Chapter 792 – The Four Great Families
“No one knows the military better than me!” Alan Wilson held his head high and added in an unrivaled manner, “I know the whole world.”
Pamela Mountbatten giggled, this is like a treasure is her husband, life in the world with such a man to accompany, really let her feel is God drooping, can not help but kiss a mouth, “No one knows more than my husband all over the world, then go into the military field, I let Zaharova to see the local which company has a technological reserve, acquisition or shareholdings ……”
“One day, the country will thank you. Isn’t that what the relationship between the individual and the state is supposed to be?”
So understanding wife again beside, Alan Wilson equally thankful, hope that Britain in the future will be able to change the style on the weapons, aesthetic ugliness or maverick ugly, it is best not to appear again.
Casually think of the oddity of British weapons, purely to find their own guilt, because it has come to the extent that two hands can not count. Not only are they one ugly stand-alone, but they are equipped in large numbers.
In this post-war era of weapons changing as quickly as possible, God knows how much financial resources Britain, which was already on the verge of hitching up all the old money of the empire’s bottom line, spent to create all kinds of weapon systems that would never hurt to dismantle.
Alan Wilson even think, the reason why the United Kingdom did not hesitate to self-defeat, just a short period of time to the huge imperial legacy of armaments lost, in addition to the Suez Canal War failed blow, another big reason may be the arms supplier has been disappointed in their own country, the same level of science and technology, the United States and the Soviet Union a weapon can be used for two decades, the United Kingdom with a five-year update to redesign, who can’t accept the reality. This reality.
Pamela Mountbatten from her husband’s hands of a dozen, a look at the very good-looking weapons sketches put away, she had a hunch that this may be a huge fortune not less than the new discovery of oil and gas.
For the current Mountbatten Group, entering the military industry as an arms dealer was not much of a challenge. De Havilland was already a major supplier to the Royal Air Force, and a long time ago, De Havilland accepted Pamela Mountbatten’s shareholding, also considering General Mountbatten, a modern aristocratic general factor.
Facts proved de Havilland’s guess was not wrong, General Mountbatten continued to soar after the war, only one step away from the first Secretary of State for the Sea, when Mountbatten is the giant of the British military.
With such a father in the military, all the conditions for Pamela Mountbatten to be an arms dealer were in place, and it was really just a matter of a thought, and now that thought had come.
“Don’t you ever think about it more, the military industry is not an industry where you bend over backwards to pick up money.” Alan Wilson teased his wife, now this time is not the latter days of the United Kingdom is only not much left of the bottom of the company, the current British military industry is quite a lot of enterprises, not at all a few decades of the United Kingdom simply do not have a choice.
In fact, the United States is also the same, there are many domestic military supplier competition, and the competition within the United Kingdom, relatively speaking, is greater than the United States, just have the supply of the Royal Air Force requirements of the company, there are de Havilland, Averro, Armstrong Whitworth, Bristow, Handley-Peakey, Gloucester, Shorter Brothers, a total of more than a dozen in the forest.
U.S. military-industrial enterprise oligarchy, are already the end of the Cold War, the then U.S. Secretary of Defense Aspin invited the major U.S. military-industrial giants to dinner, this last dinner, the U.S. military-industrial enterprises to speed up the merger with each other.
Pamela Mountbatten was unimpressed, and hearing her husband’s reminder simply said, “I’m sure that you wouldn’t do me any harm; I’m your wife, and there’s nothing wrong with trusting your husband.”
“I will spend the rest of my life proving that this trust is justified. Sooner or later you are the benchmark of wealth in this world, what Morgan, Rockefeller, as long as there is time, sooner or later they can only be behind.” After hearing two kind words from his wife, Alan Wilson drifted away, not knowing where his soul had gone.
For Allen Wilson, making Pamela Mountbatten the richest individual in the world had been the simplest of goals.
The end of the year is a rare time to breathe a sigh of relief for people who have been working hard and busy all year. As the Gregorian calendar became widely accepted, some western festivals were also emphasized by the imperial subjects of British Malaya.
Although he was the commissioner of the Malayan colony, Allen Wilson never thought of promoting Anglicanism and letting God’s glory shine on this important imperial colony and other such, bullshit shit like that.
As far as he could conclude from his observations, the public holiday was now a mere holiday for the people of the colony. A day that could be used for a good meal and drink and rest, a very, very practical view.
The Imperial Commissioner was of course one of the hard working people amongst the masses, he even worked an extra hour a day and only had time after work to accompany his wife around and see the territory.
“It’s quite lively, and it looks like people here aren’t averse to Christmas.” Pamela Mountbatten was surprised to see some of the Chinese were also joyful when she drove the Silver Spirit bulletproof car.
“Uh, sort of.” Alan Wilson thought to himself that the Chinese were just a day to find excuses to do business for this kind of holiday. How about the so-called look at Christmas? That was all overthinking it.
In the latter days, when China was used to festivals and promoted the mainstay of this holiday and that, there was surely a place for all sorts of merchants. There are interests in it, of course, is enthusiastic.
Take Christmas, are not and the Vatican to establish diplomatic relations, not the same over the happy. On the matter of establishing diplomatic relations alone, in addition to some false head of mind, in fact, there are personal interests involved.
If and the Vatican to establish diplomatic relations, the Vatican is not all good, with the Chinese population, once the Vatican recognized, there will be a large number of Chinese cardinals will appear, the political map within the Christianity will also have a huge impact. Can a Chinese cardinal piss in the same pot as a Latin American cardinal? And then there are the black bishops.
“Speaking of Christmas, two guests are coming to Kuala Lumpur as guests.” Pamela Mountbatten, who had wandered around and brought her husband home, let slip one thing, “Partners in business.”
“Which one is so idle? Not staying properly in the country, running over here as a guest?” Alan Wilson carried packages in a big bag, a face of suspicion said.
“Not someone from the country, someone from the Schweyer and Keswick families. In the Far East, their roots are very stable, they are taking the initiative to want to get to know each other, I don’t think there’s a problem.” Pamela Mountbatten had already opened the door to the room as she spoke, and took over a few packages and explained, “If we can provide some financial support and do business together, why not?”
“So it’s them!” Alan Wilson knew who it was as soon as he heard it, the controller of the latter-day Swire Group and Jardine Matheson Group.
Compared to the fame of the two groups, Swire Properties, which always attracted netizens and was used as a holy place for street photography, was mostly famous.
Behind Swire Properties stands a giant company. It is the Swire Group of the Schweyer family. In Hong Kong, Swire and the Keswick family’s Jardine Matheson, Hutchison’s Hutchison, and Madden’s Wheelock are known as the “Four Great Foreign Houses”. Their founders were all British.
The business of the Schweyer family involves shipping, aviation, real estate, transportation, cold storage, trade and industry, insurance, agriculture, retail and so on. The Keswick family is still above the Schweyer family and is the largest British consortium in the Far East.
Jardine Matheson is headquartered in Mordor, not Hong Kong, but with London blowing it should downsize its assets in China. Jardine Matheson is also trending to pull out of China.
Jardine Matheson Group has invested in China’s railroads, factories, dockyards, mining and so on, and there are assets in all the major cities, and it’s not so easy to pull out, and now it should be in the middle of the process.
“The two of them, shouldn’t be able to get rid of the other two families. It should be considered the four families with roots in the Far East want to talk to you about cooperation?” Sitting on his butt on the sofa, Alan Wilson gave his judgment.
“That should be it!” Pamela Mountbatten also expressed that she thought so as well, inquiring, “What do you think?”
“They definitely won’t leave the Far East, having all been doing business over here for a hundred years. The country has become relatively unknown to them.” Alan Wilson said as he pondered, “The place that’s obviously the most special right now is Xiangjiang, after they pull out their funds, they’ll put down roots in Xiangjiang and use the location to continue doing business.”
Not to mention now, even the 21st Century Swire Group and Jardine Matheson have not left China. The other two have not heard much about them, presumably declining.
These few families that are not well known to the average British citizen in the country can be no worse than domestic companies in terms of strength. The so-called two and a half billion pounds of British assets in China had a large share of several of their families.
“I guess I should be very busy during the Christmas period. After all, people are coming over as guests, so I probably won’t be able to accompany you.” Pamela Mountbatten spoke in a small voice with an apology.
“Wow!” Alan Wilson frowned tightly with a hopeless tone, “It can’t be helped, of course I want to support your career, but I’m not too suitable to show up in overly commercial occasions from a personal perspective.”
“I’m glad you understand!” Pamela Mountbatten kissed her husband, “I’m also afraid of affecting your popularity.”
“Who made me your husband!” Alan Wilson sighed, he could understand the end of the year period, after a year of hard work, many people want to relax, such as the owner of Woodpecker Pictures and the owner of United States Pictures who have already booked their tickets, the controller of the Heilmann family and so on, and it is also true that they can’t get out of it.
Who wouldn’t want to relax after a year of hard work? Take Hepburn who was the first to arrive in Kuala Lumpur, and her purpose was simple, no particular reason, just to come over and see men of equal status with her husband.