Chapter 1216 Gold for Food

"You haven't shown up for so long, and when you show up, you ask for money." Princess Margaret looked displeased, and the sparkle on her red lips had not disappeared. Her Royal Highness the Princess said that a passionate kiss was not enough. Why should the country To develop the semiconductor industry, let her pay?

Her Royal Highness the Princess must have misunderstood. It is definitely impossible for Alan Wilson to catch a sheep harvesting wool. No lady of the same status as his wife will be an exception. He will contact him, and at worst, he will borrow a lot of money to deal with the consequences in the future.

"The royal family is a symbol of the British Empire. If it can contribute to the country in such a potential industry, wouldn't it be a good thing?" Alan Wilson embraced the princess in his arms and started persuading her with a good attitude.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if you take more or less. The key is that the royal family needs to set an example. With this example, Alan Wilson can continue to think of ways to inject capital into my semiconductor business, and even think of ways on the government side, so that in the long run, even beyond.

Taking the example of Scam Island, semiconductors are definitely not as good as Formosa Plastics in creating jobs, but they can still create tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, which is also a good thing for the UK. Now that Malaya has been filled with several relocated industries, we cannot expect Malays working in agriculture to take over, right?

Can the semiconductor industry be conquered by just recruiting a group of old farmers? Shouldn’t the locals have to support themselves?

"You are amazing and noble. When you are the Secretary-General of the Cabinet, you only give money to the country." Princess Margaret rolled her eyes at her brother-in-law. "It's hard to imagine that there really is someone like you."

"There is such a thing as patriotism in this world." Alan Wilson stretched out his finger and tapped the tip of her sister-in-law's nose, "Margaret, you are a British princess. If Britain is not good, you, the princess, will not be good either. . In fact, the royal families of all countries should understand this, but some countries are really unclear on this point."

The supernumerary ministers of Alan Wilson's feudal monarchs burst out, and for a while they became somewhat worried about the country and the people. .

He only received a salary from Britain, but served so many monarchy countries. Sometimes he wondered, what day is this?

My sister-in-law still knows the basics. After a long period of persuasion, mainly due to the rocket ride, Her Royal Highness expressed her willingness to contribute to the development of British semiconductors.

"You have become Cabinet Secretary, what should I do?" Princess Margaret asked her brother-in-law, lamenting that she was no longer in her prime, and she was no longer young either, already thirty-three years old.

"Sometimes in the dead of night, I am also thinking about this issue. Out of my responsibility as a man, I cannot let you live like this. When the time comes, I will arrange that there must be the fruit of love between us."

I was thinking about whoring for free,

It has always been true that he was prostituted for free, but at this moment, Alan Wilson openly stated that he was responsible. Although he did not mean it, how could the love brain see that he was reluctant.

Poor Tom, being played with like this...

"I don't have to fight with Pamela, but you know my feelings for you." Princess Margaret lowered her head and whispered softly, "Don't let Pamela know then. You are the cabinet secretary, so the news should be blocked. not a problem……"

"Whoever dares to corrupt the innocence of the princess will not be forgiven by God." Alan Wilson slapped his chest. As long as Princess Margaret can endure the loneliness, he will naturally find someone who can make Her Royal Highness feel at ease. The place to give birth.

The Cabinet Secretary had sacrificed too much for the British semiconductor industry. He had not returned to Whitehall for a long time. He was thinking about meeting with the British semiconductor representatives after the meeting. The phone on the table rang. Alan Wilson came to his senses and picked up the phone. Microphone, "I'm Alan, just say it."

"Permanent Secretary, Soviet Ambassador Victor wants to meet with you." came the voice of Dixon, the Foreign Secretary's Chief Private Secretary. "Victor insists on doing this, saying that there is something important, and I can only inform you."

"What are they going to do?" Alan Wilson said to himself, and then said, "Okay, arrange a time. After all, I am still the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at this term, and I should contribute to the work of this department."

What's wrong? Prime Minister Eden is in charge of foreign affairs. Why can’t the Cabinet Secretary also be the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? He did not even include the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance like the previous two supreme authorities. Don't worry now, we'll figure it out later.

Victor was actually very hesitant in his heart. He knew that he had a heavy responsibility this time. Although the person he wanted to meet was young, he had a profound background and had become the head of the British civil service at the age of less than forty.

The previous ambassador had dealt with Alan Wilson, and he knew that this person who had nothing to talk about was not easy to deal with.

But the voices in the country seem to have recognized the capabilities of the head of the British civil service. If he must meet with the other party, he has no choice but to bite the bullet.

"Want to purchase grain?" Upon hearing this, Alan Wilson had a playful look on his face. He already knew what was going on and asked directly, "Mr. Ambassador, hasn't the Soviet Union been conducting a corn movement in recent years? Why do you remember this? Food has been purchased, and I believe the Soviet Union will not fail to understand that Britain is an island country."

Valley destroyed

The other party comes to ask for help, and it is not Alan Wilson's style not to pretend to be reluctant at this time.

He knew that there must be a risk to the Soviet Union's food security, otherwise he would not say anything about purchasing food.

The Soviet Union's agriculture should not be a weakness based on basic conditions. After all, the world's largest black soil is within the Soviet Union. However, there were indeed agricultural weaknesses during the Soviet period, and this must be admitted.

On other issues, for example, the distribution mechanism of the Soviet Union is much worse. The prices of many commodities in the Soviet Union have not changed since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Some tools directly stamp the prices, but the increase in costs is real. In the later period, the price inversion in the Soviet market became more serious.

For example, the cost of producing grain is higher than the bread sold. It is not uncommon for the Soviet Union to feed bread to livestock.

And in terms of the degree of attention it receives, heavy industry is greater than light industry than agriculture. Although at meetings at all levels, no one seems to pay more attention to agricultural issues than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in fact, the importance attached to heavy industry, light industry, and agriculture has never changed.

This is also related to the population of the Soviet Union. From the perspective of job creation, heavy industry is smaller than light industry and agriculture. But the Soviet Union attaches completely the opposite importance, because the Soviet Union has to deal with the free world, which has a population far greater than its own, and can only arrange it this way.

If the population of the Soviet Union is not enough, the labor force needs to be allocated to heavy industry first. Light industry will be poor, and agriculture will have to make do. If the Soviet Union has the population of a big country, even if it has a population of 400 million, this problem may not arise.

Alan Wilson said sincerely that the food problem is not unsolvable, for example, prices can be increased. But it is estimated that the Soviet Union will not do this. They want to compare their military with the United States and their welfare with Europe. Doesn’t raising prices mean that our great motherland is not good enough?

If the tone is high, you will encounter this kind of problem. Do you think that in the future, Russia's per capita food will be far less than that of the Soviet Union, and will it not become a major food exporter like India? Poor, poor.

The fact that Britain is an island country is just a rhetorical statement. Even if Britain is really an island country, its food self-sufficiency rate is 75%, which is quite high among island countries, and it is definitely higher than Japan, which lost Hokkaido.

"Actually, this favor is not impossible to help from a commercial perspective, but the UK is not the Soviet Union, and everything is clearly priced. The UK is happy to sell food to the Soviet Union from a commercial perspective." It is just a matter of fact that the UK is an island country, Alan Wilson I don’t think that purchasing food is a problem for the UK. The UK has pounds in its hands, not rubles that no one recognizes.

"This is a world based on the gold standard. If the UK purchases, it also needs gold as a guarantee. If Ambassador Victor is okay, I am happy to persuade the Prime Minister to have a normal economic and trade cooperation."

The Soviet Union had to buy it with gold, Britain would not accept rubles or even dollars. Because the price of U.S. dollars and gold is not proportional to the Braston Woods system, why do we need U.S. dollars? Using gold is more practical.

Victor said that he would inform Moscow of the British opinions, and Alan Wilson couldn't help but sigh that he could still conduct a grain business while developing semiconductors. He was obviously a very focused person, which was really annoying.

A few days later, Victor seemed to have received instructions and appeared in front of Alan Wilson again, saying that he wanted to purchase 10 million tons of grain. After Alan Wilson found out, he took the written report and went to No. 10 Downing Street. .

The great Prime Minister Eden was thinking about whether to call a general election. Just as he was thinking about it, he met the Cabinet Secretary and said, "Alan, what can I do?"

"There is a happy thing." Alan Wilson took out a memo and placed it in front of Aiden.

"The Soviet Union wants to buy grain? Use gold?" Aiden read the memo and asked directly, "How much?"

"Preliminary estimate is 220 tons of gold wheat." Alan Wilson smiled like a fox. "Dear Prime Minister, it may be that the Cuban Missile Crisis gave the Soviet Union a step forward, and the United States had just confronted the Soviet Union, resulting in The two countries have become hostile, and I asked specifically that the Soviet Union has only made a purchase request to the United Kingdom."

Two hundred and twenty tons of gold? Aiden was shocked. This was almost two years' production of the Gold Coast and four percent of the UK's gold reserves. Even though he had experienced strong winds and waves, he couldn't help but calm down, "This is really a big deal."

"So if the UK plays an important role in the international situation, there will still be rewards." Alan Wilson nodded and smiled.

"Can you handle this?" Aiden asked immediately. Obviously, the Prime Minister also hoped that the deal could be completed.

"I think it's okay, let's call it the Gold for Food Plan." Alan Wilson assured that in addition to the directly controlled places such as Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Malaya, it can also be purchased through Canada and Australia, which recognize the value of the pound.