Chapter 614 – Ali Khan, Monarch of the Shabah

Time is precious, Alan Wilson’s action is very fast, hate to leave to set off to leave Japan, the efficiency is simply surprised Burgess, in the British Empire among the civil servants, in front of this imperial eagle is definitely an anomaly.

Not for the general civil servants of the loose, simply like from another country, must Burgess where Japan. Sometimes Burgess felt that Alan Wilson was suitable for this fast-paced country.

Hearing Burgess’s jokes, Allen Wilson face does not change color, his last life in the country where the pace is not in the least bit slower than Japan, and can even be said that after Japan into stagnation, his homeland have been blue and blue.

In the eyes of many Chinese, Japan and even South Korea are all models of summer Bur busy. Long overtime work is nothing more than a legacy of habit, in how diligent can not realize the class leap. In China, however, many people still believe that hard work changes destiny.

Both are hardworking, but not the same hardworking, the difference is difficult to explain to Burgess, a pure Englishman.

Britain is a society that has long been solidified, not to mention the time when Alan Wilson appeared, even if it is a hundred years earlier, Britain has long been like this, Burgess is unable to understand this kind of mentality, because he can’t even imagine it when he thinks about it.

After a day of waiting for Vivienne, the two had boarded the passenger ship back to Malaya.

“I’ve set up a branch office in Tokyo and am going to tap into some musical and on-screen talent.” Vivienne mentioned the rewards of her trip to Japan, painting great blueprints.

“Very good idea!” Alan Wilson agreed after hearing it, “Japan’s overall population quality is second to none in current Asia, it’s not exactly a normal country now, and if you want to lay out the layout you should do it as early as possible.”

“You also said before that Japan is not a good body!” Fei Wenli some blame intention, mentioning the previous Alan Wilson said difficulties.

“Not including the entertainment industry, which is a subtle industry. Generally countries don’t go on the defensive either.” Alan Wilson shook his head slightly, “It’s definitely not that easy if you’re in the manufacturing industry, laying a good foundation now pays off big time later.”

In the latter days, Japan was the world’s second largest audio-visual market for a long time, and the movie market was later surpassed by China. But music has maintained the second position in the world for many years, the market is mature and perfect, creativity is also very strong.

Korean groups usually choose to enter the Japanese market when they debut, and Japan’s own music is also very strong. Before the Korean wave broke out, Japanese music was also popular in the world.

Japanese music has been covered by various Hong Kong and Taiwan singers and there are countless examples. Fei Wenli wanted to lay out a bit in Japan as well, and Alan Wilson certainly understood that this was a good direction for development.

“But I would suggest that you take a stake to give market support, and don’t let anyone from United States come over to manage it. Leave the execution to the Japanese.”

Vivienne listened very strangely, incredulously, “Why, obviously the talent pool in the United States is more abundant.”

“America’s talent pool is more abundant! That is to cope with the U.S. market, the Japanese or management of Japanese people more skillful, the U.S. management personnel living in Japan will only be incompatible.” Alan Wilson firmly said, “You’re right to listen to me.”

If the treatment of South Korea, Vivien Leigh said directly with the American management is possible, after all, South Korea’s cultural heritage is not enough, even the United States threw the garbage can be turned into a force pot, South Koreans adore the strong mentality is serious, easy to be a strong cultural influence.

Japan can be different, Japan has the ability to absorb and transform foreign cultures, the latter is also the home of Asian original music.

This has to say that my great dynasty, unlike the movie market, the music market China has never been a barren.

“I thought you looked down on Japan, I didn’t expect to have a high opinion of Japan.” Vivien Leigh was really surprised, if not mistaken, this was the first time she heard Alan Wilson say good things about Japan.

“It’s true that I don’t look down on Japan, but specific things have to be analyzed.” Alan Wilson stated that Vivien Leigh hadn’t heard it wrong before either, “Do you think I’m a brainless egomaniac? It’s not like I’m an American.”

Returning to Kuala Lumpur it was late June and Allen Wilson sent a telegram to Pamela Mountbatten in London before taking care of some business from his recent departure from Malaya.

After a year in office, he had assembled almost everything the current British Empire could still offer for British Malaya.

By the way, he had also found an opportunity to screw Japan over, although it was not easy to estimate whether there would be any major repercussions. But suffice it to say, he’d done his best, and if Malaya still couldn’t take off successfully, it wouldn’t be his problem.

Alisa said something that indicated that the US side wanted to release an American businessman who had been captured some time ago.

The thing was funny in detail, there was a temporary regulation in British Malaya that was into selling condoms.

This is to promote population growth in British Malaya, after all, British Malaya doesn’t have a lot of rotten land, and with a population of 10 million or so it’s just not enough to see the potential for population growth.

Following the example of Northern Rhodesia’s ban on drug smuggling, Alan Wilson followed suit and came up with an ordinance banning the smuggling of condoms, which was used to promote population increase.

He had forgotten about this ordinance after it was introduced, but he didn’t realize that someone had actually been caught on this ordinance.

“Pay the fine and let it go, he should even thank me for my magnanimity, if it was a Northern Rhodesia drug smuggling, the Slavs wouldn’t be able to let him go so easily.” Alan Wilson said with a helpless face, “Americans are so funny, they simply want money like crazy.”

Alisa nodded her head and at the same time came out with a statement that broke down the demographics, this statement was about the fertility statistics.

According to the general view of the later generations, a fertility rate of two point one can basically maintain the population balance. Below two point one, a country’s population would theoretically experience negative growth.

Of course, after the real negative growth, the brakes are already off, because with the addition of technology, the life of the population has been extended, and many of the people who have passed the age of childbearing will still be able to live for a few more decades, and until this group of people do not die, there will not be a big change in the figures.

East Asian populations generally have fertility rates below two, which Alan Wilson despises them for, in his home country of the Northeast, how long has the fertility rate remained at a little over one. Northeastern population loss is not as serious as expected, but because the fertility rate has been at a low level for several decades, the age of the people of the country is very close to the death wave, so the population is decreasing very quickly.

If the stats Alisa brought up are very reliable, then the current fertility rate of the Chinese community in British Malaya is eight. The Malay fertility rate is a little higher.

It seems that we don’t need to worry about the population problem for a short time, eight is actually a very scary number, in later times, even in African countries, a fertility rate of six is considered to be the top of the sky. Eight is an unheard of number in the twenty-first century.

But in the current world, this number is not very outrageous, and with the economic development of this number will certainly fall. When the population of New China exploded, the fertility rate was six. It was only because China’s population base was so large that the power of this six was far greater than that of current Africa.

After some simple calculations, Allen Wilson estimated the approximate time of arrival of 20 million people and 30 million people in British Malaya and felt that there was not much of a problem. If all went well, by then British Malaya should be in Asia, and Japan lying in the Dragon Phoenix.

After spending a couple of days blitzing about the backlog of official business to be dealt with, at this time Alan Wilson received a telegram from London, which, when forwarded by his private secretary, he had expected to be a return telegram from Pamela Mountbatten, but it was not.

This telegram came from Whitehall, and talked of very important things, too, about the result of Lord Sheffield Makins, who had traveled to Hyderabad to meet Ali Khan, and after bargaining, Ali Khan, the once Maharaja of Hyderabad, still could not tolerate the loss of his crown, and was quite willing to take his fortune for the benefit of British Malaya.

Lord Sheffield to seventy-four million pounds, the British Malaya Sabah state of the right to rule, transferred to Ali Khan, but also asked Ali Khan after becoming the monarch of Sabah, take out twenty million pounds to be used to develop the economy of Sabah.

All these conditions were agreed to by Ali Khan, who would choose a suitable time to leave India and reach his new territory of Sabah!

“About one hundred million pounds!” Alan Wilson took the telegram and calculated the total cost, two point eight billion dollars.

The figure was an astronomical sum for the average person, and not a small fortune for Ali Khan, but it was definitely still within reach, and Alan Wilson’s intuitive feeling was that Whitehall was really dark.

Earlier in the Cabinet Secretary inquired, Alan Wilson’s answer is 50 million pounds is the basis, but 100 million pounds may be a little too much, and ultimately, Makins still let Ali Khan take out a sky-high price of 100 million pounds.

London has decided to adopt a direct administration model for British Malaya, Sabah is unlikely to turn into a semi-independent Turkish state like Hyderabad, Alan Wilson called back to Whitehall to ask Ali Khan if he was aware of this distinction.

Whitehall’s reply was that it was aware, and that Ali Khan was well aware that the Sultan of British Malaya, could not exercise dominion.

As Ali Khan had agreed, Allen Wilson naturally could not say anything, and was prepared to await the arrival of the Sabah monarch at that time.

His immediate concern now was to return to London to spend a little time on marital matters; Pamela Mountbatten and he had been together for five years, and if they continued to drag on, even Alan Wilson, himself, would feel quite uncharacteristic.

In fact Pamela Mountbatten, far away in London, from the fiancé’s last talk about getting married, has been waiting with all her heart, Allen Wilson to get the POW issue dealt with, to complete the wedding of the two.

She was not disappointed, and the first thing Allen Wilson did when he returned to Kuala Lumpur was to send a telegram to get the backlog of business out of the way and return to London to discuss the marriage.

“The most impressive thing about him as a man is that he speaks with such credibility that he can be trusted unconditionally.” Pamela Mountbatten, who was holding the telegram, said with a face full of happiness in front of Crown Prince Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.

Crown Prince Elizabeth expressed her congratulations with a smile on her face, while Princess Margaret was expressionless and even a little disoriented.