Chapter 712: The Crowning of the Queen

“The measurements for the entire Eastern District have been completed, and I have to say it’s a tremendous amount of work. If it were not for the arrival of shiploads of steel and cement, it would be hard to imagine what an enormous burden it is.”

Lord Makins of Sheffield, was accompanying Alan Wilson for a chat in his permanent office at the East End’s remodeling program, “You’re not in the same state of mind working in Malaya, are you?”

“Almost still true!” Alan Wilson laughed and rushed to Makins, “Actually, as long as the framework is ordered, the management side of things is not difficult, we have to believe in the ability of other colleagues. There won’t be any problems, once the reconstruction of the East End is completed, the future citizens of London will surely thank us, this kind of work is very meaningful.”

Sooner or later, Londoners will realize how lucky they are to be able to live here; all roads lead to Rome, and some people are born in Rome. Even if you only think about property appreciation, London is a good choice. You can’t say that house prices in the UK will never fall, but they are certainly the last to fall in London.

As long as British citizens are attracted to the living conditions in London, there will be an incentive for London’s house prices to rise, which is a very simple truth. Just as China’s housing prices, cheap similar to Hegang’s prices are not absent, in fact, there are quite a few.

But subconsciously has raised its own standards to the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen people, will go to live? Since they won’t, then naturally house prices in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen run faster than their incomes.

“But Whitehall’s figures show that the number of citizens in London is slowly, though not significantly, declining.” Makins asked with some surprise, “Will house prices still rise with a falling population?”

“Whitehall only counted London, not the entire population of the British Empire.” Alan Wilson raised one eyebrow and emphasized, “Especially the upper class of the colonies, although I know that the citizens will definitely not accept it, but sooner or later, there will definitely be a group of the upper class of the colonies who will purchase property in London.”

The people who purchased properties in London in the latter days, Arab, Indian, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were also Russian tycoons. This is all the main force that pushed up London house prices. Even the Mayor of London is an Indian-origin.

However, that Indian-origin London mayor, is not the mayor of Greater London, simply put, is the mayor of Central London, that is, near Whitehall is probably less than three square kilometers, the management of the area of less than one-fiftieth of the appearance of Greater London.

Of course the Mayor of London has the privilege of being able to organize activities against the British industrial unions.

“It’s simply more desperate than the law that everyone can register a party.” Makins spat with a displeased look on his face, “I think I’d go mad if I ever got to see immigrants from different colonies in London.”

“Oh, poor Lord.” Alan Wilson said with a very compassionate expression, “Everyone can register a political party, should it be easier to accept a restriction on you than your inability to enter the House of Commons?”

“You have misunderstood, although I am of noble birth, I am not a member of the House of Lords, of course I can go to the House of Commons.” Makins held his head high and then said, “So it’s still more annoying that it’s an article that anyone can register a party.”

“That can’t be helped, we’re a democracy.” Alan Wilson whistled, “After all, the mainland is not a colony, I can’t issue a commissioner’s warrant and push it through, maybe when we get to a higher position we can talk to the ministers and come up with a more robust solution.”

There was still time, there was no need to rush about curbing immigration yet, according to history the sixties was the time period for the avalanche of colonies, and the Queen hadn’t even been crowned yet.

The big London remodeling project, set to officially start after the Queen’s coronation, and by officially I mean that some of the areas that are easy to notice, in fact the areas of the East End that are out of sight, are now under construction. The area along the Thames could not be started for the time being, and this had to be taken into account for the parade of ships.

Summer heat, Alan Wilson waiting at the London airport, a flabby temperament can not help but emanate. As the airliner slowly landed, the British enemy of the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet Commander, Admiral Mountbatten walked down with the pace of six relatives.

The elderly highwayman saw the son-in-law who was too eager to make progress at a glance, and walked over with a smile, “Alan, you’re so busy, and you have to be distracted by caring about the remodeling of the Eastern District, you don’t really need to come over.”

“It’s just one of the many jobs I have, not much of a delay.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth with a tone that didn’t care about adding more burdens, “Pamela won’t be back until a few days later, I heard that some of the families of the Australian soldiers are making a fuss about compensation to Japan, and in the next few days the Australian Parliament will be voting on it.”

“The Japanese?” General Mountbatten’s face clouded over, although he didn’t say much, but his true thoughts were already on display.

About Mountbatten’s opinion of the Japanese, this can be said later, out of the airport Alan Wilson accompanied his father-in-law back to the Mountbattens’ home, calculating how to talk about arming Germany and Italy.

“Does the General know Richie Rich?” Allen Wilson never addressed Mountbatten by his rank, and Mountbatten readily accepted this, asking directly when he arrived home.

“Don’t talk like that at home in that classic Whitehall tone, you can just say what you want to say.” General Mountbatten sat on his ass on the sofa and urged his son-in-law to get straight to the point.

“It’s like this, Li Qiwei is now the commander of NATO, after the current comparison, we can easily find one thing, we are very struggling against the Soviet Union in Europe, the root cause of which is that the population and territory of Britain and France are at a disadvantage to the Soviet Union, not to mention the fact that we can’t put all of our military power in Europe when we have to maintain order in the colonies. ”

Mountbatten nodded while listening and spoke with a twinkle in his eye, “So what do you want? Since it’s not populated enough to fight against the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union’s allies, there are still Germany and Italy, the major populated countries in Western Europe, so you think that rearming Germany and Italy will be enough to restore parity in Europe?”

“That’s true, General. The question is what the French think, and of course the voice of NATO is with us, the British and Americans, and in principle it’s fine for us to inform the French when we’ve decided. It’s just that Britain and France still have common interests when it comes to the colonies, and if we step in, it’s possible that the French will be very unhappy.”

Speaking of this Alan Wilson signaled to wait a moment, took out the Aifor handed himself General Li Qiwei’s popularity within NATO, and said next to him, “General, my idea is this, we can use your personal relationship to make an invitation to Li Qiwei to participate in the Queen’s Coronation Ceremony, and take advantage of the opportunity to communicate about the rearmament of Germany and Italy, and according to our investigations, Li Qiwei, this person Although a talented general, he is poor in interpersonal relations and has typical American arrogance, not as obvious as MacArthur shows.”

“MacArthur? Actually, Nimitz and Marshall were much easier to reach than he was, and Eisenhower was okay.” Mountbatten mused, “It’s just that I’ve had no contact with Li Qiwei, so if I were to extend an invitation, I’d probably have to do it on a personal basis, first contacting some of the generals in Washington, many of whom are members of the Liaison Staff Council. Has the time of the coronation been fixed?”

“The second of next month!” Alan Wilson hurriedly replied as soon as he heard that there was something to be done, “The Canadian carrier formation has already arrived, the Australian and South African navies are already in French waters, and the Royal Pacific Fleet has passed Gibraltar. It’s perfectly in time.”

“I’ll see if I can get in touch with Ike!” Admiral Mountbatten mused for a moment, but agreed with difficulty.

The difficulty of this matter was in fact very great, but Mountbatten was not willing to talk about the problem of difficulty, and he was not willing to refuse his son-in-law, the key was that he was not willing to say, this matter is too difficult I can’t do it.

Mountbatten gladly accepted his son-in-law’s suggestion, and immediately began to put into this round of busy. Because the queen’s coronation to hold a parade of ships has been set, he first of all is to look forward to the naval representatives of various countries, as well as from overseas to come back to the major fleet captains, for the preparation of the parade of ships.

This kind of reception work really can not let others to do, Mountbatten to Prince Philip has the same status as the father, itself is an important member of the royal family, or the military important generals, to do these things the most appropriate.

In the midst of his busy schedule, Mountbatten also got in touch with Washington and expressed his wish to invite Admiral Li Qiwei, the current NATO Commander-in-Chief, to come to London at such a moment of significance to attend the Queen’s coronation.

Eisenhower personally replied to the call, willing to show Britain and the United States in this special occasion of special significance, as Eisenhower’s subordinate Li Qiwei, in a later reply to the call to express the desire to visit London.

Father-in-law busy at the same time, Alan Wilson has not been idle, first greeted the return to London Fei Wenli. Then immediately after his wife and sister-in-law came together, are returning to London to participate in the Queen’s coronation.

This can give Alan Wilson busy bad, the key is the sister-in-law to stare at tight, it is very difficult.

Little by little, the whole of London is waiting for the important moment to come, Britain is about to usher in a new queen.