Chapter 694: London Remodeling Plan

Time has come to nineteen fifty-three, Allen Wilson mind flashed inside several important historical events, Stalin’s death, the end of the Korean War, Crown Prince Elizabeth coronation.

And thinking about the response to several events, with all the psychological preparation, he will choose to return to London.

“Life is one round of exams after another, and there are times when I wonder what it is we’re after.” On the top floor of the Mountbatten Mining, Alan Wilson is shown thinking about life in front of his wife and sister-in-law.

“Honey, you always have dreams!” Pamela Mountbatten glanced at her still sleeping daughter and snapped at the right volume.

“I am an officer and my current dream is to go further. If I were a businessman like you, I could answer you right away what my dream is, I want to be a final producer.” Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed, “And the Soviets are right in some ways, our system does help businessmen fulfill their dreams.”

Powerful people shared common dreams, and being a final producer was one of them. But the common quest of more powerful people is immortality, which simply means living forever. It would be great if both dreams were attained.

Why did the upper echelons of Britain and America hate the Soviet Union? Because they tend to favor the idea that nations and peoples are fictional, abstract, non-existent things, and that what constitutes them is an isolated person.

This seems similar to part of what the USSR advocated, the difference being that what the Skylonians meant by freedom was the right to dispose of one’s wealth as one pleased. Whereas what the people who were influenced by the Soviet Union call freedom is freedom for all mankind.

What was meant by liberalism was that it allowed the rich to live as they pleased, and it never had anything to do with what all mankind was.

The closest thing to an end-producer in Alan Wilson’s day was Bezos in the United States, whose Amazon was an e-commerce platform. Just like Jack Ma in a big country, after an e-commerce platform has a near-unique status, it is tantamount to monopolizing the buying and selling channels.

E-commerce platform can pressure suppliers, manufacturers must accept the seller’s cooperation requirements, or will never survive. The e-commerce company as a sales platform, the requirements of the manufacturers must be more and more demanding, and eventually become their controlling party.

When the formation of an overwhelming control of the supplier, the next step is to open the knife to the consumer, in the middle of the e-commerce platform, far faster than other companies at the same level to make money.

E-commerce can also continue to penetrate into logistics, food and even all aspects, at that time, like the United Kingdom and the United States, countries like this, is unable to take action against people like Bezos. The only thing Alan Wilson is unsure of is which will be realized first, the Final Producer or Immortality.

On the day of his daughter’s full moon, Allen Wilson drank himself unconscious with an open heart because he was about to rush to London to expound on the question of how reliable British Malaya was to meet this wave of industrial transfer.

The transfer of industry from British Malaya had previously been a small share of what he had struggled to extract. But this time after the London smog incident came out it was different, he believed that Britain would carefully consider the issue of industrial transfer.

And Britain also needs to transform itself, get rid of some traces of the Victorian era and become a truly modern society.

From the telegram from Norman Brooke, the Cabinet Secretary, he already knew that the Adderley Cabinet had resolved that there would be a massive remodeling of downtown London to remove the basis of the smog incident.

Alan Wilson also knew that this would be another huge expense, and at this time the British Empire was in great need of a cost-saving program, which he had!

Before returning to London, he first stopped in Kuala Lumpur for a day, and then took with him a sheaf of statistics as a persuasive message to Whitehall as well as the Cabinet on this trip, highlighting the fact that there was absolutely no problem with the massive remodeling work in London, and that by handing the work over to Malaya, he would be able to make huge cost savings.

By the time he arrived in London in January, the bad weather of the London smog event had dissipated, but some of the taller buildings still left traces of gray, suggesting that the smog event had not been a non-event.

Truth be told, Alan Wilson could feel a huge difference between the air and Asia when he first arrived in London. It was only that the citizens of London had long ago gotten used to this kind of air.

Shouldering an important drop over the mission, he did not care about the problem of jet lag across half the world, and rushed directly to Whitehall. He found Norman Brooke, the most respected cabinet secretary in his life, and waited for an earful.

At this time about a month ago, the London smog event, there has been a preliminary investigation results, suffered the greatest impact of the smog event in the East End of London, the number of deaths for nine times the normal. And this is still the current figures, the smog is already dispersed, and the impact on people can not be finished so quickly.

“We’re hiding from the public the number of deaths caused by the smog event?” Allen Wilson inquired in a heavy tone.

“It was to avoid causing panic among the citizens, and after a democratic resolution finally chose not to publicize it.” Norman Brooke corrected Alan Wilson’s mistake and spoke, “Prime Minister Adderley has resolved to pass a bill to curb the continuation of such incidents. Alan you should also know that the bill is easy to get out, the relocation of factories and the remodeling of residences will take time, and that’s what you were asked to come here for. I wonder what good news you have prepared.”

“About steel production in British Malaya for the current year!” Alan Wilson brought out the prepared statistics, British Malaya in the year nineteen fifty-two, steel production was ten million and four hundred thousand tons.

This figure was two-thirds that of the British mainland, and the steel was roughed up to provide for the construction of British Africa, Iran, and Australia itself, where Perth, the capital of Western Australia, was in great demand.

British Malaya produced four and a half million tons of cement, a figure that would have been only one-third that of mainland Britain. It is also now mainly supporting the construction of Western Australia, supporting the needs of France in South Vietnam, and so on.

As for the other rubber, sugar exports, plus the figures for recent months plus exports to Iran. It’s all in front of Norman Brooke now.

“Arguably stronger than even British India at the time.” Norman Brooke looked at it and replied with satisfaction, “It’s hard to imagine that this is something a colony of ten million people could do.”

Norman Brooke expressed his admiration by comparing the present British Malaya with the original British India.

In response to the admiration of the head of the civil service, Alan Wilson did not explain the trade involved; he had been in British India for many years, and knew that reputable power well.

Take the industrial workers in the industrial zone of Calcutta in British India, the industrial workers in India are not what the British think of as industrial workers, more accurately, that is craftsmen.

There are ten million craftsmen in the Calcutta industrial estate, which may seem surprising.

But there were 8.8 million artisans engaged in jute alone. The Calcutta Industrial Area is the strongest industrial area in India, anywhere, let alone anywhere else.

The industrial workers of India are those who bear the name of laborers, and one and all are similar to those who do odd jobs. But even so, British India is a galaxy better than the Republic.

“If these figures are true, then the remodeling of London can begin now.” Norman Brooke was confident, and that was because he had been in charge of the Ministry of Reconstruction for a brief time before he became Cabinet Secretary. Having drawn up plans for the reconstruction of post-war Britain.

How much steel and cement would be needed for London’s reconstruction program, Norman Brooke only had to go over it from inside his head to get a ballpark figure, and last year’s figures could not measure this year’s productivity. With the addition of British Malaya, there was no need to worry about the lack of capacity that the move would bring in the matter of relocating the London plant.

Norman Brooke took Alan Wilson to meet the health minister of Airdrie’s cabinet, Aneurin Bevan, who had been running for the sake of a universal health center, and this time, after the London smog incident appeared, Prime Minister Airdrie put Aneurin Bevan in charge of handling a series of things.

The two men discussed with Aneurin Bevan about the plans for the renovation of London’s housing, just then a man Alan Wilson had met walked in, Harold Wilson, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Now Harold Wilson was an important supporter of Aneurin Bevan in the cabinet, and Aneurin Bevan thought highly of him, Harold Wilson was considered Bevan’s future leader.

“Alan, what a long time no see!” Harold Wilson saw the civil servant that he had a meeting with and immediately went forward to express his friendship.

“Honorable Senator Harold!” Alan Wilson also gave a warm hug in response, “I really didn’t expect to see you here, I’ve been working overseas and have just returned this time.”

The two men talked happily, Harold Wilson then asked, Alan Wilson this time back to London’s purpose.

Regarding the plan to renovate London’s residences, Harold Wilson said at first hearing that this was the most concerned matter for the current parliament. The ruling party and the opposition party had already quarreled several times over this issue.

The root cause is still the problem of fiscal expenditure, and the Conservative Party thinks that the Labor Party is raising the budget without limit. This would cause huge financial pressure.

“However, Harold, with the current seats of the Labor Party, you can ignore the views of the opposition party if you want to pass it.” Alan Wilson looked relaxed and even a little tongue-tied as he said this.

Even Norman Brooke, who was known for having a good personal relationship with politicians, his face changed when he heard this, civil servants can’t help the ruling party against the opposition party, even he can’t do that, and couldn’t help but cough twice to remind Allen Wilson.

“I’m just kidding.” Allen Wilson reacted with an apologetic look and snorted.