Chapter 741 The National Treasure of Good People

The economy was Britain’s biggest problem in the post-war period, and the original history of increased dependence on the United States did not bring Britain all the benefits, which the British knew all too well.

According to the rhetoric of the time, Britain became more inward looking and its role in world affairs was uncertain.

While the Commonwealth still had important functions, such as the operation of a unified sterling area and the functioning of the trading system, it was true that the Commonwealth’s was becoming increasingly ritualized. Relations with the United States are, in many ways, bittersweet and increasingly troubled.

Reversing the post-war decline of the United Kingdom is difficult, but it is not at all impossible, Great Britain’s population, although limited, but the population of the entire British Empire is not a lot of people, the United Kingdom can be completely in the British Empire to do the industrial layout and division of labor, the elimination of the industry will be allocated in the overseas British territories, the mainland for industrial upgrading, in the formation of the formation of Great Britain as the head of the wild goose within the British Empire goose pattern.

As long as the distribution is reasonable, not only can the dependencies be avoided to become bigger, but also the cohesion within the British Empire can be strengthened.

Among the current remaining colonies, there is and only British Malaya still has this industrial function. Moreover, Australia and New Zealand, with their poor environment for industrial development, could serve as a force to assist Britain in accomplishing this purpose.

In fact this transfer of industry had even more favorable aspects than before World War II. World hegemony before World War II was still in the hands of Britain, and the British Empire as a whole still included high quality colonies like Canada and Australia.

These colonies were rich in resources, although taking a little would have made life easy for Britain itself. Britain was in a sense caught up in the Dutch Disease and had been struggling with it for a long time.

Now that self-governing territories such as Australia had become independent and were not putting Britain’s interests first, it was rather good for Britain.

Before the war, Britain’s interests were so great that there was no need to look at other countries, but to look at China, which still has two and a half billion pounds, to know that even after the war, Britain has continued to be the largest investor.

In fact, even with Alan Wilson in the constant filling of loopholes, the decline of the United Kingdom is still continuing, in 1950, the United Kingdom’s total value of manufacturing exports also occupy twenty-five percent of the world, three years later, although the total amount is still growing, plus Malaya’s exports are still more, also fell to twenty-two percent.

Shipbuilding, which accounted for one-third of the world’s exports, had also fallen below thirty percent. But this slow decline is a positive crop performance, the total amount is not declining, only because the European countries started the process of recovery.

Compared to the aftershock of the mainland is still in the throes, Malaya is much more fortunate to have no foundation. Weak foundation can bring high growth is one benefit, another benefit is a group of rookies around, happiness are contrasted.

While the cranes will bring some smuggling problems, they can also stabilize the resistance of the majority of the people in British Malaya.

For 1953, the first year of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, Alan Wilson’s personal summary can still be, with the storm surge and the London smog incident, as much trouble as possible.

Because of a series of things back home to participate in the reconstruction of London and the Queen’s accession to the throne, Alan Wilson at the end of the year is not ready to return home.

Instead, he would see what the upcoming year 1954, the year in which France’s colonial power in Asia fell apart, really had in store for him.

“The French are also really inefficient; can’t the Vietnamese be brave enough to take the initiative and drive the French into the sea?” The Malayan commissioner, holed up in Kuala Lumpur with a special subscription to French newspapers, also kept in touch with the British advisory mission that had arrived in Saigon.

Left and right waiting for the big show is not staged, can only be thousands of miles away to have to pay the blood of the French than than chatter, stand and talk about the nature of the pain, at this time to express the most, put up his pants is hard.

Since the French still need time, Alan Wilson can only continue the life of self-praise, in years ago he also did so in New Delhi, the capital of British India, every day just to the Indians to say that the future of India is not a small good but a great good.

But now he was much more sincere in his optimism about British Malaya; he really felt that the time for laying the foundation had passed and that British Malaya was about to enter the phase of accumulation, of accumulating wealth and slowly climbing the ladder, which was a step that took time and was equally inevitable.

In this process, the role played by Britain was to provide protection for Malaya’s economic development. Again, this was inevitable, and in the original history, it was actually Japan that played this role, but of course, according to the time, it would have been Japan thirty years later.

After Japan’s development, it started to come up with the geese and geese strategy, and independent Malaysia became Japan’s little brother.

That era of Malaysia and now British Malaya advantages are almost the same, there are oil and natural gas resources, the Malacca Straits bring the port dividend, tin ore is conducive to the development of semiconductors. Abundant raw materials, timber oil palm everything; pleasant climate, no natural disasters; convenient transportation, sufficient workers, everything seems to be in a very good direction.

But then Malaysia’s big brother, Japan, was the United States with the Plaza Accord hit a storm, even the big brother is kneeling, Malaysia naturally can not avoid being the big brother’s collapsed body smashed to death, just as the Soviet Union fell will be smashed to death of the socialist countries in Eastern Europe.

Malaysia’s several leading industries, electronics, automobiles, chemicals, and energy are almost closely related to Japan, and are sinking directly.

And now British Malaya, with Britain providing industrial transfer and military protection, and the military power of Holland in the neighborhood, and Australia and New Zealand not far to the south to provide help, is already on much better terms than when Japan was leading the way.

Now it wasn’t even a matter of waiting to let Japan lead, it was a matter of being on a par with Japan.

Alan Wilson did not believe that Britain at least for hundreds of years as the world’s hegemony, leading a colony to develop the economy, can still be worse than a half of the military power of the defeated country?

Even if Britain does not have the economic scale of Japan, Allen Wilson thinks he is certainly better than the Japanese.

Visiting the newly established major factories time, Allen Wilson listened to the self-praise of the regional commissioners, optimism slightly restrained, he began to express optimism, the following regional commissioners followed suit, this thing seems to be called pompous wind?

“Optimism is directed at our Malayan subjects, we can’t believe it ourselves. Everard, you haven’t worked in British India and don’t know that we used deceptive tactics to fool the Indians in the first place.”

Allen Wilson immediately turned his guns around and stated that Malaya still had a long way to go and there was no room for optimism.

He took the fact that in British India, he used fake data to confuse the Indians in the midst of a drought and used it to compare it with current public opinion, concluding, “Of course, compared to the Vietnamese, Malaya was still very happy when it came to the people, at least they didn’t have to eat bombs.”

“I see, Commissioner!” Everard immediately expressed his consistency with his top boss and his attitude became humble.

“Even if we’re really on the fast track of development, we shouldn’t be complacent, look at the Governor crying poorly to London every day, when we hand over more profits, we leave less for ourselves. Of course, 100 million pounds is still the bottom line, it can’t be lower than British India, so in order for the money we can control to become more, we still have to try our best to make this colony rich.”

Sharing the financial pressure for the sake of the British mainland is what one should do as a Brit. After all, he had patted himself on the back for letting British Malaya take over the role of British India before he came here to take office.

But he wouldn’t give more than he could afford, and once he passed London’s requirements, the rest of the wealth would have to stay among the colonies. He also counted on Malaya to remain in British hands for a long time, and could not be like the British African side of the scraping of the land.

This kind of leave a hand of advanced experience, are not all and harbor governor learned? Learning to use is not a bad thing.

At the end of the year Alan Wilson thought it might be just like that, but finally, the logistics of his heart still came. Vivienne had flown in from the United States and brought her son over to meet Allen Wilson.

“Vivian, you’re still the best to me.” Allen Wilson hugged Fei Wenli’s petite body and didn’t let go, at the critical moment it was still the Great British Treasure who was the best to him, it was something that no one could replace.

“What’s wrong, I’m not here.” Fei Wenli wrapped the man’s head in her arms and comforted him softly, coming all the way over to complete the logistical support work, in the national treasure’s view are all part of the work.

A day without seeing is like three autumns, not to mention how many days it has been, four eyes to each other, the scorching heat in the eyes exceeded the temperature of Malaya.

Playing with national treasures as always, Alan Wilson could not wait to be with Vivienne every day.

“By the way, I have a friend who will come over as a guest for a few more days if he has time.” Vivien Leigh tied up her spilled hair, her face flushed with an unfading flush, and talked to the local groundskeeper about it.

“Your friend!” Alan Wilson glanced at Vivien Leigh suspiciously, he could understand Vivien Leigh’s good people skills, in fact Vivien Leigh’s people skills were good in their own right, it had nothing to do with his suggestion of bondage, there was no Golden Dodecahedron bondage, and the national treasure’s people skills were first class. Carson and Vivien Leigh are just fine.

Just this friend well? Allen Wilson side-stepped the inquiry, “You still better not have male friends, if female friends come as many as possible, in Malaya this place I will provide convenience. Saying that, you may not believe it, in this half a million square kilometers of colony, my words work better than God his old man.”

“Got it, God! People don’t always have the time yet.” Vivien Lei gave Alan Wilson a blank look, “My friend is going to Korea to labor in the army after the year, so if he has some free time, he might come over and have a look around.”

“I see!” Allen Wilson nodded, there was no need to ask, since it was a labor army odds were it was a woman.

The New Year of 1954 finally still came with a firm step, Allen Wilson has stopped chanting about logistics, the people who came over to send logistics have made him a little overwhelmed, such an important moment, his wife Pamela Mountbatten of course had to come over, but Heidi Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman also came over.

Before starting the war is always full of confidence, never fought such a rich war, really fight will find how much preparation is not enough.