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"This is the second Persian Gulf." Pamela Mountbatten got up slowly, walked to the phone, picked up the receiver and said, "Send me a telegram to Lagos, saying that the Duke of Manchester asked Guinea The oil project. That way, my husband will understand without taking too much content."

As long as the Mountbatten Group releases a news now, it can cause restlessness in the British capital. This is the current influence of the group. A few days later, Alan Wilson suddenly became busy.One by one, the heirs of dukes and earls visited Lagos, preparing to play a leading role in the development of the Niger River Delta.

Chapter 9 Missile Race

"Since the Lend-Lease British multinational industry was hit hard by the United States. I understand that the real rich have become these nobles again. But they are not without threats, such as high inheritance taxes." Alan Wilson just talked with The No.14 heir of the Duke of Hamilton met.

Roberts, Commissioner of the Dominion of Nigeria, nodded approvingly, "I didn't expect them to be so powerful."

"The Duke of Hamilton is the first family of Scotland. Just think about where the North Sea Oil is. Although the North Sea Oil has nothing to do with the Duke of Hamilton, he must have a deeper feeling than other families."

Alan Wilson spread his hands to his colleagues, "The wealth of the great nobles mainly comes from the land. They cannot take the land away, but they have been looking for opportunities to find places to invest their working capital."

Therefore, the tax haven in Newfoundland can only solve part of the problems of the nobles.

No one can remove the land under the name of these families. As long as these nobles are not willing to sell the land, they will inevitably be charged with inheritance tax. It is only a matter of time.

Pamela Mountbatten has taken advantage of this point. They are all old nobles who have been passed down for hundreds of years. It is too late for Mountbatten to rise up. It is not certain that he has accumulated through marriage when he was General Mountbatten. It can fall to the youngest daughter of Pamela Mountbatten.

Without the constraints of land, with the escort of Alan Wilson, such a road to wealth has been created.

Now, in the eyes of these centuries-old nobles, it took Pamela Mountbatten a few years to surpass the accumulation of their era. This kind of impact, after hearing that there is a second Persian When it was full of potential, it completely exploded.

If there was no oil in the Gulf of Guinea, these great nobles would have swallowed Alan Wilson's heart alive.There will also be cracks in the aristocratic forces tied up by Pamela Mountbatten.

But Alan Wilson knew that it was only a little late. It took several years for oil exploration, which is normal from a cyclical point of view. If these local nobles are in a hurry, it is entirely because of Pamela Mountbatten's appetite. Raised it.

There are different paths to success. How can a bunch of Mountbatten groups be copied so easily.

"Forty-eight million pounds, I think plus the funds of the Nigerian Dominion itself, and the policies we have formulated. It should be enough."

Alan Wilson and Roberts, with cigars in their mouths, strolled through the former Lagos Governor's Mansion. "In terms of tapping potential, we can barter when necessary. Money can't solve all problems. Especially for backward areas, if it doesn't work, After the war, Britain also implemented a rationing system, issuing some food stamps to keep consumption to a minimum, and all surplus agricultural products were sold to Europe."

"Implementing the unified purchase and marketing policy of grain, including the purchase policy of the grain plan and the supply policy of the grain plan,"

After hearing this, Roberts suddenly realized, and exclaimed, "Good idea, then can we spread this kind of bills to all aspects, not just limited to food. Through these bills, we can grasp the economic context of the Dominion."

"Roberts, your talent is not limited to being a dominion commissioner." Alan Wilson smiled, and then emphasized, "However, this method can only be used when the foundation is poor, and cannot be used as a conventional method."

At this time, Alan Wilson didn't know that he transplanted the food stamps to Nigeria. Until the end of his life, the bills did not disappear from Nigeria.

Negotiations with noble representatives and the delineation of the exploration area are naturally worrying about Moore Rolston, and Alan Wilson is not easy for an official to interfere.

He can only do the work of mobilizing public opinion, positioning the development of the Niger River Delta as the foundation of Nigeria's power, and turning it over to strengthen the ideological stamp.

Goebbels said that a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth. Who doesn't understand such a simple truth?It's just that nouveau riche like the Germans still say it directly as if they have discovered some great truth.

The guidance of the hegemony of public opinion is extremely important. Alan Wilson firmly believes in this. It is not only useful to the living, but also to the dead. In Chinese history, who is the worst official who bullied orphans and widows to usurp the throne?The Sima family, Yang Jian or Zhao Kuangyin?

In fact, it is Yang Jian and his son who have a good reputation in later generations. Long before Yang Guang came to the throne, his father Yang Jian had already slaughtered all the heroes who supported him to usurp the throne. The giant cities of Yecheng and Jiankang.

Yang Jian's murder during the usurpation process was more severe than that of the Sima family, but the difficulty of unifying the world was easier than that of the Wu and Shu countries faced by the Jin Dynasty. In his understanding, Yang Jian's evaluation is the lowest among all usurpers.

But the reputation of Yang Jian and his sons in later generations is much stronger than that of the Sima family. The fundamental reason is that after the collapse of the Jin Dynasty, it really collapsed.After the collapse of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin came out to clean up the mess, withstood the Turks' attempt to go south, and pushed back to the grassland.

If there was no such person as Li Shimin, would the Turks succeed in going south?The evaluation of Yang Jian and his son will be a dimension away from the Sima family, so how important it is for someone to clean up the mess.

Alan Wilson's current role is to quickly clean up the mess at the sunset of the empire on which the sun never sets.When there was not a drop of oil in the Gulf of Guinea, he claimed that the second Persian Gulf was discovered, which was also for the sake of the overall situation.

When Heidi Lamar was with this man, she saw the so-called cloud and rain. Heidi Lamarr sighed, "Germany seems to be no match for Britain, and it's not wrong to lose."

"Oh, it's been ten years since the war ended before you realize this problem that everyone knows." Alan Wilson couldn't help laughing and said, "Germany's power is not as strong as that of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. It's a miracle. Whether it's World War I or World War II, Germany will definitely lose."

If it weren't for Churchill's use of two battleships to collapse Imperial Russia and the continuous foreign aid of Imperial Russia, Germany would have survived World War I for less than four years.As for Germany in World War II, its national strength is actually not as good as Germany in World War I.

"Okay, I know you are patriotic." Heidi Lamarr glanced at Alan Wilson and muttered angrily.

"You can also talk, you can be patriotic." Alan Wilson took Heidi Lamarr's hand, "Now, I want to invite big stars who have turned from darkness to light to take a rocket."

Heidi Lamarr's eyes seemed to drip water, and she whispered meaningfully, "No matter how powerful the rocket is, it will be swallowed by the black hole."

The imperial commissioner didn't believe in this evil. How could the crystallization of human wisdom be swallowed by a mere black hole.

"Crack..." The command center of the Wumaila launch site, regarding the successful test launch of the [-]-kilometer blue light missile, made everyone in the command center fall into a sea of ​​joy.

Turing, the owner of the data computing center, also had a gratified smile. After the researchers in the data center calmed down a little, Turing said, "The project is far from successful. Under the current conditions, the blue light missile cannot be carried out." Simply zoom in."

Turing succeeded in the experimental project of the blue light missile with a range of [-] kilometers, and made a report to inform the Governor of Australia and Alan Wilson in Africa, and also expressed his doubts.If the amplification is continued under the existing conditions, the engine of the blue light missile may not be able to afford the huge body, and the probability of failure will greatly increase.

"Either replace the engine, or you can only think of a way on the fuel." Alan Wilson muttered to himself.

In terms of fuel, solid fuel and liquid fuel have different advantages. Solid propellant missiles have simple structure, small size, easy maintenance, high reliability, fast combat response, and less support and auxiliary equipment. From the perspective of combat, its technical and tactical Performance is obviously much better than liquid propellant missiles.

Of course, this does not mean that liquid propellant is useless, it also has advantages, and has not withdrawn from the stage of history.For example, the liquid rocket engine can be started and shut down at will, the thrust can be adjusted, and the shutdown time can be accurately controlled.

This feature is very important for the mother compartment of the sub-guided multi-warhead, because when it releases the warhead, the final booster rocket engine must be continuously started and shut down, so liquid propellant must be used.In addition, the liquid rocket engine has a large thrust, which is more suitable for heavy-duty intercontinental missiles with large loads.

For example, the nuclear submarine platform is very suitable for solid-fuel missiles. The problem is that there is almost no research on solid fuel in the UK now, so we can only count on the Rolls-Royce rocket engine to make a breakthrough.

At the same time, at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, thousands of miles away, many generals from the Pentagon have arrived at the command center. This is the first test of the Atlas strategic missile. A successful test launch of an intercontinental missile that the United States has given high hopes to will be of great significance, and the entire launch site is full of expectations for it.

We must know that the Atlas strategic missile has almost twice the range of the blue light missile. Once successful, it will leave Britain far behind and quickly close the gap with the Soviet Union in the field of intercontinental missiles.

Accompanied by the countdown of the mechanical sound, the people in the entire Baisha test site held their breath, their hearts raised in their throats.

At the end of the countdown, the Atlas strategic missile poured out its tail flame on the launch pad, and finally lifted off the ground little by little.

But before people started to celebrate, the Atlas strategic missile that hadn't completely disengaged from the launch pad slammed directly into the launch pad, and immediately exploded, flames and thick smoke raged, and the huge sound wave made everyone's ears rumble.

The first launch of America's first intercontinental ballistic missile failed.

"Continue to experiment and improve while experimenting." The Baisha launch site immediately got the attitude of the Pentagon.

Chapter 9 Intrepid Nuclear Submarine

Now the facts are obvious, in the field of intercontinental missiles, the Soviet Union is the leader, while the United States is a chaser.

This is already very difficult for the United States to accept, and what is even more unacceptable is that the United Kingdom is also ahead of the United States.

Although the British blue light missile has a range of only [-] kilometers, it is not a real intercontinental missile.

But the successful test launch of the Atlas strategic missile can be said to be ahead of the UK, and it exploded directly on the launch pad. What kind of lead is it?

The position behind the United Kingdom is something the United States cannot tolerate. Even if the United States has a small accumulation in the field of intercontinental missiles, it is definitely above the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is completely starting from scratch.Although the United States did not capture the von Braun team, it obtained much more information than the United Kingdom.

In the end, there was a comparison between the success of the Blu-ray missile and the failure of the Atlas strategic missile. How would the Pentagon accept it?

"Oh, it's really good news." On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, Alan Wilson read the internal documents of Whitehall with a look of excitement, cheering at the news that the Atlas strategic missile exploded on the launch pad.

In the research of intercontinental missiles, the United States was completely behind in the early days. If he remembered correctly, there should be a total of eight launch tests of Atlas strategic missiles, with six failures and two successes.Either a volley explosion or a launch pad explosion.

But failure is the mother of success. He still believes in the power of the United States, who can overcome the temporary difficulties with a large amount of investment. He saved his fortune through the world war for nothing?

"Tickets, the development of the Niger River Delta, oil exploration and the four major constructions, Nigeria alone will not be able to handle them in 30 to [-] years. If you start everything, even if Nigeria becomes independent, it will need our help for a long time. .”

When Alan Wilson called Roberts over, it could not be regarded as an opportunity for face-to-face instruction. The basic principles have reached the position of Colonial Commissioner, and he should understand all the principles, as long as he has this framework and implements it.

"Deputy Secretary-General, without your personal visit, things would not have been so easy." Roberts expressed his gratitude. These projects would never have been possible with Nigeria's own strength.

In fact, it is impossible to do it now. The completion of these projects requires long-term investment. Obviously, except for the oil field, British capital will not help in other aspects.

"The economic crisis lasts at most one or two years. When the environment around the world improves, the UK will survive this crisis. I don't believe that the UK alone will be hit by the economic crisis while other countries are prospering. "

Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows, and it would be considered a victory to survive the economic crisis cycle. He is not prepared to build Nigeria into a beacon in Africa. He has been in Lagos all his life, and he can't do it.

Anyway, Nigeria will officially become independent in a few years, and what will happen then has nothing to do with the United Kingdom.

Anyway, relying on Nigeria's status as the most populous country in Africa, as well as its oil resources and the agricultural conditions of the Niger River Delta, its status in Africa will definitely not be low. After all, it is Africa, where chickens peck each other.

"It's true, it's not like Europe, where the competition is so fierce." Roberts said deeply.

"Hehe!" Alan Wilson chuckled. What this colleague sighed reminded him of the East Asian monster room.It's just a kind of optimism that makes fun of bitterness.

Who is willing to feed such a huge army and be in a state of confrontation at any time? It is also a relief for Europeans to get rid of this state. Of course, he himself does not like it. It is best for the Cold War to continue and be in a state where the enemy cannot win. best condition.

"In this case, you have to work hard in the past few years. The Nigerian Dominion is surrounded by French colonies. We certainly don't want it to be too weak. Fortunately, the French colonies are not very good. The difficulty is neither high nor low. I'm going back to London. If you have any difficulties, please send a telegram."

Before leaving, Alan Wilson still tried his best to let his colleagues relax, "Maybe changes in Africa will appear soon."

Grace still stays in Lagos. Northern Rhodesia is an inland colony. The deployment of manpower depends on the flights of the Northern Rhodesian colony. The entire Northern Rhodesia relies on copper mining. This is also the highlight of Grace compared to the Congo The cause of hunger.

The copper belt of Northern Rhodesia is shared with the southeastern part of the Belgian Congo, and the local area almost divided Northern Rhodesia into east and west halves. No one can suppress greed.

"Wait for the opportunity, be patient." Alan Wilson asked Chetnik a question, "It really worked, you Chetnik and Ustasha won't fight."

"Compared with different races, ethnic discord is already behind." Grace vowed, "In this place in Africa, there are only whites and blacks. We have only so few ethnic groups combined, and we still fight. what?"

"It makes sense. This is reassuring." Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't always stay in the inland if you have nothing to do. The world is still big, and many things may need your help. And there are less Planting some poppies, although this is your freedom and it is not convenient for me to interfere, it is not an industry worth developing after all."

The income from drug production seems to be a lot, but at what level to look at the problem, at best, it can support a warlord at most.

What's more, geographically, Northern Rhodesia's transportation costs are very high, and it may not be able to compete with other drug manufacturing sites.

Places that regard drug manufacturing as a pillar industry are undoubtedly extremely poor, and the upper limit of this thing is too low.

"We want to buy a batch of armed helicopters." Grace made a request, "I heard that there is a Tiger-style armed helicopter in the UK that is going to serve, we can buy it."

"The cost seems to be 15 pounds a piece. I will help you to ask." Alan Wilson agreed and revealed a piece of information to Grace. This information is absolutely accurate. You must know that the cost of the blue light missile is only 50 Ten thousand pounds each.

Immediately, Alan Wilson boarded the flight to Paris. He was in a foreign country, but he still did not forget to contribute to the rocket cause. When he arrived in London, he was overworked.

But even so, the United States, which firmly believes that failure is the mother of success, the news of the second launch of the volley explosion still revived Alan Wilson, exhausted, and restored his spirits.

"The tiger-style armed grits machine must first meet domestic orders, but from the perspective of arms sales, selling should not be a problem." Mountbatten saw his son-in-law come to the door, answered his son-in-law's questions, and then expressed his appreciation for Alan Wilson's work, The conversation changed, "It's a coincidence that you came back, and I have some good news to share with you."

"The good news told by the general must have something to do with the Navy." Seeing Mountbatten's behavior, Allen Wilson knew that his guess was not too far away, otherwise Mountbatten would not be so happy, unless he was growing strong and his mother-in-law was happy, but it shouldn't be too much. possible.

"The nuclear submarine has been completed, and the queen is going to preside over the launching ceremony in person. My heart can be relieved." Mountbatten spoke to confirm Alan Wilson's guess, and it really had something to do with the navy.

Alan Wilson is also happy about this. After all, nuclear submarines are the country's most important weapon. The aircraft carrier is to protect interests to some extent. Nuclear submarines are different. This is a trump card to save lives.

After the United States is willing to provide nuclear reactor technology, Britain has successfully overcome the difficulties of nuclear power.As for other aspects of nuclear submarines, there is no difficulty for Britain, a powerful shipbuilding country.

The launching ceremony was held recently, and the name of the nuclear submarine has been named Intrepid nuclear submarine.The nuclear submarine combined the requirements of the Royal Navy for the structural strength and fluid power of the nuclear submarine. Although the United States provided the United Kingdom with the appearance and construction experience of the nuclear submarine, the United Kingdom finally designed the hull and combat system of the nuclear submarine by itself.

The British Rolls-Royce company has cooperated with the British Atomic Energy Agency to develop a new nuclear power propulsion system.

The power of the Intrepid nuclear submarine is a 28-horsepower cycle steam turbine provided by Rolls-Royce.It can maintain a speed of [-] knots underwater, with a surface tonnage of [-] tons and an underwater tonnage of [-] tons.Compared with the big guys that cost tens of thousands of tons in the late Cold War, it looks very small, but it is definitely enough for the current situation.

Alan Wilson is very pleased. With the UK's shipbuilding capabilities, as long as the nuclear reactor is digested, there will be no stuck neck. This is derived from the confidence of the world's largest shipbuilding country.

Promising his father-in-law to take a look at the hot spots, Alan Wilson went to Whitehall to report non-stop, expounding on several issues about Nigeria's construction.

"You're right, in fact, it's enough to push through the economic crisis cycle." Norman Brook affirmed Alan Wilson's hard work indifferently, "It won't be a problem to attract funds into Nigeria with the reputation of the Mountbatten Group. "

"It's not a big problem." Alan Wilson borrowed his wife's property as a weather vane, and he couldn't hide it from the head of Whitehall.Asked by Norman Brooke, he immediately admitted.

"That's good." Norman Brook nodded, "If the Gulf of Guinea really has rich oil reserves, it will be a good thing for the UK. We can't rely too much on the Persian Gulf. Well, I still have a meeting to hold. Come find me again when you have difficulties..."

On July [-], the launching ceremony of the Intrepid nuclear submarine, which was launched one year earlier than originally planned, was presided over by Queen Elizabeth under the collective witness of the Minister of Defense, Earl Alexander, and senior naval officials.

The Armstrong Shipyard, which has been established for more than 100 years, was officially launched under the witness of the Queen, marking a solid step in the development of Britain's underwater power.

After Queen Elizabeth finished speaking, the military generals in the shipyard applauded in unison, shouting God bless the queen...

Chapter 911 The colonists are back

Of course, Alan Wilson was among the huge group of followers who followed the trend. He came in through the back door and was staring at another Lord Sheffield who came in through the back door.

"If the oil reserves in the Gulf of Guinea are huge, BP also wants to help." Makins lowered his voice and continued his great career as a middleman, "You talk to Pamela, this will also help everyone work together to save The cake is getting bigger."

"Her industry cannot be settled by me with a single sentence. In fact, with the strength of BP, I can just send someone to discuss it. I don't think it's a big problem." Alan Wilson looked at the direction of the Queen with reverent eyes. , replied in a low voice, "Now the economic crisis is still spreading, and the general environment is quite tense. It will be too late after the economic crisis is over. Of course, this is just my personal opinion. You should consider it for yourself."

Alan Wilson really doesn't care much about oil. Of course he likes money, but he doesn't value it so much when he compares his career. He has already been financially free, and he doesn't have the illusion of swimming in a swimming pool full of gold coins. dream.

"Anyway, everyone knows that if the Mountbatten Group goes public, it will easily become the stock king." Makins said in amazement, "You don't know, for a while, we have been discussing the oil in the Gulf of Guinea. I have never seen such a situation. influence."

"I really don't know." Alan Wilson asked himself. He was in Lagos at that time. Although he had always kept his reading habit, he only read political newspapers. He didn't know how hot the oil in the Gulf of Guinea was.

But having said that, the exploration area that Princess Margaret cooperated with Portugal, that is, the part off the coast of Angola, is actually a part of the Gulf of Guinea in a broad sense. If there is good news from Angola, it can prove the Gulf of Guinea from the side. is the authenticity of the second Persian Gulf assertion.

But if this is the case, things may become extremely complicated. You must know that between the Portuguese colony of Angola and the Nigerian Dominion, it is French Central Africa.If the Nigerian Dominion in the north and Portuguese Angola in the south have oil, there is no reason why such a large French colony in the middle does not.

Will France let go of its oil resources?As a famous example in later generations, although Equatorial Guinea, which has a per capita price of [-] US dollars, is not a French colony, there are French colonies nearby.Equatorial Guinea, a Spanish colony, could have been even worse.

Spain doesn't have many colonies so far, and Equatorial Guinea is already considered the most important one. If the oil resources arouse Franco's interest, it will be quite difficult to deal with.

"I may have overlooked the impact on other countries." Allen Wilson discovered at this time that the colonial power in Africa is still quite strong today, because the development funds of the Nigerian Dominion are to be raised, and the news released may bring some Butterfly effect, the local area does not include Britain, and there are Spanish, Portuguese and French colonial forces nearby.

I don't know what these countries think about the oil in the Gulf of Guinea at this moment, especially whether the French, who are more powerful than the United Kingdom on the west coast of Africa, will take any action.

"Alan, what are you thinking?" General Mountbatten noticed his son-in-law's movement and came over to ask.