Chapter 743 Monroe
At the beginning of the year, Alan Wilson’s main job, hosting a seminar on Malaya’s economic development, participants from all walks of life, both Chinese businessmen, but also representatives of the major sultans, since this proved that Malaya’s development is not a small good but a big good.
On the last day of this unofficial gathering, Alan Wilson, in the name of the Commissioner of Malaya, set out his views on the Malayan economy, the first half of which was self-congratulatory, and the second half of which was together.
In fact, these meetings, which were of little use, were mainly about creating rapport with the local elite and forging a pool of interests.
Of course Pamela Mountbatten herself deserves a place as the ruler of Sarawak.
The reason why just ended the industrial layout to open blow, on the one hand, the need to create hard-working rich public opinion, on the one hand, but also according to the memory of his own brain, the latter-day Malaysia, is really a Southeast Asia’s superior, relative to Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia’s past glory than South Korea and Japan have had no better than Malaysia for twenty consecutive years to maintain over eight percent of the economic growth rate, is the Asian Malaysia has maintained an economic growth rate of eight percent for two consecutive decades, which is the first of the four Asian tigers.
In the economic start-up phase, Malaysia than Japan and South Korea are no less than, of course, in the second half of the time should build their own industries, is hit hard by the Asian financial crisis, which is an afterthought.
Alan Wilson thought to himself that British Malaya with his own guidance started to take off so many years ahead of time, how it should not be worse than the latter, and the political pitfalls faced by some elective countries do not exist here.
The good thing about a colony is that it can avoid the tug-of-war above democratic politics, except that the average colonial commissioner wouldn’t be able to run the colony properly, but it just so happened that he had the motivation to do so.
Looking at her husband, who was gushing and glowing in the face of representatives from all walks of life, Pamela Mountbatten was in a trance for a moment, rubbing her finger against the wedding ring on her fingertip with a look of pride.
“There is no doubt that Malaya’s economic development needs the full support of the British Empire, this is a race, the track is full of competitors, some people think that British support has become irrelevant, then let’s look at the results in the future, to see if Britain, who has ruled this world for hundreds of years, is just a stroke of luck.”
Alan Wilson said in a slightly forceful tone, “I hope that everyone, be it my businessman friends or the representatives of the Honorable Sultans, should understand one thing, that Malaya’s development was created by the financial and technological support of the financial backing of the United Kingdom, Newfoundland, Australia, and New Zealand, by the supply of raw materials from British Africa, and by the supply of energy from the British protectorates in the Middle East. There won’t be such a good environment today or in the future, if you can’t catch this good time, you will regret it later.”
Then the commissioner poured support out of the buyer’s representative, Su Yang and Tian Qianqiu successively with their own wealth story, expressed the community thinking of the United Kingdom and Malaya, the core meaning is that Malaya wants to develop well, can not be separated from the United Kingdom as the leader of the European market support, this kind of stance is very satisfactory.
“I hope that Malaya can take fifty years to walk the path that Europe has walked for two hundred years. There is still a good chance of success with British endorsement, which is a prerequisite and a foundation; you can do nothing without British support. Look at the Royal Navy fleets in Penang and Singapore, I believe you all recognize this in your hearts.”
Alan Wilson’s voice echoed in the empty palace, not all threats, it is true.
The seminar of course closed victoriously, Su Yang and Tian Qianqiu and a bunch of other businessmen flanked Allen Wilson, “Lord Lt. Hall, we would like to invite you and your wife to be our guests.”
“All of us are our own people, what’s the point of being polite?” Allen Wilson nodded his head in agreement after a moment of contemplation, “None of them are outsiders, would I not give you face? The face of you Chinese is very important.”
“Thank you Lord Zhongtang!” Su Yang said with a joyful face, “Without Lord Zhongtang’s help, how can we have a good life.”
“It’s mainly London’s recognition, only part of the credit goes to me.” Alan Wilson put his hands in his pockets and said with the face of a smelly rogue, “In terms of technology, Britain is not worse than the United States, but the scale cannot be compared, if the Chinese in Malay can afford some responsibility, it will be good for you and me, and we are in a cooperative relationship. While I have the authority to run this colony, I will not generally interfere with hard-working, reliable people who are getting rich.”
“There are many areas where British Malaya is still backward nowadays, fishing boats for example, I guess, I hope that in a few years I will never see a wooden sailing boat going out to fish again, it is not modern or safe. Malayan fishermen should use modern British-made fishing boats, shouldn’t they?”
Wooden sailing boats were widely available not just in Malaya like this, even in Xiangjiang, not to mention the rest of Southeast Asia, but he had a responsibility to open up sales for the British shipbuilding industry, so such backward fishing boats should be eliminated.
Of course this is only a small aspect, the replacement of new fishing boats can also create demand for oil, oil demand increases can be linked to a lot of industries from the development, such as machinery repair, such as oil refining.
Why is it a small aspect, if Malaya’s industrial development is good, it will also bring a corollary, that is, the manufacturing base have a huge sea transportation power, which is a good for the British shipbuilding industry. He was still looking forward to the emergence of a few ship kings in Malaya.
A few days later, Alan Wilson went to a banquet in a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit driven by his wife to have a good get-together with these big buyers in their formative years.
“For a short time, we don’t have to think about shifting the automobile manufacturing industry yet, and the British automobile industry is dominated by high-end cars. There aren’t really many choices for low-end cars.” Alan Wilson talks to Pamela Mountbatten about shifting cars, but he doesn’t think there’s any rush yet, the current industries in Malaya all require more than a high quality of workers, but when it comes to the next stage, it’s not something illiterate can handle.
“Land Rover and Sir William’s Jaguar barely fit your definition of shifting industries. There aren’t really many other options.” Pamela Mountbatten thought for a moment and helplessly said, “I haven’t investigated the automobile industry yet, I’ll ask the London side if I have time.”
Land Rover and Jaguar are actually considered luxury cars, but for the UK it is again divided how to say, there are too many luxury car brands in the UK.
It’s safe to say that many British companies have luxury car brands, and for Pamela Mountbatten’s family, Rolls Royce and Bentley, McLaren, and Aston Martin are the brands she sees on a regular basis.
“If Malaya gets to the point where it needs an automotive industry, making Land Rover and Jaguar high-end and the Rovers economical should be about right.” Alan Wilson knew that the Mountbattens had their eyes high, as did the British luxury car brands, and that the Land Rovers and Jaguars were just low-end cars that touched the edge of the high end.
So he was not correcting his wife’s eyes on the high-end, and his own eyes on the high-end in the end what is different.
But since Land Rover and Jaguar can even get it in India, it’s no big deal to transfer it to British Malaya to use it against Toyota Honda.
Arriving at the banquet venue, the crowd was together, a proper scene of imperialism and big buyers colluding like these already up-and-coming buyers, and Alan Wilson thought of a few lyrics.
The emperors of the mines and railroads are strangely ugly at the altar. What did they do but raid the labor of others? In this gang’s safe is placed the fruits of labor ……
“How’s the wine I gave you, Mr. Lt. Governor? Isn’t it very effective!” Su Yang lowered his voice to inquire mysteriously, wondering if the foreigner in front of him fit the definition of what you eat to make up for what you have.
“Haven’t drank it yet!” Alan Wilson flabbergasted for a moment smilingly replied, “I can’t actually use that kind of stuff at my age.”
If it hadn’t come so much at once recently, Alan Wilson wouldn’t have even thought about maintenance maintenance, his current age didn’t need to look like an old car and be fine with it.
The life of a London test driver has been a bit more frequent lately, but it’s barely enough to top it off without the use of outside help for the time being.
Besides, not all luxury cars need to be test driven, like this night, Alan Wilson just pulled out the wet sinful hand, leaving his panting highness to slowly reminisce on it.
A month at the beginning of the year, Allen Wilson put the head of the major forces in Malaya are put in order, and even the Indians did not let go, and the Chinese and Malays two major groups, compared to the Indians are not much of a decisive force, even so, Allen Wilson is still treated with courtesy.
At the same time to ensure that the wave of exclusion in Mauritius will not affect the safety of Malayan Indians. The wave of exclusion of India in Mauritius is of course also related to him, who let India always have unrealistic ambitions for Goa, the local British commissioner then united the descendants of French immigrants, opened the Mauritius in the balance strategy.
Instead of repatriating many people, left and right to let India know the power, Britain will quickly control the situation of the wave of exclusion of India.
The situation in Mauritius is more complicated, the second largest ethnic group is the descendants of the French, are getting rid of the Indian descendants, there is no guarantee that the French will not have ideas, than thousands of miles away from India, the French are still most of the threat.
At the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the beautiful woman with blonde hair and sunglasses on her head attracted a lot of attention, and soon entered into a waiting limousine, leaving behind the people who hadn’t seen enough.
“Vivian, you picked me up.” Marilyn Monroe gave Vivienne a hug in the car, exchanging pleasantries with innate warmth, before casting a glance over the window to see her giant poster and marveled, “I didn’t think I’d see my posters in a place I’ve never heard of.”
“How was the day of labor, did it make the energetic soldiers happy.” Vivien Leigh’s soulful eyes seemed to speak, asking Marilyn Monroe about the process of laboring in the army, a current American calling card that he was sure had caused a stir in Korea.