s accession to the throne, the United Kingdom also united with the Commonwealth Navy, put together a British Empire parade of nineteen hundred and fifty-three years, including nine aircraft carriers.

But in the blink of an eye, three years later, in the Suez Canal War, Britain’s tiger skin was ripped off. Queen Elizabeth’s tenure was a time when the British Empire kept collapsing, and to replace it with China, it would have corresponded to the period of Empress Dowager Cixi.

“The monarchy is no longer mainstream today and the public feels differently about the royal family. That’s why you can’t be too egotistical and should take on the responsibilities of the empire just like the crown prince.”

“It’s hard for my sister to live like that, but actually Pamela has a good life with the help of a man who solves everything for her.” Princess Margaret closed her eyes slightly, but her face turned scarlet.

“Uh, you’ll find that too, there are still plenty of gentlemen of similar age. But you can’t find a married man! If you do, the Anglican Church will come after you, even the Crown Prince will have to succumb to their pressure.” Allen Wilson took a deep breath and sent his hands out to love the spine of his brain with a crunch, then sighed, “Well, Pamela will be back soon.”

Finding a place to wash his hands, Allen Wilson didn’t run away as if he had done something wrong and found a chair to sit down in. And the princess had a chat, as for people want to lie down, then lie down well.

“I see this palace is not bad, Margaret how are you?” Pamela Mountbatten came in excitedly and saw Princess Margaret lying on the bed.

“She said she was tired!” Alan Wilson shrugged his shoulders and did not over rightly explain, it was all up to Pamela Mountbatten to judge for herself.

“Get up, have you forgotten royal etiquette?” Pamela Mountbatten immediately went over to drag Princess Margaret up, and also complained at Alan Wilson, “Why don’t you care?”

“How can I control it? I’m the local administrator, but I don’t seem to have the authority to control the royals.” With a face of you-say-it-easily Allen Wilson tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, “I can only guide, and if the princess doesn’t listen, there’s nothing I can do about it.”

“You have a point at all times.” Pamela Mountbatten first took a step back and turned to her opinion of Sarawak.

As Alan Wilson had guessed, Pamela Mountbatten was just thinking of it as a place to vacation in the English winter. Even if she got her hands on the throne of the Kingdom of Sarawak, she wouldn’t come over to live here permanently.

But it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care about this place, how to say that it is also a nominal territory, the necessary construction is of course necessary.

And expressed her firm support for electrification, if her fiancé needs it, she is willing to solve part of the funding problem.

Alan Wilson heard it and laughed outright, “It’s as if I feel a little bit of the responsibility of a ruler in you. Should I give a, yes, queen at this time?”

“You don’t always laugh at me, I don’t understand these things, I just want a noble knighthood, and I love a vain woman.” Pamela Mountbatten was a little embarrassed, and there was a hint of irritation in her tone, reaching out to scratch Alan Wilson’s itch.

Oi! Princess Margaret who watched this scene let out a faintly unrecognizable sigh, and the exhortation she had just given was thrown to the wind.

“Pamela, stay here for a few more days.” Two days later, Princess Margaret was at the Kuala Lumpur airport, side-stepping the curious offer that it’s nice here, and that she could look around.

“Stop it, Australia has better facilities. Alan doesn’t have time to wander around with us.” Pamela Mountbatten tugged on Princess Margaret’s hand and headed towards the boarding lane without looking back, “He’s planning the development of Malaya right now, and it’s all about taking time out of his schedule to host us, so I can’t be too capricious.”

Alan Wilson didn’t come to see us off this time, being in the middle of making plans regarding the electrification of Malaya.

He even wondered whether to follow the example of Japan to isolate out two sets of standards, at that time, the Osaka region bought electrical equipment bought the products of the General Electric Company of the United States of America, the United States standard manufactured products are 60Hz, while the Tokyo region bought the products of the General Electric Company of Germany, the German standard manufactured products are 50Hz, after the development, these areas to the surrounding radiation After development, these areas radiated out to the surrounding areas, naturally creating two power grids with different frequencies.

But on second thought, this is a complete redundancy, not to mention an extra investment, and not necessary at all. The two parts of British Malaya are separated by the sea, so there is no need to study such useless details.

Directly copy the European standard on the line, is the development of electrification plans have a brow when, halfway across the world over Boris, finally dusty arrival in the Executive Office.

Accompanied by some of Newfoundland’s financial personnel and security personnel, Allen Wilson immediately entertained these Newfoundland guests, Boris commanded the security personnel to the box full of pounds to lift up, gasping for breath, “Commissioner Allen, these funds are we sold all of your stock in addition to steel shares, and then went to London to exchange for pounds, and then personally transported over, totaling five million pounds.”

“Thank you very much for your help this time!” Alan Wilson also did not avoid, directly in front of these Newfoundland people to open, looking at this sum of money that can buy ten Sarawak’s banknotes, exclaimed, “It’s really hard work, sounds like it’s not an easy journey.”

This money is naturally his own, and now it is going to be put into the construction of British Malaya, to see where not enough is put in, so that it can be replenished at the critical moment.

Seeing these pounds, he can’t help but sigh, in British India waste two years of work, in addition to the gold is left with this money, back to continue, “In fact, needless to say other, quite a number of colonial accounts of the funds are managed by you guys, this is good, more reassuring.”

Boris nodded and talked about the changes in Newfoundland over the last two years, the explosive growth in wealth per capita relative to Newfoundland’s population was visible to everyone.

It’s hard to imagine a place that was ten million dollars in debt three years ago living so comfortably in such a short period of time. Not to mention the fact that the Newfoundland fishery is still there, and the many Newfoundland fishermen are grateful to Allen Wilson, whose last term was short but showed Newfoundlanders the way.

“Commissioner Allen, are you running this colony now? It seems to be a bigger problem than Newfoundland was in the beginning.” Boris said rather curiously, “Even to the point that you’re going to put some capital into it to help develop it?”

“With a population of ten million, the natural difficulty is a few levels higher. Malaya here to get rid of the current life, certainly can not go the way of Newfoundland, honest development of handicrafts.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “Newfoundland’s shortcut is limited to amongst a specific environment, and thanks to Newfoundland’s population being really small. Otherwise it’s really not a good idea.”

While Allen Wilson was discussing the problem with his guest from Newfoundland, half a world away, General Mountbatten, who had been promoted to the position of Minister of the Fourth Sea, was frantically calculating the amount of money needed to make up for the logistical gap.

It was his arrival that brought the importance of the position of Fourth Sea Lord to a level previously unseen. His tremendous work ethic and energy burst forth with new ideas and initiatives.

Mountbatten, who was moving tenaciously towards being First Sea Lord, first took from the Third Sea Lord the power of allocating arms and ammunition for the fleets; and again he was given the power of formulating all the administrative plans of the Royal Navy.

Mountbatten was also prepared to do his share of the work, not only because he liked the pressure, but also because he wanted the entire Royal Navy, the military machine that he loved so much, to work the way he wanted it to, so that others would feel that he was the only indispensable man in the Navy.

For a man like Mountbatten, it didn’t really matter how many Sea Ministers he was, it all depended on what he wanted to do, and if he could, he would have done the job of First Sea Minister as well.

In fact, for the Great Britain Long Ao Tian, this all belongs to the basic operation, after receiving a telegram from his daughter Pamela Mountbatten, General Mountbatten, who was deeply concerned about the limited financial support after the war, contacted Allen Wilson in Kuala Lumpur. Inquiring about the cost of replenishing some military supplies.

After all, this is something that involves 150,000 Royal Navy Reserve supplies, saving money is important, but it is also important to ensure quality.

Soon received a telegram from British Malaya, Alan Wilson said in the telegram, he can personally supervise the quality of this batch of products, and gave only one-third of the local offer.

Although the telegram is full of confidence, but in fact Alan Wilson has just formulated the Malayan textile industry planning. The textile industry consists of four main sections, namely, basic textiles, garment manufacturing, textile manufactured goods and accessories. Among them, the spinning and weaving industries account for a relatively low percentage, while the printing, dyeing and garment manufacturing industries have a relatively basic development.

In any place, the textile industry is the most basic industrial entry industry, British Malaya certainly have textile factories. It is only true that it was not systematic.

But General Mountbatten did not know that after calculating the shipping costs, he made an order to send all the logistical materials, except for military uniforms, to Kuala Lumpur. Somewhat untraditional practice, but a family affair is nothing to sneeze at.