British civil servant

"Lieutenant General Scons, David Skass." Pamela Mountbatten knew that her husband was interested, and immediately said everything.

Alan Wilson was startled, and asked uncertainly, "A subordinate of Marshal Slim, the commander of the British Indian Army?"

Pamela Mountbatten nodded, "This has also been approved by Marshal Slim. Lieutenant General Skance has served in Asia and has some knowledge of the local conditions. When Singapore was surrendered, he also went to Malaya."

"That's really good." Alan Wilson sighed. Since he had served in the British Indian Army, it means that he was a former subordinate of his father-in-law, and it would not be a problem to cooperate.

As for the former garrison commander Bilton, he was promoted, and he was sent back to Europe to join the British Army in Germany and became part of NATO.Good thing for him too.

"The military has also realized the importance of the Malayan colony. After all, although you never feel dangerous. But the threat exists objectively." Pamela Mountbatten implicitly expressed that the military is worried about the Malayan colony.

Alan Wilson has nothing to say. He can understand the so-called worries of the military and who they are worried about.Bamboo screen!

Although he was not worried and felt that London was making a fuss, he would not object to such an arrangement.

Once the Vanguard joins the Pacific Fleet, the temperament of the entire Pacific Fleet will be completely the same as that of the previous era. The Pacific Fleet with eight battleships as its core, if not for the prestige-class battlecruisers that have been dismantled after the war, the Pacific Fleet will be more interesting.

Looking at the fleet west of the Suez Canal, with heavy aircraft carriers as the core, it is hard to imagine that both belong to the navy of the same country.

This is like modern Britain, which is in the same contradiction. Economically, post-war Britain has embarked on a journey of healing under the leadership of the Attlee cabinet, but it is obviously not as good as the United States.

Although the United Kingdom withstood the US gold dollar offensive, other European countries did not.

The power of the Marshall Plan is still considerable, allowing the U.S. economy to advance by leaps and bounds after the war. After Eisenhower came to power, the U.S. started major infrastructure construction again, and now the whole country is really thriving.

In terms of finance, the United Kingdom, which was the first to establish a financial market and has long played the role of the world's financial center, is more worthy of "abundance of talents" in this respect, and the United States, which has made great economic progress in the past century and gradually replaced Britain in the world financial circle Has a large number of outstanding talents.

It is no wonder that some voices believe that the relationship between Britain and the United States is like the relationship between Greece and Rome.The inevitable renunciation of long-standing world dominance is about to begin.

Alan Wilson also knows that with the current situation in the UK, only God can do it if he wants to put the United States under his feet again.

All he wanted now was independence.It's a bit ridiculous to say that the former empire on which the sun never sets, now has the goal of being independent and requires redoubled efforts to achieve it.

At least compared to the current France, doesn't it still look good?The Algerian war is no longer a small fight. Only a few months later, the French garrison in Algeria has doubled to 40.

Paris has shown with practical actions that the suppression of the colonial French government is absolutely serious.

According to the scattered and concealed characteristics of guerrilla warfare, the French army determined the tactics of "key encirclement and suppression, mobile search, and airborne assault".

At the same time, in view of the situation that the National Liberation Army's equipment mainly comes from abroad, the border blockade has been strengthened, and a number of land and sea blockade lines have been established on the borders between Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and the Mediterranean coast of Algeria, with heavy guards and motorcycle troops. And planes patrol day and night.

Out of security considerations for the whole of Africa, Britain also began to help secretly. To a certain extent, the Mediterranean Fleet shouldered the task of cutting off other countries' aid to Algeria from the sea.

Although on the surface it has nothing to do with the United Kingdom, in fact the United Kingdom is very concerned about France's suppression of Algeria.

In turn, France's attention to North Africa also stemmed from the entry of Britain and the United States into North Africa during the World War, which led France to see the power of other countries in North Africa for the first time.Britain is okay, but the role of the United States makes France very vigilant.

The area of ​​activity of French monopoly capital is shrinking, but on the other hand, French capital is becoming more and more concentrated, and it needs a way out.

It is not difficult to understand why the French government tried its best to maintain and consolidate its colonial rule in various places, and actively carried out "development".In particular, the three colonies in rich North Africa - Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia - are increasingly seen as its lifeblood.

Now that Algeria has discovered oil, France can no longer give up. Compared with Britain's influence in the Persian Gulf and news of the discovery of North Sea oil, France has become more eager for Algeria's oil resources.

Although the French land has the best agricultural infrastructure in Europe, there are not many resources on it.It is also for this reason that Germany fought desperately for Alsace and Lorraine.

Oil resources are becoming more and more important in modern society. France has little influence in the Persian Gulf, so naturally it cannot let go now.

"Maybe the oil we discovered, to some extent, exacerbated the suffering of the Algerians." When Alan Wilson talked about this, he joked with his wife.

"That can't be helped." Pamela Mountbatten didn't care. Anyway, she got the money, and the French had final say on the rest.

Alan Wilson was all smiles. He felt that Malaya's oil resources should be on the agenda.This increased the importance of the Malaya colony in London's eyes.

Compared with the carpet search in the North Sea for several years, it should not be difficult to find oil resources in Malaya. Just search around Brunei, and the scope is much easier than blind people in the North Sea.

But there is no rush to arrive. Malaya's military strength needs to be strengthened, at least until the arrival of the Vanguard.

As for when to go back, anyway, it won't work for a few days, Alan Wilson will be a good father for a few more days, and he finds out that his daughter is a little strange to him now, which is not a good thing.

Pamela Mountbatten now has a problem similar to Anna's, which is the discussion about the second child plan.

"Sometimes there's nothing you can do if you're too attractive, and your good genes are missed!" Alan Wilson said rather narcissistically.

One hand accurately grabbed the man's ear, and Pamela Mountbatten smiled coldly, "I want to hear how many people miss your excellent genes."

"I'm talking about you, dear." Following his wife's hand, Alan Wilson didn't panic at all, and kissed his wife's red lips directly, and his hand was placed where it should be placed with ease.Pamela Mountbatten is a very hygienic woman, just smooth!

In this situation, the imperial commissioner wanted to sing loudly, "Ride on my beloved ocean horse..."

Sometimes it's not that Alan Wilson has no resistance to beauty, but that there are bad people among the crowd who always attack his weakness. Among those who want to corrupt good officials, there are even current princesses.

Alan Wilson actually has a lot of ideas to implement, but his current position is in the colonies. If he can return to Whitehall one day, these ideas can be realized.After all, the content of Flying with Two Wings can be more abundant.

A telegram was sent from Perth, and Pamela Mountbatten immediately shared it with her husband, "My exploration team has discovered a large uranium deposit in Australia."

"This is very important to the country. If the Australian government doesn't know about it, first block the news and ask the cabinet for its opinion." Alan Wilson sighed secretly. The world's largest uranium mine has been discovered, and Australia's mineral resources are completely rewarded by God. Food is just the opposite of France's configuration, and the agricultural conditions are really poor.

Chapter 838 A Good Way

There are many short-legged countries in the world. It must be admitted that the world is not so fair. The problem with Australia is that the agricultural base is so short, but the mining base is too long, long enough to cover up the shortcomings in agriculture.

In theory, no country lacks minerals, but the difference between 100 meters underground and 1000 meters underground is so big that it is impossible to find existing minerals.What is great about Australia's minerals is that it has all kinds of minerals, and the burial is extremely shallow, including uranium ore.

One of the main reasons for the slow progress of the alloy tube project in the UK was that there was no progress in high-quality uranium mines at that time.

"Uranium mines are only useful in the military industry!" Pamela Mountbatten didn't care much about the discovery of uranium mines.

"Wrong, since nuclear reactors can be used as power, shouldn't they be used for power generation?" Alan Wilson corrected his wife, "Australia doesn't even have perennial rivers, so we can't always burn coal for power generation. If nuclear power plants are built for nuclear power supply, Good for Australia."

Pamela Mountbatten nodded frequently, but as if she remembered something, she asked directly, "Are you so kind?"

"Use Australia to verify nuclear power. After all, the United States and the Soviet Union are also researching it." Alan Wilson's high-sounding answer, what if something happens?Even if nothing happens, it would be good for Australia to bear the risk of British technology verification.

In fact, the United Kingdom is a pioneer of nuclear power. It was not until the 70s that the installed capacity of nuclear power in the United States surpassed that of the United Kingdom and became the number one in the world.

In nuclear power, like other pioneering technologies, the UK has maintained an excellent style of starting early and rushing late.

Just like the comet lost to Boeing, the Royal Navy was surpassed by the U.S. Navy and a series of traditions, the U.S. finally overtook nuclear power and became the most backward pioneer again and again.

After the British built the Calder Hall plutonium-producing and dual-purpose graphite gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant in [-], a number of graphite gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plants were successively built. Because magnesium alloy was used as the cladding, it was called Magnesium Kex reactor.The United Kingdom was once the country with the largest installed capacity of nuclear power in the world.

Now that the UK has this technical reserve, and Australia has discovered the largest and best quality uranium mine.The problem is simple. What is needed now is for Pamela Mountbatten, the second generation of the British Empire, to bring the British nuclear power technology to loyal Australia for realization.

Later generations of Australia are anti-nuclear power, because Australia has no shortage of coal, oil and natural gas, and the cost is low.Whether there is a nuclear power plant or not is the same. People are more interested in solar power than nuclear power.

However, Alan Wilson believes that with Australia's loyalty to the United Kingdom, building a nuclear power plant is definitely not a problem at this time, and this country will not reject the United Kingdom.

Alan Wilson even wanted to deploy British strategic bombers in Australia. Unfortunately, such an important weapon, the United Kingdom must be reluctant to put it in a secondary direction.Maybe after the nuclear submarine is in service, the status of the bomber will be lowered, so it will be possible.

After all, compared with the United States, the United Kingdom still likes to share weapons technology, especially with countries such as Australia and Canada. As long as Australia pays, everything is not a problem.

"Australia is not short of energy at all, why should it do this?" Pamela Mountbatten didn't understand.

"The reason for this is because they have no shortage of energy." Alan Wilson explained, "Australia's power generation energy is too easy to develop, so we must find a way to increase the difficulty. Anything that guarantees Britain's influence in Australia must be done. , Let alone nuclear power, if Australia likes nuclear bombs, they should sell them."

Alan Wilson doesn't know Australians yet?If Australia's agricultural conditions were better and it could support a population of [-] million people, let alone the UK, Australians would dare to treat the words of Americans as fart.

Australians will not object to anything related to Australia's security, and the most secure thing in the world today is the nuclear issue. Now that Australia has discovered uranium mines, the timing is very appropriate.

There is too much competition in Europe. According to the Asian monster room decades later, Europe is the real monster room.Moreover, the sizes of all countries are similar, and it is impossible to crush them.

This can understand why Britain is far softer than France, and it is also unwilling to give up its colonies.

Once the colonies were abandoned, what was the difference between Britain, France and Germany?With its own size, it is even difficult to deal with Italy.

After discussing with his wife, Alan Wilson decided to see if he could get government support on the issue of uranium mines.

In fact, based on the contract that Pamela Mountbatten signed with Australia before, the Mountbatten Group can completely throw off the United Kingdom and negotiate with Australia in the name of the group, but it just throws off the country. If the United States also joins in, it may be a chicken and an egg.

The Mountbatten Group previously claimed that the iron ore reserves were 20 billion tons, which reduced the peeping of American counterparts in terms of reserves.This is useful for iron ore, but uranium ore is different from iron ore, and its importance is completely different.

Such a terrible thing would not work without the backing of the country. Soon, Alan Wilson arrived in Whitehall, informed the Mountbatten Group of the discovery of uranium mines, and also bluntly said that the government was needed for backing.

"Uranium mine? How big is it?" Norman Brook was surprised when he heard this. This is a big deal, so he hurriedly asked.

"The reserves exceed all uranium mines that have been discovered, and the quality also exceeds." Alan Wilson answered without concealment.

There is no point in concealing it. Compared with the reserves of billions of tons of iron ore, the reserves of uranium ore are too small and easy to calculate.There are not many samples from all over the world, and the blurred vision is an insult to the IQ of other countries.

It is better to be honest than to be sloppy, and directly express the need for the support of the state.

"Are you afraid that your wife's group will be pressured by state forces in the mining of uranium?" Norman Brooke, a leader of the civil service system, immediately understood Alan Wilson's intentions.

The Mountbatten Group is staking land in Australia, constantly looking for minerals that can be mined, including but not limited to coal, iron, natural gas, gold, and copper. These are all commercial minerals, and uranium mines can be different.

"The key is that the empire also needs uranium mines. It is better to have the influence of the country." Alan Wilson made no secret of his determination to hand over the share of uranium mines. At least in the case of uranium mines, he is willing to recruit the country.

Alan Wilson not only contacted the British aristocrats to invest in Australia, but also wanted to introduce national capital there.

So after the communication with the cabinet secretary this time, the candidates for the uranium mining talks on behalf of the UK and Australia have been announced.Alan Wilson himself is the most suitable choice.

Of course, this required the approval of the cabinet. After Prime Minister Attlee found out about this, he agreed without saying a word.The UK is promoting research on nuclear power technology at a time when high-quality uranium is needed.

"This time there is one more task to return to Malaya!" Walking out of Whitehall No. 70, Alan Wilson counted the current tasks with his fingers, talking about uranium mines with Australia, and advertising for nuclear power.Establish the chemical industry in the Malayan colony, develop the oil in Sarawak, and settle the cost of the battleship Vanguard.

Of course, the last point is that the military is still worried about the threat of the bamboo screen.Britain's embankment against a certain power still exists.

It's not that Alan Wilson doesn't regard the threat of the bamboo curtain as non-existent, but he knows the inside story a little bit, so he's not too scared.

The same thing from different angles will have different views. To a large extent, fear comes from ignorance.He wouldn't believe all one-sided stories. Did the Soviet Union say that communism would surely win?Is it possible to just listen to the words of the Soviet Union now, and the free world surrender directly?

The biggest achievement of returning to London this time is that Alan Wilson and Whitehall have reached a consensus.To defeat the enemies of the free world, the key is to split the relationship between a certain power and the Soviet Union.

Whitehall also deeply recognized this point, but he had no idea what to do.At this time, an expert in Oriental studies is needed to answer the question. Alan Wilson can even write Chinese characters. No one knows what is called Oriental better than him.

It took an hour, a nonsense, and hydrology took up half of the content, but the report concluded that sooner or later the Sino-Soviet split was concluded. The content is actually not important, but the conclusion is important.

The content is not all useless content, at least what China wants, the Soviet Union cannot provide content, and it is still recognized by Whitehall.

When that day comes, this is an important basis for Alan Wilson to advance to the cabinet secretary.

After returning home, Pamela Mountbatten heard from her husband about going to Whitehall, so she asked, "So what should you do? Only then can Australia cooperate unconditionally."

"It's simple, let's talk more about the threat of the bamboo curtain." Alan Wilson replied with a relaxed expression, "Security is Australia's greatest need, and this has been proven many times."

He himself is not interested in the so-called bamboo curtain threat, but he knows that this set of threats works for many people.Especially for Australia, the former colony once terrified by Japan's southward advance.

"You are my husband, representing the country to help my company, and talking to the Australian government?" Pamela Mountbatten thought for a while and asked, "Will it affect you?"

Alan Wilson is a professional bureaucrat, and he accepted this task. It was nothing at first, but the company involved was his wife's property, and Pamela Mountbatten was a little worried.

"It's nothing, we are all a family. We and the Australians are all subjects of the queen. If you feel that the emotional card is not enough, you can consider bringing the princess. The chance of victory has increased." Alan Wilson said nonchalantly.

"Good way!" Pamela Mountbatten agreed very much. The positive influence of the royal family can make things easier.

Chapter 839 Two sets of development strategies

"Then this time, as a public official, I will help you communicate with the Australian government." Alan Wilson said, although it is a bit inappropriate to say, but what can we do?This may be life.

"Who will you help if you don't help me?" Pamela Mountbatten glanced at the big hand that was pressed against her chest, and said eccentrically.

Then the matter is simple, summon Comet [-], a family of three and Her Royal Highness the Princess head to Australia.

After the Comet Airliner was launched, it is not the same as the earlier version. The improvement is mainly to increase the number of passengers and use mature technology to share the cost.The embassies and high commissioners of the major colonies and the Commonwealth of Nations each distributed tasks to increase the market share of Comet airliners.

So far, there has been no historical crash of the Comet Airliner, and sales have also increased significantly compared to the same period in history.

At the meeting of the Overseas Assets Management Committee, Alan Wilson turned into a salesman, expressing that he would promote Comet [-] in the major colonies and use it to replace the resources of the colonies.

The Comet Airliner has become the main tool for the British to exploit the colonies. As long as de Havilland's production line can keep up, he and his colleagues can ensure that it can be sold and seize as many as possible before the Boeing Airliner interview. market share.

Now there are more than 500 comet airliners of various types in operation around the world, and the former colonies of Australia, Canada, and India, but now independent countries, have also appeared comet airliners.

From the perspective of the promotion of the Comet Airliner, it is not the first time that Alan Wilson has used public tools for private purposes.

Malayan Airlines replaced all routes with Comet airliners. He also hoped that colleagues from all over the world would follow suit and fill the local market in influential places in the UK before Boeing airliners appeared.

There is no rush, because the Boeing 707 airliner has been developed, but it has not yet entered commercial operation.

Once the reliability is proven, the Washington government will definitely promote the use of Boeing airliners.

The opponent of the Comet Airliner has already appeared. For the Comet Airliner, the advantage is that the Comet Airliner has been commercialized for several years, and more than 500 airliners have been sold, which has proved its reliability.In the current aviation market, Comet's market share is almost [-]%.

The current Comet airliner has shared the cost through the sale of airliners, and the Boeing airliner has not yet entered commercialization, and the cost will definitely not be reduced at the beginning, but this is not insurmountable, and the US government will definitely use national power to help.

"It's still early to talk about this, but Boeing's new airliner will definitely get the support of Washington. Since the Comet airliner came out, the major airlines in the United States have no intention of even buying it. One airline can understand, and everyone is like this, Must have been greeted."

On the family's private plane, Alan Wilson and his wife talked about the Boeing airliner, which may become a competitor to the Comet airliner.

"So what should we do? Is there a way to deal with it?" Pamela Mountbatten asked her husband to clarify his doubts, looking like a curious baby.

"The aviation industry is extremely important to the country. If the strength of the United Kingdom declines again, it will definitely affect the aviation industry. So we still hope that our country can stop the decline, which is more effective than anything else. The good news is that now the United Kingdom does not have to owe money, and Americans stand tall when they talk."

The husband and wife are enjoying the fun of key affairs, and only Her Royal Highness, as a aunt, will take care of their daughter.So far, it's okay, Her Royal Highness doesn't reject this kind of role.