Chapter 900 Economic Crisis

It had to be said that the original Britain, relying on its vast colonies, was having a really good time.

Take agriculture for example, Britain’s agricultural base in the world can not be said to be poor, but it can not be called particularly good.

Europe’s agricultural powerhouse base is the best is France, France’s agricultural base is so good that, in the period of World War I Northern France scorched earth, but never born food crisis, on the contrary, Germany started the war a year on the food shortage.

And Britain, during the colonial era, the meat consumption of an average Englishman exceeded that of European countries, including but not limited to France, by one and a half to three hundred percent, which is almost two worlds, even though it’s only a small strait.

And that’s on top of the fact that Britain didn’t develop the colonies much and engaged in a very low level of looting of raw materials.

By now, British India has become independent, Alan Wilson commanded the Commissioner for Overseas Colonies, through the framework of the Overseas Assets Management Board, only for the first time seriously think about how to develop the colony.

In fact, can not talk about development, is nothing more than some real estate projects, but even these very low-level development, Britain in many colonies have never done, calculate even the status of British India, after independence can be in the whole of Asia to dominate, the results of a look at the industrial indicators are also very pull crotch, entirely because the rest of Asia is too poor.

Initial development in the colonies is to allow Britain to increase the leverage against the post-war restoration of Europe.

And the role of the Malayan colonies was to help Britain itself accomplish this goal. Alan Wilson was not wrong when he said that the Malayan colonies would replace the role of British India, not only did they replace it, but they replaced it quite well.

Except for the fact that it would not be like British India in a war, where the British would be able to scream that they would not surrender until the blood of the Indians was dried up. In all other respects, it could have been better than blue.

The colonies could only serve to deflect the crisis if they did the necessary construction.

If there is no development at all, it will be completely primitive, and there will be no market to speak of.

And in this process of necessary construction, the demand brought about would then benefit the Malayan colonies.

So far, the British colonies actually have stronger economic and trade ties with each other than they did before World War II. The reduction of colonies also forced the Colonial Commissioners everywhere, listening to the instructions of their Permanent Secretaries, to start working hard with their hearts in the afterglow of the colonial era.

The commissioners of the colonies were arguably the most dedicated to the running of the colonies in a century.

Of course the rewards were great, and once the need arose, the means of making a fortune increased rather than diminished.

An African primitive has never eaten sugar, naturally there is no demand, you first let her eat a piece of sugar. You let her eat a piece of sugar first.

There is a market in order to swing the scissors difference between labor and agriculture, otherwise, even if Allen Wilson has an understanding of the Soviet system of the country, the means of self-exploitation, he can not transfer the crisis to the primitive tribes of the well-fed and not hungry.

That is why the strategy of property development in British Africa was initiated earlier than in the Malayan colonies.

Essentially now the United Kingdom is like a three-stage rocket, the British African colonies are still preserved to develop a little, will allow the Malayan colonies to improve a step, and ultimately will also help the development of the United Kingdom mainland.

This kind of means of industrial and agricultural scissors difference of course Britain will also, but really play this kind of means out of another level, or in the ruins of Imperial Russia re-establishment of the Soviet Union.

Britain because of the local volume is not large, British India did not become independent before, to have people to have land, do not have to exert too much force will be enough to make the local live a very good life, casually make some means to scrape the land, do not have to cover up too much to be able to roll in money.

The Soviet Union did not have this condition, industry and agriculture scissors in the hands of the Soviet Union, it is a completely different level.

Don’t look at the Soviet Union to create the vocabulary of industrial and agricultural scissors, used to attack the free world, their own use than the free world are skilled, if the British colonial countries is a kindergarten level, the Soviet Union is a professor level, and even formed a theory.

Agriculture is both an important source of primitive accumulation of capital and the absolute foundation of industrial development. Without the support of agriculture, industrialization could not succeed.

The increase in fertilizers, machinery, pesticides, good seeds, labor, etc., used in agricultural production has made agricultural products more costly. The productivity of industrial labor has increased much faster than that of agriculture. It makes the cost of industrial products fall both in absolute and relative terms. Thus the narrowing of the scissors difference between the prices of industrial and agricultural products, as calculated by the price index, has to be discounted one more time.

Allen Wilson was merely using the Soviet theory of openly attacking the free world as a guide to get the other colonial commissioners to do so through the framework of his own leadership of the Overseas Assets Management Board.

The results were now pretty obvious, and the Soviets’ theories were, well, pretty damn good.

Britain, even in its difficulties after the war, was better off than the ruins left by the collapse of Imperial Russia. Alan Wilson wouldn’t dare say he was better off than the Soviet cadres at that point in time, but Britain was certainly in a better position than when the Soviet Union was first established.

The pricing of Malayan industrial goods was in London, and the lion’s share of the profits were of course retained by London, but it still allowed Alan Wilson to do so much more since he took office that he now had the money to push through the city building of the Malayan colony.

The independence of British India was supposed to be the scene of a new India that would briefly stand out in Asia.

Because British India once upon a time in the colony status is very high, resulting in many communities in Africa have the presence of people of Indian descent, coupled with the subcontinent and the British East African colonies face to face, will become the development of India’s help.

But now it can not, Alan Wilson blocked this road, Nehru or in India itself to find how to industrialize, do not expect to play in the British colony on the industrial and agricultural scissors, the British colony to be left to their own as a reservoir.

Simply put, this is both the current British endorsement of the economic policy within the framework of smashing the colonies, the effect is very significant.

Alan Wilson hoofed it, has arrived in Sabah, is talking and laughing with Ali Khan, the relationship between the two is after a series of things to test, he also does not hide his purpose, “Honorable Maharajah, about Sabah as a concentration of cocoa planting, my idea you have understood, I hope that in five years, cocoa production can reach an annual output of 70,000 to 100,000 tons. The climate of Sabah is also very suitable.”

“Alan, you would have shown such working ability when you were in British India. It would probably have been a big surprise.” Ali Khan said with a hint of shock, “It’s amazing.”

If only the Indians didn’t mind the Bengal Famine playing out year after year! Alan Wilson muttered this in his mind.

The industrial-agricultural scissors were certainly taking their toll on the agricultural population, and Allen Wilson was transferring the crisis to the British African colonies. If he had done this in British India, how many people would have died in India he didn’t know.

“India would have been independent even if I had worked as hard as I could in the first place.” Alan Wilson schmoozed, “I would have been better off taking my talents to the warm beaches of Malaya. But then again, Goa’s presence has helped me a lot.”

Goa was the equivalent of the Shangri-La River for India, and the Portuguese were happy to load their ships in Malaya and ship their goods to Goa and then into the Indian market.

Alan Wilson was certainly not opposed to this, there was a bright future for all, good for Britain good for Portugal. It would also cement Portugal’s alliance with Britain, and the value of goods flowing through Goa was over five thousand pounds a year, with the potential to grow.

Now the two most densely populated parts of the world are accessible to Britain, and there could be no greater happiness.

Ali Khan was quick to agree to help promote cocoa cultivation in Sabah, “You’re not thinking of returning as a prime minister?”

“Elections every few years are annoying as hell.” Alan Wilson sneered with a tilt of his head, “Democratic elections do not have a positive effect on the country, this is the consensus between the Governor and I. British elections serve no purpose other than to give the citizens an excuse to think they decide the fate of the country, and serve mainly to enable them to comfort themselves.”

“Oh, it’s a good thing this is Sabah and not London.” Ali Khan said with a sardonic smile, “But then again, I suppose our relationship still prompts me to trust your judgment.”

“The Maharajah’s judgment is a great comfort to me.” Alan Wilson whistled a little and said.

The busy time at the beginning of the year had seen Allen Wilson focusing on Malaya’s city construction, military expansion and the Blue Light missile program. He knew that historically this year the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, allowing man to touch space for the first time.

The whole of Malaya was still in the midst of methodical development, and in his spare time, Alan Wilson would take the ladies, who were on equal footing with his wife, for a little rocket ride to solidify their feelings for each other.

Time into March, an economic crisis like a storm, molding in the North American continent. In the last three years, the U.S. investment growth rate has also exceeded ten percent, making it the most prosperous period for the U.S. economy after the war.

But along with it, more than ten years after the war in a peaceful environment, the industrial capacity of the countries have all been restored, the United States has long been the advantage of competition, has long been gone.

As we entered March, the U.S. was experiencing a backlog of goods, and the lack of purchasing power of its citizens was causing goods to stagnate and inventories to skyrocket everywhere. The unreasonable economic crisis had erupted once again.

Under the Malayan sun, Allen Wilson was holding a newspaper, looking at the news that Canada had suffered the implication of the economic crisis in the United States, which was like a dream, as if there were signs of a world economic crisis.

But Allen Wilson did not panic, Canada and the United States are next to each other, it may not be a technical adjustment.

The Imperial Commissioner continued to labor hard, parallel jogging, and had booked to visit his wife and sister-in-law in Australia.

But immediately, news came from Japan that unmistakably showed the world that it was not a technical adjustment. The world economic crisis was coming at a brisk pace.