Chapter 875 – Closed District

Keeping in touch for a long time was a habit that Alan Wilson had always insisted on, there were two important news coming from London, the British government enacted the world’s first Air Pollution Prevention and Control Act in the modern sense, the Clean Air Act, marking the determination to the London Smog Incident not to be repeated again.

And the enactment of such a bill will go a long way toward helping Alan Wilson move highly polluting industries out of his homeland.

And then there’s the national economic statistics about last year, where Britain finally caught up with Australia in per capita income, converting the exchange rate to more than two thousand dollars per capita, in the tenth year of the post-war period.

This is nothing short of a milestone, although the United States is about to reach three thousand per capita income. But this is finally a good start, you know in the first year of Airdrie’s power, Britain’s per capita income has been only half of the United States in that year, and also carry a huge foreign debt.

Britain had probably never stooped so low as to beg a country to help itself. Britain, after all, is not yet a sinewy France, can really eat the chaff just for the great powers to insist.

Britain is so much better off today than it was then. Just Britain is trying to catch up, the United States is still not idle, Eisenhower’s big infrastructure to promote the size of the U.S. economy is still growing fast, for many countries the gap is widening rather than narrowing.

“America is so powerful it’s frustrating.” Alan Wilson, holding two telegrams, lamented in front of his wife.

Pamela Mountbatten looked askance at her husband and nuzzled, “Why are you losing confidence, it’s not like you.”

“With the British mainland’s population of fifty million, even in the income and the Americans equal, the country can mobilize the economic power is far worse, to know the United States population just will go through a five-year census, the population now has a 170 million. What’s more, American incomes are already approaching three thousand dollars, and Britain is only passing two thousand.”

The United States in this day and age is truly impeccable, to the despair of Allen Wilson, a man with the mindset of a few decades later.

With this kind of economic power, it’s no wonder that other countries revere the U.S. Now the Imperial Commissioner has only one question, when is the Vietnam War going to start? Isn’t it a bit much to accumulate this much wealth and not go to war?

“Yes, even if the income is the same, Britain only has one-third of the strength of the United States.” Pamela Mountbatten listened to her husband’s words also could not help but feel emotional, although I do not know, why their husbands do not seem to like the United States.

Allen Wilson is not that he does not like the United States, he would certainly like the United States if he were an American. But he is not, his nationality and the influence of the memory of his past life, resulting in he can only serve the country of birth.

In the matter of patriotism, if he was a patriot in his last life and changed his face in this life when he changed his country. This means that his patriotism in his last life was also fake.

“It’s true that Europe has to integrate, but it has to be under the leadership of the UK, or else the UK will be increasingly marginalized in the future. Don’t talk about memorializing any world hegemony, even itself will become a joke.” Alan Wilson dove headfirst into his wife’s warm embrace, “The rapprochement with the French capital will give Britain the strength to defend itself. I believe that Britain saw this when it continued to support France’s position after the war.”

Pamela Mountbatten nodded, never one to take her husband’s knowledge of politics at face value, “It depends on how much of an increase this Malayan infrastructure, will bring to the mainland.”

Most of the British city building in the colonies was to build a capital city, the only exception in the African colonies was in Nigeria, mainly because Nigeria was the most densely populated part of Africa.

City building in Malaya is not the same as those who build a capital in Africa, but also consider the supporting facilities for the transfer of industries. The scale is bigger, the investment is higher, and the real estate development is only one aspect, there are other aspects to consider.

Not surprisingly, the steel group in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, this year will make the Malayan colony in steel production, officially exceeded the British mainland steel production, cement production is similar, twice as much as Japan.

The result of realizing the true sense of surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States, is that Alan Wilson has planned the financial expenditure for the next five years, the Malayan colonial government in the next five years is not to have a surplus.

“Penang’s city construction startup is also going to start, I want to meet with Su Yang and them. Originally, they were given Kuala Lumpur, but now they have switched to Penang the amount of work is probably the same, but they also need to be appeased before they can do so.” Alan Wilson asked for advice to see if his wife had any ideas.

“Supporting the local elite is naturally fine with me.” Pamela Mountbatten never gave much thought to her husband’s words, with a look of being played with.

As the president of the business conglomerate, she didn’t have enough time, and every now and then she had to be concerned about the reports from other divisions.

Now Princess Margaret had the same tendency, probably because she had just started doing business and was still in a state of curiosity about everything. Very concerned about the exploration team to Angola.

If it is not Alan Wilson to use the princess signboard, in front of the big buyers, carry out the princess, Princess Margaret almost take the telegraph as an instant communication, constantly trying to and did not arrive at the place of the exploration team contact.

After a month or so of surveying the major cities to be built, the plans had been published on giant billboards.

Of course there are also into the country, out of the centralized management point of view, in fact, as in the Soviet Union, the Khrushchev building. Is a better choice, the latter days of China’s neighborhood arrangement, is a perfect version of the Khrushchev building.

Alan Wilson appreciates this arrangement, the British and American homes belong to the open arrangement, and the neighborhood arrangement compared to the fact that it is not good management, if you run into any black swan event, which can not be blocked.

Closed community is very easy to centralized management, something really happened to the community’s external access to a block on the line.

So for the city planning talent from London, Alan Wilson’s just let them design the public facilities part. As for the residential part of their own behalf to replace the closed community.

This decision has been a lot of subordinates of the sincere support, no other, closed community easy to manage the argument conquered them, working in the colony is the first thing to consider is the issue of resistance.

When Alan Wilson uttered, “The future of most Chinese living within such closed neighborhoods will fundamentally dismantle the anti-British base of a large group of people, really living in the countryside villages, the workload on our part and on the part of the garrison is still greater.”

As for the final city building not matching the billboards that now loom over it, that’s too well explained, the renderings are for illustrative purposes only.

All that’s left for the designers to do is to let the public facilities and shopping malls, golf courses, and schools come into play.

“I hope the gentlemen won’t be offended by the change to Penang City Building.” After arriving in Penang, Alan Wilson met and greeted much more formally this time, addressing the big buyers in their other capacity, Justice of the Peace.

Because of his existence as an administrator, the identity of the Justice of the Peace also ushered in a certain sense of devaluation. Then it was to reach out and introduce Princess Margaret’s identity, “This is Her Royal Highness the Princess of Great Britain, Her Majesty’s sister.”

“Her Royal Highness.” A group of growing buyers were all very uptight and greeted, “Lord Zhongtang, in fact, this side of Penang is also very good, we are willing to play our part in building Malaya.”

“It’s good that you guys can think out of the box, the difference is not that big, it’s just a matter of steel and concrete.” Alan Wilson was very happy to say, “I hope that you guys can, let the light of Malaya’s Asian pearl, shine even brighter.”

The dynastic princess was present, and the people all said that there was no problem, and in their words they also expressed their compliments and praise for the princess. After the brother-in-law’s translation, his sister-in-law, who was not in a high mood, also cheered up.

After this meeting, Su Yang, Tian Qianqiu and the others got the real design drawings of the gated community.

“I don’t know, their compliments are real or fake, your set of design drawings are clearly unattractive.” Princess Margaret bristled, not a fan of that set of drawings for the gated community.

It was true that there was nothing aesthetically pleasing about the Khrushchev Building, and it was introduced in the Soviet Union to centralize the housing problem. Later on it was spread to China and became the common style of housing.

But? It’s 1956, and as soon as Alan Wilson does it fast enough, this will be the Soviet Union’s guilty pleasure for ignoring copyright and copying a British colony again.

“You don’t understand the benefits of centralized management, which facilitates control of their movements at the lowest level. Extremely important for us colonists.” Alan Wilson once again stretched out his salty hand, lightly finding a warm place, on the other hand, he mouthed for the sake of Great Britain, businesslike tone.

“That’s very public-spirited enough, four cities ended up being shared with only one, Pamela, I don’t know what you were thinking.” Margaret clenched her legs and squirmed.

“You don’t understand, the big fortune is behind.” Alan Wilson felt the amazing elasticity of the princess’s legs, but his mouth firmly denied not giving his wife the biggest cake.

Once the construction of the city was completed, water and electricity were the big cash flow, compared to that, anything city construction could be ignored.

He remembers Jack Ma’s counterpart, the dream of the corporate empire is to be the water and electricity of the Internet. At the end of the day there is a pattern of Jackma was hit hard, the enterprise empire at least for the time being is still safe and sound.

That’s why saying anything about patterns was just fooling the melon eaters, and pursuing the most basic goal was the proper thing to do.

“Hmm.” The Imperial Commissioner, who was absorbed in his thoughts, had his mind wandered off by a soft call from Her Highness.

“Did you run into an obstacle? Was it on purpose?” Margaret’s eyes seemed to be dripping with water and her tone was very sorrowful.

Looking at the face similar to the queen, Alan Wilson swallowed a mouthful of spittle for no reason, and became incoherent for no reason, “Margaret …… me this, not.”

What is not? Margaret kissed her brother-in-law directly on the mouth, never fought such a rich battle.