Chapter 795: High Opinions of the Generalissimo

“Got it!” Pamela Mountbatten muttered as she held the phone, then put down the microphone and said to her husband, who had just arrived home, “It’s the Labor Party that has won the general election, but it wasn’t an easy victory. The Tories and Republicans were arguably neck and neck until the results came in from Wales.”

“Oh well, not a bad result after all!” Alan Wilson said as he stripped off his clothes, “I believe that Adderley broke out in a cold sweat as well.”

The British parties are not without a basic disk, but unlike the large number of iron vote banks that exist in the Democratic Republican Party in the United States, the basic disk has a limited role, relatively speaking, the Labor Party is considered to have a relative advantage in both Scotland and Wales. As for England is a mixed situation with the Conservative Party, the last two elections, only the East End of London is considered very solid.

Electoral countries are like this, three consecutive terms in power is actually very difficult, once a party has been in power for a long time. Voters have a kind of want to change the mind, the biggest difficulty faced by the current Labor Party, is that after two terms of government, there have been many voters feel bored.

This idea of wanting a change, coupled with the fact that the Conservative Party has entered the post-Churchill era, this election is considered to be coming on strong. Without the aging Churchill, Aidan glowed with no small amount of enthusiasm to vote.

“I wonder if Aidan is disappointed.” Pamela Mountbatten, half reclining on the sofa, flirted with an attitude of unconcern.

“I don’t think so, it was a really close one. Labor’s victory was very narrow.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “Of course it proves one thing, that Adderley really is more popular than Churchill.”

“You’re happy anyway!” Pamela Mountbatten was aware of her husband and was keen for Labor to be in power.

In fact, Alan Wilson’s second term had begun long ago, and the election was not going to have an effect on his career as a commissioner.

After a while, the husband and wife chatted over a meal, and Labor’s victory showed that current policy would not change much. The attitude towards the colonies was still that of doing everything possible to preserve them by means other than war.

“Africa is largely safe, the danger remains in the colony of British Malaya, the enemy is stronger on this side.” Alan Wilson knew this all too well, “In many ways, the idea of the home front was already well understood from the arrangement of the three joint war commands in the Near East, Middle East and Far East. If Africa had been important, an Africa Command would have been established.”

Pamela Mountbatten nodded her head and finished eating while cleaning up the dishes, “I’ve already met with the Schweyer family and the Keswick family, the four great families want to work together. They all have a seat in the Xiangjiang Executive Council, I feel good about it.”

“I also feel good, personal friendship with the Governor of Hong Kong is certainly an aspect of rapprochement, but the bundle of interests is even more effective.” Alan Wilson and his wife packed together, “In that case, it will strengthen your strength and make things much easier in the future, but one day, they will know that the four great families are actually taking advantage.”

The cooperation with the four major families in Xiangjiang could instantly supplement the many shortcomings of the Mountbatten Group. Although the current wife’s business path was developing rapidly all the way through, she didn’t need much help at all in terms of funding.

However, several old Far Eastern consortia had been developing for a hundred years, and the accumulation of many fields was what the Mountbatten Group needed. Now that the cooperation was confirmed, it could save the Mountbatten Group a lot of time.

It was also favorable to British Malaya, where the dominant player in the upstream of sugar production was the Schweyer family. The Schweyer family was already the world’s number one sugar producer seventy years ago, and also operated an extensive marine business. The four major families accounted for a large share of the Far East’s maritime transportation, and that alone could not be ignored.

People that is purely relying on a century of accumulation to get to today, as for Pamela Mountbatten, that is entirely because of the unnamable factors a flight of fancy, and even came to Malaya’s York Kizton Schweyer, are surprised that a few years time out of such a powerful group, deeply Schweyer one hundred years of operation, do not know what to operate to the place.

In the eyes of these several families, the Mountbatten Group seemed to appear out of thin air, and at first, they were all unnoticed, thinking that it was just a little girl who didn’t know the heights of heaven, relying on the connections of the aristocrats, and making unrealistic business dreams.

And then, under the eyes of a few established companies, all of a sudden, they became a group that was neck and neck, and before they could adapt, the Mountbatten Group surpassed them without stopping in the slightest.

Being caught up and even surpassed so quickly, even the Schweyer family, which had always been very conservative in business, could not remain calm. Once upon a time, in the eyes of the Schweyer family, the Mountbatten Group was nothing more than a group of aristocratic children playing around.

But now these already powerful aristocratic children, all of a sudden have such an inflated financial strength, it had to make them pay attention, which led to this time the initiative to contact.

What made York Kizziton-Schweazya quite surprised was that the rich and powerful Pamela Mountbatten, seemed to be very obedient to her husband, and even carried a great deal of ingratiation.

Yorke Kizziton-Schweazya was surprised; a colonial official was certainly not of low status, but there was no need to be like that, was there? Pamela Mountbatten’s father was an Admiral of the Grand Fleet, and she herself was so rich, shouldn’t it be the other way around?

“My husband, High Commissioner Malaya.” Pamela Mountbatten pointed to Alan Wilson, who was holding and coaxing her daughter, and opened her mouth to introduce herself to the arriving York Kizziton-Schweazya, and Ike Keswick.

Both of them nodded their heads in greeting, looking at Allen Wilson with a flat gaze, both of them were members of the Xiangjiang Executive Council, and when they saw the Governor of Hong Kong it was just like now, they just opened their mouths to say something.

Pamela Mountbatten then greeted her husband over, so that the two people’s words were held back again, can only say some words of husband and wife are really good.

Alan Wilson, who was a baby daddy, could only come over and sit down, nodding his head at the two guests and reminding them, “Everyone is a gentleman, and the daughter is still young, so it’s fine to control the volume of your speech.”

“The commissioner also has a study on parenting?” Ike Keswick looked at how skillful the Imperial Commissioner was and couldn’t help but open his mouth to tease.

“Practice makes perfect!” Alan Wilson lifted his head and said honestly, children are after all more, more contact can always have some experience, then the conversation turned and said, “Two gentlemen, is it that I am not qualified to sit here and listen to business giants show each other goodwill?”

York Kizdon Schweyer, as well as Ike Keswick shook their heads at the same time, although they didn’t know why, but the owner of the Mountbatten Group was obedient to her husband, it was obvious to anyone, the two of them weren’t blind.

“I’m the Deputy Secretary General of the Overseas Assets Management Board and control three and a half billion pounds of national assets overseas. Although the money is not mine.” Alan Wilson said in a breezy manner and then said, “Make yourselves at home, I’ll just listen casually.”

Pamela Mountbatten had already expressed her approval with practical actions, and directly said, “My husband has always reported respect for British businessmen fighting overseas, only that we have not had much business dealings with each other, and only before has there been no in-depth cooperation. In fact, the Mountbatten Group has many shareholders and has a thousand contacts with you, so we are not too unfamiliar.”

“Respected lady, this is also what we want to say, the problem now is that our operation has encountered difficulties, in fact, doing business in the Far East, our most favorable headquarters location in principle is Mordor, but the current general environment is worrisome. The Keswick family is having a big argument because of this.” Ike Keswick immediately spoke up, “There is a portion of radical members who even believe that we should withdraw from the Far East, and that Xiangjiang isn’t very reliable either.”

“This kind of talk is really radical.” When Alan Wilson heard it, he snorted and said, “But I agree that we should pull out from the continent right away, but to withdraw from Xiangjiang well? That’s quite a bold decision.”

Anyway, history has already proved that none of the four major families have left, especially the Swire Group controlled by these two people’s families in front of them. Jardine Matheson Group, even in Xiangjiang broke away from the UK did not leave.

These two groups, later than the power of the Li family in Hong Kong is not weak at all, only not to be mentioned.

As early as before the two came, the husband and wife had already discussed, overseas British groups should be united, but there is still such a problem as who listens to whom, and the result is only one, with the current wealth, the Mountbatten Group is stronger than the four big families combined, and this is only the beginning.

Having the help of the four big families can save the development time of the Mountbatten Group, if the four big families don’t help, the result is still the same, the Mountbatten Group with the collective support of the British aristocracy will still rocket to the four big families to complete the transcendence.

An hour later, York Kizziton-Schweyer, as well as Ike Keswick politely left, and before leaving said that they would have to liaise with the family in order to give a final reply.

Alan Wilson, who had already carried his daughter upstairs, pushed the cradle and listened to Pamela Mountbatten say the process of negotiation, “After all, it’s a company that has been operating for a hundred years, and it still wants to maintain its independence. I said that the Mountbatten Group would not annex their group, but some of the group’s shareholders, might want to enter their business. They said they would have to think about it.”

“Those noble shareholders, they should also get some benefits, it can’t just be your company woolgathering, right?” Alan Wilson let out a light laugh and said, “Otherwise what value do they have, they can’t help with anything, just provide the channels accumulated over a hundred years and talk about cooperation?”

Finally Allen Wilson ended with two sentences of Chinese, insatiable and full of fart.

“What are you talking about?” Pamela Mountbatten frowned slightly and said in a tone of wanting to hear an explanation, “Not talking about me, you can’t talk about your wife. Don’t say anything unintelligible in front of me in the future.”

“How could I talk about you.” Alan Wilson let out a bitter laugh and said absentmindedly, “I said that the Generalissimo has a high opinion.”