Chapter 848 – Malaya Needs Me

He was, of course, quite willing to go back at once, but only wanted to do so with a clear idea in his mind before he went, and wondered where Frank had talked about.

By now Alan Wilson could no longer contain his curiosity and took the initiative to ask how far it had gone.

To this, once again appeared Frank also made a reply, “London’s bottom line is, together with the new aircraft carriers and the light class aircraft carrier modification costs, 75 million to 80 million pounds is more appropriate.”

“The cost of the new carriers is estimated at thirty million pounds, or one hundred million pounds if all three are started at the same time.” Alan Wilson nodded and did some math and said, “Around two hundred million Australian dollars, a figure that is affordable for Australia.”

Australia’s monetary policy, like Britain’s, was a strong monetary policy, and in this day and age, a dollar could not be exchanged for an Australian dollar.

The cost of building ships in the UK has always been smaller than in the US, with a WWII British battleship costing as much as a US heavy cruiser.

Take the Forrestal-class aircraft carriers that the new carriers are benchmarked against, the Forrestal-class carriers cost one point seven billion dollars. The Admiralty’s share price for the new carriers is 30 million pounds, slightly more than half the cost of the Forrestal class carriers.

Australia, because of the discovery of iron ore, now has a standard of living a little higher than that of England.

This is the result of Britain’s two wings flying in unison. In the original history, Britain would have been lucky to have half the standard of living of Australia for a long time after the war.

But while Britain was flying in two wings, Australia discovered iron ore, and the end result was that Australia’s standard of living was still higher than that of the United Kingdom at present. This Alan Wilson also has no way, people are lying on the mines of the country, the top resource countries as long as the population does not explode, it is really not the general country efforts to catch up.

With Australia’s economy now, 70 to 80 million pounds is affordable, even if this figure, Britain has earned a lot, Allen Wilson, if I remember correctly, the original aircraft carrier Melbourne, Britain is a symbolic price of ten pounds to sell, but charged a modification fee.

With the current scale of the Australian economy, according to the minimum of two percent of military spending to calculate, there is room for military sales to reach, not to mention the proportion of military spending far more than two percent.

Frank also nodded his head, very much agreeing with this point, “In fact, compared to Britain’s military expenditure as a comparison, Australia’s military expenditure is not high at all, and this military sale will not cause financial pressure.”

“You are an official of the Ministry of Finance, your words must be very professional.” As soon as Alan Wilson heard that Frank also agreed, he continued, “It’s just that I don’t know what the Australians think, did they feel that there was a mouthful of financial pressure during the negotiations?”

“On the contrary, there is no feeling.” Frank thought back for a moment and said, “But did ask about the aircraft carrier’s fake time, seemed to listen to the urgency.”

“Heh, doesn’t seem to be much of a problem.” Alan Wilson’s heart was in the right place once he heard that, and laughed, “Anyone who knows that our naval technology is, at the very least, no less than that of the United States is no excuse at all. Not surprisingly, I want to congratulate you on reaching such an extremely important arms sale to Britain.”

Frank was also happy upon hearing this, “Alan, if it really works out, the credit will be for both of us.”

If this arms sale was successful, even if it was reached against London’s bottom line, Britain would have the money for more aircraft carriers. Build three to give one to Australia, and field two of its own.

A single US Forrestal-class carrier costs almost 200 million, is the UK’s asking price too much? No other country in the world has the experience of building large aircraft carriers except the UK and the US.

The US won’t sell such a national treasure, but the UK can, so for Australia, it’s a multiple choice question with only one option if they really want it.

Australia can certainly afford it, because the current Australian government is certainly far richer than it was in the original historical time period.

The reason for this is that the exploration contracts signed by Pamela Mountbatten, in addition to their own share, the Australian government and the Western Australian government both take a significant share, just not as much as the Mountbatten group combined.

What’s the difference, and this is a big difference, for every ton of iron ore sold, the Australian government and the Western Australian government get a share of the money. This is not unlike the sale of iron ore in Australia in later times.

In a sense, iron ore in Australia has now become a semi-state enterprise model, and the half that is not a state enterprise is mostly the Mountbatten Group. And later generations of Australia’s iron ore layout, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton on the major iron ore mines, either one hundred percent or eighty-five percent interest.

Pamela Mountbatten and the Australian government mining contract, in fact, and the future of the Brazilian Vale model is similar. The Brazilian government is asking for 51 percent of the shares of the iron ore mines in its territory to gain control. But the future Australia is not.

Whereas in later times Australia could not share so much money from astronomical iron ore exports, it can now.

Wasn’t the reason for having Pamela Mountbatten do this to exclude other competitors. It seems to be working very well now.

In the Australian exploration sector, the Mountbatten Group now has no rivals. The biggest beneficiaries were the Australian government and the Western Australian government.

“Frank, I’m going back to Kuala Lumpur. ; Before I leave, I’ll tell you one thing, last year Malaya imported 33 million tons of iron ore from Australia at a purchase price of five pounds a ton. One hundred and fifty million pounds was spent. The Australian and Western Australian governments got at least seventy million pounds.”

Alan Wilson decided to tell Frank about the iron ore export figures that the Malayan colony under his management had created for Australia, to give Frank more confidence when negotiating, as far as the freight cost of zero point four pounds was concerned.

The value of this part of the freight cost was mainly created to the major shipbuilders on British soil. Building bigger ships, due to the use of large specialized ships lowering the sea freight rates, is what allows access to resources over longer distances.

Now looking at the average freight rate per mile at sea, it can be seen that the reduction in the freight rate has been significant.

Concentrating on the use of specialized ships for ore, while seeking to reduce the cost of freight, was beneficial to the Malayan colonies, and was of great benefit to the shipbuilding industry, which was a major pillar of Britain itself.

This part of the shipbuilding industry is also relevant to Frank’s arms sales negotiations, without a thriving shipbuilding industry, it is impossible for Britain to keep the cost of building warships down, as we know from the latter-day United States, civilian shipbuilding collapses, and can’t be saved by orders for warships alone, and the cost of military purchases is bound to go through the roof.

Two people are close to holding a pen, the Australian public revenue a list of calculations. Want to use this to find out Australia’s financial bottom line in the end where.

This time the United Kingdom has taken out the latest, even new to only the draft of the aircraft carrier to do military sales, is certainly value for money, want to get a little more money is not excessive.

Leaving from Alan Wilson’s place, Frank was more confident, and before leaving, he said, “I wonder if the India deal will go more smoothly.”

“Uh, negotiate this one first.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth, India’s economy was one-fifth larger than Australia’s, but India had four hundred million people and Australia’s population was only ten million. The hard work of making money couldn’t be compared.

He was aware of the inefficiency of that tax collection in India, and the level of tax collection in post-independence India might not be as good as British India.

“It’s time for me to go back to my second term to get Malaya planned.” Alan Wilson stretched his back and rubbed his head that was a bit swollen from various calculations and muttered to himself.

Most importantly the national treasure and the little dragon rider, had called out to him in love, and on second thought it was time to show up. Can’t keep a woman waiting. Kissing fiercely at Her Highness’s red lips, it was hard to suppress the desire to be the emperor’s son-in-law, and he divulged the idea of leaving Australia.

“This is leaving?” Princess Margaret was a little unhappy, thinking about what name to go to the Malayan colony.

“I’m the High Commissioner there, is it like disappearing all the time?” Alan Wilson shook his head slightly and suddenly laughed badly, “Can’t wait for me to leave, don’t hurry and let me kiss the little pink lips. Otherwise it will have to wait.”

“Hmm?” Princess Margaret heard embarrassed twisting, clamped legs whispered, “that place can kiss?”

Alan Wilson like a lightning strike, a good half a day before his face flashed a color of suspicion, uncertain rhetorical question, “Your Highness, your requirements for me are not generally low.”

Her Royal Highness, the Princess of the British Empire, was openly driving in public, which is not in order.

In his heart, although he wanted to clarify the results of the arms sale, Allen Wilson could not continue to be unprofessional, and after Pamela Mountbatten came back, he said that he wanted to go back to Kuala Lumpur.

“You’re really needed there, too.” Pamela Mountbatten didn’t have much to say, except to ask that the rations be paid before he left.

Alan Wilson was surely fine with that, the big deal was to return to Kuala Lumpur and stay at the administrative office for two days first to set up the persona of an imperial public servant.

With the landing of Comet I in Kuala Lumpur, the high commissioner who left the colony before the Bandung Conference, once again brought the gift to the warm Malayan beaches, the first two days he really lived in the administrative office, while letting Richard make a report on the reaction of the countries after the Bandung Conference to hand in.

It had been a round trip from Africa, Europe and halfway to Australia, and now it was time to take care of his own jurisdiction. Can’t always be covered in lice and still have time to scratch other people’s itches.

“The peoples and nations have awakened from centuries of slumber. The old white man’s world that burned the earth with war is dying and a better world is rising. A world that will wipe out the Cold War and create a multiracial, multireligious society, for all the great religions are united in their teachings of tolerance, and the colored races will establish a new standard of morality.”

Putting down Sukarno’s Bandung Conference message, Alan Wilson said with a grimace, “Not that one is unqualified to speak so loudly, but Indonesia is clearly not yet.”