Chapter 350 Then Play Music and Then Dance

"Oh, my Allen is the most powerful." Pamela Mountbatten curled her lips and praised with a look of admiration.

"My dear, even if you have deep feelings, you can't insult me ​​with this tone." Other than that, this sentence is the most powerful of ours, Alan Wilson, and it completely angered Alan Wilson. This was obviously his tone of praising India.

Although not very offensive, it is extremely insulting. It's just that he doesn't believe it, and he even mocks his own man. This is something a man can't stand, and Alan Wilson can't accept this kind of insult, which involves issues of future family status.

"If I can find a way for you to become a rocket and enter the rich list, can you get a sincere apology?" He closed the iron box and locked it. Alan Wilson looked sideways at his fiancée who was about to get engaged, with his hands still holding his waist. .

"Is it richer than my mother? The Comet airliner does not count. The project may fail, so it cannot be used as a basis, so stock trading cannot be counted. It cannot be said about oil. The Persian Gulf is full of national oil companies. Corruption in the colonies It’s okay, but it’s not okay in China. How can a corrupt person be on the rich list? Buying German companies at the bottom doesn’t count.”

Pamela Mountbatten clapped her fingers and filtered through all her family treasures one by one, and finally felt that it was almost done.

"You'd better contact the aristocracy in the country when the time comes, especially those families who were affected by the war and have a hard time, and wait to join the group to keep warm." Alan Wilson said with a high profile, "Waiting to become the spirit of the aristocracy of the British Empire When you become a leader, my dear, you will definitely thank me then.”

"What exactly? Do you need to contact other nobles?" Pamela Mountbatten was confused and kept asking.

"I'll tell you if you do, register an exploration company." Alan Wilson finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "You should know about the sale of Mysore iron ore. Is it very profitable? That's all. Don’t ask rashly.”

Why can Mysore iron ore be sold at a high price? The first is that it is easy to transport along the coast, and the second is that the quality of the iron ore exceeds 60%. The Rockefeller family purchased the Mesabi Ridge Iron Mine from the Germans and eventually sold it to the Morgan family.

After decades of development, it has come to an end, and the quality of iron ore is no longer what it used to be.

The iron content of the Mesabi Ridge iron ore exceeds 70% and can be smelted directly into the furnace without any treatment. It has become a raw material warehouse for the U.S. steel industry and directly promoted the completion of the industrialization and urbanization process of the United States.

The iron content of the Mysore iron ore exceeds 60%, which is considered a very rare mine in the world.

The quality of the Mesabi Ridge iron ore is 70%.

Just compare it with China. The average quality of China's iron ore is 30%, which will cause a lot of additional costs.

Even the average quality is considered poor. The average quality of iron ore in the world is 40%. Indian iron ore is stronger than China's, but of course the total quantity is incomparable.

The iron ore in Australia is of higher quality than the Mesabi Ridge iron ore, and also exceeds that of Vale in Brazil. It is the only one in the 21st century. The most important thing is that the Australian iron ore has not yet been discovered.

All Australian experts, scholars, and the Australian government are convinced that the country's iron ore reserves do not exceed 250 million tons. Therefore, in 1938, a ban on the export of iron ore was imposed and will be implemented until 1960.

Alan Wilson didn't believe that he could find an iron mine after spending several years.

Pamela Mountbatten was very obedient and did not ask questions. She thought that there must be news about the iron mines in a certain colony, and Alan Wilson knew about it. This was not entirely true. Australia was no longer a colony a long time ago.

Therefore, we cannot go it alone. First, Pamela Mountbatten must win over a group of British aristocrats with status and influence, and ask these aristocrats to invest part of their funds and bind them together with shares. Then the second step is to cooperate with the Australian dignitaries. Negotiate and form a transnational interest group.

This is also of great benefit to the British Empire. It binds Australia with interests and has the blessing of Australian iron ore.

Alan Wilson dared to have such a fight in Malaya with Japan, which was undertaking the transfer of American industries.

Why does Japan, an American colony, need such a high per capita income? Alan Wilson felt that it was very reasonable to allocate a little bit to Malaya. Before the Plaza Accord, the average per capita in Japan was US$11,000. He was not greedy. Considering the ratio of the Japanese population to the population of Malaya, let the Japanese allocate a little bit. , Malaya and Japan each have 10,000 people. This wish is not excessive at all.

After all, in addition to population, Malaya has better natural land resources, and it also has better transportation through the Strait of Malacca. As long as the British Empire and Australia are willing to provide certain support, this will not be a problem.

Of course, the problem at hand is that we cannot continue to be so skilled and have no money. Britain is so poor that even selling engines to the Soviet Union is just one aspect. Alan Wilson's proposal that the Netherlands lease battleships to Britain is actually just the icing on the cake.

Because this is what Prime Minister Attlee did in history, and it is also done now. In order to support France's return to Vietnam, the British Royal Navy leased a HMS Giant aircraft carrier to the French Navy.

Britain gave its aircraft carrier to its centuries-old rival, which shows that Prime Minister Attlee is really trying to keep warm.

According to history, after the lease period expires, France will buy the aircraft carrier and rename it "Arromanche". During the Vietnam War, he participated in many battles in Southeast Asia, where his flying squad supported French troops stationed at Dien Bien Phu and assisted in the evacuation of North Vietnamese refugees.

There are various signs that Attlee, the Labor Prime Minister, still wants to fight to the death during his term.

Alan Wilson liked this prime minister very much, although the main reason was the nationalization policy. He was a civil servant, and it is natural for civil servants to like state-owned enterprises.

His engagement ceremony with Pamela Mountbatten also had an important function, that is, it could be used to buy time.

Since the problems of British India became clear, especially the conflicts between the Congress Party and the Muslim League, what Governor Mountbatten did was to buy time, hold the banquet, play music and dance, and avoid taking a stand on tendentious issues. . This is also true even for feudal states.

This made the Congress Party full of doubts. Gandhi once pointed out that the princely states were a product of the British and were established by the chiefs to weaken India's resistance to the British Empire.

As long as Mountbatten encouraged the princes to become independent, the Congress Party would believe that Mountbatten was undermining the new independence by Balkanizing India's legal territory and allowing the princely states, an artificial and undemocratic artifact of the times, to develop. India.

The Muslim League also hoped that some princely states would be integrated into Pakistan and therefore opposed their independence.

Mountbatten tried to be as vague as possible. In fact, he didn't want to solve the problem. Now that his daughter was getting engaged, he could just pretend that he was very busy to delay it.

When it's time to be independent, you can cram it into something! It was not that he had no talent, but that he was short of time and had no time to think too much about the partition of India and Pakistan. Some policies had sequelae.

Alan Wilson, who knew that there would be no store like this after passing through this village, would not refuse gifts from any party. He fulfilled his original promise to stand on the last shift and also took the time to complete the drug trials and licenses. That’s right, a total of US$1.5 million in hard-earned fees from eight pharmaceutical companies is waiting for the head of local civil servants to receive it.

He had a great time chatting with the major compradors in India in the morning, and had a great time with the representatives of the princely states in the afternoon. He was waiting for the day of the engagement ceremony. It was not just the people from India who were waiting, but also the two local civil servant leaders. After finishing the matter, he was given an order to return to Europe.

The invitation list drawn up by Mountbatten totaled 3,000 people, involving representatives from all walks of life, including the Congress Party and the Muslim League, as well as local business families and princely states in India.

For this purpose, the Governor's Palace has made careful preparations. Governor Mountbatten said that he must be thrifty and set banquet standards according to the lowest standards. Lord Barron agreed very much, but he just didn't quite understand how to be frugal at a banquet of three thousand people. However, the Governor Now that he said that, he would just pretend to do it for a while and there would be no loss.

Coming out of the Governor's Office, Sir Barron happened to see Alan Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten coming over. He couldn't help but sigh, "Time flies so fast. It seems that it has been so long since the day Alan came to New Delhi." It hasn’t been too long.”

"It has indeed not been too long, Sir Barron." Alan Wilson replied politely, "I have always been very grateful to Sir Barron for taking care of me over the past two years, allowing me to find my goal on the road of life. Everything today and you Teaching cannot be separated from relationships.”

"The main thing is that you work hard enough and are good at discovering opportunities." Sir Barron said with great satisfaction after hearing Alan Wilson's words, "Groat has a very good child, and he should be happy about it."

It’s a bit inappropriate to mention the origin of the relationship between the two people on this occasion. It originated from the Bengal Famine. After all, the guests here are also Indians. Out of respect for their upcoming independence, I don’t need to mention the past.

On October 15th, the engagement ceremony of Alan Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten began. For the Governor and his wife, except for some regrets that their eldest daughter Patricia could not come, the rest of the time was immersed in happiness. .

The Governor's Mansion was very lively on this day. Guests came to the Governor's Mansion. No matter what their beliefs were, whether they belonged to the Congress Party or the Muslim League, whether they were a businessman or a feudal prince, Mountbatten himself was very happy.

Alan Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten also accepted everyone's blessings, and saw Ali Jinnah who was drinking, and nodded to each other. This leader of the Muslim League had always disdained the rules of the Peace Religion.