Chapter 647 Gathering the Wool of the Free World

Ali Khan’s hatred for Nehru, Alan Wilson is not unable to understand, who name hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land was taken away, it is impossible to pretend that it did not happen. Like Ali Khan’s reaction has been considered very mild.

“Commissioner, actually the unification of India is good for the entire Indian people, right?” Alisa carefully whispered.

“It is a good thing, but it has nothing to do with my friend.” Alan Wilson said gently, “Are you willing to take out the wealth you have accumulated over the years for the sake of the British Empire?”

Alisa didn’t say anything, Allen Wilson couldn’t even do that, of course he was going to do everything in his power to stop Britain from shrinking back to its homeland, but in the final analysis this was because, such a country would be more beneficial to him.

Allen Wilson could use any method, even not making a profit out of his own pocket, but that was as far as it went. Not turning a profit is fine, losing money is not.

Ali Khan’s problem is that all the fixed assets can’t be taken away, though not as conspicuously as the ones that can be. But it’s the land that’s really priceless.

It’s understandable why Ali Khan was willing to fork out a whopping 100 million pounds to come to Sabah to seek a position as monarch.

Now counting the rulers of the states of Sarawak and Sabah, the current monarchs of British Malaya stand at eleven. Alan Wilson actually wants to merge Brunei as well, but then the number of monarchs would become twelve. It might not be possible to get a unified opinion once something happens.

If there was anyone else in the world who was as benevolent and wealthy a monarch as Ali Khan was, he might consider splitting off a piece of the Kraken Gorge and merging it into a new state to continue selling the monarch title.

This would bring together the Thirteen Knights of the Round Table, and help stabilize British Malaya, but currently he couldn’t find a monarch that was both wealthy and benevolent, so he could try down the road.

In fact, Chang Gong is also a good candidate, but considering the reliability, this idea can only be put to rest. British Malaya needs a person who is stupid and has a lot of money, Chang Gong really came to be restless, Alan Wilson still have to find a reason to sink him, may cause a lot of trouble.

He expected to accompany Ali Khan to Sabah in a couple of days, so after receiving Ali Khan, he returned to his quarters to rest.

“In fact, if you want to achieve the purpose of holding back, you should find a Chinese monarch in the Malay ghetto in the Krakatau Gorge, wouldn’t that be more appropriate?” Vivien Leigh said so after hearing the man’s idea.

Is it true that the British are naturally good at divide and conquer? Alan Wilson thought so, but laughed bitterly, “It’s right to think so, but where can I find such a person? The first rule is that he can’t have anything but money. Wealth should at least be on par with Ali Khan, but he can’t have his own power, or else more than half of the population here are Chinese, what if he finds us in trouble?”

As far as the conditions Alan Wilson said, Changgong would be completely inadequate, and the only benefit he could think of was that it might shift future conflicts from a major power to himself, on what grounds?

As a senior bureaucrat in the free world, he didn’t have this obligation to suck hidden dangers from somewhere else to the colonies under his administration.

It’s fine to be at peace with each other now, and as for the issue of Fraud Island, that’s a matter for the US and a certain great power, not for the UK.

If someone consults him personally and asks him to give advice, his answer will be the same a hundred times, the best way is to massacre the city, very much in line with the Chinese historical tradition, the lowest cost and the fastest effect.

God forbid that it should become a relationship between Britain and Ireland if it drags on, and even less effective if it is bought off.

Counting on a buyout, it would be better to count on British Malaya, run by Alan Wilson, to block the path to industrialization on the fraudulent island. Make it not rich at all, so that perhaps annexation would be easier.

Accompanying the Sultan of Sabah, Ali Khan, on a tour of his new territory, Allen Wilson was able to see that Ali Khan was very satisfied with his new territory, after all, the sunny beaches of British Malaya, much more pleasant than the scenery of Hyderabad. Most of Hyderabad is on top of the Deccan Plateau, which is nowhere near as pleasant as it looks.

As for the investments mentioned by Alan Wilson, Ali Khan, who became the Sultan of Sabah, agreed with all of them, saying that he was willing to put his wealth into the new territory to help the development of the local population.

“I believe that the Malayan Congress Party’s Indians will also be very happy, after all, most of them are very ignorant and really believe that blood is thicker than water, and for the Maharaja’s your arrival, they might think that they can elevate the status of the Indians.” Alan Wilson mentioned the possible potential supporters of Ali Khan, completely helping to analyze the situation from a friend’s standpoint.

“Alan, while I am not a great admirer of the British Empire, I can’t fault you personally in any way, and if it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have found a new territory.” Ali Khan sighed, “As long as I live, I will help Britain maintain its rule here.”

“The Maharajah is so magnanimous, it truly leaves me speechless.” To the British spat, Alan Wilson took it as if he had not heard, and on the question of which was more important, the honor and disgrace of the country or his own personal friendship, the latter was clearly more important than the former.

It was certainly good that Ali Khan kept his promise and was willing to use his wealth to promote the development of Sabah. After all, Sabah is next to Sarawak, and no one wants to be next to a poor neighbor.

Geographical discrimination is real, there are relevant examples in India, Bihar is the cultural center of ancient India, equivalent to Henan, China, with such a high cultural status, indeed, the whole of India in later times, the high incidence of map gun area.

Various discriminatory remarks about Bihar are commonplace, what to eat cow dung and drink the Ganges water, drink cow urine and so on as soon as things appear, the Indians think it is the people of Bihar.

The fundamental reason is that Bihar is too poor, all kinds of indicators are all India’s last. There is a disease of poverty, don’t blame it for becoming the set fire of the map gun.

Sabah and Sarawak were neighboring each other, if Ali Khan was able to use his wealth to promote the development of Sabah, it would help the unity of the whole of East Malaysia, which was very important to the general situation of maintaining the stability of the British colony.

“Charlie, come here.” Alan Wilson greeted the Sabah commissioner over and introduced Ali Khan to the commissioner of Sabah, “My friend and the current Sultan of Sabah, Maharaja Ali Khan, the Maharaja is a very kind and charismatic monarch who helped me a lot when I was serving from India. I hope you will be able to live in harmony with the Maharaja and bring Sabah into the midst of prosperity.”

That night the party rested in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, which was sparsely populated compared to its area of more than 70,000 square kilometers, with only a few tens of thousands of people in the capital, and the main inhabitants of the state being Chinese.

Ali Khan promised to make Kota Kinabalu a worthy capital, with schools and railroads and so on.

That was all Allen Wilson could hear, and perhaps Ali Khan would make the investment to build these things, but the first major project to be built, he could almost predict, would be a mosque.

Demographically, British Malaya would be suitable for Ali Khan as monarch is the Malay concentration in the Isthmus of Krakatau. But considering there were already nine sultans in the Malay Peninsula, putting Ali Khan over there again wasn’t conducive to balance. And Ali Khan was literally given the second largest area in British Malaya, Sabah, by taking out 100 million pounds.

As for the first largest state, that is, of course, Sarawak, which has undergone an area adjustment, occupies a quarter of the area of the current Greater British Malaya, and now belongs to him, the commissioner’s wife, Pamela Mountbatten.

One thing that needs to be said is that the Sultan of British Malaya is not as powerful as the Maharajahs of the native states of former British India. The whole of British Malaya was a subject of the British Empire, even the hereditary sultans of the states.

These sultans do have the power to bully men and women, but if they really think they are a party of vassals, the commissioners of the various regions are not just for show, and Alan Wilson has talked to the nine sultans before, and Ali Khan has just arrived here, so he has to make this clear.

Time rushed into October, the international situation can be said to be smooth or not. After all, even war, once it has had time to stick around, can be something that people grow accustomed to.

This is to say that being in the British perspective does not represent the mood of the U.S. Currently, whether it is the Berlin airlift or the war in the Far East, the U.S. is the absolute dominant force in the free world.

The latest development regarding the Berlin crisis is that the pressure on airlift capacity from the needs of West Berlin is increasing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye. For the citizens of West Berlin are fleeing in greater numbers by the day under the combined pressure of power outages and the start of the Berlin Wall. The population of West Berlin had dropped from two and a half million, to just under two million.

In just half a month, the exodus exceeded half a million people, and it could be said that anytime, anywhere, citizens of West Berlin were fleeing.

With the threat of returning to life in the agricultural era, communism was no longer the greatest threat. The citizens of West Berlin exercised the good character of kneeling and swinging, chanting that the free world will never be compromised while taking airlifts of supplies out of West Berlin and into the arms of the Soviets.

Perhaps these West Berlin citizens will still find a way to commit to the Federal Republic of Germany someday, but for now they are not willing to die for the Free World on the front lines of the Cold War.

Given the mass exodus of West Berlin citizens, how is it that the pressure on the airlift has increased? It should have decreased.

The reason for this lies in the resurgence of the black market just after World War II, where West Berlin took the supplies shipped over from the Free World and resold them to the citizens of East Berlin, selling off their possessions in West Berlin and trying to find a place to settle down.

London even believes that the current Berlin crisis has evolved into the Soviet Union pulling the wool over the Free World’s eyes. On the one hand, the free world kept increasing its capacity to airlift supplies, and on the other hand, these supplies were falling into the hands of the Soviet-occupied zone.

“This is out of my expectation.” Allen Wilson, who was holding the telegram, was instructed that he really hadn’t expected this.