Chapter 902 The Five-Year Plan

“If we had just drawn out all the funds of the committee at the beginning and prepared for the war. It might have shot out our bullets in the first wave, and it might have been more certain if we could stabilize the situation with political means. It’s not that I’m reluctant to take money out, but it’s for the overall perspective.”

Alan Wilson explained his thoughts, “Economic crises are always unforeseen, maybe it’s like what the Soviet Union said, the cyclical economic crisis is already an unsolvable puzzle, so how did the Soviet Union solve it. From what I’ve heard from my Foreign Office colleagues abroad, the countries in the Soviet bloc generally experience austerity and a lack of supplies on the market, whereas in the free world it’s the opposite, so if there’s a way we can combine the two, it might have an unexpected effect.”

Norman Brooke listened to Alan Wilson finish his sentence in silence, thought for a while and said, “Of course I don’t know the situation, if there is a way to avoid the current economic crisis from spreading to the UK, of course it is anything that can be used. Alan, it’s not like you’ve even come across specific ideas.”

“In fact, the vast colony under the guidance of colleagues, only preliminary development, very low level in the name of building the capital, the potential is still quite large. For the current economic crisis, we need a population of quite a few, at least partially replace the original British India’s colonies to transfer the crisis, but because the current colonies, in volume has not been able to be compared with British India, so the intensity must be increased.”

Speaking of these words, Alan Wilson lowered his voice and said, “I learned through the Nigerian Commissioner that the population of the Nigerian Autonomous Territories is forty-one million people, and this volume is already not small. If you increase the development efforts, you can provide a lot of demand, when the British India’s big construction, in fact, it also covers the industrial area with Calcutta as the core, covering less than one hundred million people, and ultimately did not do anything. If the current economic crisis can be alleviated within a year, then it can be concluded that the Nigerian Autonomous Territories still have the capacity.”

“If it fails? Will the loss outweigh the gain?” Norman Brooke asked the essential question.

“Honorable Cabinet Secretary, Nigeria has become an autonomous territory and will be independent in less than five years. If something really goes wrong leading to failure, I trust the wisdom of Nigeria’s independence leaders.” Alan Wilson explained without panic, “That is Nigeria’s own business, plus there is no need to worry too much, there may be other countries to pay for it.”

Alan Wilson does not believe that other countries will be indifferent to an independent Nigeria.

Nigeria once independent will be the most populous country in Africa, the population to a certain extent certainly development to overcome a lot of additional difficulties, for the individual is not necessarily a good thing, but for the country is the opposite.

National power this thing is the simplest way to enhance the population is to build up, if you do not believe it look at the South Asian king of the three brothers, poor as usual in South Asia horizontal walk.

He remembers that Nigeria also favored the Soviet Union at some point during the Cold War. And it’s not like China doesn’t have a shadow presence in Nigeria, China’s African strategy is simply to find a pivot point in each of East, South and West Africa.

South Africa was a white country during the Cold War, so the South African fulcrum that China pried into was Angola. The pivot point in East Africa is Tanzania, and the pivot point in West Africa is Nigeria.

So Nigeria doesn’t have a taker, and once it screws up, it leaves a backhand to maintain influence on its way out. Then just wait for the receiver to come to your door.

“If Nigeria is not enough, I also have a meeting with General Aung San, and Myanmar has a market of 18 million people. The Malayan colony is now fundamentally different from its neighbors.”

Alan Wilson continued, “A market of sixty million people, with the Nigerian Autonomous Territories as the mainstay and Burma as a supplement, should be enough to get by if the economic crisis doesn’t last more than a year. The advantage of Nigeria is that Nigeria itself has been converted into an autonomous dominion, and the autonomous dominions are in the process of re-privatizing the nationalized enterprises that were established after the war, which will inevitably create a problem of massive asset loss.”

“Plus Nigeria is split three ways, with three ethnic groups of equal strength, each wanting to dominate after independence, and it won’t be hard for us to find proxies. If that doesn’t work it may take an oil scam.”

Speaking of this Alan Wilson gave a slight pause and asked Norman Brooke, “Honorable Cabinet Secretary, if there is some fallout, such as a famine problem, or if international lobbying suffers, will it tarnish my popularity.”

“If something like that did occur, as you know Alan, all sorts of documents would be filed.” As soon as Norman Brooke heard that this was for him to wipe his own ass, he immediately took a stand at the critical moment, “Of course, compared to the UK being affected by the economic crisis, these irresistible factors are always worthy of forgiveness, and you don’t want that.”

“Of course I don’t want that, I think the famine damage should be less than British India.” Alan Wilson put his heart down, it was time to show real strength, “That’s my answer, if I can develop the market and hedge against the effects of the economic crisis, my personal windfall, what’s it worth?”

“Whitehall needs a bold official like you.” Norman Brooke opened his mouth to encourage, “It’s also quite a bold decision for the Cabinet to make once they’ve moved money on home soil and can’t stop the crisis. You and I will meet with the Prime Minister once.”

“No problem.” Alan Wilson yawned, “I need to prepare some documents to convince the cabinet.”

After leaving Whitehall, Alan Wilson gave Kuala Lumpur and Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, to provide information on the material and population of the two places, and Alan Wilson was slightly more familiar with the situation in Burma, with the biggest difference being that General Aung San had not been assassinated.

If General Aung San’s daughter wasn’t older than his and Vivien Leigh’s children, he would even want to consider thinking about letting He Guo Bao’s son grow up to take General Aung San’s daughter down.

The problem was that Fei Wenli’s son was not old enough, if he were to step in himself? Although in later generations, white Europeans and Americans treated Southeast Asia as a large red light district and did a lot of things that were definitely enough to be shot in their own countries. But Alan Wilson still can not pull down the face to learn from these livestock.

General Aung San’s rule of Burma, to say that the development of a sudden leap forward? Not really, but the Burmese are definitely a bit better than the Indians, and the conflict between the Burmese and other ethnic groups still exists, but it’s nowhere near as intense as it is in later times. Aung San himself was still as reluctant as possible to solve problems by military means.

In fact, with General Aung San’s thoughts, Myanmar might introduce Japanese capital in the future. But the prerequisite is that Japan has to develop to a certain degree before it can do so. The current Japan certainly has not developed to that degree, and it still owes a lot of compensation to Australia.

In order to add burden to Japan, Pamela Mountbatten will be fixed every year, when Japan is to pay back the money, a hot rumor of Japan’s cruelty to the Australian prisoners of war, to prevent the Australians a soft heart, gave up the reparations.

The Malayan colony is primed for the siphon effect, which is the inevitable result of a place’s economic development on its neighbors. Examples are the poor districts around the empire, and the poor districts around Guangzhou. Don’t think that Mordor doesn’t have one, except that Mordor radiates over a large area, and Mordor’s real poverty zones are further afield.

After waiting for a day, from Lagos and Kuala Lumpur, the basic information needed by Allen Wilson was brought to hand by telegram.

After sorting it out, Alan Wilson reappeared in front of Norman Brooke with the information, and the two of them went together to 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Prime Minister Alderley.

In fact, for Aidley and the Labor government, since the third re-election, it had already caused the British citizens to slack off.

The current Britain is much better than the original historical Britain, but this is something that the British citizens don’t know about, the only person in the world who knows about it is Alan Wilson, and the idea of the British citizens is that with any other government, Britain would have been able to come out of the middle of the war quagmire.

Recognition of the work of the Labor Party went from much anticipation in the first term to continued support in the second term. After three terms in office, it finally turned to numbness. Since then, the support of the Labor Party has not been able to pull away from the Conservative Party.

This economic crisis originating in the United States, and the Great Depression that kind of sorrowful clouds naturally can not be compared, but it is also much more difficult to deal with than the two post-war economic crisis. The 1948 economic crisis, that is purely the United States of America’s own problems, Europe has not been much recovery, 1954 economic crisis, also immediately disappear.

And this time the economic crisis spread big and fast from the very beginning, and spread to all countries almost immediately.

“Maybe we have to learn from the Soviet Union.” Alan Wilson mused for a moment, taking out the plans he had prepared, including but not limited to wanting to expand exports from Eastern Europe, as well as expanding the domestic demand of the British Empire.

“With my colleagues in Africa, I am going to plan a five-year program of construction in the Nigerian Autonomous Territories, following the example of the Soviet Union.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth in front of the Prime Minister, emphasizing, “Just like in British India in 1947, to push for large-scale construction, and quickly drive demand through large-scale construction. Use it to cope with this economic crisis.”

“A five-year plan?” Prime Minister Adderley asked rhetorically after hearing this, waiting for Alan Wilson’s explanation.

“Five year plan. It won’t work without a heavy hand this time.” Alan Wilson said without changing his mind, “Nigeria must be made to swallow all the stagnation in the homeland, and the entire resources of the existence of the Nigerian autonomous territories have to be mortgaged. Otherwise, with three ethnic groups in Nigeria, we’ll give Nigeria to whoever we want.”

“Hiss ……,” Prime Minister Adderley sucked in a breath of cold air, looking at the Whitehall dongle that was as terrifying as the reverse practice of God’s power, and once again said with certainty, “Planned economy?”

Alan Wilson stood still, his hands naturally hanging down, “Technically, I’m not willing to deny the rhetoric, but it is after all different for Britain to have to do this.”

“Different in what way?” Prime Minister Airdrie was unsure and wanted to hear Alan Wilson’s explanation.

“Uh! The difference is that ……” Alan Wilson hmmm’d and ah’d a bit, “it’s Britain not the Soviet Union that’s practicing it.”