British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1215: aftermath of the corn movement

To be honest, Alan Wilson is trying to figure out how to raise money. The initial investment is just an estimate, and more than three million pounds will be invested.

If you know that in 1978, when the Breston Forest system had collapsed, the United Kingdom withheld the advance payment for an order of 1,500 tanks from Iran, which is 400 million pounds, you know that this investment is already a lot.

And this is only the appropriation for that year, and it will continue to be invested in the next year. Although the semiconductor industry is quite large in driving employment, it is also a high-input industry. Otherwise, the United States will not give up so easily and transfer the industry to the fraud island.

Considering the political influence, it is best to be able to attract a certain degree of royal family funds, as long as it can **** the development of the semiconductor industry. Alan Wilson remembers that the Mountbatten Group also gave shares to the royal family at that time. Her Majesty the Queen should also No less dividends.

It's just that he doesn't know if he has the face to get out after deducting some money from the royal family. It doesn't matter if you don't have this face. If the queen can't do it, isn't there still a sister-in-law who obeys her words?

Even if the status of cabinet secretary is excluded, Alan Wilson thinks that his credit value is quite high.

Isn't he Jack Ma? A proper liar, pretending and standing up, not only deceives the country, but even dares to withhold investors' money.

Has Ali distributed dividends to all shareholders after listing? Not at all, the money was left in Ali's small circle. Is this different from a Ponzi scheme?

So far, he has been very kind to ladies of the same status as his wife, and has never caused any loss of interest to these ladies.

"If it doesn't work, I'll fill it in myself." Alan Wilson muttered in a low voice, and he was even ready to sacrifice himself to take over the market for the country and enter this high-input industry.

Turing left the Cabinet Office and took a new mission to investigate the status quo of semiconductors in the UK. Alan Wilson was editing a written report on the third industrial revolution.

It doesn't matter whether the written report is accurate or not, the main thing is to compete with Japan. The population of Malaya has already done its best to compete with Japan in the existing field. Nor can much be expected from a colony of 167 million people.

Alan Wilson also knew that the development of Japanese semiconductors in the 1970s and 1980s gave Japan a strong voice. It even aroused the fear of the United States. He doesn't want to see this happen. He would rather not make money and only create jobs than allow Japanese semiconductors to develop.

Malaya does not have the ability to compete with Japan at this stage, so it can only rely on Japan itself. When necessary, capital from other European countries can even be introduced to work together on semiconductors.

Allen Wilson made a call to Richard White of MI6 to pay attention to the development of semiconductors in European countries, to know ourselves and the enemy, and then evaluate whether to cooperate or go it alone. Of course, it also includes the semiconductor development investigation report of the imaginary enemy Japan.

While the Cabinet Office is conducting an assessment of semiconductors in various countries, it must not forget the United States, the current hegemon. The United States was the first to rise in semiconductors. Today, the world's top ten semiconductor companies, the United States occupies nine, and the tenth is Japan's Takeda Riken.

The current United States certainly cannot imagine that in another 20 years, Japan will be exactly the opposite of the United States, and will be in the position of American companies today. Of course, before the 1990s, semiconductors could not be called globalization, and the vast majority of semiconductor companies in various countries Part of the production capacity is used in the domestic market.

Globalization is still a matter of the future. Alan Wilson will see if he can get a big piece of cake for the British semiconductor industry under the concept of European unity. You must know that the emergence of French and Italian semiconductors is 20 years later. The UK has Enough time to deeply cultivate the European market.

"The government intends to support the semiconductor industry?" Geoff Dahmer was very surprised when Turing came to his door. In fact, he launched a campaign five years ago to encourage the UK to invest heavily in integrated circuit development, but this Very few people responded.

The British military did not realize that it would play a major role in the future scenario, and British companies were reluctant to invest their own funds in the risk.

Jeff Dahmer's initiative at the time was met with cold reception, and no one would take the risk.

Government departments are reluctant to sign contracts because they have not applied. People won't say we want to use it because they don't have experience with it. It's a chicken-and-egg question. The United States has placed a bet on this, and the United Kingdom has been somewhat slow to deploy in this field.

"Government departments are reluctant to sign contracts because they haven't applied. People won't say we want to use it because they don't have experience with it?"

If Alan Wilson had been here, he would have recognized at once that this was the classic slang of Whitehall civil servants. It is indeed to push back the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, back to the proponents.

Turing seems to have vaguely heard someone say this, but it doesn't matter. He wants to tell Jeff Dahmer that the situation has changed, "The newly appointed Secretary General of the Cabinet, Sir Alan, is very concerned about the development of the semiconductor industry. Think, you should continue to try the previous initiative, what do you think is the most critical point of this industry.”

"There are six main aspects." Jeff Dahmer immediately felt relieved when he heard it. "Microfabrication technology; crystallization technology; design technology; engineering technology; test evaluation technology; hardware technology."

It is an unprecedented move that all companies with semiconductor technology in the UK should be brought together for integration, and companies that compete with each other should be brought together to overcome technical difficulties.

In fact, among semiconductor equipment, there were limited companies that could produce related components or assemblies at that time, and almost all of them used the same supplier system. Only after the equipment was put into the production line, how to adjust and optimize it could become the core company in the UK. competitiveness.

Listening to Turing's relayed thoughts, Alan Wilson scratched his scalp and commented calmly, "Concern mode?"

But having said that, this chaebol monopoly model developed by Germany and later used by Japan and South Korea has indeed played a huge role in the development of the two countries, and? In fact, the Mountbatten Group is also an enterprise of the Concern model.

Alan Wilson is not so opposed to the Concern model. This set of group models originally created by the Germans is actually not as bad as the Soviets said. Not to mention anything else, the different departments under the name of the Soviet Planned Economic Committee are just public ownership. There is not much difference between Concern and the chaebol.

The past 1962 was not a good year for the Soviet Union, not only because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet Union underestimated Kennedy and finally had to compromise.

There is another reason, that is, the food production in the Soviet Union has declined. At the just-concluded meeting of the Kremlin, Khrushchev was furious because of this, but in fact, other members of the Central Presidium knew well that the root cause was On the first secretary.

Under the strong advocacy of Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Soviet Union, the corn movement gradually became popular in various parts of the Soviet Union. Obviously, due to the lack of scientific verification of Khrushchev's corn campaign, many corn seeds replaced the original food crops but could not grow cobs due to climate reasons.

Later, in order to follow Khrushchev's preferences, some cadres secretly imported corn from abroad.

"According to the data of the Planning Economic Commission, there will be a food shortage of more than 8 million tons this year. The current state treasury reserves are absolutely not enough to meet after the autumn harvest." Brezhnev said to Kozlov worriedly, " The situation is already extremely difficult and we must make up the food gap."

"Actually, there is only one way, and that is to buy grain in the international market." Fultseva said blankly, "But the largest grain producer in the world is the United States. If we buy from the United States, we may face skyrocketing grain prices." price."

"France is also a strong agricultural country." Kozlov asked succinctly, "Can't we think of a way from Eastern Europe?"

"Most food-producing countries face the same problem as us, that is, they are in the northern hemisphere. If in the second half of the year, we adopt the method of acquisition, everyone knows that our country's food security has problems. The only agricultural power in the southern hemisphere is Brazil and Argentina, but both countries are in the Americas.” Brezhnev shook his head, “It is difficult for us to hide from the eyes of the Americans.”

The method of foreign procurement is also problematic. The food purchased by the Soviet Union is not a small amount, and Europe and the United States will not recognize the value of the ruble. The foreign exchange reserves in the hands of the Soviet Union obviously cannot afford this expenditure.

When it is a last resort ~lightnovelpub.net~ can only use the gold reserves of the Soviet Union to purchase in the international market.

"Can't we think of a way from Britain?" Fultseva said cautiously, "Britain still has colonies with good conditions in southern Africa. We all know that Rhodesia is a colony with a small population but a large area. .It's better not to get things done through the US surveillance network."

Fultseva couldn't understand what she was thinking now, she hoped that person could help the Soviet Union tide over the difficulties.

"The southern hemisphere? It's just after the harvest. If the northern and southern Rhodesia are really the bread baskets of Africa as rumored, then that's really a choice." Brezhnev expressed his agreement, "Comrade Kozlov, What do you think?"

If he had a choice, Kozlov would never bow his head to the imperialists, but he has no choice now, gritted his teeth and said, "I will talk to Comrade Khrushchev. Of course, we must minimize losses as much as possible. It is best to be able to get help from fraternal countries."

Both Brezhnev and Fultseva nodded, and only the second secretary had the qualifications to suggest this in front of Khrushchev.