Chapter 860: Winning the hemp

“Since they all think it’s okay, I’ll talk to Governor Calle.” Alan Wilson said that Angola was still relatively cost efficient, at least it didn’t have to go deep into the interior of Africa.

Although the Belgian Congo is now treated like Chile in the latter days, and is considered the mining capital of the world. But as Australia will tap more and more of its potential later on, the Belgian Congo will no longer have much of a role to play.

Of course, the Belgian Congo is not useless, if the local white residents do not mind, you can take the valuable land to defect to Northern Rhodesia, the Slavs of Northern Rhodesia, is now very dissatisfied with the colony’s borders, and hope that Britain will think of a way to adjust, this kind of poorly defended borders.

Angola was an important oil importer for China in later times, and at one time was the number one importer.

Angola’s oil resources, relies on a strong reserve of knowledge of key politics, Allen Wilson knew where it was, right near the later capital of Angola, now the capital of Luanda, very much in line with the principle of resource allocation in the early industrialization, the resources are close by.

As long as the careful exploration in the vicinity of Luanda, Angola’s oil resources are a catch, absolutely will not miss the net.

Once the resources of Angola are found, with the current Portuguese rule in Africa is still quite solid, it is a win-win situation for both Britain and Portugal, and the Portuguese government has found a point of growth in wealth. Extracted oil can be sold to the European market.

But Portugal in Europe is considered technologically backward, weak foundation of the country, there must be a country to support Portugal to do.

Now Allen Wilson is not proceeding to prepare to support it? Even talked to Her Royal Highness the Princess of the British Empire to support the development of Portugal, once the oil discovery, surely need a new type of cruise ship to Angola’s oil resources transported away.

Then there is no doubt that, as Europe’s number one shipbuilding country, Britain will also harvest a number of orders for the cruise ships needed, which can promote the continued prosperity of the shipbuilding industry, in general, the United Kingdom has the benefit of the Princess of Great Britain has the benefit of the benefit of Portugal.

And Ellen Wilson has the benefit of seeing the light of womanhood, once again, blossom in her own hands.

“Oh, and from a national point of view, I also hope that England will discover resources in Angola.” Governor Calle nodded as soon as he was informed of the purpose of the visit, “The Governor of Angola is Rear Admiral Vasco Lopes Alves, and Rear Admiral Vasco will be delighted to have British professionals going to Angola, even hoping to replicate the miracle of Mrs. Pamela’s work in Australia.”

“Of course, it is something we all look forward to.” Alan Wilson nodded, and then held out a contract, though not one involving Angola, but one for exploration near the island of Timor, almost a carbon copy of the exploration contract with Australia.

Only the exploration contract with Australia involved two levels of government, the Australian government and the Western Australian government.

The contract with the island of Timor is much simpler, the Mountbatten Oil and Gas Group and the Governor’s Office of Timor signed a contract with fifty-one percent and forty-nine percent of the clear shareholding ratio, once the discovery of oil and gas resources as a distribution.

Throughout the process, Mountbatten Oil & Gas would provide technical and financial support, while the Portuguese Governor’s Office would have to guarantee the stability and smooth development of the area once oil and gas resources were discovered.

“Absolutely no problem.” Governor Calais confidently assured, Timor Island is now all in the hands of Portugal, he is the Governor of Timor, can completely finalize this matter.

“Then, I hope that Britain well Portugal can take a consistent attitude on specific issues. In fact, on certain issues, Portugal is very admirable, Prime Minister Salazar’s persistence, I personally very much admire.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to imply and even express respect for Salazar.

Salazar’s bottom is not clean, during the Second World War, Salazar remained neutral, but pro-Axis, received German, Italian, Spanish weapons assistance, also through them to train the army.

Later in the war, seeing the gradual defeat of the Axis powers, Saracha had to improve relations with the Allies, giving in on exporting tungsten ore, allowing the use of a naval base in the Azores, and with the start of the Cold War, Saracha moved closer to the free world, which was also opposed to the USSR, in purchasing weapons and in training its army.

But so what, Salazar had also done Britain a favor, scrimping and buying two battleships during the difficult post-war period in Britain, and for Portugal, which didn’t even have a large destroyer, had shown good faith through arms sales.

Portugal, now, was Britain’s closest ally, the absolute hardcore that could be relied upon on colonial issues.

Help Portugal is to help Britain itself, Alan Wilson hate all the colonial countries are like France, Portugal, this attitude, so that Britain in front of the target of suspicious allies, will be much smaller.

The stubborn colonial powers like Portugal, strengthened by the discovery of oil resources, were good for Britain.

Finally, Alan Wilson reminded the Governor of Calais, the end of the contract explicitly the terms of the settlement of the pound, can not pretend not to see, this article is also very important.

At least in Asia, the Portuguese currency has no extra value, here it is either dollars or pounds. Alan Wilson is British, of course, for the value of the pound to do their best.

It is the value of both the pound and the dollar that is currently recognized in Australia, where the pound is still recognized. This is partly because of the discovery of the Western Australian iron ore mine at Pamela Mountbatten, which is linked to Malaya as a production base. Malaya is now using the Asian pound, which is reserved in sterling.

Sterling also circulated in the colonies of Holland and Portugal, and the situation in the neighborhood was closely linked to Australia. As they are all gold standard countries anyway, Australia naturally recognizes the value of the pound.

Then there was the post-war surge in British immigration, and these newcomers were no strangers to the pound, and maintained an emotional connection to the British mainland, as evidenced by the British flags all over Perth.

And the post-war immigrant group of British immigrants to Australia, nicknamed the Ten Pound Sterling. Australia was discovered and long ruled by the British, and the idea was that assisting British immigrants was an effective way of maintaining Australia’s ‘Britishness’ and increasing its population, given that the language and culture of the British were less different from Australia’s. The program was launched by Australia’s first Minister for Immigration, who was also a member of the British Council.

The program was proposed by Australia’s first Minister of Immigration, Arthur Calwell, who advocated encouraging and financing British immigration by bringing in ten British immigrants for every non-British immigrant.

An agreement was signed between the two countries after the war. Australia required all subsidized immigrants to work in Australia for at least two years, with the government guaranteeing a subsidy until they found employment; and provided immigrants with social benefits including health insurance and unemployment protection, and employment services. The federal government is responsible for recruiting and transporting migrants, while state governments are responsible for reception, temporary accommodation and follow-up.

And for the entire process of migrating to Australia, the UK and Australia charge migrants a nominal fee of ten pounds. This is where the nickname ten pounds for British immigrants came from.

Any Briton could come to Australia for a fee of ten pounds, which was Australia’s separate backdoor for Britain, and compared to the high-to-the-heavens Australian immigration threshold in later times, it shows Australia’s obsession with blood being thicker than water.

With such a group of ten-pound immigrants in Western Australia, the Australian government certainly couldn’t just use the U.S. dollar as a monetary anchor.

The same preparation of Angola mining contracts, as well as the British investment is the same as the settlement in pounds, the pound also have to resist resistance, in case of a miracle.

Guests and hosts are happy, Pamela Mountbatten is also happy with her husband’s help, and the couple, along with Calais and Oakhurst, take a tour of the construction of the Malayan colony.

“I’m actually curious if the Chinese beliefs are a bit too refuted.” In front of a Kwan Tai temple, Carly shook her head at the bustle of the martial arts temple and expressed her incomprehension.

“There is no Indian refutation.” Alan Wilson had an okay expression, “Chinese beliefs are more? Hmm? Pragmatic.”

Now Malaya compared to China, that is certainly full of feudal dross, theoretically men can still have many women without breaking the law it, the colonial government is not prepared to stop at this point, only persuasion role, like to marry more if you do not listen, then no one can do anything.

Although for Christendom people, the statue is considered idolatry is not worth advocating, but the two governors are still very new to enter the Guan Di Temple around, but also asked about some things.

To this, of course, Alan Wilson replied with a dripping smile, and Oakhurst said in amazement, “Is this the French equivalent of looking at Napoleon?”

“Yes and no, it’s complicated.” Allen Wilson glanced at the statue of Guan Yu with a dark confession.

Guan Yu had become almost as much of a historically illiterate identifier decades later. He was never some Qing dynasty deliberately elevated figure, in fact all dynasties Guan Yu’s status is very high, every passing dynasty will be a bunch of more seals. It’s normal for the status to get higher and higher as time passes.

Alan Wilson on behalf of the United Kingdom, and the two governors of the happy time, Malaya, Kalimantan, Timor ports of the Asian fleet, began to safeguard the freedom of navigation of the action aimed at entering the adjacent sea of the Indonesian ships to expel, detained, for the intervention of confrontation of the Indonesian ships are taken to sinking treatment.

A few days earlier, Allen Wilson had told the interviewed press about the warning that no Indonesian sheet-board should be allowed to go to sea. With the sea power of the three countries that struck, it began to become a reality step by step.

The colonizers proved with practical actions that this time it was for real. Not only did Sukarno protest vehemently against this imperialist act. Even Nasution, the chief of staff of the Indonesian Army, said that such behavior would only push Indonesia into the position of an enemy.

How could such statements stop Allen Wilson, who was there for that very purpose? Then in the name of safeguarding free navigation, the Malayan media was ordered to shout to Indonesia that recognizing the existing borders was the solution to the problem, otherwise it was a threat to world peace.