British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1056: ashes of the times

Great Britain is a place of great people, otherwise why would there be French filmmakers and German entrepreneurs here? Alan Wilson, a diplomat, is not too much to receive.

Years make people grow old, and compared with the peak of their appearance, some distinguished guests may not be so elegant. But this is not a reason to dislike it. After getting along for a long time, there are always some feelings. It is also okay to talk about parenting without talking about the situation.

After receiving a circle of foreign friends, Alan Wilson dragged a tired figure to find Markins. He always had to leave some time for himself. Markins could not help grinning when he saw his old friend exhausted, "I sometimes Doubt your salary is higher than others?"

"Why?" Alan Wilson licked his lips and asked back.

"Otherwise you have no reason to work so hard." Markins was puzzled, "You spend half of the year abroad, right? It seems that you are always busy at all times. This is no longer an explanation for diligence."

"People always pay for their choices." Alan Wilson said without end, Markins nodded, he thought that Alan Wilson was talking about diplomacy.

In fact, not at all. Alan Wilson said that when he was young and strong, he saw a luxury car and wanted to test drive it.

To this day, there is no regret, the body is a little tired, but fortunately, the mental pleasure can dilute the physical fatigue. After all, these are all classic models, and he is not at a loss.

Alan Wilson could shirk his exhaustion to the point of going to Africa to get accustomed to the climatic conditions, fooling around the topic and asking Markins what's interesting about his current job.

The Ministry of the Interior is also one of the three traditionally high-weight ministries. Compared with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior handles a variety of things.

"The domestic shipbuilding industry seems to have encountered some bottlenecks." Makins thought for a while and shrugged, "The shipbuilding industry is not as good as before, and now the orders are not as many as in previous years, and the profits are incomparable."

"So?" Alan Wilson nodded with a sullen face. He didn't expect that the world's No. 1 shipbuilding power would be in trouble so quickly? Yes, if you count civilian shipbuilding, the British shipbuilding industry is a stronger presence than the United States.

For half of the years since the postwar Britain, the gross tonnage of ships was more than that of the United States, while the other half of the years were behind the United States.

Britain's unique geographical location and water conservancy conditions make ships play an important role in people's production and life, which in turn drives the rise of the shipbuilding industry. The rise of the British shipbuilding industry is related to the political environment of the United Kingdom. On the one hand, the government's strong support for the construction of warships has driven the development of shipbuilding technology and scale.

The free trade policy manifested in the UK stimulated the prominent role of the ship as a carrier in international competition, thus promoting the development of the shipbuilding industry.

In addition, the development of the British shipbuilding industry has its own industrial advantages, and it is in a leading position in terms of ship scale, ship power, construction specialization, organizational form and customer relationship.

During the two world wars, Britain's dominance was challenged by other countries. Although it was surpassed by other countries in some aspects, it was still able to maintain its status as the world's largest shipbuilding country.

In fact, the first thing Britain recovered after the war was the shipbuilding industry. It stepped on the American Freewheel and surpassed the United States in tonnage launched all the year round. According to history, it should be the Suez Canal War, which caused the first difficulty in the British shipbuilding industry.

But the fundamental reason is that the United Kingdom no longer invests in the Royal Navy, resulting in the shipbuilding industry no longer maintaining military orders. On the contrary, although the United States has also begun to experience the decline of civilian shipbuilding, it has been using military orders to continue the life of the US shipbuilding industry.

The U.S. approach is not without its consequences, that is, the unit price of U.S. warships in later generations is already a sky-high price.

Alan Wilson thought that the normal renewal of the British Royal Navy was a good thing for the shipbuilding industry, but now it seems that the prosperity of the British shipbuilding industry has been maintained for a few more years, and the British shipbuilding industry has still hit the ceiling.

"You're not thinking about industrial transfer, are you?" Makins saw his old friend's contemplative look, and said directly, "I'll take you to a place for a walk."

"No, where?" Alan Wilson was interrupted and said something that didn't make sense.

"You'll know when you get there." Markins smiled and dragged Alan Wilson directly into the car. The destination of the two was the last textile factory in the UK, and it was also a dye factory. The latter was more important, otherwise it was simple The textile mills are estimated to have now been closed as well.

The journey is not far or near, but it has already left the confines of London. Before entering, the dehydration sound of the centrifuge, which is almost groaning, can be heard all over the hall. In the bones of the workers on the machine, the colorful cloth fluttering like a flag on the proximity device violently collided.

The two appeared in a factory building. Here are some small machines for printing and dyeing black fabric for menswear.

Daylight streamed in through the thousands of windows, coating the black mist of the factory building and the workers with a light green.

The workers stood like stone pillars, holding their hands together, not moving, watching the machine. Thousands of meters of cloth passing through here can be dyed very evenly with the foamy black paint sprayed from the machine.

The walls were shaking, and the factory was working with all its might. A lift mounted against the wall provides a direct link between the lobby and the four floors above it.

The muffled rumbling of the machine reverberated in the hall. Lifts either carry a batch of trolleys, goods and people to another floor, or unload another batch of people and goods down the hall.

"Do you feel anything?" Markins asked Alan Wilson in a low voice, asking him to evaluate the scene in front of him.

"It doesn't matter, the backward industries should have been eliminated."

Alan Wilson said indifferently, but because of the special environment here, if he doesn't want to be beaten, he must control the volume, "It is naturally unnecessary for an industry without profit to keep tough, or to innovate to improve production efficiency. But the textile industry is quite an old industry, and if there was a way to innovate, it wouldn’t be where it is today.”

In order to prevent accidents, it is necessary to retain what steelmaking and machinery manufacturing, the textile industry? What are you going to keep, 800 million shirts for a Boeing?

The UK has a Comet airliner, so there is absolutely no need to do this. As long as there are no outrageous mistakes, Boeing will have the upper hand in the future, and don't think too much about it for a few decades.

"The government attaches great importance to the unemployment rate. It is not impossible for the textile industry to do this, but if the shipbuilding industry does this. You have to know what the status of the shipbuilding industry is in the UK." Markins smiled bitterly, "I have nothing else. It means simply taking you to see the textile industry that is about to disappear from the UK."

"Since it's here, it's better to look at the ashes of the times." Alan Wilson glanced at his old friend and said calmly, "Nothing in the world is eternal, and everything can't go against the trend. "

"Aren't you the most willing to be in adversity?" Makins commented with a laugh, "With a permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs like you, I don't think the foreign minister has much work to do."

"The minister doesn't have a job without me, and the prime minister likes to direct the job of diplomacy." Alan Wilson wasn't targeting Macmillan either, it's just an obvious fact. Aiden and Nehru were just short of it. They didn't take up the position of foreign secretary in person, and completely let MacMillan stand aside.

Otherwise, how could Alan Wilson propose that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth Office be merged, and why would Macmillan be so concerned?

It's true that there is no room for him to play in diplomacy, so he thought of changing the track and starting again. The prime minister likes to display his talents on the diplomatic stage. He, as the foreign minister, can always have contact with the Commonwealth countries when he has nothing to do, right?

Two senior officials in Whitehall, in the fuel workshop, experienced the treatment of a handful of leaders inspecting work. Of course, this company is mainly to give Makins face. He, the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, does not have such a big face.

The turbid sunlight poured in through the very dirty window panes, which had been clouded with mist, and illuminated the faces of the machines and the people more clearly. In the hall, under the pale green daylight ~lightnovelpub.net~, you can see long strips of red mist drifting back and forth, as if they had sprinkled a layer of dust on the halo of the gas lamp.

Both man and machine seemed to be in a state of not yet awake, as if phantoms controlled by the terrifying force of motion, as if bundles of tatters and heaps of dust had been stirred up and thrown in. In a whirlpool of churning and roaring.

Alan Wilson covered his nose. He felt that working in this environment for a long time would definitely affect one's health, and the consequences would be much more serious than if he had nothing to do with someone on the rocket. There was no need to keep this factory and it should be moved out.

At No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Aiden listened to Macmillan's words and fell into deep thinking. As Prime Minister, is he too interfering in foreign affairs, and is Macmillan dissatisfied with this, so he proposed the merger of departments?

However, since Duncan's death, the Conservative Party has indeed lacked a leader of a major force. Will a direct promise to Macmillan destroy the balance within the party?

It's true! At this moment, Aiden is considering whether MacMillan is reliable. Any idea of ​​peeping artifact.

In the United Kingdom, elections are elections for parties, and the party leader automatically becomes the prime minister. It is not unthinkable that the incumbent prime minister will be dismissed because of internal divisions. This is different from the United States.

"Harold, Duncan has only been gone for a long time. If the Commonwealth Office is merged now, there may be some problems." Aiden did not directly agree, "We will be considering this matter when the Six-Party Talks have a result. ? Always scruple Churchill's thoughts, don't you?"

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