Chapter 646 – Arrival of Ali Khan

Of course Alan Wilson was happy about this, who wouldn’t want to be friends with a rich man. And for the sake of the political situation in Malaya, there is also a need for a strong monarch to exist here.

First of all, Ali Khan has already gone through a British retreat brought about by the change of heart, hundreds of years of Hyderabad so annexed by India. If a similar choice were to occur again, Ali Khan would never want the British to retreat from Malaya again.

So the future monarch of this Sabah must be a hardcore pro-British faction. Ali Khan’s arrival would give Malaya an overwhelmingly pro-British element, and Ali Khan’s wealth would make him, himself, even more helpful to British colonial rule.

With the help of such a Sultan of Sabah, he believed that his own transformation of Malaya would be greatly assisted.

Thinking of this Alan Wilson could not help but jump up and down, and the gloom in his heart because of the Berlin Crisis was alleviated quite a bit. There are times when a bad mood just needs good news to neutralize it.

As for the Dragoon Sisters, Allen Wilson has decided in his heart, will find a suitable time to ask openly and honestly, paid the feelings of the woman, he can not take too tough attitude. If the Dragoon Sisters denied being spies, he might finally choose to believe it.

In a good mood, after the Governor returned to Hong Kong, Alan Wilson chose to inspect Sarawak’s steel group.

The importance of steel to a nation needs no introduction, and at its most basic, steel has a balance of performance and cost. Considering this balance, steel is almost the only option for a country’s development.

There is a natural reason why countries invariably measure a nation’s war potential in terms of steel production.

The growth of Britain’s domestic steel potential was no longer significant, and even with the addition of high-quality iron ore from Australia, the historical trend could not be altered. And with Malaya not far from Australia, transportation costs alone are a huge advantage.

Any industry is a big user of water, and steel is naturally no exception; East Malaysia’s water resources are actually above the Malay Peninsula to the west. Not to mention reliability considerations.

In fact Alan Wilson, who was not greedy, and had already set a template for an absolutely suitable target for British Malaya, and one that was by no means unacceptable in theory, decided to set the target for Sarawak’s steel production, at Tangshan.

He didn’t think the target was excessive; after all, Tangshan’s steel industry employed just 600,000 people. The population of East Malaysia was not large, but 600,000 employees was still not a problem.

Once this goal was finally realized, Alan Wilson could get Sarawak off the ground with the support of Australia.

“Ender, steel production should reach four million tons this year. It’s best to catch up with the mainland within five years, as for further things later.” Allenwell’s turned to the accompanying East Malaysia Commissioner Ender, discussing whether it would be possible to achieve the goal of catching up with the British mainland in terms of steel production within five years.

“Commissioner, will not be a little hasty, how to solve the problem of sales?” Ender frowned and asked the doubt in his heart.

“This you do not have to worry!” Alan Wilson laughed, about the capitals of the colonies in British Africa, all included in the real estate Xingbang plan, Ender is not a commissioner, and is not a very good understanding.

If Ender knows that his own top boss, not at all to benchmark this land, or to benchmark Tangshan. Estimated also? It was nothing, how could an Englishman know what Tangshan was.

How could the average person think that the steel production of a city could be compared to that of a large country?

But what? People have more bold land has more production, since Tangshan can be 600,000 steel workers, out of hundreds of millions of steel production capacity, Alan Wilson felt that the Sarawak steel industry to wipe a zero, set at 100 million tons of this goal should not be too much.

Alan Wilson in Sarawak Palace, Sarawak’s steel development made an important instruction, the core idea is for Sarawak, the steel industry is a big taxpayer and employment, in the case of stable growth, stable employment, focus on the development of large-scale iron and steel enterprises, is the optimal choice for the development of the region. Expanding production capacity increases regional concentration and reduces production costs.

From a long-term perspective, the steel industry is irreplaceable. At this stage, no one can find an element that can be an equal substitute for steel. Therefore, from a long-term industry perspective, the steel industry has its own development characteristics. But only companies that are innovative and constantly improve their product quality will survive.

In a larger sense, the favorable development of steel will also help to solidify the imperial preferential system and increase the capital of the British Empire to negotiate with other powers on a reciprocal basis.

The favorable situation now is that the production of iron ore in Australia has been gradually put on the right track. The Australian government’s steel ban on Britain and its dependencies has been lifted, helping Sarawak’s steel industry to grow.

In response to this Ender, as well as the following civil servants, have said that they will certainly appreciate the spirit of the top boss, add to the cause of building the British Empire, deeply implement the spirit of the meeting in Whitehall, and work really hard so that the British Empire will usher in a high-speed development.

“Modern life without steel is unimaginable. The things we take for granted in life, from houses, bridges, cars, airplanes to home appliances, are either made of steel or produced with the help of steel. Iron ore, in turn, is the central raw material for making steel, and there is no reason why we should fail with Australia’s help.”

Alan Wilson said this scanning the subordinates, “I believe that colleagues working overseas, will not be disappointed in you again, we all believe that everyone is reliable.”

Hearing the subordinates in the reliability of the above assurance, Alan Wilson nodded slightly, the reason why the steel industry in Sarawak, rather than in the more populous Malay Peninsula, the fundamental reason is the coal resources of the whole of British Malaya, eighty percent of the coal resources are in Sarawak.

From the principle of proximity of resources, the iron and steel industry in Sarawak is a matter of course. Now that both coal and iron resources are available, it would be very disappointing if the production capacity could not be reached.

Coal mining and steel making require automobile transportation, right? This is also a boon for Britain’s automobile industry, which can promote employment in the British automobile industry, based on the real estate Xingbang of the major colonies in British Africa, with British Malaya as the intermediate processing link, which will ultimately promote the demand for high-end industries in the homeland.

It can be said that for Britain today, this is an optimal option. Britain has never actually had an industrial layout for a particular colony, not even British India, where the industries of British India only catered to some of India’s basic needs.

Britain’s former imperial preferential system was essentially home-grown production of industrial goods and income from colonies for raw materials, in a very generalized way, without an industrial base in hand. Originally it was the US that held this role before WWI, but the US was untamed after WWI.

At this stage Malaya doesn’t need any really smart developmental steps, roughing it will solve a lot of the problems. Get the steel and textile industries up and running, build up a few years, then start on the processing industries, and little by little build up the import/export system. Basically it won’t be much worse than Japan.

Of course this process, the necessary supervision of the colonial government should never be relaxed, every businessman is a natural buyer. Without the power of supervision, the vast majority of businessmen would only be playing around in very basic industries, and would not think of investing their money in the more risky heavy industries.

“Democratic politics is a stumbling block to economic development, and we can never allow, unreliable people to mix among our colleagues.” Alan Wilson restated in his own words the statement he had just learned from the Governor.

It was indicated that the stable development of Malaya should be guarded against the proliferation of liberalism, but even more so against the confusion of democratic political ideas. Only by combining the best of both worlds could Malaya be made a trusted overseas base for imperial civil servants.

There is no need to focus on the U.S. right now; the root cause of the U.S. inability to even respond to the Berlin crisis lies in the fact that the war in the Far East has not yet ended, and that it is bombing furiously against the Sanganese. Only when this round of fighting is over will the U.S. have time to focus on other directions.

Day in Alan Wilson’s hard work in the little by little, the end of October he in from this state out.

For the glorious Sultan of Sabah, Ali Khan, had landed at Penang and come to British Malaya under his good friend Allen Wilson. Alan Wilson immediately came out from the Kuala Lumpur Administration Office to greet Ali Khan.

Sometimes he felt that Ali Khan’s life was absolutely full of legends, and the basic life trajectory was that after being a monarch from a British colony, he changed to be a monarch from another British colony.

After the two met, Ali Khan was very happy and almost just couldn’t wait to see his new territory.

“Alan, it’s a real pleasure to meet you, and it puts me much more at ease to see you in person. If it’s you running British Malaya, I’m sure it’s going to grow very well.” Ali Khan smiled more on this day than he had in the past year, and spoke with nothing short of affection, showering Alan Wilson with constant compliments.

“Honorable Sultan, does the relationship between us need to be said.” Alan Wilson was likewise very on the ball, carefully mentioning, “Perhaps the development of British Malaya requires the help of a wealthy and benevolent monarch.”

“This wealthy and benevolent monarch has now arrived.” Ali Khan nodded his head when it was time, “I will make the territory’s subjects wealthy, so that it will help the time to last.”

“Time to last is power.” Alan Wilson nodded thoughtfully, then inquired, “Will Nehru notice when you come here? Will he issue any protests?”

“Don’t mention the nasty man, I hope he plants a heel in the future.” Ali Khan said as his face cleared.

“I’m sure it will.” Alan Wilson was genuinely convinced of this.