Chapter 911: The Colonizer Returns

Among the huge group of cynics who went along with the crowd was of course Alan Wilson, who had come in through the back door and was now staring at another Lord Sheffield, who had come in through the back door.

“The oil reserves in the Gulf of Guinea if huge, and BP wants to help.” Makins lowered his voice and continued his great career as a middleman, “You talk to Pamela, it will also help everyone work together to make the cake bigger.”

“Her industry, it’s not something that can be finalized with my words, in fact, with BP’s strength, just send someone to talk. I don’t think it’s a big problem.” Alan Wilson eyed the Queen’s direction with a reverent gaze, and replied in a low voice, “The economic crisis is still spreading now, the general environment is quite tense, and it’s also completely too late to wait until the economic crisis is over, of course I’m only expressing my personal opinion, so you guys think about it yourselves.”

Alan Wilson on the oil and what not, is really not very much on the heart, he is of course like money, but compared to the career, it is again not so valued, has long been financial freedom, he did not not gold coins piled up swimming pools swimming illusory dreams.

“Anyway, everyone knows that if the Mountbatten Group is listed, it can easily become the king of stocks.” Makins tsked, “Don’t you know, for a while there was all this talk about oil in the Gulf of Guinea, I’ve never seen such influence.”

“I really didn’t know that.” Alan Wilson asked himself, he was in Lagos at the time, and although his reading habits had been retained, it was all about political newspapers, and he didn’t realize how hot the oil in the Gulf of Guinea was.

But then again, the exploration area where Princess Margaret and Portugal were working together, that is, the part off Angola, was in fact part of the Gulf of Guinea in the broader sense of the word, and if there was good news from Angola, it could be a sideways proof of the veracity of the assertion that the Gulf of Guinea was a second Persian Gulf.

But in that case, things could get extremely complicated, bearing in mind that between the Portuguese colony of Angola and the autonomous territory of Nigeria, there is French Central Africa. If there is oil in the Nigerian Dominion in the north and Portuguese Angola in the south, there is no reason why such a large French colony in the middle should not have it.

Would France let go of its oil resources? As a famous example, Equatorial Guinea, which has a population of 20,000 dollars per capita, is not a French colony, but it is a French colony in the vicinity. Equatorial Guinea is a Spanish colony, the situation may even be worse.

Spain has not many colonies left by now, and Equatorial Guinea is already considered one of the most important ones, if the oil resources have aroused Franco’s interest, this is still quite difficult to deal with.

“I may have overlooked the impact on other countries.” Alan Wilson realized at this time, in the whole of Africa colonial power is still quite strong today, because to raise funds for the development of Nigeria’s autonomous territories, put out the news, may bring some butterfly effect, the local not counting the United Kingdom, the vicinity of Spain, Portugal and France’s colonial power exists.

I don’t know at this moment, these countries on the Gulf of Guinea oil in the end what is the idea, especially in the west coast of Africa than the British power of the French, will not make a move.

“Alan, what’s on your mind?” General Mountbatten inquired as he noticed his son-in-law’s movement and approached him.

“Nothing, seeing the launching of the nuclear submarine, some feelings.” Alan Wilson adjusted his mood, “In fact, isn’t the motivation for my colleagues and I to work that scenes like this always come up.”

“Well, so am I.” General Mountbatten nodded happily, “So am I. This is just the beginning, the Queen has invited me to be a guest at Windsor Castle together.”

“That would be a great honor.” Alan Wilson immediately agreed as soon as he heard it, after all, it’s family.

Although the imperial commissioner is always receiving black money and keeping a concubine, even the royal Princess Margaret is …… but it is all for the interests of the British Empire, he has a clear conscience.

Knowing that his son-in-law’s driving skills were very average, Mountbatten let Alan Wilson experience the treatment of a special Admiralty car.

“The Dreadnought nuclear submarine is a start, we are validating the technology through the construction of the Dreadnought to build up for the next class. The next step will be long voyages to verify reliability.” General Mountbatten didn’t hide anything from his son-in-law, “If you think the Malayan colony is unstable, how about making Singapore one of the stops.”

It was a perk that Mountbatten gave his son-in-law, Allen Wilson was working as an administrator in the Malayan colony. A visit from the nuclear submarine Intrepid could would deter potential enemies in the Malayan colony.

“That’s nice.” Alan Wilson expressed his approval, but he was more interested in asking about the idea of the next level of nuclear submarine, “Since the Dreadnought nuclear submarine has an experimental nature, the next level of nuclear submarine is thought to be already in the planning process.”

“If you weren’t Pamela’s husband, I’d even suspect you of being a spy.” Mountbatten chuckled, “The idea is there, on the difference in the use of nuclear submarines, that aspect is still being discussed, the budget is still a big issue, one costing in the region of twenty million pounds.”

“That’s almost as much as the heavy aircraft carriers that were started.” Alan Wilson was stunned, the heavy aircraft carrier now in construction, but can be called the non-nuclear-powered Enterprise, nuclear submarines only how much tonnage? Something like four or five thousand tons.

“After all, it’s a new field, our accumulation of building surface ships, and cost savings are useless in a nuclear submarine. Many aspects of the equipment, as well as the nuclear reactors are new things that are emerging, and keeping costs down is very tough.” Mountbatten shrugged his shoulders and complained, “Don’t expect to realize a much cheaper build like surface ships.”

Britain was able to ship a battleship at the same cost as a heavy cruiser from the US back in the day.

That was dependent on Britain’s long-standing experience in surface ships. But times have changed, and on new battleships, the cost advantage has gone down a lot, but it is still possible to build them more cheaply than the US.

But on nuclear submarines, again, Britain is a toddler, and it is no longer realistic to try to save costs.

It’s not totally impossible to do, building in bulk always evens out the costs, and as long as the build cycle isn’t too long, cost reductions can be realized.

Of course this was General Mountbatten’s explanation, Allen Wilson was deeply skeptical, he remembered that American battleships were all more expensive than one another, could the UK have managed to make one cheaper than the other in the build cycle?

He didn’t know that Britain had actually done this historically, compressing the construction cycle in the first class nuclear submarine in two years, resulting in a decrease in construction costs.

Arriving at Windsor Castle, Alan Wilson went back into the lookout mode, taking stock of another issue that Mountbatten had talked about earlier. The different uses of nuclear submarines talked about, although Mountbatten didn’t mention it much, but of course he understood that it was the difference between attack nuclear submarines and strategic nuclear submarines.

Attack nuclear submarines are mainly used for attack, so attack nuclear submarines are equipped with a range of weapons, such as submarine-launched torpedoes, missiles and torpedo tubes, and attack nuclear submarines sail faster than the strategic nuclear submarines, but also dive deeper than strategic nuclear submarines, the displacement is also smaller than the strategic nuclear submarines.

Under today’s technological conditions, the attack nuclear submarine carries a weapon, which is a torpedo.

Attack nuclear submarines mainly perform reconnaissance missions, while strategic nuclear submarines mainly perform duty missions. Since strategic nuclear submarines are loaded with intercontinental missiles that can strike outside the war zone, strategic nuclear submarines can safeguard the waters as long as they cruise within a safe range.

The only thing that is certain now is that the USS Nautilus has already been commissioned, while no one knows at all whether the nuclear submarines on the Soviet side have been constructed, and the UK’s HMS Intrepid nuclear submarine has only just been launched.

It will be several years before strategic nuclear submarines are in general service, and it cannot be ruled out that there have already been discussions within the militaries of various countries.

But another dilemma facing strategic nuclear submarines, which are primarily attacked by long-range missiles, is that today, when land-based missiles are failing frequently, there does not yet exist a missile that can be relied upon that strategic nuclear submarines can be equipped with.

Since Mountbatten said that all about the nuclear submarine distinction was only under discussion, there was no reason to think that other nations had recognized the difference between attack and strategic nuclear submarines.

Before leaving London, Alan Wilson decided to help his father-in-law stay ahead of the times; he himself was so far removed from being an expert on submarines that it would be necessary for Pamela Mountbatten to find someone to make the argument, and it was up to him to let Admiral Mountbatten know of the results of this argument.

July 16, the French National Assembly, after a vote, after the war, France’s nineteenth president of the Council of Ministers, Maurice Bourget Monoury, announced that it was going to develop the oil resources of the Gulf of Guinea, and the news came out to cause the whole of France to discuss.

Three days later, the French oil and gas company Total officially announced that it had signed a contract with the French government for the development of oil and gas in the Gulf of Guinea.

Only one day later, in Madrid, the capital of Spain, the Spanish oil company announced that it would develop oil resources in Equatorial Guinea.

And it called on the Spanish government, in consultation with countries such as Britain, France and Portugal, to clarify each other’s exploitation zones and engage in diplomatic negotiations.

“It seems as if things have taken a not-so-wonderful turn.” Alan Wilson, still in London, saw his earlier fears come true when he let it be known that oil resources existed in the Gulf of Guinea in order to attract home-grown money to fill the funding gap for the development of Nigeria’s autonomous territories.

But inevitably, this public information attracted France, Spain and Portugal, who also had colonies around the Gulf of Guinea, and even Portugal was the first of several countries to make a move because of Margaret’s working cooperation.

Fortunately, the Gulf of Guinea really exists oil, this is a scam, Allen Wilson do not dare to think of their own final what is the end.

At this moment, the Africans around the Gulf of Guinea did not feel, back, the colonizers are back.