Chapter 357: Traitor the Country Under Orders

There is a real win-win situation in trade. At this time, Alan Wilson is not particularly pessimistic. In fact, the Soviet Union has substitutes for rubber resources and tin mines. In terms of mineral resources, a country like the Soviet Union can be said to have no shortage of any minerals. This of course includes tin mines. Does it mean that the largest country in the world deserves its reputation?

As for rubber resources, this is entirely due to congenital conditions, a typical pain at high latitudes. Just like the Soviet Union could never surpass the United States in mango production, there was no place in the Soviet Union where mangoes, a tropical fruit, could take root.

The same is true in the field of rubber, but the difference is that mangoes cannot be synthesized artificially, but the technology of synthetic rubber has appeared. It just so happens that this is the Soviet Union's strength.

In terms of military machinery, the Soviet Union today is a beast that has never appeared in human history. Rubber is an important industrial resource with good physical properties and has a wide range of uses in industry, such as manufacturing sealing materials, various Tires and shock-absorbing facilities, etc.

As a high-latitude country, the Soviet Union had a very developed industrial system. During World War II, the Soviet Union produced a large number of weapons, which undoubtedly required a large amount of rubber resources. Moreover, rubber products would age and could not be reused like steel. So here’s the problem. The Soviet Union is a relatively isolated country, and most of the Soviet Union’s land is in high latitudes. There is no natural rubber resource at all. Moreover, many places in the tropics were European colonies at that time. The Soviet Union’s industrial development was Rubber will have to break through this unfavorable situation.

Alan Wilson is no stranger to using technological progress to prevent being stuck. Preventing being stuck is not exclusive to the Soviet Union. A certain major country also often calls for this.

After the rubber tree is cut, the unprocessed product whose sap condenses is called raw rubber. As a high-latitude country, the Soviet Union basically relied on imports of natural raw rubber.

In fact, the Soviet Union was very short of natural rubber resources. Because of this, as early as the 1920s, not long after the birth of the Soviet Union, they began the development of synthetic rubber. As early as 1931, the Soviet Union had successfully synthesized the first batch of experimental products, sodium butadiene rubber.

The Soviet Union was ahead of the United States and Germany in this field and was the absolute leader in the field of synthetic rubber. In the 1940s, the Yerevan Synthetic Rubber Factory in the Soviet Union produced chloroprene rubber for the first time through bulk polymerization. The chloroprene rubber molecule contains chlorine atoms. Because of this, it has excellent antioxidant properties and is resistant to oil, solvents, and acids. It is highly alkaline. The most important thing is that it is non-flammable and can self-extinguish after catching fire. It is also the only oil-resistant rubber produced by the Soviet Union during the war. This rubber is widely used in various sealing materials and fire protection in the Soviet military industry. On the material.

Technically, because the Soviet Union was the leader in synthetic rubber, the British Empire no longer had the possibility to choke the Soviet Union. So since there was no ability to choke the Soviet Union, we had to find another way to use cheap rubber to occupy the Soviet market. British Malaya happened to have this condition.

In the report, Alan Wilson elaborated on the need to open Soviet markets for tin ore and rubber. It is meaningless to show that it is stuck. The British Empire's top priority now is to restore its national strength as soon as possible. The US market is the most important, and the Soviet market is the most important market after the US market.

In the report, Alan Wilson also used Napoleon's continental blockade as an example to show that the so-called blockade was meaningless. When Napoleon arrived in Berlin and ordered all of Europe to issue a continental blockade, British industry was in turmoil for a while, but who was the final winner?

The Soviet Union has passed its most difficult moment and is currently reducing Soviet hostility to prevent another war in Europe. It is beneficial to the current British Empire, and it can also restore national strength as soon as possible through trade with the Soviet Union.

Since the Soviet Union now hopes to purchase Rolls-Royce engines, the United Kingdom can take the opportunity to make a request and ask the Soviet Union to open its market so that tin ore and rubber from Malaya can enter the Soviet Union without any barriers.

"If you don't buy a large number of engines at once, or buy out the patents, then this transaction will have no value. The main problem in this negotiation is the Soviet Union's indifference to intellectual property rights, which it believes is imperialist exploitation of the world. A weapon, so one must be wary of being deceived.”

Stalin read Alan Wilson's report in a measured tone, with a very interesting expression on his face. Then he looked at Beria and said, "Does this British person seem to know our country very well?"

"Comrade Stalin, I will focus on the investigation." Beria promised with a serious face, "It is my responsibility to dig out the hidden enemies of the people under imperialism."

"It's not particularly urgent. Of course, we all know that even an incompetent bureaucratic collective like the United Kingdom will occasionally have one or two useful people. At least it can be proved that the transaction can still continue. The sky of the motherland needs the People's Air Force Come to guard, this communication is crucial." Stalin decided the direction of this matter, "Dividing imperialism is the top priority at present. On the one hand, Prime Minister Attlee's current attitude is not extreme, at least it is better than that bulldog The hostility towards the Soviet Union is much smaller. On the other hand, Britain's current national strength is entirely based on its past accumulation. It is impossible for the colony to continue to exist in the long run. The main enemy is still the United States. Of course, we must not state this publicly."

"In today's world, if the United States is mainly dealt with, everything will be settled, and all problems will cease to exist."

"Try as much as possible to prevent the imperialists from forming a siege network around us. If not, postpone it. What's more, we will not suffer from this deal. The tin mines of the motherland are concentrated in the Far East, and the cost of synthetic rubber is much higher than Imports, of course we cannot give up our own resources and technology, have been needed for emergencies, but if imperialism wants to sell nooses? Why should we refuse?"

"Why not?" At No. 10 Downing Street at this time, Prime Minister Attlee also expressed his position on this report. Isn't it normal that the Kremlin received the news earlier than No. 10 Downing Street?

But this does not stop Prime Minister Attlee from being happy. Due to current laws, the government should not interfere with the company's trade. After all, Rolls-Royce itself is willing to facilitate this deal.

Alan Wilson suggested increasing the difficulty and testing the Soviet Union's bottom line, and Attlee fully agreed. Although Malaya's tin ore and rubber are currently mainly exported to the United States, if the Soviet Union needs it, why should it object?

Moreover, it is no secret that the Soviet Union has synthetic rubber technology. Since the Soviet Union has this technology, what is the point of blockade?

As the Prime Minister of the British Empire today, Attlee has no interest in thinking about bullshit romantic love stories. He only wants to make money now. Nationalization requires huge investments. Now that British India is about to become independent, the expenditure on maintaining British India has been reduced. , and it is definitely possible to make money as you please, just like before.

If the Soviet market could open its arms to the British Empire in a certain sense, it would be buffered to a certain extent.

Attlee's cabinet has been trying to broker this deal, after all, current government spending is huge. Although one must be wary of the Soviet Union and the British Empire, it does not mean that the ruble should also be hated.

So Alan Wilson set out from London, preparing to have a good fight with the Soviets, and his final destination was the city of Greater Berlin. But halfway through Alan Wilson made a brief stop in Bonn.

In today's Germany, the four occupied zones still exist, all under the control of their respective military commissions. The currencies of the major occupied territories are also different. The United States and France both issued temporary currencies in their respective occupied territories.

The Soviet Union was very exciting, using the Reichsmark of the Third Reich as its currency.

As for the British-occupied areas, they are quite special at present. It is not that they don’t have currency, but they mainly implement a rationing system. In fact, the current Germany is no different from the Germany just after the war.

Although the United States invested far more money than Britain and France, it did not have much effect. Because the British-occupied area is Germany's main industrial area, and many companies have restarted operations, the partial recovery of industry has created a siphon effect to a certain extent. This is true for both the population and wealth. Therefore, although the United States invested a lot of money, it was absorbed by the partially restored industry in the British-occupied areas.

The current British cabinet is a Labor government, and after so many years of training against Mazhe, it has gained some momentum. In the end, the United States invested more money in the American-occupied areas, but it was still about the same as the British-occupied areas, which had no money. If we really want to use data to evaluate, the vitality of the British-occupied areas is even higher.

Although there are still some vicissitudes of life, the British-occupied area is much stronger than it was two years ago. Alan Wilson's current working relationship has been transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the rank of Deputy Secretary-General.

After arriving in Bonn, Bokina was greatly surprised, but she immediately asked Alan Wilson to stay, prepared food that the man liked, and asked, "Are you here for work this time? Or are you here to see us?"

"It's hard to explain in words." Alan Wilson opened his mouth and finally shook his head helplessly. This job was to betray the country according to the order, but it was not easy to talk about it with the two dragoons.

After eating, Alan Wilson went to Anna's bedroom to visit his son. As expected, his licking nature broke out and he apologized for what he had done to Anna before.

The rice has been cooked, and apologizing now doesn't cost anything. Although Anna was sitting on this man's lap, her face was full of grievances, and tears were rolling in her eyes, "What can I do? You are British. I am just a girl from a defeated country, how can I have any dissatisfaction?"

"I will be good to you, I swear." Alan Wilson begged, "You have to forgive me, for the sake of Hans, please, okay?"