Chapter 1117 "Victory of the Free World"

Putting down the microphone, Alan Wilson waved his fist fiercely in front of his wife and punched the air wildly.

"Look at you like that." Pamela Mountbatten couldn't help but smile, looking at her husband's childish side with a smile, "Are you angry now?"

In the past two years, my husband has been busy on the Iran issue, and now there is finally a good result.

After stretching his muscles, Alan Wilson said calmly, "He asked for it. We have said repeatedly that this matter can be discussed. It is because he insists on treating Britain as an enemy country. Today's outcome is just to let him understand. In this world, small countries have no say.”

"It's too straightforward and most countries simply can't accept it." Pamela Mountbatten agreed softly.

"But it is also the most honest truth. In front of the United Kingdom, Iran is that small country without the ability to resist, and in front of the United States and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom is actually within this range, if not completely. So something must be done. It is necessary to adapt to the situation. Some people who are friendly with France will not accept it in their hearts, but it still has to be done."

"And we must rely on the power of Europe. If France is allowed to act irresponsibly, it may be marginalized after France integrates Europe. Once European influence is squeezed out by France, the strategy of flying on both sides will go bankrupt."

Getting closer to Europe is inevitable. Once European countries recovered from World War II, they have actually recovered to varying degrees. The UK is still outside Europe, and its situation will be quite embarrassing.

After all, a small English Channel is not enough to isolate Europe's economic influence. If it is affected but is not a part of it, the UK will become extremely passive.

"This is what you have always advocated. I understand your painstaking efforts." Pamela Mountbatten took her husband's hand, asked Alan Wilson to sit down, and then sat on her husband's lap. "If you get closer to France, with the current situation In terms of economic comparison, we still have a great advantage."

"For four hundred years, we have been the best country in the world. Even if we are not the best in the future, we hope to maintain the title of the best in Europe." Alan Wilson reached out and took his wife's hand, "Yes. Now, Glasgow in the north has accepted subsequent Chinese interns. If you are interested in shipbuilding, you can pay attention."

"Scotland? The country is about balance!" Pamela Mountbatten imitated her husband's tone and acted like a senior Whitehall bureaucrat. "The center of the shipbuilding industry, I don't know what will happen in the future."

"In the future? If I have the ability, I will try to take care of the local people's emotions." Alan Wilson has not yet figured out how to balance the economy in Scotland. Now, although he is beginning to adjust this shipbuilding center, it will shift to service-oriented yachts, and Large containers are being built, but it’s hard to say how long it will last.

Glasgow's problems are not unique to the UK, with manufacturing facing competition from all countries. This has started globalization again, and the original method of keeping resources nearby no longer works.

Some cities in the south that also have shipbuilding industries can transform by virtue of their location close to Europe. Glasgow's location is not advantageous, making transformation much more difficult.

Use administrative power to balance? Glasgow is not the capital. The capital of the UK is London. How can there be administrative support for it?

In the UK, the area near Glasgow is equivalent to the Great Lakes in the United States and the northeastern part of a large country.

A city is supported by resources, but in the era of globalization, there is always a place with lower resource costs than yours. Excellent coastal ports have defeated industrial centers with nearby resources. Haven't the Great Lakes region of the United States also become a rust belt? Let alone the Northeast.

Neither of these two places with extraordinary talents can compete with globalization, as long as globalization continues. If a place like this can persist, there is no hope of returning to its previous status.

There is no solution unless countries start a trade war, cut off their trade exchanges, and enter the rhythm of imposing tariffs on each other before World War I or World War II.

If globalization is allowed to exist in name only, then the general environment for coastal ports in various countries will disappear, and the advantage of having resources nearby will be revealed again.

In the Great Lakes region of the United States, Alan Wilson still has to ask six agencies for data analysis, but he does not need to analyze the Northeast because he lived there in his previous life. The North East has more problems than Glasgow: population loss.

Moving away is only part of it. In fact, the Northeast does not rank at all in the ranking of the proportion of out-migration in the entire country.

Although it seems to be ranked among the top three in public opinion in some places. Provinces that are really being sucked out are trying their best to create strong provincial capital models, such as Chengdu and Hefei, to resist the sucking.

The greater proportion of population loss in the Northeast is that the aging population has entered a period of concentrated death.

In fact, there is a very simple way to look at the aging of the population. For example, if Alan Wilson lived in a town in his previous life, he would go out for a walk for an hour and write down a pharmacy when he saw it. If the number of pharmacies is not far different from the ratio of restaurants, then It's a sure thing.

Anyway, in his hometown, the number of students in square dance training classes has exceeded the number of children's dance students.

Glasgow at least should not have a population problem, and without Alan Wilson's personal experience of being an only child for nearly forty years, this is an added advantage. But compared with the Great Lakes region and the Northeast, Glasgow also has obvious disadvantages.

That is, the former is really close to resources. The thickness of resources in Glasgow is incomparable with others.

The situation in the Northeast and the Great Lakes should be fortunate that it has not been encountered in other parts of the country. The trade war has continued for ten or twenty years, and its impact has spread to every corner. Many places may not perform as well as these two places.

If foreign trade is completely abolished and each of us dies without contact, there may be a wave of people returning home. Just because these two places can withstand it doesn’t mean that you can too.

People are so strong that they can withstand it. In Alan Wilson's memory, Glasgow was almost killed by Margaret Thatcher. It fell directly out of the top three cities from the second city in the UK.

The Northeast and the Great Lakes have been affected by globalization for so many years, but they are still at least in the middle of the country.

Scotland's largest city fell directly out of the top three, not to mention the situation in Scotland. The whole of Scotland is equivalent to other countries without a first-tier city in the entire north. No wonder Scotland wants independence.

"Is there any industry with high barriers that you can consider locating in Glasgow in the future?" Alan Wilson was inevitably worried when he thought about the future, blowing pillows at Pamela Mountbatten, a patriotic entrepreneur.

"I didn't consider it at first, but since the head of the family said so, I will definitely do it." Pamela Mountbatten looked obedient, although she felt that her husband was unfounded.

Alan Wilson could tell at a glance what the woman was thinking after sharing the same bed for so many years. I think this is definitely not unfounded. If the resources of the Great Lakes and the Northeast are released to Scotland, Scotland will not be independent in the next century.

If the decline of shipbuilding is inevitable, Southampton on the English Channel will be transformed. There is no semiconductor industry in Glasgow, and Alan Wilson is not at ease.

If Land Rover were to open a Range Rover production line, it would be in Glasgow. As for other industries, Alan Wilson had not thought about it.

Despite his humble position, he did not dare to worry about the country, and the coffin had to be closed before the matter was finalized. Although it was not yet the day when he would become the cabinet secretary to oversee the overall situation, the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was still vigilant in times of peace, and devoted himself to the issue of internal balance in the UK.

He decided to take advantage of today's peaceful environment to visit the local area of ​​Glasgow and see if he could take care of the Chinese interns. In the Glasgow Industrial Area, in order to welcome the arrival of Chinese interns, some roads leading to the shipyard were posted with Xia Meng's giant poster creates a homely feeling for nearly 3,000 interns.

Alan Wilson looks very cool, and he has already won the goddess in people's minds.

In Tehran, the capital of Iran, Mossadegh's heavyweight political allies and six senior ministers, including former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and Foreign Minister Hussein Fatemi, ushered in the final trial. .

This is a highly controversial trial. The UK is trying its best to build momentum in public opinion. This is a setback for the Soviet bloc's subversion of the free world. As for the flying coffin before, it is a temporary relief in the face of major right and wrong. Both Britain and France have reached an agreement. Cooperation agreement.

Su Lin and his camp criticized the trial, believing it to be another act of imperialist aggression.

But this could not change the fate of Mossadegh and others. The court declared Mossadegh and others guilty and rejected Mossadegh's confession that he had not defected to the Soviet Union.

Mossadegh and others were declared guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. At this time, Alan Wilson had just finished his inspection of Glasgow and rushed to Basra to prepare to sign the document on lifting sanctions.

By this time, news of Mossadegh's death had spread throughout the world. At the same time, Pahlavi, who returned in a victorious manner, ordered the execution of dozens of military personnel and student leaders who had ties to Mossadegh. The National Front was declared an illegal organization and most of its leaders were arrested. The People's Party has come under greater pressure.

Countless Mossadegh supporters fled to the north and into South Azerbaijan, hoping to be protected by the local pro-Soviet environment.

"We cannot deny that the Soviet Union had attempts to split Iran to reverse this failure."

Alan Wilson declared victory to Major McCordick and Norman Schwarzkopf, representing the United States, almost in a spirited tone, "But I believe that the Soviets will not achieve their goals. The free world has done everything possible. "Britain will be prepared, together with its great ally the United States, to protect Iran from the Soviet threat."

Alan Wilson's face was full of confidence, and he wished that the United States and the Soviet Union could quickly push the Iran crisis to the next stage. Anyway, once Britain signed the document, it would be officially out of Iran. However, there was still Soviet influence in the north of Iran. The conflict quickly intensified and asked Kennedy to find something to do.

It was clear that Britain had suffered a loss this time, but Alan Wilson still pretended to be a winner, wishing that these two countries that were more powerful than Britain died on the spot.